1From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 3 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Thomas Hill Williams of the Missisipi territory to be Register of the land office West of Pearl river. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); signature clipped, supplied from PoC ; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ); TJ added a check mark in margin by Williams’s name. Notation in SJL : “Nomns. T. H. Williams.” The Senate confirmed the nomination on this day. On 13 Mch.,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 2 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Robert Smith, now Secretary of the Navy, to be Attorney General of the United States. Jacob Crownenshield of Massachusets to be Secretary of the Navy. Obadiah Jones of Georgia to be one of the judges of the court of the Missisipi territory. PoC ( DLC ); TJ added a check mark at each entry. Isaac A. Coles delivered TJ’s message to the Senate on 2 Mch. The Senate dispensed with the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In a message of the 14th. of January I transmitted a letter from the Secretary at war proposing certain military promotions & appointments, & nominating the persons accordinly by reference to the letter: which nominations the Senate afterwards advised & consented to. among these was the nomination of 2d. Lieutt. Henry Hopkins to be promoted to the rank of 1st. Lieutt. in the 2d. regiment of...
4From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Robert Williams of North Carolina to be Governor of the Missisipi territory. Daniel T. Tomkins of New York to be judge of the court of the District of New York. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ); TJ added a check mark at each entry. Notation in SJL : “Nomns. Williams. Tompkins.” On this day, Isaac A. Coles delivered the message to...
5From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 26 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate William Hull of Massachusets to be Governor of the territory of Michigan. Stanley Griswold of Connecticut to be Secretary of the territory of Michigan Samuel Huntington of Ohio to be a judge of the court in the territory of Michigan Frederick Bates of Michigan to be a judge of the court of the same territory Augustus B. Woodward of the territory of Columbia to be a judge of the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 31 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 28th. instant, I now communicate a report of the Secretary of State with documents relative to complaints against arming the merchant ships & vessels of the US. & the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed. RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ). Notation in SJL :...
7From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 28 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Charles Tenant Porter of East Tenissee to be Marshal of East Tenissee for four years from the expiration of his present commission of Marshal. Edward Scott of East Tenissee to be Attorney for the US. in the district of East Tenissee. Algernon Sidney Stanford of Maryland to be Collector & Inspector of the revenue for the port & district of Vienna in Maryland. Ormond Tuley of North...
8From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 14 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the several persons named in the inclosed letter from the Secretary at War for the promotions and appointments in the army of the United States therein proposed for them respectively. PoC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “Military nominations.” Enclosure: Dearborn to TJ, [11] Jan. I nominate : on the same day, Isaac A. Coles delivered TJ’s message to the Senate, where it was...
9From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 31 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Most of the Indians residing within our Northern boundary on this side the Missisipi recieving from us annual aids in money & necessaries, it was a subject of complaint with the Sacs that they recieved nothing and were connected with us by no treaty. as they owned the country in the neighborhood of our settlements of Kaskaskia & St. Louis it was thought expedient to engage their friendship; &...
10From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 13 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I present for your advice a treaty entered into on behalf of the US. with the Creek Indians, for the extinguishment of their right in certain lands in the forks of Oconee & Okmulgee rivers, within the state of Georgia. for the purpose of enabling you to form a satisfactory judgment on the subject it is accompanied with the instructions of 1802. Apr. 12. to James Wilkinson, Benjamin Hawkins and...