31From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 29 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13th. came to hand on the 20th. instant only. I now inclose you, from the Secretary at war, a letter to Colo. Meigs our agent with the Cherokees, and one to yourself which may answer with those of any other nation you may chuse to visit. should you visit the Creeks, you will find them assembled in May and June and with them General Wilkinson, General Pickens and mr Hawkins...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 29 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote, my ever dear Maria, to mr Eppes & yourself on the 3d. inst. since which I have recieved mr Eppes’s letter of the 11th. informing me all were well. I hope you continue so. a letter of the 20th. from mr Randolph informed me all were well at Edgehill. mr Randolph, allured by the immensely profitable culture of cotton, had come to a resolution to go to the Missisipi territory and there...
33From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 29 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners who were appointed to carry into execution the VIth. article of the treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between the US. and his Britannic majesty, having differed in opinion as to the objects of that article, and discontinued their proceedings, the Executive of the US. took early measures, by instructions to our Minister at the British court, to negociate explanations...
34From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 29 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state, charged with the civil affairs of the several territories of the United States, has recieved from the Marshal of Columbia a statement of the condition, unavoidably distressing, of the persons committed to his custody on civil or criminal process, and the urgency for some legislative provisions for their relief . there are other important cases wherein the laws of the...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Gourlay, 30 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter to mr Jennings of July 21. 1801. I acknoleged the reciept of his of Feb. 21. and your’s of Feb. 22. and of the authenticated copies of the will, and I prayed him to ask you to consider that as an answer to your letter, as I must now request you to communicate this for his satisfaction my occupations obliging me to these abridgments of private duty. mr Philip L. Grymes, uncle of mr...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Wyndham Grymes, 30 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. P. L. Grymes having informed me that he was appointed guardian to yourself and sisters, I have this day inclosed to him a Notarial copy in parchment of your grandmother’s will, of which yourself & sisters are the principal legatees. having recieved also a duplicate authenticated in paper, I inclose you that, with a letter from mr Jennings explanatory of the testatrice’s intentions. in my...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Ludwell Grymes, 30 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 25. has been duly recieved. my object in wishing to know when a guardian should be appointed to the orphans of the late mr Grymes your brother, was that I might know to whom it would be my duty to transmit an authentic copy of mrs Randolph’s will of which I was the depository. those orphans being the principal legatees, their guardian is the proper person to recieve this...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Savage, 30 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 1st. instant has been duly recieved. I was not aware of the difficulty of placing the prints on their frames, which you inform me of. the prints being at my house in Virginia, where I could not have a proper case made for them, I believe it will be better on the whole to have the frames made here, as I shall, at the rising of Congress, make a trip of a few days to Monticello, and...
39From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 30 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary at War has prepared an estimate of expenditures for the army of the US. during the year 1802. conformably to the act fixing the military peace establishment; which estimate, with his letter accompanying and explaining it, I now transmit to both houses of Congress. RC ( DNA : RG 233 , PM , 7th Cong., 1st sess.). PrC ( DLC ). RC ( DNA : RG 46
40From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 31 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 23d. instant, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with the letters it refers to, shewing the proceedings which have taken place under the resolution of Congress of the 16th. of April 1800. the term prescribed for the execution of the resolution having elapsed before the person appointed had set out on the service, I did...