531To Thomas Jefferson from Edmond Charles Genet, 11 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Les fonds qui se trouvoient à la disposition de la République fse. pour l’année 1793. étant épuisés par les traites des Colonies qui y ont été imputées, par les dépenses considerables qu’occasionne le séjour des Vaisseaux de la Republique dans les ports des Etats unis, par les secours que J’ai fait donner aux réfugiés du Cap, par les approvisionnements de tous Genres que J’ai envoyés dans les...
532To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 11 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
On reading over again my last letters of Oct. 7th. and Nov. 7th. I apprehend they may have conveyed an idea I did not intend. With the same absence of all kind of reserve, which has ever prevailed when I have been writing to you, I think it necessary to correct any error which may have been conveyed, and to express more clearly not my wishes but my idea. It might be concieved perhaps from...
533To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you with this line by Mr. Greenup just to remind you of (as soon as matters of more consequence will permit) my affair with Griffin, to have it if possible brought to a speedy and favorable issue, being much afraid that some Chicanery has, or will be, practised, to defraud me of justice ultimately I conceive Your particular enquiry […] which you was kind enough...
534To Thomas Jefferson from James Philip Puglia, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Wiewing with sorrow the large number of victims in all ranks and professions fallen by the late distressing desease, I suppose that some vacancies have taken place amongst the persons employed in public Offices. In this conception I take the liberty of adressing your Honour with the offer of my best services in that line, wishing (if agreeable and possible) to be admitted as a Clark in your...
535To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Rutledge, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been requested by the Gentlemen who have signed the within memorial, to place it under your Protection, and I do so, with the greatest chearfulness, because I know full well, that the sole motive by which they were actuated, was, Humanity. The People of St. Domingo, came to our Shores, in such Numbers, and in so destitute a Condition, and the Funds of our Citizens were so unequal to...
536To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 8 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my grateful acknowledgements and best thanks for your kind letter of the 5th. instant; which, together with the minutes of a Route and the letters enclosed, came to my hands Yesterday. As a sincere friend, and truly wishing your personal happiness, I cannot but be pleased with your determination to retire from your public station; because I know that a mind like your’s can find more...
537To Thomas Jefferson from George Taylor, Jr., 8 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3rd. instant I have had the honor to receive a few moments ago. Ever willing to fulfil my duty to the utmost of my power, I shall take immediate steps for complying with your desire to take arrangements for resuming the Business of the office. To this end I shall set off with my little family in the first days of the next week. From the present state of the weather and of the...
538To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 7 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter, which I had the honor of addressing to you on the 6th. of September, I acquainted you with my having received information, that in the course of the last five or six weeks, antecedent to that date, a privateer, named the Industry, had been illegally fitted out in the port of Baltimore. As you never controverted my assertion, nor required from me any evidence to substantiate it, I...
539Memorial from George Hammond, 7 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of submitting to the Secretary of State the accompanying deposition ; from which it appears that on the 6th. ulto., the British brigantine Pilgrim from Nanticoke in Maryland bound to Barbadoes was captured by the French Xebeck privateer, le Sans Culotte of Marseille, at the distance of two...
540To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 7 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perceive that the original of Baker’s deposition, a copy of which accompanies My public letter of this date, is in the possession of Mr. Bond; but as that Gentleman is at some distance at present, and as my means of communication with him are neither facile nor frequent, I have not judged it expedient to wait the obtaining of it, but should you wish to receive it, it shall be...