182151To James Madison from William Woods, 6 February 1810 (Madison Papers)
William Woods Grocer of Baltimore having some time since had the pleasure of Presenting a cheese made in the place where the Noted Mammoth cheese was made to that great and good Man Thos. Jefferson Esqr. late president of the U. S. and also the honour of his Acceptance thereof Now presents his best respects to James Maddison President of the United States of America and begs he will please...
182152To James Madison from Zepheniah Woods, 20 January 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ From Zephaniah Woods. Letter not found. 20 January 1806. Acknowledged in Daniel Brent to Woods, 23 Jan. 1806 ( DNA : RG 59, Records on Impressed Seamen, 1794–1815, Misc. Correspondence, box 11), as regarding his son Thomas Woods. Brent informed Woods that the documents concerning his son had been sent to William Lyman with instructions to do all he could to obtain Thomas’s release. Addressed...
182153To James Madison from Augustus Woodward, 1 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have this day seen number sixteen of the Essays on the Evils which have proved fatal to republics, published in Pittsburgh. I repeat an assurance heretofore given, and I believe with unqualified latitude, that I have no knowledge of, and no personal concern, even to the smalles. extent, in any species of speculation whatsoever, in this Territory, or elsewhere. It may for a moment be supposed...
182154To James Madison from Augustus Woodward, 8 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
Three circumstances that may not be entirely unimportant, two of which have a tendency to shew the views of Bonaparté relative to our country, and the other may hereafter confirm them, have lately come to my knowledge. They arrive through a channel from which, at first view, they would be little expected; that is the Indians of this quarter, and other parts of the country. The first relates to...
182155To James Madison from Augustus Woodward, 23 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State the enclosed papers, without any comment. Permit me to subscribe myself Sir, with the highest respect, your obedient servant, DNA : RG 59—Territorial Papers—TP, Michigan.
182156To James Madison from Augustus Woodward, 7 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
Finding the conduct of the party, in the recent application for an habeas corpus, to be extremely reprehensible; I deemed it more reasonable to require his attendance here. If the least curiosity should exist as to his case the enclosed papers will elucidate it. I have the honor, Sir, to enclose copies of a letter to me from Genl. Hull, and of my reply; and have the happiness to be, Sir with...
182157To James Madison from Augustus Woodward, 17 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have doubted whether I ought, or ought not, to transmit the enclosed Bill to the Secretary of State. I have at length concluded that no improper consequences could possibly result, and that his enlightened mind will appreciate what, if any thing, would be useful, and pass over that that might not be so. I have always thought that the protection afforded by independent states to real...
182158To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 26 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
The intelligence of a pacification, if authentic, as I presume it is, makes a great alteration not only in the state and affairs of the nation, but also of most individuals; and will excuse my addressing you a line personally. I dare not undertake to determine for myself whether the enterprize I have in view, and of which you are apprized, would be advanced, or retarded by a gratification of...
182159Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been diverted by public business from waiting on you so early as I expected. I contemplate setting out for Monticello to-morrow, or the day after. I am charged with two packages for you from D r Barton , of Philadelphia ; which I shall have the honor of presenting you, on my arrival. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Honorable Thomas Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Apr. 1814...
182160To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 8 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 8 May 1806, Washington. “I have the honor to communicate to the Secretary of State the constructions which the Governor and the judges of the Territory of Michigan have been compelled to give to their powers of legislation, in the course of exercising them. “The operative words of the ordinance are the Governor and the judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and...
182161To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 15 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. William O’Neale of the City of Washington, was originally invited to this place by the late Genl. Washington, for the purpose of exploring quarries for the public works. He has vested very considerable property in the City; but owing to that stagnation of business which has affected the United States generally, and which has particularly retarded the progress of the City, he finds himself...
182162To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 14 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 14 March 1806, Washington. “By an act of Congress of May the eighth one thousand seven hundred ninety two, laws of the United States volume two, page one hundred twenty five, the Secretary of State is to have printed certain laws, and to distribute ten sets of other laws. “By the act of january the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred five, laws of the United...
182163To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 14 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
The indifference which has sometimes been exhibited, in the execution of those regulations of the military department which relate to chaplains, has occasionally attracted the observation of a portion of the public. I think that I have heard both Major General Brown, and Major General Macomb, express their wish that a more strict attention were directed to this subject. Of the great delicacy...
182164To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 12 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to the president of the united states the observations alluded to in a former letter; and to be, with the greatest respect, his obedient servant, Considerations addressed to the president of the united states, on the subject of opening an intercourse between the american and Chinese governments. Several features of similitude exist between china and the united...
182165To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the happiness to transmit to the president, by mister digges, a paper entitled “memoir addressed to the president of the united states on the colonization of louisiana,” unaccompanied by my signature. Without a comparison of sentiments, the views of different minds are sometimes so dissimilar on the same subject, and so extremely divergent, that it is not without considerable diffidence...
182166To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 27 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
During my stay here the subject of opening an intercourse between our government and that of China has been pressed on my attention. It is certainly a matter perfectly congenial with my sentiments, and wishes; and I have consented to lay before the President of the United States a memorial on that Subject. In any mission our government might deem advisable to that country I would consider Mr....
182167To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 20 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In the volume of the encyclopédie, which the president was so kind as to lend me, I find a reference to a figure which is not contained in the same volume. I conclude therefore the plates are in a separate volume. The reference is (fig. Astron. 171.). If the president can conveniently turn to this figure I will be obliged to him to permit the bearer to bring the volume containing it. I...
182168Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
It would have been a great satisfaction to me to have had the pleasure of rendering you a visit at a more early period than the present. As I contemplate a resignation of the station I have held in the Western country , and settling in New-york , I propose to myself the happiness of seeing you previous to my return to the latter place. At this time, and in this place, I may consider the...
182169To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 31 March 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 March 1812, Michigan. Has “the honor to present his respects to the President of the United States; and to subject to his inspection the two enclosed papers.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, TP , Michigan). RC 1 p.; printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Michigan , 10:381. Enclosures 7 pp.; printed in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections , 36 [1908]: 249–51. For enclosures, see n....
182170To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 4 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 4 September 1806, Detroit. “Mr. Wagner’s letter of the 9. of august I had the pleasure to receive. The mail to Pittsburgh is very large, and I believe no inconvenience would result from the transmission of the package for me by mail. “I have to acknowledge the reception of the Acts of Congress, for which I am very grateful. “I am very sorry our own laws are not...
182171Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I left Washington this afternoon in prosecution of my journey to Monticello , and shall proceed on, in the stage, to Fredericsburgh , to-morrow morning. Presuming that the mail will travel faster than the state of the roads and weather will allow me to do I forward this line, from this place; not contemplating to write again on the road, unless detained by some unexpected contingency. Col....
182172To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 21 March 1807 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 21 March 1807, Detroit. “The last litigated question relative to titles here was decided yesterday. “I have the pleasure to add that the form of our report is the only thing of consequence now engaging our attention.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, TP , Michigan, vol. 1). 1 p.; docketed by Forrest as received 26 April. Printed in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections 36...
182173To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 1 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter is presented to you by Mr. John Woodward, my father; who waits on you for the purpose of soliciting some appointment under the government, such as he may be competent to, and which may serve as a retreat for his declining years. Aware how numerous applications to you of this nature are, and how difficult it is to gratify even a small portion of those who make them, whatever their...
182174To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Woodward has the honor to present his respects to the President of the United States of America, and to submit to his perusal a discussion on the organization of the executive departments of the government of the United States. The papers are the property of the honorable Judge Duvall, of the Supreme Court of the United States; to whom Mr. Woodward solicits of the President the favor that...
182175Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Woodward has the honor to transmit a small Philadelphia publication, which contains among other singular cases the case and speech of Eugene Aram ; and to present his respects.— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 12 Aug. 1814 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: The Criminal Recorder: or, An Awful Beacon to the Rising Generation of Both Sexes, Erected by the Arm of Justice to Persuade...
182176To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 14 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
The late mails have apprized the Governor, whether truly or not I am not able to say, that his character, and perhaps that of other members of this government, had been traduced at the seat of government, by the Secretary; and by the mail of Wednesday two publications in the Aurora, entitled “ On the evils which have proved fatal to republics ,” have reached us. As far as the measures therein...
182177To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 12 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 December 1803. Calendared as a two-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
182178Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of may 27. awakens, sir, anew, my sense of your undeviating kindness and condescension.— The system, of which the work I have transmitted is a partial developement, was formed in 1795, in rockbridge ; and just before I had the happiness of a first interview at monticello . The result of the presidential elections of 1796, and 1800, prevented me from presenting it to the public. In...
182179To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 4 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The senate having struck out the provision I contemplated in my late observations to the president, prevents any further attention to that point at this time. It is an object, which, for reasons that are obvious, interests me much; and I will be happy in the presidents retaining a recollection of it. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR ); addressed: “The president of the united states”; endorsed by TJ as...
182180To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
Allow me to present my acknowledgments for your obliging letter of September 11. 1824; which I had the happiness of receiving at St. Marks, in Florida. The principle, on which is founded the proposition of a standard of measure, in the memorial to the Senate, is at once so novel, and so simple, as to require time to admit its recognition. When the abstract verity of the principle is...
182181Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you, Sir, a work on the Executive of the United States . In every constitution formed in America , during the æra of the revolution, a council was attached to the executive. It is even a part of the British constitution. The federal constitution is the first without it. It is certainly of less importance in the State governments, than in that of the Union. You...
182182To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 31 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
The subject of the donations having been, through some discontented characters here, transferred to the press, I have enclosed what will serve as an explanation of it at the seat of government, and will shew that the source and object of the clamor do not merit serious attention, and that some little firmness is necessary in a government here, or otherwise the laws could not be supported. RC...
182183To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 16 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing will satisfy the unhappy James Mc.Girk, who is sentenced to be executed on the twenty eighth of this month, but that I should go to Monticello, to intercede with the President for his life. Oppressive and inconvenient as it is to me at this time, I suppose I must comply. I am the rather prompted to it, as I persuade myself that when his case is fully understood by the President, he...
182184Petition of Augustus B. Woodward and Others, with Jefferson’s Order (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscribers beg leave to represent to the President that a man by the name of John Henderson was tryed and Convicted before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington during their present Term for keeping a gaming table and fined agreeable to Our Laws One hundred thirty three dollars thirty three and one third Cents which together with the Costs of the...
182185To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 27 October 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 October 1803, Washington . “I am afraid I have not made myself perfectly understood by the secretary of state, with respect to some parts of the conversation I had lately the honor to hold with him. I will therefore add one or two observations to what was then mentioned.… I am now much disposed … to resign my present situation to another brother, … who will be obliged to leave this city in...
182186To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 31 January 1807 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 31 January 1807, Detroit. “I have the honor now to transmit to the Secretary of State the map which I promised to procure of, his Britannic Majesty’s province of Upper Canada, accompanied by a small pamphlet of statistical information. I made enquiries for it immediately on my return to this country, but having been confined to this side of the river by unceasing...
182187To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward and Others, [ca. 16 August 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned , compassionating the unhappy situation of James Mac Gurk, now confined in the jail of the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and sentenced to be executed on the twenty eighth day of August, 1802, and conceiving that his severe and rigid confinement for one year in the said jail, loaded with irons, a confinement protracted on account of the legal embarrassments...
182188To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 9 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Woodward’s object in calling this morning was to introduce to the President the reverend Mr. Richard, a worthy and respectable clergyman, a native of France, and at present at the head of the Catholic religion in Michigan. As Mr. Richard was desirous of seeing our government’s mode of conducting public business with the Indians, it would have gratified him to have been admitted this...
182189To James Madison from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 18 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
It will be a satisfaction to the department of State to learn that the laws of this Territory have at length arrived. There has hitherto been but one copy in the Territory. Of the north-western and Indiana laws there is not a complete copy in the Territory. The utmost harmony prevails among the military, on both sides of the river, and the citizens. Measures, severe more in appearance, than in...
182190To John Adams from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 16 October 1801 (Adams Papers)
Having learnt from the resolution of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has just appeared in the gazettes of the Territory of Columbia, that their attention is about to be directed, in a particular manner, to the subjects of light and of heat ; I do myself the honor to transmit you, as President of that institution, a work lately published by me, having an intimate connection...
182191To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 9 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Woodward will have the pleasure of introducing to the President the revd. Gabriel Richard of Michigan. Mr. Richard sustains the place of rector of the Catholic Church in that country, and is a man of most respectable character, and unsullied virtue and purity of demeanor. In the Territory of Michigan there is no minister of the gospel other than catholic, nor a single church or religious...
182192To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 4 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The respects of the undersigned accompany a package addressed to President Jefferson. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
182193To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 21 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose an explanation of the chrestomathie system of Jeremy Bentham, esquire, of London. M r Bentham was, formerly, in the habit of communicating to you his publications; and may have forwarded his “Chrestomathia.” I transmit twelve seeds of the indigenous orange of Florida. I flatter myself with the happiness, soon, of a personal interview in Albemarle. DLC : Papers of...
182194To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 18 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Woodward has the honor to present his respects to the President of the United States, and to request the favor of his acceptance of the volume which accompanies this. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
182195To John Adams from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 8 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
The respects of the undersigned await on President Adams. He has to acknowledge the reception of his kind letter of November 17th: 1824. The steady hand of time; which, while it eviscerates truth, also, fortunately, assuages animosities; will render justice to the pure fame of the venerable President. That his remaining days may be blessed with peace, health, and felicity, is, I cannot...
182196To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a fac-simile copy of a letter received from President Madison. He corrects an error into which he conceives I have fallen in ascribing to you the first modern written constitution. President Monroe, who carefully compared the constitution of Virginia with other documents known to have proceeded from your pen, was originally of opinion that my statement was...
182197To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 22 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned regrets that being so near Monticello he cannot avail himself of the opportunity of calling. He indulges a fond hope of enjoying that happiness at no distant period. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
182198Court-Martial, 2 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
A Commission, after the Form of that to Captain Stewart, was given to Captain Woodward. The Court met—vizt Captain Woodward, President. Captain Spotswood } { Captain Harrison Captain Lewis Members Lieutenant Blagg Lieutenant Bullet Lieutenant Eustace Lieutenant Lowry Ensign McCarty After hearing the Evidences for and against Sergeant Nathan Lewis’s Behaviour—The Court was divided; and could...
182199To George Washington from John Woodward, 15 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having formerly been a Merchant in this City, and having taken an active Part in the late Revolution the Consequences whereof entirely deranged my Pursuits, I am induced at this Commencement of the Administration to solicit an Employment under Government. Any Office in the Customs or in any of the other Departments to which I may be judged competent will be thankfully accepted. I shall not...
182200To Thomas Jefferson from John Woodward, 1 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordentown, 1 Feb. 1791 . In view of TJ’s 1 Dec. 1790 letter, which arrived yesterday, he wishes to be informed of openings in any federal department other than the Department of State. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers, Applications for Office); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Feb. 1791 and so recorded in SJL . The following letters also pertain to applications or recommendations for...