11Enclosure: Observations on La Forest’s Commission, [23 October 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Louis &c. etant necessaire de pourvoir a la charge de notre Consul general aupres de etats de New York, des Jerseys, de Pens. et de la Del. vacante depuis la nomination de M. de Marbois &c.—et etant informé &c. du Sr. de la Forest &c.—nous avons cru ne pouvoir faire un meilleur choix pour la dite charge (i.e. de Consul Genl. pour N. York &c.)—nous avons le dit Sr. de la Forest etabli &c Consul...
12From 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,...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter on the subject of further supplies to the Colony of St. Domingo, has been duly received and considered. When the distresses of that Colony first broke forth, we thought we could not better evidence our friendship to that, and to the Mother Country also, than to step in to it’s relief, on your application, without waiting a formal authorization from the national Assembly. As the...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 14 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the United States your Letter of the 7th. instant, desiring a supply in money, on account of our debt to France, for the purpose of paying certain Bills drawn by the Administration of St. Domingo, and for procuring necessaries for that Colony, which supply you wish should, with those preceding, make up the amount of four millions of Livres. You are sensible...
15From 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...
16From 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...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 23 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the US. your notification of the 17th. instant, in the name of the Provisory Executive council, charged with the administration of your government, that the French nation has constituted itself into a Republic. The President receives with great satisfaction this attention of the Executive council, and the desire they have manifested of making known to us the...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 25 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 14th. inst. I had the honor to mention to you that it would take some days to estimate the probable calls on the treasury of the U.S. and to judge whether your application for three millions of livres to be laid out in provisions for the supply of France, could be complied with; but that in the mean time an hundred thousand dollars could be furnished in order to enable you...
19From 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...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 6th. instant, on the claim of an inheritance of lands in North Carolina, supposed to have devolved from M. Giroud on Monsr. Preau, a Citizen of France, by virtue of the 11th. article of our treaty of Commerce. I have not received any letter on the subject from the President or Trustees of the University of North Carolina, or any other...