1From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 7 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I thought I had inserted in the Report of 1793, the idea of confining the exportation of our own produce to our own vessels. but I find my report proposed only such a navigation act as the British; and that it was in private conversations & propositions that the former was advanced. however every man who has had opportunities of knowing my sentiments on this subject knows that from that day to...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 6 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs leave to observe to mr Granger that the proposition to confine the carriage of American produce to American bottoms, can be proved by better evidence than mere conversations: he is almost certain it was expressly recommended in his report on commerce to Congress in 1793. on which mr Madison’s resolutions were founded. not having a copy of the report, he has sent to the Secy....
3From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 22 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 19th. I certainly wish the prosecutions you allude to should be put an end to, for the reasons explained in my former letters on that subject. and these are strengthened by the verbal declarations you communicated to me from the defendant. I have never considered the political hatreds and slanders pointed at me, as meant against me personally, but rather...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I happened to be in the neighborhood of Lynchburg immediately after the death of mr Leak the postmaster, & availed myself of the opportunity I had to enquire, from good persons, into the characters of the competitors for the office. they are as follows. 1 Christopher Lynch. his family formerly owned the site of the town and now hold a part of it & the circumjacent country. they are half...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 9 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4th. has been recieved & duly considered,o on the subject of the road from Nashville to Natchez, I approve of all your ideas & propositions therein expressed, with the following explanations. between the Grindstone ford & the Chickasaw towns, where from 18. to 25 miles have been lost on mr Gaines’s rout to avoid certain swampy lands, a resurvey should be made, to see whether...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 18 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By a law of the last session 6000. D. were appropriated for a road from the Ohio to the Missisipi, & 6000. D. for another from Nashville to Natchez. these are directed as post roads, and the execution of them falls, I think, more properly into your department than any other. the first of these is proposed to lead from Cincinnati by Vincennes to Cahokia & St. Louis; because the post from hence...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 5 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Observations on the reports of mr Wheaton & Judge Toulman On considering these reports with mr Briggs’s map before me I make the following inferences & observations. 1. Athens is our 1st. fixed station; the law making it the point of departure. 2. the 2d. obvious station is the middle of the ridge between the Chatahouchee & Allabama, where mr Brigg’s travelling rout crossed it, as he went from...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 25 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
According to Lafon’s map, which is the most minute & probably the most correct, of the Environs of N. Orleans, it may seem doubtful whether it is best to cross the Pearl river at the Spanish road & come down on the West side to the Rigolet at Stikinoula, or to take off from that road on the East side of the river where it is intersected by one of the Indian paths travd by Lafon, & come down to...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 24 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
As far as can be judged from the maps, the road from Fort Stoddert ought to bear down South Westwardly, to get into the Spanish road leading from Mobille to Baton Rouge, before it crosses Pascagoule river. then follow that road (which is nearly due West) till it crosses Pearl river. then quit it & go nearly due South to the neck between Lakes Borgne & Pontchartrain opposite to Chef Menteur....
10From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 25 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19th. is recieved & I now reinclose the Maysville & Washington returns. in sending you the Maysville petition I meant nothing more than to bring the question again under your view, that if any new matter were presented or any old were put into a new light, you might consider it’s effect, and finally do what on reconsideration you judged right. I am perfectly contented with...