23131To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 14 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The vessel for the Bey of Tunis is a small one purchased by Capt: Preble in the Mediterranean. The first cost can not be ascertained in the absence of the Upper Clerks of the Navy Dept. It is supposed not to have exceeded a very few thousand dollars. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
23132To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 14 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
You will do me the honor to recollect that Sometime in last Winter, I handed you an application from Coll. Lowry, requesting a place in the Customs in Orleans,—he Still appears anxious to have an appointment there, and has requested me to forward the inclosed Certificate from the Collector, Naval Officer & Surveyor of this Port, respecting his Capacity for the Duties of the Office,—Coll. Lowry...
23133To Thomas Jefferson from John Lenthall, 15 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Report of the State & progress of the Work on the South wing of the Capitol from the commencement of the season to the present 15th. Day of June 1806 —Freestone Wk— The Zocle of the Colonnade prepared & set compleat together with the doorcase of the Speaker’s Closet 24 Bases and Column Shafts set ready to receive their Capitals. 2 Capitals set & 2 blocks of a third. The Piers of the North...
23134To Thomas Jefferson from William Linen, 15 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject, which is of great importance to the Citizens of these United States.—Altho a stranger to you personnally, but as I conceive that you are a lover of Public Justice as well as myself, emboldens me to relate the following.— I am sorry to inform you, that I had several actions in our State Courts, and after several Years trouble in attending on...
23135To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 15 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
If I was not personally your friend and did not wish success to your administration, from the interest I take in your welfare, as in that of my country, I should not write you with the freedom I propose to do in this letter. It is my intention to enter fully into some topicks which are of very high importance to your reputation as to the best interests of the UStates, & I do it in confidence...
23136To Thomas Jefferson from T. H. Backer, 16 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
1806 Monsieur T. H. Backer Dr. à Gl. Dufour Amsterdam Pour Monsieur le Président Jefferson 16 Juin Annales du Museum par Landon 5e volume Nos. 14 à 18 ƒ 3 10 idem volumes 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 en cartonnés 42 10 Abregé du systeme de la nature par Gilibert 1 vol. 8o relié 6 Connaissance des temps pour les années 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807 relié 15
23137To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 16 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
P.S. In regard to Political affairs Mr. Jefferson will have been informed—of all the extraordinary new order of things in Europe, opposite what was hoped from the French revolution by the friends of mankind— Of the French being in Possession of Naples & Calabria, & Joseph Napoleon having been Acknowledged tho’ not yet Crown’d King of the two Sicilies—at Naples— Of the English being in Sicily,...
23138To Thomas Jefferson from William Prime, 16 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
William Prime of the City and County of Washington, District of Columbia; Humbly represents That your petitioner being unapprized of the requisitions in the Law directing on what conditions Spirituous Liquors might be sold on the race ground in City of Washington, and being provided with necessaries for that purpose: your petitioner employed a Mr. Johnson on the first morning of the races in...
23139To Thomas Jefferson from Nancy Ray, 16 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer,—wife to the Prisoner Jacob Ray, most respectfully begs permission to acquaint, His Excellency, the President of the U. States with her present situation— She left her home, & her children in Georgia 8 weeks ago, with a lively hope of getting her husband released—This hope was chiefly grounded on the far famed clemency of the Executive—The long imprisonment her husband has already...
23140To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Chouteau, 17 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Par les differentes conversations que J’ai eu avec Mr Ns. Boisevin et Pau Loise, je dois Presumer que le Gouvernement verroit avec plaisir le chef Ozage la Grande Piste et quelques uns des Considerés de sa bande faire le voyage de federal city, Je crois en effet que ce Voyage seroit infiniment avantageuex pour eteindre l’Esprit d’animosité et de Jalousie qui divise la Nation Ozage et dont les...
23141To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 17 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The legislature having adjourned, I feel my mind relieved from much of that anxiety I lately experienced. I nevertheless am abundantly occupied in my office, and am for the present confined to the City. So soon however as I shall cause the laws passed by the legislature to be printed and distributed, it is my intention to visit the several Counties on and adjacent to the Mississippi, with a...
23142To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 17 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation Daniel A. A. Buck of Vermont as Cadet in the Regiment of Artillerists. With sentiments of respect & esteem I am, Sir Your most Obt. Sert. PHi : Daniel Parker Papers.
23143To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Lincoln, 17 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In the selfdenial which I have practiced for some time in forbearing to intrude for one moment on your attention, which must have been pressed with the weight of an unusual mass of important public concerns, especially in the last session of Congress, you will perceive only proofs of my attachment to your person, & respect for your character, and the momentous concerns, in which you must have...
23144To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Randolph, 17 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope it will not be deemed indelicate in me to express a wish to receive the appointment of Consul to any port of Europe, should the Executive upon inquiry into my capacity to discharge the duties of such an office, think proper to accept the tender of my services. I am induced to make this application in consequence of a recent misfortune, (the loss of my Wife!!!)—Being the Representative...
23145To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Williams, 17 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers will show how several years of the time of Philip Williams have been spent—Exclusive of these documents, it will appear from the vouchers of the Collector for the Port & district of Wilmington N.C., filed in the Treasury Department from February 1798 till March 1801, That P. Williams was during that period employ’d as an Inspector of the customs for that District—It will...
23146To Thomas Jefferson from George Broome, 18 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
George Broome of George Town and County of Washington humbly represents—That your Petitioner being unapprised of the full Extent and Import of the Law directing and requiring Licenses to be obtained for retailing spirituous Liquors on the Race Ground—but conceiving the only thing really essential to be the payment of the Money required by Law for such License—did on the first day of the Races...
23147To Thomas Jefferson from Christian Mayer, 18 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By request of Mr. Reibelt, my Partner (Capn. Brantz) sent me from Leghorn a parcel of that species of Maiz called “Quarantina”. When Mr. Reibelt left this City for Natchitochés, he directed me to send some it to You, Sir; which I have done by this morning’s Mail-Stage. The Corn is contained in a small linen Bag, with a direction on a Card. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir,...
23148To Thomas Jefferson from William DuVal, 19 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as I can obtain an Authenticated Copy of the Will and Codicil of Mr Geo. Wythe, decd. I shall inclose them. I have twice applied to the Clerk for them. Michael being dead, I shall extract as much as related to your self. “I give my Books and small Philosophical Apparatus to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America, a Legacy considered abstractlie, perhaps not...
23149To Thomas Jefferson from J. Phillipe Reibelt, 19 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens d’apprendre dans une societè des Espagnols, qui par la Chaleur de la Conversation ont oubliès, que je me trouvois parmi eux—tous des hommes de la premiere distinction, que le Gouverneur Folke a Pensacola est fermement resolû de ne jamais executer les ordres de sa Cour pour la remise des Florides aux Etats Unis, a moins, que cette Cour en obtienne en echange la rive droite du...
23150To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By the 3d Section of the enclosed act, you are authorized to designate the port of entry of the district of Ocracock. A letter of the collector shews the situation & a plan is annexed. But it would I think be improper to designate only a spot: a certain extent may be defined by boundaries so that the collector may have some choice in fixing himself. Every other port extends as far as the town...
23151To Thomas Jefferson from William Lambert, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Having, with the assistance of some respectable inhabitants of this city, made some observations relating to the Solar Eclipse of the 16th. instant, I have the honor to transmit the result found by computation from the data we have been able to obtain, as follows:— Latitude of the place of observation on the Church hill, in view of the Capitol, (assumed) 37°.38’.30"N. Longitude from Greenwich,...
23152To Thomas Jefferson from John Mercer, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
at any time an expression of your confidence in me would have been estimated in the number of my most valuabe acquisitions, but at this moment, that which is contained in your friendly Letter of the 10th. Inst. is particularly grateful to me. Since my return to Virginia some of my friends, whose partiality towards me has been always greater than I deserved, have repeated their former request...
23153To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The opportunity by Mr. Bankhead is too favorable not to be taken advantage of to write you, altho I may be able to add but little to what you find in my official dispatches. The business here has been suspended since the late appointment was known & will remain so till Mr. Pinkney arrives. It was impossible for me to move in it after that event, either with propriety or effect. besides it...
23154To Thomas Jefferson from James Sullivan, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The letters I have presumed to intrude on you have been too much filled with egotism, and I rely on it that they are reduced to a state of illegebility soon after you have the trouble of them; and you may rely on it that you will have no more trouble in this way. A man of strong feelings wounded with the poisoned arrows of malice and calumny will be troublesome, but it ought to be restrained....
23155To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In a Box of Books forwarded to the Socy. from the Lisbon Academy, thro’ the instance of the Chevalier Freire—I found two from the Secretary of that Accademy Mr Stockler—one entitled a letter to Editor of the Monthly review &c—the other the first Vol of his “Obras”—They are a present from the author to yourself, he has sent another copy to the Society—The Chevr. Freire is very desirous he...
23156To Thomas Jefferson from Barnabas Bidwell, 21 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Skinner being appointed Treasurer of this Commonwealth, and having, as I understand, accepted the appointment, there will, of course, be a vacancy in the office of Marshall of the District of Massachusetts. Being requested, in behalf of two gentlemen, who are candidates for that office, to state their respective characters and pretensions, I hope to be excused for making the statement....
23157To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 21 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend mr. Ribelt who returns to the United States under an apprehension that he has met with some heavy domestic misfortune, can give you much interesting information as to the state of things in this quarter. The Troops ordered to this Territory,— with the aid of the Militia,—are—in my opinion, amply sufficient to repel any force which our Spanish Neighbours could, at present,...
23158To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Crowninshield, 21 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In common cases and with ordinary men, I should not expect to be forgiven had I neglected their communications so long as I have yours. I am indeed quite mortified in finding your highly obliging letter dated as far back as the 13th of May. and I can only rest my claim for pardon on your goodness, a bank on which I have drawn in times past. it was not my intention to omit acknowledging my...
23159To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 21 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose for your approbation the sketch of a letter to the person intended to fill the duties of Supervisor in Georgia. Two points require by law your approbation vizt. the exercise of commission for the collectors; which is thought necessary; and the transfer of the duties to another officer. This last I have left in blank; but it can be filled conveniently only by two officers, the Marshal...
23160To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 22 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with the receipt of your interesting letter of the 27. of April. The arrangement of our Militia, which was recommended to Congress, was well calculated for the defence of our Country, and it is regretted by me that the system was not approved. The proposition which was submitted to Congress, with a view to the immediate settlement of a part of this Territory by American Citizens ,...