158611From James Madison to Congress, 15 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 June 1812. “I transmit for the information of Congress copies of letters which have passed between the Secretary of State and the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain.” RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 12A-E2). Each RC 1 p.; in the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For...
158612Thomas Jefferson to Charles Blagrove, 15 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 4 th with the certificate inclosed, and should not again have troubled you on the subject but that I percieve you have mistaken the name under which the search was to be made for the patent of 99. a s of land on Ivy creek , formerly Bedford , now Campbell . your letter states the search to have been made under the name of John Dayles, instead of John...
158613Thomas Jefferson to Zachariah Morris, 15 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
After a lapse of near 40. years since our former acquaintance, I am obliged to sollicit a renewal of your recollection on the following occasion. a certain Samuel Scott , who moved into Bedford about 10. years after you left the Poplar Forest , and settled on Ivy creek , on the road, about half way from the Forest to Lynchburg , has brought suit against me for a part of mr Wayles’s land on...
158614From James Madison to Congress, 16 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 June 1812. “I transmit, for the information of Congress, copies of a letter to the Secretary of State from the Charge de Affaires of the United States at London, accompanied by a letter from the latter to the British Minister of foreign affairs.” RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 12A-E2). Each RC 1 p.; in...
158615To James Madison from Asa A. Gaylord, 16 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 June 1812, Bath, Steuben County, New York. Commands a battalion of riflemen in western New York. “Actuated by a love of Country, and viewing the storm of war as not far distant, the officers and Soldiers under my Command, consisting of three hundred men including officers, have authorized me to tender their services to you under the act of Congress entitled ‘An Act to authorize the...
158616Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 16 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 4 th of Nov. last I wrote to you requesting another quarter cask of powder to be forwarded to me with a note of the cost that I might remit for that & the preceding one together. not having heard from you, I repeated my request in a letter of Apr. 30. and at the same time desired mr John Barnes of Geo. town to remit you 50. Dollars, which he informed me he had done. this was a mere...
158617Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
it is with the deepest regret I find that a letter you have done me the honor to write to me Some time Since has remained unanswered, it was received only yesterday on my return from a long Journey, also a letter of M r Barnes of Georgetown inclosing $50. I am truly infortunate indeed in not receiving or not geting in time the orders you have the goodness to honor me with. your letter of...
158618Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Herrick, 16 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 24 . did not come to hand till Apr. 8. and on the next day I wrote an answer to it, but not having heard from you since, I apprehend the letter has miscarried. the purport of the answer was to desire you to have the Spinning machine sent to mr Gelston Collector of N.Y. under my address, to be forwarded to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson , merch ts at Richmond who would recieve...
158619From John Adams to Samuel B. Malcom, 17 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I lost no time, in writing to Mr Madison, and to all I could Say in your favour inclosed your original Letter which had a frankness a Sort of honesty, and a Species Veri in it, which I was confident you would do you no harm. I added an affectionate recommendation of my own. Your Letter has been returned to me, as I requested, with information that the office had been given to another, before...
158620To James Madison from Mason Locke Weems, 17 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I send your Excellency this little pamphlet because of the very great pleasure it gives me to let you see that tho I cannot fight the British into their better senses I am at least endeavoring to do something with those Deluded ones of our own People, the Gamblers. I was talking with Your Excellency last night on a subject which lies uncommonly near to my Heart—i.e, to convince the Great Mass...
158621To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 17 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 June 1812, Wiscasset. Benjamin Homans, “lately the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has been removed from that Office by the intemperate persecutions of the Party who are opposed to good Government.” Mentions having previously spoken to JM and to President Jefferson about Homans’s merits and declares that his integrity and “warm Patriotism” as well as “his sufferings from the...
158622Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th has been duly recieved, together with my account. by this I percieve that there does not remain enough in your hands to pay the 2000.D. into the bank which I so much wished. this has been occasioned by the deficiency of my tobacco crop before explained, and recently here by the short delivery of 140. barrels of flour due to me from the mills, and for which I see I must...
158623Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Jones, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day write to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to remit you 200.D. on my account, and have to request you to send me the articles below stated, and as quickly as possible, as I apprehend that every day may increase the danger of a safe passage by sea. I have at the same time to request you to make the small paiments for me below stated. they are such as cannot be separately remitted to the...
158624Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
a steel plate cross cut saw 3. files for setting it. RC ( ViU : TJP ); dateline beneath signature; written on a small scrap; at foot of text: “M r Leitch.” Not recorded in SJL .
158625Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
From my letter of May 24. you had reason to expect that a cart would be upon you immediately for Barrett’s machine. when while I was preparing to send one off I was assured a waggon would set out from this neighborhood within a few days for Washington , which should bring my machine on it’s return, and it was not till last night that I learned that I could not avail myself of that conveyance....
158626Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your acceptable letter of May 17. came to hand ten days after date, and I duly estimate your approbation of my rudiments of the case of the Batture . I observe by the papers that Livingston’s suit against the Marshal for the same trespass, came before the federal court of Orleans , on the 24 th of April , on the plea that he was not a citizen of New York , in which character he had sued that...
158627From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 18 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
In the course of the last Autumn and Winter, I wrote you five Letters on a particular, but most interesting subject; one of which I perceive by yours of 18. December you had then received—Soon after writing the last of them I became engaged in occupations which stopp’d me in the progress of my plan to continue that Series of Letters, and afterwards during the remainder of the Winter, my own...
158628To James Madison from the Newport Independent Volunteers, 18 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 June 1812, Newport, Rhode Island. “Considering this the most important and most eventful Crisis that has occurred since the existence of the United States as a Nation, that at a time like the present, when it is presumed they are on the eve of a war with a most powerful nation, it becomes the duty of every citizen of the United States to declare his confidence in the government of his...
158629Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
We wrote to you on the 9 th Ins t with a copy of your Sales and Account Current to which we refer you—As the writer is under the necessity of leaving town tomorrow and may possibly be detained longer than he at present proposes, we take the liberty of forwarding you a note for your signature, we leave the amount blank, that you may fill it up with whatever sum may suit your wants— O. Philpotts...
158630David Michie to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting to you a Copy of a Corrospondence between myself and M r Peyton on the subject of my title to erect a water grist mill on the site near the one formerly occupied by Col o Bennett Henderson .— M r Peyton in a verbal Conversation with me yesterday having disclaimed any interest in the premises, and having explicitly avowed that throughout the whole of his...
158631William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of your Letter of the 24 th Ult o inclosing fifty Dollars, which I delayed answering from day to day till I am astonished at the lapse of time. I waited in daily expectation of the arrival of your Servant, and had the machine prepared accordingly. I have heard nothing of him yet, and cannot remain any longer silent, lest some accident may have happened.— I am still unwell, but...
158632To James Madison from George Joy, 19 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
Though the debates of last evening exhibiting the pitiful and undignified manner in which Ministers are retreating from the Orders in Council, after the sordid principles upon which they have endeavoured to sustain them, give little encouragement to the hope of any beneficial consequences; I think it right to inform you that I have an appointment with Lord Sid-mouth at one O’Clock to morrow...
158633Presidential Proclamation, [19 June] 1812 (Madison Papers)
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Whereas the Congress of the United States by virtue of the constitutional authority vested in them, have declared by their act bearing date the 18th day of the present month, that war exists between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependences thereof, and the United States of America and their Territories;...
158634To James Madison from William Eustis, 19 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 June 1812, War Department. Proposes the appointment of Edward Fox of Pennsylvania as commissary general in the U.S. Army. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). 1 p. JM nominated Fox in a message to the Senate of 22 June 1812. The Senate referred the nomination to a select committee on 26 June. JM withdrew Fox’s name on 1 July and replaced it with that of Samuel Carswell of Pennsylvania (...
158635Ebenezer Herrick to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
imediately after writing to yo u I was seised with an extreme fit of Illness which confined me to my bed until a few days since which is the only reason why I did not send the machine according to yours as well as my own calculations But the misfortune however disagreeable was unavoidable I have Marked the Machine or the parts of it so that I think there will be no difficulty in putting it...
158636Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 19 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 15. came to hand in due time. on the course of the suit of Livingston , I had thought with you that the question of jurisdiction might have been kept in reserve, as a dernier resort, and had suggested to the gentlemen in Richmond the pleading 1. the general issue, which would have tried the question of the public title, very interesting to the city of New Orleans ; 2....
158637From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid pleasures in your late visit to your early Friends, which I had anticipated for you. How happy, & how pleasant, when the Lamp of Life, holds out to burn, even to four score years, that the mind retains its Vigor, & is the brightest Luminary!—In such a case, “Old-age is desirable,” & grey Hairs, is...
158638To James Madison from George Joy, 20 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have just parted with Lord Sidmouth who after the recognition of a meeting some years ago, and the repetition of the same friendly disposition to the United States and reference to the same constitutional analogies, customs &c which I remember to have communicated to you at the time or since, proceeded to assert his right to be considered a friend of the United States, by adding that he had...
158639To James Madison from Allen B. Strong, [ca. 20 June] 1812 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to trouble your Excellency with a few remarks Concerning my present situation; I was taken on the third Day of Decembr: last, for passing a five Dollar bill on the worcester bank, and Commited to the County goal in Northampton, where I still remain for a trial at next Septr: term. Being persionately fond of the service of the United States, and feeling the weight of the tyrants...
158640Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have purchased a spinning machine in Washington , thro’ the friendly agency of Doct r Thornton , for which the bearer Davy is now sent with a cart. he is furnished with provisions for himself & horses to Washington and back, and 5.D. for his ferriages & other accidental calls, and therefore I have no reason to expect he will need any thing more. should any extraordinary accident, or a longer...