1From James Madison to Robert Williams, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 7 May 1806, Department of State. “Your draft in favor of John Henderson has been this day received, and will be paid out of the contingent fund of the Territory, but as the law does not contemplate any permanent charge for such service, and the fund above mentioned is insufficient to warrant any further calls upon it, it is requisite that the employment of a private...
2From James Madison to Robert Williams, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “You will be pleased to select one of the Gazettes, printed in the Mississippi Territory, to publish the laws of the present Congress, and to inform me of the choice. I herewith enclose a Circular explanatory of the terms, which may be addressed to him by you.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
3From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 23 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It gave me great pleasure to recieve your favor of June 20. altho’ with so extensive a range of acq es as that to which our revoln has given birth, there may not be a ground of contin d correspdce with every individual yet we are glad to hear once in a while that our old fellow laborers are alive and well. we look back with pleasure to the days which united us in action, and recollect ant t...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 4 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof mr Thomas T. Jones is the son of a particular friend & school fellow of mine, Dr. Walter Jones, now a member of Congress from Virginia. mr T. T. Jones has resided for some time in my neighborhood; he is a lawyer by profession, well educated, of fine genius, honest & honorable under all circumstances. proposing to establish himself in the Misipi territory, I take the liberty...
5From James Madison to Robert Williams, 23 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to an act of Congress entitled An act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States, passed 3d. March 1795, and the Acts in addition thereto passed on the 2d. March 1799 and on the 27th. March 1804, I have transmitted to the Collector of the Customs at Philada. 57 Copies of the Laws of the United States 1st. Session 9th. Congress, being the proportion for the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 1 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Aug. 25 in which you express a wish that the letters recieved from you may be acknoleged, in order to ascertain their safe transmission. those recieved the present year have been of Mar. 14. May. 11. 30. June 8. July 3. Aug. 12. and 25. they have not been before acknoleged in conformity with a practice which the constant pressure of business has forced me to...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 23. was not recieved till the 4th. inst since which this is the first post. the proposition to be absent for some time, so far as relates to your office of governor might be acceded to without probable injury to the public. altho’ our situation with Spain is critical, & I expect daily to hear that we have come to blows on the other side the Missipi, yet from the character I...
8From James Madison to Robert Williams, 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 22 March 1805, Department of State . Offered for sale in Charles Hamilton Catalogue 67, item 176, 3 May 1973, where it is described as informing Williams of his appointment as governor of the Mississippi Territory.
9From James Madison to Robert Williams, 4 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that the accounts, of late received from the South Western Quarter of the United States, of which the Mississippi Territory makes a part, render it proper, in the opinion of the President, that you should immediately repair to your government. On your arrival there, you will find in the hands of Mr. Meade, the instructions, which have been given, relative to the...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 28 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since; came to hand, from mr Philander Smith, Speaker of the H. of R. of the Missisipi territory, a certificate of ten names, out of which I have to select five for the legislative council. the names & characters being equally unknown to me, it would be to substitute chance for choice were I to undertake the designation. I therefore inclose you a blank instrument of designation...
11From James Madison to Robert Williams (Abstract), 15 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
15 March 1805 , Department of State . “I have the honor to enclose a Commission appointing you Governor of the Mississippi Territory and another for Thomas H. Williams as Register of the land office in the County of Adams in the same territory. As however it is uncertain whether the latter commission will meet the acceptance of Mr. Williams, to provide for filling the office, another...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 6 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 15. came to hand some days ago. mr Madison’s dispatches by the last post will have substantially answered the most important part of it. insubordination and opposition will be tolerated as little in whigs as in tories. at the same time it is very afflicting to me to see those who have been useful in restoring the ascendancy of the whig principles of our constitution...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Dec. 7. was not recieved till yesterday, and I am sorry to say, too late to prevent the operation of the former ones. that of Nov. 10. announcing that you should go out of office on the 3d. of March, was recieved the 11th. of Dec. and the one to the Secretary of state, confirming it in form, came to hand very soon after. the distance, and short space of time rendered it necessary to...
14From James Madison to Robert Williams, 9 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of the advices received from General Wilkinson relating to the military posture of things on the confines of our settlements and those of Spain, and to the measures taken and contemplated by him, fresh instructions are transmitted by the Secretary at War to that officer; and it is thought proper that a copy of them should be communicated to you, that the views of the President...
15From James Madison to Robert Williams, 4 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to an Act of Congress entitled "An Act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States passed 3d. March 1795, and the Acts in addition thereto passed 2d. March 1799 and on the 27th March 1804, I have transmitted to the Collector of the Customs at Philada. 57 copies of the laws of the United States 2d. Session 9th. Congress, being the proportion for the Mississippi...
16From James Madison to Robert Williams, 19 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letter of June 15th. to the President, enclosing copies of those of March 8 & 16, to the Secretary of State, I have to inform you that the President approves the opinion you express, that a dissolution of the General Assembly of the Territory, puts an end to the Council as well as the Representative branch of that Body. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
17From Thomas B. Reed to Robert Williams, 17 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A question has been raised, upon Section 17, Article 4 th and Section 26 Article 3 rd of our State Constitution, (which I extract herein), whether a member of either Branch of the General Assembly, after the meeting of the Legislature next after his election and during the period for which he may have been elected, is eligible to the Senate of the United States. It has appeared to me that,...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 4 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day written you a letter of introduction for mr Thos. T. Jones, in which I have said a great deal of good of him, every word of which is true. but there is one truth omitted there which duty to you as well as myself requires that I should supply in a private & confidential letter. he is in the unhappy habit of intemperance, and I suspect he goes with an intention to endeavor to...