2491From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 24 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Several vacancies having happened in the army of the United states, during the last recess of the Senate, I granted commissions as stated in the list herein inclosed, marked A. & signed by the Secretary at War, which commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I now therefore nominate the same persons for the same appointments. I also nominate the persons, whose...
2492From Thomas Jefferson to William Cooch, 23 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the enquiries in your letter of the 14th I have to observe that the mill I mentioned to you is on the Rivanna river at a place called Shadwell in the maps of Virginia 6 miles below Charlottesville, and ¾ mile above Milton. this last is the head of navigation; but from my mill boats go down a sheet of deadwater to a short fall at Milton, where the load is transferred to the regular...
2493From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 23 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
We learnt here with real affliction the terrible calamity which happened to you. to our feelings for your personal sufferings were added those for the public want of you here. from the importance of the matters before Congress, & some unfortunate circumstances, your presence here would have been, & would still be of incalculable value to the nation. as we naturally believe what we wish, the...
2494From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 23 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the inclosed proclamation, & to avoid an innovation which might produce uneasiness, I believe it will be best to continue it in it’s usual form. With respect to inclosures, so long as the former proprietors keep up an inclosure, & the streets in it are not pressingly wanted for the public, we will permit them to remain, but whenever the owner has once taken away his inclosure, we...
2495From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 23 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It is now become very material that the whole of my doors should be finished & got to Monticello as speedily as possible, as my painter will otherwise have left me. he is a most capibal hand, and should he not paint them, it may be years before I have another opportunity. Capt. Andrews is gone to New York, he told me before he went away that he was desired to leave some money for you in my...
2496From Thomas Jefferson to William Read, 23 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his thanks to dr Read for the curious fossil teeth he has been so kind as to forward to him & which have been safely recieved. he will immediately send them to the Philosophical society at Philadelphia, which is the best disposition he can make of them for obtaining satisfactory enquiry into their character & origin. he prays dr Read to accept his salutations &...
2497From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Williams, 23 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. was recieved in due time. it was impossible the designs therein inclosed could have been addressed to a person more inept in things of that kind. to supply my own incapacity, & yet answer your views, I referred them to mr Barlow whose science & poetical imagination qualified him to give an opinion worthy of attention. I now inclose you his answer which I dare say you...
2498From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus Easton, 22 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your commission as judge of Louisiana, according to it’s own terms, & those of the constitution was to expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. the nomination of a successor is then, by the constitution, as free, as it originally was. in exercising the duty of nomination to office, it has never been, nor can be admitted, that after a selection made of one of the competitors, all...
2499From Thomas Jefferson to John George Jackson, 22 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in Nov. a petition from some Wiandot Indians praying for a grant of the reservation of 2. miles square at the lower rapids of Sandusky, part to themselves, & part to some missionaries; and lately I have recieved a counterpetition from other Indians: but neither coming through our agent, we have no proper means of knowing that they are genuine, or have been fairly obtained. they will...
2500Notes on Appointments, 21 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
^ William Cranch to be Chief judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia Aflen Bowie Ducket of Maryland to be an assistant judge ^ Pierrepoint Edwards of Connecticut to be judge of the district court of Connecticut.
2501From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 21 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In expectation that further information would give us a more distinct view of the course which our foreign affairs are likely to take, I have kept unanswered the letter of Capt Shallus & others covering resolutions of the 1st. light infantry company of the 1st. Brigade of the 1st. division of Pensylvania militia, offering their service to their country if necessary and asking the honour of...
2502From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 21 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Nov. 22. I informed you that I proposed to do towards fulfilling your wishes expressed in the letter to which that was an answer. finding that you had written to General Clinton on the same subject, I had a conversation with him, in which he informed me he should try among the members what could be expected from Congress. his daily presence at the Capitol gave him opportunities...
2503From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 21 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate William Cranch, now an Assistant judge of the circuit court for the district of Columbia, to be Chief judge of the same court in the place of Wm. Kelty resigned. Pierrepoint Edwards late Attorney for the District court of Connecticut to be judge of the same court. Phineas Manning lately appointed Collector of the District of Perth-Amboy to be also Inspector of the revenue for the...
2504From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 19 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In pursuance of a measure proposed to Congress by a message of Jan. 18. 1803. and sanctioned by their appropriation for carrying it into execution, Capt Meriwether Lewis of the 1st. regiment of infantry was appointed, with a party of men, to explore the river Missouri, from it’s mouth to it’s source, &, crossing the highlands by the shortest portage, to seek the best water communication thence...
2505From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson thanks Judge Cooper for the paper he has been so kind as to communicate to him. he has read it with pleasure, but not with conviction. he is the last of all men however who would consider an honest difference of opinion as ground for any other difference. he has had too much experience of the uncertainty of human reason to be otherwise affected by it’s various aspects than by...
2506From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter of Jan. 26. I referred to the Secretary of the Treasury so much of it as related to your models machines Etc by his answer which I inclose, you will percieve that the laws have not given any exemption from duty to objects of that kind; and we can only execute the laws as they are. To my congratulations on your return to the United states, permit me to add my...
2507From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now communicate to the House of Representatives the information desired by their resolutions of January 24, relative to the fortifications erected at the several ports and harbors of the United States, & their territories, and to the Navy and Navy-yards of the United States. DNA : RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of Representatives.
2508From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 13th. instant I approved and signed the Act intituled “An Act making provision for defraying any extraordinary expences attending the intercourse between the United States & foreign nations,” which originated in the House of Representatives, and I shall in due season deposit it among the rolls in the office of the Secretary of State. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
2509From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
One of the polygraphs bespoke being intended for the Bey of Tunis himself, & the other two for his officers, it may be well to distinguish one of them by silver boxes in the way you propose. there will be no occasion for a plate to engrave any thing on. when done, they are to be sent here; and they will be less liable to injury coming by water, if a conveyance occurs. I salute you with...
2510From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Stanton, 17 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Having referred to the Secretary of the Treasury the resolution of the legislature of Rhode island on the establishment of a Marine hospital in that state, I have recieved from him the inclosed report. this appearing to me reasonable as it doubtless will to the legislature of your state, I inclose it to you by way of answer to the application recieved from you. Accept my salutations &...
2511From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 15 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 10. came safely to hand a week ago. according to your permission it has been communicated to mr Madison & mr Gallatin. I have also communicated it to Genl. Dearborne; because one of the persons named by you is particularly under his observation, so far it was necessary, & not further, & I will be responsible for it’s secrecy. the information is so important that it is my...
2512From Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, Jr., 14 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Skipwith will inform you what a terrible tempest has been excited against you by an opinion said to have been given by you in the case of the New Jersey & a letter of yours on that subject published in the papers. the body of merchants & Insurers of New York have presented an Address, the object of which tho’ not expressed, cannot be mistaken, & it is expected their example will be...
2513From Thomas Jefferson to Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, 14 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to return you my thanks for the very acceptable present you have been so kind as to make me of the two first parts of your work on Ideologie, & of the Analysis of Dupuis. both are on subjects highly interesting. my present position not permitting me to read beyond the papers of the day, I treasure them with those things which are to sweeten a retirement to which age and a passion for...
2514From Thomas Jefferson to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 14 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of 1805 which I have to acknolege are of Apr. 20. and June 4. the last delivered by M. De Lessert a week ago. in your preceding ones of 1804. the reason assigned for your not venturing across the ocean was certainly weighty, as a capture by the English would have been a very serious misfortune. your presence at New Orleans would give security to our government there. but in the...
2515From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Latham Mitchill, 14 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4th. inst. has been recieved, & in it a Memorial of the Merchants & Marine insurers of the city of New-York, complaining of an opinion said to have been given by the Minister Plenipotentiary of the US. at Paris, to the Minister of Finance of that government. this opinion was that Underwriters, being secured against loss by the premiums they are supposed to have recieved, are...
2516From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Skipwith’s return to Paris furnishes me an opportunity of acknoleging the reciept of your letters of Apr. 22. 29. May. 12. Aug. 27. Sep. 8. in that of May 12. you mention in general terms a notice taken by the society of Agriculture of a mouldboard of my construction: and I saw some details on that subject in the newspapers, which I should have paid no attention to but for the credit it...
2517From Thomas Jefferson to Constantin François Chasseboeuf Volney, 11 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of Feb. 18. of the last year, I have recieved yours of July 2. I have been constantly looking out for an opportunity of sending your Polygraph, but the blockade of Havre has cut off that resource and I have feared to send it to a port from which there would be only land carriage. a safe conveyance now offering to Nantes, and under the particular care of mr Skipwith who is returning...
2518From Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 23d. of December I nominated to the Senate of the US. Joseph de Ville Bellechasse John W. Gurley John Baptiste McCarty Jean Noel Destrehan Pierre Sauvé to be members of the legislative council for the territory of Orleans, being five of the ten persons named to me for that purpose by the House of Representatives of the Territory. Messrs. Bellechasse McCartey, Destrehan & Sauvé were...
2519From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 23. was not recieved till the 4th. inst since which this is the first post. the proposition to be absent for some time, so far as relates to your office of governor might be acceded to without probable injury to the public. altho’ our situation with Spain is critical, & I expect daily to hear that we have come to blows on the other side the Missipi, yet from the character I...
2520From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 9 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 30. came to hand on the 3d. of Jan. but it was not till within these three days that I recieved the two samples of wine from mr Jarvis. I conclude to take one of the pipes. tho there was no mark on the two vials to refer each to it’s proper pipe, yet this can be done by the colour of the wine. the one is a pale yellow. the other is pale also, but has a slight reddish tinge...