16101John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of Oct. 14 has greatly obliged me. Tracy s A a n alysis, I have read once; and wish to read it a Second time. It Shall be returned to you. But I wish to be informed whether this Gentleman is of that Family of Tracy s with which the Marquis La Fayette is connected by intermariages.? I have read, not only the Analysis, but Eight Volumes out of 12 of The origine de tous les Cultes,...
16102To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 3 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honnor to Rive your letter of the 29 ulto in which you are pleased To express a wish that I would Remit to Mr. Gallatin on your account A Bill on Paris for 338 Francs—which I will Do on my Return to new york and of which I will have the pleasure to Transmit to you an account. I have the Honnor to be Most Respectfully Sir your obtd Humbl Servt PS. Would you have the goodness to...
16103To James Madison from Robert M. Penoyer, 2 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inform you, that Mr. Graham has made known to me that he has laid before you for decission, the bids which I have made for furnishing Subsistance for the use of the United States Army within the States of NYork, Vermont & New Jersey. By Public Notice from the War Dept. dated July 10th. 1816 which is as follows viz, That Seperate proposals will be recd. at the Office of the...
16104To James Madison from Gibbs Crawfurd Antrobus, 1 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
Mr Antrobus presents his respects to The President and Mrs Madison and will have the honor of dining with them on Thursday next. RC ( NN : James Madison Papers). Gibbs Crawfurd Antrobus, secretary to the British legation, arrived in Washington on 6 Sept. 1816 ( Daily National Intelligencer , 7 Sept. 1816).
16105George Logan to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing your anxiety to promote the agriculture of your country, as the most stable support of the best interests of civil society I herewith send you a specimen of dressed flax, which I lately received from my friend Sir John Sinclair He says nothing respecting the mode of its preparation; but I am informed it is accomplished by beating and friction, without its being previously rotted. When...
16106Elisha Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter and an Invoice of a parcel of Books, received yesterday from my son, in the Ship Cordelia from Hamburg . On receiving the Books, which will probably be in the course of eight or ten days, I will as soon as possible reship them to Messrs Gibson and Jefferson , your Correspondents in Richmond . As soon as I can get at the amount of duties, freight &c. I will forward it to...
16107Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Reperusing your interesting Syllabus I have recalled in my mind a train of thoughts—which I brought in writing about twenty years past and Send then—for his criticisms—to my old friend Joshua Toulmin of Taunton —father of the judge in the Missisippi Territory —which treatise has been irrecoverably lost on its passage to England . Having hurted my right leg—in my garden—by carelessness—which...
16108Enclosure: Francis Adrian Van der Kemp’s Synopsis of a Proposed Book, [ca. 1 November 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Memoirs respecting the person and doctrine of J.C. compiled from S.S. Outlines Part. i Præliminarÿ discussions Developement of the general principles of nat: Religion. Inquirÿ in the authenticity of the S.S.—of the Jewish Religion writings — the lxx
16109From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Mary Catherine Hellen Adams, October 1816 (Adams Papers)
On the Portrait of My Husband. The painters Art would vainly seize That harmony of Nature; Where Sense and goodness joined with ease Shine forth in every feature.— That open front where wisdom sits, That eye which speaks the Soul; That brow that study gently knits That bright attempered whole, That vast variety of mind Capacious, clear and strong, Where brilliancy of wit refined Enchants the...
16110From William Smith Shaw to John Quincy Adams, October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 7 April last, I never had the pleasure to receive untill the 30 June. At that time, I was most severely afflicted by a violent attack of the rheumatism which confined me for nearly three months afterwards and of which I have not even now perfectly recovered. Since my convalescence from the last attack of the session of the District Court for Sept term & that of the Circuit...
16111To James Madison from Eleazer W. Ripley, October 1816 (Madison Papers)
May it please your Excellency Capn. Dinsmore late of the Army distinguished himself at Plattsburg. He is a worthy upright man and has lost a large proportion of his property in consequence of the political Law decisions of Massts. during the War. I consider himself some way entitled to the notice and patronage of the Govt. With respect & constn I have the honor to be Yr mo. ob. & hble ser RC (...
16112To John Adams from Richard Rush, 31 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
In further answer to your favor of the 20th of last month, I beg leave to say, that I have just returned from the visit I talked of making to Philadelphia. I find it to be as decidedly the opinion of my mother and brothers, as I confess it was my own, that my fathers letters should not be given up for the press. If, therefore, you should write to Doctor Mease, may we venture to ask it of your...
16113Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As, in pursuing the cause of peace, I make a free use of your name And your writings, it is but just that I should Submit to your inspection what I publish to your inspection. For this reason I put into the post office directed to you No’s 4 And 5 of the Friend of Peace, And shall now Send No. 6. It is my Aim to be impartial, but I Am liable to misapprehend. If in Any thing I have mistaken...
16114To James Madison from Moses Ray, 30 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
You may deem it the height of presumption in me as a private and I may say an obscure individual to address the first Officer in Our Country. The object I have in view will I trust be a sufficient excuse for the intrusion. I have determined upon endeavouring to settle with 2 or 300 Families on the fertile banks of the Ohio, Mississippi or on any good lands Contiguous to navigable waters. Our...
16115To James Madison from Thlucco and Hopoie, 30 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
We have put some of our men on the road to See you, Colo, Hawkins now being dead, we have no person to do our business. When you See these men, who are a deputation from us to you, they will represent our whole people. Ever Since the War we have not had any thing Set[t]led Straight with us, we hope you will Settle every thing Straight with them. Friend & Brother, We have often Sent you our...
16116David Curtis DeForest to James Monroe, 30 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
Although I am very sensible that any request of mine will have but little weight with the President I think it my duty to request you to inform him that I am in posession of property to a large amount belonging to Citizens of the U. States &, that, as it is impossible to realize its value at the present moment, I fear it will be difficult to remit it in safety without some naval force to...
16117Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 30 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve this instant, and at this place your letter of the 17 th the property of the three younger children of Bennet Henderson dec d sold to me by their guardians , paid for while they were under age, and of which I am possessed, I am ready to give up, in consequence of their refusing confirmation; and I left directions accordingly with my grandson on leaving home. I will also pay any...
16118Edwin Stark to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return last evening to this place I found your letter of the 10 th Inst I have the pleasure to inform you the box shipt by M r Banger of Phil a to my care was on the day of its arrival here forwarded to M r Richard Thweatt of Petersburg with a particular request that he would send it on with as little delay as possible RC (
16119To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 29 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have acknowledged the receipt of your seven Letters, dated in July, and August, received by Mr Thacher and Mr Bigelow and also of one dated in May, but very lately delivered by Mr Brooks. It is more than time for me to reply to their contents. I never had much relish for the speculations of the first philosophy. In that respect I resemble your Eels in Vinegar, and your mites in cheese, more...
16120Christopher Clark to Thomas Jefferson, 29 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
mr Jeffersons Reasoning in the case of the wittnessth against Robertson for perjury is strong and Conclusive for the defendant if he is Right in his premisses, and even if it Shall be found erroneous in matter of law the length of time which has pased away since his attention was particularly caled to legal inquiry and the absence of books will be an ap ample apology for a Sketch proceeding...
16121From John Adams to Henry Colman, 28 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Basanists might have gone farther. he might upon the same principles & with the same arguments have produced a greater number of candidate for apotheosis. By the doctrine of Rome, and of England, the king eternal, immortal, & invisible, the only wise God that is the holy Ghost was communicated to his Apostles by the Son of God, or God the Son, & by them, transmitted down from St. Justin and...
16122From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 28 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your former kindness, and your known benevolence encourages me to again solicit your aid Mr Clark, to whom I gave a Letter of introduction to you, not long since, and for whom you once before interested yourself, is very desirious of engageing in some active employ more congenial to his feelings, than doing Duty on Board a ship in port. With the consent of Commodore Bainbridge, he last week...
16123From John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 28 October 1816 (Jay Papers)
Having heard much of your Discourse before the New York Historical Society, it gave me pleasure to recieve a Copy of it; and to find from the Direction that I owed it to your friendly attention. It abounds in interesting Remarks— The Diction is elevated throughout— perhaps in some Instances beyond the proportion which the Topics bear to each other. In Landscape we prefer Hill and Dale to a...
16124William H. Crawford to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter recommending M r Armistead for an appointment in the war department has been duly Rec d by the mail. Several vacancies exist in the Accountants office, but owing to the unfortunate death of Col o Lear will Not be filled until that office is filled. M r Armistead
16125Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already written to you by this mail , & at the same time sent you a pamphlet. I now send your n o of the Repository.— I hope it will be convenient & agreeable to you to give me, if it is only a dozen lines, your opinion of the paper, typography, engravings & plan & importance of the Repository.— I have already mentioned that your opinion with that of M r Madison & others, are to appear...
16126To James Madison from Joseph Delaplaine, 27 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your obliging favour of the 22d instt. As you have enjoined it on me not to make use of the observations contained in your letter relative to my work, because you have not yet perused it, so I shall most strictly comply. As soon, however, as you are prepared to honour me with your opinion of its merits & general execution, which you may permit...
16127To James Madison from John S. B. Lang, 27 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
It is with Regret I must address you But with the hope that you will Be So Kind as to Take into Consideration my Humble Request. I am and old Soldier who Has Served my Country more then Sixteen years and During our Last Glorious Contest have Served During the war. In the Latter Term the Procklimation under Date of the 17th June 1814 was Published Directing all officers Non Comd. officers and...
16128Peter Derieux to Thomas Jefferson, 27 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Depuis la Lettre dont vous avés eu la bonté de m’honorer le 31. Juillet , J’en ai recu de mes parents en France , qui me croyent toujours dans L’espoir de la fortune de m r mazzei ; J’en ay appris aussi que depuis le retour du Roi, Le neveu du C te de Jaucourt mon beau pere, avoit eté nommé Ministre de La Marine , et comme ce fut principalement en consideration de mon alliance a cette famille que
16129To James Madison from Moses Porter, 26 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to reccommed to your notice for the appointment of Surgeon in the army, Doctor John Carpenter of this City; As Surgeon of Sea Fencibles during the late War, and as Acting Surgeon of a Post since the peace, he has by his zeal and assiduity in the discharge of his duty, by the Skill and Success of his practice together with his Uniformly correct and exemplary Deportment merited and...
16130Luis de Onís to James Monroe, 26 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
His excellency the viceroy of the kingdom of New Granada communicates to me, under date of the 2d of September last, that tranquillity being restored throughout the whole kingdom of Santa Fé, and all its provinces having submitted to His Majesty’s Government, the commander-in-chief, Don Pablo Morillo, has thought fit to raise the blockade which he had established on those coasts, the causes...
16131Samuel Harrison Smith to William Harris Crawford, 26 October 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Samuel Harrison Smith to William Harris Crawford. 26 October 1816, Treasury Department, Revenue Office. “A Keeper being requisite for a new Light House erected on Point Gammon, the name of Samuel A. Peak, with the accompanying recommendations, are respectfully submitted for the consideration of the President. “It is also requisite that the salary of the Keeper be fixed, which it is proposed...
16132Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your most obliging & kind letter of July 26: together with the particulars of two transactions, and a sketch of Peyton Randolph ’s life. These papers I consider entirely confidential & shall never go out of my hands. Of course, you will never be quoted relative to their contents. I am happy to mention this because you have enjoined it on me to...
16133John Steele to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved, consigned to me by Stephen Cathalan Esq r at Marseilles , a small Box by the Brig David Maffet , and a double Cask of Wine by the Ship Prosperity , both of which I have shiped on board the Sc r Hilan Capt. Hand , consigned to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson
16134From John Adams to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 25 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
A Lieutenant of the Navy under Commodore Bainbridge on board the Independence, is in a tender state of health, & thinks this climate is too severe for his Constitution in its present condition, he therefore ardently wishes to be ordered to some ship in the Mediterranean. If there is no national vessel Ship going there he would take passage in a Merchant Vessel. Though I have personal reasons...
16135To James Madison from John Rhea, 25 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform You that Yesterday a treaty was made and concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians; by it that nation has ceded to the United States all their claim to Lands laying east of a boundary, beginning at the mouth of Ooktibbuha (a large Creek runing into the Tombigby River on the West) the Chickasaw boundary, and runing thence down the Tombigby River untill it...
16136William Lee to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter you did me the favor to write me under date of the 24th of August after having travelled from Boston to Philadelphia and then back to Boston found me here a few days since which will account for my not having acknowledged the receipt of it before this. I have not forgotten Sir the great obligations I am under to you and that I have lived so much in your memory as to have merited...
16137Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 25 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As sister Ellen is writing to mama my Dear Virginia , I will write also by this opportunity, to you, for I suppose you will expect a letter in return for the one you favour’d me with when you were here . we arriv’d here in safety after a journey pleasant enough, for the weather was very fine except being rather cold, mornings & evenings, but we were well wrapt up, having a cloak apiece of...
16138From Abigail Smith Adams to Dolley Payne Todd Madison, 24 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of October 12th was an unexpected pleasure, and I cannot regret the occasion which gave rise to it, altho there appears now to have been some mistake respecting it. I have heard my Friend frequently mention the circumstance, communicated to him by mr Stodart, tho not untill it was out of his power to comply with it, and with Sincere Regret that it was so. for beside the high...
16139From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 24 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
I am not conscious that I have been deficient in a return to all the Letters you have written to me, and I now acknowledge your last, july 31st you have had a long vacation—I hope it has not all been Spent in amusement, and dissipation—you knew I used to wish you back to your School; when the vacation was only a fortnight. you sometimes used to think hard of it. you will not think so, when you...
16140From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 24 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have not had any opportunity of returning the Letter and paper you Sent me on Saturday. mr C. did not call here on Sunday, but went on to Hingham. he did not return on Sunday Evening with Susan as I expected, nor Stop here on Monday, all of which I dissaprove—the poor Mans mind is much perplexd. we had a conversation, which gave rise to a Letter of a Friendly Nature, and a most tender and...
16141From James Madison to Prettyman Merry, 24 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 17th. instant. The public Vessels which are or may be employed in the Mediterranean being all furnished with official Surgions, and there being also others in public pay waiting for employment, you will perceive the impossibility of providing for your son in the way you wish. He can not be otherwise accomodated than as a passenger, at his own expence. Should he...
16142To James Madison from Joshua Dawson and Others, 24 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
The subscribers, take the liberty, respectfully to represent to the president of the United States, the following grievance, to which they are likely to be subjected, in consequence of permission granted by the president, to Mr. Richard Forrest, to occupy as a Stable, the building on the South-east-corner of G, and 14th. Street, formerly in possession of the president. The building, ranging...
16143From James Madison to Joshua Wingate, Jr., 24 October 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Joshua Wingate Jr. 24 October 1816. “J. Madison requests the favor of Mr. Wingate to dine with him, on Thursday next, at Four o’clock. An answer is requested.” RC ( ICHi ). 1 p. Printed invitation, with blank spaces for name, date, and time, filled in Dolley Madison’s hand, and addressed by her.
16144From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 16th. would occupy me for 12 months, when I know not that I have 12 days to live. The Outlines of the Life I shall be happy to receive. Basanistes is a Jeu d’Esprit. There is nothing new in it. It is only like viewing Boston Harbour from Weymouth great Hill by a Man who had often Seen it from Bacon Hill. The Same “ Analysis of Investigation ,” might be applied to prove that...
16145Thomas H. Palmer to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon the liberty I am taking of enclosing a letter to my brother, who is at present on his way from Lexington K y to Petersburg, V a . This The letter which I enclose will be useless unless it reach him before he gets to Petersburg & Monticello is the only place he has mentioned of his route. If G. P. has not yet reached Monticello , you will oblige me by keeping the letter...
16146William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I now submit to you the last sheets of my sketches of M r H. which I am sorry to find more numerous than I expected, and I pray you to forgive the very great trouble which I am sincerely ashamed of having imposed on you.—Your remarks have been of great service to me not only by enabling me to correct mistakes in fact, but by putting me on a severe inquisition of my style which I am perfectly...
16147From John Adams to James Madison, 22 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Thank you for your favour of the 12th. The Anecdote mentioned in my Letter of the 4th of September, is of no consequence to the Public, though, it may interest the private Feelings of your Family and mine. Mr Stodert was my Auther. After all possibility of thinking seriously on the Subject was passed, Mr Stodert informed me of the Letter from Mrs Madison to Mr Steel mentioned in mine to you of...
16148To James Madison from Joseph Delaplaine, [ante–22 October 1816] (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the sketch of your life. I feel obliged by your kind attention to me. Justice shall be done to it. I hope, dear sir, you have received, before this, the first half volume of the Repository. If it will not be inconvenient, I should feel proud to receive from you two single lines of your approbation of the work. Something like approving of the...
16149From James Madison to Joseph Delaplaine, 22 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the instant. I had previously recd. a copy of the first half volume of the Repository. Of the general object of a work, which is to exhibit the likenesses & lives of selected Individuals, it would be superfluous to express an approbation. In the execution of the work, the essential merit must of course depend on the propriety of the selections, on the...
16150From James Madison to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 22 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 18th. inclosing a commission for me, as one of the Visitors of the Central College in Albemarle. With a reservation of the time required by my remaining duties at this place, I shall, with pleasure contribute my services in promoting the welfare of so beneficial an Institution. Accept Sir my esteem & great respect RC ( Vi : Executive Papers).