11From 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...
12From 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...
13From 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...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 12 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state has the honour to inform the Minister of France that the President will recieve his letters of credence to-day at half after two: that this will be done in a room of private audience, without any ceremony whatever, or other person present than the Secretary of state, this being the usage which will be observed. As the Secretary of state will be with the President before...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 6 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your letter of the 1st. instant covering the form of the Permit for the vessels of your nation , and will take care to lay it before the President and to have it duly notified to all whom it may concern. I have the honour to be with great esteem & respect, Sir Your most obedt. and most humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M de Ternant.” FC (...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 29 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Dormoy, a citizen of the U.S. having an annuity on the hotel de Ville of Paris, which cannot be received but on a certificate of his life, complains that Mr. Oster the Consul of France for Virginia, has refused from personal motives, to give him such certificate. As he has come here from Williamsburg, to get this defect supplied, under recommendations to me from the...
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, 15 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received several Memorials from the British Minister on subjects arising out of the present War, I take the liberty of enclosing them to you, and shall add an explanation of the determinations of the government thereon. These will serve to vindicate the principles on which it is meant to proceed, and which are to be applied with impartiality to the proceedings of both parties. They will...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 22 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, covering the extract of one from a custom house officer, complaining of a practice of the Consul of France at Norfolk, which tends to defeat the Execution of the revenue laws, to which I take the liberty of asking your attention, and am, with entire respect and esteem, Sir, Your most obedient, and most humble servant,...
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...