15351Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman and Nimrod Darnil, 31 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to deliver to mr Samuel J. Harrison my crop of tobacco of the last year now on hand, as fast as it is inspected. lose no time in getting it ready, and spare no pains in handling it in the best manner, stemming conscientiously what you would have stemmed exactly had it still been kept on hand for sale PoC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; on verso of PoC of covering letter. Not...
15352To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 28 October 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose two letters from the district attorney of Georgia, respecting the misbehaviour of Benjamin Wall Marshal for that district. The business of the Savannah custom house had been transacted in so improper manner for a great length of time by the successive collectors, that unable to arrange & understand their respective accounts, I was obliged to send there last winter...
15353To James Madison from David Daggett, 26 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have received by the mail of this day a letter inclosing a Petition to the President of the United States in behalf of Aaron West, a sergeant in the 6th: Regiment of United States infantry stationed upon Governors Island near NewYork, stating that the Petitioners are apprehensive that as he has been lately tried by a Court martial for desertion, he may be under sentence of death, & praying...
15354To James Madison from William Eustis, 15 February 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 February 1812, War Department. Transmits a “general return of the Militia of the United States, taken from the latest returns received by this Department from the several States and Territories” [not found]. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). 1 p.
15355Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 10 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Jan. 1. and 12. are both recieved. mine of Dec. 28. had been written with a view to state on paper what was supposed to be agreed between us, & to invite a corresponding statement from yourself, that we might see if we understood one another. I suppose I have been unfortunate in the choice of terms used in my letter, because I find doubts still in your mind which that was...
15356To James Madison from William Farquhar, 17 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 July 1812, Natchez. Asks that JM permit him “to remain peacably untill He can dispose of his property lawfully aquired here; Pay his debts which are but few; and retire, to oppose in another land Napoleon the Tyrant the plague of Europe.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, War of 1812 Papers, Letters Received regarding Enemy Aliens). 1 p.; docketed by JM. William Farquhar of Natchez was described on the...
15357To James Madison from Thomas Dixon, 6 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
A man in my Situation is Seldom Ceremoneous and you will be Surpris’d at Seeing a letter from you don’t Know Who. Keen Distress Sir Drives men to do What they never thought of Before. But hear my Tale and I’ll have Done. When I was about Six years old I was bit by A Dog Just above the ankle inside the Leg. It continu’d Sore till last february was a year When Doctor F. May in Nashville cut it...
15358From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [ca. 22 January] 1810 (Madison Papers)
A letter from Govr. Tyler answering an enquiry as to the $300 deposited in my hands to pay for the Sword purchased by Chan: Livingston, informs me, that the money was returned to Virga. & lies ready to be applied to its object. That item of course in Mr. L.’s accts. may be struck out, and the charge pd. by a remittance from Va. I do not recollect the cost of the Sword; but if more than $300,...
15359To James Madison from William Crawford, 17 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
The aim of the present address, will, I trust, be a sufficient apology for the intrusion. If the scheme it proposes shall be deemed either dangerous or impracticable, it will only subject you to the trouble of perusing it. It has always been the opinion of the subscriber—that the measures of our government should be calculated to afford security to the basis on which it ought to rest—the free...
15360William Pinkney to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honour to receive a few weeks ago, the very acceptable Present of your Book on Livingston’s Claim, which I have read in part with great Attention, & intend to finish in a Day or two.—It has a Bearing upon a Cause in which I am concerned as Counsel in Maryland , and affords me Lights which certainly I had not before. As far as I have gone I find the Statements clear, and the Reasoning...
15361From James Madison to William Simmons, 6 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
It being requisite that the office of Accountant to the Department of War be placed in other hands, you will consider it as ceasing to be in your’s [ sic ] after this date. Printed copy ( New-York Evening Post, 11 July 1814).
15362To James Madison from Jonathan Williams, 29 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Honourable Saml L Mitchill of the House of Representatives of the United States having transmitted to the State Committee of fortifications a printed Letter addressed to you signed Edward Clark containing a project of fortification for this Harbour, I think it my duty as chief Engineer of the United States, and author of the plans of fortification lately compleated & now progressing under...
15363To John Adams from William Plumer, 22 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I owe you a thousand apologies for not sooner acknowledging your obliging letter of the fourth of November; but it would be more than useless to trouble you with the enumeration. With respect to my intended history, my design is to commence with the discovery of America by Columbus, & bring it down to as late a period as my time & health will permit. I have commenced, but am very far from...
15364From James Madison to James Monroe, 8 [September] 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 6th. I am sorry to find that Pike confides so little in our prospects. From a letter of Genl. Dearborn to the Secy. of War, it appears that the force at his disposal is more scanty than was hoped. I am not sure whether his immediate plan is to take advantage of the detachments of the B. force from Montreal, by directing his principal operations towards that place, or...
15365To James Madison from Adrian Benjamin Bentzon, 20 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Presuming on the personal acquaintance, you have honor’d me with, I venture to call on your attention for a few moments in order to explain in a private letter my motives for not immediately granting an “exequatur” to Mr Jacques, who has been appointed Consul at Ste. Croix. It is not customary to receive Consuls in Colonies, the trade in nearly all being in ordinary times exclusive with the...
15366From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1810 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter from Jarvis accompanied one to me on the subject of the Merinos. I learn that they have arrived safe; but the vessel is aground a few miles below Alexanda. Jos: Doherty is gone to bring them up, making the selections warranted by Mr. Jarvis. As the means I shall employ to have my pair conveyed to Virga. will suffice for yours, it will be unnecessary for you to attend to the...
15367Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I say nothing about the affairs of Europe , for they are so clouded that no reasonable conjecture can be afforded by present facts. I am most willing to believe that the progress of knowledge cannot be stopt, and the dark ages renewed, even should the Bourbons again ascend the throne, but there is nothing to be expressed but hope and good wishes. Yet from the beginning of history, it appears...
15368Charles Clay to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Reflecting on an expression of yours Relative to an Idea Sometimes entertained by you of Compresing the Moral doctrines taught by Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospels, divested of all other Matters into a small and Regular system of the purest morality ever taught to Mankind, & meritting the highest praise, & most worthy the Strictest attention &c &c. however laudable may be your Views View &...
15369To John Jay from Richard Peters, 19 January 1815 (Jay Papers)
Your very welcome Letter of the 9 th . inst I have recieved, at the Moment I was contemplating sending to you our 3 d Vol. of Agricultural Memoirs, as a small Token of Remembrance. I shall, by the first Opportunity, have it conveyed to New York, with a Request that it may be forwarded. A few of us endeavour to keep this Subject alive, amidst the Din of Arms; which are ever hostile to the Arts...
15370Thomas Jefferson to John A. Morton, 9 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Gen l Kosciuzko , now established at Paris , or rather at or near Fontainebleau , depends for his subsistence chiefly on the produce of stock which he has in our funds and banks. we have occasion to remit him, about this season annually, somewhere about 1000.D. the superintendence of this he left with me, and I have committed to mr John Barnes of George town the immediate care of...
15371From James Madison to Congress, 31 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
Taking into view the mutual interest which the United States and the foreign nations in amity with them, have in a liberal commercial intercourse, and the extensive changes favorable thereto which have recently taken place; Taking into view also, the important advantages which may otherwise result, from adapting the state of our commercial laws to the circumstances now existing: I recommend to...
15372From John Adams to John Taylor, 18 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
“Knowledge” you Say invented Alienation, and became the natural Enemy of Aristocracy. This “Invention” of “Knowledge” was not very profound or ingenious. There are hundreds in the Patent office more brilliant. The Right, Power and Authority of Alienation is essential to Property. If I own a snuff box, I can burn it in the Fire, cast it into a Salt pond crush it to attoms under a Wagon Wheel,...
15373To James Madison from Mordecai Barbour, 28 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1812, Petersburg. “In the present crisis … it becomes the duty of every citizen to tender to his Country such services as he is capable to render. Under the influence of such a conviction and believing from the experience I acquired in the revolutionary war that I can render essential services to my Country, I have caused it to be communicated at the War office my willingness to accept...
15374Richard C. Derby to Thomas Jefferson, 23 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclos’d letters were given me by my friends knowing that it was my intention (before M rs Derby s and my departure for Europe ) to visit you at your seat in Virginia . but circumstances preventing I take the liberty to enclose them to you at the same o time observing that M rs Derby and myself should feel doubly delighted should you feel be inclind to forward us Letters to Boston
15375From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 30 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Journal proceeds—1782 Nov. 29, Friday. Met Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Oswald, Mr. Jay, Mr. Laurens, (for the first time) and Mr. Stratchy, at Mr. Jay’s Hotel D’Orleans; and spent the whole day in discussions about the fishery, and the Tories.—I proposed a new article concerning the fisheries. It was discussed and turned in every light and multitudes of amendments proposed on each side, and at...
15376Thomas Jefferson to the Convention of Bristol County, Rhode Island, 29 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The reciept of your friendly address in the last moments of the session of Congress , will, I trust, offer a just apology for it’s late acknolegement. We have certainly cause to rejoice that since the waves of affliction & peril, raised from the storm of war by the rival belligerents of Europe , have undulated on our shores, the councils of the nation have been able to preserve it from the...
15377To James Madison from William Thornton, [3 March 1817] (Madison Papers)
To prevent any Suspicion of a deficiency in respect to you and your Lady—whom we have never ceased to more than respect & esteem—I am unwilling to permit you to depart without expressing our sincere regret that when your Departure was made known to all our Friends by her farewell visit to them, and they were thereby enabled to pay their parting respects, we remained ignorant thereof, and were...
15378To James Madison from John P. Van Ness and Richard Bland Lee, 2 August 1815 (Madison Papers)
Having determined to send Mr. Andrei in the Corvette John Adams to the Mediterranean for the purpose of being landed at Barcelona in Spain, to be thence conveyed to Leghorn & for which the necessary orders, pursuant to your instructions have been given by the Secretary of the Navy, it has occurred to us that it might be found practicable consistent with the public service, to send one of the...
15379To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
The minister of France intending himself the honor of paying his respects to you at your residence in Virginia, I have taken the liberty to assure him of the pleasure it would afford you to receive him. He expects to set out this evening, & I avail myself of the opportunity of assuring you of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be your very obt servant RC ( DLC : Rives...
15380Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 10 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret much that I was so late in consulting you on the subject of the academy we wish to establish here. the progress of that business has obliged me to prepare and address to the President of the board of trustees , a plan for it’s organisation. I send you a copy of it with a broad margin, that, if your answer to mine of Aug. 25. be not on the way, you may be so good as to write your...
15381To James Madison from William Hunter, 29 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to introduce Col. Searle Adjutant General who presents himself to you charged by this State with business peculiarly interesting to its welfare. I understand he is instructed to represent our defenceless and distressed situation, to request of the General Government efficient assistance and to offer the prompt and constitutional co-operation of this State in all necessary measures...
15382To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 February 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have received several Epistles in prose and verse, written to console me for my heavy loss, but nothing has equalled the three first lines of your last letter.— It is seldom that affliction comes singly & alone. Suppose I should tell you that my professional & political enemies have succeeded in obtaining a decree of banishment against me, and that I am ordered to take my departure tomorrow...
15383Thomas Jefferson to Wilson J. Cary, 28 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your servant, with 4. lambs for mr Cocke , will recieve a 5 th for yourself. it is the second best of the 5. mr Cocke’s are from his own ewes, the one destined for you is from mine, the best I had except one. one of your ewes proved to be with lamb when she came; the other missed altogether. the two last merino ewes I recieved brought the scab into my flock, & I lost several. I tried mercurial...
15384To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
The paternal farm which I visited on the 11th: of last month, lies two miles further from Philadelphia than the honorable Cottage where you once did me and my brother the honor to take a family dinner with my dear and Venerable mother. She purchased and retired to it After She gave up business in Philadelphia. I had seen my native place but once since I was Six years old, and that but for a...
15385Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 28 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The interruption of our commerce with England , produced by our embargo & non-intercourse law, & the general indignation excited by her bare-faced attempts to make us accessories & tributories to her usurpations on the high seas, have generated in this country an universal spirit of manufacturing for ourselves, & of reducing to a minimum the number of articles for which we are dependant on...
15386To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 27 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Bank subscription is filled. The deficit of the general returns, 3,000,000. Dollars, was taken by Mr. Girard, in a single line, to the great disappointment of the Brokers and Speculators. I congratulate you upon this event. There is little doubt of the organization of the Bank being republican, and friendly to the Government. The Cumberland road presents new embarrassments; and I shall...
15387From James Madison to the City Council of New Orleans, 23 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd:, fellow Citizens, Your act of June 10th. with the sensibility due to the kindness of its expressions towards me personally; and with all the gratification which the just & patriotic veiw it takes of the public welfare, ought to inspire. The peace & plenty which have distinguished our Country, amid the convulsions and calamities forming the general character of the times, and under...
15388Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M. Dufief to send him the books noted below, always bearing in mind the Weekly mission in small parcels for the ease of the mail: and also to note to him the prices that he may make his remittances at convenient intervals. Tull’s horsehoeing husbandry, an old book in 8 vo Young’s Experiments in Agriculture. (I think it is in 3. vols. 8 vo ) Memoirs of Theophilus...
15389Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 22 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Dick , Solomon and Philip are permitted to go and see their friends, and in returning will help to bring the hogs and beeves. I am in hopes you have procured the beds and given them to the women. in giving out their clothes I forgot the article of hats, which I give every other year; but as it will be more convenient to give about half one year and half another, we will give to the men only,...
15390Thomas Jefferson to Richard Barry, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 18 th of March , since that I begin to get the produce of the year to market, and now inclose you of the first proceeds one hundred dollars. within a few days I shall direct mr Jefferson to forward you another hundred. the balance which will be about 75. shall come in towards the close of the season, when all is at market. wishing you every happiness I shall feel a...
15391Conveyance of Thomas Jefferson’s Lot in Richmond to David Higginbotham, November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the day of Nov r one Thousand eight hundred and eleven between Thomas Jefferson of the one part and David Higginbotham of the other; both of the County of Albermarle witnesseth that the said Thomas in consideration of the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds currant money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said David, hath given granted bargained & sold unto the said...
15392William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The last paragraph of your letter of the 10 th instant , respecting the conduct of a certain European nation to us, as well as to others with whom it has any commercial intercourse, plainly evinces Your strong, unbiassed attachment to the true interests of the country which gave you birth. It is much to be regretted, that too many natives of this favored land are pusillanimous and unprincipled...
15393Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 23 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
A petition has been presented to our present legislature by a Cap t Joseph Miller , praying a confirmation of the will of his half brother Thomas Reed who died not long since at Norfolk possessed of lands and slaves which he devised to his half brothers and sisters then living in England . this one bought up the shares of the whole and came over to reside here as a citizen. he arrived after...
15394Enclosure: Littleton W. Tazewell to Martin Oster, 4 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have attentively Considered the papers which you submitted, for my opinion—Concerning the rights of M r & mad. Beauvois to the State of M r Piernez deceased, the brother of mad. Beauvois , and now beg leave to offer you the result of my examination there of. M r Piernez having died without issue, or father or mother and leaving no brother or any other sister than mad. Beauvois . By the law...
15395To James Madison from Reasin Beall and John Sloane, 9 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
Observing that the Office of Accountant for the Department of War, has become vacant, by the death of Colo. Lear, permit us the liberty of reccommending to your Excellency’s consideration the Honourable David Clendenin Esquire representative in Congress from the 6th. district of Ohio, as a gentleman well qualified to discharge the duties of that Office. We have the honour to be Your...
15396Nathaniel H. Hooe to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21 st of july I have reced after lying in the post office at Fredericksburg upwards of one month. at the same time I reced a letter from Mess rs Gipson & Jefferson which had also been in the office for some time, covering a check on the Farmers Bank of Fredericksburgh for 76. D 60 c in my favor on your Accp t which they requested I would inform you of when I reced it, which...
15397To James Madison from William Jones, 18 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
On the subject of the Claim of Mr Mix for the cost of Torpedos said to have been prepared and placed in the channel leading to Norfolk by order of General Taylor, having referred to the act of the 16 July 1813 I cannot perceive that the execution of the duties enjoined by that law falls within the province of this Department, as every thing of the kind hitherto has been under the direction of...
15398From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 25 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
Mr Erving, our Minister destined to Copenhagen, has already a Letter for you from me and others from your Mother and politely offers to transmit this as he may have opportunity, and expresses a desire to manifest his high Respect for Us and for you, upon greater Occasions. I am ashamed to Number my past Letters to you, they have been so few, but this is the Second at least Since this year came...
15399Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 19 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Randolph first, and latterly mr Short have flattered me with the hope that you would pay us a visit with the returning season. I should sooner have pressed this but that my vernal visit to Bedfor d was approaching, and I wished to fix it’s precise epoch, before I should write to you. I shall set out now within a few days, and be absent probably all the month of May; and shall be very happy...
15400P. T. Jones (for John B. Magruder) to Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter has Just come to hand contents particularly attended to We have no clover Seed to dispose of at present—M r Magruder is gone to Richmond and intends to get some for Some of his acquaintances but I suppose now not so much as will supply your dem d The probability is, that if he should get, the price will be high RC ( MHi ); addressed: “M r Thomas Jefferson Albemarle Monticello”;...