156721From James Madison to Robert Williams, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 7 May 1806, Department of State. “Your draft in favor of John Henderson has been this day received, and will be paid out of the contingent fund of the Territory, but as the law does not contemplate any permanent charge for such service, and the fund above mentioned is insufficient to warrant any further calls upon it, it is requisite that the employment of a private...
156722From James Madison to Robert Williams, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “You will be pleased to select one of the Gazettes, printed in the Mississippi Territory, to publish the laws of the present Congress, and to inform me of the choice. I herewith enclose a Circular explanatory of the terms, which may be addressed to him by you.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
156723From James Madison to Robert Williams, 4 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that the accounts, of late received from the South Western Quarter of the United States, of which the Mississippi Territory makes a part, render it proper, in the opinion of the President, that you should immediately repair to your government. On your arrival there, you will find in the hands of Mr. Meade, the instructions, which have been given, relative to the...
156724From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 23 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It gave me great pleasure to recieve your favor of June 20. altho’ with so extensive a range of acq es as that to which our revoln has given birth, there may not be a ground of contin d correspdce with every individual yet we are glad to hear once in a while that our old fellow laborers are alive and well. we look back with pleasure to the days which united us in action, and recollect ant t...
156725From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 4 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof mr Thomas T. Jones is the son of a particular friend & school fellow of mine, Dr. Walter Jones, now a member of Congress from Virginia. mr T. T. Jones has resided for some time in my neighborhood; he is a lawyer by profession, well educated, of fine genius, honest & honorable under all circumstances. proposing to establish himself in the Misipi territory, I take the liberty...
156726From James Madison to Robert Williams, 23 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to an act of Congress entitled An act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States, passed 3d. March 1795, and the Acts in addition thereto passed on the 2d. March 1799 and on the 27th. March 1804, I have transmitted to the Collector of the Customs at Philada. 57 Copies of the Laws of the United States 1st. Session 9th. Congress, being the proportion for the...
156727From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 1 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Aug. 25 in which you express a wish that the letters recieved from you may be acknoleged, in order to ascertain their safe transmission. those recieved the present year have been of Mar. 14. May. 11. 30. June 8. July 3. Aug. 12. and 25. they have not been before acknoleged in conformity with a practice which the constant pressure of business has forced me to...
156728From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 23. was not recieved till the 4th. inst since which this is the first post. the proposition to be absent for some time, so far as relates to your office of governor might be acceded to without probable injury to the public. altho’ our situation with Spain is critical, & I expect daily to hear that we have come to blows on the other side the Missipi, yet from the character I...
156729From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 28 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since, came to hand, from mr Philander Smith , Speaker of the H. of R. of the Missisipi territory, a certificate of ten names , out of which I have to select five for the legislative council. the names & characters being equally unknown to me, it would be to substitute chance for choice were I to undertake the designation. I therefore inclose you a blank instrument of designation...
156730From James Madison to Robert Williams, 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 22 March 1805, Department of State . Offered for sale in Charles Hamilton Catalogue 67, item 176, 3 May 1973, where it is described as informing Williams of his appointment as governor of the Mississippi Territory.