51To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 31 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to apologize for delaying so long to acknowledge my receipt of your favour of the 16th. instant, inclosing Mrs. Ann Randolph’s pathetic address to you. She is indeed “entitled to all the Sympathies of our nature.” It shall be laid before the Council if her Son shall be found guilty by his Jury. Accept my thanks for the honor you have done me in your reply to her petition, and my...
52To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 12 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
It is ascertained here on unquestionable testimony that Thomas Logwood of Buckingham county in this Commonwealth has been guilty of counterfeiting the notes of several of the branch banks of the United States, particularly those of Boston, Charleston, Savanna and Norfolk. The manner in which this business has been detected is as follows: Information was given to a member of the Council of...
53To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 25 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Judging from my own feelings, that Condolance might be offered too soon to Griefs like yours, I have refrained thus long from obtruding upon that part of your precious time which parental tenderness could not but devote to bewailing the inexpressible loss of an inestimable Daughter! But I should be void of sympathetic Feelings, were I any longer to refrain from mingling my Grief, & that of my...
54To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 1 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On receiving information on sunday last, which was relied on as authentic, that Thomas Logwood , who is convicted of felony in the Court of the United States, would attempt escape from prison and be powerfully aided in this attempt, the Executive thought it proper to order a strong guard that night, giving notice to the Chief Justice and the marshal of the District, that a guard would be...
55To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 18 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
By the advice of the Council the inclosed Confessions of Thomas Logwood , and a Communication from Thomas Moore , are submitted to your consideration. So much of Logwoods information as respects Abraham Collins and one of his accomplices, who is said to go by the name of Greenlee, but whose real name is Moore, was transmitted to the Governor of North Carolina; but as no deposition or Witness...
56To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 25 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 21st. instant inclosing the necessary Affidavits, and demanding Philip Williams and Jacob Ray , fugitives from justice, charged with having committed a felony within the district of Columbia, was delivered to me last night by the Postmaster of this place; and in compliance with your demand, and the constitution and laws of the United States, I have issued this day the orders...
57To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 10 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Favour my dear Friend of the 25th. ulto. has been too long before me, not to require an Apology. for although I might have been much longer at a loss how to express myself on the melancholy subject of your letter; I ought before this, to have heartily thanked you, for myself Mrs. Page & family, for your friendly & kind invitation to Monticello. But whilst I thanked you, I wished to be...
58To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 14 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty of introducing to you Mr. George Newton a Son of my old Friend Col. Newton of Norfolk on his way to Staunton. I am sorry it is not in my power as yet to say when I shall have the pleasure of visiting you, as I am under the necessity of going down to York & Rosewell first. Mrs. Page unites with me in presenting our Compliments & best Wishes to yourself Mr. & Mrs. Randolph. Be...
59To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 16 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing but my wish & expectation of presenting myself to you at Monticello, instead of an Answer to your Favor of the 16th. Ulto. (which did not come to hand, as I had left Richmond, ’till after I had arrived at York) could have induced me to delay the acknowledgment of its receipt a single day. I now sincerely lament my disappointment! The extreme heat of the weather, & my little Son’s bad...
60To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 29 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Being requested by the General Assembly to continue a correspondence which was begun with you by my predecessor, Governor Monroe, upon the subject of certain of their resolutions of the 31st. of December 1800, and of the 16th. of January, 1802, and which was renewed by me in a letter of the 16th. of November last, I have to request that you will be pleased to inform me whether you have...
61To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 3 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the advice of council contained in the inclosed extract from their journals I have to recommend mr. Samuel Brooks to the attention and remuneration of the Federal Government, for his meritorious services rendered to the United States, by his labourious and hazardous enterprize in detecting and bringing to conviction Thomas Logwood, actually and successfully, to an alarming...
62To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 3 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the inclosed advice of the Council I have to request that the Sums paid by this State, Vouchers for which are also inclosed, on Account of the Apprehension and conviction of Thomas Logwood, charged with counterfeiting various Bank notes of the United States, may be refunded to the State. I am with high respect & esteem Sir, your obedt. Servant RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand,...
63To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 3 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the information given in a letter from Mr. Moore of which an extract was inclosed to you in my letter respecting Samuel Brooks of this date, I have been advised by the Council to trouble you again on the subject of the Accomplices of Logwood in North Carolina. You will find sir, by that Extract that it is supposed not improbable that if the inclosed affidavit were sent on by...
64To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 22 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. instant has been received and laid before the Council who being of opinion that the transportation of the forging materials was necessary for the conviction of Logwood advised that application for repayment of six dollars expended on that account be made to the Marshal, and that I should transmit to our Senators the other Vouchers for the claims on the General...
65To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 11 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of the Attorneys letter, written in consequence of the transmission to him of the information which you had received from me respecting the affidavit of David Greenlaw concerning the Coiners and Forgers in North Carolina, I sent an Express for Greenlaw, but he is not to be found. Instead of waiting a month at his father’s according to his promise, he did not remain three weeks:...
66To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 2 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Pardon my tardy acknowledgment of the receipt of your letter of the 27th. December, and accept my thanks for your attention to the wishes of the Legislature of Virginia as expressed in their resolutions to which you allude. As Sierra Leone, from the last information which you have received, seems to open to our views some prospect of our obtaining the assylum sought for, and I think it...
67To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 20 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of President Madison I now transmit to you the Certificate which you had requested him to have authenticated by annexing the Seal of the State. I am with great respect & Esteem your mot. obedt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
68To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 24 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I submit the inclosed Plan of a Society to your consideration—At your leisure your Ideas repecting it will be acceptable to your sincere Friend & obedt. Servant P.S. As I have taken a Copy for Mr. Tucker, you need not return the Original. He is busily employed in collecting Pamphlets &c &c already. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Plan of an American historical, political, & philosophical...
69To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 6 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
As I had promised Mr. Randolph, when he delivered your friendly message, that I would be at Monticello in the course of this week, and I have been unfortunately prevented from setting out at the time I intended by the longer continuance of my Postillion’s Sickness than I had expected, I have thought it proper to inform you, that we can not flatter ourselves with the hopes of being with you...
70To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 28 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you a Copy of a letter from the coroner of the County of Norfolk, by which it appears that John Bullen, a Soldier of the Garrison of Norfolk has been murdered by Woodley Eastridge a Drummer of the said Garrison, who has fled from justice, and said to be at Fort McHenry, within the jurisdiction of the United States. I make to you Sir, this Communication that such...
71To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 16 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on this day week (the 9th.) to enter upon the duties of the office which you had kindly assigned me. The Commission inclosed in a letter from the Comptroller’s Clerk dated 23d. Augt. did not arrive at Gloucester Court House till the 6th. of this month where I received it; and having written to the Comptroller by the return of the mail which brought it, acknowledging its receipt,...
72To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 22 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my sincere thanks for your repeated acts of kindness towards me, & for the offer you make in your favor of the 10th. instant. As secrecy is required, as yet, I can procure no information respecting the comparative Emoluments, & labor & confinement of the two offices: the moment I can, I will thankfully communicate to you the result of my determination. At present however from what I can...
73To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 11 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I had for some time past intended to request that you would be pleased to place on your list of Candidates for Offices which may be at your disposal in Virginia, the Names of William Robertson & Bolling his Son, the former in an humble office in the Virginia Bank, the latter a Lawyer of Eminence at Petersburg who with true filial & fraternal affection I am assured contributes to the support of...
74To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 12 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received your favor of the 9th inst. & hasten to return you my hearty thanks for it. As to that part of it which relates to myself, I beg leave to refer you to my letter of yesterday: & I hope you will pardon me if I refer you also to a letter lately written to Dr. Tucker, which I addressed to him, relying on his prudence to communicate it or not as he might think best, as I...
75To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 25 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my best Thanks my dear & much respected Friend for your favor of the 17th. instant. I have restord quiet to poor Gibbon’s distressed family by communicating your truly liberal sentiments to him. He had written to Cap: Truxton giving him notice that he could not give him lodgings in his house again, as, said he (he shewed me his letter) the persons who visited you & those whom you...
76To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 20 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Last night your favor of the 17th. instant from Monticello inclosing the Commission for Mr. Bolling Robinson came to Hand, which I immediately delivered to his Father—and to-day he presented it to his Son who had arrived here from Petersburg. I did not know, when I first mentioned this Gentleman to you, that his Name was Thomas Bolling Ro bert son I mention this, because in your letter & Note,...
77To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 10 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Pardon my dear Sir, my late acknowledgment of the receipt of your favor covering Mr. Robertson’s commission, which has corrected the error, in the first Commission sent him, as To his Christian name, but that respecting his Sur-name remains; and it had not your signature. I instantly delivered it to his Father, who said that he expected his Son the next day, and that he would advise him to...
78To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 13 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6th. instant, has revived me! I bless you for it& I wish to retain my Office till my last Moment. My little Gregory, & my Clerk, leave me no trouble in it. I have had a generous offer, from a Friend here, to whom I had rather confide the Use of the Office for the Benefit of my Family, than to any Son I have. It will not be reasonable to ask Frank to act for nothing, as he is...