1From Thomas Jefferson to Castries, 10 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s letter on the prize money for which Mr. Jones applies. The papers intended to have been therein inclosed, not having been actually inclosed, I am unable to say any thing on their subject. But I find that Congress on the first day of November 1783. recommended Capt. Jones to their Minister here, as Agent, to sollicit, under his direction, paiment to the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Castries, 3 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed copy of a letter from Capt. John Paul Jones on the subject on which your Excellency did me the honour to write me on the day of July will inform you that there is still occasion to be troublesome to you. A Mr. Puchelberg, a merchant of l’Orient, who seems to have kept himself unknown till money was to be received, now presents powers to receive it, signed by the American officers...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Castries, 17 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honoured yesterday with the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 12th. instant. I have ever understood that the whole crew off the Alliance was of American citizens. But should there have been among them any subjects of his majesty, it is but just that the repaiment of their portions of the prize money should be secured. But Capt. Jones being already bound to pay what he shall...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Castries, 5 November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your Excellency[’s] letter of October the 28th. inclosing copies of Captain Jones receipts of an hundred and five thousand one hundred and eighty five livres, three sols, six deniers, and seventy five thousand eight hundred and fifty three livres eighteen sols four deniers prize money of the Bon homme Richard and the Pallas, which I shall take the first...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Castries, 9 January 178[6] (Jefferson Papers)
On receiving the honor of your Excellency’s letter of December 30 on the subject of the debts due by Robinson and Francfort to Françoise Rippert, I asked of Captain Jones those informations which his office had put him in possession of. I now trouble you with a copy of his letter on the subject. Your Excellency will find by that that Robinson having belonged to the Alliance, and the portions...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Castries, 3 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received at this place the letter of the 19th. of April which your Excellency did me the honor of writing on the claim of Nicholas Valentin Fontaine for services performed on board the Indian, while employed by the state of South Carolina. I am an entire stranger to the other difficulties which have hitherto retarded the adjustment of those claims. One however has lately become known to...