5251Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Randolph & McKinney, [ca. 10 June 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
1811. Mess rs Randolph & M c Kinney D r for Rents for Crop of Wheat. Coopering Barrels cash articles Toll mill bush. Corn large Mill Bar. flour
5252From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
My thanks are due to you My Dear Friend for a letter of the 1st. & it would afford me much enjoyment to visit Quincy this week, agreeable to your kind invitation; But my Sister Johnston is now passing a little time with us, a favor that we seldom enjoy so that I cannot leave home at present. By the last of Octr. it is my intention to be with you once more my Dear Madam, in whose society it is...
5253Remission for Bohl and John Bohlen, 23 June 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Remission for Bohl and John Bohlen. 23 June 1815. “Whereas it has been represented to me that Bohl and John Bohlen, Merchants, of the City of Philadelphia, became the Purchasers, in the year Eighteen hundred and ten, of a quantity of Coffee which had been imported into the town of Baltimore, contrary to the provisions of the act of Congress, entitled “An act to interdict the Commercial...
5254Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Shoemaker, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A little before my departure for Bedford I informed you that the pressures on me for money for corn & other objects would oblige me to rely on you for a very considerable sum of money, of which no delay could be admitted. on my return it was some days before I went to the mill to call on you, & then learned for the first time that you were gone to the Northward & would not be back till June, &...
5255To James Madison from Samuel Greenhow, 17 September 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 September 1813 , “ General Office of Assurance, Richmond .” “The declaration for revaluation of your building {is} received at this office; an additional premium accrues on this revaluation, amounting to {Two hundred and thirty four} dollars and——cents, and carrying interest from the {date of this letter} which must be paid at this office . “As every member of the society is interested in...
5256William Caruthers to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Both Your favours The One in the fore part of the Summer Allowing Me to pay $25 to the Ann Smith Accademy for Which please to accept Our thanks, and the Duplicate a few days ago have been Rece d . I Would have Remitted You the Balance before this but have Not been Down Since and have experienced Some Danger in Sending Money by mail this Sumer—I purpose Going to Richmond in December and Will...
5257Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 20 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The account rendered to-day is perfectly satisfactory, as the not having known of the 9. barrels of family flour subsequent to the last account , had alone excited doubt and a wish for you to examine it. I inclose you a statement as I suppose the account now to stand PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of John Adams to TJ, 30 Sept. 1816 ; at foot of text: “M r T. E. Randolph ”;...
5258From Charles Thomas Clark to Sarah Smith Adams, 20 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
You will (I hope) excuse me for addressing you openly and without preamble when informed of the subject—of the most interesting moment in the concerns of mankind. What I anxiously hope and now presume to ask for is no less than the hand of your daughter in marriage. A constant wish to appreciate justly a sincere and firm attachment returned, will be the unceasing spur to every exertion to...
5259Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a note of mr John Harvie for 176.90 which has been due since the 1 st of March & had escaped my notice. he informed me D r Brokenborough was his agent in this state and would pay these notes as they should become due. will you be so good as to make the application? another will be due in about 3. months. I must ask the favor of you to send me 75.D. in single Dollar bills by my...
5260To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 24 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have too much confidence in your candor & justice to believe that you will be offended at the statement & request which it is the object of this letter to make to You. I will therefore without further preface appeal to You in this most critical moment of my life, upon which its whole future course appears to depend. I have been engaged as Surveyor to the Capitol under the Commissioners since...
5261Thomas Jefferson to Reuben Perry, 2 September 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you from Albemarle on the subject of putting up the grounds of my work here; while I should be here. I arrived yesterday and shall make rather a short stay; so should be glad you could come immediately . I also wish to talk with you about my barn in Albemarle of which I wrote to you and a further job of covering a new warehouse I have buil t at Milton , 300.f. long, & 12.f. wide, of...
5262From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 August 1813 (Adams Papers)
The Meloncholly History of the last Journey and the last days of your Sister will be given you by the your Mother. My Eyes, my hands and my heart are too weak to endure it, I can only Say, May my last End be like her’s. From the Cradle the most healthy of all my Children, till the last two years; during which she has Suffered, with all that patience fortitude and Equanimity which She uniformly...
5263To James Madison from Burwell Bassett, 2 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
You are apprised of the sensability excited amongst all the officers of the grade of masters commandant by the promotion of Cpt. Morris whose merit all admit yet in my judgment the grounds taken by Cpt. Lawrence cannot be said to be unreasonable. If this be a justifiable cause of sensation you will say with me that the friends of Cpt Sinclair have more cause if a report which has reached me...
5264Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 17 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from a journey after an absence of three weeks, I found here the roll of diplomas which you had forwarded: and have made it my first duty to sign them, and return them by our first mail. hoping they will get safe to hand I avail myself of the occasion of assuring you of my friendship & respect. PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “John Vaughan esq.”; endorsed by TJ. TJ returned signed...
5265Thomas Jefferson to James Mather, 2 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of Governor Claiborne , I inclose you a letter from him on the subject of the Batture. you have probably seen by the public papers that Edward Livingston has brought an action against me for arresting his works there. he is too skilful a lawyer to believe he can recover any thing from me; because if there were even error in the proceeding, it will not be pretended that it was...
5266Thomas Jefferson to John A. Morton, 6 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend D r Barton for the benefit of his health proposes a voyage across the Atlantic , and a trial of the air of Europe . his route on the continent not being fixed, he may possibly visit Bordeaux . in that case I ask for him your civilities and good offices. he is one of the Vice presidents of the American Philosophical society , and of the Professors of the University of Philadelphia ,...
5267From James Madison to the Prince Regent of Great Britain, 4 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have made choice of John Q. Adams, one of our distinguished citizens to reside near your Royal Highness in the quality of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America. He is well informed of the relative interests of the two Countries, and our sincere desire to cultivate and strengthen the friendship and good correspondence between us; and from the...
5268Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 5 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I observe that a petition has been presented to the legislature by the Rivanna company for an enlargement of their powers. as these are to be exercised wholly within my lands & almost solely over my property, and have not hitherto been marked by a very tender forbearance from injury to me, it becomes necessary, while they ask for power, for me to ask for some just protection from it. mr Philip...
5269From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, 13 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
How was I delighted in Seing your handwriting on the Addres—I could not guess—it was a Letter—I did not expect one—although I was confident, that, if the State of your health had been worse, Cornelia Amelia would have deemed it her duty to Send me a line—You can guess—how I was delighted—when opening it—I Saw it was a Letter from my revered frend—I glanced over it, without looking at the...
5270From James Madison to William Steuben Smith, 2 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
Reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability I do appoint you the said William Steuben Smith Secretary of Legation of the United States of America at the Court of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias; authorizing you hereby to do and perform all such matters and things as to the said place or office doth appertain, or as may be duly given you in...
5271To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 9 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 October 1810, Wiscasset. Urges appointment of Gideon Granger to the Supreme Court. Also informs JM that because of ill health he will not seek reelection to Congress. Peleg Tallman of Bath has been nominated by local Republicans for the Twelfth Congress. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Granger”). 2 pp. Orchard Cook was a Republican representative from Massachusetts in the Ninth...
5272From James Madison to the Senate, 6 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
I lay before the Senate for their consideration and advice, as to a ratification, a Treaty of Peace with the Dey of Algiers, concluded on the 30th day of June 1815; with a letter relating to the same from the American Commissioners to the Secretary of State. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Foreign Relations, 14B–B1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . For enclosures, see nn....
5273From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 31 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter enclosing one addressed to Mr. Adams, and presented it to the Secretary of State it will be forwarded with the public dispatches to Gent. I do not admire Williams return at this moment, having recieved his Commission as Secretary of the Legation, I think he had better hold it, and remain abroad for the present—least he should be on his Way I stated to Mr. Monroe, as he...
5274Presidential Proclamation, 1 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 January 1810, Washington. Suspends building regulations laid down in the first and third sections of the act of 17 Oct. 1791 for the city of Washington. FC ( DLC : Commissioners of the District of Columbia Collection, 1791–1869). Fragment. These provisions, requiring the outer walls of all houses to be built of either brick or stone and regulating the height of house walls, had been...
5275To James Madison from the Merchants and Underwriters of Baltimore, 20 November 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 November 1810, Baltimore. Complains of heavy losses suffered by the memorialists from arbitrary and illegal seizures of American vessels in the ports of northern Europe. The “unworthy pretext” for these seizures is the certificates of French consuls in the U.S., issued “in Conformity to Orders from their Government” but denounced in France by the official gazette of the emperor as “false...
5276From James Madison to David R. Williams, 14 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed report from the Secretary of War gives such information as can now be afforded, on the subject of the Resolution of the Legislature of South Carolina transmitted in your letter of the 22d of December. The Magnitude of the object of the Legislature, so well enforced by your Excellencies own remarks, with the disposition heretofore manifested by Congress, justify a confidence that...
5277From Abigail Smith Adams to Ann Frances Harrod Adams, 13 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
It was not untill Saturday morning when I went to See my poor old domestic Pheby, that I learnt a word respecting my dear little Elizabeths Sickness—I carried up Abigail with to See you Supposing you had returnd, too much fatigued to call in the Evening. Inda then informd me that She heard by mr Saxon that She was very Sick. you may easily imagine how anxious I was untill mr Adams returnd in...
5278From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 July 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letters of 20 May and 4 June have been received together with others to my wife and the children which they have answered and will answer for themselves. Hitherto since our arrival in London, I have been obliged to rely upon their punctuality in answering your Letters, as an apology for the temporary deficiency of mine. Besides the multitude of trifling but indispensable avocations...
5279To James Madison from David Mead, 29 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
On the evening of the 16th. Inst. I was apprized at Meadville of the Surrender of Detroit with the whole of the army under Brigr. Genl Hull, and that a number of British vessels were hovering on our coast in Sight of this place, in consequence of the Alarming Situation of the frontier of Pennsylvania bordering upon Lake Erie in circumstances so extraordinary I proceeded immediately with a...
5280Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes and William B. Giles, 12 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heard of the suit brought by E. Livingston against me on the subject of the Batture . this has rendered it necessary for me to make a statement of the facts for the use of my Counsel; and the justification which these offer being derived from certain systems of foreign law in force at N. Orleans , which I have had more time to enquire into than they, I have been led into a full...