159631To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Stuart, 28 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by Doctr Cornelius Baldwin a young Gent from the State of New Jersey who has resided several years in this place and practised Physic with considerable reputation—He is desirous of becomeing an adventurer in our newly acquired Terretory on the Mississippi and should any appointment in his line be in the Gift of the executive would gladly embrace such an opportunity...
159632To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Valentin, 28 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to send you, herewith, a copy of my treatise on the yellow fever . this Work is the first that had been published ex professo in our language, and agreeably to the desires of our first School of Physick, as you Will See it in the advertisement. Seven months ago, I had already trusted to an agent of the french government, another Work of mine the title of Which is: Résultats...
159633From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed has been sent to me by some person who does not chuse to give his name. the usurpation of our flag, and the practice of our merchants to lend their cover to belligerent property has been a long & crying evil. we lose the profits of doing the same business for ourselves, subject our own vessels to suspicion & vexatious searches, and are in constant danger of being embroiled with...
159634From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Candidates for the office of Keeper of the Light house at Smith’s point William Mountague. owns the land adjacent, an Antirepublican therefore inadmissible. Lancelot L. Edwards. lives near Smith’s Point. recommendd by mr Taliaferro. is he republican? is he sober? and careful & stationary at his residence? Thomas Robinson. lives near the place. recommendd by mr Taliaferro & Genl. Mason. an old...
159635To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctr. Jones says that Joseph Monroe is perfectly worthless—Edwards extremely indolent—and Robinson having removed to Fauquier & owning no land in the vicinity never could find it convenient to return for the sake of the trifling salary. He is decidedly in favour of Nelms. Respectfully Your obedt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as...
159636To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Their is a report here and from the quarter I received it I believe to be true that Major Jackson is to be removed & that you would put Doctr. Bache in his place if it would give general satisfaction to the Republicans—Before I heard your opinion I was asked for mine and whilst I was a think the Gentleman mentioned several names which I most confess I did not perfectly like—He then mentioned...
159637From Thomas Jefferson to the Mississippi Territory Legislative Council, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I participate, fellow-citizens, in the satisfaction you express, in your address of the 19th. of November, on the result of the proceedings instituted for the relief of the states whose commerce lies through the channel of the Missisipi: and am happy in percieving the effects produced on your minds by the earnest attention of the General government to the interests of it’s Western portion. By...
159638To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Honor’d with Your favor of the 24th. Inst. and now beg leave to inform You, That I have this day Shipp’d for Washington, by the Sloop Unity, Captn. Allbright, the Barrell of Missisippi Water, forwarded to me by Mr. Hulings from New Orleans—The two Pipes of Lisbon, & the Butt of Sherry Wine, will be forwarded to Richmond, to the address of Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson of that place, by the...
159639To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Smith Barton, 30 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter , which I received this morning, I shall, with great pleasure and strict sincerity, communicate what I know respecting the Sulphur in Jenisseia. I visited this bed of sulphur, or, as it is called in the country, the “Sulphur-Springs,” in August, 1797. I observed a quantity of sulphur in and about the springs. The whole quantity might, perhaps, have amounted to a...
159640To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Crowninshield, 30 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you some ill-digested remarks on the anonymous communication which you sent me yesterday.— I acknowledge the practice alluded to is supposed to exist among our merchants, but I assure you it is more a subject of clamour with some interested people than any thing else. If it were really carried on to the extent, and in the manner described by the writer, and had...
159641Enclosure: Remarks on American Commerce, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Remarks on the American flag & seamen. The writer of the anonymous communication enclosed to the President, has stated “that America lost immense sums in the course of the late war by spoliations,” and there can be no question about it, but he certainly attributes these losses to a wrong cause. I would ask if the 400 American vessels captured by Great Brittain previous to the ratification of...
159642To Thomas Jefferson from William Lee, 30 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to send you three boxes containing fruits in Brandy prunes and almonds—They go in the good Intent Capt Wallington for Philadelphia addressed to the Collecter of that port and I hope will arrive safe.—I had the honor of forwarding you ⅌ the ship Genl. Washington which sailed yesterday for Boston a small bundle containing a few books directed to my care by Mr Volney— with...
159643To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Stanford, 30 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
By request of Mr. J. Gales of Raleigh, N.C. I do myself the pleasure herewith to cover you a letter from Docr. Sibley, which, he thinks, may possibly throw some additional light on the subject of Louisiana . I have the honor to be, Sir, with highest respect yr. hble. Sert. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 30 Dec. and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: probably John Sibley to Joseph Gales,...
159644From Thomas Jefferson to David Leonard Barnes, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to you a petition I have recieved from Nathaniel Ingraham of your state, now suffering imprisonment at Bristol in Rhodeisland under judgment of the circuit court there. I also inclose the copy of a letter I wrote to mr Ellery on a former application in the same case. as I understand that the judges who sat in the cause are either dead or distant from the state,...
159645From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 22d. written on the occasion of the libellous pamphlet lately published with you. I began to read it, but the dulness of the first pages made me give up the reading for a dip into here & there a passage, till I came to what respected myself. the falshood of that gave me a test for the rest of the work, & considering it always useless to read lies, I...
159646From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your two favors of the 27th. informing me of the arrival at Philadelphia of two pipes of Lisbon wine from mr Jarvis, and a butt of Sherry from mr Yznardi of Cadiz. I will ask the favor of you to have them reshipped to Richmond to the Address of messrs. Gibson & Jefferson, who will pay freight &c from Philadelphia. that from Lisbon & Cadiz to Philadelphia shall be remitted...
159647Notes on a Conversation with Matthew Lyon, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 31. After dinner to-day the pamphlet on the conduct of Colo. Burr being the subject of conversn Matthew Lyon noticed the insinuations agt. the republicans at Washington pending the Presidential election, & expressed his wish that every thing was spoke out which was known: that it would then appear on which side there was a bidding for votes, & he declared that John Brown of Rhode island,...
159648From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I now lay before Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the Contingent charges of government. No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of eighteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, unexpended at the end of the last year , remains now in the Treasury. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a...
159649To Thomas Jefferson from David Campbell, 1 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In reading a favourite author the other Day, the following observations made deep impressions on my mind. Man, says he, is the subject of every history; and to know him well, we must see him and consider him, as history alone can present him to us, in every age, in every Country, in every State, in life and in death. History, therefore of all kinds, of civilized and uncivilized, of ancient and...
159650To Thomas Jefferson from DeWitt Clinton, 1 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to you, Mr. Cutting Esqr. of this City Counsellor at Law. He is a gentleman of good character respectable standing and correct politics—and I am persuaded that you will find him worthy of your notice. I have the honor to be With the most perfect respect Your most Obedt. Servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “The President of the U–S.–”; endorsed by TJ as...
159651To Thomas Jefferson from Sir John Sinclair, 1 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On various accounts, I received with much pleasure, your obliging letter of the 30th of June last, which only reached me, at this place, on the 19th of November.—I certainly feel highly indebted to Mr Binns , both for the information contained in the pamphlet he has drawn up; and also, for his having been the means of inducing you to recommence our correspondence together, for the purpose of...
159652Enclosure: Observations on the American Board of Agriculture, 1 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Hints regarding the Board of Agriculture, or Central Society established in America— The friends to agriculture and internal improvement, have heard with infinite satisfaction, that a Board of Agriculture , or central society, has been established in that rising Empire, and they augur from it some very important discoveries, in that most useful of all arts. From the experience however...
159653To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Stuart, 1 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive by Doctr Baldwin a Letter from me on the subject of his intended application for some office, which may afford him a favorable introduction at New Orleans—I consider it my duty to inform you in addition to the facts stated in that Letter that the Doctr has declined his practice during the last eighteen months & engaged in the business of makeing Iron in which he has been...
159654To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 2 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time ago—very long after its date—the mail brought me thy favor of the 11th. of August. I had, as soon as it was possible for me, after my arrival in the Missisippi Territory, to give information which might be of any service to Gideon Fitz, taken the necessary care, by addressing a letter to him at Monticello. I have lately received a letter from him, dated at Louisville in Kentucky,...
159655To Thomas Jefferson from Israel Israel, 2 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed that Removals are about to take place in the Officers of the Revenue department in this City, I am led to Request you in favor of your friend & much esteemd Citizen Cap. James Gamble , now a Senator of this State, his Modesty will prevent him from coming forward in the Accustom’d Manner, His Virtues need not be delienated by me they are known and Acknowledged by all that know...
159656To Thomas Jefferson from Brockholst Livingston, 2 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to have the honor of introducing to your notice Mr. William Cutting who is on a visit to Washington—This gentleman belongs to our bar—he is an amiable & deserving young man—highly esteemed among us, & a sincere & valuable friend of the present administration— With great respect I have the honor to be Sir, your very obedt Servt RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson President...
159657Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Hichborn, 2 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
1804. Jan. 2. Colo. Hitchborne of Mass. reminding me of a letter he had written me from Philadelphia pending the Presidential election, sais he did not therein give the details. that he was in company at Philada with Colo. Burr & Genl. Sam. Smith (when the latter took his trip there to meet Burr, & obtained the famous letter from him) that in the course of the conversn on the election, Colo....
159658To Thomas Jefferson from Mountjoy Bayly, 3 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The President will please to excuse the freedom I have taken in communicating to him the following circumstances relative to a Sulphur Spring in the Genesee —Which I made an offer off to the United States through the Secretary at War— When I informed the Secretary of my intention to dispose of this property—he requested of me to give him a written discription of the same, which I complied with...
159659To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Embree, 3 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The horror & confusion occasioned in the state of Tennessee, by the method pursued to raise men to go to Louisiana , has been wonderful. The fear of being reduced to the alternative of either undertaking a grievous journey of 12 or 18 hundred miles, & much of the way through a howling wilderness, with the probability of never returning; or submiting to a fine, which to many of the citizens of...
159660To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 4 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you have the goodness to examine the enclosed letter & to return it with your observations. Respectfully your obedt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); addressed (clipped): “President United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 4 Jan. and “report on sale of lands” and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not found, but see below. TJ’s endorsement indicates that Gallatin probably...