1To Thomas Jefferson from James McHenry, 14 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
If I may intreat you to take the trouble to read the inclosed memorial you will see how greatly I have been injured by the French marine minister’s non-compliance with an engagement with the late house of John McHenry & Co. It gives me sensible pain to be obliged to make use of this mode of solicitation for attaining so clear a piece of justice, but I do it because I know of no other likely to...
2To Thomas Jefferson from James McHenry, 23 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Fayetteville, Md., 23 Oct. 1791 . The recurrence of an indisposition that might be cured by a sea voyage has interested him in the possibility of a foreign appointment.—The prospect of war between France and other European powers, “and the claims for succours she may bring forward under the 11th article of the treaty of Alliance, in case of being attacked,” makes it necessary for the U.S. to...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James McHenry, 1 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall communicate to the merchants of Baltimore your official letter addressed to them which I have reason to believe will be very welcome agreeable and satisfactory. I shall also recommend to them to appoint a committee of their own body to extend its contents to those whom it concerns and to carry the object it contemplates into effect. The french fugitive from St. Domingo whose...