101To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President draughts of letters on the subjects discussed in his presence the other day, meant merely as a ground-work for the gentlemen to propose amendments to. he shall be able to send another in the course of to-day, so that the whole would be ready for consideration tomorrow, if the President should think proper to have them considered before the...
102To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has now the honor of inclosing to the President the draught of a letter to mister Genet on the subject of the departure of the privateer. also a letter just recd from Colo. Humphreys. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Tobias Lear’s docket on the AL
103To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President French copies of the communications of mister Genet on the subject of our debt to France, as they will convey his sense perhaps more faithfully to the Secretary of the treasury should the President think proper to refer them to him. he has changed the expression in the close of the 2d paragraph of the letter to mister Van Berkel, so as to...
104To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President, (among other papers,) those relating to a commercial treaty with France, and to the reimbursement of the French debt, being translations of the communications of mister Genet on those subjects. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. On 24 May, Jefferson had submitted to GW Edmond Genet’s third letter to him of 22 May ( JPP, Dorothy...
105To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President a letter to the Govr of Georgia, & two others on the occasion of mister Ternant’s recall. he sends at the same time the letters which were written on the recall of Mr De Moustier, as it is necessary to preserve a certain proportion between the expressions used on these occasions. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59,...
106To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and will take the liberty of waiting on him at half after one, as well that he may get through some long papers he has to communicate to him, as that he may be sure of being there when mister Genet comes. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB...
107To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that having, from a slight expression of mister Genet’s yesterday, doubted whether he did not chuse to wait upon the President separately from mister Ternant, he called on the latter yesterday evening, but he was not at home. he called again this morning, & left it to himself & mister Genet to come together or separately as they should chuse....
108To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and submits to his approbation a letter to mister Ternant, in conformity to that to mister Hammond. it has been submitted to the Secretaries of the treasury & War and Attorney General, and corrected by them. if the President approves the letter he asks the favor of him to stick a wafer in it, & the bearer will proceed to deliver that &...
109Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The facts suggested, or to be taken for granted, because the contrary is not known, in the case now to be considered, are, that a vessel was purchased at Charleston & fitted out as a privateer by French citizens, manned with foreigners chiefly, but partly with citizens of the U.S. the command given to a French citizen by a regular commission from his government, that she has made prize of an...
110Enclosure I: Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 15 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your several memorials of the 8th instant, have been laid before the President, as had been that of the 2d as soon as received. They have been considered with all the attention and the impartiality which a firm determination could inspire to do what is equal and right between all the belligerent powers. In one of these, you communicate on the information of the british consul at Charleston,...
111Enclosure II: Thomas Jefferson to William Rawle, 15 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the inclosed papers you will perceive there is reason to believe that certain citizens of the United States have engaged in committing depredations on the property and commerce of some of the nations at peace with the United States. I have it in charge to express to you the desire of the Government that you would take such measures for apprehending and prosecuting them as shall be according...
112Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Conversations with the President, the Cabinet, and Tobias Lear, 6–12 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
1793: May 6. the President shews me a draught of a lettre from Colo. H. to the Collectors of the customs, desirg them to superintend their neighborhood, watch for all acts of our citizens contrary to laws of neutrality or tending to infringe those laws, & inform him of it; & particularly to see if vessels should be building pierced for guns. I told the Pr. that at a conference a few days...
113To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and incloses the draught of a letter to mister Pinckney in answer to one lately received from him. as Colo. Hamilton, the Attorney General & Th: J. had a meeting on another subject, Th: J. took the liberty of consulting them on it, and has altered it agreeably to their minds. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George...
114Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 6 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Apr. 18. The President sends a set of Questions to be considered & calls a meeting. tho those sent me were in his own hand writing, yet it was palpable from the style, their ingenious tissu & suite that they were not the President’s, that they were raised upon a prepared chain of argument, in short that the language was Hamilton’s, and the doubts his alone. they led to a declaration of the...
115To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honour to inclose him the following papers. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy),
116To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and asks a dozen Passports for present use. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The letter-book copies omit “his respects.”
117To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson having prepared a written opinion on the Question Whether Passports should be granted to vessels belonging to American citizens, but of foreign built, has the honor of inclosing it to the President as an explanation of the principles on which the affirmative was adopted yesterday. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . In the enclosed opinion of 3 May, Jefferson...
118To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
According to the intimation the other day, and indeed according to my own wish in a question, if not difficult, yet very important, I have the honor to inclose you a written opinion on the question Whether the U.S. ought to declare their treaties with France void, or suspended? This contains my answer to the 2d 3d 4th 5th & 6th of the written queries. The 1st had been before answered & acted...
119Minutes of a Cabinet Meeting, 19 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of Departments & the attorney General, at the President’s april 19th 1793. to consider the foregoing questions proposed by the President: it was agreed by all on Quest. I—(to wit, “shall a proclamation issue” &ca) that a Proclamation shall issue forbidding our Citizens to take part in any hostilities on the seas with or against any of the belligerent Powers; & warning...
120To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state thinking it his duty to communicate to the President his proceedings of the present year for transferring to Europe the annual fund of 40,000 Dollars appropriated to the department of state (a report whereof was unnecessary the two former years, as monies already in the hands of our bankers in Europe were put under his orders) Reports That in consequence of the...
121To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The accounts of the last week from Lisbon, announcing an actual declaration of war by France against England & Holland, when applied to the preceding note of the British court ordering the French minister to leave London (which is generally considered as preliminary to a declaration of war), now render it extremely probable that those powers are at actual war, and necessary in my opinion that...
122To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Report brought by a captain of a ship from Lisbon just in the moment of your departure that France had declared war against several nations, involved in that declaration almost every power of Europe. I therefore suspect that it has arisen from Kersaint’s proposition to declare war against every nation, which a pilot may not have distinguished from a declaration. still I have thought it...
123Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Opinions regarding the Reception of Edmond Genet, 30 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
at our meeting at the Presid.’s Feb. 25. in discussing the question whether we should furnish to France the 3,000,000. lt desired, Hamilton in speaking on the subject used this expression ’when mister Genet arrives, whether we shall recieve him or not, will then be a question for discussion.’ which expression I did not recollect till E.R. reminded me of it a few days after. therefore on the...
124To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses a description of a new plan of a Capitol in which mister Hallet is engaged, who has expressed very earnest wishes that the ultimate decision may not be pronounced till he can bring it forward. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .
125To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Director of the mint having given in to the Secretary of state a general statement of the monies hitherto received for the mint, to wit 15,000 Dollars from the Treasury, and 170.25 D. the proceeds of certain articles sold, as also of the expenditures of the mint amounting to 16,233.46 D. with an application for a further sum of 5000. Dollars the same are respectfully laid before the...
126To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and submits to his approbation an addition to the letter to messrs Carmichael & Short. the circumstances & prospects under which the guarantee of Louisiana had been suggested are so changed, as in his opinion to render it better to retract that suggestion, and to forbid the guarantee. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress...
127To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Before your departure, it becomes necessary for me to sollicit your orders on the Treasury for the third year’s allowance under the act concerning intercourse with foreign nations. this act commenced July 1. 1790. two years allowance have been furnished and a sum of 500. Dollars over. nine months of the 3d year are now nearly elapsed, and according to an estimate I had the honor of giving in to...
128Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael and William Short to be in cypher, 23 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
It is intimated to us, in such a way as to attract our attention, that France means to send a strong force early this spring to offer independance to the Spanish American colonies, beginning with those on the Missisipi: & that she will not object to the receiving those on the East side into our confederation, interesting considerations require that we should keep ourselves free to act in this...
129To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the Presidt returns mister Ellicot’s letter, with an answer, which if approved may go by today’s post. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . In his letter to GW of 16 Mar. 1793
130To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses him draughts of letters in the Algerine business. in that to Colo. Humphreys he proposes a modification of the former instructions in one point, on a presumption that the President will be disposed to approve it. he will wait on him to-day to know his pleasure, as also to submit to his consideration the question of Mr Genet’s reception...
131To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respect to the President incloses him the draught of a letter to mister Pinckney: also some Canada gazettes, with the letter from Colo. Fay accompanying them. he perceives from this letter that Colo. Fay had not awaited his approbation to make use of the name of Th: J. in the land-job. he thinks it possible the government of Canada may get hold of this, & perhaps make...
132To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the copies of the Algerine papers which have been made out to form the basis of instructions for the Commissioner to be appointed. the President will be pleased to consider whether he would chuse to have them altered in any particular. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His...
133To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respectful compliments to the President returns him Colo. Humphrey’s letter & those from George town. the last are indeed disagreeable: yet there does not seem any room for the President’s interposition. should Dr Stewart and mister Johnson persist in their idea of retiring, it seems really desireable that they should do it separately, leaving such an interval between...
134To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, sends him the draught of a letter to Madame de la Fayette, as also the draught of a letter to mister Morris. if this be approved, he proposes to write a like one to mister Pinckney. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of...
135To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President draughts of the instruments which he suggested as proper to be given formally to each tribe of Indians whose circumstances may call for such a manifestation of our views with respect to them. the first is a Letter of protection of the ordinary tenor, except that it declares a protection of the lands as well as the persons & other...
136Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Qu. 1? What sacrifice may be made to retain mister Johnson in the office of Commissioner for the federal territory? Answ. for such an object it is worth while to give up the plan of an allowance per diem, to give, instead of that, a sum in gross, and to extend that sum to 500. Dollars per annum, and expences; the latter to be rendered in account. If mister Johnson persists in resigning, as it...
137To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state, according to instructions received from the President of the U.S., Reports That, for the information of the Commissioners appointed to treat with the Western Indians, he has examined the several treaties entered into with them, subsequent to the declaration of Independance, & relating to the lands between the Ohio & lake⟨s⟩; & also the extent of the grants,...
138To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state, according to the requisition of the President of the US. of the 8th instant has examined the laws passed during the late session of Congress and Reports That none of those laws relate to, or require the immediate or special agency of the President, except the “Act regulating foreign coins & for other purposes,” (a copy of which is hereto annexed) whereupon it would be...
139To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & sends him a letter put into his hands by Govr St Clair. he also sends him Govr Clinton’s answer, this moment received. he does not say how it happened that Th: J’s letter of Feb. 17. did not get to him till Feb. 28. it was certainly put into the Post office here on the morning of Feb. 18. it must be presumed the Govr has been absent from...
140To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the President & will take the liberty of presenting to him to-day Colo. Von Rohr, who is the subject of the inclosed letter from Governor Walterstorf of Santa Cruz. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .
141To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson ⟨w⟩ith his respects to the President is sorry to inclose him an account of mister Barclay’s death in a letter to a mister Callahan of this place from his brother in Lisbon. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed “Extract of a Letter dated Lisbon 24th January...
142To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter from the Van Staphorsts & Hubbard quieting our apprehensions for the fate of the first dispatches sent to mister Short relative to our negociations with Spain. also another letter from mister Thatcher on the subject of the Marshal of Maine. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s...
143Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Demarara. Samuel Cooper Johonnet of Massachusets to be Consul for the U.S. at the port of Demarara and for all parts under the same allegiance in America as shall be nearer to the said port than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice Consul of the U.S. within the same allegiance. Malaga. to be Consul for the U.S. at the port of Malaga in the kingdom of Spain, and for such other parts of...
144To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the Decypher of a Note from Mr Barclay expressed in Cypher. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Jefferson’s “Explication of a paragraph in Cyphers
145To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that he called this evening on M. de Ternant, who produced to him the original letter of M. Le Brun instructing him to apply to our government for two millions of livres to be laid out in flour & one million in salted provisions. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers. Ternant’s account of his...
146To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose him AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . GW’s executive journal records the receipt of this letter and its enclosures on 26 Feb. 1793 ( JPP, Dorothy Twohig, ed.
147To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter he received from Mr Short yesterday, by which he expected to leave the Hague on the 12th of December: also the answers he has prepared to the two petitions from Post Vincennes. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW...
148To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President, has the honor of inclosing him a letter he proposes to send to the Speaker today, if approved by the President: also the translation of some papers given him by mister Ternant three or four days ago, which he has not before had time to prepare: also extract of a private letter from mister Short. Th: J. will have the honor of waiting on the...
149Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Conversation with Washington, 20 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I had 5. or 6. days ago received from Ternant extracts from the lettres of his ministers, complaing of both G. Morris & mister Short. I sent them this day to the Presidt with an extract from a private lettre of mister Short’s justifying himself, & I called this eveng on the Presidt. he said he considd the extracts from Ternant as very serious, in short as decisive: that he saw that G. Morris...
150To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the President the plan of the Federal territory just received by mister Ellicot, as also a letter & message on the subject. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .