1From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 1 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Omissions in mr Wagner’s list. dated March 1st. Mar. 7 Daniel Coffin of Mass: Collector and Inspector at Nantucket v. decd 11. Edwd. Carrington of R.I. Consul at Canton
2From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 2 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his compliments to mr Wagner returns him Forman’s & Chancellor Livingston’s letters. the moment the gentleman returns who went express to the Secretary of state, the ultimate dispatches for Chancellor Livingston may go off. there seems to be an enquiry in his letter, as to the person to whom he is to address himself in pecuniary matters, which it is important to answer, &...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 11 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 29th. ult. I recieved from mr Madison a petition on behalf of Saml. Miller under sentence of death and a pardon ready drawn, which I signed and returned on the 31st. with a request that before it should be used the recommendation of the judges should be obtained. that I recieved yesterday, & now re-inclose to be filed. I take for granted the pardon got to hand and has been delivered....
4From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 16 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me immediately the following commissions, ready sealed & filled up, except as to the names and dates. to wit a commission appointing [blank] Governor of the territory of Orleans, to hold the said office during the term of 3. years from the 1st. day of Oct. next unless sooner removed by the President of the U.S. 1 do. appointg. [blank] Secretary of the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 9 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments & thanks to mr Wagner for the translation of the German letter, which as is usual, turns out not worth the trouble. he now returns papers recieved partly from mr Madison partly from mr Wagner he desires a Commission may be issued to James Holmes of Georgia to be Collector of Sunbury in Georgia v. George Foster, resigned. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
6From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 1 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his compliments to mr Wagner, returns him the pardon of Joseph Barnaby, signed. at the same time the case has so entirely escaped his recollection that he does not retain one trace of it; and having sent, as he supposes, because he usually does it, all the papers to be filed in the office, he has no means of refreshing his memory. if there were, among the papers, a...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 5 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The case of Chambers’s commission is so entirely singular that it is proper to make a statement of it to be retained in the office. the district East of Pearl river that is to say, the Tombigbee settlement, was so distant & had been so little in communication with the government that not a single person there was known to the Executive as fit for the office of register. a commission therefore...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 14 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to fill up a commission for Abraham Bishop of Connecticut to be Collector of Newhaven. the stile of the commission to Samuel Bishop, his father, now dead, will be a guide in the present case. I believe it will be best for you to send it to mr Madison direct for his signature, & to be returned by him to you instead of forwarding it to me, as I shall then probably be on the road to...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 23 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Wagner to send ready sealed to the Secretary of State A commission for Samuel Travis to be first mate of a revenue cutter in Virginia, (I know not whether the place is usually specified in the commission) And a blank commission, ready sealed, for a Commissioner of loans in S. Carolina vice Neufville deceased. PoC ( DLC ). Notation in SJL : “Travis &...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 1 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
{ dated March 1st. Omissions in mr Wagner’s list Mar. 7. Daniel Coffin of Mass. Collector & Inspector at Nantucket v. decd. not issued 11.
11From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 20 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Wagner and will be obliged to him to have put into the National Intelligencer an advertisement for the purpose of obtaining the information desired in the inclosed letter. he supposes no names need be mentioned but that of Francis Serraire & his father, and that the request may be to give the information to the department of state. RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
12From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 26 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 26 August 1805 . Mentioned in Wagner to JM , 5 Sept. 1805 , as suggesting that JM would leave Philadelphia in early September.
13From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, ca. 22 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 22 August 1801. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM, 31 Aug. 1801 , and mentioned in JM to Jefferson, 26 Aug. 1801 . Authorizes shipment of powder and ball to dey of Algiers and instructs Wagner to honor Eaton’s charter contract, to take no action on Eaton’s commissions for timber and cattle, and to send Jefferson copies of the State Department’s last letters to Eaton.
14From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 15 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 August 1801. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM, 24 Aug. 1801 . Requests documents on tonnage and countervailing duties imposed by Great Britain on American shipping.
15From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 2 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 2 September 1805 . Mentioned in Wagner to Jefferson, 5 Sept. 1805, DLC : Jefferson Papers, as saying that JM had hoped Dolley was “considerably advanced to a cure, but that it was found unavoidable, in order to complete it, to resort to an expedient two days before, which retards the event a little.”
16From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 19 August 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 19 August 1806. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM , 22 Aug. 1806 , as transmitting some documents.
17From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 4 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 4 September 1801. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM, 12 Sept. 1801 . Inquires about delay in receiving dispatches from France, instructs Wagner to send him commission for Livingston and other papers, and discusses effects on American claims of the suspension of article 2 of the convention with France.
18From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 20 September 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 20 September 1806. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM , 26 Sept. 1806 , as containing instructions for drafting letters.
19From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 8 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 August 1801. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM, 17 Aug. 1801 (first letter) , and mentioned in JM to Jefferson, ca. 12 Aug. 1801 . Discusses demurrage costs for Peace and Plenty and authorizes printing the federal laws in German in Pennsylvania.
20From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 13 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 13 September 1805 . Acknowledged in Wagner to JM , 16 Sept. 1805 , as dated at Gray’s Ferry, Pennsylvania.
21From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, ca. 29 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 29 August 1801. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM, 7 Sept. 1801 . Encloses various letters as well as patents from Jefferson.
22Charles Willson Peale to Jacob Wagner, 22 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 July 1804, Museum. “I was at New York preserving the Fishes of that Market for my Museum, when your letter respecting the Polygraph was received by my Son Rubins, who has not been inatentive to that business, and by this time one would have been sent, but the workmen had been imployed in finishing one, like the Presidents, ordered for Mr. John Armstrong to be sent without delay to New York....
23From William Short to Jacob Wagner, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday morning your favor of the — covering the copy of Mr M’s note to you—Agreeably to your suggestion I wrote (by the same days mail) to avoid delay, to Mr G:——I have no preference as to place as I there informed him—I pointed out two places which wd. probably be most convenient.—It is only necessary that the fund to draw on shd. be on the other side of the atlantic on account...