1From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 7 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the U.S. your letter of the 3d. inst. asking a supply of four hundred thousand dollars on account of reimbursements due from us to France, to be applied to relieve the distresses of the colony of St. Domingo. In regretting extremely the cause of this necessity, I have to assure you that the President feels every disposition which the occasion is calculated...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 9 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of the several papers you were pleased to communicate to me relative to the charge against a capt: Hickman a citizen of these States, for having brought away from the Island of St. Domingo sundry slaves, the property of persons residing there, and for having sold them here. We feel real concern that such an act should have been comitted by one of our citizens,...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 17 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your letter of yesterday, and am sensible of your favor in furnishing me with your observations on the Statement of the commerce between our two nations, of which I shall avail myself for the good of both. The omission of our participation with your vessels in the exclusive transportation of our tobacco was merely that of the copy, as it was expressed in the original...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, with Jefferson’s Notes on Diplomatic Medals, 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the United States in a letter addressed to the provisory executive Council of the french republic, has expressed his sense of your merit and his entire approbation of your conduct while here. He has also charged me to convey to yourself the same sentiments on his part. It is with pleasure I obey this charge, in bearing witness to the candour and integrity of your conduct with...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 25 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his best compliments to M. de Ternant, and incloses him the letter he was to write him on the subject of the 3. millions. He has attentively perused the report in the Newspaper which appeared to give Mr. Ternant so much uneasiness and is candidly of opinion that, in the U.S. at least, not a single person will apply it to M. de Ternant, or suppose it concerns him. He...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 1 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have communicated to the President what passed between us the other day on the subject of the paiments made to France by the United States in the assignats of that country, since they have lost their par with gold and silver: and after conferences, by his instruction, with the Secretary of the Treasury, I am authorised to assure you that the government of the United States have no idea of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 14 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
It will require some few days yet to estimate the probable calls which may come on the treasury, and the means of answering them; till which is done a final answer can not be given to your application for the three millions of livres . But in the mean time that your purchases of provision may be begun, arrangements may be made with the Secretary of the Treasury for the immediate payment of one...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 13th. instant, asking monies to answer the expenses and Salaries of the Consular Offices of France, has been duly laid before the President, and his directions thereon taken. I have, in consequence, to observe to you that before the new Government of France had time to attend to things on this side the Atlantic, and to provide a deposit of money for their purposes here,...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your letter of the 9th. inst. proposing a stipulation for the abolition of the practice of privateering in times of war. The benevolence of this proposition is worthy of the nation from which it comes, and our sentiments on it have been declared in the treaty to which you are pleased to refer, as well as in some others which have been proposed. There are in...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 3d. instant, on the subject of the British Ship Grange, reclaimed on behalf of the Owners as having been taken by the frigate Embuscade, within the capes of Delaware, as is said. If this fact is to be controverted, permit me to hope that the counter evidence may be produced without delay; besides the confinement of the Crew, which is a circumstance of...