1To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 9 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The Motives of the Present are to acquaint Your Excellency that our mutual Friend Mr. Philip Mazzei has favored us for a short time with a Perusal of “Notes on the State of Virginia written in the Year 1781 somewhat corrected and enlarged, in the Winter of 1782, for the Use of a Foreigner of Distinction, in answer to certain Queries proposed by him.” This Book appears from a Note of your Hand...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 2 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 2 Apr. 1789. Inform TJ that “the vindictive Proceedings of the Party, that has triumphed by the late Revolution in this Country” has deprived them of “the usual Assistance of Our Mr. Jacob,” and they have made Nicholas Hubbard an active partner in the firm, thenceforth to be “the Firm of Nichs. & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard; who will always esteem themselves peculiarly happy, in...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We are favored with your Excellency’s most esteemed of 2. March accompanying a Copy of your Notes on Virginia for which Mark of your Esteem We beg your Excellency will receive our warmest and most sincere Thanks, Relying its Publication in English shall never be hastened thro’ our Means. We are extremely happy to be able to inform your Excellency, The Interest due the First Instant on the Loan...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 24 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s most esteemed favor of 13 Inst. to our N.V.S. who is highly flattered to have served you by his particular Exertions in securing the regular payment of your current demands for the Legation of the U.S. Exclusive of our personal Respect for Your Excellency, which will always urge us to do all in our power to oblige you, We are so firmly persuaded of our...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 19 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s esteemed Favor of 31 July and are much Obligated by the very particular and satisfactory Manner in which you have furnished your Opinion of the Value of the different species of Public Funds in America. The Settlement of the Concerns of Mess. De la Lande and Fynje in any other possible Way than by Acceding to Mr. Daniel Parker’s Proposal presenting...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 12 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 12 Mch. 1789 . In response to TJ’s “very respected favor” they are pleased to inform him that “Admiral Paul Jones paid our friends in St. Petersburg most chearfully and honorably, the whole of our advances for him, under your Excellency’s Permission to charge same to the United States, if he should not replace it. Thus this Affair is entirely at an End.” RC ( DLC ); 1. p.; endorsed....
7To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 30 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 30 June 1788 . Acknowledge TJ’s letters of 28 May and 22 June. Request in former concerning letter to Trumbull anticipated by N. Hubbard’s having transmitted it to Daniel Parker to be given to TJ. Enclose “ Second of our draft for £30 Stl.” On 21 Apr. account of United States charged ƒ426 for TJ’s draft to Turckheim and ƒ143.14 for that to Peuchen. Other items will be consolidated...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 3 November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 3 Nov. 1785 . Acknowledge receipt of TJ’s letter of 25 Oct.; they are grateful for his advice and are anxious to be of service to him. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in a clerk’s hand, with the signature of the firm; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 8 Nov. 1785.
9To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 8 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with your Excellency’s respected Favors of 7 Ulto. from Frankfort and 18 ditto from Strasburgh , the latter advising your draft on us ƒ426. Holld. Cy. in favor of Mr. Jean de Turckheim , Which shall be discharged and placed to the Account of the United States. Similar Reception awaits Mr. Peuchen’s Bill for a Couple of Stoves which we will with greatest pleasure receive and...
10[To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 27 October 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Amsterdam, 27 Oct. 1785 . Recorded in SJL as received 1 Nov. 1785. Not found.]
11To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 8 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s ever respected favor of 1 Inst, with the agreeable Intelligence of the Accession of the State of New York to the New Federal Constitution, For which We return You our most sincere and hearty Thanks. This is an Event We deem of great Consequence, as it will stamp such a Weight upon the Meeting of the new Congress, as will render equally contemptible as...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 25 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Having never before had the Honor to address Your Excellency, We now embrace the Opportunity that is offered to us by Mr. Daniel Parker a well known American Gentleman; Who informs us that having with some other People Supplied the American Army with several Necessaries and Money for the Pay of the Troops; They have liquidated their Accounts with Congress, And are credited on the Books of the...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 7 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 7 Aug. 1788. Van Damme handed them TJ’s favor of 25th July, and they paid to him TJ’s draft on them of f148.11. Holland currency, which they charged to his private account. The ship carrying TJ’s stoves has long since arrived at Le Havre. “Mr. David Morell has received a Letter from Bordeaux, advising the Convention for Virginia, had postponed deciding upon the New Federal...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 22 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We have before us your Excellency’s respected favor of 16th Inst. and sincerely congratulate you on your safe Return to Paris. The further Sale of the remaining Bonds of the Loan of 1787 as well as the disposal of the Million signed by Mr. Adams when he was last here, will materially depend upon the News We may have from America. Should the New Government be adopted, it would certainly...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 20 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored by Your Excellency’s ever respected Favor of 12 Instant, obliging us much by your useful Information and your Readiness to serve us. We request Your Excellency to be assured We entertain a high Sense of Your Condesendsion, And shall ever esteem ourselves happy to evince it all in our Power. His Excellency John Adams Esqr. has already transmitted to Messrs. W. & J. Willink and...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 31 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We were honored in due time with your Excellency’s respected favor of 3rd. Inst. and have postponed replying to it, in the hope We should be able to advise the Discharge of the Fifty One Thousand Guilders due by the United States the 1st. Instant at the House of Hry. Fizeaux & Co. which we should certainly have accomplished, had not our Colleagues’ different Opinion on the Subject been...