1From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State presents his Compliments to Messrs. Viar and Jaudenes, and informs them that the government of the United States having occasion to send public dispatches to their Commissioners plenipotentiary at the Court of Madrid, James Blake, a Citizen of the United States is employed as their Courier to be the Bearer of them. He is to embark on board the Ship bound from this port...
2From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 17 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We lately received from Mr: Seagrove our Indian Agent for the southern department a letter, of which the enclosed is an extract; whereby it appeared that a party of the Creek indians under the influence of the adventurer Bowles had meditated some depredations on the Spanish settlements, from which they had been diverted by a friend of our Agent; but that their disposition to do injury was...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 30 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the president of the United States the letter of May 10th. of Captain Henry Burbeck, commandant of the Fort of St: Tammany, to his Excellency the Governor of East Florida, with the other letters relating thereto, which you were pleased to put into my hands, and I have the honor to inform you that, the president having entirely disapproved of the expressions which Capt....
4From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 17 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 15th. and return you my thanks for the observations you are so good as to make. The Canary islands shall be specially noted in the Report, and the duty on flour reexported to the colonies shall be stated, as I know it to be, common to the flour of all foreign nations, and not confined to ours alone. I will make enquiries as to the nature of the commerce...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 1 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Octob. the 29th. which I have duly laid before the President of the U.S. and in answer thereto I cannot but observe that some parts of it’s contents were truly unexpected. On what foundation it can be supposed that we have menaced the Creek nation with destruction during the present autumn, or at any other time, is entirely inconcievable....
6From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 25 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Don Joseph Jaudenes having communicated to me verbally that his Catholic majesty had been apprised of our sollicitude to have some arrangements made respecting our free navigation of the Missisipi, and a port thereon convenient for the deposit of merchandize of export and import for lading and unlading the sea and river vessels, and that his majesty would be ready to enter into treaty thereon...
7From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 23 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inform you that a commission has been issued to Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Short, as Commissioners plenipotentiary for the U.S. to confer, treat and negociate with any person or persons duly authorized by his Catholic majesty of and concerning the navigation of the river Missisipi, and such other matters relative to the confines of their territories, and the intercourse to be...
8From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 26 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By your letter of yesterday evening, in answer to mine of the morning, I perceive that Don Joseph Jaudenes’s communication verbally had not been understood in the same way by him and myself. How this has happened I cannot conceive. Monsr. de Jaudenes will do me the justice to recollect that when he had made the verbal communication to me, I asked his permission to commit it to writing. I did...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 6 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not till the 24th. of October that I received your favor of the 2d. of that month, informing me that the four Frenchmen therein named and described had set out from Philadelphia for Kentuckey furnished with money, commissions, and instructions to procure some hostile enterprize from our territories against those of Spain. I took the first opportunity of laying the same before the...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. of June has been duly recieved and laid before the President of the US. The matter it contains is of so serious a complexion that he chuses to treat of it with your government directly. To them therefore his sentiments thereon will be communicated, through the channel of our commissioners at Madrid, with a firm reliance on the justice and friendship of his Catholic...