17351To James Madison from Americanus, 10 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Sir —When you were first elected president of the union, the republican party had great hopes that under your administration, with the examples of your predecessors before you, as practical beacons to point out the courses to be avoided or pursued, little reason would have been found for republican reprehension. In good truth we have not much to complain of. You have enabled us to answer with...
17352To James Madison from William Lackey and Samuel C. Roundey, 10 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
hear is a Nomber of Semen that Surved thar tim On Board of the Flotilla in Newyork Station in the Care of Commerdore Jacorb Lewis kind sir we Surved Our tim Out till Pease took place we Surved. Duren the War the was a number Recevid Bounty 48 Dollars But the purser george S Wise Refuesed paying Ours Witch was due to us Kind Sir we Thought to Reply to you to grant the Same if you please Sir we...
17353To James Madison from William H. Winder, 10 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
It is not without considerable difficulty that I persuade myself to intrude upon your time. The interest I feel on the subject will I hope apologize for what may perhaps be deemed a departure from the ordinary & regular course. A Bill to increase the staff of the army is depending before congress which if passed into a law will add another judge advocate to those already appointed—& should...
17354Enclosure: William Woods’s Survey of Land in Dispute between James Monroe and William Short, 21 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
This is a Plat of 68 acres of land lying in the County of Albemarle on the South side of Carters Mountain , & on the east side of Dick’s branch, being the land in controversy between Col o James Monroe & W m Short Esq r which having has been determined by arbitration to belong to Col o
17355From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 9 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of yesterday communicating your purpose, of resigning the Department of the Treasury. I need not express to you the regret at such an event, which will be inspired by my recollection of the distinguished ability and unwearied zeal, with which you have filled a station, at all times deeply responsible in its duties, through a period rendering them peculiarly arduous...
17356To James Madison from Christopher Ellery, 9 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor most respectfully to address you in behalf of Doctor Walter V. Wheaton, who visits the seat of government with the view of soliciting a personal interview, in the hope of thus attracting the more favorably your notice & attention to the claims set forth in the recommendatory letters & representations of his friends, who have urged his appointment as Hospital-Surgeon upon the...
17357To James Madison from James Monroe, 9 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Col: Hawkins, will accept the offer as of agent, for the boundary under Porter, and there is reason to think that they are on a very good footing. His name is “Samuel.” He had better be sent in to day, and it will be fortunate if he & Col: Austin go together. Consuls, I. C. Barnett for Paris of Jersey Septimius Tyler of Connecticut for Bayonne. Joseph Ficklin, Kentucky, for St Bartholomews....
17358François Gard to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perhaps be Surprized at the Liberty I take in addressing you, but being governed by motives of humanity & encouraged in my design by Some military gentlemen and merchants of the united States now in this place, I Beg leave to claim your attention for a moment, on the Situation of the unhappy persons in your country who have the misfortunate misfortune to be deaf & dumb. afflicted...
17359James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Under Cover you have $3 25 100 having Overpaid Cha s Stewart that sum to day for Butter. I had taken a part of the Butter for my Own Use which he was not apprised of RC ( MHi ); dateline beneath signature; addressed: “Tho s Jefferson Esqre Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Apr. 1816 and so recorded in SJL .
17360Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Je saisis avec Empressement une Occasion favorable, celle de Monsieur hide de Neuville nouvellement Ambassadeur de françe près Votre Gouvernement, pour Vous renouveller les assurances de mon respect, de mon ancien Attachement, et de toute ma gratitude— Je vous ai dit et n’oublierai jamais L avantâge que vous m’avés procuré de revenir dans ma Patrie avec S: E. Monsieur Crawford et M r Jackson...
17361Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It had escaped my recollection till this moment that you had desired me to send you the copy of La Harpe’s journal. you will find bound up with it some Extracts from it which I had made because bearing immediately on the question of right, and a duplicate copy of the letters of Cevallos Salcedo & Herrera . if your office possesses the original, as I am sure it does, I will be glad to have this...
17362John F. Oliveira Fernandes to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Desirous to See some of my Philadelphia and New york friends, I Left Norfolk on the 24 th ulto Your favour dated 26 th d o was recieved here on the 6 th instant— Immediatly after the reception of yours of the 24 th January
17363Enclosure: Joseph de Monteverde to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 2 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Correspondo á la favorecida de U d 20 de Ag to ult o acompañandole la adjunta Carta de D n Domingo Madan en resp ta á la q e U. le escrivió á dho S or , por la q e quedará U. enterado de la aplicacion que hizo de los $109.37, q e
17364Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. to W. Short. The inclosed was omitted by accident to be forwarded to you in my last. it is a necessary document for you in your settlement with mr Carter . I salute you ever and affectionately. P. S. I send also mr Carter ’s letter shewing he had agreed to pay what he recieved & interest. RC ( ViW: TJP ); dateline adjacent to postscript; endorsed by Short as received 15 Apr. Enclosure:...
17365To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknolege your two favors of Feb. 16. & Mar. 2. and to join sincerely in the sentiment of mrs Adams, and regret that distance separates us so widely. an hour of conversation would be worth a volume of letters. but we must take things as they come. You ask if I would agree to live my 70. or rather 73. years over again? to which I say Yea. I think with you that it is a good world on...
17366To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 8 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your indifference, as to the result of the Elections to the Presidency of the United States, and to the office of Governor of your own Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which I find avoided in your favour of 7. February is the best of all possible political symptoms—It proves, first that you consider all the Candidates as men likely to fill the respective Stations, if elected to them, with credit...
17367From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
We wait with much anxiety for Letters, to reassure us on account of your health; although the last accounts were highly favorable, for which I am indebted to my old and valuable friend Harriet Welsh, we yet cannot feel perfectly satisfied, until we are assured under your own hand, of your complete restoration to the blessing of health. I am at last enabled to answer your questions concerning...
17368From James Madison to Wilson Cary Nicholas, [8 April 1816] (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of your letter, I made enquiry of Mr Latrobe concerning the young French Engenier to whom Commodore Decatur referred; and found that he had returned to France. He is the Mr. Surville named in the inclosed communication from Mr L. This paper grew out of the conversation I had with him on the occasion; and will I hope aid your efforts in carrying advantagiously [ sic ] into...
17369From James Madison to the Senate, 8 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate Jacob D. Williamson, of Virginia, to be principal Assessor of the 8th collection district of the same State, in the place of John Stephenson, resigned. Hasting Jennings, of South Carolina, to be Collector of direct taxes and internal duties, for the 8th collection district of the same State; William Langley having declined the appointment. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings,...
17370From James Madison to the Senate, 8 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate James Trecothick Austin, of Massachusetts to be agent on the part of the United States as authorized by the Treaty of Ghent, for managing the business of the United States under the 4th Article of said Treaty. Samuel Hawkins, of New York, to be agent in like manner for managing the business of the United States under the 6th and 7th Articles of the same Treaty. RC ( DNA : RG 46,...
17371To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 8 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
As it is not my intention to pass another winter in Washington, I think it a duty to give you an opportunity, to select a successor for the office of Secretary of the Treasury, during the present session of Congress. I will chearfully remain, however, if you desire it, to put the National Bank into motion; presuming that this object can be effected before the 1t. of October next. Permit me,...
17372To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 8 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
In reflecting on the subject on which you did me the honor to converse with me this morning, the appointment of a principal Engineer to direct the improvement of the State of Virginia by Roads & Canals, under the Establishment lately formed for that patriotic purpose, I have thought that I may venture, so far to intrude upon your time, as to offer to you, & through You, to the Government of...
17373Presidential Proclamation, 8 April 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Presidential Proclamation. 8 April 1816, Washington. Proclaims the treaty with the Cherokee Indians to be in force (see JM to the Senate, 26 Mar. 1816, and n. 1). Printed copy ( Daily National Intelligencer, 18 Apr. 1816).
17374Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 8 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your two favors of Feb. 16. & Mar. 2. and to join sincerely in the sentiment of mrs Adams , and regret that distance separates us so widely. an hour of conversation would be worth a volume of letters. but we must take things as they come. You ask if I would agree to live my 70. or rather 73. years over again? to which I say Yea. I think with you that it is a good world on...
17375William Wingate to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The candor and Integrity of Your Heart, Manifested in Your Letter to me , has induced me for to communicate to You the enclosed volume, for Your perusal, Sincerely wishing that it may prove usefull to you, but if you Should find that it contains Sentiments different from your own, I am confident that your candor and charity will induce You for to impute my error to a fault in the Head and not...
17376From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
Upon this day solemnized to me, by the anniversary of the death of my beloved Sister, and by the recent event of yesterday, which has cut off an other Relative from the Parent Stock, by the death of our Friend mr William Smith. my mind is so much affected, that I shall feel a releif in communicating my feelings.—I am still living, lingering upon the confines, of the Grave, where e’er this day,...
17377From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Carter Smith, 7 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
For Several Months past, I little thought my Dear Friend, that I Should have been the Sunium to Sympathise with you; in the affliction you are call’d to Suffer by the Death of your excellent, and beloved partner, and my Friend, & Relative—Whom from his earliest years, I have loved as a Brother; whose Fathers house in my youth; was a home to me; as my Fathers was to him. Intimately connected,...
17378From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 7 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
During my present Residence in Europe, I have had the pleasure of receiving one Letter from you, dated the 4th. of April 1815. which was delivered to me, on my first arrival in this Country last Summer, by Mr N. A. Haven, of whom it was introductory. I have attributed to the multitude of your occupations my not having heard oftener from you directly, and it has been a satisfaction to me, under...
17379Giovanni Carmignani to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Filippo Mazzei che si onorava dell’amicizia Sua ha cessato di vivere nel 19. del decorso mese di marzo. Egli ha lasciata una figlia ed una moglie superstiti. Ha conferita a quest’ultima la tutela dla figlia attualmente costituita in età minore, ed a me la curatela dla tutrica Uno degli assegnamenti di qualche rilievo di questa famiglia è il credito di resto di prezzo di una tenuta che Ella,...
17380Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have too long neglected to remit you the amount of your account , which I believe is 24. D 68 c the reason has been that I wished to have made up a little catalogue of wants in the same way which has not yet been done; and being about setting out on a journey of a month’s absence, I must defer my catalogue, but in the mean time inclose you an order on mr Vaughan for the above sum. Accept the...