1Jacob Wagner’s Notes on a Letter from Rühle von Lilienstern, [ca. 20 May 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
He proposes to establish three colonies under the authority of the U.S. to be peopled with emigrants from Germany, whose inducement to remove is the misery brought upon them by the prevailing war. 1st. Colony, to be settled at New Holland , either in the gulf of Carpentaria or the unexplored bay opposite the Island of Timor. 2nd. do. to be settled in Africa, at Dalagoa Bay, opposite the Island...
2To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 3 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you various letters, some of them merely for your information, and others which will perhaps require answers. Among them are the three letters you received from Mr. Thornton, with sketches of answers, I have drafted. They seemed to me to present a fit, if not a necessary occasion of explaining to him our right to admit French privateers and prizes to an equal...
3To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 10 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose to you several public and private letters. Those of importance among the former, are from Mr. Lear, Mr. King and Mr. Thornton. I also received a letter from Mr. Savage, the Agent for seamen at Jamaica, in which he says, that a number of seamen have lately been discharged and that his certificates are respected, on which account he suggests, that the Masters of our...
4To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I was duly honored with your favor of the 8th. The demurrage of the Peace and Plenty was advantageously settled, on the terms mentioned in the enclosed letter from the Purveyor, and the money has been paid. I am sorry that it should have been encreased by the tardiness of Capt. Shaw. With respect to printing the laws in a german paper in Pennsylvania, I promised Mr. Gallatin, that I would not...
5To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I forgot to ask your direction about the Cattle mentioned in Mr. Eaton’s last letter. Are they to be sent? And if Dr. Gillasspy (to whom I have written) does not chuse to execute the timber-commission, ought we to do it? With perfect respect &c. RC ( DLC ). See 14 Apr. postscript to William Eaton’s 10 Apr. 1801 dispatch ( PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison:...
6To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 24 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I was duly honored with your favor of the 15th. and another since received from Mr. Hooper. I am sorry it was not in my power to aid him in drawing the money from the southward, as the arrangements of the Paymaster General and Quarter-master General did not admit of their accommodating him, and as no other branch of Government, as I can learn, stand in need of funds there. Agreeably to your...
7To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 31 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive, in due time, your letter of the last post. I have written to Mr. Helmbold, to inform me of his terms for printing the laws in German, and, if they prove reasonable, shall direct him to proceed. The enclosed two letters, which I have written to the Collector of New York, will shew the footing on which the business of the Ragusan Brigantine stands. I expect in a...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On Saturday evening arrived in this city Capt. Rogers of the Maryland, accompanied by Mr. Purviance, the bearers of dispatches from Messrs. Murray and Dawson. I have forwarded them to the Secretary of State, after they were perused by the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury being absent in the country with his sick child. The latest letter from Mr. Murray is dated 9th. July,...
9To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 7 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor by the last mail, with the several papers referred to, and some patents &c. from the President. I have very little to communicate at present. Of most importance are the letters from Mr. Gavino, mentioning the arrival of our squadron in the Mediterranean, and two naval combats between the French, Spaniards and British. The letters from Mr. Eaton are...
10To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 12 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
I very much regret the accident, which retarded the dispatches from France. Upon the enquiry I made, after the receipt of your favor of the 4th. it appeared that they had been detained in the Georgetown Post office, from the monday on which they should have been forwarded to the succeeding friday, by the mistake of the Postmaster. All the letters and packets I made up for the mail on the...
11To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 14 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
On the morning of saturday last Mr. Brent set out for Dumfries, with a collection of papers addressed to you, respecting the mission of Chancellor Livingston. At Dumfries he was to meet Mr. Graham, who was to proceed to your seat and arrive this evening. Enclosed are the weekly dispatches, a private letter for yourself and another for Miss Payne. In the course of the week I received two or...
12To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 25 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
Extract of a letter from Mr. Mountflorence to the Secretary of State, dated Paris 3rd. Augt. 1801. “The ratifications were exchanged 31st. ult. and Mr. Thomas Appleton This is the name of our Consul for Leghorn. J Wagner has been entrusted by Mr. Dawson with that of the French Government delivered unto him by Mr. Murray.” Extract of another letter from the same to the same, dated 6 Augt. 1801....
13To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 6 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
J: Wagner presents his best respects to the President of the U. States and has the honor to enclose a list of the Justices for Washington County. Mr. Moore’s name being inserted on an erasure of the original commission , it is probable, that he was substituted for Mr. Law, and J:W. thinks he remembers that Mr. Stoddert was substituted for Mr. Laird RC ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR , 8:0412). Enclosure...
14To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Physician who attends me having advised me to ride to Baltimore, in the hope of finding an alleviation of my lingering disorder, I propose to commence the journey to morrow afternoon or the next morning. If any thing pressing should require my assistance in the mean while, a letter addressed to me at Baltimore will be certain to find me: and if Mr. Brent or Mr. Pleasonton will do me the...
15To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I beg your excuse for the liberty I take in covering the two enclosed letters to your address. Since I have been here I have had the injudicious medical treatment I sustained at Washington corrected; and by the change of air and use of exercise there is a flattering expectation of my being restored to even better health than I formerly had. It is at present faulty only in the appetite, which...
16To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The heavy oppression and gloom under which I am labouring and which I have no prospect of recovering from but by an entire exemption from business, accompanied with a change of scene, render it necessary, that I shou’d take my leave of your office. It is impossible for me to express to you the sensations with which this determination is made: they cannot be conceived but by those who have...
17To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 22 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
A relapse of my complaint prevented me from sooner rendering my best thanks for the favor of your last and expressing my sensibility at the obliging expressions it contains. The habits I have contracted by a long employment in the Department of State and the additional attachment produced by the personal qualities of its head, made my retirement a painful event to myself: and could I...
18To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 1 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 26th. has found me here, on my way to Washington. I shall spend but a few days before I proceed thither, in the hope that I may be enabled to render such further services in my former station, as may be acceptable to you. With sentiments of the highest respect and attachment, I remain, Dr. sir, Your most humble servt. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. Letter not found. Wagner had...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 28 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
J. Wagner has the honor to present his respects to the President and to return him the german letter and pamphlet sent to him on Saturday. The letter is complimentary from the author of the pamphlet, Mr. Angerman of Lingen in Westphalia. The pamphlet proposes a method of securing wood for house and ship-building from fire, decay and the worm, by means of a solution of pot-ash, common salt,...
20To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 10 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed are some private letters and all the public communications of importance enough to meet your eye. I have transmitted a copy of the protest, respecting the impressment of William Blake, to Mr. Thornton in a private letter, intimating that I should forward the original to you. With respect to the other protest, which accompanies it, it relates no very great wrong, as the impressed lad...
21To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your letter covering Miller’s pardon and on the same day a letter from the President, informing me of his having executed it, which he wrote with a view to provide against the possibility of the pardon miscarrying. I have also received the franked covers I sent to you some days ago. This morning Mr. Derieux presented the despatches with which he was charged by Mr. Monroe. You...
22To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 24 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 19th. respecting Mr. Burnley was duly received and complied with; and this day another without date is come to hand, in consequence of which I enclose a copy of one side of Mr. Livingston’s cypher which will suffice for your present object: By the next post I shall transmit the other side. I have dispatched Mr. Derieux. Altho’ the Collector of Norfolk was requested to...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 25 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
J Wagner presents his best respects to the President of the United States and encloses an application for a pardon by Thomas Hutchings and John Hopkins . A blank pardon accompanies the papers, which were put into J.W’s hands by direction of the Marshal, with a request that it might be intimated to the President that one of the applicants ( which is not stated) is labouring under a fit of...
24To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 26 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have nothing to forward by this post but the enclosed letter from Govr. Claiborne and the newspapers. The former has been shown to the gentlemen in the war-office. I have also to acknowledge the receipt of your’s of the 18th. inst. and remain With the greatest respect Your obed. servt. P.S. In the middle of last month orders were given by the war Department for stationing a detachment of...
25To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 31 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
General Dearborn returned the day before yesterday. At Frederick-town he met with Mr. Pichon, who informed him that he was in possession of orders to Mr. Laussat to receive possession of Louisiana and deliver it to us. You must be already apprised that he has received the ratifications of the treaty and conventions. The enclosed letter from Mr. Monroe intimates his intention of proceeding to...
26To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 2 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose two private letters and four official ones. You will also receive under another cover a copy of the documents relating to the war as published by the French government. I have written to Mr. Pederson an acknowledgement of his letters and that I am expecting your answer to the first. The letter from the French Minister of Marine to Mr. Gallatin I have forwarded. Its...
27To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 7 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Among the papers transmitted, by this post you will notice a copy of an award against the United States made by the Commors. under the 7 art: of the British treaty. The appropriation made for the payment of such demands having expired with the year 1800, there is at present no fund applicable to its discharge, and so I told Mr. Wood, the holder; at the same time suggesting that Congress would...
28To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 9 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I transmit a copy of the enclosed very important letter from the Spanish Minister, by this mail to Monticello, lest the President might not receive it with the greatest celerity. If I entered into a reflection upon it, it would be that orders have been doubtless issued to the Spanish officers in Louisiana to delay the delivery to France, who, as she has no troops there will therefore be unable...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 9 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Lest the annexed may not come to your hands in original, via Orange Ct. house, as soon as by this direct address, I have thought it best to avail myself of it. With perfect respect I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most humble servt. (copy) Por medio del Embaxador del Rey mi amo en Paris ha llegado a su Rl. noticia, que aquel Govierno ha vendido al de los Estados Unidos la provincia de la...
30List of Nominations from Jacob Wagner, 9 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Jacob Ridgway of Pennsylvania— Antwerp . Note a blank commission for this port was sent to Mr. Livingston at Paris with authority to fill it up. This happened many months ago: and lately the offer has been made to Mr. Barnet to take his choice of it and Havre. Francis Coffin (a Frenchman) of Dunkirk was formerly our Consul there. Quer. is he intended? Henry Wilson of Maryland— Ostend. Wm....