801Board of War to ——, 25 March 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
War Office, Williamsburg, 25 Mch. 1780 . Sell or immediately exchange the six horses reported totally unfit for service by Captain Charles Fearer and replace them with suitable mounts. Signed by James Innes and George Lyne. Countersigned by TJ. RC (Mrs. Earl McMillen, Atlanta, Georgia, 1963); 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand except for signatures.
802From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 14 came to hand some time ago, and nothing but a load of business has prevented my sooner acknoleging it. No person on earth heard with more sincere regret the tales which were the subject of it, no body lamented more the torture thro’ which their victim must have passed. For myself, when placed under the necessity of deciding in a case where on one hand is a young and...
803To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I know your time is allready so completely taken up, with important public concerns, that you are obliged to neglect your own private matters, allmost totally, I cannot refrain from asking a small part of it, for an affair of very considerable consequence, to myself and my family. I have mentioned to you before, tho perhaps I never related the particulars, that the land in Henrico ,...
804From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to send him the letters and orders referred to in Mr. Morris’s letter, except that of the 8th. of April, which must be a mistake for some other date, as the records of the office perfectly establish that no letters were written to him in the months of March and April but those of Mar. 12. and 15. and Apr. 20. and 26. now inclosed....
805From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 1 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed affidavit will inform you of the capture of the ship Jay, an American vessel, laden with flour &c. alledged to be American property, bound to Havre de grace, taken by the armed brig Orestes and carried into Plymouth. Though nothing is yet known of the further proceedings against her, yet I have thought it well, not to lose time, to inclose you the affidavit, and to desire that if...
806To Thomas Jefferson from Elias Vanderhorst, 1 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Bristol, 1 Sep. 1793 . He wrote from Plymouth on 4 July—but was unable to copy—an acknowledgment of TJ’s 21 Mch. letter because the ship by which he sent it, the Amsterdam Packet bound for New York, was then on the point of sailing. He went to Falmouth and found several American ships detained there on pretexts similar to those used against the Eliza and the Jay at Plymouth. He encloses a copy...