5251Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Carr, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Roland Goodman who has lived with me as a carpenter since January last, informs me he is a member of your company, now called into service, and desires me to inform you of the state of his health. in May last he broke a blood vessel, in the lungs as was supposed, and voided a vast quantity of blood from it by the mouth, insomuch that he was long in imminent danger of dying, & was under the...
5252Thomas Jefferson to William Caruthers, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17 th is duly recieved. there was a short time, about that of my leaving Washington , when to square my accounts there, I would have been willing to have parted with the Natural bridge and some other unproductive property; and that merely for the value of the soil as land, without attention to it’s value either as a site for machinery, or as a curiosity, certainly the...
5253Thomas Jefferson to George Hargraves, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 4. came safe to hand, covering the description of a torpedo. I should readily have forwarded it to the government had it been within their plan to try the experiments which these machines require. but I understand that so many of these flowed in upon them as to oblige them to decline attention to them; and to leave it to individuals to put them in practice, offering a great...
5254James W. Wallace to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am pleased that the fish-Saw merits a place in your Hall. I hope soon to send you a pair of Swans, which, if not acceptable to you, I hope you will with my best wishes send to M rs Bankhead . I am anxious to get to Charlottsville but such is at present the state of private as well as public concerns that I can’t say exactly when I shall see you, for I expect an immediate call for all the...
5255Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 22 d and the information it contained. your proposal of continuing to favor me with the occurrences, now become doubly interesting, cannot but be acceptable; while I fear it would not be in my power to offer any thing interesting in exchange for your favors. here we believe ourselves free from danger, and all our young men therefore are thronging to the...
5256Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
An express of the name of Roddie , to whom Cap t Samuel Carr furnished a horse, promised to leave him at your house. in the mean time Cap t Carr being suddenly called on with his troop, I have furnished him with a horse, and he has given me the inclosed order to recieve his, for which the bearer now waits on you with the assurances of my respects. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover...
5257James Monroe’s Draft Memoranda on the Events of 24–28 1814 August 1814 at Washington, [post–28 August] (Madison Papers)
The President cross’d the Potowk., after the affair of the 24th, accompanied by the attorney genl., & general mason, and remained on the south side of the river, a few miles above the lower falls, on the following day the secretary of State, likewise crossed the river, shortly after him with Mr Ringgold & rema[i]nd that night, in the same quarter, whence he proceeded & joind genl winder at...
5258From James Madison to Dolley Madison, [28 August 1814] (Madison Papers)
and I can not yet learn what has been the result. Should the fort have been taken, the British Ships with their barges will be able to throw the City again into alarm, and you may be again compelled to retire from it, which I find would have a disagreeable effect. Should the Ships have failed in their attack, you can not return too soon. ⟨I shall⟩ keep Freeman till the question is decided, and...
5259Richard Rush to James Monroe, 28 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
The more I have reflected upon the subject of a proclamation, in the more important lights does the immediate necessity for it strike me, and I have sketched and enclose you a few thoughts to look at. After an event so very marked in our public affairs and destined to be always prominent in our national history, I think some very marked notice should be taken of it, without, perhaps, too nice...
5260Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 28 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 17 th is recieved. I have not the book of Muñoz containing the print of Columbus . that work came out after I left Europe , and we have not the same facility of acquiring new continental publications here as there. I have no doubt that entire credit is to be given to the account of the print rendered by him in the extract from his work, which you have sent me: and as you say...
5261Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Extract from Theodor de Bry’s Preface to Americae Pars Quinta, with a Drawing Depicting … (Jefferson Papers)
PRÆFATIO In superiore libro historiae Americanae (benevole lector) in qua res novi orbis nuper inventi mirandae atq; insignes non tantum scripto recitantur sed et iconibus exprimuntur et repraesentantur, dictum est eas terras Christophori Columbi Genuensis industria mirabiliter ac praeter spem eorum omnium quos ea de re compellarat, repertas fuisse. Quoniam autem ille Columbus vir erat...
5262Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Likeness of Christopher Columbus, [ca. 28 August 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
Note by Th:J. The 1 st vol. of Debry was printed in 1590. & the 2 d to which the preface is here given, was printed in 1595. it was between these two dates then that the copy [exemplar] of the portrait which had been taken by order of the king & Queen , and of which his son made the miniature here exhibited, was given by his friend who recieved it from the painter himself [i.e. the copyist.]...
5263Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 28 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the 1 st vol. of Tucker ’s Blackstone & the 1 st & 2 d of Botta . I think I have nothing on the fi Revolutionary finances which answers your view except the Article ‘Etats Unis’ of the Encyclopedie, which article I have seperately
5264From Elizabeth De Windt to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
Nothing could compensate so much for the disapointment of my Son’s not bringing your Caroline with him as the flattering letter he brought me from you, I Cannot describe my feelings when reading it, your Sentiments of him coincided So much with mine, that I could not help exclaiming he is all that this good & venerable lady thinks of him, to hear him praised for qualities that grace human...
5265From James Madison to John Armstrong, 27 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
The Enemy having evacuated the City of Washington & no obstacle remaining to a re-union of the members of the Executive there, J. Madison requests that this may take place with as little delay as may be. RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , P-80:8). In JM ’s hand. Docketed as received in the War Department in August 1814.
5266From James Madison to William Jones, 27 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
On our arrival at Montgomery Ct. H. we found, according to report, that the army had left it about noon, in full march towards Baltimore, whither the Enemy were supposed to be bending their course. We came to this place last evening with a view of joining the Secy. of State with the army, or of going with him to Washington as he might think best. I have just recd. a note from him, saying that...
5267From James Madison to Dolley Madison, 27 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Finding that our army had left Montgomery Court House, we pushed on to this place, with a view to join it, or proceed to the City, as further information might prescribe. I have just recd. a line from Col. Monroe, saying that the Enemy were out of Washington, & on the retreat to their Ships & advising our immediate return to Washington. We shall accordingly set out thither immediately. You...
5268To James Madison from Lewis Bemis, 27 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Respectfully sheweth Lewis Bemis a private in the first Regt. of Light Artillery that in July 1808 he enlisted a soldier under Capt. Learned Lamb and was after wards commanded by Capt. Return B. Brown after the forteages of the westearn campaign to the Prophets town under the command of Gov. Harrisson afterwards was made prisnor at Detroit by the surrender of Genl, Hull that while a prisnor...
5269To James Madison from James H. Blake, [27 August 1814] (Madison Papers)
I wrote you the inclosed last Even.g—but neither Horse or rider could then be procured to take it to you. I have been up all night patroleing the Streets & guarding public and private property—collecting arms & ammunition remaining dispersed about this City. And am happy to inform you all is perfectly still and quiet this morning. I observe this moment a few of our citizens returning. In haste...
5270To James Madison from James Witherell, 27 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Impressed with the nec[e]sstiy of having a secretary in the Territory, if that Office is vacant, I feel great confidence in recomme[n]ding Joseph Watson Esquire, as possessing the requisite qualifications —he is about thirty years old—of good natural, and acquired abilities, and temperate habits—he acquired the French language in Paris, when on a tuor with his Uncle, Elkanah Watson of...
5271John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d your letter dated the 5 Aug: two posts past, and owe you an apology for not acknowledging it sooner.—The last eight days every moment of my time has been employ’d in placing my affairs in the best posture I can for my absence in the public service —The call upon me was entirely unexpected and found me unprepared.— I am sorry that you deem’d it necessary to trouble yourself upon the...
5272Thomas Jefferson to Isaac A. Coles, 27 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me. altho’ ignorant of the pretences for the opposition you had experienced in your regiment, your friends here, to whom you were best known, never doubted that your conduct had been proper & honorable under every circumstance. they are gratified by the knolege of the facts detailed in this statement pamphlet, as proving specially...
5273From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 26 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
It is vain to attempt accounting for the irregularities of the Post-Office—Yesterday I received your N. 18 (which should have been numbered 19) of 28. July; and a Letter from Mr Harris, dated the day before—These Letters have been four entire weeks on the way—But Messrs: Gallatin, Bayard and Hughes, all received at the same time, Letters from Harris, dated 2. August—six days later than his...
5274From James Madison to James Monroe, 26 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
I expected this morning to have reached Genl. W. & yourself before your departure from Montgy. C.H. but was delayed so that I did not arrive there till 6 OC. Partly to obtain quarters, partly with a view to be within communication with you, I have proceeded thus far, in company with Mr. Rush Genl. Mason &c; and avail myself of the Bearer to inform you that I will either wait here till you join...
5275To James Madison from Nicoll Fosdick and Others, 26 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
General Cushing commanding the 2d military district of the United States, has nominated Hezekiah Goddard, of this Town, deputy quarter Master Genl. of said district. Mr. Goddard is the last man, in the opinion of the friends of the Genl. Govt: in this quarter who would be appointed to such an office. His opposition to the present war & administration is notorious. He has done all in his power...
5276From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 25 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Harris was here last evening, and made me an offer of a House, which as times go is remarkably cheap, and I have thought it prudent to accept it upon condition that he will let us have it by the Month. the rent is 3500 Rubles it is the House in which Von Essen lived in the Place St Isaac. as I know not how you are going on, or at what time you expect to return, I have delayed taking any...
5277Thomas Jefferson to Edward Coles, 25 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 31. was duly recieved, and was read with peculiar pleasure. the sentiments breathed thro’ the whole do honor to both the head and heart of the writer. mine on the subject of the slavery of negroes have long since been in possession of the public, and time has only served to give them stronger root. the love of justice & the love of country plead equally the cause of these...
5278Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 25 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Jan. 16. I mentioned to you that it had long been in contemplation to get an University established in this state, in which all the branches of science useful to us , and at this day , should be taught in their highest degree; and that this institution should be incorporated with the college and funds of W m & Mary . but what are the sciences useful to us, and at this day...
5279Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 25 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
It seems an age since I have had particular occasion to recall myself to your memory; and to that circumstance must be ascribed my long silence; and not to any abatement of my great esteem for you. perhaps the desire to say so may have entered somewhat into the motives for giving you the trouble I am now about to propose. we are desirous of establishing in my neighborhood an academy, on a...
5280Memorandum of Conversations with John Armstrong, 24 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
In the morning, a note by an Express from Genl. Winder was handed me. It was addressed to the Secretary of war. Not doubting the urgency of the occasion, I opened & read it; and it went on immediately by the Express to Genl. Armstrong who lodged in the seven Buildings. Finding by the note that the General requested the speediest Counsel, I proceeded to his Head Quarters on the Eastern Branch,...