158011Thomas Jefferson’s Non-Congressional Distribution List for Batture Pamphlet, 19 April–23 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The Proceedings of the Govmt on the Intrusion of E. Livingston . sent to the following persons. Apr. 19. George Hay 20.
158012Thomas Jefferson to John M. Perry, 20 January 1810, with Notes on Agreement with Perry, 19 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
There is an old affair between mr Magruder & myself which I really had supposed done with, but he has lately revived it. he furnished me with some plank, & charged such extravagant prices as never had been given in this neighborhood by the half. I paid him according to the highest prices I had ever paid, amounting to £27–9 and wrote him that if he was not satisfied with that I would replace...
158013Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Pollock, 19 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 28. has been recieved. the supposition hazarded in mine of Dec. 31. was not stated that your authority to draw on Penet was probably from Governor Henry , was an inference only from the well recollected facts that Penet was appointed and sent to Europe by Governor Henry , and that soon after I succeeded him I learnt facts which left me without confidence in Penet . I...
158014From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter which I beg you to return to me, as Soon as you think fit. It is an Answer to one in which I requested him J. Q. to Send me a Manilius if he could find one to be Sold in St. Petersburg. Is not the Ratio of Manilius the Same with the Logos of Plato? and the Progress of the human Mind in Condorcet? Pray have you read Condorcets “Outlines of an historical View of the Progress...
158015To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have it now in my power to send you a piece of homespun in return for that I recieved from you. not of the fine texture, or delicate character of yours, or, to drop our metaphor, not filled as that was with that display of imagination which constitutes excellence in Belles lettres, but a mere sober, dry and formal piece of Logic. Ornari res ipsa negat. yet you may have enough left of your...
158016From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 20 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
I had got comfortably through the cold of the winter, but the chilling winds of March have laid me up in April. I was threatend with a Setled fever last week, which has reduced me in a few days quite low. the dr gives me hopes that he has broken it up with opium & calomil pills—and saline . I feel relieved both in my head and Limbs—and am now able to write, which I was not last week. I did...
158017From James Madison to Congress, 20 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Among the incidents to the unexampled increase and expanding interests of the American nation, under the fostering influence of free constitutions and just laws, has been a corresponding accumulation of duties in the several Departments of the Government: And this has been necessarily the greater, in consequence of the peculiar State of our foreign relations, and the connection of these with...
158018To James Madison from John Coghill, 20 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I feel myself infinitely obliged to General Lafayette for having done me the honor of introducing me to you in consequence of his having contributed in some measure to my becoming an Americain citizen, by the property he has sold me in Louissiana which increases doubly the desire I have to be made known to one of its most distinguished members, & I hope the interest I shall always take in the...
158019To James Madison from James Maury, 20 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am requested by Mr Joy to forward the inclosed. I wish there was a better prospect than now presents for amicable adjustment between our country & this. It daily appears more & more the determination of administration to continue the orders in council; yet petitions for their revocation increase; as do the prices of Grain & other articles of food, which, adding to the distresses of...
158020To James Madison from James Caller, 20 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1812, Washington County, Mississippi Territory. Makes no apology for addressing the president “in the plain, unadorn’d language of Candor, and truth.” Describes himself as “a Citizen of this Territory, and of course of the U, States,” attached to his country and to its Constitution and laws, who gratefully contributes his share of the revenue required for its administration and who...
158021To James Madison from William Eustis, 20 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1812, War Department. Lists proposed appointments in the U.S. Army for JM’s approval. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, 12B-A1); letterbook copies ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). RC 1 p. Forwarded by JM to the Senate in a message of 20 Apr. 1812 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). ,...
158022To James Madison from William Robertson, Jr., 20 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1812, Abbeville County, South Carolina. Transmits the sentiments of the company under his command and states that he is holding himself ready until he receives further instructions. Is anxious to learn “Whether We Are Accepted of or Not.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , R-79:6). RC and enclosure 3 pp. Docketed by a War Department clerk as received 11 May 1812. A note on the...
158023Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have it now in my power to send you a piece of homespun in return for that I recieved from you. not of the fine texture, or delicate character of yours, or, to drop our metaphor, not filled as that was with that display of imagination which constitutes excellence in Belles lettres, but a mere sober, dry and formal piece of Logic. ornari res ipsa negat . yet you may have enough left of your...
158024Thomas Jefferson to John Ashlin, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just made me a fishpond and am desirous to get some carp fish to stock it. we used formerly when hauling the seyne for shad, to catch some carp also, and I presume therefore that some few are now caught at your place. I send the bearer therefore with a boat, with directions to stay a few days, and procure for me all the carp which shall be caught while he is there. I shall be obliged to...
158025John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
since I had the pleasure of receiving your fav r of the 9 th covering one addressed to Mr John A Morton —in Care of M r Williams — Baltimore which, I forwarded per same mail— I am most agreably fav
158026Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably some time ago have seen in the newspapers that the suit of Edward Livingston against me for maintaining the public possession of the Batture of New Orleans has been dismissed by the District court of the US. at Richmond for want of jurisdiction. my wish was that it should have been tried on it’s merits, that the public might have seen thro’ that medium that the transaction...
158027Thomas Jefferson to Derbigny, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M. Derbigny and asks his acceptance of the inclosed pamphlet on the subject of the Batture of N. Orleans . this homage is justly due to the first champion who stepped forth in defence of the public rights in that interesting subject, & arrested with so strong a hand the bold usurpations aimed at them. if in rescuing them, as a public functionary, or...
158028Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a pamphlet on a subject which has, I believe been little understood. I had expected that it’s explanation would have gone to the public thro’ the medium of a trial at bar: but, failing in that, I have thought it a duty to give it through the ordinary medium of the press. I wish it could have appeared in a form less erudite. but the character of the question, and of those for...
158029Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th is safely recieved with the 200. Dollars it inclosed. with respect to my flour on hand it is proper I should adapt my former minimum of 8.D. to the times. I leave the price therefore to yourself entirely, with the observation that it is better to lose a little by selling for less than may perhaps become the market price, than to lose the whole by holding off too long....
158030Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Jones, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Mar. 29. I informed you I had directed a remittance of D :200. out of the surplus of which I should request you to pay make a paiment for me. this is to Col o Duane for some books, and arrearages of his newspapers. how far back the last go, I do not know: but the last paiment to him I find was July 31. 1807. his country paper @ 5.D. a year is the one I take. I have had some...
158031William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from M r John Garnett , Editor of the American impression of the Nautical Almanac, at N. Brunswick , in New-Jersey , it is stated, that an error has been discovered (probably at Greenwich ) in M r M. de la Place’s computations relating to the true form of the Earth, which being corrected, the ratio of 320 to 319, of the equatorial diameter to the polar axis of the Earth, seems now...
158032Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not hesitated to send you one of the inclosed because I know that your mind will view in it nothing but the abstract question of right; and in the opinion of my fellow citizens on that question it will be my duty to acquiesce. I owe it to you also in return for your excellent book on the subject of sheep, now becoming daily more and more interesting to us. I am embarked a little in that...
158033Thomas Jefferson to James Mather, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The suit which mr Edward Livingston had brought against me for maintaining the public right to the Batture of N. Orleans , has been dismissed by the District court of the US. in this state for want of jurisdiction. this was not what I would have wished: but rather that the question of right should have been discussed before the public, from which a compleat justification of it must have...
158034Thomas Jefferson to Louis Moreau Lislet, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M. Moreau de Lislet, and asks his acceptance of the inclosed pamphlet, on the subject of the Batture of N. Orleans . he has taken the liberty of differing from him on a single point ; but conscious of the strength of M. Moreau on in that field, and of his own weakness he has done it with just respect and diffidence: and deeply indebted for his able...
158035Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Morgan, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I do not believe that you trouble yourself with law-questions, even those of your own vicinity, yet I send you the inclosed as a testimony of my respect for you. M r Craven Peyton , claimant of the effects of John Peyton now in the hands of mr Duncan , despairing of getting the money out of mr Duncan’s hands voluntarily, has desired me to urge recourse to the coercions of the law....
158036Thomas Jefferson to Thomas B. Robertson, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I think I stated to you, while here, the case of mr Craven Peyton , my neighbor, whose brother, John Peyton , had died in your territory, leaving personal property there. another brother Lieut t Peyton , took out administration, put the business into the hands of mr Duncan a lawyer, who became his security for the administration, recieved the proceeds of the effects of the deceased and refuses...
158037Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know if you may have noticed in the Newspapers of a year or two ago that Edward Livingston had brought a suit against me for a transaction of the Executive while I was in the administration. the dismission of it has been the occasion of publishing the inclosed pamphlet, which is sent to you, not to be read, for there is nothing enticing for you in it, but as a tribute of respect &...
158038Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Simon Thierry, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M. Thiery and asks his acceptance of the inclosed pamphlet on the subject of the Batture of N. Orleans . tho’ he has ventured to differ from him on a single question , he was too much indebted for his able information on other points of the controversy, not to have made his acknolegements of the aid he derived from it with justice and pleasure. he...
158039To James Madison from William Pinkney, 21 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I regret sincerely that my professional Engagements here are so pressing and importunate as to put out of my power to be where my Duty to you requires. I am sure, however, that you will make Allowances for me—especially when you are aware that I am not unmindful, though absent from the Seat of Government, of what I owe to the Strength and prosperity of your administration. The particular...
158040To James Madison from George Crowninshield, Jr., 21 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 April 1812, Salem. Introduces Capt. Holton J. Breed of the Salem brigantine Neptune , who expects to visit Washington. Has requested Breed to present to JM “a Small Bag of white Sumatra pepper, not for its value, but as a curiousity.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Docketed by JM. George Crowninshield, Jr., was one of the sons of George Crowninshield, Sr., founder of the Salem firm George Crowninshield...
158041To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 21 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 April 1812, New York. Having just learned that the government intends to appoint an additional judge for the district of New York, recommends John Ferguson of this city. “He is a man of honor and probity, and sincerely attached to the present Administration of the General Government.” Believes that Governor Tompkins and Mr. Sanford would confirm this. “The appointment of Mr Ferguson would...
158042John Glass to Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Being conscious of the arduous task, which I have undertaken and perhaps the daring presumption to address such an illustrious character, without any previous Knowledge; (only by your writings) I feel myself, as it were constrained to desist from my undertaking; but being emboldened in the anticipation of success, I feel gratified in the consideration that the person to whom this is addressed,...
158043George Hay to Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 12 th inst. , was received too late, to be answered by the last mail.— The draft, which it covered, on Mess rs Gibson and Jefferson , is returned, cancelled—You will recollect, that the tender of my Services, in Livingstons Suit, was accompanied by an express declaration, that I would receive no compensation from you. This declaration was not made, under the idea, which you...
158044Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 21 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
a box of wafers, the largest sized box RC ( ViCMRL , on deposit ViU : TJP ); dateline beneath signature; written on a small scrap; at foot of text: “M r Leitch.” Not recorded in SJL . Number interlined in place of “23.”
158045From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
Omnicient Jackson Said to me, at his own Table and repeated it at mine in London, that Chatham flattered the Vanity of The Nation and gratified their Passion for War. but that he was a pernicious Minister. David Hartley Said to me often; (it was a favourite Observation with him;) that Chatham was a national Minister, but not a wise Minister. So far, I am out of your debt. I have given you a...
158046To James Madison from Joel Barlow, 22 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have interested myself a good deal (not officially) in aid of General Lafayette for the sale of his Pointe Coupé lands. He has now sold them all & we think very well, but for the last two thousand acres he cannot recieve the money till he delivers the patents. He doubts not that you will send them as soon as convenient & will doubtless write you by this conveyance. But knowing the interest...
158047To James Madison from Elizabeth Reed Cooprew, 22 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am very sory to trouble with any complaints at all. A thing I dont make a practice off to any person in this World. And only to the Gods whos being is not in flesh and blood. But by your takeing no notice in the Litteral Sence of the Word of My complaints perha⟨ps⟩ you think I am Derang’d. But It is very far from it altho I am fully convinc’d that their has been Attempts made on My Life,...
158048To James Madison from Lafayette, 22 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Hornet is Going to Sail. By Her You Will Receive dispatches Which Make it Unnecessary for me to add farther informations. I the more Lament the Appearant dispositions of the british Ministry With Respect to the orders in Council as I More fervently Wish the U. S. May not be involved in a War. Our friend Mr. Barlow tells you the present state of His Negociations. I shall therefore Confine...
158049To James Madison from William Lee, 22 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having this moment arrived from an excursion in the country and finding Mr Barlow is to dispatch Mr Biddle this evening I have not time to say all I could wish to you upon the State of our affairs here which are by no means flattering. The fears and suspicions expressed in your private letter by the Wasp are too well founded and I regretted much on hearing it read that I had not sent a letter...
158050To James Madison from Edmund M. Blunt, 22 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 April 1812, New York. Solicits JM’s patronage for his nautical publications, to which he has devoted sixteen years. Two years ago he began republishing the Nautical Almanac , a work published in London at the expense of the British government. “An error in this work would be fatal to all Mariners who used it.” Mentions that the U.S. Navy now uses a similar work that is “replete with...
158051To James Madison from William Eustis, 22 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 April 1812, War Department. Lists proposed appointments and alterations 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 a message of 22 Apr. 1812 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.;...
158052John Dawson to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Louisiana having become a sister-state I take the liberty of inclosing to you a copy of her constitution, and at the same time, stating to you, with candour, my future plans, and counting, with confidence on your friendly offices, to which I feel that I have a just claim. You are pretty well acquainted with the history of my political life, which while it has secur’d the approbation of my...
158053Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I find the dispatches By the Hornet are Just Going and altho’ I mean to write more fully By the Return of the wasp I Hastily Seize the Opportunity to let you know that my family and myself, mde de tessé , who Has Been ill, mr de tessé , m. de mun and m r de tracy are now all well—your Correspondance with washington will inform you of the European news.—Great Continental preparations are moving...
158054To James Madison from James Monroe, 23 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State to whom was referred the Resolution of the Senate of the 4th. March last, has the honor to report, that the enclosed papers marked A. B & C contain all the information in this Department “relative to captures made by the Belligerants since the 1st. day of May 1811, of Vessels of the United States bound to or from the Baltic or with⟨in⟩ that Sea.” All which is...
158055To James Madison from Alexander Smyth, 23 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Some weeks since my feelings compelled me to address to you a note offering some justificatory evidence. I now present it. I beg you to be assured, Sir, that there is no man who would with more reluctance give you a moments trouble, or pain; but it is a duty I owe to myself, and a family whose interests I have sacrificed to the nation, to enable you fairly to appreciate my pretensions. I have...
158056From James Madison to the Senate, 23 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 April 1812. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the Senate resolution of 4 Mar. 1812. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 12A-E3). 1 p. In the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Monroe to JM, 23 Apr. 1812 .
158057To James Madison from William Eustis, 23 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 April 1812, War Department. Lists proposed appointments and alterations 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 a message of 23 Apr. 1812 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America
158058Thomas Jefferson to James P. Cocke, 23 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just finished a fish pond and wish to get some of the Roanoke chub to stock it . I am told you now possess the pond that was your relation & neighbor mr Cocke’s . could you spare me a few to begin with? if you can, I will send tomorrow a light cart with a cask for water, so that the cart may start the next morning and keep the fish out as short a time as possible. I propose so short a...
158059James P. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to observe that the geting supply of fish is most uncertain, not having made arrang t to command them. yet If you will send at the risque be assured I will do my indeavour to procure them. I shall shortly set about some method in order to have them at command & would think the fall prop would be more proper to remoove them as they are now spawning & much more certain to get them...
158060William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit to the American philosophical Society , an abstract of such calculations as I have hitherto made to determine the longitude of the Capitol in this city from Greenwich observatory, in England . The variation in the results will be found, on examination, to arise more from probable errors in the data, or in the lunar tables from which the positions in the Nautical Almanac have been...