251To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his dutiful respects to the President of the United States, has the honor to inclose him under an open cover to mister Taylor two letters to M. de Ternant, the one containing an Exequatur for his signature (the commission whereon it is grounded being under the same open cover to mister Taylor) the other an answer to a formal notification of the declaration of war by France...
252To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d which I supposed would find you at Richmond, and again on the 10th which I thought would overtake you at Wilmington. the present will probably find you at Charleston. According to what I mentioned in my letter of the 10th the Vice-president, Secretaries of the Treasury & war & myself met on the 11th. Colo. Hamilton presented a letter from mister...
253To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from mister Seagrove. When he shall have considered of the questions of wages to Albion Coxe (till he shall have qualified himself to draw his regular salary) and the ordering a coinage of 1000 Dollars in small silver for the Treasury, he will be so good as to communicate his determinations. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous...
254To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a copy of mister Genet’s instructions which he has just recieved from him with a desire that they may be communicated to the legislature. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. In a letter to Jefferson of 20 Dec., Genet enclosed the printed translations...
255Thomas Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington, 27 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Thursday Dec. 27. 92. I waited on the President on some current business. after this was over, he observed to me he thought it was time to endeavor to effect a stricter connection with France & that G. Morris should be written to on this subject. he went into the circumstances of dissatisfaction between Spain, Gr. Brit. & us, & observed there was no nation on whom we could rely at all times...
256To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Executive of this State think it expedient and necessary that under our present circumstances the prisoners of war under the Convention of Saratoga be removed from their present situation. Many circumstances have led to this necessity. It will be utterly impracticable as long as they remain with us to prevent the hostile army now in this State from being reinforced by numerous desertions...
257To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson having received information that a vessel sails from New York for Amsterdam about Wednesday, is endeavoring to get ready the necessary papers for Messrs Short & Carmichael, to go by tomorrow’s post. he beleives it impossible; but in order to take the chance of it, he troubles the President to sign the Commission to-day, which mister Taylor now carries to him for that purpose. AL...
258To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
The house of Le Coulteux, which for centuries has been the wealthiest of this place, has it in contemplation to establish a great company for the fur trade. they propose that partners interested one half in the establishment should be American citizens, born & residing in the U.S. yet if I understood them rightly they expect that that half of the company which resides here should make the...
259To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses him the draught of a letter to the Attorney General on the case of Wilson & others of Alexandria, which will explain his views of the best way proceeding in that case. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. On 27 Aug. 1793, GW sent Jefferson a letter...
260To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I inclose your Excellency a copy of an intercepted Letter from major General Leslie to Lord Cornwallis. it was taken on a person endeavouring to pass thro the country from Portsmouth towards Carolina. when he was apprehended and a proposal made to search him he readily consented to be searched but at the same time was observed to put his hand into his pocket and carry something towards his...
261To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving a Letter from General Greene dated High Rockford february 29 (probably march 1) who informs me that on the night of the 24th Colo. McCall surprized a subaltern’s guard at Hart’s mill, killed 8 and wounded and took 9 prisoners, and that on the 25th Genl Pickens and Lieutenant Colo. Lee routed a body of near 300 Tories on the Haw river, who were in arms to join...
262To 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...
263Memorandum 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...
264To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President translations of papers received from Mr Jaudenes. he submits whether it will not be proper to communicate them to Congress, as being nearly similar to those which closed the great communication on Spanish affairs. if the President thinks they should be sent in, Th: J. will have copies prepared. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL...
265To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred by the President of the United States, the letter of the Governor of Virginia of January 7th 1792, with the Report of a Committee of the House of Delegates of that Commonwealth of December 12th 1791, and Resolution of the General Assembly thereon of December 17th on the case of Charles Russell, late an Officer in the service of the said...
266Thomas Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington, 13 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
1792. Dec. 13. the President called on me to see the Model & drawings of some mills for sawing stone. after shewing them he in the course of subsequent conversation asked me if there were not some good manufactories of Porcelaine in Germany, that he was in want of table china & had been speaking to mister Shaw who was going to the East Indies to bring him a set, but he found that it would not...
267To 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...
268To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor with his respects to the President to communicate the answers he has received from the Representatives of France & Spain with his replies. 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 letters from the French and Spanish ministers were a response to...
269To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I forward to your Excellency, under cover with this, copies of letters received from Major General Greene and Baron Steuben which will give you the latest state of the situation of things with us and in North Carolina. We had hoped to have received by the French Squadron under Mons: Tilly eleven hundred stand of arms which we had at Rhode-Island, but were disappointed. the necessity of...
270To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States the Report of the proceedings in the Executive department of the North Western territory, for the month of July 1791, made by the Secretary of the said territory, thereupon Reports That the letter of July 12. 1791. therein entered, having been already communicated to the legislature of the United states,...
271To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
It is possible you may have heard that in the course of the last summer an expedition was mediated by our Colonel Clarke against Detroit; that he had proceeded so far as to rendezvous a very large body of Indians (I beleive four or five thousand) at Saint-Vincennes; but being disappointed in the number of whites he expected, and not chusing to rely principally on the Indians, was obliged to...
272To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return the inclosed to the President. the following are the only alterations he supposes might be proper. pa. 4. line 2. & 3. he thinks it better to omit the passage marked with a pencil. same page. three bottom lines. he sees no objection to the passage marked. page 6. & 7. the six lines marked he thinks would be better omitted. page. 11. line 16. perhaps the...
273To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you copies of a letter I have received from the Governor of Virginia and of sundry papers which it covered on the subject of that part of the boundary between that State and the territory of the United States south of the Ohio, which has never yet been authoritatively settled, and to observe that an extension of the same line will form the boundary between the same...
274To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote you the day before yesterday, I have recieved a letter of Mar. 25. from Colo. Humphreys informing me that the Queen of Portugal was considerably better: as also mentioning the death of the emperor of Germany. what effect this last event will have on the affairs of Europe, cannot be foreseen, the character of the successor being absolutely unknown. he is 24. years of age. one...
275To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President, and sends for his perusal a letter he has prepared for the Commissioners, which will inform him also of mister Blodget’s ideas, in the mean time Blodget will be preparing the necessary papers. Th: J. has at length been able to see Dr Wistar about the big bones. they are at his house, always open to inspection. the Doctor is habitually at...
276To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
In Bache’s Aurora of the 9th inst. which came here by the last post a paper appears which, having been confided, as I presume, to but few hands, makes it truly wonderful how it should have got there. I cannot be satisfied as to my own part till I relieve my mind by declaring, and I attest every thing sacred & honorable to the declaration, that it has got there neither thro’ me nor the paper...
277To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Since the Letter which I had the Honor of last addressing to your Excellency, the military movements in this state have scarcely merited Communication except a very late one. The Enemy after leaving Williams burg came directly up James River & landed at City point being the point of Land on the Southern Side of the Confluence of Appamattox & James Rivers; they marched up to Petersburg where...
278To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1788 (Washington Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s letter by the last packet & thank you for the information it contained on the communication between the Cayahoga & Big beaver. I have ever considered the opening a canal between those two watercourses as the most important work in that line which the state of Virginia could undertake. it will infallibly turn thro the Patowmack all the commerce of Lake Erie...
279To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] Thursday Apr. 11. [1792] Th: Jefferson has the honor to send for the perusel of the President some letters from mister Barclay received yesterday. he has received no letter from mister Short, nor any other person in France. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .
280To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President Govr Clinton’s letter. also to send him a statement of mister Genet’s conversation with him in which he mentioned Gouvernr Morris. this paper Th: J. prepared several days ago, but it got mislaid which prevented it’s being sent to the President. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence...
281To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I received from mister Gore by yesterday’s post the evidence on the aggression committed by mister Duplaine Vice Consul of France at Boston, and it appears fully to establish the fact against him. I have therefore prepared & countersigned a Revocation of his Exequatur, with letters on the subject to him, to mister Genet, & mister Morris; as also instructions to mister Bankson in what way to...
282To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
By a Letter from General Greene dated Guilford C. house Feby 10. we are informed that Lord Cornwallis had burnt his own waggons in order to enable himself to move with greater facility & had pressed immediately on. the prisoners taken at the Cowpens were happily saved by the accidental rise of a watercourse which gave so much time as to withdraw them from the reach of the enemy. Lord...
283To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I cannot but think that to decline the propositions of mister Genet on the subject of our debt, without assigning any reasons at all, would have a very dry and unpleasant aspect indeed. we are then to examine what are our good reasons for the refusal, which of them may be spoken out, & which may not. 1. want of confidence in the continuance of the present form of government, and consequently,...
284To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the resolutions of Congress of January 13. 1780, we have turned over to the Continental Commissary of Prisoners at Winchester forty prisoners of war, a roll of whom I now take the liberty of enclosing to your Excellency. I have the Honor to be with all possible respect & esteem Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servt LS , DLC:GW ; LB , UkLoBM : Add. MSS 38650; copy,...
285Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington, 10 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
My lettre of to the President, directed to him at Mt Vernon, had not found him there, but came to him here. He told me of this & that he would take an occasion of speaking with me on the subject. he did so this day. he began by observing that he had put it off from day to day because the subject was painful, to wit his remaining in office which that letter sollicited. he said that the...
286To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends him a letter to received by which he will perceive that mister Blodget has deposited with the two Boston banks 10,000 Doll. subject to the draught of the Commissioners. also two proof sheets of the city: recd from Boston. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of...
287To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson—has the honor to return to the President the letters of Seagrove from which he has had an extract taken. He incloses also the names of three gentlemen who have expressed their willingness to serve in the Mint. the President knows them personally & will judge of their fitness. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His...
288To 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...
289To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and returns him the letter to Genl St Clair. the only passage about which he has any doubt is the following “it does not appear by any information in my possession, that your exertions were wanting to produce a different result either in the previous preparations, or in the time of action. ” Th: J: never heard a statement of the matter from...
290To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State, having had under Consideration the Situation of the Citizens of the United States in Captivity at Algiers, makes the following Report thereupon to the President of the United States. When the House of Representatives, at their late Session, were pleased to refer to the Secretary of State, the Petition of our Citizens in Captivity at Algiers, there still existed some...
291To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & incloses him some letters just received. Mr Pinkney’s & mister Morris’s information relative to the doing & undoing the decrees of the National assembly, in the case of the ship Lawrence and some other expressions in mister Morris’s letter seem to render it proper to lower the expression in the message purporting the just & ready redress...
292To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have been honoured with your letter of Sep. 26 which was delivered me by Mr Houdon, who is safely returned. he has brought with him the mould of the face only, having left the other parts of his work, with his workmen to come by some other conveiance. Doctor Franklin, who was joined with me in the superintendance of this just monument, having left us before what is called the costume of the...
293To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
I gave you information in my last letter that Genl Greene had cross’d the Dan, at Boid’s ferry, and that L[or]d Cornwallis had arrived at the opposite shore. large reinforcements of militia having embodied both in the front & rear of the enemy, he is retreating with as much rapidity as he advanced. his route is towards Hilsborough. Genl Greene cross’d the Dan the 21st in pursuit of him. I have...
294To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1786 (Washington Papers)
A conversation with the Count de Rochambeau yesterday obliges me to write a supplementary letter to that of the 4th instant. he informs me that he has had applications for paiment from the person who furnished the badges for the Cincinnati, as well the Americans as French. that this person informed him they were not paid for, that he had furnished them indeed on the application of major...
295To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Opinion on the Questions stated in the President’s note of August 27. 1790. I am so deeply impressed with the magnitude of the dangers which will attend our government if Louisiana & the Floridas be added to the British empire, that in my opinion we ought to make ourselves parties in the general war expected to take place, should this be the only means of preventing the calamity. But I think...
296To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 13 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to lay before you a communication from Mr Hammond Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty covering a clause of a statute of that country relative to it’s commerce with this, and notifying a determination to carry it into execution henceforward. Conceiving that the determination announced could not be really meant as extensively as the words import, I asked and...
297To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d inst. which I presume would overtake you at Richmond. the present I imagine will not overtake you till you get to Wilmington. since my last I have been honoured with your two letters of March 31. and two others of Apr. 4. one of which was circular. a copy of this I sent to the Vice president, and as Colo. Hamilton has asked a consultation on a letter...
298To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of begging leave of your Excellency to forward the enclosed by the first flag which may happen to be going into New york. They are addressed to [a] good man in distress which I am sure will apologize with you for my asking your intervention. I am with the greatest respect your Excellencys mos. obdt & most hbl. servt Copy, DLC : Jefferson Papers. GW replied to Jefferson from...
299To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter he has received from Mr Bournonville, & his answer. he is in hopes mister Dandridge will be able to translate the letter to the President, & if he approves of the answer he will be pleased to stick a wafer in it, as well as in the cover to mister Bankson. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC :...
300To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have this morning received certain information of the Arrival of a hostile fleet of about Sixty Sail in our bay. the debarkation of some light Horse in the Neighbourhood of Portsmouth, seems to indicate that, as the first scene of their action. we are endeavouring to collect as large a body to oppose them as we can arm: this will be lamentably inadequate if the Enemy be in any force; it is...