1To 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...
2To 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...
3To 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,...
4To 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...
5To 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...
6To 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...
7To 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...
8To 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,...
9To 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...
10To 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...
11To 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...
12To 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.
13To 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...
14To 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:...
15To 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...
16To 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...
17To 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,...
18To 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...
19To 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...
20To 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...
21To 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...
22To 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...
23To 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...
24To 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...
25To 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...
26To 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...
27To 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...
28To 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...
29To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 4 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received the inclosed ratification of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and with pleasure hasten to transmit it to you. I am Sir, with high respect and esteem, your obedt. servant FC ( ViW : Virginia Governor’s Papers); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Page; at foot of text: “The President of the United States.” FC ( Vi : Executive Letterbook). Enclosure...
30To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 20 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day sent to the General Assembly your letter and the copy of an Article of Amendment proposed by Congress to be added to the Constitution of the United States respecting the election of President and Vice President inclosed therein. They would have been earlier communicated to the Legislature could I have done it in my official Character. They were received when I was only a...
31To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 5 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many thanks for your favor of the 25th. ultmo. The Account of Louisiana is highly interesting; & the information you are pleased to communicate respecting your prospect of getting quiet possession of New Orleans, is truely agreable; & the more acceptable after reading the malignant Tales fabricated by the Enemies of our peace. I had hoped that Mr. Short, to whom I had confided a...
32To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 16 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg your pardon, for delaying so long, my acknowledgments of the favor conferred on me, by your transmitting to me your Address or Message to the Congress. It afforded me high Satisfaction, not only as communicating most interesting information respecting your Treaty with France; & the friendly disposition of the great Powers in Europe towards the United States; but as containing the most...
33To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 3 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I left Wmsburg the first day that the weather & my little Son’s state of health would permit, & had he not relapsed into a dangerous Illness, I should have pushed on alone, to spend if it were only a day with you at Monticello, even though Mr. Harvey informed me that you were on the point of setting out to Washington. My dear little boys illness, which ’till today scarcely gave us any hopes of...
34To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 12 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Having this Moment heard that Mr. Harvey intends to set out tomorrow morning to Monticello, I sent to request he would call on me & take charge of a Letter to you. I thought he would be a proper Conveyance of the Letter which you had permitted me to copy. I now inclose it with thanks for this fresh proof of your friendship, & for your Confidence in me. Mrs. Page joins in presenting our...
35To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 24 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your truely friendly Letter & was determined to set out yesterday, following the directions therein: but Mrs. Page could not be prepared for the Journey ’til to-day; & unfortunately early this morning a Diarhea attacked me so smartly, that I fear I shall not be able to venture out til to-morrow or next day; nor even then, unless it should go off as happily as two similar cases did....
36To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 2 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 26th. ultimo came to hand yesterday. Mrs. Page & myself are infinitely obliged to you for it, & will certainly tell you so viva Voce as soon as you shall have returned from the Journey you mention. Within a Week after your return we hope to be with you. When you have finished your Business, I shall more freely indulge in the delightful Relaxation which you propose. One line...
37To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 25 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter , my dear and much respected Friend, was handed to me at Richmond, after 9 O’Clock at night, at the instant of my return from my sad visit to my dying Brother. I should have acknowledged the receipt of it on the following Morning, had I not been so much indisposed, by taking cold in walking the night of my Journey over much of wet bad roads, to be scarcely able to perform the...
38To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 16 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty of introducing to your acquaintance and Civilities the Honorable Captain John Murray of his Britanic Majesty’s Navy, third Son of the Earl of Dunmore. He has been several weeks here, and seems worthy of the polite Attention which has been paid him. I confess I am happy to hear that our Countrymen, where ever he has been, have exhibited a Conduct towards him, which can not...
39To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 2 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your letter of February 1803, to the Governor of Virginia, written in compliance with a request of the House of Representatives of the United States, that you should urge on the Executive of each state the importance and indispensible necessity of vigorous exertions on the part of the State governments to carry into effect the militia System adopted by the national...
40To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 25 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed my dear Sir accept as from me. The Commission of Colr. of Petersbg. I this day return to the Comptroller’s office. pardon & pity me. I can only add that I am most affectionately yours RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 3 Sep. and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Margaret Page to TJ, 23 Aug.
41To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 9 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A Shock of Vertigo, one of a series of its Attacks which I have sustained since the middle of Apl deterred me from declaring to you that I would be ready to execute your Commands at Petersburg about the 15th. Instt. I waited a few days in hopes of having no return of that dreadful Disorder, & of being better qualified to comply with my Promise. but on Saturday 30th. July I was again violently...
42To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 1 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am greatly obliged to you for the repetition of your kind offer, contained in your Letter from Monticello . Indeed, I am so struck with it, after what has passed between us, as to resolve to give up my Opinion to yours, & to rely entirely on your Friendship. I lament now, that I have lost so much time in deciding on your Proposition; as my Wife’s Situation will scarcely permit me to leave...
43To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 19 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my dear Friend, my sincere Thanks for your Favor of the 2d. instant—& for the friendly & candid warnings which you gave me, in your former letter, respecting the dangers of the Office which you offered me. I confess that I shuddered at the thoughts of them, & should have immediately declined an acceptance of your Offer had I not thought that Delicacy required that I should take the time...
44To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 27 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On the night of the 17th. I received your Favor of the 20th. Ultimo & 9th. instant, & hastened to thank you for the strong proofs it conveyed to me of your Friendship, for I sat down that moment, & began to make my Acknowledgments in the best manner I could; thanking you for your candid Statement, & particularly for your permission to take time for considering your offer, with all the probable...
45To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 6 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your highly flattering & friendly Letter , & to return as I do my best Thanks for it. That you should have proposed to hold me up as worthy of being the Successor of Rittenhouse in the Office of Director of the Mint, is to my Feelings in my present Situation highly gratifying, & to be informed of this in the manner I was, has afforded me much Consolation....
46To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, my dear Jefferson, yours of the 12th. Ultimo after its circuitous Rout through the Post Roads to Richmond, & thence by the Weekly Post-cross-Road to Gloucester Court House, where I suppose it arrived eight days later than it would have arrived had it not reached Richmond after the Gloucester weekly mail had been closed, or sent off. I mention these Circumstances as an Explanation...
47To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 13 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you my dear Friend for your Letter & the Pamphlets inclosed. I see clearly through the Dark Windings, & turnings, dark as they are— War with France has long been the favorite Object of our Govt. Porcupine first prepared me for this Event, by his declaration in Novr. 1796, that the Ud. S.s would be “obliged to go to War with France, & with Spain too; & that the sooner you drive them...
48To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 21 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the 6th. Instt. inclosing your Letter to a Friend respecting the malicious Attack on a Passage in your Notes on Virginia, & the President’s last Communication to Congress of the Proceedings of our Envoys happily came safe to Hand—Of the former I think it fully sufficient for your Purpose—it will satisfy every one who is not by the infernal Spirit of Party hardened against...
49To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 26 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received the Instructions to our Envoys & their Dispatches inclosed under two blank Covers, for which I thank you—for as much as I wish for your Correspondence, I can not desire you to with draw your attention from the greatly important Business of your Office, from the interesting subjects of various kinds which must be presented to you every day at Philada. & from your favorite...
50To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 22 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
My long Absence from hence, occasioned by Sickness which prevented my return, & the Post-master’s officious good intentioned Effort to convey your letters to me at Rosewell, where he supposed I should remain during the present Session of Assembly, put it out of my Power to acknowledge the Receipt of them ’till now. I thank you for your Letter , & for Fauchet’s Pamphlet. At present I can not...