10561To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 13 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Les circonstances politiques et commerciales, entre la Contrée à laquelle je dois la naissance et celle qui m’a donné un généreux azyle, me semblent exiger que je fasse en France un voyage, que je colorerai sous des raisons et des affaires réelles de Commerce; mais dont le principal but sera de tenter encore de servir mes deux Patries de mon très grand Zêle et de mes faibles lumieres. Le...
10562To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander White, 13 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of what you were pleased to mention this morning I send a rough sketch of a Resolve respecting a subject which I do not feel myself competent to act on I have examined the Essays of Nicholas King while he was in the employ of the Commissioners, and acting under the auspices of Doctor Thornton, from which it appears that their Idea was to carry a Water Street 80 feet wide through...
10563Enclosure: Draft of a Resolution for the City of Washington (Jefferson Papers)
Draft of a Resolution for the City of Washington Resolved, as the opinion of the Board that a Plan of the City of Washington on which the public appropriations, as they are described in the several Acts of the Presidents of the U States directing the conveyance thereof to the Commissioners; the squares or Parcels of ground which have been divided, or prepared for division, as building lots;...
10564To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Wilson, 13 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am the unfortunate Claimant for the Ship Mentor; so long yr: Supplicant for Compensation, of the British Government for the Destruction of that Ship; and Cargo: in time of Peace; the pursuit of Superior Velocity , in the Sailing of Shipping, caused me to build that Ship; I having been bred in the Mercantile line of Trade from an early period of my life, made the Stepping of Masts, and form...
10565To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous recevrez sous peu de jours un second exemplaire de l’élégante traduction des Oeuvres de Senèque, (prix 9 dollars les 6 volumes brochés) & le Lucrèce Latin français. J’ai parcouru avec attention les catalogues des Principaux Libraires de Paris, Il n’y est fait aucune mention d’une Edition de Seneque, traduite par la Grange avec le texte original—ce qui me porte à croire qu’il n’en existe...
10566To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Stevens, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer, Mr: O Hebert is an english Gentleman of easy Circumstances, interested in a Patent Right for a Discovery of a Mode of applying Steam for the Cure of certain Disorders. Altho’ the Discovery is not altogether new, yet I believe the Mode of Application is perfectly so. I am willing for the Good of Humanity to suppose that it possesses all the Virtue attributed to it by it’s...
10567To Thomas Jefferson from "Yankey Doodle," 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have told you in my last Letter that I Soon Send you another the object of my Letter is that you Shall See how you Shall act in this Case Sir a few day’s ago—an affray took place on board the Spanish brig it Contain’s as follow’s the mariner’s having Consulted a lawyer about how they Could get Paid the Lawyer told them that must keep possesion brig until the monday following when he Should...
10568To Thomas Jefferson from Bishop James Madison, 15 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am greatly obliged to you for your Favour , by the last Post. From the Examination, which I have been able, as yet, to give the Work, it appears to contain much valuable Information; & to do real Honour to the mathematical Talents of it’s Author. But for your Goodness, it is probable, I should have remained a Stranger to so interesting a Work; especially as the Americans have not been,...
10569From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States a Resolution of the Senate passed on the 12th. day of this Month, requesting the President to cause to be laid before the Senate the Amount of claims preferred under the seventh Article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce & Navigation with Great Britain, and of the sums awarded by the Commissioners and paid by...
10570To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 16 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of proposing the following gentlemen as Ensigns in the Regiments of Infantry, in the service of the United States: (viz) Simeon Knight Vermont 1st. Regiment Joseph Dorr ditto. 1st. ditto. George T. Ross Pennsyla. 2d. ditto. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my high respect RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dearborn; at foot of text: “The President of the United States”;...