183201From Thomas Jefferson to William Moore, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To Capt. William Moore, & Lieutt. John Whiteman, the other officers & privates of their company of light infantry of the first regiment & first brigade of the militia of Delaware. I recieved on the 8th inst. your letter covering the resolutions of Aug. 13. whereby your company offer themselves as volunteers for the service of their country, should it’s exigencies call for them. the offer is...
183202To Thomas Jefferson from Chandler Price, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Having this day purchased the Brig North Star, with the sole view of placing her in the regular Trade between this port & new Orleans, I have made application through Genl Steel, Collector, & which will no doubt be laid before you, for permission to sail the North Star as a regular Trader between this Port & New Orleans, in like manner as I am now permitted to sail my other vessels in the same...
183203From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter for T. B. Randolph containing his appointment as a Cadet. but the lodgings at the Military school at Westpoint being entirely full, he cannot be recieved there till the 1st. of March. indeed he could do nothing there sooner, as their vacation begins with November & ends with February. Genl. Dearborne proposed to me yesterday a new regulation respecting the Cadets. there...
183204From Thomas Jefferson to Owen Roberts, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Doctor Rogers, & his thanks for the communication in his letter of September 12th. not recieved till the 3d. inst. the sentiments contained in his address are truly republican, and, were they as general as they are laudable, woul leave us without uneasiness under any unfriendly dispositions of the other hemisphere. Catalog--Rubinfine.
183205To Thomas Jefferson from Harry Toulmin, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To his Excellency the President of the United States, the humble petition of the undersigned, residents on the Tombigbee & Alabama rivers, respectfully sheweth. That several of their fellow citizens under the belief that the treaty between the United States and the Chactaws rendered it legal have lately driven large stocks of cattle above the old indian line but not so high as it supposed the...
183206To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following appointments in the First Legion of the Militia of the District of Columbia viz. Bayley Washington to be appointed Captain of Infantry William McKee " Lieutenant
183207From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Clagett, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 16th. specifying the particular papers inclosed me in 1806. has enabled me to turn to their proper deposit, where I have found them, and now inclose you all those which came to me under cover of the letter of 1806. with my respectful salutations. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183208From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Is the case proposed by mr Wolcott left by the law at the discretion of anybody? the law makes it the duty of the Collector to detain if he suspects an intention to export to a foreign market, à fortiori if that intention be avowed . it is true that the first step proposed is only to go to another district, but declared to be preparatory to an exportation to the West Indies. it is true also...
183209From Thomas Jefferson to Matthew C. Groves, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of the 11th. inst. have been recieved, & I am obliged to observe that so wholly do the indispensable duties of my office engross my whole time that I could not give a deliberate reading to two letters so voluminous as these & not relating to my particular functions, without withdrawing time from objects having stricter claims on me. I have run over them hastily and percieve...
183210From Thomas Jefferson to David Hopkins, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 20. came to my hands on the 5th. inst. I have entirely forgotten the subject of your visit in 1806. and the mode you proposed of producing motion; and I am sure you greatly overrate any service I could render you even did my public duties allow me the time to consider your proposition carefully. but these duties so entirely engross the whole of my time, & especially on the...
183211To Thomas Jefferson from Louis-Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu la Lettre très Polie, dont vous m’avés honoré en date du 27 Août der.; Mais cette Lettre ne repondant point au principal Objet de la mienne du 15 prècédent, je suis obligé quoiqu’avec regret de vous importuner de Nouveau. Je vous Demandois la permission particuliére que vous avés accordeé a deux individus partis sur le der. Navire pour france. Il m’est pénible d’Etre obligé de vous...
183212From Thomas Jefferson to James Main, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. has been duly recieved. certainly I would with great pleasure contribute any thing in my power to render the history you propose to write a faithful account of the period it will comprehend. nothing is so desirable to me, as that after mankind shall have been abused by such gross falsehoods as to events while passing, their minds should at length be set to rights by...
183213From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a petition of the widow Bennet for the liberation of her son at Boston, a Minor, or for a moiety of 3. months pay to enable her to go to another son. I think when her case was formerly before us, she was said to be a woman of ill fame, & that her son did not wish to return to her. still however the mother, if there be no father, is the natural guardian, & is legally entitled to...
183214To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse B. Thomas, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor of transmiting you the enclosed Resolutions Agreeable to the instructions of the House of Representatives of this Territory I have the Honor to be sir your Very Humble Servt. MoSHi : Bixby Collection.
183215To Thomas Jefferson from Captain Armstrong, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
aftur my kind respects to you I must Inform you that we have every anscious desire to obtain our deed for the thirteen sections which was granted to us by the united States as soon as possible We therefore have taken this opportunity of leting you know our humble request, hopeing that your honor will prescribe some way for us to obtain the title for our land which was granted to us as I before...
183216To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have accompanied to this City my friend Jesse Kersey, a minister of our Society, who is desirous to have a religious meeting with such of the inhabitants of this place as are willing to attend. The place appointed is the Baptist Meeting house at the intersection of 18 Street W and J Street N. Meeting to commence at 6 o’clock this evening. Jesse Kersey is a Minister in high esteem not only...
183217To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Chisholm, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I Left Poplar forrist the 7. of this mounth and Likewise told phill what he was to do and Left my Brother there to plaister the too rooms that you wanted done, as the flores was not Laid and the season for Brickmaking so far advanced I could not wait myself for the Carpenters work, and my Brother will work as fast as the carpenters, my not waiting for the Plaistering I hope will make no...
183218To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following appointments in the additional troops Viz Joseph Loring of Massachusetts to be appointed Captain in the 4th: Regiment of Infantry vice Capt. Charles Coffin resigned Henry Whiting of Massachusetts to be appointed Cornet in the Regiment of Light Dragoons. Accept, Sir, &c. DNA : RG 107--LSP--Letters Sent to the President.
183219To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Hanson, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I received from the Secretary of the Navy, some weeks ago, a communication requiring me to state to him any charges I might have to make against the Agents employed at the Navy-Yard, “to be laid before the President” On the 3d. instant, those charges were delivered to the Secretary On the 18th. I applied to him to know if they had been submitted to you He informed me that, owing to the press...
183220To Thomas Jefferson from George Hunter, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honor’d with your letter of the 14th Inst. and from its contents am satisfied with respect to the bond; and on recalling my attention to the proposition have found my self in error. allude it to my inexperience and want of age, being now only in my eightteenth year I hope you will forgive me of the error for which I am indebted to your Honor for pointing out to me as it will be a guard to...
183221To Thomas Jefferson from John Moody, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to Inform you I am Employed By Oliver Evans to Settle his Business with The Millars. Respecting thier useing his Improovements for Manufacturg flour without a Licence, or permit to Erect and use the Same, Mr. Evans has Authorized me to propose to these Millars & owners of Mills, That if they will pay Interest for the time they have use’d his Inventions with the principal he will...
183222To Thomas Jefferson from Wilson Cary Nicholas, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Most sincerely do I wish, both for the public interest and for your sake, either that our countrymen had more public spirit, or that the occasion called for the exertion of less. At a moment when we are beaten and buffetted by foreigners, our people very valiantly turn from their enemies, and wage a cruel war upon their best, their only friends. When I compare the real state of things with the...
183223Notes on Natural Bridge Lands, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
1808. Oct. 20. Wm. Jenkings of Rockbridge calls on me and offers to buy my lands at the Natural bridge. he says they are worth as much as the adjacent tract which has sold 2. or 3. times at 10. D. & some of it £4. an acre. he sais the land is thin. his view is to build a public house. he lives about 4. or 5. miles from the Bridge, which is 4. or 5. miles also from Greenlee’s ferry. he will...
183224To Thomas Jefferson from Lem. Chipman, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Inspired by the love of Freedom and a sincere attachment to our Government, with the most ardent desire for the welfare of the Union, we Electors of the county of Ontario, take the liberty of addressing your Excellency on a subject on which we consider our rights, our liberties & our indendence depend— In common with a large majority of our fellow-citizens we expressed our indignant feelings...
183225To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I have only a torn sheet of paper to write upon yet rather than to neglect writing at all I will make use of it; as I have no paper it will not be in my power to write again shortly to you or any body. Little Benjamins eye is almost well and I hope the next letter you receive from me will inform you that there is no more of that troublesome rising which incommoded him and alarmed us for...
183226To Thomas Jefferson from David Thomas, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your Excellency the bearer Nathan Wilson Esqr. my Successor—He is a Gentleman of correct Republican principles Allow me the oppertunity to assure you that there is no doubt of the integrity of the Republicans in this state on the approaching Presidential election The late Govr. Lewis and his very few political friends however have no influence with the party on this...
183227To Thomas Jefferson from James Westwood Wallace, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I postponed answering your favor of June, untill I received the sigars which you friendly sent: they are truly very fine, and thankfully received. Your wild Geese, are in high order. The Indiginous flowers, which I saved for you, died; in the dryness of our Summer. With the Geese be pleased to accept a pair of Summer Ducks, hatched, and raised by a hen, they are very gentle, and I hope will...
183228To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 21 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 17th. I received (we are Going on with Leaveling the garden also Geting stone for the house is to be built. Maddox is Gone from home and will not be back for some time (I shall hardly be able to bring horses enough to Bring home your Phaton as we have but one horse heare that is able to Travel. I shall bring on a good mule with the one horse we have) which will be sufficient to...
183229To Thomas Jefferson from John Baylis Earle, 21 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have never had the Honor either of corresponding or a very intimate acquaintance with you; the few hours I have so agreably spent in your company will long be a source of pleasing reflection and warrants the belief, that in addressing You upon a subject in which I concieve my country’s interest is involved, I shall neither be thought presuming or to exceed the limits of a citizens...
183230From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 21 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The case of the Martinique petitioners. I think it wrong to detain foreigners caught here by the embargo. but in permitting them to take our vessels to return in, we do what is a matter of favor, not of right. of course we can restrict them to a tonnage proportioned to their numbers. in the transport service I believe the allowance is 2. tons to every person. we may allow a little more room....