157981To James Madison from James A. Bayard, 14 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
In conformity to Your desire I have availed myself of the most fit occasion which has presented itself to intimate to Mr. Rodney Your disposition and views respecting him in relation to the vacant place of Judge of this District. I requested him at the time not to give me an immediate answer but to allow his determination to be the result of consideration on the subject. He has since come to...
157982To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 14 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
In my opinion, your honor, the honor of the United States, and the honor of this State, require that a complete examination of the pretentions and Claims of the Military aplicants, whose names have been laid before, and Sanctioned by the Senate, Should take place, previous to their being Commissioned; if Nothing else render it necessary the Juggling used by the Clintonian faction, to have your...
157983To James Madison from the Citizens of Knox County, Indiana Territory, 14 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Indiana Territory. 14 April 1812. Recommend to the president Henry Hurst, attorney at law, as a proper person to fill the vacancy on the supreme court of the territory occasioned by the death of Judge Vanderburgh. State that Hurst is better qualified to fill the appointment than any other person and that he would be as acceptable to the citizens as any other. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17,...
157984To James Madison from Simon Snyder, 14 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 April 1812, Lancaster. Transmits “an exemplified copy” of an act passed by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in their last session entitled “An Act to cede to the United States the jurisdiction over a piece of land at Presque-Isle for a light house.” RC ( DNA : RG 26, Early Light House Correspondence, Misc. Letters Received); enclosure (ibid., Light House Files, Erie File). RC 1 p. In a...
157985Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Je continue avec délices la lecture de votre admirable Ouvrage; et j’y ai trouvé dans le livre onzieme la raison qui vous a empêché d’exprimer au treizieme une conclusion. L’Impôt territorial, ou pour mieux parler, la Constitution domaniale à partage de Revenus , êtant, comme vous me l’avez marqué il y a quelque tems, repoussée par l’opinion de vos Etats du Nord, qui cependant sont sur tous...
157986"U.M." to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your administration was conspicuous for preserving the blessings of peace to your Country—It now appears that we are on the eve of a war with England — If France and Denmark were not equally hostile to our Flag and trade, perhaps the evils of a war ought to be hazarded with Great Britain , if she were the only power that has injured and insulted us— It is now reduced to a certainty that the...
157987Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I Should be at loss for an apologÿ in writing you again, had not the polite manner—in which you was pleased to bestow on me a new favour required mine Sincere thanks for this condescension. I feel proud—I was highly gratified with this distinction—more So—as it enabled me—by your delicate hint of a radical defect to fill up the gap in this Sketch. It might have been, that in its developing the...
157988To James Madison from Thomas Ewell, 15 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Percieving from a late Law of Congress, that th⟨e⟩ President is authorised to make extensive purchases of the amunitions of war, & supposing it might not be through the Heads of the Departments, I have taken the liberty to trouble you with this statement. Under the impression of receiving encouragement from all the branches of Government dealing in Gun-powder, I have almost finished the...
157989To James Madison from William Gamble, 15 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
When an Individual takes the liberty of adressing himself to the Chief Majestrate of his Country, on any Public matter it becomes necessary, to State who he is, and what are his motives—which induces him to adopt this line of conduct. I am Sir, an Old Revolutionary Offeicer, I served during to Whole War as Brigade Major to General Dickinson in the State of New Jersey—Where I received a wound...
157990To James Madison from William Eustis, 15 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 April 1812, War Department. Lists proposed alterations and appointments in the U.S. Army for JM’s approval. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, 12B-A1); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). RC 2 pp. Forwarded by JM to the Senate in his 15 Apr. 1812 message ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.;...
157991William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your favor by the last mail, covering an hundred dollars (a draft on Gibson & Jefferson ) as a fee in the suit of Livingston against you. This is much more than an equivalent for any trouble I have had in the case. In truth, I have had no trouble in it. The investigation has been to me both a pleasure and instruction, and in itself, a compleat remuneration. From you I should never have...
157992To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 16 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The injuries which have resulted to me, by filling the office of Chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth; in consequence of the great expence thereof, of the smallness of the salary, & of the neglect of my private concerns—The state of the banks, in which is locked up, a great part of the circulating medium of the country—And other concurrent, unfortunate public & private events, have rendered...
157993To James Madison from Henry Lee, 16 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I came here to pay you a short visit, but finding a carriage at yr. door I avoided trespassing so much on yr. time preferring as a lesser occupation thereof a short letter. This results cheifly from my wish to explain the reasons which influenced my suggestion the other day of the propriety of placing one or two bodys of yr. troops in reserve on the western frontier. To hold back the indians...
157994To James Madison from George Mathews, 16 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The duties attach’d to your important confidential trust as President of the United together with the numerous private applications you have to answer have been the causes why you have not receiv’d any private communications from me on the important & delicate trust repos’d in me as Commissioner of the U. States for East & West Florida. The Commission with which I am trusted is now I flatter...
157995To James Madison from William Blackledge, 16 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 April 1812, Capitol. Recommends Richard B. Jones, an attorney in Philadelphia, for the vacant consulate in Tripoli. Describes Jones as “liberally educated” at Princeton and mentions his service as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy, including his capture on the Philadelphia at Tripoli. After resigning from the navy, Jones studied law, got a license, commenced practice, married, and settled in...
157996To James Madison from William Eustis, 16 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 April 1812, War Department. Lists proposed additions and alterations in the “additional Army” of the U.S. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). 1 p. A note in the margin reads: “Not sent to the Senate.” Eustis listed the names of eighteen nominees from North Carolina, Virginia, New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Most of them were forwarded to the Senate by JM in subsequent messages.
157997William Bentley to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty at his request, to introduce M r Obadiah Rich , who is travelling in the Southern States. His ardent desire to see the man, in his own country, whom all Europe honours, & all our wise citizens admire, has obliged me to honour myself in writing to M r Jefferson. M r Rich has discovered great affection for Natural History, His virtue is pure, & his manners amiable. He is...
157998Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
We received this morning your favor of the 12 th Ins t and as you direct send inclosed $200 in small notes as ⅌ Statement at foot, your drafts in favor of Hay , Wirt & Tazewell shall be duly paid; we have received and passed to your credit $176.90— But little is yet doing in flour and we have hitherto deem’d it adviseable not to offer any for sale; as we have no doubt so soon as the present...
157999James Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Robert Hamilton of Petersburg wrote you Some time ago, requesting the favour of you to notify the Subscribers to an obligation given M r MClure now of your neighbourhood, that the same has been assigned to me, and that the conditions on the part of M r M c Lure have been complied with—He has not received an answer from you As there are several debts which I have assumed to pay for M r
158000Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Lukens, 16 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The information which you ask respecting Isaac Shoemaker not being acquired by my own knolege, but from the general reports and belief of the neighborhood, I should be altogether unwilling to communicate, but in confidence that you will use it for your own purpose only and not either to his or my prejudice or trouble. when he and his father delivered up my mills about June last, it was...
158001Thomas Jefferson to Reuben Perry, 16 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved information in March that Jame Hubbard had been living in Lexington upwards of a twelvemonth, I engaged a man ( Isham Chisolm ) to go after him. he got there five days after Hubbard had run off from there, having committed a theft. he returned of course without him. I engaged him to start a second time, offering a premium of 25.D. in addition to yours, besides his expences. he...
158002Hugh White to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
If this late production of a Neighbour, as a variorum should afford a few moments entertainment. It w would rejoice the author RC ( TU ). Recorded in SJL as received 17 Apr. 1812. Enclosure not found. Hugh White (d. 1827) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who was ordained a Swedenborgian clergyman in 1812. He owned land in both Charlottesville and Milton (Carl Theophilus Odhner, Annals of...
158003From John Adams to Richard Sullivan, 17 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
I regret that the Weather deprived me of the Pleasure of meeting The Trustees and Visitors at your House on the last Saturday of March, where I had hoped to obtain the determination of the Gentlemen, when they would do me the honour of a Visit to Quincy. I can now only Say that as I presume a ride in the Country would be more pleasant to the Gentlemen in May than in April I hope for the Honour...
158004To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed papers will explain themselves. Their coming to me is the only thing not sufficiently explained. Your favor of the 3d. came duly to hand. Altho’ something of the kind had been apprehended, the embargo found the farmers and planters only getting their produce to market and selling as fast as they could get it there. I think it caught them in this part of the state with one third of...
158005Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment recieved a letter from Gen l Kosciuszko dated Feb. 1. in which he acknoleges the reciept of two letters from me, one from you and a bill of exchange . knowing it would give you pleasure to be ascertained of this, and supposing the General , who is not a man of business, may not have written to you, I drop a line for him. always affectionately yours PoC ( DLC ); at foot of...
158006Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 17 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 6. was duly recieved, & with it the pamphlet of M. Thouïn on the subject of engrafting, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. should your curiosity lead you to visit this part of the US. as your letter gives me reason to hope, I shall be very happy to recieve you at Monticello , to express to you in person my great respect, and to recieve from yourself directly the...
158007Thomas Jefferson to Joseph St. Leger d’Happart, 17 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 5. is but lately recieved. I have inclosed it to the President of the US. which is the only good office I can render you in the case. there must have been some mistake in supposing the not paying your claim was for want of money in the treasury. there has never been a moment when the treasury was without an abundance of money, and I know that at the date of your claim there...
158008Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 17 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers will explain themselves. their coming to me is the only thing not sufficiently explained. Your favor of the 3 d came duly to hand. altho’ something of the kind had been apprehended, the embargo found the farmers and plinters planters only getting their produce to market and selling as fast as they could get it there. yet I think it caught them in this part of the state with...
158009John S. Stake to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
By the advice of many of my Republican friends, I have taken the liberty of addressing you. I am the eldest Son of the late Captain John Stake an old Revolutionary officer, of Well known merrit during our Revolutionary struggles for Liberty and Independance through a seven year’s ardurous and Calamitous War: other heroes and other patriots press’d forward in the Same Career of Virrtue and...
158010To James Madison from Ambrose Spencer, 18 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
A Nephew of mine Philip D. Spencer, now a mid-shipman on board the President, has conceived a disgust to the sea-service & wishes very much a Lieutenancy in the Army. He is about 20 ys. old, of excellent size & I believe well qualified for that station. If Your Excellency, could bestow this appointment on him it would be gratefully received by the Father & son & oblige me. You will excuse this...