156801C. & A. Conrad & Company to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 24th April came regularly to hand with A check for Twelve dollars for which you have credit—the reciept of it ought to have been acknowledged sooner but we have been so much engaged that it has been neglected— We think mr. Rapine must be mistaken in saying the Acc t was paid in February 1808—We have examined our books very carefully but find no account of it besides it does not...
156802To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
Act I. Scene I. Mr: Adams’s Study Mr A: Who is there? Dr: R—a friend— A—Walk in.—Ah! Rush is that you? Where have been these two Months—? You seem to have forgotten your old friend Adams. R. Forgotten my Old friend Adams!—No Sir—that is impossible. I owe more to your friendship than I ever owed to any human Being, except to my excellent mother, and to my beloved and faithful Wife. A. What is...
156803From John Quincy Adams to Walter Hellen, 13 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received a few days since, your kind letter of 11. January, containing the distressful intelligence of the heavy misfortune which had them just befallen you, in the loss of your nearest and dearest friend. Sympathizing with you sincerely in this severe dispensation of Providence, my concern is much aggravated, by the account you give me of your own state of health, and the anticipations...
156804George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received inclosed in a letter from M r Griffin , S. J: Harrison’s dft on G. & J. at 25 days sight for $:2731. 99 100 , which at maturity will appear at your credit.— No more of your flour has arrived.—I rather suppose if you have time to look over our letters, that you will find you have been advised of the sale of the whole of it. As the amount will lie useless in our hands, we...
156805William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of recommending to you M r Veltenair , who wishes to take likenesses from some of your busts, he is an ingenious artist, an excellent musician, and a person who I think merits attention RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 14 June 1811 and so recorded (with notation: “by Veltenair ”) in SJL . Christian veltenair was an itinerant artist, inventor,...
156806To James Madison from the Tammany Society of Chillicothe, 14 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
The Tammany Society, Or Columbian Order of Wigwam No. 1, whence the other four branches in the state of Ohio have originated, Unanimously requests leave to address you, at the present momentous Crisis of our public affairs. They have not been indifferent spectators of the trying and difficult scenes, which you have had to pass through, as Executive of the National Government. The unjust and...
156807To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 14 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 June 1811, London. Asks that JM consider this letter “with mingled feelings of justice and friendship”; however, if his official conduct has been weighed and found unworthy, asks that JM “treat this essay with silent contempt.” The reasons for his departure were known to few, but “the interruptions of commerce” have disappointed his hopes, and he is now engaged in enterprises requiring...
156808From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 15 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter dated the sixth of February last, and was very much delighted to see it so well written; because I know that it was written by yourself.—I have marked it down, number one, and put it upon my file—When your next letter comes, and I hope that will be soon, I shall compare the hand-writing with that of number one, and shall see what progress you make in writing. I...
156809Resolution of the Court of the District of Columbia, 15 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 June 1811. “The Grand Jury state to the Court that they have received representations on the oaths of credible persons that Nancy Gerry a free mulatto girl about Eight years old, was during the month of May last Sold as a slave by Samuel Askum, to Oliphant of Georgia, to which state she is presumed to have been carried, said Oliphant being an Inhabitant of Georgia. The Jury request the...
156810Osborn Sprigg to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I would take the liberty to recommend to your attention & friendliness the bearer of this note M r Cephus Shekell —He resided for Eight or ten years immediately in my neighbourhood & one of my f nearest neighbours, and there never lived a more industrious, good manager—or a more worthy, honest character— I hope you are well and enjoying all the pleasures of an a happy and honorable retirement—...
156811From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 16 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
If I mistake not I have already acknowledged your favor of May 29. which brought the first information of the republican ascendancy in your Legislature. It was little to have been supposed that at this date I should be obliged to repeat that we remain without authentic information of a decisive character from both F. & G. B. This is the fact nevertheless; and it is very questionable whether...
156812Thomas Jefferson to Burwell Bassett, 17 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately recieved a letter from Mons r Beauvois of Paris , a literary friend & acquaintance of mine, who passed several years in the US. of which letter I give an extract on the next leaf. I am anxious to serve him in the case there stated, but find it necessary first to obtain correct information of the facts and transactions which have taken place in the case in this country, and the...
156813From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 18 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
As my object is to deposit as much about information concerning an interesting period of our history, as remains in my possession, and that they may not be scattered like the season’s leaves and like my friend Samuel Adams’ papers, I think it proper to send you some other copies which happen to be in my power.— To B Franklin, Esq. Paris, 5th June, 1782. Sir—Mr. Laurens, while under confinement...
156814To James Madison from John C. Payne, ca. 18 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 18 June 1811. Mentioned in Dolley Madison to Anna Payne Cutts, 20 June 1811 (MHi): “This Morng. Mr. M has a short letter from John at Drummond Town near the Capes of Virga. He has been unwell there, but promises to ‘be with us in a few days, when he will explain the causes of his sudden return &. &.’”
156815John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am without any of your favors since that of the 4 th April — Answered the 15 th — on the 25 th I had the Honor of inclosing to you M rs Beckleys letter to me , respecting her Brothers unfortunate
156816Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Chisholm, 18 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We yesterday got up the wooden frame of our Pier-head compleat, and this morning mr Salmonds begins the stone-work. he will get to the spring of the arch this evening, or tomorrow morning before you can reach this from mr Madison’s . I must pray you therefore to be with us tomorrow forenoon, the earlier the better. on arriving at the Pier head you will find your attendants on the spot, the...
156817To James Madison from William B. Wood, 19 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of informing You of our safe arrival in this country on the 22d of May—it being past the season for making a crop an object I thought it best to hire out our negroes and rent a House in this place which I have succeaded in beyond my utmost expectation, in consequence of this arrangement I have had an opportunity of seeing many parts of this state also the County of...
156818To James Madison from Joshua Gilpin, 19 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 June 1811, Philadelphia. Wrote to Barlow some weeks ago soliciting through him “the appointment to a Consular Office, Agency, or some similar object in England.” Has been informed by Barlow that JM expressed himself “in terms which command the utmost respect and gratitude which I can feel.” Hesitates to trouble JM again, but is on the eve of departing for abroad. “It was my intention at the...
156819John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to Enclose herewith a packet delivered to me at Cagliary by the professor Director General of His Sardinian Majesty’s Cabinet of Natural History , at Said place, which accompanies a Box Containing Natural Petre productions of the mentioned Island — which will be forwarded to you sir, by William R Lee Esq e Collector at Salem — who will at the same time Send on One quarter Cask...
156820From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 20 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
The letters by Mr. Ewing have arrived—And among them I have to acknowledge the receipt of your numbers 1. 2. and 3. of the new series, dated 20. 22. and 31. Jany. together with your account to the close of last year—I have already acknowledged the receipt of your number 4/13 and I have within a very few days recd: your 5/14 dated 3. March. In one of my late letters I sent you an exact list of...
156821From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have not been unmindful of you my Dear Friend, nor of each member of your worthy family since leaving your hospitable Mansion, where christian graces adorn the possessors. My delay in writing in hopes of sending the promised Receipt has been in vain, for it has been to no purpose that I have repeatedly searched for it. However I do not regret it so much as I otherwise should do as the Root...
156822Charles L. Bankhead to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved yours of the 10 June for which both my father and myself render you our gratefull acknowledgements. he thanks you sincerely for the information you have given him of Mr: Shorts intention to sell his land & to be remember,d by you will ever impose a debt of gratitude upon me, a debt which my heart most liberally repays. I should have answe rd you before this, but for the...
156823George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose an acc t of the sales of 547 bbls of your flour, together with your acc t current to this day, the last shewing a balance against you of $:2671. ⁴⁰⁄₁₀₀ .— Deducting this sum from the 5800$ obtained from the bank, (which is partly to be paid off with Harrisons dft, and the balance to be continued) leaves $:3128. ⁶⁰⁄₁₀₀ for which you are to draw.—You can likewise if you think proper...
156824Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 20 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Peter Minor and sends him a bottle of oil of the last expression, in the wooden press placed under the beam of the cyder press. it’s colour shews it preferable to the Iron press; and the ease with which this press is made is a further encoragement to the culture of the Benni. Th:J. will not make seed this year, owing to his having sowed it with a...
156825Robert Wash to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 11 th may reached me by the last mail: from which I learn with considerable regret, that M r Crafts changed the resolution he had formed, of passing by Monticello on his return to New york . That Gentleman’s politeness & intelligence would have been an excuse for the haste & apparent negligence with which I had ventured to address you. From your letter, I am led further to...
156826From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
As Charité commens par soi même, or as We more elegantly express it, as Charity begins at home, I shall first resent the domestic part of your dramatic Dialogue, of the 13th. The prosperous and promising Circumstances of every Branch of your Family gives me unfeigned Pleasure. The only exception is to be deplored, but not in despair. Richard is my Friend by a Sort of Inheritance. He cannot...
156827From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 21 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
I write to you by every opportunity altho I hope you will have left St Petersburgh before this can reach you, but as there admits of a possibility that you may be Still, there, I know it will be a great gratification to you to learn that your parents are Still living, and in health. your children too are well, and Good Children which is of more concequence than mere animal enjoyment. I have...
156828From James Madison to Elbridge Gerry, 21 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
I thank you for your polite communication of the Speech to your Legislature. The solid & seasonable truths so emphatically inculcated in it, can not fail to do much good. The noise & anger which it is exciting, prove that the faction is deeply stung by the exposure of its guilt, and will increase the public indignation, by rousing a more diffusive attention to the subject. The delay of Mr....
156829To James Madison from Captain Armstrong, 21 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
We your brothers and children Send this letter by our grandson and relation, having first talked with him and one of our White brothers, and now desire that you would listen, and accept the good wishes of myself and My chiefs, and of all your children at Green Town. Father & brothers You have often Wished me and my Chiefs to come and See you, as I have been told by my White brothers; We have...
156830To James Madison from the Inhabitants of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 22 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
The Inhabitants of New Bedford, legally convened in Town Meeting, Respectfully represent: That an active Commerce is highly conducive to individual prosperity, and the most productive source of national wealth and improvement. The well founded expectation, that a prosperous commerce would be a primary object of the political cares of the national administration, to whatever hands it might be...
156831Presidential Proclamation, 22 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 June 1811. Declares and makes known under the acts of Congress for the sale and disposal of public lands south of the state of Tennessee that the public lands west of the Pearl River in Mississippi Territory, to which the Indian title has been extinguished and which have not been exposed to public sale under the terms of the presidential proclamation of 22 Oct. 1808, shall be for public...
156832From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 23 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
I congratulate you & Mrs. Cutts on the event which has relieved your anxieties; the more so as it gratifies your joint desire of introducing a female series into your Nursery. We learn that our brother John landed on the Eastern shore South of the boundary between Va. & Maryland, & that he has been detained by sickness from which however he was recovering, with the expectation of setting out...
156833From James Madison to the Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society of Chillicothe, 23 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have received the letter of the 14th. instant which you have addressed to me, in the name of the Tammany Society of Wigwam No. 1. in the State of Ohio. The circumstances in our national situation, to which you refer, could not but render it peculiarly embarrassing to those entrusted with the national rights & interests. Whilst Justice, however, continues to be the basis of our policy, and...
156834To James Madison from George W. Erving, 23 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
Soon after my arrival here (viz on the 1st. inst) I saw Mr Joy, & delivered to him the letter which you was pleased to put under my care. I find that this gentleman has done very considerable service to several cases wherein he has been employed, & has obtained the liberation of property which stood in very perilous predicaments, yet it is the general opinion amongst the americans here, by all...
156835To James Madison from Henry Lee, 24 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having omitted to mention one or two circumstances to you in the case of my neighbor Mr Yeaton who has lately presented to govt. a petition from the commercial part of this town, praying the remission of his fine, I am compelled reluctantly to occupy yr. time by letter. This gentleman & Rob. Young were partners during the period, when the transaction took place, which in the sequel has been to...
156836To James Madison from Ludwell Lee, 24 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 June 1811, Belmont. “A relation & friend of mine, Mr. Mordecai Booth of Winchester, wishing to get a place now vacant in the department of war; in the disposal, as he says, of Mr. Simmons; has requested of me to mention his wishes to you.… I hope I do not presume, too much on our acquaintanceship, to ask this favor of you.” Adds that Booth is qualified for the position. RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
156837Thomas Jefferson to William Chamberlayne, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been longer than I had hoped in getting my produce to market & sold. it now enables me to inclose you a draught on Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of Richmond for fifty nine dollars 74. Cents, the balance due according to the statement in my letter of Apr. 4. & your answer . I inclose you D r Everett’s account for his attendance on the negro man
156838Thomas Jefferson to Charles Everette, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My funds lying all in Richmond , I inclose you an order on Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of that place for 42. D 20 c the balance of your account. but should it not be convenient to you to recieve the money in Richmond , I will on your intimation call for it by the first post. will you be so good as to sign the inclosed paper & return it to me by the bearer to be transmitted to Gen l Chamberlayne...
156839Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days past I rec’d your note acknowledgeing the receipt of my late list of Post offices, which was transmitted without my knowledge and in consequence of my suggesting a determination to furnish you, as I now do, by the volume herewith transmitted, a complete view of the present state of this Department. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Granger; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson...
156840Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 20th was recieved yesterday inclosing my account balance 3128.60 and the estimated amount of 54. Barrels flour unsold, to be drawn for— there should be still near 50. Barrels more to be recieved from Bedford . In consequence of your permission I am drawing on you as follows: Dr. Everett of Charlottesville 42.20 Gen.l Wm. Chamberlayne
156841Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The process of getting my flour to market from Bedford and this place, and of getting it sold, has been slower than I had hoped. it is now so far effected as to enable me to inclose you an order on Gibson & Jefferson for one thousand Dollars. I shall not fail to make as great an exertion from my future crops as they will enable me to do for the completion of the paiment of my debt to you....
156842William McGehee to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
your boy came down today while I was in the woods geting timber for the Sithes with a line concening Bens absence from the my family informed me that he wanted an answer which I now prseed to give I stoped Ben for the purpose of assisting about planting the Tobacco tryd to find Fill also but could not this was done in conciquence of finding that the seasson would be gone before I could get...
156843To John Adams from Richard Sharp, 25 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
Few letters have ever given me so much pleasure as that which you did me the honor to write in February last. The gratification which I felt in the receipt of it arose not only from meeting with a fresh mark of your attention, but from the singular importance of the remarks, which it contained, on the real æra & true spirit of your great Revolution I am fully sensible of the justness, or...
156844To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 25 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
The fortieth American vessel, which has arrived at Cronstadt, since the opening of this years navigation, was the John Adams, Captain Thomas Downing from Savannah; she arrived last Saturday the 22d: instt:—and the first which sailed for America was the Laurel, Captain Burnham, belonging to Mr: Gray; by whom I sent the letter to you of which the enclosed is a press-copy—She sailed the 10th:...
156845From James Madison to Joseph Gales, [25 June] 1811 (Madison Papers)
J. M. with his thanks to Mr. Gales returns the newspaper sent him—with an anticipated paragraph of the Mercantile Advertiser. RC (owned by Gallery of History, Las Vegas, Nev., 1994). Date supplied from docket. Signed on verso by Thomas Gales, Jr.
156846To James Madison from George Keyser, 25 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
You will please to pardon the Liberty, I have taken, by forwarding you a Copie of An address, to the people of the United States, Under the Signature, of Robt. Smith Esq. late Secretary of State. I May appear to you to be Officious, but Sir, to adopt a Sentiment of Mr Smith to Mr Jefferson, I never did abandon a freind, so long as he was worthy of Confidence. I pray you Sir to Accept My hearts...
156847From James Madison to Napoleon, 25 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 June 1811. Addresses to him a letter of credence appointing Joel Barlow as minister plenipotentiary to France. Tr ( DNA : RG 84, France, Despatches to the Department of State). 1 p.
156848To James Madison from Charles N. Baldwin, 26 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 June 1811, New York. “Having issued from the press the first number of a periodical work; the only one of this nature in this city; I have ventured to send the first number for your inspection, not doubting your liberality, and desire to encourage literature and S[c]ience in this country.” Solicits JM’s assistance and adds in a postscript, “If you feel inclined to patronise the work you...
156849To James Madison from Cornelio de Saavedra, 26 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 June 1811, Buenos Aires. “My Son Don Diego de Saavedra will have the honour of placing in Your Excellency’s hands this Letter.” He is accompanied by Juan Pedro de Aguirre, and JM will perceive their purposes from the credentials. Their mission is “to procure the necessary aid of arms against every European, who is opposed to the cause of that Liberty which the People of America have...
156850To James Madison from George Thompson, 26 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 June 1811, Shawanee Springs, Kentucky. Has seen the late act of Congress laying off districts in Orleans Territory, in each of which a land office is to be opened. Recommends Abraham J. McDowell as register for one of those offices. “He is a native Kentuckian; a fine person, his manners very interesting, his politicks truly republican.” Adds in a postscript, “In the foregoing letter [I]...