25181Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have purchased a spinning machine in Washington , thro’ the friendly agency of Doct r Thornton , for which the bearer Davy is now sent with a cart. he is furnished with provisions for himself & horses to Washington and back, and 5.D. for his ferriages & other accidental calls, and therefore I have no reason to expect he will need any thing more. should any extraordinary accident, or a longer...
25182Joseph St. Leger d’Happart to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
At the receipt of my claim, in a draft, which, I hope, will be duly discharg’d, I find myself under inexpressible obligations to you and by you, to accept the present acknowledgments, for the Service, you have, So kindly, render’d me, in the case. Gratitude, being one of the most precious principles, man can possess, happy, indeed, must he be, who can appreciate all the delights, there are in...
25183Thomas Jefferson to David Michie, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 17 h to M r Peyton communicated to me on the 18 h & that of the 18 h to myself delivered the same day conveyed the first notice I have ever had that you claimed a single foot of the lands which had belonged to the late Bennett Henderson . I am a bonafide purchaser of those lands and paid more for them than I thought their clear fee simple value, which I certainly should not...
25184Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you three days ago thro’ the post office, but by an unfortunate change of our post days, I expect my cart will convey this sooner still to it’s destination. the object of that letter was to explain the delays which had taken place in sending for the Spinning machine; the present is to request you to have it delivered to the bearer, Davy , who carries a cart for the purpose. instead of...
25185To James Madison from George Joy, 19 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
Though the debates of last evening exhibiting the pitiful and undignified manner in which Ministers are retreating from the Orders in Council, after the sordid principles upon which they have endeavoured to sustain them, give little encouragement to the hope of any beneficial consequences; I think it right to inform you that I have an appointment with Lord Sid-mouth at one O’Clock to morrow...
25186Presidential Proclamation, [19 June] 1812 (Madison Papers)
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Whereas the Congress of the United States by virtue of the constitutional authority vested in them, have declared by their act bearing date the 18th day of the present month, that war exists between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependences thereof, and the United States of America and their Territories;...
25187To James Madison from William Eustis, 19 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 June 1812, War Department. Proposes the appointment of Edward Fox of Pennsylvania as commissary general in the U.S. Army. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). 1 p. JM nominated Fox in a message to the Senate of 22 June 1812. The Senate referred the nomination to a select committee on 26 June. JM withdrew Fox’s name on 1 July and replaced it with that of Samuel Carswell of Pennsylvania (...
25188Ebenezer Herrick to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
imediately after writing to yo u I was seised with an extreme fit of Illness which confined me to my bed until a few days since which is the only reason why I did not send the machine according to yours as well as my own calculations But the misfortune however disagreeable was unavoidable I have Marked the Machine or the parts of it so that I think there will be no difficulty in putting it...
25189Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 19 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 15. came to hand in due time. on the course of the suit of Livingston , I had thought with you that the question of jurisdiction might have been kept in reserve, as a dernier resort, and had suggested to the gentlemen in Richmond the pleading 1. the general issue, which would have tried the question of the public title, very interesting to the city of New Orleans ; 2....
25190From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 18 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
In the course of the last Autumn and Winter, I wrote you five Letters on a particular, but most interesting subject; one of which I perceive by yours of 18. December you had then received—Soon after writing the last of them I became engaged in occupations which stopp’d me in the progress of my plan to continue that Series of Letters, and afterwards during the remainder of the Winter, my own...
25191To James Madison from the Newport Independent Volunteers, 18 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 June 1812, Newport, Rhode Island. “Considering this the most important and most eventful Crisis that has occurred since the existence of the United States as a Nation, that at a time like the present, when it is presumed they are on the eve of a war with a most powerful nation, it becomes the duty of every citizen of the United States to declare his confidence in the government of his...
25192Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
We wrote to you on the 9 th Ins t with a copy of your Sales and Account Current to which we refer you—As the writer is under the necessity of leaving town tomorrow and may possibly be detained longer than he at present proposes, we take the liberty of forwarding you a note for your signature, we leave the amount blank, that you may fill it up with whatever sum may suit your wants— O. Philpotts...
25193David Michie to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting to you a Copy of a Corrospondence between myself and M r Peyton on the subject of my title to erect a water grist mill on the site near the one formerly occupied by Col o Bennett Henderson .— M r Peyton in a verbal Conversation with me yesterday having disclaimed any interest in the premises, and having explicitly avowed that throughout the whole of his...
25194William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of your Letter of the 24 th Ult o inclosing fifty Dollars, which I delayed answering from day to day till I am astonished at the lapse of time. I waited in daily expectation of the arrival of your Servant, and had the machine prepared accordingly. I have heard nothing of him yet, and cannot remain any longer silent, lest some accident may have happened.— I am still unwell, but...
25195From John Adams to Samuel B. Malcom, 17 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I lost no time, in writing to Mr Madison, and to all I could Say in your favour inclosed your original Letter which had a frankness a Sort of honesty, and a Species Veri in it, which I was confident you would do you no harm. I added an affectionate recommendation of my own. Your Letter has been returned to me, as I requested, with information that the office had been given to another, before...
25196To James Madison from Mason Locke Weems, 17 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I send your Excellency this little pamphlet because of the very great pleasure it gives me to let you see that tho I cannot fight the British into their better senses I am at least endeavoring to do something with those Deluded ones of our own People, the Gamblers. I was talking with Your Excellency last night on a subject which lies uncommonly near to my Heart—i.e, to convince the Great Mass...
25197To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 17 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 June 1812, Wiscasset. Benjamin Homans, “lately the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has been removed from that Office by the intemperate persecutions of the Party who are opposed to good Government.” Mentions having previously spoken to JM and to President Jefferson about Homans’s merits and declares that his integrity and “warm Patriotism” as well as “his sufferings from the...
25198Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th has been duly recieved, together with my account. by this I percieve that there does not remain enough in your hands to pay the 2000.D. into the bank which I so much wished. this has been occasioned by the deficiency of my tobacco crop before explained, and recently here by the short delivery of 140. barrels of flour due to me from the mills, and for which I see I must...
25199Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Jones, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day write to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to remit you 200.D. on my account, and have to request you to send me the articles below stated, and as quickly as possible, as I apprehend that every day may increase the danger of a safe passage by sea. I have at the same time to request you to make the small paiments for me below stated. they are such as cannot be separately remitted to the...
25200Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
a steel plate cross cut saw 3. files for setting it. RC ( ViU : TJP ); dateline beneath signature; written on a small scrap; at foot of text: “M r Leitch.” Not recorded in SJL .
25201Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
From my letter of May 24. you had reason to expect that a cart would be upon you immediately for Barrett’s machine. when while I was preparing to send one off I was assured a waggon would set out from this neighborhood within a few days for Washington , which should bring my machine on it’s return, and it was not till last night that I learned that I could not avail myself of that conveyance....
25202Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your acceptable letter of May 17. came to hand ten days after date, and I duly estimate your approbation of my rudiments of the case of the Batture . I observe by the papers that Livingston’s suit against the Marshal for the same trespass, came before the federal court of Orleans , on the 24 th of April , on the plea that he was not a citizen of New York , in which character he had sued that...
25203From James Madison to Congress, 16 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 June 1812. “I transmit, for the information of Congress, copies of a letter to the Secretary of State from the Charge de Affaires of the United States at London, accompanied by a letter from the latter to the British Minister of foreign affairs.” RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 12A-E2). Each RC 1 p.; in...
25204To James Madison from Asa A. Gaylord, 16 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 June 1812, Bath, Steuben County, New York. Commands a battalion of riflemen in western New York. “Actuated by a love of Country, and viewing the storm of war as not far distant, the officers and Soldiers under my Command, consisting of three hundred men including officers, have authorized me to tender their services to you under the act of Congress entitled ‘An Act to authorize the...
25205Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 16 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 4 th of Nov. last I wrote to you requesting another quarter cask of powder to be forwarded to me with a note of the cost that I might remit for that & the preceding one together. not having heard from you, I repeated my request in a letter of Apr. 30. and at the same time desired mr John Barnes of Geo. town to remit you 50. Dollars, which he informed me he had done. this was a mere...
25206Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
it is with the deepest regret I find that a letter you have done me the honor to write to me Some time Since has remained unanswered, it was received only yesterday on my return from a long Journey, also a letter of M r Barnes of Georgetown inclosing $50. I am truly infortunate indeed in not receiving or not geting in time the orders you have the goodness to honor me with. your letter of...
25207Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Herrick, 16 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 24 . did not come to hand till Apr. 8. and on the next day I wrote an answer to it, but not having heard from you since, I apprehend the letter has miscarried. the purport of the answer was to desire you to have the Spinning machine sent to mr Gelston Collector of N.Y. under my address, to be forwarded to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson , merch ts at Richmond who would recieve...
25208From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 15 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I duly received your letter of 22 Ult. as the merchants express it, so frugally, To be sure, every thing in this world, if we consider only one side of it is to be lamented: because everything is imperfect. The laws and governments, the morals and religions, the customs and fashions of this low, dirty Planet, if we look at them in the abstract, view them only with our partial eyes, especially...
25209From James Madison to William Plumer, 15 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Governour Plumer, with his thanks for the copy of his Speech to the Legislature of New Hampshire: which is so judiciously calculated to point their attention to the true source of the sufferings of our Country, and to prepare them for the only means left for redressing them. RC ( NhHi ). Unsigned. See Plumer to JM, 6 June 1812 .
25210From James Madison to Congress, 15 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 June 1812. “I transmit for the information of Congress copies of letters which have passed between the Secretary of State and the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain.” RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 12A-E2). Each RC 1 p.; in the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For...
25211Thomas Jefferson to Charles Blagrove, 15 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 4 th with the certificate inclosed, and should not again have troubled you on the subject but that I percieve you have mistaken the name under which the search was to be made for the patent of 99. a s of land on Ivy creek , formerly Bedford , now Campbell . your letter states the search to have been made under the name of John Dayles, instead of John...
25212Thomas Jefferson to Zachariah Morris, 15 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
After a lapse of near 40. years since our former acquaintance, I am obliged to sollicit a renewal of your recollection on the following occasion. a certain Samuel Scott , who moved into Bedford about 10. years after you left the Poplar Forest , and settled on Ivy creek , on the road, about half way from the Forest to Lynchburg , has brought suit against me for a part of mr Wayles’s land on...
25213To John Adams from John Adams Harper, 14 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed letter was written last March, but by some accident it was mislaid, which I discovered this morning in looking over some papers.—Pray excuse my negligence— With respect & esteem / Your Obedt. Servt. MHi : Adams Papers.
25214From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 14 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have not received from you any letter of later date than that of 29. Feby. but I learn from a Boston Newspaper of 12. March that your fears for you youngest child were unhappily too well founded—Most sincerely and deeply do I sympathize with you upon this afflicting bereavement; and I pray that it may be made instrumental to you, and to your partner, and to us all in the only way by which...
25215From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 14 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I write you my dear George, with a hope that this letter will not reach you. however as we have reports here of an Embargo, being to take place in America, early in the Season, I will not omit the opportunity which now offers, of assuring you of my tenderest affection, & solicitude, for your present and future welfare. Your Father, and myself, were very anxious to have both you, and your...
25216From John Adams to William Plumer, 13 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
In the first place, permit me to congratulate you on your Election to the first Magistracy of New Hampshire. In the second place to rejoice with you, that each Branch of your Government harmonizes with you in political Sentiments. In the third that your State is likely to cooperate with the national Government. For though We may not perfectly approve all the measures of Congress or...
25217To John Adams from Thomas McKean, 13 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
On my return from a tour to the State of Delaware I found your kind letter of the 2d. instant, and thank you for this mark of esteem. Our venerable friend Clinton is gone before us, so has the illustrious Washington eleven years ago; and I have nearly outlived all my early acquaintance. I remain the only surviving member of the first American Congress, held in the city of New-York in October...
25218From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I cannot refuse myself the pleasure of answering, your very beautiful, and affectionate letter, of the 24 Feby, although I am at this moment, labouring under one of my severe sick headache’s, which afflict me so unceasingly, in my hair is already perfectly blanched. it is a bad apology for my silence but since I have nursed my little daughter I have suffer’d more than usual and have been...
25219From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter yesterday, which informed me of yours, & Mrs Smith’s intended visit, & am glad if you were able to go, & were disposed “to bury the Hatchet ,” it is certainly best, when we are all so far advanced in age, & hope to meet in those blest abodes where Peace, & Love reign forever—where raging Party Spirit, Injustice, ambition, & mavolence cease— you had a fine day for your...
25220To James Madison from H. A. S. Dearborn, 13 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
My friends have induced me to solicit the office of Collector for this District which will be vacant in the event of a war. I have acted as Deputy-Collector for nearly three years & have performed the duties of the office I trust to the satisfaction of the merchants & the Government. I take the liberty of enclosing copies of letters which were written & signed by the gentlemen whose names are...
25221To James Madison from George Joy, 13 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have just parted from Mr. Walker of Birmingham whom you will find mentioned in the Chronicle of this date as having received a certain intimation from Lord Castlereagh. Mr: Walker denies altogether the imperious Language of Lord C. which he will require to be contradicted in the Chronicle—he even constructed from his Language that a directly different result would follow. But on repetition...
25222To James Madison from the Citizens of Cecil County, 13 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 June 1812, Elkton. Enclose “certain resolutions of the Citizens of Cecil County expressive of their sentiments and feelings on the present State of our public Affairs.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p.; signed by David Smith and John Partridge as chairman and secretary of the meeting, respectively. For enclosure (7 pp.), see n. 1. The enclosure was a record of a meeting held at...
25223To James Madison from the Republican Citizens of Milledgeville, 13 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 June 1812. “The Citizens of Milledgeville and its vicinity, deeply impressed with the solemnity of the present crisis; and anxious to mingle their voice with that of the friends of America, throughout the United States, by tendering their support to the Constituted authorities, in the momentous struggle which awaits the destinies of this great Republic; tender the following as the result of...
25224To James Madison from James Jones Wilmer, 13 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 June 1812, Baltimore. Prays JM to accept the enclosed and asks to be placed “in a situation to be further useful.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. At the foot of the page Wilmer placed a printer’s fist indicating the notation, “Residence, Havre de Grace.” For enclosure, see n. 1. Wilmer probably enclosed a copy of his tract An Address Delivered in Havre-de-Grace, June 4, 1812: in Consequence of a Pamphlet...
25225From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Ask the great Lady, you quoted in your last, whether when I pray for the health of Philadelphia, and that no wasting Sickness may prevail there, I make a Girlish or a boying compliment to Doctor Rush? The next paragraph, requires a graver answer. But a Volume would not suffice. Take a hint.—I have lived among Infidel Philosophers for more than half a Century, and been engaged in continual...
25226To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 12 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Within a few days I have received your kind favours of 19. Feby: and 10. Decr: last; the first of which was forwarded to me by Mr Hall, from Gothenburg, and the last by Mr Russell from London—Mr Hall came from Boston to Gothenburg, and has since arrived here in the Minerva, a vessel belonging to Mr W. R. Gray—he brought your letter of 19 Feby. and although from thence he transmitted it by the...
25227To James Madison from William Cobbett, 12 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I understand, that Mr. Asbury Dickins; now Chancellor to the American Consulate in England, has made application to his government to be appointed the Successor of the late Consul, General Lyman; and, having been very intimately acquainted with Mr. Dickins, during the whole of his residence in this country, and feeling a deep interest in his welfare, I am tempted to address myself directly to...
25228To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 12 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
As the ultimate question in relation to war must soon be decided, and it may be concidered expedient to appoint a Collector for this place, I take the liberty of observing that as you were pleased to mention to me, the propriety, (if practicable,) of placing the Collectorship in such hands as would render it convenient to restore me to that place, in the event of a short war, I have prevailed...
25229To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 12 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am this day favoured by your highly esteemed letter of the 3d. We are informed that the House have passed the Rubicon; God grant to the Senate the same Wisdom & fortitude. Our anxiety is great, in a State of such awful Suspense; but we have great confidence in a majority of its members. On the 1st of May last I addressed a letter to our mutually revered Friend Mr Jefferson; & not having...
25230To James Madison from David R. Williams, 12 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I called on you yesterday, at the request of Mr Halsey, but found you were engaged: indeed, I am not insensable that, the pressure of great public interests must necessarily occupy you every moment; and it is therefore, with a view to trespass less that, I seek to make an explanation which, I have not been able to deny to friendship, in this mode, rather than by personal interview. I am...