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: Thomas Jefferson Papers. The enclosures apparently consisted of Jefferson’s drafts of letters to William Carmichael, U.S. chargé d’affaires in Madrid, and William Short, U.S. chargé d’affaires in Paris, regarding changes in American policy toward Spain. The occasion was presented by the case...
...from that Circumstance. Much however is to be said on this Part of the Subject. First it is questionable whether our Reputation may not be a little affected for you will recollect that about one third of our Debt to France arose from a Loan made on our Account in Holland of five Million of florins for which the King paid us here ten Million of Livres without any Deduction for Charges...
George the Third by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, Arch-Treasurer, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire &ca To the United States...Jefferson to GW, 17 April
...would be necessary to enable the Army to accomplish the objects which had been directed. He agreed with the County Lieutenants, that Eleven hundred and fifty non-commissioned and privates should be drafted, although he says he neither expects or desires more than Seven hundred and fifty—They are to be at Fort Washington on the 25 ultimo—He, upon a full consideration and consultation...
this letter, however, he had probably already acted on similar instructions from GW or Thomas Jefferson to have the plan engraved....Street, SW-NW. The site on Jenkins Hill selected by L’Enfant for the Capitol was in the southern portion of this tract. A third parcel, Duddington’s Pasture, consisting of 431 acres, extended westward from the first two to the Potomac at the mouth of Goose...
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present to the view of the President the subjects relative to Algiers, under their different aspects.: Jefferson Papers;
, vol. 1. For Lord Cornwallis’s check outside the gates of Tippoo Saib’s capital of Seringapatam in May 1791 during the Third Mysore War, see Thomas Jefferson to GW, 1 May 1791, note 2
(letterpress copy), in Thomas Jefferson’s hand, : Jefferson Papers; 46, Third Congress, 1793–1795, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Foreign Relations. GW to Thomas Jefferson, 10 Mar., source note
The day after your departure I received from a mister Greene, a merchant now at N. York, through a third person, the following communication “that he had had very : Jefferson Papers;
...kept under constant cultivation—first in Tobacco & then in Indian Corn (two very exhausting plants) until it will yield scarcely anything; a second piece is cleared & treated in the same manner; then a third—& so on until probably, there is but little more to clear. When this happens, the owner finds himself reduced to the choice of one of three things—either to recover the land which he has...