150041To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Baird, 2 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that Mr. Biggs, receiver of the land office, at Steubenville has resigned, his appointment, I now solicit your goodness in granting the appointment to me, as to my character, and reputation I will refer your Excellency, to Gaddion Granger Esqr. and Col. William Duane as to security for my performance you shall have the first republican characters in the western country, for my...
150042From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 2 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In the case of the seamen left on Trinity isld. would it not be well to engage the identical seamen who left them? NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
150043To Thomas Jefferson from James Harrell, 2 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to Send to your honour to inform you of the Situation of a poor Sailor’s family. Sir have been home 4 months my wife Sick, and two of my Children, and one I have buryed. If you woud take my Situation into Consideration I would thank Heaven. With respect I remain your humble Servant MHi : Coolidge Collection.
150044To Thomas Jefferson from William Tatham, 2 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Calculating that you will be at the seat of Government on the 4th. July, perhaps to continue there a few days, and believing that then Sir You will possess both the power and inclination to rescue me from ruinous embarrassments which are resulting from a long continuance out of business, a long & steady attachment to the interests & prosperity of the United States, and a total deprivation of...
150045To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 3 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
My last respects was under the 28th. ultimo. Little has occurred in affairs of the United States Since that date; but every moment is replete with important events in the affairs of Spain. The French have thier headquarters in Madrid from Whence several divisions have gone out in Order to Subjugate this Country. My last mentioned that they had been defeated at Zaragosa, &c but the Paper...
150046From James Madison to William Pinkney, 3 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
You will receive by the present conveyance a continuation of certain Newspapers &c. from which you will be able to collect a tolerable idea of the actual posture of our internal affairs. Notwithstanding the various modes resorted to for discrediting and frustrating the Embargo, it retains a solid support in the judgment and patriotic pride of the great body of the nation. Massachussetts is the...
150047To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, 3 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. James M. Murdaugh of this place intends travelling through the Western parts of this State, in passing by your seat, it is his wish to call and become acquainted with you. To gratify an inclination so natural in a gentleman of Mr. Murdaugh respectability is pleasing to me. I take the liberty of introducing this gentleman to you. I remain with sentiments of high respect & consideration Yr....
150048To James Madison from Daniel Buck, 4 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
The personal regard I have for you, the interest I take in the success of the measures of our Government, and more than all, the anxious solicitude I feel for the prosperity, and happiness, of my country, has induced me to address you, as the organ of the administration, and to intrude, perhaps, some unwelcome observations. That the demands you have made upon Great Britain, are founded in the...
150049To James Madison from James Witherell, 4 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am under the necessity of asking information to whom I am to apply to administer the Oath of Office to me, having seen a publication in a News paper purporting that Govr. Hull applied to Judge Woodward to be qualified, who answered him that neither him self nor any other person was Authorized to administer the Oath to him. This reminded me of the provision of the Ordinance organizing the...
150050To James Madison from David Montagu Erskine, 4 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 29th. Inst. in Answer to mine of the 21st. upon the Subject of the Detention by the Collector at Niagara, of certain Boats belonging to the Canadian Merchants, engaged in the Indian Trade, as also a Copy of the Instructions which have been recently given by Mr. Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, to the Collector for the United...
150051From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 4 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Turreau’s application for two vessels to carry French subjects to France must, I think, be granted, because under present circumstances we ought not on slight grounds to dissatisfy either belligerent. the vessels may be back before winter, and their only danger will be of stoppage by the English, who however have no right but to take out the French subjects. At the same time, I think it...
150052To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "A Lover of His Country", 4 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
if you know what is good for your future we far you will take off the embargo that is now such a check upon the american Commerce and lay it upon something else or if you could lay it upon the hot Weather it would add more to your cread I say you are a friend to france but not to G Britain which I am sorry to inform you of I am in hopes you will pour our affairs in a good training I bid you a...
150053To Thomas Jefferson from F. McC., 4 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To His Excellency, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States : This Ode , Commemorative of American Independence, Is most humbly Inscribed, &c. &c.— Awake you sons of War and Fame, See Phœbus ushers in the Day; Diffusing wide his radiant flame, Like him your inbred worth display. July the fourth those deeds proclaim, Which birth gave a Free Nation
150054To James Madison from John Gavino, 5 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to anex you Copy of my lasts No. 57. & 58, also of Consul Lears to me under date 31st. March last being so requested by him. In my last Mentiond I inclosed you one from said Gentleman & you have herewith two others, one from Consul Kirkpatrick of Malaga, & one Consul Simpson of Tanger. The Spaniards have rose in a Mass against their Invaders, who took the whole of the Royal family...
150055From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 5 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to request that you cause a warrant to be issued in favor of John Mason, Superintendant of Indian Affairs, for four thousand, four hundred dollars, payable out of the appropriations for the relief & protection of American Seamen, to satisfy the enclosed bill on the Secretary of State, drawn in favor of John Shee, the Predecessor of the said Mason, by S. Bourne, Consul of the...
150056From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved yours covering mr J. Peyton’s account. I find it is exactly as I had thought before, and I shall convince him of it when at home, which will be about the 24th. or 25th. instant. I inclose you 265. D. in Richmond bills which be pleased to pay as follows. to John Perry. 100. 100.
150057To Thomas Jefferson from James Melvin, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
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150058To Thomas Jefferson from William Needham, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To his Excellency Thomas Jefferson President of the Unnited States I have the honor Sir to enclose to you certain resolutions which ware adopted at A Numerious meeting of the Inhabitants of this and the adjoining towns assembled on the 4th. Instant for the purpose of Celebrating the day whih gave birth to this Nation. I have the honor Sir, to be your most Obedient and Verry humble Servant—...
150059From Thomas Jefferson to John Nimmo, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am an entire stranger to the depositions which are the subject of your letter of June 10. having never seen them, nor knowing where they are. I have never taken any part in the dissensions of your place, and my inclinations and duties equally forbid me to exercise any agency in procuring depositions or otherwise for either party. this must be my apology for declining a compliance with your...
150060From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter I wrote to mr Bacon to send me the account which I had left with him to convince you of the errors of addition in it. it is now before me. your addition makes the debits £53-10-1 the Credits 42-10-6 Balance 11-1-7 the true addition makes the debits £51-8-7 Credits 42.17-6 Balance 8-11-1 = 28.5
150061From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter was safely delivered to miss Forrest who was here yesterday well. I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. it is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrasments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions. we have had such a week of hot weather as has never probably been known before in this country. my thermometer has been as follows Monday...
150062From Thomas Jefferson to William Robertson, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
for France, of which n [C]apt Haley who goes with her is the yourself on the subject of a passage. I s. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
150063From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of departments at 10. aclock tomorrow. Privately owned.
150064To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau de Garambouville, 6 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Je fais passer en France M Petry premier Secretaire de la Legation. L’importance des dépêches dont il est porteur et des instructions que je lui donne exige qu’il parte par la Voye La plus Sûre et la plus prompte, et je désirerais c onsequemment que ce Fut par Le batiment que Le G ouvernement fait partir de Washington Le 16 de ce mois. I l me Semble, Monsieur, qu’en ajoutant a cette dé marche...
150065To James Madison from Reuben Attwater, 6 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed Copies of the Executive Acts and proceedings of Michigan Territory from the first day of January last, to the first of July Instant. I am Sir with sentiments of Esteem your Obt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—Territorial Papers—TP, Michigan.
150066To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Alston, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Legislature of South-Carolina, deeply impressed with the situation in which the U. States have been placed by the unfounded & arrogant pretensions of the belligerent Powers of Europe; & aware of the force derived; in a Government like our’s, from public opinion; have deemed it incumbent upon them, at the present crisis, to make known to the World their unalterable determination to support...
150067From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho mr Taylor’s conduct did certainly induce me to believe that he was willing to hold property which he knew was not his own, if the law could not force him from it, & that therefore he would be a litigious tenant, yet I shall leave to yourself, who know him so much better, to continue him as tenant or not at your pleasure, revoking the absolute exclusion which I had prescribed as to him. I...
150068To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
An absence of some days from Town has prevented my sooner replying to your favor of the 29th ultimo.—It is seldom that any of the wines you mention are to be had here—and when to be had, must of course come higher, than they do in the Northern Towns; as we get our small supplies of those kinds entirely from thence, with the exception of a small proportion from Norfolk. I am Dear Sir Your Very...
150069To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The stone for the Steps of the President’s house is, in part arrived, & I am in hopes that the remainder will come up this week. It is now to be decided where it shall be wrought. GRAPHIC IN MANUSCRIPT If it could be prepared immediately on the spot marked ⊙ not less than 250 Dollars would be saved out of the expence of hauling & time which would be necessary if wrought out of the...
150070From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of June 28. with the gooseberries in good condition. they were certainly such as I had never seen before in any country, and will excite strenuous efforts in me to endeavor to raise such. for this purpose early in the next year I shall ask of you some cuttings of your bushes, and before that shall send a pretty copious list for a supply of the best kinds of garden...
150071Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
July 6. 08. Present the 4. Secretaries and Atty Genl. 1. England revokes her orders of Nov. & Jan. shall we suspend the embargo as to her laws? answ. unanimously, we shall. 2. if she revokes the ord. of Nov. alone? answ. we shall suspend, the Atty. genl. alone dissenting. 3. if she revokes the ord. of Nov. as to our own produce only? answ. unan. not to suspend, but in that case to call...
150072From Thomas Jefferson to John Rea, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The window draperies you were so kind as to forward to Monticello came safely to hand & in good condition, and I now inclose you an order of the bank of this place on that of the US. in Philadelphia for 352.D 67 ½ the amount of the account you forwarded me. I salute you with my best wishes. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
150073From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
What I now write you must be as secret as the grave. there is at length an unanimity of opinion as to a mission to Petersbg. but some difference as to the time, whether now or not till the meeting of the Senate. but the latter opinion will I think give way to the importance of the mission being so secret that it shall be suspected by no mortal until it is arrived in Petersburg. I write you...
150074To Thomas Jefferson from Thaddeus Swain, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscribers, citizens of the United States, residing at the Port of New Bedford in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Merchants, respectfully represent: That we are duly impressed with the importance of a strict execution of the Laws of our Country, and to attain this object, it is essential that all the officers of government, in their several departments, be...
150075To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 7 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Conceiving the moment of Joseph’s accession to the crown of Spain to be one which might be favorably employed in Settling our long pending controversy with that crown, I hastened to address a Note, the copy of which is enclosed, to his Minister of foreign Relations. To this I received the answer of that Minister on the 8th. instant, a copy of which is also transmitted. With very high...
150076To James Madison from John Binns, 7 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
A very unexpected request from Mr. Bernard Smith imposes upon me the necessity of obtruding myself for a few moments upon your attention. He requests me under oath to controvert a deposition made by one Gardner relative to a certain publication or publications which have been printed in the Democratic Press. I do assure you Sir, in the most solemn manner that I never have at any time or upon...
150077To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah Dean, 7 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honour to communicate to you the inclosed documents from Newbedford and at the request of the people to give such information touching papers & the Suject as I may possess, & would observe that I am personally acquainted with most of the Subscribers to the memorial & know them to be men of the first respectability & property—among the friends of the Administration & I understand by...
150078To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 7 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose for your signature a proclamation for the sale of certain lands under the law also enclosed. I have filled the days so as to be at the most favorable season of the year for sales & not to interfere with the State elections. Respectfully Your obedt. Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
150079To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 8 July 1808 (Jay Papers)
I have just rec d . your Letter of the 6th. inst. & am sorry to learn that Circumstances have occurred which make it necessary to dismiss Caty— If however her place can be tolerably supplied, the loss, will not be a great one—Mary & myself will immediately employ ourselves in endeavoring to find a person to suit you; & I beg you will believe that in executing this or any other Commission with...
150080From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 8 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to request that you cause a warrant to be issued in favor of Michael Nourse, the holder of the enclosed bill of William Lewis, lately charged with Dispatches from this Department to France; the said bill being dated the 11, May last, for Nine hundred & fifty six dollars & 97 Cents; payable out of the appropriations for foreign intercourse. The said Lewis to be charged...
150081To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 8 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
When I had the honor of writing to you on the 15th. inst I had received Mr. Champagnys letter of the 18th.; that of the 22d. came to hand a few days afterwards. You will no doubt perceive a difference in the temper of these notes. The former contained only concessions, which though in themselves of no great importance, shewed a friendly disposition. The latter on the other hand, would retract...
150082To James Madison from Aaron Haight Palmer, 8 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose, for thy inspection, the prospectus of a Work, entitled "An Introduction to the Most Useful Modern Languages ." It is recommended by many characters of literary eminence; and I shall feel myself peculiarly honoured in being enabled to enrol thy name among its patrons and Subscribers. Accept the assurances of the highest respect. DNA : RG 59—ML—Miscellaneous Letters.
150083To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 8 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following appointments in the troops to be raised by virtue of an act entitled “An Act to raise for a limited time an additional military force” passed on the 12th. day of April 1808 Viz. Alexander Smyth of Virginia Colonel of the Regiment of Riflemen William Duane of Pennsylvania Lieut: Colonel Ditto Jonas Simonds of Pennsylvania Colonel...
150084To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 8 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received yours of the 5th. inclosed with two hundred and sixty five dollers. I must inform You that we are very much in want of the 30 Dols. which Bishop Gave Brown on order on us for he says he must have the money Immediately. thirteen of our hands are at Mr. Randolphs. the rest is now Imployed Cuting our own Oats. we shall have a noble Crop of oats for the Quantity of Land we sowed....
150085To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 8 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 21st. Jany I presented a Memorial to Congress, and after waiting a considerable time and hearing nothing of it, I wrote to George Clinton Junior who presented the Memorial to Congress desiring some information of it. In his answer of March 19 he says, “I am desired by Mr Holmes Chairman of the Committee of Claims to inform you “That the business, on the Memorial, is progressing and that...
150086To Thomas Jefferson from James Philip Puglia, 8 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your polite Note of the 24th. Ult. which you did me the honor of addressing to me, came duly to hand.—The exhibition of the Embargo cannot, I am concerned to say, take place in the present Summer Season.—By the earliest oppty that offers I ardently hope that this Pill, from its salutary preparation, will abate the acrimony of the sea-side Incivism and promote a flattering Convalescence, if not...
150087To Thomas Jefferson from John Rea, 8 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your esteem’d favour of 6th inst inclosing a Dft of the Bank of Washington on the Bank of the United States of this place for the amount of my account against you Dollars 352.67 ½ for which I thank you, I am happy the articles arrived in good condition, and gives satisfaction. any of your future commands shall be carefully attended too by Sir Your oblidged humble Servant DLC : Papers of...
150088To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 8 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I write on the first moment of recieving yours of the 6th. The injunction there as to preliminary steps shall be obeyed. Mr. Lewis left this yesterday morning for Washington—of course you have the result of the Osage—I hope the decision will not be that I am to go in the vessel you allude to—It has been said that it is a small vessel—I have never seen any thing respecting it except the...
150089To Thomas Jefferson from War Department, 8 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Report of an Experiment made on the 8th. of July 1808. with a 50 Per Columbeade, upon a Battery of timber fascines & Earth at 460 Yards distance No. of Shott ℔s of Powder Degrees of Elevation Remarks 1st. 6 2 Went over 2d. 6 1. ¾ ditto 3d. 6 1. ½
150090From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 9 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President, your letter of July 3d. with the papers accompanying it. Being intirely satisfied with the course you have given to the proceedings in the case of Mr. Folch, he declines any further interference in it. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.