11From 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...
12From 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 (...
13From 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...
14From 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...
15From 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,...
16From 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...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 3 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty has represented to the government of the US. that on the 25th. of April last the British ship Grange, while lying at anchor in the bay of Delaware, within the territory and jurisdiction of the US. was taken possession of by the Embuscade, a frigate of the French republic, has been brought to this port where she is now detained as prize and...
18From 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...
19From 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...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 23 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to M. de Ternant. He has examined again with care the commission of M. de la Forest, and finds it impossible to consider it as any thing more than a Commission of Consul General for N. York, Jersey, Pensylva. and Delaware. If any thing more has been intended, the error has been in those who drew the commission, and this error we are not...