2491Notes on the District of Columbia Commissioners’ Accounts, [after 3 October 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Elliptical room 2276. Pr’s house 1686 Board 1700 September labour 1300 Interest paid 1500 8462 whole funds 6255.94 present deficiency 2206.06 6962. D. debts due to the Commissioners 130,000 due on Morris & Nicholson’s lots 1000.
2492II. First Annual Message to Congress, 8 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Fellow citizens of the Senate & House of Representatives. It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me, that on meeting the great council of the nation, I am able to announce to them, on grounds of reasonable certainty, that the wars and troubles, which have for so many years afflicted our sister-nations, have at length come to an end; and that the communications of peace and commerce...
2493Enclosure: 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
2494I. Notes on King’s and Anstey’s Propositions, [ca. 13 June 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Debt due to Gr. Britain. mr King’s proposition Debt from US. to G.B. at commencemt of war 3,040,160 £ sterl. 1: year’s exports from G.B. to US. deduct insolvencies during war 1,520,080 1,520,080 since recovered by creditors 760,040 760,040 interest on that 760,040 1,520,080
2495Circular Letter to Midnight Appointees, [after 4 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The late president, mr Adams, having not long before his retirement from office , made several appointments to civil offices holden during the will of the President, when so restricted in time as not to admit sufficient enquiry & consideration, the present President deems it proper that those appointments should be a subject of reconsideration & further enquiry. he considers it as of palpable...
2496Pardon of James Medcalfe, 16 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Washington, D.C., 16 May 1804 . TJ issues a “full free and entire pardon” of James Medcalfe of Pennsylvania, mariner, who was convicted by a U.S. Circuit Court in Pennsylvania of a misdemeanor violation of an act of Congress entitled “An Act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.” Medcalfe had been sentenced to three months imprisonment and fined...