101From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 16 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. inst. is duly received, containing a statement of the sale of the two certificates of the property of Mr. Short formerly transmitted you, and of the paiment of Mr. Pollard’s draughts: all of which gives entire satisfaction. I expect tomorrow to conclude a purchase of some lands for Mr. Short, in consequence whereof I shall probably draw on you at three days sight for the...
102From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of July 27. mentioning that Mr. Donath’s arrival with my glass is hourly expected, and that you will forward it immediately. The object of the present is merely to desire it not to be forwarded, but only it’s arrival made known to me, as I mean to have the sashes made and glazed with this glass in Philadelphia before it is forwarded. I thank you for your speedy...
103From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 13 November 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of Sep. 25. and Oct. 15. are duly recieved. It will be proper to have the sashes painted on the outside. Within a fortnight from this time it will be determined whether the walls of my house can be finished this autumn, and consequently whether I shall have occasion to call for any more sashes (other than those before called for) before next spring. I shall then furnish you...
104From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day drawn on you in favor of Messrs. Plumsted & McCaul for 50.D. 75 C. which please to honor. I have at the same time taken the liberty of telling them you would be kind enough to recieve, and forward to me, 2 Chinese gongs which they will deliver you. If they are not packed in a box I must trouble you to have that done. Send me also at the same time 6. ℔ of your best young Hyson...
105From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 20 November 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your two favors of Oct. 19. and Nov. 5. It is possible I may trouble you in some of the various lines of business mentioned in the former, at some future day, and shall do it with entire confidence in you. With respect to the bill of exchange for Messrs. Van Staphorst, I am too far from the scene of business to give any advice as to the rate of exchange which...
106From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson owes Mr. Sampson Crosby, keeper of the Secretary of state’s office 1.67 D., which not being worth the draught and postage of a letter express, he will thank Mr. Barnes to have it paid him, and to let him know that he may call on him for the little sums he may have occasion for in execution of a request of Th: J. to forward him some newspapers. These will amount to three or four...
107From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 February 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
As I imagine your river will be opening by the time you recieve this, I will ask the favor of you to send me by the first vessel to Richmond a hogshead (say 120 gallons) of molasses. It is material it should come immediately as it cannot be brought up from Richmond here but in the cold season. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your friend & servt P.S. There are very often to be had at...
108From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 8 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 3d. instant inclosing some stock for sale I informed you of several bills I had drawn on you, and among others I mentioned three of the 3d. 4th. and 5th. of June for 600. Dollars each in favor of Mr. Wm. Champe Carter. Since that date, I have for the convenience of Mr. Carter, taken back the draught of June 4. for 600. D. and in exchange for it I have given him six draughts...
109From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 27 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of Feb. 28. I have recieved your favors of Feb. 27. and Mar. 5. and 12. In consequence I now draw on you for 400. Doll. at 10. days sight in favor of Messrs. Charles Johnston & Co. These gentlemen having set up business in the brokerage line of every kind, undertaking among other things to recieve and forward goods for all persons, I shall make them in future the center of my...
110From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Peyton , is a young gentleman who has lately entered into commerce at Milton, a small town near me. Proposing to establish a correspondence for his supplies at Philadelphia, and being an entire stranger there he has asked me to introduce him to some person who may be able to advise him to good characters for his dealings. I am personally but little acquainted with him,...
111From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 24 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Having made another purchase of James river canal shares for Mr. Short, I have this day drawn on you in favor of Mr. Robert Pollard for twelve hundred and seventy two dollars and a half at 30. days sight which be pleased to honor. Your favor of June 14. came to hand last night. I am with esteem Sir Your most obedt. servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Mr. John Barnes”; endorsed in ink by TJ.
112From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 December 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a power of Attorney to recieve a quarter’s interest due on Mr. Short’s stock. Be pleased to place one hundred dollars of this to the credit of Mr. Peter Lott with you, and to hold the residue subject to my draughts which will be made shortly. I am Dear Sir Your most obedt. servt PrC ( CSmH ); at foot of text: “Mr. John Barnes”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.
113From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 2[2] May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 22d. of the last month I drew on you in favor of Robert Barclay for twenty seven dollars thirty one cents. The present serves to advise you that I have this day drawn on you for one hundred dollars in favor of Messrs. Samuel Howel junr. & Co. Will you be able to give me any information by what conveyance were forwarded the boots, gongs and tea, so as to enable me to trace them? I am...
114From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 2 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of Sep. 18. and 20. are recieved, and I now inclose letters to Mr. Donath and Mr. Ingles, all of which are left open for your perusal and information. I inclose you also a draught for 300.D. on Messrs. Harrison & Sterett which will enable you to answer that on you in favor of Donath, and to meet the earlier demands of the sash-maker. Further provision shall be made in due time...
115From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 21 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by your kind offer of taking care of dispatches for France, the benefit of which I will reserve for some other occasion, as there is a vessel going out of this port for Havre the moment the river opens, which will certainly take place in a few days. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble servt, PrC ( MHi ). Barrett’s letter to TJ, 17 Feb. 1792, noted in SJL...
116To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Barrett, 10 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you of my safe arrival at Cowes, from whence some business has called me to this City, and has detained me longer than I expected. I sent my Trunk in which were your dispatches by a particular friend and fellow passenger from Cowes to paris to my Son, and have directed him immediately on receiving it to deliver the Letters himself to Mr. Short. The last Gazzette...
117From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 24 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Mar. 6.—Were the appointment of a Consul at Rouen to depend on me, there is assuredly no one who would have so just a claim to it as yourself. But it will rest with the President. In my letter to Mr. Jay on the subject of the Consulships I have ventured to suggest some ideas on the subject, and tho’ I did not at the time know that you would settle at Rouen,...
118From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 15 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your favor of the 6th. inst. I take the liberty of mentioning to you that the consulates of Lisbon and Cadiz, have both of them been for some time otherwise destined, tho’ not yet named to; and consequently that Mr. Appleton cannot be appointed to either. I had not answered his letters on this subject, because were I to answer one, I must answer every application of this nature...
119From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 27 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 18th. I thank you for the information you give me relative to the present state of our whale fishery, and shall be glad to recieve the further information of Mr. Jones. I do not apprehend any danger of our privileges as to whale oil in France being put on a worse footing than they now are, unless it be caused by some act of our own legislature, of which I...
120From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 2 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Barton and has the pleasure to inform him that the Indian is now in Philadelphia to whom he had formerly proposed to address our South-sea adventurer. He is now under inoculation; but whenever well enough he will ask the favor of Dr. Barton and Mr. Michaux to meet him here and have a conference on the expedition . He thinks the return of these...
121From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin S. Barton and Others, 12 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the gentlemen of the committee on the Hessian fly, and prays their attendance at the Hall of the Philosophical society tomorrow (Friday) at half after seven P.M. He has conjectured that that hour will be most convenient to them, and that not a moment of their time may be lost unnecessarily, he will attend himself at the very moment precisely, and for...
122From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly compliments to Dr. Barton, and being now in the act of sending off his books to Virginia, takes the liberty of asking from Dr. Barton the volumes lent him.—Th:J. has been for some time settled on the banks of the Schuylkill near Gray’s ferry, where he would always be very happy to see Dr. Barton, should his rides or walks lead him that way. His absence from...
123From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 2 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : This letter, printed in Vol. 24: 687–8 under its inscribed date of 2 Dec. 1792, was almost certainly written on 2 Jan. 1793. See note to Barton to TJ, 4 Jan. 1793 .]
124From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs the favor of Dr. Barton’s company to dinner with a small party of friends on Friday the 30th. at 3. aclock. RC ( PHi : Barton Correspondence); addressed: “Dr. Barton.” Not recorded in SJL .
125From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 10 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors should have been sooner acknoleged but that I have been in daily expectation of recieving some other bones of the newly discovered animal which would have enabled me to write to you more satisfactorily. There does exist somewhere a thigh-bone which has been seen by many and is believed to be still in the neighborhood where found. This with the bones I have would enable me to give...
126From Thomas Jefferson to William Barton, 26 March 1793 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Barton and informs him that the letter addressed to him was left at the house of Th:J. during his absence, he knows not by whom. a box was left at the same time for the Philosophical society, which he presented at the last meeting. it contained a paste-board almanac only, somewhat in the style of those mr Barton may have seen. the society, desired...
127From Thomas Jefferson to William Barton, 1 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not sooner answer your favor of the 19th . because I have had reason till now to doubt whether Mr. Remsen was decided to resign his office of Chief clerk with me. In the mean time too I found there would be real difficulties from the other clerks the senior of whom thought himself entitled to succeed, and the juniors to approach so much nearer to the succession, and that if cut off from...
128From Thomas Jefferson to William Barton, 23 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted, before my departure from Philadelphia, to enquire into the situation of Doctr. Currie’s suit against Griffin, and must now therefore ask the favor of you to inform me of it by letter, sent to my office. The principal questions are whether there are any probable indications of property in the hands of any of the garnishees, and when we may expect a final judgment against them. Doctr....
129I. Thomas Jefferson to William Barton, 12 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly honored with your’s of the 7th. instant , and in order to answer it must enter into a detail of facts. In the formation of the higher departments there were some endeavors in Congress to establish a separate minister for the domestic business . This was disapproved by a considerable majority of Congress, and they therefore united that with the foreign business under the...
130From Thomas Jefferson to Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 4 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great pleasure I am able to inform you that the short residence I have made at my own house in Virginia has made me witness to the universal esteem in which your nephew is held. His goodness, his prudence, his industry and regularity have made him the favorite of all his neighbors, to whom your liberalities to him have rendered your name as dear almost as it is to himself. The money...
131From Thomas Jefferson to Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 25 April 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
While I remained in public office, it was out of my power to acknolege the receipt of the letters with which you were pleased to honor me. My daily and necessary labours obliged me to deny myself the satisfaction of all private correspondence, which I rigorously did, and without a single exception but in the case of my children. I have now been able to disengage myself from public affairs, and...
132From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bellini, 13 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On my arrival here I was not inattentive to your wishes. I found within my department two chief clerks, two assistants, and a translator. One of the chiefs at 800. dollars a year, the other and the two assistants at 500. Dollars each; and the translator at 250. dollars; all of these offices held by persons who had already been many years in them. Consequently I have not had a single...
133From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bellini, 16 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Edwards , son of the Senator of that name from Kentuckey, proposing to go to Williamsburg for the benefit of the schools for law, and French there I take the liberty of presenting him to your acquaintance and friendly aid. He possesses a good understanding, considerable reading, and great thirst after information, and I am persuaded that any friendly offices you may be...
134From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 28 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of June 12.—Mr. Jefferson my relation had detained the letter to you till he could write back to me and inform me of the difficulty of getting to Charlottesville, and how much more convenient it would be to him to take his goods in Goochld. My business made me late in answering him, and I then repeated my request to him to apply to you, as I observe that from a want of...
135From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 25 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day drawn an order on you in favor of Mr. Brown for £15–18–9. I have also desired Mr. Lewis if he should receive a debt of £10-14-5 from Lewis’s and Meriwether’s estates for which he is executor, to call on you for £1-12 to make up a sum of £12-6-4½ due to Henry Guy, and if Guy should come in before Mr. Lewis receives the £10-14-5 then to call on you for the whole £12-6-4½ and...
136From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My business here is of such a nature as to oblige me for long intervals to put aside all my private matters, and only to take them up at times when I have a little glimmering of leisure. Hence an almost total abandonment of my pecuniary interests, in cases often of real magnitude: and hence the long delay of answering your favor of Jan. 30. received two months ago. Tho’ I cannot view Mary’s...
137From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 22 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably be surprised at t[he receipt of my] letter of the last week . I had been waiting to [give your order] to Freneau; till the postage should be fixed, [and as soon as it] was, sent him your list of subscribers, and des[ired him to be]gin forwarding the papers. But he came to m[e soon after] and told me that he had received an order from you [long] ago, and had been constantly...
138VIII. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having learned by Mr. Randolph’s last letter th[at the] post to Charlottesville is now regularly established, I ha[ve given] in to Freneau the list of subscribers you sent me to wit— John Nicholas William Woods Thomas Bell Divers & Lindsay Nicholas Lewis junr. Isaac Miller
139From Thomas Jefferson to Paul Bentalou, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 18th. inst. Many objections lie to the issuing of passes by foreign agents to our vessels. In the case of a foreign Consul at Boston who officiously undertook to do it, the thing was forbidden. Were some of our vessels to have these passes, the want of them might subject others to doubts and obstacles in their voyages. The permission to grant these passes...
140From Thomas Jefferson to F. P. Van Berckel, 14 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you with the perusal of the inclosed papers from Mr. Shaw, consul for the U.S. in the East Indies, wherein you will observe he complains of a prohibition from the government of Batavia to American ships by name to have any trade in that port, while such trade was permitted to other nations. I do not hesitate to presume that something has been misunderstood in...
141From Thomas Jefferson to F. P. Van Berckel, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
It was with extreme concern that I learnt from your letter of June 25th. that a violation of the protection due to you as the representative of your nation had been committed by an officer of this State entering your house and serving therein a process on one of your Servants. There could be no question but that this was a breach of privilege; the only one was how it was to be punished. To...
142From Thomas Jefferson to F. P. Van Berckel, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recommended to the Attorney General of the U.S. to institute such proceedings as he shall think best for establishing the fact complained of in the letter of June 25. which you did me the honor to write me and for punishing the offender according to law, and may with safety assure you that nothing will be omitted on his part to do this. As I am about to be absent some time from...
143From Thomas Jefferson to F. P. Van Berckel, 4 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In the letter of Credence addressed by the President of the U.S. to their high mightinesses the States General of the U.N. presenting to them Mr. Short as Minister Resident for these states, an omission of title was observed. This proceeded from our want of information on that subject, and certainly not from a want either of friendship or respect. It is thought the best corrective of this...
144From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond and F. P. Van Berckel, 9 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your two Memorials of the 4th. and 6th. instant, which have been duly laid before the President of the United States. You cannot be uninformed of the circumstances which have occasioned the French Squadron now in New York to seek asylum in the ports of the United States. Driven from those where they were on duty by the superiority of the adverse...
145From Thomas Jefferson to F. P. Van Berckel, 29 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with your note of the 22d. instant, stating that under circumstances of invasion, and urgent danger, their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands had found it necessary to lay an embargo on all vessels in their Ports, and that an American Ship, the Hope , being involved in this general order, the master had claimed an exemption, under the eighth article of...
146From 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...
147From Thomas Jefferson to David Beveridge, 25 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Beveridge and informs him that he has this morning forwarded copies of his papers to Mr. Carmichael, with an instruction to sollicit redress from the court of Spain. PrC ( DLC ). TJ was probably responding to Beveridge’s letter of 14 Apr. 1792, recorded in SJL as received 15 Apr. 1792, but not found.
148From Thomas Jefferson to Clement Biddle, 28 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to the British Minister here on the case of Mr. Lemaigre. He has this day called on me and promised that he will furnish the Agent of Mr. Le Maigre with a letter to the Governor of Jamaica, recommending his case to his attention and justice. In addition to this I can only furnish the agent with a passport naming his general business. Mr. Lemaigre cannot arm his Agent with too...
149From Thomas Jefferson to Clement Biddle, 9 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday wrote to Mr. Hammond, Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, inclosing copies of the papers in the cases of Mr. Lemaigre and Mr. Crousillet, and asking his interposition with the proper authorities in New Providence and Jamaica to obtain justice for them in the cases which were the subjects of their memorials. It will be proper for them to apply to Mr. Hammond for his letters....
150From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Biddle, 12 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having asked the favor of Mr. Hollingsworth to look out for a person in his neighborhood who would be willing to go to Virginia and overlook a farm for me, he informs me that you will undertake it, for a hundred and twenty dollars a year. He seems to have mistaken me in the circumstance of time, as he mentions that you would expect to go about the new year. I had observed to him that I should...