1From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 26 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honor of presenting his compliments to Mr. Hammond, of expressing his regrets that he happened to be from home when Mr. Hammond did him the honor of calling on him, and was equally unlucky in not finding him at home when he waited on him on Monday. Being informed by Mr. Bond that Mr. Hammond is charged with a public mission to the government of the United States, relative...
2From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 29 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In recalling your attention to the Seventh article of the Definitive Treaty of Peace between the United States of America, and his Britannic majesty, wherein it was stipulated that ‘His Britannic majesty should, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his Armies, garrisons and...
3From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 5 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 30. remains still unanswered because the clerks are employed in copying some documents on the subject of the treaty of peace which I wish to exhibit to you with the answer. In the meantime, as to that part of your letter which respects matters of commerce, the fear of misunderstanding it induces me to mention my sense of it and to ask if it be right. Where you are pleased to...
4From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 12 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing you an extract of a letter from a respectable character, giving information of a Mr. Bowles lately come from England into the Creek country, endeavouring to excite that nation of Indians to war against the United States and pretending to be employed by the government of England. We have other testimony of these his pretensions and that he carries them much...
5Enclosure: Extract of Letter concerning W. A. Bowles, 12 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A vessel arrived here from New Providence with certain accounts of a Mr. Bowles being there, having lately arrived from London in company with five Indians, and British goods to amount of upwards thirty thousand pounds sterling, said to be delivered as presents (by Bowles) to the Indians in this quarter from the goverment of Great Britain. That the said Bowles was actually to sail four days...
6From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 13 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the United States the letters of Nov. 30. and Dec. 6. with which you honored me, and in consequence thereof, and particularly of that part of your letter of Dec. 6th. where you say that you are fully authorised to enter into a negociation for the purpose of arranging the commercial intercourse between the two countries, I have the honour to inform you that I...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 15 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the honor of your letter of Nov. 30. and to express the satisfaction with which we learn that you are instructed to discuss with us the measures which reason and practicability may dictate for giving effect to the stipulations of our treaty yet remaining to be executed. I can assure you on the part of the United States, of every disposition to lessen difficulties, by passing...
8From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of to-day on the subject of Mr. Pagan. His case arises on the proceedings of the supreme court of justice of Massachusets, and requires of course to be considered by the Attorney General of the United States, who calls for a sight of the record of those proceedings. I have accordingly written to Massachusets to have a copy of the record of the judiciary...
9From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 2 [January] 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond, who not having been here before on the New Year’s day, Th:J. takes the liberty of informing him that those who chuse to pay visits of compliment to the President to-day are recieved at twelve aclock.—While on this subject he will add that the 4th. of July is another anniversary on which those who chuse it visit the President. Those are the...
10From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 28 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Attorney General has not yet reported on the Case of Hooper and Pagan, and thinks it will be some days before he shall be able to do it. In the mean time as the Supreme federal Court will meet on Monday se’nnight, he has desired me to draw your attention to that circumstance, as it will give an opportunity of applying for a writ of error to review the proceedings, the only legal way of...
11From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 2 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of your letter of the 14th. of December I communicated it to the President of the United States, and under the sanction of his authority the principal members of the executive department made it their duty to make known in conversations, generally, the explicit disclaimer, in the name of your court, which you had been pleased to give us, that the Government of Canada had...
12From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 25 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to inclose you the answer of the Attorney General to a letter I wrote him on the subject of your’s of the 18th. inst. It appears that the Judges of the supreme court of the United states are open to the application of Mr. Pagan for a writ of error to revise his case. This writ is to be granted indeed or refused at the discretion of the judge; but the discretion of a judge...
13From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 30 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A constant course of business has as yet put it out of my power to prepare an answer to your letter of the 5th. instant. In the mean time I have been taking measures to procure copies of the several acts therein complained of, that I might save you the trouble of producing proofs of them. My endeavors have failed in the instances below cited, of which therefore I am constrained to ask you to...
14From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 31 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the day before, and immediately laid it before the President of the U.S. and I have it in charge from him to express to you the perfect satisfaction which these assurances on the part of your court have given him that Bowles, who is the subject of them, is an unauthorised impostor. The promptitude of their disavowal of what their candour had forbidden him to...
15From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 12 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment favored with the letter you did me the honor of writing yesterday, covering the extract of a British statute forbidding the admission of foreign vessels into any ports of the British dominions with goods or commodities of the growth production or manufacture of America. The effect of this appears to me so extensive as to induce a doubt whether I understand rightly the...
16From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 13 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond, and incloses him the draught of a letter to the President of the U.S. which he has prepared to accompany Mr. Hammond’s communication of the 11th. and letter of the 12th. The whole will probably be laid by the President before the legislature, and perhaps communicated to the public in order to let the merchants know that they need...
17From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 29 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of March 5. has been longer unanswered than consisted with my wishes to forward as much as possible explanations of the several matters it contained. But these matters were very various and the evidence of them not easily to be obtained, even where it could be obtained at all. It has been a work of time and trouble to collect from the different States, all the acts themselves, of...
18From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Hammond: after receiving his letter of this morning he had called on Mr. Hammond to speak with him on the subject of it, according to the desire he had before expressed to him, that when once each party should have explained fully the ground on which they view the matters in difference between them, they might shorten by oral...
19From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond and requests for half after three tomorrow his company to a solo dinner, if no engagement shall happen to stand in his way. PrC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ). Not recorded in SJL .
20From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 6 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Hammond: he had not heard of the adjournment of the circuit court at Richmond without deciding the case of Jones v. Walker, and therefore cannot say with certainty why it was not decided. He had been before informed through a private channel that but two of the three judges were arrived in Richmond, and that it would not be decided but...
21From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 6 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your letter of yesterday with the papers accompanying it, and will immediately lay them before the President of the U.S. But not being acquainted with the situation of Caldwell’s manor, at which it is said that an officer of Vermont has distrained some cattle and that Capt. Savage rescued a part of them, I shall be glad to be enabled to inform the...
22From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 9 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present his respectful compliments to Mr. Hammond, and to apologize for not having sooner answered his note wishing for a conference on the subject of his letter of the 5th. inst. The subject being new, Th:J. could not be assured of expressing to Mr. Hammond, in conversation, sentiments which should be really those of the government until there should have been a...
23From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 9 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
It is extremely to be regretted, that while the grounds of difference between our respective countries are under amicable discussion, any circumstances should arise on either side, which might excite questions of still greater delicacy or tend to disturb or imbarrass the course of the discussion. We have no information on our part of the facts which are the subject of your letter of the 5th....
24From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Hammond, and seeing that the Governor of Vermont himself has moved in the business on which Mr. Hammond has written, he will write this afternoon more particularly to the governor. Th:J. leaves town tomorrow afternoon. If possible he will have the honor of waiting on Mr. Hammond, being very desirous of speaking with him on Pagan’s...
25From Alexander Hamilton to George Hammond, 29 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
From the opinion you have been so obliging as to express that arrangements may probably be made in Upper Canada for procuring a supply, from that quarter, of the Indians expected to assemble at O’glaise in the ensuing spring for the purpose of holding a treaty with this government. I have the honor to inform you that I have concluded to send an Agent into the territory of Upper Canada, to...
26From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 16 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of yesterday with the statement of the duties payable on articles imported into Great Britain. The Object of the Report, from which I had communicated some extracts to you, not requiring a minute detail of the several duties on every article, in every country, I had presented both articles and duties in groups, and in general terms, conveying information...
27From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 9 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your letter of March 12th. on the subject of Mr. Pagan, I referred it to the Attorney general of the US. for his opinion. As soon as I receive that opinion from him, I will do myself the honor of addressing you thereon. I am with due respect Sir your very humble servt. PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Minister Plenipotentiary of G.B.” FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ).
28From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to inclose you the answer of the Attorney General to my letter covering yours of Mar. 12. on the case of Hooper and Pagan, wherein he has stated the proceedings of Pagan for obtaining a writ of error from the Supreme court of the US. for revisal of the judgment of the inferior court pronounced against him; and also his opinion on the merits of the question, had the writ of...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, George Hammond, and F. P. Van Berckel, 23 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
As far as the public Gazettes are to be credited, we may presume that war has taken place among several of the Nations of Europe, in which, France, England, Holland and Prussia, are particularly engaged. Disposed as the U.S. are to pursue steadily the ways of Peace, and to remain in Friendship with all Nations, the President has thought it expedient, by Proclamation, of which I enclose you a...
30From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 3 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday the representation and requisition which you were pleased to make on the capture of the British ship Grange by the French frigate L’Embuscade within the bay of Delaware, and immediately laid it before the President. The US. being at peace with both parties, will certainly not see with indifference it’s territory or jurisdiction violated by either, and will proceed...