1From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 7 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the U.S. your letter of the 3d. inst. asking a supply of four hundred thousand dollars on account of reimbursements due from us to France, to be applied to relieve the distresses of the colony of St. Domingo. In regretting extremely the cause of this necessity, I have to assure you that the President feels every disposition which the occasion is calculated...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 9 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of the several papers you were pleased to communicate to me relative to the charge against a capt: Hickman a citizen of these States, for having brought away from the Island of St. Domingo sundry slaves, the property of persons residing there, and for having sold them here. We feel real concern that such an act should have been comitted by one of our citizens,...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 17 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your letter of yesterday, and am sensible of your favor in furnishing me with your observations on the Statement of the commerce between our two nations, of which I shall avail myself for the good of both. The omission of our participation with your vessels in the exclusive transportation of our tobacco was merely that of the copy, as it was expressed in the original...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, with Jefferson’s Notes on Diplomatic Medals, 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the United States in a letter addressed to the provisory executive Council of the french republic, has expressed his sense of your merit and his entire approbation of your conduct while here. He has also charged me to convey to yourself the same sentiments on his part. It is with pleasure I obey this charge, in bearing witness to the candour and integrity of your conduct with...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 25 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his best compliments to M. de Ternant, and incloses him the letter he was to write him on the subject of the 3. millions. He has attentively perused the report in the Newspaper which appeared to give Mr. Ternant so much uneasiness and is candidly of opinion that, in the U.S. at least, not a single person will apply it to M. de Ternant, or suppose it concerns him. He...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 1 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have communicated to the President what passed between us the other day on the subject of the paiments made to France by the United States in the assignats of that country, since they have lost their par with gold and silver: and after conferences, by his instruction, with the Secretary of the Treasury, I am authorised to assure you that the government of the United States have no idea of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 14 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
It will require some few days yet to estimate the probable calls which may come on the treasury, and the means of answering them; till which is done a final answer can not be given to your application for the three millions of livres . But in the mean time that your purchases of provision may be begun, arrangements may be made with the Secretary of the Treasury for the immediate payment of one...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 13th. instant, asking monies to answer the expenses and Salaries of the Consular Offices of France, has been duly laid before the President, and his directions thereon taken. I have, in consequence, to observe to you that before the new Government of France had time to attend to things on this side the Atlantic, and to provide a deposit of money for their purposes here,...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your letter of the 9th. inst. proposing a stipulation for the abolition of the practice of privateering in times of war. The benevolence of this proposition is worthy of the nation from which it comes, and our sentiments on it have been declared in the treaty to which you are pleased to refer, as well as in some others which have been proposed. There are in...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 3d. instant, on the subject of the British Ship Grange, reclaimed on behalf of the Owners as having been taken by the frigate Embuscade, within the capes of Delaware, as is said. If this fact is to be controverted, permit me to hope that the counter evidence may be produced without delay; besides the confinement of the Crew, which is a circumstance of...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 12 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state has the honour to inform the Minister of France that the President will recieve his letters of credence to-day at half after two: that this will be done in a room of private audience, without any ceremony whatever, or other person present than the Secretary of state, this being the usage which will be observed. As the Secretary of state will be with the President before...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 6 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your letter of the 1st. instant covering the form of the Permit for the vessels of your nation , and will take care to lay it before the President and to have it duly notified to all whom it may concern. I have the honour to be with great esteem & respect, Sir Your most obedt. and most humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M de Ternant.” FC (...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 29 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Dormoy, a citizen of the U.S. having an annuity on the hotel de Ville of Paris, which cannot be received but on a certificate of his life, complains that Mr. Oster the Consul of France for Virginia, has refused from personal motives, to give him such certificate. As he has come here from Williamsburg, to get this defect supplied, under recommendations to me from the...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 23 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the US. your notification of the 17th. instant, in the name of the Provisory Executive council, charged with the administration of your government, that the French nation has constituted itself into a Republic. The President receives with great satisfaction this attention of the Executive council, and the desire they have manifested of making known to us the...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 22 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, covering the extract of one from a custom house officer, complaining of a practice of the Consul of France at Norfolk, which tends to defeat the Execution of the revenue laws, to which I take the liberty of asking your attention, and am, with entire respect and esteem, Sir, Your most obedient, and most humble servant,...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 6th. instant, on the claim of an inheritance of lands in North Carolina, supposed to have devolved from M. Giroud on Monsr. Preau, a Citizen of France, by virtue of the 11th. article of our treaty of Commerce. I have not received any letter on the subject from the President or Trustees of the University of North Carolina, or any other...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 3 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty has represented to the government of the US. that on the 25th. of April last the British ship Grange, while lying at anchor in the bay of Delaware, within the territory and jurisdiction of the US. was taken possession of by the Embuscade, a frigate of the French republic, has been brought to this port where she is now detained as prize and...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 14 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the United States your Letter of the 7th. instant, desiring a supply in money, on account of our debt to France, for the purpose of paying certain Bills drawn by the Administration of St. Domingo, and for procuring necessaries for that Colony, which supply you wish should, with those preceding, make up the amount of four millions of Livres. You are sensible...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 25 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 14th. inst. I had the honor to mention to you that it would take some days to estimate the probable calls on the treasury of the U.S. and to judge whether your application for three millions of livres to be laid out in provisions for the supply of France, could be complied with; but that in the mean time an hundred thousand dollars could be furnished in order to enable you...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 23 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to M. de Ternant. He has examined again with care the commission of M. de la Forest, and finds it impossible to consider it as any thing more than a Commission of Consul General for N. York, Jersey, Pensylva. and Delaware. If any thing more has been intended, the error has been in those who drew the commission, and this error we are not...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 5 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty of enclosing to you the Copy of a Letter with the papers it refers to which I have received from Messrs. Brown, Benson & Ives, merchants of Rhode Island, complaining that their Brig Commerce commanded by Capt. Munroe with a valuable Cargo, was forcibly carried into Port au Prince, where not being able to sell the Cargo, nor permitted to proceed to any other market, a very...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, George Hammond, and F. P. Van Berckel, 23 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
As far as the public Gazettes are to be credited, we may presume that war has taken place among several of the Nations of Europe, in which, France, England, Holland and Prussia, are particularly engaged. Disposed as the U.S. are to pursue steadily the ways of Peace, and to remain in Friendship with all Nations, the President has thought it expedient, by Proclamation, of which I enclose you a...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 27 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 2d. inst: informing me that the legislative body, on the proposition of the king of the French, had declared war against the king of Hungary and Bohemia, has been duly received, and is laid before the President of the United States: and I am authorised to convey to you the expression of the sincere concern we feel on learning that the French nation, to whose friendship and...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 16 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you the inclosed papers on the subject of the Sloop Jane the property of certain merchants of the Town of Baltimore, commanded by Captn. Woodrough, said to have been taken from him with her cargo as she was passing the Island of Martinique, by Captn. la Riviere Commanding the ship of war of your Nation called la Firme of 74 Guns, and disposed of with her cargo...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter on the subject of further supplies to the Colony of St. Domingo, has been duly received and considered. When the distresses of that Colony first broke forth, we thought we could not better evidence our friendship to that, and to the Mother Country also, than to step in to it’s relief, on your application, without waiting a formal authorization from the national Assembly. As the...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 15 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received several Memorials from the British Minister on subjects arising out of the present War, I take the liberty of enclosing them to you, and shall add an explanation of the determinations of the government thereon. These will serve to vindicate the principles on which it is meant to proceed, and which are to be applied with impartiality to the proceedings of both parties. They will...
27Enclosure: La Forest’s Report on the Grange, [ca. 9 May 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Le Consul général au Ministre plénipotentiaire de la République française près les Etats unis. J’ai reçu et je m’empresse de vous remettre les papiers que vous avez bien voulu m’envoyer avec votre lettre du 3 de ce mois. J’en ai donné communication au Citoyen Bompard commandant l’Embuscade. Le Batiment Anglois le Grange, son equipage et Sa Cargaison resteront dans ce port, conformément à la...
28Enclosure: Observations on La Forest’s Commission, [23 October 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Louis &c. etant necessaire de pourvoir a la charge de notre Consul general aupres de etats de New York, des Jerseys, de Pens. et de la Del. vacante depuis la nomination de M. de Marbois &c.—et etant informé &c. du Sr. de la Forest &c.—nous avons cru ne pouvoir faire un meilleur choix pour la dite charge (i.e. de Consul Genl. pour N. York &c.)—nous avons le dit Sr. de la Forest etabli &c Consul...