1Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
By the command of the President of the United States T. Lear has the honor to enclose for Mr Jefferson perusal a Letter from the Count de Estaing to the President which was alluded to by Mr Short in the letter which Mr Jefferson laid before the president at the time when he delivered the above letter from the Ct de Estaing. Likewise two letters a Memorial & a treatise upon establishing a...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 23 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
By the command of the President of the United States T. Lear has the honor to enclose for Mr. Jefferson’s perusal a letter from the Count d’Estaing to the President, which was alluded to by Mr. Short in the letter which Mr. Jefferson laid before the President at the time when he delivered the above letter from the Count d’Estaing, likewise two letters, a memorial, and a treatise upon...
3I. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 8 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to the Commands of the President of the United States I have the honor to transmit herewith sundry communications of the proceedings of Government in the western Territory from Jany to July 1790 made by the Secretary of the said Territory to the President of the U.S. upon which the President requests your opinion as to what should be done respecting them. I have likewise the honor...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 10 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 10 Dec. 1790. By the President’s command he transmits resolutions of the Convention of Kentucky for forming that district into a separate state, and an application for its admission into the union, together with a letter from the President of the Convention to the President of the United States. FC ( DNA : RG 59, SDC ); at head of text: “United States”; at conclusion Lear...
5V. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 16 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s Command I have the honor to transmit the enclosed letter from Winthrop Sargent Esqr Secy of the Western Territory, to the President of the United States: which the President requests may be put with the communications from the Western Territory.—I have the honor to be with the highest respect Sir. Yr most Ob. St. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure:...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 3 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State to be lodged in his Office one exemplified Copy of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey for vesting in the United States of America the Jurisdiction of a Lot of Land at Sandy Hook in the County of Monmouth, and a letter which accompanied said Act from the Goverr. of the State of New Jersey to...
7II. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 26 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor respectfully to transmit to the Secretary of State, to be lodged in his Office, a letter from His most Christian Majesty to the President and Members of Congress dated Septr. 11th 1790 a letter from the President of the National Assembly of France to the President of the United States and a decree of that Assembly dated June 20 1790. And a...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 5 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
United States, 5 Feb. 1791 . Transmits by the President’s command for deposit in the Secretary of State’s office “the Return of the enumeration of the Inhabitants of Massachusetts District” made to the President by the marshal of that district. PrC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); 1 p. FC ( Lb in same, SDC ). Lear also wrote a note to TJ on 7 Mch. 1792 transmitting “a return of the inhabitants in each...
9II. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 27 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor respectfully to transmit to the Secretary of State a Resolution of the Senate upon the President’s Message of the 19th of January last. T. Lear has, moreover, the honor to inform the Secretary of State that on the 26th of this month the Senate did, in pursuance of the President’s nominations, advise and consent to the following appointments viz....
10VII. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 4 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of State, that the opinion given by the Secretary in the case of Mr. Anderson agrees fully with that which the President has formed upon a complete view of the circumstances.—And it is the President’s wish that Mr. Anderson’s Commission should issue accordingly. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers). PrC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR );...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 9 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
“United States,” 9 July 1791 . By President’s command he transmits letter from Francisco Chiappe, forwarded by James Simpson, “which the President requests the Secretary to take into consideration.” PrC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). Tr ( DNA : RG 59, SDC ). Recorded in SJL as received the same day. Enclosures: (1) James Simpson to the President, Gibraltar, 13 Apr. 1791, sending “another packet…from...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 7 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 7 Aug. 1791 .] He encloses a letter from the President to Thomas Johnson, with the request that it be sent with his commission and directed “to the care of the Postmaster at Baltimore as the most likely mean of their reaching their destination with safety and dispatch.”—He also transmits a letter from Governor Blount to the Secretary of State and letters from the latter to...
13Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 30 August 1791. At the request of Attorney General Edmund Randolph, encloses for the office of the secretary of state fifteen patents signed by the president. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . Thomas Jefferson docketed the receiver’s copy: “The Secy of State 30th Augt 1792” and listed on it that the enclosed patents were for Englebert Cruse, James Rumsey,...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, with List of Patents, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The fifteen enclosed Patents , having received the signature of the President of the United States, are, at the request of the Attorney General, transmitted to the Office of the Secretary of State by Dft ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); with subjoined note by Lear; endorsed in part: “the Secy of State.” FC ( Lb in same, SDC ); with subjoined list of recipients omitting patent descriptions. Enclosures:...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 1 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State a Copy of the Speech of Lord Dorchester to the Western Indians—and of a letter from Colo. Beckwith to the Secretary to the Treasury accompanying said speech.—The President wishes the Secretary of State to look over these papers before he sees the President. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Jan....
16To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 11 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
T. Lear has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that the President considers the 22d. day of this month as his birth day, having been born on the 11t. old Style. T. Lear further adds, that the President does not expect to See any Company today on the above occasion—and moreover, that the President’s birth day was last year noticed in this City on the 22d.—and T. L. has understood, in an indirect...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 3 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
United States, 3 Mch. 1792 . By the President’s command he transmits the “return of the enumeration of the Inhabitants of South Carolina” received from the marshal there, a letter from Governor Pinckney which, if necessary, the President wishes TJ either to answer or to report to him about, and two pardons signed by the President to which the seal must be affixed. The President wishes to have...
18Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Upon submitting the enclosed note from Mr Bache to the President, he desired I would send it to you, that if you thought it right for him to be furnished with the letter wh. he requests it might be done. Should you determine in the affirmative & not have a copy of the translation at hand—I will have a copy of the note left with the President—sent to Mr B. The President has been informed that...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 5 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Upon submitting the enclosed note from Mr. Bache to the President, he desired I would send it to you, that if you thought it right for him to be furnished with the letter wh. he requests it might be done.—Should you determine in the affirmative and not have a copy of the translation at hand, I will have a copy of the one left with the President, sent to Mr. B. The President has been informed...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 13 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State the draft of a letter to the King of France, which meets the President’s approbation; and to enclose the Resolution of the House of Representatives with the signature of the Speaker. As it is possible that the Senate may come forward with a Resolution on this occasion; the President asks, if it would not be...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
United States, 16 Mch. 1792 . By the President’s command he transmits a 28 Oct. letter from Chiappe, which the President asks TJ to consider and report whatever may demand his attention. The President wishes to see TJ “some time between this and two o’clock as he can make it most convenient.” RC ( DLC ); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 16 Mch. 1792. PrC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). FC ( Lb in same,...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
United States, 16 Mch. 1792 . Transmits by the President’s command a copy of the Senate resolution extending the negotiation proposed at Madrid to commerce. RC ( DLC ); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Mch. 1792. Dft ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). FC ( Lb in same, SDC ). Enclosure: Resolution of the Senate, 16 Mch. 1792 (see note to TJ’s second letter to George Washington, 7 Mch. 1792).
23Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State, letters from Mr Seagrove, that the Secretary may take extracts therefrom for the purpose mentioned this day. The President wishes to know if the Copies of Mr Hammond’s letter which have been sent to the President were intended to be put into the hands of the Secretary of War to be transmitted by him to Mr...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 31 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
United States, 31 Mch. 1792 . Transmits by the President’s command letters from James Seagrove so that TJ could “take extracts therefrom for the purpose mentioned this day.” The President wishes to know if the copies sent to him of the letter of George Hammond are intended to be forwarded to Seagrove by the Secretary of War. RC ( DLC ); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 31 Mch. 1792. Dft ( DNA...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 3 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
“United States,” 3 Apr. 1792. By President’s command he transmits letter from Giuseppe Chiappe of 31 Aug. 1791, “in which if the Secretary finds anything requiring the particular attention of the president, the President wishes he would report it to him.” PrC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). Tr (same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL or SJPL . Enclosure: Giuseppe Chiappe to the President, 31 Aug. 1791 ( RC in
26To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 15 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to ask Mr. Jefferson if he has any knowledge of the writer of the enclosed letter?—and if he has not, whether it is probable that information respecting him could be obtained from any respectable person in this Country?—and that Mr. Jefferson will, after perusing and considering said letter, let the President know his opinion upon the expediency...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 30 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the U. S. wishes the opinion of the Secry. of State whether the present chief Coiner of the Mint is properly authorized by the resolution of Congress passed on the 3d day of March 1791. Dft ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). FC ( Lb in same, SDC ). The congressional
28Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President of the U.S. informs the Secretary of State that he has retained one of the proof Sheets of the federal City, and returns the others with the letter from Mr Blodget, which the President thinks had better be sent to the Commissioners by the mail, which will certainly reach G. Town on Monday. The President’s Cavalry are in such order that he cannot say with any precision when he...
29Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secy of State, that the President desires Commissions to be made out for the following persons—and to bear the dates annexed thereto—viz. John Adams, the first, and Benjamin Gunnison, second mate in the New Hampshire Cutter—June 30th 1792. John Finley, second Mate in the New York Cutter—July 17: 1792. David Porter, Master of the...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 31 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit the enclosed letter to the Secretary of State, and request that he will have it translated for the President. It was put into the President’s hands by Mr. Swanick, who informs him that a Vessel will Sail for Italy tomorrow or next day, and if the enclosed letter is of a nature to require an immediate answer, this Vessel presents an...