51From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 9 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Considering that we have shortly to ask a favour ourselves from the Creeks, the Tuckabatché road, may we not turn the application of Hawkins to our advantage, by making it the occasion of broaching that subject to them? he might be directed to say to them that we furnish with pleasure the several articles which he has asked for their use: that there is nothing we have more at heart than to...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 13 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his friendly compliments to Genl Dearborne returns him Govr. Mc.kean’s letter; to whom he may say for the Govr’s satisfaction that the letter had been communicated to Th:J. who said that some vague intimation of the purport mentd in the letter had been formerly dropped to him, but it was so little noted that neither the person, nor manner can now be recollected: that...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 17 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ the communication of the within to me might be considered as confidential, yet it is so important that Wilkerson’s maneuvres should be understood that I send it for your perusal, in confidence also. he is turning on us the batteries of our friends in aid of his own. the business of the Commission terminated on the 16th. of Jan. when the order for the upper posts was given, as that...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 29 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Some compliment being proper for the militia of Tennissee who went to Natchez under the command of Colo. George Dogherty may not something like the following be said on the part of the President in a letter from the Secretary at war to Colo. Dogherty or to the Governor of Tennissee? ‘the President has seen with great satisfaction the willingness with which the militia under your command [or...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 3 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On the vacating of Judge Pickering’s office I shall be obliged to nominate another before the rising of the Senate. J. Langdon has recommended Sherburne . a much more powerful representation is made against him and in favr. of Jonathan Steele. tho’ it is probable the witnesses attending the impeachment from that state may have been prepared to give particular opinions, yet perhaps in a free...
56From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 1 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to consider & direct how the 3000. D. may be apportioned in the details of the Arcansa expedition ? to wit how much for pay, for instruments & other articles of outfit which cannot be furnished from the military fund, & how much may be laid out in light articles for barter & presents to the Indians. this last article should be made as large as the fund will admit....
57From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 8 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Just as I was leaving Washington, I received the inclosed letter from Colo Matthew Lyon , the suggestions of which I think well worthy our attention, as it is certainly better to prevent Squatters on the lands in the district of Louisiana (as yet it is upper Louisiana) than to have them removed after they shall have firmly established themselves. at present the Spanish laws are in force there....
58From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 15 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as I possibly could after my arrival here, I prepared the general instructions for our mission up the Arkansa & Red rivers, but could not make a fair copy of them in time for the last post. they are inclosed in the letter to mr Dunbar which I send open for your perusal, and then to be forwarded to him. it will enable you to see and to supply what is deficient, and to alter whatever on...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 17 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 12th. the duties proposed to be levied on us by the Spanish Government at Mobille, require certainly very serious attention. their bearings on what we had determined to do at Baton rouge, must come into consideration at the same time. the want of papers here to remind me exactly of the regulations we had established, and the distressing situation of my...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 27 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Capt Barron at Westpoint, on which be pleased to do what you think right. The object of the kind enquiries in your letter of the 19th. is no more. she left us on the day of the date of my last letter to you. this event will occasion my stay here to be about a week longer than I had originally intended. I suppose it will still be a fortnight before I shall be with...
61From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 3 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the day before. with respect to the slanders in which the two mr Hunts were implicated, I assure you on my sacred honour that I never heard one word uttered but from mr Granger and one other person, who does not reside in this part of the country, nor is any way connected with the government; and the sole object of his communicating with me was to engage me...
62From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 6 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The division of Louisiana into districts relating to the military as much as to the civil administration, will you be so good as to consider those proposed by Governor Harrison, and we will then consider the subject. my idea would be not to fix precisely the dividing line between the districts, as we have not information enough for that, but to use such a mode of designation for these as we do...
63From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 23 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of General Dearborn to Meet the heads of department at the Secretary of States Office to day at 10 oclock on the Subject of the infraction of Jurisdiction by the British Frigate Cambrian at New York. RC ( THaroL ); in William A. Burwell’s hand; addressed: “General Dearborn”; endorsed by Dearborn. infraction : on 19 June, DeWitt Clinton wrote to Madison regarding...
64From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 27 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a newspaper with a Lexington article respecting the Osage chiefs. Govr. Harrison in a former letter I think proposed the purchasing all the Piankishaw lands on the Ohio. this would be infinitely preferable to nibbling about the Saline. I doubt the expediency of buying the Pioria lands West of the Missisipi, unless a bargain could be made at the same time with some other tribe to...
65From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 29 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers came in the letter from Capt Lewis which I sent you: but not having been able to read this till last night they are now sent, and are interesting.—I cannot make out whether the party of Osages who were killed were some of those deputed to us. if they were not, it would carry us farther into Indian concerns, than we would wish to go, to take serious notice of it. if the...
66From James Madison to Henry Dearborn, 5 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
The President having determined to send to Algiers fifteen long brass Cannon, suitable for batteries, viz. ten twenty four pounders and five eighteen pounders, with their Carriages and necessary apparatus, and as the materials and means of fabricating them exist in your Department, I have the honor to request that you will be pleased, if convenient, to cause them to be prepared. The expense...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 3 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from mr Boudinot to whom an answer is promised as soon as I shall hear from you on the subject. I think this mr Blackburn called on us, and recieved such assurances as then gave him satisfaction. as we have in other instances encouraged the cooperation of the Quakers in Indian civilization, it is to be considered whether we may with advantage do the same with other sects...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 8 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I last night recieved the account of Genl. Irvine’s death , and at the same time the inclosed applications for the continuance of the office in his family, which are certainly very strong. the single one in behalf of Capt Jones must be merely idle, as it is most improbable that he would accept of it. I inclose the whole however for your information. Irvine is a real loss to us. Not having...
69From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 12 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to Genl. Dearborne more candidates for the succession to Genl. Irvine. he has just recieved a letter from mr Dupont the father in which is the following paragraph. ‘continue your friendship to me. extend it to my children. I hope you have your powder made and your saltpeter refined at their manufactory 1. because it is without comparison the best in the US. and one of...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 19 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
A candidate for the office of Genl. Irvine is now presented of a higher order than we have before had. I do not know how far Colo Miles may possess that mercantile fitness which the duties of the office call for, but on all other points he stands on so high ground as to overrule the charitable inclinations we might have felt for other candidates. the respectability of his character, and his...
71From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 30 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I think we had agreed on the following lists of Commandants for Louisiana George Hammond of Georgia } to be Colonels Return J. Meigs of Ohio Gibs of Massachusets Richard Kennon of Virginia John M. Scott of Kentucky } to be Majors Seth Hunt of N. Hampshire I now inclose you the commissions which I recieved for signature from your office yesterday evening. when you shall have filled them up &...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 6 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Spanish government has adopted all the angry passions of Yrujo respecting the act of Congress for the collection district at Mobile, and has written a letter to Pinckney in a stile which renders more serious measures possible. in this situation it behoves us to have every man at N. Orleans who can be spared from other places. not recollecting the force we have there actually, can you by...
73From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 1 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been able to give the inclosed so little time that the suggestions of alteration which I make are merely for your consideration. in order to keep the subject clear I would propose to transpose the paragraphs so as to touch 1st. on their Civil powers generally. 2d. intrusions on land. 3. the military. 4. the militia. for this purpose I suggest something like the following. Section 1. to...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 9 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I think Colo. Hawkins should be made to understand that we act between the Indians only as friends and mediators; but not as parties in their disputes. that certainly we should not go to war against either party in behalf of the other. the Creek nation is merely a collection of the remains of many others. it is probable the division among the parts of the nation have their foundation in a...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 2 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you mr Griswold’s letter. the measure he proposes is exactly to reverse our politics. instead of inviting Indians to come within our limits, our object is to tempt them to evacuate them. I suppose the smoothest answer would be that being connected with the English in friendship, good faith requires that we should not interfere with the inhabitants of their territories, nor attempt to...
76From James Madison to Henry Dearborn, 11 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State presents his respects to the Secretary of War, and has the honor to inform him, that it has been determined that the brass cannon for the Dey of Algiers may be cast according to the dimensions originally intimated, and according to which Mr. Foxall has prepared the apparatus. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). For the brass cannon for Mustafa Dey, see JM to...
77From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 16 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of the Little Turtle to Genl. Wilkinson is so serious, that I suppose it should be answered. among other things I imagine it will be proper to have said to him that tho’ the US. will always protect the Indians in the right to their lands so long as they chuse to keep them, yet they have also always professed themselves ready to buy whenever the Indians chuse to sell. that it will...
78From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 3 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter shews the writer to be really a curiosity. I think he might be told that you had communicated to me the substance of his letter: that the information relative to the olives & to Genl. Gadsden was very gratifying to me. that as to the gunboats, (his 3d subject) that mode of defending our harbours would probably be pursued: that the boats will not all be on one model, but...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 12 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I think the cases both of Caston and Hibbs are within the spirit of our promise, altho’ they both happen to be out of the letter of it. they have substantially fulfilled the object of the government; and could such cases have been stated to us before hand we should have offered the reward. should you be of this opinion I should approve of giving them the reward as if they were within the...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 29 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 25th came to hand yesterday, and I now return the letter of LaFayette with a similar one under cover to me, which he desired me, if I thought it proper, to hand on to you as the channel through which he wished to have it conveyed to Congress. considering it as proper & believing it will have a favorable effect I comply with his request in now inclosing it. You remember it was...
81From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 3 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you letters from P. Choteau & a mr Hay giving information of Capt Lewis. the information given by the former of the combination forming among the Machicoux (the Indians about Michigan I presume) is worthy attention. I wonder neither Governr. Harrison nor Wells have noted it. if true it may be proper for us to send a talk to each of the tribes, explaining our real intentions as to...
82From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 23 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to peruse the inclosed and have some conversation with me on it to-day? PHi : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
83From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have left Lewis’s large map with a servt. to be carried to your office tomorrow morning. it is the 29. half sheets which contain very accurately his survey of the river & no more. mr King being with me this morning I gave them to him to be reduced to a scale of 20. miles to the inch for engraving. Mr. Pringle has declined the place of Attorney general, it is therefore now in my power to...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 25 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his friendly salutations to Genl. Dearborne incloses him a letter from an Ensign Johnson of Maryland, of whom he knows nothing. he does it not to make mischief as to him, nor even that he should know it has been communicated, but because it is useful the Secretary at war should know the measure of discretion possessed by those who may be candidates for trusts from him. DLC :...
85From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 25 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 20. finding me in the moment of setting out for New London (Bedford) from thence I shall not return under ten days I can only acknolege it’s reciept, and inclose for your consideration one from Governor Harrison. I am inclined to suppose he has some reason in what he urges on the subject of allowance. Governor Bowdoin having written to me, on the subject of mr Winthrop’s...
86From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 3 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from a day from a journey to New London I found here the inclosed from the Governor of S. Carolina to mr. Madison which I forward to you as belonging to your department to consider of. I learn with great regret that mr & mrs Madison have been obliged to go to Philadelphia, & I have little hope of seeing them in our neighborhood this season. I hope this circumstance will not...
87From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 16 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The resignation of mr Oakley as a justice of the peace, leaves the inhabitants of the quarter he served, in distress for such an officer. I inclose you a petition on that subject. will you be so good as to satisfy yourself by enquiry who would be the properest person to succeed him, and desire mr Wagner to make out a commission for him. General Mason’s knolege of the characters convenient will...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 22 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. is recieved, and I am thankful to you for your attention to the articles from Capt. Lewis. I had written to mr Lemaire on the subject, but they would have been suffering in the mean time. for getting rid of the knits in furs, the brush well applied is the best thing. for destroying the worm after it has entered the skin, I do not know whether snuff or Camphire is best....
89From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 26 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23. is recieved & I learn with pleasure that mrs Dearborne & yourself will ere long be with us. there are three routes by which you may come. 1. that by Fredericksburg, which is 20. miles the furthest, the worst road, & after you pass Fredericksburg as badly off for stages as any other & a miserable uninteresting country. of the other two to wit, by Stephensbg, & by the...
90From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 23 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Taking from our last Census the number of 384,554 free white males of the age of 16. and under 26. and distributing them according to their ages by Buffon’s table they stand thus. between 16. and 18. 80,405. not of military age in their 19th year 39,591
91From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 5 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the speech of yesterday. I really think you propose to give too much for the lands. the chiefs have observed that we sell them immediately for 2. D. the acre, & that to the purchasers they are worth 8. or 10. D. there are several views of this subject which may be presented to them. 1. we are not to sell these lands. they go to Georgia for lands on the Missisipi which we are...
92From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 20 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The orders for the Commanding officer at Natchitoches as agreed to yesterday were that he should first apply to the Spanish Commandant at Nacogdoches and ask an assurance from him that there shall be no further inroads nor acts of violence on their parts committed on this side of the Sabine river. if he refuses, or fails to observe his engagement, then the Commanding officer at Natchitoches is...
93From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 25 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to write me a letter which may be communicated to the house as an answer to the inclosed resolution. I presume, tho’ they mention but the act of 1797. yet that whatever has been done under those of 98. & 99. may be considered as done in consequence of the act of 97. I inclose for your perusal a letter from Mr. Gallatin in answer to one I wrote him on this subject....
94From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 31 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Considering that the important thing is to get the militia classed so that we may get at the young for a year’s service at a time, and that training may be supplied after they are called out, I think we may give up every part of the bill which respects training & arming. let us once get possession of the principle, & future Congresses will train & arm. in this way we get rid of all those...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 6 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Hawkins has put into my hands the papers respecting the claim of the Creek nation on behalf of Emantlau Thlucco, from whom two horses have been stolen, within the Indian limits, by Harries & Allen, citizens of the US. the former of whom has fled out of the US. and leaving no property, & the other is insolvent. he communicated to me also the Attorney General’s opinion on the case. this...
96From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 15 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot to mention at our last conversation that I think we should concur heartily in both of Governor Hull’s propositions. 1. to enlarge the extinguishment of Indian titles in that quarter, & 2. to introduce agricultural improvements among the Indians of the same quarter. any specific measures therefore which he and judge Woodward have to recommend might be recieved without detaining them...
97From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 27 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
As the inclosed resolution might be so construed as to lead into endless details, I entered into convasation on the subject with mr Early, who presented it. I found he wanted only general views of the subject. perhaps a tabular view under the following heads may best suit him port. name of fort condition cost of construction hitherto sum necessary to furnish it miscellaneous remarks
98From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 2 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I propose tomorrow morning to send to both houses the act of S.C. with the inclosed message. is there sufficient reason to be satisfied that the positions ceded are the best? or ought we not to examine & say what positions we think worth taking & will take & fortify, & consequently to require a suitable modification of their act? the condition of fortifying them all in 3. years, or to lose...
99From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 21 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In expectation that further information would give us a more distinct view of the course which our foreign affairs are likely to take, I have kept unanswered the letter of Capt Shallus & others covering resolutions of the 1st. light infantry company of the 1st. Brigade of the 1st. division of Pensylvania militia, offering their service to their country if necessary and asking the honour of...
100From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
What would you think of raising a force for the defence of New Orleans in this manner? give a bounty of 50 acres of land, to be delivered immediately, to every able bodied man who will immediately settle on it, & hold himself in readiness to perform 2. years military service (on the usual pay) if called on within the first seven years of his residence. the lands to be chosen by himself of any...