511To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 13 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Je ne puis me dispenser de faire encore auprès du gouvernement des Etats unis, une Sollicitation dont la copie cy jointe d’une lettre du Consul général de la République expose completement l’objet. Vous jugerez vous même qu’il est fondé sur des besoins réels, ainsi que sur des obligations d’humanité et de Service, extrêmement imperieuses. Je n’ajouterai au contenu de cette lettre, qu’une seule...
512From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My business here is of such a nature as to oblige me for long intervals to put aside all my private matters, and only to take them up at times when I have a little glimmering of leisure. Hence an almost total abandonment of my pecuniary interests, in cases often of real magnitude: and hence the long delay of answering your favor of Jan. 30. received two months ago. Tho’ I cannot view Mary’s...
513From Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having expected to have seen you in Virginia before this, I had not proposed the plan of your law reading to you: but as I do not now expect to be there till the summer or fall, I think it will be necessary for you to begin it without awaiting my return. Mr. Maury thought you were ripe for leaving him last fall. I would now therefore advise you to go to your mother’s and pursue there through...
514From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Carr, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your bill for £10–5 in favor of Mr. Austin has been presented and paid. It greives me to inform you I am not able to furnish the residue of the sum you desired in any short time. I never in my life had such a right to be flush in money as at present, and yet never was so mortifyingly bare and helpless. I had a right to receive £800. in Richmond under an execution, and by some evasion of law, I...
515From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter you mention to have written, never came to my hands; and indeed I have thought you a very lazy fellow to have let me hear from you so seldom. But if you will never give any other proof of laziness, I will pardon you this one. I have duly received my sister’s letter, and have written to her to-day a second time in answer to it. I also write to Dabney the inclosed letter, advising him...
516From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your departure hence is so recent that nothing has occurred worth communicating to you. The object of the present letter is merely to inclose to you an account presented me by Peter Gordon the shoemaker, who supposed you had forgotten him. As I know that there is sometimes a forgetfulness on the side of the Creditor, I told him I would pay the account if you should admit it to be just. You...
517From Thomas Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 31. came duly to hand on the 9th. inst. Having been induced, for particular reasons, to continue a while longer in my office, I should have written to you but that I have been occupied with removing from the town a little way into the country. I am much pleased to see that you are so nearly through the course of reading I had proposed to you. It proves your industry,...
518To Thomas Jefferson from J. Wheatcroft, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I do my self the honour to inclose you a series of News papers, from the date of my last envoy . It is a new established paper and reckoned an exceedinly good one, I have changed it for the Moniter, as our inteligence in this paper is generaly a Day newer. If you should have received the same paper from any other Friend, hope this will still be an acceptable present to any of your acquaintance...
519To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 15 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just time to acknowledge receipt of your favors of the 8th: and 10th: Currt. and to assure you that every attention shall be paid to the contents. I pray you at same time to write Mr. Short that his Stock with Other matters in my hands is Safe and shall remain so, subject alone to his order, however I will write you and hand a letter for Mr. Short in a day or two, at present my whole...
520From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Dobson, 15 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had fully expected to have been ere this returned to Virginia, where I knew I should have the materials and leisure to settle with you the balance due from me to Mr. John Dobson. Circumstances unforeseen have deferred my quitting this place till some time in the summer or autumn. If you think the settlement can be effected by way of letter, I am willing to try it. I am only apprehensive that...
521To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 15 April 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request, I have Inclosed you all The Letters I was Honoured with from you, during my Command to the Southward; and during your Administration of The Government of Virginia; Those from me, To You; shall, as soon as they can be Transcribed out of my Letter Book, be forwarded in like manner to your Hands: Mrs: Gates Joins me in Compliments and in the Hope, that you will be...
522From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 15 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to what I mentioned to you in a former letter , I have had, in January past, a sale of negroes made for the purpose of paying my bonds to Henderson & co. The amount of the sales returned to me is £700–1–6 besides which there is one other bond not yet taken which will be about £100. so that the whole is about £800. Virginia currency, the one half payable the next christmas, the other...
523To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Ryan, 15 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I propose to morrow (if the weather should be favourable, if not the next fair day) to erect a furnace for the purpose of melting pot ash. If You, Sir, could make it convenient to honour me with your company for a few minutes at any time between the hours of two and five, you would have a much better opportunity of judging concerning the principles of the furnace than by any explanation which...
524From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 17 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
On the information received from Crosby , and which I directed him to communicate to you, I have prepared the inclosed letter to him according to the President’s instructions . If you approve of it, be so good as to send it on to him. But if you are not satisfied that you can set some effectual process on foot, it would be better to hold it up till the President’s return, that he may not be...
525Edmund Randolph’s Opinion on George Turner, [ca. 17 April 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
To instruct Governor St. Clair 1. To transmit to Judge Turner any authentic intelligence, which he may have received, concerning the complaints of the people against his absence: 2. Or, if no such intelligence be possessed, to represent to Judge Turner, without undertaking to order in any manner, the inconvenience in a judicial view, which the Territory sustains by his absence: and 3. To...
526From Thomas Jefferson to George Turner, 17 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inconveniences which have resulted to the Territory of the US. Northwest of the Ohio, from the absence of the legislative and judiciary bodies, and the length of time, you have in particular been absent have rendered it necessary, in the opinion of the President, that some legal enquiry into the causes of it should be instituted: and I have it in charge from him to inform you, that the...
527From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilson, 17 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Wilson. He omitted to observe to him on the subject of his bookshelves that whenever he has occasion to remove them from one room to another, or one house to another, they may be taken to peices and put together again the whole of them in half an hour, as there is not a single nail, screw, nor glue used in putting them together. Carstairs, who...
528To Thomas Jefferson from Brown, Benson & Ives, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honour to acknowledge the reception of your esteem’d favour of the 5th. instant accompanied with your address to the French Minister on the Subject of the Complaints specified in our Letter to you; At present Sir we have only to express our grateful sence of your Prompt and obliging attention to our wishes. When we did ourselves the pleasure to solicit your interference it was...
529To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael and William Short, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When we had last the honor of addressing you we mentioned the delay which had taken place with respect to the business with which we are charged here. We then hoped that delay had ceased as we were just informed that His Majesty had designated the person to treat with us on his behalf. We have found ourselves however much mistaken in our hope. As soon as it was announced to us that M. de...
530From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to inclose you the answer of the Attorney General to my letter covering yours of Mar. 12. on the case of Hooper and Pagan, wherein he has stated the proceedings of Pagan for obtaining a writ of error from the Supreme court of the US. for revisal of the judgment of the inferior court pronounced against him; and also his opinion on the merits of the question, had the writ of...
531Notes for Reply to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Substance of the answer proposed to the letter of the French Minister of Apr. 13. 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, there was a necessity that we, as their friends and debtors, should keep their affairs from suffering, by furnishing money for urgent purposes. This obliged us to...
532Report on the Fund for Foreign Intercourse, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state thinking it his duty to communicate to the President his proceedings of the present year for transferring to Europe the annual fund of 40,000 Dollars appropriated to the department of state (a report whereof was unnecessary the two former years, as monies already in the hands of our bankers in Europe were put under his orders) Reports That in consequence of the...
533From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Stevens, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You recollect that the British destroyed our records during their invasion of our state in the year 1781. Among these were all the letters I had written or received during my administration; that is to say the originals of the latter and copies of the former. These being chiefly interesting to myself, I am endeavoring to recover the most important of them by applications to the individuals...
534To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 18 Apr. 1793 . By the Neptune of Baltimore, Captain William Montgomery, he sends the enclosed resolution of their High Mightinesses concerning the mutual security of the fisheries of Holland and France during the present war received last week from van Sohn at The Hague and hopes it will be of service to the United States whether they sign a new treaty or suffer a rupture with...
535George Washington to the Cabinet, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The posture of affairs in Europe, particularly between France and Great Britain, places the United States in a delicate situation; and requires much consideration of the measures which will be proper for them to observe in the War between those Powers. With a view to forming a general plan of conduct for the Executive, I have stated and enclosed sundry questions to be considered preparatory to...
536Enclosure: Questions on Neutrality and the Alliance with France, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Question I. Shall a proclamation issue for the purpose of preventing interferences of the Citizens of the United States in the War between France and Great Britain &ca.? Shall it contain a declaration of Neutrality or not? What shall it contain? Question II. Shall a Minister from the Republic of France be received? Question III. If received shall it be absolutely or with qualifications—and if...
537Cabinet Opinion on Washington’s Questions on Neutrality and the Alliance with France, [19 April 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of departments and the Attorney general at the President’s Apr. 19. 1793. by special summons to consider of several questions previously communicated to them in writing by the President. Qu. I. Shall a Proclamation issue &c.? [see the questions] agreed by all that a Proclamation shall issue, forbidding our citizens to take part in any hostilities on the seas with or...
538To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 19 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By this post I have sent you Seald Up under Cover, my Letter Book; containing Copies of the Public Letters which I wrote during my Command to the Southward and some few after my return from thence; You will in the Index, find those addressed to You, regularly numbered, and Paged; this, will save your Amanuensis some trouble in Selecting them; I shall be obliged by your keeping the Book...
539From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Greenleaf, 19 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous of making a collection of the best gazettes which have been published at the seats of the present general government I take the liberty of troubling you to make up for me a collection of your’s of the years 1789. and 1790. either unbound or half-bound. The stages will furnish the best method of conveying them to me, the price of which conveyance shall be paid here, and that of...
540To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 19 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you have Copies of mine of the fourth fifth and eleventh Instant No. 26. 27. and 28. Also Copies of my Letters to Mr. Lebrun of the first and third with Copy of Captn. White’s Memorial. You have furthermore Copies of a Letter from the Minister of the Marine to the Minister of foreign Affairs of the seventh Instant and of two Letters of the eighth from the Latter to me, the one...