31To Thomas Jefferson from John Syme, 18 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I did write you sometime Since, but hear it miscarry’d. Bestow one of your precious Momts. on a Very Aged Republican, always Your Friend; Depress’d indeed 4 yrs. ago; But rejoic’d (perhaps) in the Extreme, last Congress. I perceve the Dust Kick’d up, whenever You Dismiss a Federal culprit. One & all your well wishers, are Clearly of Opinion wth. Abraham Bishop , that you possibly may halt too...
32Enclosure: Petition from Hopley Yeaton, 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Humbly shews, Hopley Yeaton of Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire, that in the beginning of our revolutionary struggle, he served as third lieutenant on board the Raleigh frigate—that he was afterwards promoted to the first lieutenancy of the Deane frigate, in which capacity he served about five years—after which he became superintendent of the Navy yard at said Portsmouth, under the...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Willcox, 20 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
My republican friends have solicited me to offer myself as a candidate for the office of Marshal of this State—and considering that the legislature has intolerantly driven me to the necessity of resigning all military rank, I am induced to waive those considerations of reserve, which might Otherwise have influenced me & to offer myself as a candidate for that Office, However easy it might be...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am completely happy in being able to inform you that all our little family has passed safely through the worst stage of the Whooping cough: we have no apprehensions now about any of them: the cough has so much abated and all the serious symptoms so long disappeared that we boldly congratulate ourselves on our good fortune. The fourth week was the worst with all: with Cornelia and Ellen it...
35To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Hearing that the Treaty with France, was not, at the sailing of the Maryland ratified, I beg liberty to lay before the President a few things in respect to this instrument, & to the appending circumstances of our relations with France. Please to understand that the total operation of what is stiled Revolution is, in the design of the Great Supreme, deadly & destructive . It is as a pioniering...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 6 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury wishes to know where the Commrs., appointed to decide on the claims under judge Symme’s purchase, reside, in order to send the commisions. There is no time to be lost. A pardon has already been signed in favor of Hopkins & transmitted to Mr P. Freneau. The situation of the revenue district of Massac renders an appointment necessary. The resignation of Mr Irwin...
37To Thomas Jefferson from John Hurt, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to make you acquainted with Doctor Baynham —he & his brother (who I have not the pleasure of being acquainted with) are travailing up to your healthy country for the benefit of a pure air—happening to hear them say they wished to pay their respects to you but was not furnished with letters of introduction I make use of the opportunity of Congratulating you on what has...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 6 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from Brussells that I had by accident met with a gentleman at that place who had from some private communications convinced me a peace would be immediately made between France & England.—that particular reasons would induce France at this time to give up to England points she would not at any other concede & that the force of popular opinion would compell her (England) to a Peace...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas King, 12 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Nicholas King’s respects to Thomas Jefferson, and, begs his acceptance of the accompanying Drawing . Altho’ inferior in execution, to the work of an Artist, he hopes it will not be thought the less of, as the tribute of esteem. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 13 Nov. and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not found, but see below. The enclosed drawing has not been identified, but TJ’s...
40To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 28 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of Mr. Arthur Lee of Norfolk I have given him an introduction to you, but not knowing his object, think proper to mention that I do not, as the contrary might otherwise be inferrd. He is in my opinion a young man of merit, tho it is not founded on much acquaintance with him. He deliver’d an oration not long since which was well spoken of, and is a republican. He is however...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Gantt, 7 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Pleasure of informing you, that I have at last succeeded in communicating the Vaccine Disease to several Patients. The first Matter you sent me, infected three Persons, who were inoculated with it. Before the Receipt of your next Favour of the 29th. of August, I had made Use of the Virus from the Arms of those inoculated, & found it did not fail in a single Instance. I have several...
42To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 19 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that D Coxe has himself taken the Vaccine Infection, & during the progress of the Disorder, has undergone uncommon fatigue, without any Inconvenience; two of his patients, one a child, one a laboring man, appear to have it finely; the latter has this day furnished fresh Virus; he has been obliged to work hard during the whole time, & found no other...
43To Thomas Jefferson from William Stephens Smith, 7 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your goodness will pardon the Liberty I take in addressing a Letter particularly to you, at the moment perhaps, in which you are, more importantly engaged than to attend to my individual wishes and pursuits—The veneration however, that I have for you as the Cheif majestrate of my Country, connected with the particular respect I have for your private Virtues derived from the acquaintance I...
44To Thomas Jefferson from John Thomson Mason, 12 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed I send you an estimate, from one of the Commissioners of the tax, of the taxes paid by that part of the District, which was formerly in the County of Prince Georges , to the State of Maryland. I have not yet received the estimate for that part of the District which was in Montgomery County. It is prepared and I shall probably get it this week at Annapolis Your Obedt Servt RC ( DNA :...
45To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 25 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Fully pursuaded of your natural benevolence, & having no cause to doubt of your readiness to put forth your hand to any enterprize that promises well to the interest of the nation, & of mankind; & knowing that evidence of the truth of the things I have offered to you, & may offer, arrises from an accurate regard to the tendency of the measures suggested , & also to the counter effect of...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 15 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a letter from the Commissioner of the revenue accompanying proposals for erecting a light house on Falkner’s Island. There are two applicants , Mr Woodward of Connecticut & Mr M’Comb of New York. For the reasons stated in the Commissioner’s & Gen. Huntingdon’s letters, the first named gentleman seems to merit the preference. By the Act of 3d March last, the...
47To Thomas Jefferson from John Beckley, 27 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A short but severe fit of the gout has delayed my acknowledgment of your favor of the 22d.—I sincerely regret the necessity that has occasioned Mr: Hansons reference to me, and in the just estimate of his Character and Merits, shall feel a twofold gratification in the possibility that I may afford him a temporary relief from political persecution and intolerance—If, in the event of my...
48To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 16 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Tudor (the lady of Judge Tudor of Boston) with her son , intending to be at Monticello this evening or tomorrow, I entrust to them the inclosed papers, which will thus reach you a little earlier, than if detained for the mail, by which I shall again write to you. In the mean time I remain Yours most respectfully & affy. RC ( ViU ); endorsed by TJ as received 16 Aug. and so recorded in SJL...
49To Thomas Jefferson from “Nicholas Geffroy,” 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Encouraged, great & good Sir, by the character you sustain of being accesible to all of your fellow Citizens, I take the liberty of obtruding myself upon your precious time, to offer you my homage, & to assure you of the sentiments of veneration & respect with which I have been inspired by your wise, virtuous, & popular administration. The People of America would have gained but little by...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Denniston & Cheetham, 22 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Much noise has been made Concerning the report of your having ordered Mr. Dallas to enter a Nolle Prosequi in the Suit against Mr. Duane commenced by your predecessor on the behalf of the Senate of the United States. An inflamatory essay which appeared in the gazette of the United States , on the unconstitutionality of the act, under the Signature of Juris Consultus has been republished in...
51To Thomas Jefferson from John G. Ladd, 30 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this morning had the pleasure to receive your favor of the 28th Instant, and to observe your wishes respecting any Articles or Packages of yours which may come to my address at this place—and now to assure you that I shall with great cheerfulness on every occasion particularly attend thereto in the best possible manner agreeable to your desire.—I have the honor to be with perfect...
52To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 6 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel myself extremely obliged by your favor of Sepr. not only on account of the friendly wishes it contains but because of the elucidation that it affords to your former communications on that very interesting subject the rights of commerce. Your arguments leave no doubt of the principles you endeavour to establish, it is however much to be lamented that the favourable moment for...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Sheild, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much respected Favor of the 21st. Augt. reached me yesterday. Permit me, Sir, to embrace this unlooked for Opportunity of assuring you that one of the most ardent Wishes of my Heart has been realized in seeing a republican Administration established in The United States under your Auspices and that I largely participated that heart-felt Satisfaction, which pervaded a Majority of the...
54To Thomas Jefferson from Bowling Clark, 13 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 26 Sept. & yours from Washinton came safe to hand, the Letter inclosed to Gipsen & Co. expect has answered my perpus in Richmond,—have delayed answering those two Letters in order to give you more sattisfactary acct. of your affairs hear—have layed of Mr Eppsis Land & Mr Randolphs the plats of which I inclose, am doutful you will not like the form of Mr Epps Land. I could not Lay it...
55To Thomas Jefferson from James Patton Preston, 29 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed that there will be a vacancy in the Sixth Survey Virginia, or a Consolidation of the present Inspection Districts, and a Supervisor appointed in the place of the present Inspectors of Revenue, I am desirous of becoming a Candidate for the appointment. not having a personal acquaintance with you, and being assured that you must be satisfyed of the Integrity, and Capacity, of a...
56To Thomas Jefferson from “The Voice of A Sybil,” [before 6 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
In my travels, through several countys of the state of Pennsylvania, three different, political sentiments obtruded themeselvs upon my observations. the first was a very impatient desire to see Your speak, to the insuing Congress—the scecond was, an Extreem apprehention, least federalism, and the Constitution should fall together—and a new one be formed by the present government—And the third...
57To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Hanson, 8 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your permission, I enclose a list of the Directors of the Bank of the U.S.—. In obtaining it, I found more difficulty than I expected; which is the reason of it’s not having been forwarded by last mail. I have written to Philada. to engage the good-officers of the following Gentlemen, old Friends of 1777. I forgot to insert them in the proper place. They are Wm. & Edw. Tilghman,...
58To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 10 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already dispatched Original & duplicates each, of the inclosed letters & a/c in Philada. and transmitted duplicate thereof for your [government?]. —Some few days since both the plaisterers called on me, respecting their intended Journey. the small Man (for I do not recollect his Name) was very urgent to set out immediately ⅌ land. the other proposed—going ⅌ water to Richmond—in the...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Ledyard, 7 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been solicited by several respectable gentlemen to avail myself of the very little knowledge which your Excellency can be supposed to retain of me , to recommend Mr. Mathw. L. Davis for the Office of Naval Officer of this port. The respect which I owe to these Gentlemen urges me to trouble your Excellency with this rather unwarrantable Letter— Mr. Davis is one of those active Citizens,...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 20 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment arrived, and wish to know at what hour tomorrow you will condescend to see me.— I have the honor to be with the highest respect, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant— RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson—President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from Washington on 20 Nov. and so recorded in SJL . Rhodes Hotel : William Rhodes kept a hotel on F...