26131To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 11 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
J. A. Henry Esq, who formerly commanded a company of Artillery of the U States, wishing to pay his respects to your Excellency, I take the liberty to introduce him to your acquaintance; as a Gentleman who has resided heretofore in this State & who for his professional, literary, & polite accomplishments, has been much respected by all his acquaintance. Accept, I pray you, dear Sir, assurances,...
26132Thomas T. Hewson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical Society lately held its annual meeting for the election of Officers. On this occasion the Society reiterated its expressions of respect for your person, by again unanimously electing you to the Presidential Chair , in the confident expectation, that your patronage and assistance would still be extended to the promotion of useful knowledge, more especially, at this...
26133Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 11 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 6 th . it is a proof of your friendship, and of the sincere interest you take in whatever concerns me. of this I have never had a moment’s doubt, and have ever valued it as a precious treasure. the question indeed whether I knew or approved of Gen l Wilkinson’s endeavors to prevent the restoration of the right of deposit at N. Orleans could never require a...
26134To James Madison from David Humphreys, 10 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
As it is not among the least of the important duties of the President, to become acquainted so far as may be, with the resources & ability of the U. S. for supplying their wants; it has been judged not improper to bring to his view a Statement made by the Visitors of the Humphreysville Manufacturing Establishment, respecting the operation of a new Machine for spinning Yarn of various kinds. If...
26135Robert Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d & read your interesting communication of the 10 th Nov r with great satisfaction, and have laid the same before the Committee appointed on the subject of your former communication; who, I am sure, will give it that consideration which it so highly merits. In the meantime, Sir, you will permit me to make a few observations, which may not, however perfectly agree with the ideas...
26136From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 9 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of the 23. Ult, with its in closed Sketch, Skeleton, Frame, Plan, Scheme, System, Plott, Platt, or by whatever other name you please to call your Etching, has been received. What Title do you in tend to give it? An History of The Decline and Fall of Christianity? or An History of The Improvement of the Human Mind? or An History of the Progress of Society? or An History of the...
26137William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed abstract of calculation relative to the longitude of Monticello from Greenwich by the apparent times of internal contacts of Sun and Moon on the 17 th of September last, will, it is hoped, be accepted by you as an accurate result, admitting the data to be correctly stated. Having in a former communication, given rules for ascertaining the altitude and longitude of the nonagesimal,...
26138John Low to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 27 th Dec r has this day come to hand, acknowledging the receipt of my two former letters from Washington .—I can assure you that you have certainly Subscribed for a Set of the Encyclopædia, and in your own hand writing.— In order to convince of the fact I shall take the liberty of calling upon M r Remsen , and M
26139From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have recd. your favour of the 26th. of Decr. You mention Cobbet. have you read Mr Randolphs Speech? Was there any Thing in Cobbets Writings more envious than that Speech? Now I assure you upon my honour and the Faith of the Friendship between Us; that I never Saw the Face of that Cobbet; that I should not know him if I met him in my Porridge Dish; that I never wrote one Word in his Paper and...
26140From James Madison to John Geddes, 8 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 22d of Decr. accompanied by an address of the House of Reps. of the State of S. Carolina, to which an answer is inclosed. I tender you at the same time my acknowledgments for the sentiments you have been pleased to add from yourself. With assurances of my great respect and friendly wishes. To the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina I have...
26141To James Madison from George Joy, 8 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
If this should overtake, at Liverpool, my letter of yesterday, it will serve to correct an Error, which, as I did not read after writing it, escaped my notice. It passed unobserved also by the Copyist, who took it down as I wrote it, whom I asked, in my haste, if he had perceived any Mistake, and who assured me there was none. Instead of “ it would be repugnant,” I should have said “ my...
26142Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 8 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received yours of the 30th. Ult: and given instructions to the Postmaster of the City if any Such bundles arrive for the future, to detain them and notify me, and you may be assured I shall keep them Carefully as well as apprise you of their being in my possession. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Granger; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq Monticello V a ”; endorsed by...
26143William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 8 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit an abstract of the calculation of the longitude of Monticello west of Greenwich, founded on the apparent times of the internal contacts of Sun and Moon on the 17 th of September last, as contained in your letter of the 29 th of December ; and having ascertained the elements with scrupulous exactness, tested by various rules, the accuracy of the result, according to...
26144Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sully, 8 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Dec. 22. informing me that the Society of Artists of the US. had made me an honorary member of their society. I am very justly sensible of the honor they have done me, & I pray you to return them my thanks for this mark of their distinction. I fear that I can be but a very useless associate. time, which withers the fancy, as the other faculties of the mind...
26145To James Madison from George Joy, 7 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
As I am prevented proceeding to Liverpool to embark in this ship only by a doubt lately suggested by Mr: Maury whether she will proceed or not; (tho’ I think, (and so does Mr: Russell,) that no conciliatory measures on the part of this Government, are likely to detain her for a freight;) I am not prepared with such Duplicates, and other Communications, as I should otherwise have sent in her....
26146From James Madison to Congress, 7 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1812. Forwards a report from the director of the Mint. RC , two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 12A-E5). Each RC 1 p.; in the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Robert Patterson to JM, 1 Jan. 1812 .
26147To James Madison from the Maryland General Assembly, 7 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1812, Annapolis. Forward in compliance with a resolution passed by the General Assembly of Maryland an authenticated copy of sundry resolutions passed at the November 1811 session. RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 1 p.; signed by William Thomas, president of the Senate, and Tobias E. Stansbury, Speaker of the House of Delegates. For enclosure (3 pp.; docketed by JM), see n. 1. On 19 Nov....
26148Thomas Jefferson to Samuel & James Leitch, 7 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended to have seen you at court yesterday, but having no other call there, I concluded on second thoughts it would be easier to write a letter than ride half a dozen miles and wade in the mud of the court yard. your account should have been paid at some of my earlier epochs of recieving money, had it been sooner communicated to me. it shall be discharged in the course of the winter, after...
26149Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 7 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 2. arrived here during an absence of 6. weeks from home, and on my return I thought to postpone an answer till I could accompany it with a remittance. as this however will require some 2. or 3. weeks yet, & in the mean time your letter of the 3 d arrives, I now acknolege the reciept of both. I am perfectly willing that you should print another edition of the Parliamentary...
26150Decision of Virginia Court of Appeals in Peyton v. Henderson, 7 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia to wit, At a Court of Appeals held at the Capitol in Richmond the seventh day of January 1812 Craven Peyton Applt. } upon an appeal from a decree pronounced by the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond the eighth day of June 1805 against John
26151From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 6 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
By this time we were pretty well convinced that the coalition cabinet would do nothing by treaty, but leave all to the king’s absolute power by his orders in council; and I became more inattentive and frivolous than ever, if that is possible, in my diary. Such hower as it is, I shall lay all of it before the public, which was laid before congress, though not a quarter part of it was ever read...
26152Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Conversation with Nathaniel H. Hooe, 6 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
1812. Jan. 6. memm. mr Hooe off d me Tom for 450. D I offered him that sum paiable at 2. annual instalments, which he declined. I told him that at half cash & half on 12. mo. credit I would give but 400.D. MS ( MHi ); entirely in TJ’s hand; on address leaf of Hooe to TJ, 10 Sept. 1811 .
26153James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 6 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
A circumstance has occurr’d with which it may be useful for you to be made acquainted , with, merely to put you on your guard. you have doubtless seen a letter publish’d in the gazettes, which is imputed to Gen l Wilkinson & said to be written from this place in 1803. to Mr Power at N. Orleans , requesting him to use the
26154Thomas Sully to Thomas Jefferson, 6 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In my Letter to you dated the 22 d of December , I had the honour to communicate in the name of the Society of Artists of the United States , the information that you were elected an honorary member of that body; I have now the pleasure of informing you that at their last annual meeting held on Jan y 2 d for the choice of Officers, you were elected their President for the present year. You...
26155From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice that I can begin the new year without a Repetition of any mournfull, or afflictive Family dispensation, and that I can congratulate you of upon the Life of your Father, and his continued Health, upon that also of your Sons, your Brother, and upon the restoration of your Sister, and last of all that I am still enabled to hold a pen & can write to you, altho frequently assaild by...
26156From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
I hope you have received your mittins, and your Brother his, which Mrs. Foster took a fortnight since and promissed to send to you, but I fear she has not found a conveyance. I am the easier because your Aunt wrote me that she had provided for you. I thank you for your Letter which was so much better written than your Brothers, that I could not keep saying you had learnt more good hand writing...
26157From James Madison to William Hawkins, 4 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 26th. ult: inclosing the Resolutions of the Genl. Assembly of N. Carolina, approving the sentiments contained in the Message to Congs. of Novr. 5. and declaring their readiness to co-operate in vindicating the violated rights of their Country. Approbation from such a source could not fail under any circumstances to strengthen the satisfaction arising from a...
26158To James Madison from the Chester Republican Troop of Cavalry, 4 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 January 1812, Chester Court House, South Carolina. “The awfull Crisis, pregnant with the destinies of our beloved Country, the magnanimous & patr[i]otic stand of our illustrious Cabinet against the wicked, outrageous & unnational proceedings of the belligerents, have induced the Chester Republican Troop of Cavalry through this Channel to meet the spirit of the Nation in the offer of their...
26159To James Madison from Edward E. Davis, 4 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 January 1812, New York. Seeks appointment as a physician in the army or the navy. “I have been one of the Old Revolenterry Men of Last war where I had the Misfortune to loos one of My Leges in the Deffence of My countrys wrights.” Promises “to give Satisfaction in the Disscharge” of his duties and refers to a “Number of Gentleman who have given Certifi[c]ates” on his behalf. Requests the...
26160To James Madison from John Landers, 4 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 January 1812, Westminster, Frederick County, Maryland. The petitioner and his wife have ten children, “all minors from the ages of three to Seventeen mostly Females.” They were persuaded by his wife’s friends to leave Scotland and come to America, for which purpose he “converted his all into Cash,” though he also had to accept aid from a friend to pay the balance of their passage. Paid...