771From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, [on or after 30 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The Attorney general will be pleased to carry into execution the inclosed resolution of the Senate of Apr. 30. respecting the claims of John Cleves Symmes . PrC ( DLC ); undated. Enclosure not found, but see below. A 30 Apr. RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE requested that the president direct the attorney general to examine the 1788 contract between the United States and JOHN CLEVES SYMMES for a grant...
772From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Redman Coxe, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 23d. and am happy to learn that you mean to favor the public with an account of the vaccine inoculation from your own experience, which I am persuaded will be highly useful. I think it an important object in such a work to bring the practice of the inoculation to the level of common capacities: for to give to this discovery the whole of it’s value, we...
773From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 24th. has been recieved; and the most important object of it anticipated by mine of the 25th. the rest of it I will now answer mot à mot . you may give assurance of our religious & rigorous neutrality, without the smallest partiality to the one or the other nation, should the war be rekindled. you may say that our supplies will be free and abundant to both parties, they paying...
774From Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Milledge and incloses him an itinerary from hence to mr Randolph’s, with a strong recommendation to him to let no man’s persuasion induce him to vary the route in any part, Th:J. after near 30. years travelling and trying every road, having by little and little learned this particular route, which he believes no other person is acquainted with, and...
775Enclosure: Itinerary from Georgetown Ferry to Edgehill, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Itinerary from Georgetown Ferry to Edgehill from George town ferry to (1.) Thomas’s (blacksmith) 6. miles Oxroad 2½ Richd Fitzhugh’s 4 Lane’s on Centerville road 11 (2.) Songster’s 4½ Bull run 5. * Brown’s tavern
776From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A mr Putnam of Georgia was lately appointed to the command of a revenue cutter on the recommendation of yourself, Genl. Jackson & mr Milledge; and I trust on good grounds. the Washington Federalist however of Apr. 30. charges him with having been tried and convicted of having stolen a gold watch. a charge so specific brought forward in the public papers, I have always supposed sufficient to...
777From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your’s of April 21. bringing me the welcome news that you are all well. I wrote 2. or 3. days ago to mr Eppes to inform him that Congress would rise the day after tomorrow, that on the 6th. I should set out for Monticello where I should stay a fortnight, & had some hopes of meeting him there. it is even possible that Congress may rise to-day, which makes me so full of...
778From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Decide according to your own & mrs Gallatin’s inclinations on the time and extent of your absence from hence. I sincerely sympathize with you on the circumstances which produce the necessity. I leave this myself on Thursday, and shall stay at home one fortnight. mr Madison goes about the 11th. as I learn and will return a little after me. I wish to write finally to mr Page on the subject of...
779From Thomas Jefferson to James Jackson, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably have seen in the Washington federalist of April 30. mr Mitchell appointed Atty of Georgia on your recommendation , denoted a man of most infamous character. this is merely calling of hard names which I never notice. but the editors pretend that they are possessed of a fact which is too bad for publication . whether the fact be of such a nature as to make it the duty of the...
780From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Leslie, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of Apr. 27. I do not believe I ever paid for the skeleton clock, as I never recieved it. it would not have entirely escaped my memory if I had, so that I am pretty certain you have nothing to refund. with respect to the house clock, I had occasion to employ the man who made it after you went away, to rectify her more than once. but as I employed him myself, I...