9601To James Madison from William Hart, 24 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
Soon after the President issued his proclamation permitting American Vessels to sail for & trade at Saint-Domingo, I ordered my Sloop Harriot with a valuable cargo on board, under the command of Captain Willoughby Lynde, to Cape Francois, where she arrived in September 1799; and from thence proceeded to Port-de-paix, where her cargo was disposed of to Government; the business being nearly...
9602To James Madison from Benjamin Dickinson Harvey, 9 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to send you under Cover a Packet directed to yourself which was on board a certain American Brigantine called the Ann and Frances, Captain Joseph Gifford Master, captured by His Majesty’s Ship of War Cambrian, John Poe Beresford Esquire Commander, in the Prosecution of a Voyage from Cadiz to NewYork and sent into this Port for adjudication about three or four months ago. The...
9603To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvey, 25 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The subscribers, composing a majority of each chamber of the City council of Detroit, do certify, that the within is a true Copy of a petition to the President of the United States, That the same has been in open and public circulation in this City and Territory for several weeks past, and that the signatures hereunto are the true names of citizens of this Territory written or placed by...
9604To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvey, 1 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In our former certificate annexed to a Copy of the Petition of the Inhabitants of this Territory for the removal of Governor Hull and Chief Judge Woodward it was stated, that the Original of said Petition was then open for further subscriptions and would soon be transmitted. Intelligence quickly afterwards reached this place of the atrocious outrage committed on the American frigate the...
9605To Thomas Jefferson from Reuben Harvey, 3 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I have retired from business these several Years, being advanced in Age, I am notwithstanding induced through a long continued regard for the United States of America, to represent to thee the great injury which your Commerce now suffers on this Coast by the pressing of Men from every American Vessel that is met by British Ships of War. In general there are two or more taken, out of...
9606To Thomas Jefferson from Reuben Harvey, 12 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I made free to write thee a few lines the 3rd of last month from Kinsale on the matter of Men being pressed out of American Vessels that arrive & touch at Cork & in a few days after I received an answer from your Consul at London to my communications of the 27th & 28th May with his request that I would continue to acquaint him when fresh causes of complaint arose; The pressing your people...
9607To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, 19 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time you first addressed me upon the subject of a tract of land now possessed by me, to which you advance an opposing claim I was not sufficiently acquainted with the merits of the affair to return an answer to your proposition. The death of my revered Father had been too recent for me to have overlooked his papers; and the tribute of filial respect prompted me to defer to a more...
9608To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, 28 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
My Old friend Mr William Mitchell one of the most Respectable Merchants in Richmond has Introduced to me this Morning his Nephew Francis Mitchell , for whom he is very desirous of Obtaining the Appointment of a Midshipman on Board the Navy, this is the Young mans Choice for his pursuit in life, I am told he is of Regular Conduct & of an Active Enterprizing Spirit I Write this under a Raw...
9609To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, 29 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Letter from Monticello of the 21st. and am willing that the Question between us respecting the Lands in Dispute, may be Submitted to any two or three Members of our Legislature at their Session in December as Mr. Burwell & myself may Nominate. It will therefore only be Necessary for you to give your Instructions to Mr. Burwell to have the Matter determined. With perfect...
9610To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Harvie, 19 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of that acquaintance which it is my happiness to enjoy to address to you a letter on the application which has been made to you through the agency of my friends. A sentiment of delicacy induced me in the first instance to be silent; but maturer, I hope more just reflections have determined me to explain to you my motives in requesting the post of Secretary in the mission which...
9611To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Harvie, before 12 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the earliest opportunity of answering your favour of the 28th of February. The experience which my visit to Monticello gave me of the mingled benefit and pleasure resulting from a residence in your house induced me to offer my services as Secretary, when the wishes of the American people were gratified by your accession to the Presidential chair. Although my situation has been since...
9612To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Harvie, 24 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The business which you did me the honor to confide to my managemement relative to Mazzeis claim to a lot in this town has from a combination of unfortunate events, (of which the principal has been my feeble and debilitated state, the result of complicated disease) not progressed with the rapidity I could have wished. The issue of the suit is however rendered certain by my obtaining from Foster...
9613IV. Final List of Queries, 17 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Queries 1 What are the best maps general, or particular of the whole or parts of the province? copies of them if to be had in print? 2 What are the boundaries of Louisiana, and on what authority does each portion of them [rest?] 3 What is the extent of the [sea coast from] the western mouth of the Missisipi called Piakemines? 4 What is the distance due West from the same mouth to the...
9614To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Harwood, 28 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that I have received an Appointment from the Executive of this State, which precludes me from holding an Office under the Government of the United States. You will therefore be pleased to consider this communication as my resignation of the Office as Commissioner of Loans for the United States in the State of Maryland from and after the 30th. instant. Permit me...
9615To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth Franklin Bache Harwood, 10 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am [emboldened] by the friendship you and my grand father to trespass for a few moments only of your time.— My husband has been unfortunate without employment and That which he has been engaged in he is unwilling to resume or inclination according with it. He is the intimate friend of Mr. J. Clay of Pennsylvania, who can bear a just and honorable testimony to his character.—He was the friend...
9616To Thomas Jefferson from Caleb Haskell, 28 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you upon your arival into the first seat of the Nation; after receiving a heavy Cannonadeing from the Prisses of the four N England states and many Popgun squibs from Individuals to stigmatize you as a Jackobin or an enemy to your Country, that many thousands of us was duped. into a Jealousy to believe that it possibly might be so—untill you arivd. into that seat of Honour to...
9617To Thomas Jefferson from John Haskell, 29 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
your Illustreaus Name is Reverenced as A Savior of the Civil & Religious Liberties So Dearly Bought by the Ancestors of this Nation (& I might but Justly add Restorer of the Peoples Rights) Your Unbounded Inclinations To Serve the Nation for the Good and Happiness of Each & Every Individual has Gained you in them this fond Esteem in all our minds that had you withdrawn Yourself from the...
9618To Thomas Jefferson from Willem H. van Hasselt, 20 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Il vous souviendra peut etre qu’il y a environ quatre ans, que je prenais la liberté, de m’adresser a vous par lettre , souhaitant de trouver un emploi chez vous et sous votre toit que je pencais alors ne pouvoir trouver dans toute l’Amerique. Jetais alors dans l’idée que vous avies une jeune famille Je m’offrais sous le titre de faire les fonctions de Gouverneur aupres d’eux pour veiller a...
9619To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Les Etats Unis d’Amerique, par la position floris, sante & paisible dont ils jouissent, contrastent tellement avec une grande partie des états Européens, dans leur position actuelle, que les Citoyens paisibles & industrieux de ces derniers, que ne trouvent leur bonheur, que dans la prospérité publique & le bien-etre de leurs familles, reposent avec plaisir leurs regards sur le monde nouveau,...
9620To Thomas Jefferson from Bentinck Hastings, 7 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petitioner sendeth greeting, having Studied Mechanism for many years and hath made several usefull discoveries and Improvements on different kinds of Machinery, being well acquainted with the principles of Mill work, Steem-Engines, Arkwright’s Carding and Spinning Machines, and most of the manufactures carried on in England &c. (and is Erecting a Cotton Factory in Johnston County N.C.)...
9621To James Madison from Anthony Haswell, 23 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 November 1804, Bennington. “Apprehending that the information of the destruction of my Printing-Office, by fire, might have reached the city of Washington, and fearing that the printing for the General Government might consequently be withheld from me, I take the earliest opportunity to notify, that we have prepared a new room, and shall issue a paper next week. I have associated with Mr....
9622To James Madison from Anthony Haswell, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Bennington. Has published the laws of the last session of Congress, according to JM’s order, as well as “a resolution relative to Capt. Sterritt” and the treaties between the U.S. and the Choctaw and the Chickasaw. RC ( DNA : RG 217, First Auditor’s Accounts, no. 13,611). 2 pp. RC written below Has-well’s account; Brent added a note dated 12 July, “The foregoing account is...
9623To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Haswell, 16 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Emboldened by your acknowledged courtesy , at the request of a distressed neighbour, I trouble you with the present address.— While Major H. Buell was recruiting in this quarter a young man in his 19th year, greatly against the will of his parents enlisted into Captain M’Clary ’s company, and soon after marched off for Pittsburgh.—The young man’s name is Jeremiah Battels, he enlisted in...
9624To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Haswell, 10 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Unaccustomed to flattery, and totally unused to the formality of state epistles, I shall without consulting any person, or studying any courtly form, address you with the freedom of a republican, as the political father of a great family, in which I consider myself, in point of pecuniary resources, a needy member.—In doing this I shall rely on the urbanity of which I feel persuaded you are...
9625To James Madison from Anthony Haswell, 30 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
For many years past I have edited and printed a public paper in this town, on the proceeds of which I have brought up a large, and expensive family, having been greatly afflicted with sickness. The unhappy political divisions which for some years past have afflicted our country, have been peculiarly injurious to me—the state business has been taken from me: the advertising for the public...
9626To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Haswell, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 10th. of May last, I thought it my duty to address you in a few lines on the subject of my personal concerns as a printer, and the situation of political affairs in this quarter, as far as the printing business was concerned:—Sensible that from a concatenation of trifles great events are produced, I feel constrained once more to intrude on your politeness, in relation to the same...
9627To Thomas Jefferson from Rensselaer Havens, 25 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Under date of the 28th April last I receivd a Letter from my friend Mr. Frederick Jenkins at Havre de Grace , stating that the commercial Agency for the United States at that place was then exercised by deputation and that he was desirous of obtaining the appointment—to promote his wishes I have procured such Letters of recommendation as I am pursuaded will receive attention—and if the office...
9628Enclosure: Lord Hawkesbury to Rufus King, 7 May 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the Honour to acknowledge the Receipt of your Confidential Letter of the 21st: Ultimo. It is impossible that so important an Event, as the Cession of Louisiana by Spain to France, should be regarded by the King in any other Light, than as highly interesting to His Majesty and to the United States, and should render it more necessary than ever, that there should subsist between the two...
9629To James Madison from Benjamin Hawkins, 13 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 January 1803, Fort Wilkinson. Introduces the bearer, William Hill, who has lived with Hawkins as an assistant in the Creek agency “for nearly five years, is a very honest man and worthy of your friendly attention.” Unable to have the pleasure of seeing JM himself, Hawkins has directed Hill to call “and detail to you the occurrencies in this quarter, that you may form some idea of the Arab...
9630To James Madison from Benjamin Hawkins, 27 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have several times since your appointment to the office you now hold determined to write to you, not to congratulate you on being Secretary of State, that would be folly, as I deemed it a necessary consequence of the change of principle manifested by the public will; but to put you in mind of an old acquaintance your friend who has had an erratic Arab life for five years among the Indians...
9631To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 11 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your favour by Mr. Hill at a time when my mind was greatly agitated with the state of affairs in my agency. The opposition with us joined by the Simanolie seemed determined to usurp the direction of affairs, to place a chief of their own choice over the nation, and to disturb the peace of the agency. In their progress, meeting but little opposition publicly, they...
9632To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 13 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I was duly honoured with your favour of the 11th July, and having communicated to the postmaster General, the letters of Mr. Bloomfield the asst. for the post office in this neighbourhood, I deemed it unnecessary to report to you, what I had written to him, and therefore delayed writing, until I could give you correct information, after the meeting of the national council, which took place on...
9633To James Madison from Benjamin Hawkins, 11 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your favour by Mr. Hill, and am glad that you have had the opportunity of hearing from so honest a man a plain detail of occurrences in this quarter. You must have seen the issue of some interesting occurrences in this agency during the winter and spring in my communications to the war office. I was a good deal agitated during this period ’till after I had,...
9634To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 11 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
We expect to commence our conference with the Choctaws tomorrow, they have met us today and informed us they would be then ready. From present appearances we shall obtain permission to open the road towards Nashville. As soon as our commission terminates here I shall go to Tookaubatche on the Creek agency about 500 miles, General Pickens will accompany me on his way home, and General Wilkinson...
9635To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 28 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honour to receive your favour of the 16th. of September covering a letter of my much esteemed and valuable friend Mrs. Trist; and availing myself of the permission heretofore given I take the liberty to enclose a letter for her to you. I find that her son has it in contemplation to move to the Mississippi territory to better his resources by the culture of cotton. The Agency...
9636To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 15 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Mr. William Hill is an assistant in this agency as I have known him for five years and believe him to be a very honest and useful man I have thought him worthy of an introduction to you, that you may hear from such a man a detail of occurrences in this quarter. The object of his Visit to the seat of government is to carry the accounts and Vouchers in this department to the War...
9637To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 1 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to send you a specimen of my tours through this agency in my journal down the Tennassee with the map of the river. I have made it a rule to travel with a pocket compass and time piece and have in likemanner noted every journey through this country; several of which, are ploted and the whole will be sent to the War office as soon as I have paper and leisure to copy...
9638To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson and Benjamin Hawkins, 1 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding from the public prints, that you are at Monticello, we avail ourselves of the direct conveyance to intrude on you our communications of the 25th ult , and of this day , to the secretary of War; and we hope you may approve of this deviation from the regular course of our correspondence, which we hazard, with the intent to secure time, for the seasonable arrival of any order you...
9639To Thomas Jefferson from John Hawkins of Kentucky, 1 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informd you are about arecting a deer park on your farm in Virgina I wish to inform you I can furnish you with a cupple of Elks. the mail and the female They are rising five years old the female is now with young. I have been at a graet trubble and expence in bringing them from the State of Kentucky to this place—if it Suits you to purchase Them Sir you will pleace to Write me...
9640To Thomas Jefferson from John Isaac Hawkins, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to request as a favor you will permit the bearer Mr. Uri K. Hill to take your likeness in Profile with one of my Patent Physiognotraces , and would also ask leave to Publish copies of the same, here & in Europe. Mr. Hill is a Pupil of Nature, whom I have lately met with in travelling thro’ the New England states. with her instruction he has composed several beautiful pieces...
9641To Thomas Jefferson from John Isaac Hawkins, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd your Piano Forte on the 3d inst.—being then about to leave Philada. on a journey, I Postponed informing you till I returned. The instrument is very much injured by wet, the Captain of the Schooner says it was kept perfectly dry while under his care, it must therefore have been exposed in coming down the river to Richmond. Having suspended the manufacturing of instruments till my return...
9642To Thomas Jefferson from John Isaac Hawkins, 21 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 13th. inst. was handed me by Mr. Paterson. I should have been much surprised at the weakness of the frame of the Forte Piano I made for you, had I not previously heard of the defection of two other of my instruments, in the same particular, it gives me great pleasure however that I can assure you from sufficient Experience, that I can remedy the defect intirely, & make the...
9643To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Hawkins, 3 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
With this the Post Master General will do me the honor to present to you a Cane. The horn or tooth, apparently in its natural State, and without any garniture, was sent to me in Paris by a friend in London, who informed me that it was the horn of the Sea-Unicorn. There is a hole through its centre from which the marrow has evidently been extracted. At its upper or larger end, the aperture is...
9644To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse Hawley, 2 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
An obscure Citizen, young in age, in experience, who conceits he possesses a small share of observation & of feeling for the civil & political interests of his Country, so far presumes on your wisdom as to take the liberty of suggesting some ideas which occurred to him on the perusal of your Excellency’s late message to Congress, which has just came to hand— The previous possession of large...
9645To Thomas Jefferson from George Hay, 14 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had an interview with Wilkinson. We conversed yesterday morning for about an hour. I will confess to you that my impressions concerning him have undergone a great change. His erect attitude, the serenity of his countenance, the composure of his manners, the mild but determined expression of his eye; all conspired to make me think that he has been most grossly calumniated. I trust in...
9646To Thomas Jefferson from George Hay, 9 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed was delivered to me this morning, after I had entered the bar. Occupied the moment afterwards by some urgent business; I gave no answer, and in fact supposed that an answer after the Court rose, was all that was expected. At three O’clock, however, after the Gr. Jury had been called & adjourned, Mr. B. moved the Court, for a Subpœna duces tecum, directed to the Pr: U:S. to enforce...
9647To Thomas Jefferson from George Hay, 3 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 24th of February, reached me this evening, and in conformity with your request, I now transmit to you, the papers relating to the question, between Mr Short and Mr. Randolph. You will permit me to add, that I am much gratified by your ready admission of the apology, which my situation made it necessary for me to offer, and that I am, with real respect Yr. mo. ob. Sert. RC (...
9648To Thomas Jefferson from George Hay, 17 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter you stated that you had directed several blank pardons to be prepared and sent to me. I received but one in addition to that sent for Bollman. This I believe I shall give to Dunbaugh: but he is not the only man, who ought to be placed in a state of intire Confidence and Security. There are about three others, whose evidence would be very important, if they did not shelter...
9649To Thomas Jefferson from George Hay, 31 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 26th. inst: is before me. My reply to it would have been of an earlier date, if my time had not been completely occupied. The trial of Burr has indeed commenced under inauspicious circumstances, and I have no doubt that its progress will be as unfavorable as its Commencement. What the issue may be, it is impossible to foretell. The delay on the part of Wilkinson, is matter...
9650To Thomas Jefferson from George Hay, 11 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7th. inclosing a representation from Pittsburg, relating to Genl. Neville has been received. If Burr should be acquitted, it can hardly be expected that his agents will be found guilty. Eaton’s Statement referred to in his deposition has been found among the papers sent on by the atto: genl., and is now filed. Your personal attendance was never meant to be required by the...