9881To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State having received from the Chargé des affaires of France a note on the Tonnage payable by french vessels in the ports of the United States has had the same under his consideration, and thereupon makes the following Report to the President of the United States. The Chargé des Affaires of France, by a note of the 13th of December represents, by order of his Court, that they...
9882Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Objects which may merit the attention of the President at George T. The Commissioners to be called into action. deeds of cession to be taken from the land holders. site of the Capitol & President’s house to be determined on. Proclamation completing the location of the territory, & fixing the site of the Capitol. town to be laid off. squares of reserve to be decided on for the Capitol,...
9883To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
Majr Galvan as recommended by your Excellency was dispatched to his station without delay, and has been furnished with every thing he desired as far as we were able. the line of expresses formed between us is such as will communicate intelligence from the one to the other in twenty three hours. I have forwarded to him information of our disasters in the South as they have come to me. Our...
9884From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 10 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 10 Nov. 1780. Encloses copy of intercepted letter from Gen. Leslie to Lord Cornwallis; describes circumstances of its capture in same terms as in letter to Gates of this date, q.v. An added paragraph reports the capture of deserters from the Convention army in same terms as in letter to Huntington of this date, q.v. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); 2 p.; in a clerk’s hand, with...
9885To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & incloses him some letters for his perusal. those from G. Morris & mister Short require immediate notice, because there are vessels about to sail by which answers should be sent. the President will see by mister Remsen’s letter the peculiar misfortune of the dispatches to Carmichael & Short, of which, from their particular delicacy, it was...
9886To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Letter will inform you of the arrival of a British Fleet in Chesapeake Bay. The extreme negligence of our stationed expresses is no doubt the cause why as Yet no authentic account has reached us of a general action which happened on the 15. instant about a mile and a half from Guilford Court House, between General Green and Lord Cornwallis. Captain Singleton an intelligent Officer...
9887To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Jefferson, 12 Dec. 1792. An ALS , sold by Anderson Galleries, Howard K. Sanderson Sale, lot 471, 1–3 May 1916. According to the catalog entry, this letter asks GW to call at Jefferson’s house, when riding out, to see Samuel Mulliken’s model of a machine for sawing stone. The commissioners for the federal district had brought Samuel Mulliken and his saw for cutting...
9888From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 28 November 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter on the discriminations which have been heretofore made between the troops raised within this state and considered as part of our quota, and those not so considered, was delivered me four days ago. I immediately laid it before the Assembly, who thereupon came to the resolution I now do myself the honor of inclosing you. The resolution of Congress of Mar. 15. 1779 which...
9889From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 29 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President draughts of letters to Mr. Short and the Marquis de la Luzerne. As to the former he asks his attention to the paragraph respecting the devices for the Medal.—He hopes he will change and accomodate the letter to M. de la Luzerne to his own ideas of the part that gentleman acted, and of the length proper to go in expressing our sense of it....
9890Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Demarara. Samuel Cooper Johonnet of Massachusets to be Consul for the U.S. at the port of Demarara and for all parts under the same allegiance in America as shall be nearer to the said port than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice Consul of the U.S. within the same allegiance. Malaga. to be Consul for the U.S. at the port of Malaga in the kingdom of Spain, and for such other parts of...