51From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 9 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...an ingredient as valuable as that respecting the navy, in an administration towards which the faculty of the law has contributed little. in the absence of our attorney general we are often at a loss. your brother Genl. Smith has so far); faint; at foot of text: “Robert Smith esq.”
52From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 9 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...that you have deserved well of your country. Mr. Langdon having ultimately declined, I must look into some other line of profession for a Secretary; and by this mail I propose the office to your brother mr Robert Smith. it is not on his reading in ...mean to seek asylum in climates to which our habits and confidence call us. present me respectfully to mrs Smith, & accept yourself......Smith...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 11 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...to be restored, but whether he did that of his own accord, or after previous consultation with you or myself I do not recollect. I sat out for Monticello Apr. 1. about that time Genl. Smith sent new directions to put her precisely into the state in which she was before the capture. do you recollect from what fund it was contemplated to do this? I had trusted for this to Stoddart who...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 11 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
); addressed: “Genl. Samuel Smith Baltimore”; franked; postmarked 12 July.
55From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 13 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...’s resignation of his appointment. probably we shall name Genl. Pickens in his place. Mr. Madison & myself will pass August & September at home. this for your government in directing your letters to me. mr Robert Smith, brother of Genl. Saml. has accepted the Secretaryship of the Navy.
56To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 19 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
, 15 Apr. 1800; Smith,
57From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, [25 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
); faint; at foot of text, overwritten by TJ in ink: “Genl. S. Smith”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.
58From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
mr Smith entered into officeMr Smith entered into office
59From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...of the great incognitum, and the world on there being a person at the critical moment of the discovery who has zeal enough to devote himself to the recovery of these great animal monuments. Mr. Smith the Secretary of the Navy will give orders immediately to the Navy agent at New York to lend you a pump. the same gentleman acting in the war-office instead of Genl. Dearborne who is...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 4 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
P.S. Your friends at Baltimore […] Rob. Smith had entered on the duties of Secy. of the Navy before I left Washington. he moves his family there in the fall.
61From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 7 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
for the Navy and War Departments, enclosed in Robert Smith’s short transmittal letter to TJ of 3 Aug., have not been found ( ; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “The President”; endorsed by TJ as received 6 Aug. from the Navy Department and “warrants” and so recorded in
62From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
TJ to Robert Smith, 14 Aug.
63From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 14 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “Robert Smith Secretary of the navy.” Enclosure:
64To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
to prosecute Duane under any other statute. None were found by the grand jury, and the case against Duane was dropped (Smith,
65To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
...I suppose will of course be the day after tomorrow, as you will then be free from the pressure of the post. I inclose with those papers, for perusal, a letter & memorial from a mr. Joseph Allen Smith, of whom I know nothing more than these papers South Carolinian Joseph Allen Smith was the brother of William Loughton Smith and the son-in-law of Senator Ralph Izard. Smith had written to...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 28 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: for the recall of William Loughton Smith, the closure of the U.S. legation in Portugal, and TJ’s search for a qualified, trusted consul to replace Thomas Bulkeley at Lisbon, see Vol. 34:129–31, 176, 429–30.
67From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...I suppose will of course be the day after tomorrow, as you will then be free from the pressure of the post. I inclose with those papers, for perusal, a letter & memorial from a mr Joseph Allen Smith, of whom I know nothing more than these papers inform me. you will be sensible that in his assumption of diplomatic functions he has not shewn much diplomatic subtlety. he seems not afraid of
68From Thomas Jefferson to the District of Columbia Commissioners, 29 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Samuel Smith to TJ, 13 June). In a letter to Henry Dearborn of 23 June, the commissioners informed him that, “in consequence of an agreement made by General Smith acting by direction of the President,” the commissioners executed a deed to the United States for a lot and requested $4,000 to be paid to them (
69From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 29 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To Robert Smith
70From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 5 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...been found, but the lieutenant also wrote to the secretary of war during August. That correspondence was about Landais’s pay and accounts for traveling expenses. One of those letters elicited a reply from Robert Smith, as the acting secretary of war, that severely rebuked the officer for the “illiberality” of his comments about the accountant of the War Department: “Your representations...Smith
71From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 5 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
27. 31. 31: in addition to his letter of the 31st discussing the dispatches from France, Smith wrote a note on that day to cover abstracts of War Department and navy warrants on the Treasury for the week ending 29 Aug. ( ). Smith’s letter of 27 Aug. enclosed, for TJ’s signature, ..., signed by Smith, at foot of text: “Prest. U: States,” endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 3...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis, 9 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: Richard Dale. In May, when TJ and Samuel Smith gave Dale his orders, he also received a draft of a letter that he could use to
73To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
...whence I conclude I may possibly recieve something by private conveyance. A letter from miss Paine to Virginia Randolph saying nothing of your health makes me hope it is reestablished. I inclose you a letter from Genl. Saml. Smith with Barney’s letter to him.Samuel Smith’s 29 Aug. letter to Jefferson, enclosing that of Joshua Barney to Smith of 11 July ( ...” Barney had written Smith from...
74From Thomas Jefferson to John Drayton, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: on 23 Sep., Robert Smith wrote Drayton, notifying him that the president had forwarded Drayton’s letter “on the subject of the French prisoners at Charleston.” Smith explained that L. A. Pichon had informed him that measures were underway to send them to Saint-Domingue. Regarding payment for the expenses incurred for their maintenance, Smith wrote that the new navy agent at Charleston “will...
75From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
saying nothing of your health makes me hope it is reestablished. I inclose you a letter from Genl. Saml. Smith with Barney’s letter to him. it contains matters worthy of some attention. I do not believe that Murray would endeavor to defeat the treaty. on the contrary I believe he would be anxious to get it through....Samuel Smith to TJ, 29 Aug.
76From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...preparations for the transatlantic voyage, anticipating that the order for the frigate to sail would come “in a very few days.” The departure had to await preparation of Livingston’s final instructions, and then on 1 Oct. Smith ordered Daniel McNeill, the ship’s commander, to sail as soon as he had the minister’s party on board (Thomas to Daniel Ludlow, 17, 18 Sep. 1801, in ...Smith to...
77From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. is recieved. I formerly, at the desire of mr T. P. Smith wrote to Bishop ...Williamsburg to know whether there was room for him in that institution as professor of Chemistry. the answer was communicated to mr Smith. from it’s tenor, and from the course of that institution since I do not suppose it in a situation to offer him any thing which ought to attract his......Smith...
78To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 18 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
This was probably a slip of Jefferson’s pen. The exchange of letters was with Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith (see Jefferson to Smith, 5 Sept. 1801, Smith to Jefferson, 11 Sept. 1801 [
79From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 19 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: Abishai Thomas wrote in Smith’s absence on 7 Sep., sending abstracts of warrants drawn by the Navy and War Departments, and of balances on hand, for the week ending 5 Sep. ( , 361). Writing to TJ on 8 Sep., Smith sent warrants for William Newman, Noble W. Glenn, Henry J. Cobb, and Abijah Weston as ..., signed by Smith, at foot of text: “President United States,” endorsed by TJ as received...Smith
80From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 26 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “Genl. Samuel Smith”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.
81From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 9 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On 9 Oct., Secretary of the Navy Smith wrote another letter, enclosing warrants for Richard B. Brandt, James Lawrence, and Morris Newman as sailing masters. The enclosed documents (not found) required TJ’s signature ( , in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith, at foot of text: “Ths. Jefferson Esqr Prest. UStates,” endorsed by TJ as received
82From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 10 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
); faint; at foot of text: “Genl. Saml. Smith”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.Smith’s letter concerning George
83Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 22 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: Madison, Gallatin, Dearborn, and Robert Smith. but preceding his notes on a meeting of 21 Oct. 1802. Robert Smith accepted Thomas Truxtun’s resignation on 13 Mch. 1802. In April 1802, Smith granted Edward Preble a furlough for health reasons (
84From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 23 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “Genl. Saml Smith.”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.
85From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 25 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: in a letter of 16 Aug. received by the State Department on 24 Oct., William Loughton Smith wrote to Madison that he had informed the Portuguese government of his recall and forestalled the sending of a new minister to the U.S. (
86From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 25 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson omitted to observe to mr Smith yesterday on the subject of mr Barton that as to the offices of the general governmt. Pensylva. Maryld. & Virga. are so overcharged, that, on a principle of distribution, no office ...more of an equilibrium has been obtained. offices exerciseable within a state are always filled within the state. mr Smith is at liberty to repeat this observation to...
87From Thomas Jefferson to Stevens Thomson Mason, 28 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Our notice to mr Smith that we meant to discontinue the mission to Lisbon arrived opportunely two or three days before their minister was to have sailed for the U.S. it stopped him. Buonaparte’s ratification of our convention is with a ‘...
88Notes on Actions for the War Department, 10 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on a Consultation with Robert Smith, 15 Nov.
89From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 14 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...taking the first pieces which come to hand. this is of importance in repairing, because out of 10. locks e.g. disabled for the want of different pieces, 9 good locks may be put together without employing a smith.
90Notes on the Funded Debt, [15 November 1801 or after] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on a Consultation with Robert Smith, 15 Nov.
91From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
as to mr Nourse. his known integrity and every other circumstance of the case make it proper. it would seem by Genl. Smith’s letter that Isaac Smith of Northampton has been Samuel Smith to TJ, 14 Nov.
92From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Sterett, 1 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Robert Smith was
93II. First Annual Message to Congress, 8 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...of a letter which Commodore Dale was directed to write to the Dey of Algiers and the Bey of Tunis,” [May 1801]; Madison, circular letter to U.S. ministers Rufus King, David Humphreys, William Loughton Smith, and William Vans Murray, 21 May 1801; Madison, circular letter to U.S. consuls around the Mediterranean, 21 May 1801; Cathcart to the secretary of state, 18 Apr. 1800; same to same, 12...
94III. Note for the National Intelligencer, [ca. 8 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
: TJ Papers, 110: unnumbered, following 18835); undated; entirely in TJ’s hand; endorsed by Samuel Harrison Smith: “Th. Jefferson Note to Message 1801–1802.” Printed in the : Samuel Harrison Smith needed several days to obtain a copy of the 4 July 1797 act of Parliament. Smith found the legislation too long to print in full, but he gave the topic two and a half columns of the
95To Thomas Jefferson from the War Department, with Jefferson’s Reply, 10 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
[Columbia, S. C., 1987], 33–5; Merritt Roe Smith,
96From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 22 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...two committees that had been created during consideration of TJ’s annual message. The papers pertaining to relations with the Barbary states went to a committee consisting of William Eustis of Massachusetts, Samuel Smith of Maryland, Samuel W. Dana of Connecticut, Samuel L. Mitchill of New York, and William Jones of Pennsylvania. That panel was formed on 15 Dec. to bring in a bill to...
97From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 23 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
, by a Senate clerk states that the Senate’s copy of the return was delivered to “Smith the printer”). (3) “Abstract of the Whole Number of Persons in the District of Maryland,” 21 Dec. 1801 (
98III. List of Interim Appointments from the State Department, [on or before 26 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
John Smith, Marshal of the same District; vice John HallGeorge Gilpin, William Fitzhugh, Francis Peyton, Richard Conway, Elisha Cullen Dick, Charles Alexander Jr. George Taylor, Jonah Thompson, Abraham Faw, John Herbert, Alexander Smith, Cuthbert Powell Peter Wise Jr. Jacob Houghman and Thomas Darne
99IV. Draft of Interim Appointments, [on or after 26 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Robert Smith of Maryland Secretary of the Navy of the US. vice Benjamin Stoddert, resd.vice Jeremiah Smith
100From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 29 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
as “Departments circular.” He undoubtedly sent the same text, without the postscript, and the enclosures to Henry Dearborn and Robert Smith, but those letters have not been found.