19481From Thomas Jefferson to William O. Callis, 8 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The acquaintance which I had the pleasure of having with you formerly, would scarcely, after such a length of time, justify the trouble I am about to give you. I must therefore rely for it on the circumstances of the case, and your own goodness. Mr. Marks, on his intermarriage with my sister, received among other slaves, a woman of the name of Nance , a weaver by trade. She was then 24. years...
19482From Thomas Jefferson to William O. Callis, 19 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On reciept of your letter asking employment in the navy for your son, I inclosed it to the Secretary of the Navy who is at present at Baltimore. his answer is that your son can take his station with the midshipmen, and that his first emploiment will be in one of the gunboats. you omitted to mention his name, or the warrant would now have been sent. as I set out for Monticello in 4. days it...
19483From James Madison to William Overton Callis, 27 November 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 27 November 1792. Acknowledged in Callis to JM, 9 Dec. 1792 . Requests vouchers needed for Callis’s Revolutionary War claim and comments on the state of the army account books.
19484From James Madison to William Overton Callis, 10 November 1791 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 10 November 1791. Acknowledged in Callis to JM, 18 Nov. 1791 . Concerns sale of Callis’s land warrant and settlement of a Revolutionary War claim.
19485From James Madison to William Overton Callis, 25 November 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 25 November 1792. Acknowledged in Callis to JM, 2 Dec. 1792 . Concerns Callis’s Revolutionary War claim. Recommends voting for Clinton over Adams for vice-president, as antirepublicanism is now a greater danger than anti-federalism.
19486From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Calloway, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Dunglison’s letter herein inclosed will sufficiently explain it’s object. the University of Virga in which he is Professor of anatomy and medicine being a new instn, as yet unprovided with what is necessary for it, he has supposed he could so far rely on your frdshp as to engage you to procure for it the Anatomical articles of which he gives a list in the inclosed letter. joining him in...
19487From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Call, 30 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Laws of this State rendering it necessary that all purchases of necessaries for the Army should pass through the Hands of the Commercial Agent by whom they may be properly carried into Account, it is impossible for us to take notice of any purchases made by the Continental Staff or other Officers. We furnish the Staff at such Times and in such Proportions as we are able with money, which...
19488From Thomas Jefferson to William Call, 12 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
You are not unacquainted with the Desire which Government has long had of erecting some defensive works at Hoods in your County which might protect so much of the river as lies above that place. The late Incursion of the Enemy up the river, their Acknowledgements of the Obstructions which that Post, well prepared, might have been to their Enterprize, their taking permanent post at Portsmouth,...
19489From Thomas Jefferson to William Call, 18 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
We are so exceedingly anxious to get the work at Hoods complete that we will make the proposition to the militia of your County in the form you propose; that is to say every man of your County who will go himself or send an able labourer to work at Hoods twelve days between this time and the sixth of May carrying with him an Axe and a Spade, if he has one or if he has no Spade then a hough in...
19490From Thomas Jefferson to Calonne, 7 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour on the 2d. of November last to acknowlege the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of October the 22d. wherein you were so good as to communicate to me the arrangements which the king had been pleased to make for the encouragement of the commerce of the United states of America with his subjects. I immediately made known the same to the Agents of the United States in the...