5221To James Madison from John Rogers and Others, 3 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
The petition of John Rogers, Joshua Holt, Jeremiah Chapman & William Burdick all of the Town of New London in the County of New London & State of Connecticut humbly sheweth that on the 25 Day of August last the petitioners received Information that a Midshipman & two Sailors belonging to the Enemys Squadron in Long Island Sound were on shore at Gull Island & that their capture might be...
5222From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 2 September 1814 (Adams Papers)
Do not impute it to me, if from one Post-day to another I tell you different stories about the time of my expected departure to return to you. When I last wrote you, we had been promised a reply from our adverse parties without delay —They had then been in possession of our Note, five days, as much time as we had taken to prepare and send it in to them—We had been amply warned that we should...
5223From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 2 September 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was so fortunate as to recieve your No 25 on Wednesday which was the day in course but as it was the first time I mention it as something extraordinary I shall certainly be very cautious as you request about your letters— I cannot help smiling at your affected difficulty about filling a sheet of Paper and were it possible that a compliment from your wife could have any value I should almost...
5224To James Madison from Benjamin Joy, 2 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
I take the Liberty of addressing you to give you the following extract of a Letter which I have just received from my brother G Joy dated London 1st July 1814 not knowing but some importance may be attached to it. With the highest respect I am your most Obdt Servant “The Commissioners from this Government to meet those of the US at Ghent are expected to depart about the 8th Inst. They are the...
5225To James Madison from Henry Kenyon, 2 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
The memorial of Henry Kenyon of the U.S. navy Respectfully represents That your memorialist served as the accompanying documents will shew a regular apprenticeship of five years in the East India trade to Thomas Truxton esqr. of this city. That after commanding a vessel for several years he was appointed a Lieutenant in the navy of the United States in which capacity he served for three years...
5226To James Madison from Christopher Manwaring and Others, 2 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Believing the nomination of Mr Hezekiah Goddard for Quarter Master General of the 2nd. U.S. Military District, made by Brigr. Genl. Cushing, will not meet the approbation of the President, we take the liberty of recommending Majr. Simeon Smith of this place, as a Gentleman who is in every respect qualified for such an office. Majr. Smith is a Man of industry and integrity and has been...
5227To James Madison from Thomas L. McKenney, 2 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you this morning you desired to know how we had succeeded in procuring horses for the Rifle corps. The answer which I gave you was founded on the progress that was made previous to my having left the Camp last night, to aid in detaching 300 men for Com. Rogers; also to select the artificers of the navy yard to report to Com. Tingy. This occupied me ’till late...
5228To James Madison from Thomas Toole, 2 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Feeling sensibly for the premature and unexpected destruction of the Capitol, as well as your personal Loss, and distress of mind, Occasioned by the Enemy I therefore beg your Excellency will permit me as an humble Irishman to address You for the purpose of Suggesting a matter of great Inportance for the defence of this City as well as for the use of the army in general, Viz, To raise two or...
5229From John Quincy Adams to William Steuben Smith, 1 September 1814 (Adams Papers)
A Letter from Mrs: Adams, informs me that you sailed from Cronstadt, in an English vessel for Hull, on the 28th: of July—I hope therefore that this Letter will find you in England, if you should not be already on your way from thence to Holland—The John Adams in which I had obtained a passage for you and your family, sailed from the Texel Roads last Sunday, so that the chance of your going in...
5230To James Madison from William Jones, 1 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Respectfully offered for the consideration of the President. The late disaster is the result of a desperate enterprise of the enemy and a too confident security on our part. It is strictly in the nature of a surprise and cannot again happen. The capitol, the Presidents mansion, the Treasury, War, & Navy Buildings have been destroyed, but in all other respects the seat of government remains the...
5231To James Madison from Thomas Leiper, 1 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
The Councils of this City past a Resolution which was enclosed to you a few days ago promising to make provission for the President Congress &ca in this city which is certainly better adapted for their reseption than any other place on the Continent. Where the greatest strength is there Congress should be. Then figure to yourself a state containing upwards of 100,000 Militia 30,000 of which...
5232Presidential Proclamation, 1 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Whereas the enemy by a sudden incursion have succeeded in invading the capital of the nation, defended at the moment by troops less numerous than their own, and almost entirely of the militia: during their possession of which, though for a single day only, they wantonly destroyed the public edifices having no relation in their structure to operations of war, nor used at the time for military...
5233Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Il m’a été impossible, Jusqu’à présent, de vous procurer l’ouvrage d’Evans . Je continuerai mes recherches. Vous avez du recevoir le 1 er & 2 d vol. de mon dictionnaire & l’histoire des Shakers Plusieurs Personnes Sont venus me trouver, d’après vos lettres, pour me prier de leur compter les petites Sommes qui leur sont dues J’ai promis de les leur envoyer dès que M r Gibson (a qui J’ai ecrit...
5234To James Madison from Ebenezer Breed, August 1814 (Madison Papers)
With a claw of an American Eagle taken on Nahant and presented by, and as a token of the high consideration and esteem with which I am their sincere friend RC ( ViU : Madison Family Papers, 1768–1866, Special Collections). Ebenezer Breed (1766–1839) was born into a Quaker family in Lynn, Massachusetts. As a young man he became a central figure in the fledgling Lynn shoe manufacturing industry,...
5235To James Madison from Eli Whitney, [ca. August 1814] (Madison Papers)
The Memorial of the Subscriber, Respectfully represents, That in the year 1812 he entered into a specific and formal Contract with the Secretary of War, to manufacture 15,000 muskets for the use of the UStates. That some time afterwards said Contract was placed in the hands of Callender Irvine Esq. Commsry. Genl. of purchases, with directions to see it executed; whereupon a correspondence...
5236To James Madison from James Barbour, 31 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Considering it important that, at this interesting period in the situation of our Country, every exertion should be made to render the defence of the state the most efficient and certain, I have taken the field as commander in chief of the militia called into service, and am now occupied in arranging and organizing a force which I trust will be adequate to the object. I am happy to find a...
5237To James Madison from James Monroe, 31 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Genl. winder will be in town, perhaps at McLeods this morning, if he is not already there. I am perfectly willing to resign to him the command, if the troops will act under him. I am aware that much is due to his feelings, especially after what occurrd at Baltimore. Still I am willing to command, it being understood that it is, at the request of the officers of the district, on the volunteer...
5238Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
You are no doubt anxious to hear what we are doing and what are our expectations as it respects defence, and the arrival of the enemy. Our governor as pompous, perhaps, as patriotic, has taken the field, and is encamped at fairfaild , two miles from town, with M r Lee Mercer , H. Nelson , aid, and about 2500, men under the immediate command of Gen. Cocke . There are 2,000 at Camp Holly
5239From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 30 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 2d. instt. addressed directly to me at the Hotel des Pays-Bas, came safely to hand on Saturday the 27th: It had therefore been 25 days on the road, and further confirmed the opinion that the Post is somewhere transmitted only once a week; and that the Post that starts on Saturdays is the one that goes through without being stopp’d—I should therefore from the commencement of...
5240From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your No 21 and 22 were recieved by me as usual last Saturday, or rather Sunday morning, as it was so late at night they could not send them to me. I was particularly anxious to have them as Mr. H had been to me with a load of bad news, stating that the Mission was broken up, and that all prospect of a Peace was entirely at an end &.. &ca. The fact is however ascertained that the Ministers had...
5241To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 30 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
In proportion as new, solemn and unlooked for duties and trials come upon you, I find myself supported by my confidence in your heart and mind and public & personal exertions. Three of my sons are gone to the field in the Philada. volunteer corps which marched last week, one remains assistant Secy to the general committee of defence, and is enrolled in a company which forms part of stationary...
5242To James Madison from Thomas Digges, 30 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
In haste & almost fatigued to death I set down to address a line to You while my nephew Dr F. and a Gentn., whom you know, are taking a mouthful of refreshmt by one of whom you will I hope soon get this. You can more easily immagine than I can describe my own troubles & vexations, and the deep anxieties I have felt for you & Mrs. M since Wedy. last the 24th Int. nr the Capitol. Since which I...
5243Jeremiah Yancey (for Charles Yancey) to Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The express of the name of Rody was here this morning, and said that he, promised cap t Samul Samuel Carr , to leave his horse at this place, provided that he could get another here, he made all the exertions that was in his power, but could not succeed consequently he rode cap t carrs horse, on to charlottesville, where he said he intended to leave him, I am with due respect yours &c....
5244From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
Hearing that a vessel was fitting out of Nyork to carry dispatches from government, I venture to write a few lines, altho I know not where you are, not having received a line from you of a later date than Febry last, as you will no doubt receive every information from the Secretary of State, of the situation of our Country, of the dangers which surround it, the determination of all parties to...
5245From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
I feel very grateful to my dear Sister, that though surrounded by agreeable, & dear Friends, she did not forget an absent Sister ; but could kindly retire a few moments to enquire after her health, & the welfare of her family, & acquaint her with the state of her own, in which she knew an affectionate relative must ever feel interested— The enfeebling disorder I mentioned to my Sister, left me...
5246To James Madison from Thomas Leiper and Liberty Browne, 29 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
We have the honour to enclose a Copy of a resolution of the Select & Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia offering (in the present unfortunate situation of the City of Washington) accomodations for the President Congress & the Departments provided they should think it proper to accept of the same. We have the Honor to be with Great respect Your most obedt Servants RC and enclosure ( DLC...
5247Memorandum of a Conversation with John Armstrong, [29 August 1814] (Madison Papers)
In the evening of the 29th. of Augst. (1814) Being on Horseback I stopped at General Armstrong’s lodgings for the purpose of communicating with him on the state of things in the District, then under apprehensions of an immediate visit from the force of the Enemy at Alexandria. I observed to him that he could not be unaware of the great excitement in the District produced by the unfortunate...
5248John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fav r 20 th recd last Evening—I am really concerned to learn the sacrifice made to advance the $380—thro M r Gibson —who without remitting me—either in Bank Notes—or, depositing that Amo t in the Bank of Richmond and placed place g it to my Credit
5249Daniel F. Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Necessity compels me to call on you, for money at this time I am here on my way to Richmond with out any, and there is none to be had in town. If you can furnish me with any it will be particularly acceptable. You can send it by the boy and I will leave a Rec t for the same with any person you’ll name RC ( ViU : TJP-CC ); dateline beneath signature; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Eq r...
5250Thomas Jefferson to Daniel F. Carr, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Having no cash in hand, I do the best in my power by sending you an order on Richmond for 50. Dollars which will be paid on sight. I am in hopes it may enable you to procure in Charlottesville enough for the road if that is wanting. I wish you health and success. PoC ( ViU : TJP-CC ); at foot of text: “M r Dan l F. Carr”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure not found.