51Cabinet Opinions on Relations with France and Great Britain, 7 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A circular letter from the Secretary of state to the Consuls and Vice Consuls of France, informing them that their Exequaturs will be revoked if they repeat certain proceedings, also one to Mr. Genet covering a copy of the letter of the Secretary of state to Mr. Gouverneur Morris desiring the recall of Mr. Genet, were read and approved. A letter from the Governr. of Georgia to the Secy. of...
52To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Pierre Blanchard, 16 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Je ne m’attendais pas en quittant l’Europe a ce qui m’arrive aujourdhui dans ce continent. Heureux dans tous mes voyages, je n’avais garde de prévoir le sort funeste qui m’était reservé a Philadelphie: Après bien des traveaux et des succès, il ne me reste plus que l’honneur et la vie et je vois avec douleur que je ne puis conserver l’un Sans détruire l’autre, car si je quitte Philadelphie,...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello you mentioned to me that sheep could be procured at or about Staunton, good and cheap, and were kind enough to offer your aid in procuring them. Reflecting on this subject, I find it will be much better to buy and drive them now, before they have young ones, and before the snows set in, than to wait till the spring. I therefore take the...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Dennis Griffith, 7 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Aug. 31. and am sorry it is not in my power to give you any satisfactory answer, as the papers which served for my information in writing the Notes on Virginia were left in that state when I went to Europe and are still there. Ten or eleven years having elapsed since writing that work, and my mind totally withdrawn in the mean time to other objects, my memory...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Hanson, 18 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th. inst. was brought me by our last post. The bonds you received on the sale of negroes, those of Mr. Ronald for my Cumberland lands which you have also received, and those for my Elk hill lands, will, according to my calculation completely discharge my bonds to Mr. Jones, both as to sum and time, to within less than an hundred pounds of the last paiment. The Elk hill bonds...
56Memorandum to Henry Sheaff, [after 20 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The following facts are from my own enquiries in going thro’ the different wine cantons of France, examining the identical vineyards producing the first quality of wines, conversing with their owners, and other persons on the spot minutely acquainted with the vineyards, and the wines made on them, and tasting them myself. The wines of Burgundy and Champagne being made at the head of the Seine,...
57To Thomas Jefferson from George Taylor, Jr., 18 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
G. Taylor Jr. presents his respectful compliments to the Secy. of State. Has the honor to inform him that agreeably to his note of to day he has engaged Mr. Chapman, who cannot conveniently leave the City, That he has examined the letters and reports yet to be recorded, and finds that they will each require one person to be employed at least to the last of December next. That Mr. Bankson has...
58To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Hollingsworth, 24 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours I Received and agreable to Request have Bought Clover seede two Bushels at Eighteen Dollars and this afternoon Mr. Alaxander is to set sail from Frenchtown with the seede for Richmond. He would have started sooner but was Disappointed by the post. […] your very Huml Servt RC ( MHi ); one word illegible; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Post—Philada.”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Dec....
59To Thomas Jefferson from William Blount, 20 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 18th Instant I had the Honor to receive your letter of the 1st. with the Inclosures. On the 24th I leave this for the ceded Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio from whence I will embrace the first Opportunity of Writing you after I have fixed my Residence. I now suppose it will not be far distant from Judge Campbell’s. I am very happy to hear that friendly...
60From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose herewith the following papers. Mr. Genet’s answer with respect to his opposing the service of process on a vessel is singularly equivocal. I rather conjecture he means to withdraw the opposition, and I am in hopes my letter to Mr. Hammond will have produced another effort by the Marshal which will have succeeded. Should this not be the case, if military constraint...
61To Thomas Jefferson from George Taylor, Jr., 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
G. Taylor Junr. has the honor to inform the Secretary of State that he has inquired respecting the House occupied by the late Mrs. House, now by a Mrs. Dunn, and is told by persons who remained in the City, but cannot give it as authentic, that two Gentlemen have died in it, supposed of the fever. That on this occasion, and being informed that some Nurses of the sick are in possession of...
62To Thomas Jefferson from Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s direction Bw. Dandridge has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State a Resolution of the House of Representatives, just received—and to request the Secretary to furnish the several papers therein required. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Secy. of State”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Dec. 1793. Dft ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). FC ( Lb in same, SDC
63To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 26 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a return of the piscatory articles exported from the United States in one year, one month, and ten days, excepting fourteen quarterly returns from twelve ports which have not yet been received. Among these are Boston, Newyork Charleston and five small ports of Massachusetts and Main. From the irregular Manner in which the first returns were made it was...
64To Thomas Jefferson from Edmond Charles Genet, 1[4] September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Les affaires multipliées dont J’ai été accablé depuis que Je suis ici ne m’ont point encore permis de vous accuser la reception de la lettre que vous m’avés écrite le 5. août. Elle m’est parvenue dans son tems et comme les décisions qu’elle renferme ne sont qu’une conséquence de celles contre les quelles Je vous avois déja fait les representations les plus fortes et les plus fondées J’ai pensé...
65Memorandums to Benjamin Bankson, [15 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandums for Mr. Bankson. Mr. Bankson will receive for me at the Treasury 875. Dollars. He will in the first place pay 600. Dollars of it to the bank of North America, and take up a note of mine for that sum endorsed by J. Bringhurst and due the 3d. or 4th. of October. There will then remain free money 275. Dol. also Mr. Bringhurst’s note now delivd. to Mr. Bankson for 48. 323 Out of this...
66II. Second State of the Report on Commerce, [before 5–after 23 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives the Report of a committee on the written message of the President of the United States of the 14th. of February 1791, with instruction to report to Congress the nature and extent of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United States with foreign Nations, and the measures which he should...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am returned to this place about a week ago, the President having concluded to fix the Executive here till the meeting of Congress or till we shall see whether Philadelphia becomes safe. It is believed to be so now, insomuch that the refugee inhabitants are flocking into it. It is said there are no new subjects in the hands of the Physicians since the great rains. Some of those before...
68To Thomas Jefferson from J. F. Marmontel, 28 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Marmontel va faire passer a Mde. La Marquise de la fayette L’exemplaire de La lettre que Monsieur de Jefferson veut bien Lui confier. Mde. Marmontel Se fait une fête d’aller Voir Monsieur de Jefferson en route, puis qu’elle ne peut esperer d’avoir L’honneur de le voir à Monticello, ce qui lui feroit encore plus de plaisir. Le bon ami Mazzei prendra jour avec elle; et Mr. Marmontel Sera...
69To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Lee, 13 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of sending you by Major John G. Frazer, the great Seal for the State, which I before informd you I had engraved at Paris. This is the first direct opportunity I have had since it was finished. I have the honor to be &ca FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 360, PCC ); in Lee’s hand, unsigned; at head of text: “His Excelly. the Govr. of Virginia.” Great seal : see note to Lee to TJ, 4 Sep. 1779 .
70From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael and William Short, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 12th. and 16th. of July. Since that I have recieved yours of Apr. 18. May 5. and June 6. The present occasion does not admit of my entering into particulars on the subject of your letters: I will only inform you therefore generally that the President approves of your proceedings and views. Proceed in the plan your letter of June 6. expresses; we make no other...
71From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Dobson, 3 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Aug. 30. I asked the favor of you to furnish me a statement of the paiments made on my bill of exchange and bond and of the balance due, and to have the same lodged at Monticello, where I proposed being during the month of October, that I might give definitive directions for the payment of it. Not having received it while there, I have now to ask the favor of it’s being lodged...
72To Thomas Jefferson from Edmond Charles Genet, 3 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Je sais très bien que l’éxécutif des Etats unis est le Canal Constitutionnel des Communications qui ont lieu entre les Etats unis et les autres nations aussi est ce sous les yeux du Président que Je vous ai prié par une note officielle de mettre les Commissions de Vice Consul que J’ai délivrées en vertu de nos conventions en vertu de mes pouvoirs aux Citoyens Chervi et Pennevert à l’effet...
73From Thomas Jefferson to George Gibson, 7 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
By a Letter from the Board of war on the subject of the first and second state regiments, they inform me that Congress will agree to take them on their expence if the officers shall be apportioned to the men, but decline the receiving them surcharged with Officers. The state of affairs to the south ward is such as requires great exertions from this country and renders it necessary that we...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My late letters to you have been of Aug. 16. 23. and 26: and a duplicate of the two first will accompany this. Yours lately received are Apr. 4. 5. 11. 19. May 20. and June 1. being Nos. 26. to 31. I have little particular to say to you by this opportunity which may be less certain than the last.—The North Western Indians have refused to meet our Commissioners unless they would agree to the...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 2 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President is informed through the channel of a letter from yourself to Mr. Lear , that Mr. DuPlaine Consul of France at Boston, has lately, with an armed force, seized and rescued a vessel from the officer of a court of justice by process from which she was under arrest in his custody: and that he has in like manner, with an armed force, opposed and prevented the officer, charged with...
76Enclosure II: Treasury Report on Jefferson’s Account as Secretary of State, 31 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have Examined and adjusted an Account between the United States and Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State for monies placed in his hands, by direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of the Several Acts of Congress “providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations” and find that he is chargeable on Said Account To Amount of Sundry Warrants...
77Memorandum to James Monroe, [after 21 December 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
I find the calculation of the As of Holland (which is the common measure applied by the Encyclopedie to all coins) will be so difficult to trace through the coins and weights of Holland and Spain, that no public assembly will ever understand them. Consequently it is better to rest the question altogether on the report of the Board of Treasury of Apr. 8. 1786. and the Consequent Final decision...
78To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Jordan, with Jefferson’s Notes, 7 August 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
I some time Since received a letter from Colo. Randolph of Tuckahoe requesting I would inform him what I knew of his right to Leatherwood land and as you are or will be his Lawer I trouble you with it which is as follows. There was leive granted by the Council to Colo. Peter Jefferson Charles Lynch and Ambross Smith to take up fifteen Thousand Acres of Land adjoining Randolph & Co. at the Wart...
79To Thomas Jefferson from William Vans Murray, [1791–1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Murray does himself the honour of sending to Mr. Jefferson a small specimen of the Hickory Juice in its own crust—he scraped it off, froth, from a Log about five inches diameter which was probably cut lately as it came a few days since from the country and was bought in Market Street. A Log of about nine inches diameter produced little or none. It may be thought a trifling auxiliary to the...
80To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 25 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your favor of 15 March concerning M. La Fayette I renewed to the Prussian Minister here in an authorised stile the application I had before unofficially made to him in behalf of our unfortunate friend, declaring the interest taken by the United States in his welfare and suggesting the obligation his liberation would confer. I was hopeful that before this time I should have...