2351To James Madison from William Tatham, 10 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 July 1810, Norfolk. Believes it is important to add to his former communications the enclosed statement of facts concerning the legal right of the public to “the Desart” at Cape Henry. Is continuing his topographical work. Relates that his family is in distressed circumstances. RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 2 pp. Printed in McPherson, “Letters of William Tatham,” WMQ William and Mary...
2352Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jullien , qui Se propose, après avoir rempli la mission dont il est chargé en Italie , de passer aux Etats-Unis , me demande de lui donner d’avance auprès de Vous une Lettre d’introduction. S’il Se fixe en Amérique , comme je le crois, il Sera pour elle une acquisition précieuse. C’est un Penseur qui a beaucoup d’ordre dans les idées, et auquel nous devons deux ouvrages remarquables qu’il...
2353From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
God bless it— mr Jones was so obligeing as to come this morning to Quincy, to inform us that he was to Sail this week for st Petersburgh and that he should be happy to take Letters to you, that he proposes to pass the next winter there, This gentleman is the Son of mr J Th Jones Since he left Colledge he has been in France. he appears an intelligent well informed young Gentleman; he is not...
2354To James Madison from William Eustis, 11 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a return exhibiting the several posts & stations occupied by the troops with their numbers & commanding officers. No further information has been received from Governor Harrison. In a conversation with a gentleman well acquainted with the country & with the state disposition & power of the Indians I have been encouraged to believe they will not commence hostilities:...
2355To James Madison from David Gelston, 11 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of 29th ultimo with $20. I have recieved, the box of hams I have forwarded to Chancellor Livingston. The sundry payments made are stated at foot, receipts enclosed, the bal: $2.46 will remain in your favor in Y/a. My son says he does not recollect the cost of the book it was however a mere trifle, very truly yours 30 May pd. duties on goods 5.79 6 July " Mer: Ad: 10 — 9 " " fret....
2356To John Adams from Benjamin Homans, 12 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
We have the honour to address you in conformity to a vote of the general Committee of the “Bunker Hill Association,” and request you to accept a Copy of the Oration delivered on the 4th. July last.— In commemorating the feelings and principles which led to the glorious event of our revolution, it is peculiarly congenial to our grateful sensibility on this occasion, to render homage to the...
2357From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 12 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
In the latter end of December, 1781, I concluded to present myself a second time to the President of their high mightinesses, for an answer to my former memorial, and drew up a memorial in English and French; but as I had reason to believe the Duke De La Vauguion and the Comte De Vergennes would not now oppose me, but on the contrary would be pleased by being consulted, I communicated my...
2358To James Madison from the Bunker Hill Association, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
We have the honour to address you, in conformity to a Vote of the general Committee of the “Bunker Hill Association,” and request you to accept a Copy of the Oration delivered on the 4th of July last. In commemorating the feelings and principles which led to the glorious event of our revolution, it is peculiarly congenial to our grateful sensibility on this occasion, to render homage to the...
2359To James Madison from William Eustis, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a Letter received from Governor Harrison by which it will appear that we are relieved from any apprehension of hostilities on the part of the Indians. With the highest respect I am Sir, your obedt. servt. 26 June 1810, Vincennes. Reports information he has received from a deputation of Potawatomi Indians about a council held at St. Joseph where the...
2360To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
It is a long time since I have had the honor to address a letter to you personally; but I hope you will not impute my silence to a want of respect, or to a forgetfulness of your favor and friendship; for I can most truly assure you that it has not been owing to either; but more to an apprehension of intruding upon your time, which must of late, have been very much occupied, and which is too...
2361To James Madison from Horatio Gates Spafford, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to address one of these Letters to thee, because I can but suppose thou must feel an interest in every undertaking which interests & affects the community. Placed, as thou art, at the civil head of a Nation of Freemen, thy fatherly goodwill embraces, I trust, an anxious regard for the whole—& while I thus regard thee, I could but wish to engage thy attention to what is doing...
2362To James Madison from [Robert Smith?], ca. 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 12 July 1810. Mentioned in JM to Smith, 17 July 1810 . Forwards letters from Gov. David Holmes and Robert K. Lowry and a copy of his reply to Lowry.
2363Bunker Hill Association to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honour to address you in conformity to a vote of the general Committee of the ‘ Bunker Hill Association ,’ and request you to accept a Copy of the Oration delivered on the 4 th of July last .— In commemorating the feelings and principles which led to the glorious event of our revolution, it is peculiarly congenial to our grateful sensibility on this occasion, to render homage to...
2364Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 12 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 27. was very long on the road , and found me occupied in a business to which I have been obliged to apply every moment of my time till yesterday. I avail myself therefore of the first moment in my power to answer it. I am happy to hear you have entered on a work so interesting to every American as the history of our country. that of the last 30. or 40. years admits certainly...
2365John Steele to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A Package addressed to me came to hand a few days ago, which appeared, on opening the envelope, to be for you, and to contain a variety of seeds— Being unaccompanied with any letter of advice, I send it to the care of the Coll r at Richmond , with a request to forward it to you by the first opportunity RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); at foot of text: “Tho s Jefferson Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received...
2366Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Bond to Wakelin Welch, 20 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Albemarle county in Virginia am held and firmly bound to Wakelyn Welsh of the kingdom of Great Britain in the sum of thirteen hundred & sixty eight pounds twelve shillings and six pence lawful money of Virginia , to the paiment whereof to the said Wakelyn Welsh , his executors, administrators or assigns, I bind myself my heirs executors...
2367From John Adams to Rev. John Disney, 13 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
This letter will be presented to you by The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris Minister of Dorchester the next Town to this my very good Neighbor and worthy Friend, and what is of much more importance a Gentleman of Ingenuity and Learning, and what is of more consequence yet, of Spotless Morals and exemplary Piety. He has business of an interesting Nature in England, and has occasion for a Voyage...
2368From John Adams to Abraham Rees, 13 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, the amiable Clergyman of the town of Dorchester, in my neighborhood, who is bound to Europe upon necessary business I know not whether I am not committing an Indiscretion, in presuming upon the small acquaintance with which you honored me in London, to take this Liberty: but I could not resist the Temptation, to...
2369From John Adams to Richard Sharp, 13 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
Mr Sturgis lately presented me with a Speech in Parliament on the Expedition to Copenhagen not more distinguished by its Eloquence, than by its magnanimous assertion of the Obligations of the Laws of Nations; of Equity and Humanity in short of the General rights of Mankind. I was not surprised when I found it was by my Friend Mr Sharp, whose acquaintance and Conversation I recollect with...
2370From John Adams to William Vaughan, 13 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
My Friend Mr Thaddeus Mason Harris who has for many years been Ordained Minister of Dorchester the next Town to me, and is every Way worthy of the Friendship of all Men of Letters and of Virtue, is bound to England upon interisting Business And as I wish him to be known I have taken the Liberty to give him this line of Introduction to you recollecting as I do with Pleasure many agreeable hours...
2371From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 13 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
you will Smile my dear Madam when I tell you, that I began a Letter to you, wrote two pages, and was then call’d down to company, left it upon my table by the side of a window, and when I returnd to finish it, it had taken to itself wings and flown away, not a trace of it could I find pray have the faries borne it to you in its unfinished state as a punishment to me for having so long delayed...
2372To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I return you mr. Bassette’s letter & think you may safely tell him we possess no Dutch accounts of Virginia. We have De Laët; but it is a folio volume of Latin, & I have no doubt a good translation will sell well. I have not examined De Bry’s collection to see if that contains any Dutch account. That is in 3. folio volumes of Latin, and certainly will not take off one single reader from mr....
2373Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
As you take much interest in the knowledge of every thing relative to the american Mammouth, and other similar animals, I am persuaded that you will be glad to learn, that I have recently received from St. Petersburgh in Russia , some fine large drawings of the great Asiatic Mammouth, whose skeleton, together with some portions of the skin and muscular parts, has lately been discovered, in a...
2374Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you mr Bassette’s letter & think you may safely tell him we possess no Dutch accounts of Virginia . we have De Laët ; but it is a folio volume of Latin, & I have no doubt a good translation will sell well. I have not examined De Bry’s collection to see if that contains any Dutch account. that is in 3. folio volumes of Latin, and certainly will not take off one single reader from mr...
2375Thomas Jefferson to Théodore Pahlen, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 25 th Ult. and have to return you my thanks for those of Mad e de Tessé , & Gen l La Fayette , and for the print of Baron Humboldt , all of which are come safely to hand, & present to me the proofs & recollections of their much valued friendships. to these acknolegements permit me to add my congratulations on your safe arrival in the United states ,...
2376Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d inst. is duly recieved, and I agree to settle up the principal & interest now due to mr Welsh , and give a new bond for the whole in exchange for the former. the bonds were given in the order stated on the next leaf as agreed with mr Wickham , & I have settled the paiments by applying the first to the first bond until it was paid off, then to the 2 d in like manner & so...
2377Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Balance due to Wakelin Welch, [ca. 13 July 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
A statement of the bonds given to Cary & Welsh . 1797 Jan 20. 1 st bond paiable July 1. 1798. Principal £300. } with interest at 5. per cent from 2 d d o 1799 300. 1769
2378To James Madison from John K. Smith, 14 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th may. Mr Duplantier has at length returned & is now with me. He has received two letters from Genl. Lafayette under blank covers from you—upon seeing your letters to me & my answer of the 15th. may he agrees that nothing can now be done in the location of the remaining 500 acres adjacent to the City for the reasons stated in...
2379Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson, 14 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from an excursion to my farm on the Monongahela , I found your letter of 30 th May , applying for such papers relative to the Batture as might be in the office. It appears on enquiry & search that there were none, some printed documents excepted, which during my absence had been given to M r Graham , to be transmitted to you with other papers from the department of State , through...
2380Enclosure: Albert Gallatin’s Memorandum on Edward Livingston’s Suit against Thomas Jefferson in the Batture Case, [ca. … (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum respecting the suit instituted by E. Livingston , against Th s Jefferson late President of the United States , for damage & a & a in the Batture case I. The law authorised the President to remove E. Livingston II. The decree of the territorial Court in favour of Livingston did not preclude the President from the right of exercising the general powers vested in him
2381Thomas Jefferson to Carlo Botta, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of the 12 th of January, and altho’ the work you therein mention is not yet come to hand, I avail myself of an occasion, now rendered rare & precarious between our two countries, of anticipating the obligation I shall owe for the pleasure I shall have in perusing it, and of travelling over with you the important scenes quorum pars minima fui . scenes which have...
2382Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I really shrink for shame from the tax I impose on your goodness respecting my foreign letters. but my inland situation added to the difficulty of the times leaves me with out a resource but in the friendship of the agents of the government, for my European correspondence, a correspondence I try to lessen as much as possible and hope with time to get rid of. in the mean time I am burthensome...
2383George Hay to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
It would have given me great pleasure, to have called on you, once more, before I left this place; but I could not do So, conveniently, without postponing my departure for one day. This postponement my engagements in Richmond forbid. I expect however to be here again in less than three weeks, and shall certainly, immediately after my return, pay my respects at Monticello .— I object to the...
2384Thomas Jefferson to Marc Antoine Jullien, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved the very valuable present of your work on education, and I pray you to accept my thanks for this mark of your attention. I am now engaged in reading it, and have made sufficient progress to see it’s great merit, but the opportunity occurring at this moment of conveying to you my acknolegements, forbids me to delay them making them, as the intercourse between our two...
2385Thomas Jefferson to William Pinkney, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I again trouble you with letters from mr Bradbury to his friends in England . he is a botanist & Naturalist of high qualifications & Merit, and is now engaged in exploring Upper Louisiana . I feel a real interest in his pursuits, the result of which so far is communicated in some of these letters. On politics I have little to say, and little need be said to you who are better informed from...
2386John Roane to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Without a personal acquaintance with you, it requires an apology for making the subjoin’d request, in answer to which, you may possibly feel some delicacy in expressing your opinion—I venture however to do so, in full confidence, that if you perceive any impropriety in a compliance, you’ll excuse an application, intended, if possible, to relieve many poor, but worthy people, from a disagreable...
2387Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
My distance from the seat of gover n ment and ignorance of safe conveyances to Paris have occasioned me to be late in acknoleging your favor of Oct: 27. that of Jan. 19. is lately recieved. with the former came the Memoires d’Agriculture, the map of M. Komarzewski, and with the latter the seeds from the national garden. will you do me the favor to make my just acknolegements to those to whom...
2388To James Madison from William Eustis, 16 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Doubtful of the propriety of issuing the order, I have the honor to enclose for your consideration & decision the letter of General Wilkinson, requesting that certain Officers may be ordered to the Seat of Government for the purpose therein mentioned. The objections appear to be, first, the expense. Secondly several of the Officers are on duty from which they cannot be released without injury...
2389To James Madison from William Eustis, 16 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to the request of Colo. Simonds, I have the honor to enclose his Letter on the subject of his double rations. Altho’ it does not appear that General Wilkinson was authorised to assure the Colo. that he would be entitled to the allowance, reliance was undoubtedly had on the promise, and to be obliged to refund what has been received under such circumstances is considered by the...
2390To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
It appears that a depreciation of the paper currency of Norway has taken place which requires, for the purpose of calculating the duties, the interference of the President. I enclose for that purpose an Act for your signature; which, if you approve, please to return under cover to Mr Duvall, as I expect to leave this for New York to morrow. I also enclose for your approbation a recommendation...
2391From James Madison to James Monroe, 16 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 July 1810. Acknowledged in Monroe to JM, 25 July 1810 . Concerns the employment of Bizet, a French gardener.
2392From James Madison to James Monroe, 16 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
If I did not misunderstand you when in Washington the Gardener Beza, was not now engaged or wanted for your service, and would not, probably, be unwilling to undertake a job for me. Should this be the case, I would ask the favor of you to send him down as soon as possible. I wish to employ him, & 2 or 3 hands under him, in preparing a piece of ground for a Garden, and to have it executed in a...
2393Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 16 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 31. was duly recieved, and I join in congratulations with you on the resurrection of republican principles in Massachusets & N. Hampshire , and the hope that the professors of these principles will not again easily be driven off their ground. the federalists, during their short lived ascendancy, have nevertheless, by forcing us from the embargo, have inflicted a wound on our...
2394William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A desire to be preserved in your remembrance has often led me to the verge of writing to you, but knowing with what anxiety you retired from political concerns and the disgust you must naturally have felt at the recollection of the baseness you have seen and the unworthiness which prevails too much in all kinds of affairs, I preferred rather to trust to the ordinary incidents of my situation...
2395Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 16 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in May last the inclosed letter from mr Thomas Wilson agent for Speirs & co. with two other papers the copy of which is now inclosed, the originals being returned to him at his request. I wrote in answer that your father had solely gone through the administration of mr Wayles’s estate, or had left so little to do that I expected you would do that, as the papers were in your hands,...
2396Thomas Jefferson to William Lambert, 16 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
An indispensible piece of business which has occupied me for a month past, obliged me to suspend all correspondence during that time. this must apologize for my late acknolegement of your favor of May 19. and my & for the tardy expression of my thanks for so much of the papers you inclosed as respected myself. the approbation of my political conduct by my republican countrymen generally is a...
2397From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Among the papers relating to the Convention of 1787. communicated to you, that copies in your hands might double the security agst. destructive casualties, was a delineation of Hamilton’s plan of a Constitution in his own writing. On looking for it among the Debates &c, which were returned to me, this particular paper does not appear. I conclude therefore that it had not then been copied, or...
2398From James Madison to Robert Smith, 17 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
The letter from Govr. Holmes, with that from Mr. Lowry & copy of the answer, which were inclosed to me, are now returned. I think Govr. Holmes should be encouraged in keeping a wakeful eye to occurrences & appearances in W. Florida, and in transmitting information concerning them. It will be well for him also to be attentive to the means of having his Militia in a state for any service that...
2399To James Madison from the Chickasaw Nation, 17 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
You told us in writing when you were about to Establish a Factory among us, that we should have goods at the same price they were then sold to the Cherokees at Tellico; we have found a very great Difference from the first begining of the Chickasaw Factory in the price of goods here & at Tellico & we have to pay higher every year, so much so, that we suppose the goods will get so high that it...
2400To James Madison from George Logan, 17 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
The Government of the Unite[d] States in renewing commerce with the Belligerants, has done our country great honor as by this magnanimous act, we offer to both nations, another opportunity to do us justice, and to restore our friendship. It has powerfully strengthened our friends in this country—and whatever may be the feelings of the administration; even the ministry in private conversation,...