26561Thomas Jefferson to John Bracken, 9 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Aug. 13. stating the ineffectual effort you had made to remit to the sisters of Bellini the amount of their claim on his effects. they are very old, said to be in great poverty & distress, and therefore entitled in charity to our good offices in conveying their money to them. a remittance thro’ England to the continent of Europe is now impracticable, & a direct...
26562Thomas Jefferson to William J. Harris, 9 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of the letters of mr Eppes , mr Giles & others in your behalf, I wrote to mr Hamilton , Secretary of the navy inclosin g them, and have just recieved his answer expressing his readiness to make out your appointment as midshipman whenever you will call for it. you have now therefore only to go to Washington , there recieve your appointment, and the instructions of mr Hamilton...
26563Benjamin & Thomas Kite to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We forward ‘The Picture of Philadelphia , ’ for which thou art a Subscriber,—The price is One Dollar, which thou wilt be pleased to send us when convenient.— RC ( MoSHi : TJC-BC ); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Oct. 1811 and so recorded in SJL ; notations by TJ on verso: “1.D. to be remitted” and “ June 17. 12. remitted thro’ Benj. Jones
26564To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 8 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
As my Commission as Governor of Orleans, will expire on the 17th. of January next, I take the liberty to request you to consider me a Candidate for honor of a reappointment. I am very grateful for the many proofs of Confidence you have already given me, and If I know myself, the favorite wish of my heart has always been, to merit by a faithful discharge of my duties, a Continuance of your good...
26565To James Madison from the New York State Canal Commissioners, 8 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed Exemplification of a Statute passed the eighth of last april will shew that we are empowered to make application, on behalf of the State of New York, to the Congress of the United States, on the subject of a Canal betwe[e]n the Great Lakes and Hudson’s River. An object of such general concern seems to be within the scope of that information which is to be communicated to the...
26566To James Madison from John Hawker, 8 October 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 October 1811, Plymouth. Encloses a memorial for JM’s consideration. Mentions that the orders in council are still in force and that “Vessels and Goods belonging to Citizens of the United States; comeing from or bound to France are often sent in here & are Condemned.” RC and enclosure, two copies ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Hawker”). RC 1 p. Enclosure (6 pp.) is a memorial by...
26567From John Adams to William Plumer, 7 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
Since my Letter to you of the fifteenth in answer to yours of the fi f th of September, We have received undoubted intelligence, that my Son has declined his appointment as Judge, and that he will not return to America this year, You may therefore write with confidence that if your Letters reach St Petersburg, they will there find him. The condition of his family rendered it impossible to...
26568To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 7 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
What Sufficient thanks Shall I return to the distinguished favours, with which your kind frendship continues to honour me in Such an eminent degree! much in truth I am indebted to your partiality towards me, but I Should lessen its real value, if I did not presume that I did not merite it in part. I will however endeavor to exert my utmost Strenght to deserve it further. The Honor of being jo...
26569To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 7 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
It has been suggested that the provisions of the non-intercourse Act which forbid the importation of articles of British growth, produce or manufacture are violated by certain coasting vessels, in the following manner. Masters of vessels bound from a port of the United States, to another port of the United States enter on their manifest, certified by the Collector of the port of departure, a...
26570From John Adams to Theodore Foster, 6 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
Last night I received your favour of the first of this month., from the hand of Dr Solomon Drowne. As I was absent when he first called at my house I lost the Pleasure of several Hours Conversation With him. This Gentleman’s Deportments and Conversation so well supported the handsome Character you gave him; that I regret very much that I am not to have more of his society. While I recollect...
26571From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
We were considering the Bible in its historical character, and as the history of a Family—From the moment when the universal History finishes, that of Abraham begins, and thenceforward it is the history of a family of which Abraham is the first and Jesus Christ the last person. And from the first appearance of Abraham, the whole history appears to have been ordered from age to age expressly to...
26572From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 6 [October] 1811 (Madison Papers)
A letter just recd. by Mr[s.] M. from Mrs. C. informs us that you had set out on a trip for Boston. This will probably find you returned, and I hope without any such accident as befel your former one. Mr. J. Q. Adams declines his Judiciary appt. Another is of course to be made as soon as the Senate are in session. Be so good as to give me without delay, information of the state of Mr....
26573Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel H. Hooe, 6 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Aug. 13. and Sep. 10. were each of them 23. days getting to this place. the former came while I was in Bedford during an absence of between 2. & 3. weeks. I did not write an immediate answer because a very little delay, added to what had preceded would enable me to do it with effect. within the course of 3. weeks I am to recieve a quarter’s rent of my mill (now in more punctual...
26574Randolph Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 6 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I Received yours of the twenty six of last month and am extremly sorry to hear of my sisters death and would of bin over but it was not raly in my power but it is what we may all expect to come to either later or sooner I Got mr pryor to call and leave this letter for me as he was Going to albemarle court and recomended it to him to make montocello his first days stage I intend coming over...
26575Thomas Jefferson to William & Reuben Mitchell, 6 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 25. was brought me by our last post I was certainly not aware that any question could arise on the terms of our agreement. mr Griffin had brought me your first proposition of 2/6 less than the Richmond price, which I declined, but told him that if you would give within 2/ of the Richmond price, the best which should be given within a reasonable number of days, you should...
26576To James Madison from the Cambridge Light Dragoons, 5 October 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 October 1811, Cambridge, South Carolina. The subscribers, citizens of Cambridge and vicinity, “have long since associated ourselves … under the name of the Cambridge Light Dragoons” in order to “aid in protecting, the Honor, independence, and safety of these United States from foreign invasion or internal commotion.” They have been watching “with vigilance, and attention the situation of our...
26577To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 4 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
About two years ago, I requested you to procure for me, by means of Gen. Armstrong, or Mr Warden, some books on Chemistry and Mineralogy, which the irregularity of intercourse between this Country and France, prevented me from obtaining. You were so kind as to write on the subject to Paris and directed the amount of what the books might cost, to be paid by one or other of those Gentlemen on...
26578Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 4 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
2 canteens of French brandy RC ( NN : Liebmann Collection); dateline beneath signature; written on a small scrap; at foot of text: “M r Leitch.” Not recorded in SJL . This is one of a series of terse notes with which TJ ordered goods from Charlottesville merchant James Leitch.
26579Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August [October] 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my last letter to you , I have visited a small farm in my neigbourhood, belonging to Doct r Beneville , the culture of which, has pleased me much. part of the land had been swampy, so much so, as to mire his Cattle, and often times put them into to the trouble of draging them out—it is a flat rich bottom of a good many acres extent. The Doct r has now reclaimed it, or rather has...
26580To John Adams from Jabeil Kinson, 2 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
The pleasure which I feel, in addressing one of the first sages and patriots of my country, is sensibly repressed by the consciousness of the trouble the intrusion may produce. I could wish to strew the evening walk of the man I address with roses, and not to embarrass it with litigious interrogatories; because I have witnessed his noble independence and patriotism, have experienced his...
26581From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of 21. June, without a number, was forwarded to me from Copenhagen by Mr. Erving, who recovered it from the Radius, which on her passage to this place, was taken by a french privateer, and is still detained in Denmark—Like almost all the letters which we have received this year it brought tidings of sickness and affliction among our friends—In the sorrow which they have so often...
26582Paul Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored by the receipt of your letter of the 28 th ult. I have not seen M r Harris , who left his letters at my office while I was absent from it, but I have not hesitated to make out his appointment, and when he calls I shall with particular satisfaction deliver him his papers. It is very pleasing to observe young men of his respectability offering themselves to the public service, and...
26583To John Adams from Theodore Foster, 1 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I expect this Letter will be delivered to you, by my worthy and respectable Friend and next Door Neighbour, Doctor Solomon Drown of this Town, who has had a liberal Education—has travelled in Europe, and is a Fellow and Professor of Brown University in this State.— He is about to travel with his Lady through the Town of Braintree, on a Visit to some of her Relations, being herself related to...
26584Thomas Jefferson to David Campbell, 1 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 11 has been duly recieved, but I am sorry it is in my power to give no information on the subject of your enquiries. 30. years of general absence from the state, an entire occupation in other scenes of business, to which must be added the effect of years, have erased from my mind nearly all particular knolege of the affairs of the state. no times time , nor circumstances...
26585Thomas Jefferson to John Dortic, 1 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 14. was recieved after an unusual delay of the post. I formerly believed it was best for every country to make what it could make to best advantage, and to exchange it with others for those articles which it could not so well make. I did not then suppose that a whole quarter of the globe could within the short space of a dozen years, from being the most civilized, become the...
26586Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : In SJL on 6 Oct. 1811 TJ recorded receipt of a letter written five days earlier in Baltimore by “R. Niles.” TJ’s reply to Niles of 14 Oct. 1811 is also recorded in SJL . While neither of these letters has come to light, their contents can be conjectured. On 29 Oct. 1813 TJ sent Hezekiah Niles, the editor of the Baltimore Weekly Register , $15 for a “3. years subscription” to his...
26587From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, September 1811 (Adams Papers)
in replie to your inquiries I answer mrs Adams had a very bad night. at 2 oclock Nancy came to my Room to request that I would send for the doctor. he got here before day light and bled her, since which she has had some rest, altho much opprest & at times almost exhausted. discharges continue black, but the Soarness abated, and the dr says the pulse better—Mrs Smith by the use of the Mayweed...
26588From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 30 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of with the pleasure I could not but feel in learning that the accident to your shoulder was so far advanced towards a cure. It is with a very different feeling I am given to understand that any doubt exists as to your coming to Washington this winter, where besides considerations of a public nature, the social ones would be so interesting to us. I shall not give up...
26589Thomas Jefferson to John Chambers, 30 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 16. has been duly recieved, and I pray you to accept my thanks for the trouble you have been so kind as to taking take in fulfilling my request to mr Warden . I had been impressed with the value of the fiorin grass described in the papers of the Belfast Agricultural society , and hoped it might answer good purposes here. I have ever considered the addition of an useful plant...
26590Thomas Jefferson to Charles G. Paleske, 30 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the communication of the papers respecting the Union canal company of Pensylvania . no one is more anxious to see enterprises of that nature carried into execution, and especially to see them formed into a general system, and the public contributions, which other nations employ in war, applied by us to the improvement of our country. retired now from all intermedling with...
26591Thomas Jefferson to the Seventy-Six Association, 30 September 1811 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Aug. 29. with the copy of mr Markley ’s oration which it covered. I am very sensible of the attentions with which the Seventy six association have has honored me in directing the transmission of this pamphlet and equally thankful to yourselves for your care in the execution of their desire. sentiments so truly patriotic, & so eloquently expressed by the...
26592From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 29 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
The second general point of view, in which I propose to you to consider the Bible, to the great end that it may “thoroughly furnish you unto all good works,” is in its historical character. To a man of liberal education the study of History is not only useful and important, but altogether indispensable; and with regard to the History contained in the Bible, the observation which Cicero makes...
26593Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 29 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter came under cover to me without any indication from what quarter it came. Our last latest arrival brings information of the death of the king of England . it’s coming from Ireland & not direct from England would make it little worthy of notice, were not the event so probable. on the 26 th of July the English papers say he was expected hourly to expire. this vessel sailed from
26594Michael Leib to Thomas Jefferson, 29 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your recommendation would at all times be a sufficient inducement to me to patronize any one who was favord with it; and the extension of your good opinion to Joseph Dougherty has secured mine. It will add much to my gratification to be in any manner instrumental in the promotion of any wish of yours whether public or private. The times are inauspicious, not only to the nation, but to some...
26595John Martin Baker to Collector at Port of Discharge, 28 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 September 1811, Palma, Majorca. Requests the collector at the port of discharge to receive articles from Jesse Y. Hinks, captain of the schooner Ruthy of Boston, for delivery to JM. Lists the articles in a postscript: “One Qr. Cask 7. Years old Granache White Wine / One Bag Soft Shelled Almonds. / Three Boxes Capers. / Three Boxes Olives.” RC ( DLC ). 2 pp. Docketed by JM.
26596Account with Dinsmore and Neilson, 28 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 September 1811. Lists charges for enlarging and furnishing at Montpelier the drawing room, passage, dining room, large bedroom, kitchen, and “S. W. Wing.” Also included are charges for the construction of the temple and labor for the period 30 Sept. 1810 to 28 Sept. 1811. The total amount of the charges is £1,088 8 s . 7½ d ., with a balance due of £378 10 s . 7½ d . as of 28 Sept. Ms ( ViU...
26597Thomas Jefferson to Paul Hamilton, 28 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r William Jordan Harris , a young gentleman of a neighboring county, being desirous of entering into the navy of the US. as a Midshipman, has requested me to be the channel of conveyance for his application. an antient connection with his family, and an intimate knolege of it’s great worth & respectability, make it a duty in me to decline no opportunity of doing what is their desire. with...
26598From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 27 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter, and at the Same time, the President received the one inclosed from dr Rush which I think it my duty, altho a distressing and painfull one, to me, to communicate the contents to you by the earliest opportnty you will See by the Letter, that Mrs Smith wrote her case to dr Rush, which her Father inclosed with a request that he would give his candid opinion. Mrs...
26599Samuel Smith (of Maryland) to Thomas Jefferson, 27 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your letter of 19 t P. Mark 23 d Ins t , recommending J. Dougherty as Door Keeper to the Senate . I remember him and have no doubt but he is every way qualified—he will have many Competitors. Some of them very respectable—I observe that his political principles are Sound. they however will not long be thought an important recommendation Accept assurances of my high respect &...
26600From John Jay to Cave Jones, 26 September 1811 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . ^by the last Mail^ your Letter of the 18 Inst— It certainly is important that the Facts asserted by you, and denied by Doct r . Hobart should not be left doubtful, if they can be rendered clear. How long it may be advise-able to delay the Reply, they who are on the sport and know exactly all the Circumstances which have relation to it, can best decide. If the indirect...
26601To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 26 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
The event which my letter of the 14th June last was designed to anticipate, you will have communicated from the proper source: Whilst my additional appeal to your private or Official character, as your regard to a due consistencey of conduct shall determine, is, for the sole purpose of referring you to my friend John Marshall of Richmond, and such other persons as may be deemed equal to any...
26602To James Madison from John Rennolds, 26 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 September 1811, London. Observes that the death of General Lyman on 22 Sept. has created a vacancy in the London consulate. Offers himself as a candidate for the position. Although “not authorised from a personal acquaintance” to solicit JM’s friendship, he feels sure the “late Ministers at this Court,” with whom he is well acquainted, will vouch for his character. Describes himself as a...
26603From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 25 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
The flood of our letters from America, as well as of vessels arriving from the United States has almost entirely subsided. From the last week in May to the first in August we received nearly thirty letters from Quincy, so that I began to think I had entered rather rashly into the engagement, among others of answering separately every individual letter—Nor have I yet since that time completely...
26604To James Madison from William Eustis, 25 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your Letter of the 21st instant was received yesterday. By the mail of the same day an order issued to General Hampton directing the attendance of all the officers named in the request of the Court Martial. A duplicate of the order was also confided to Lt Colo. Backus, a member of the court objected to by Genl. Wilkinson and discharged, who is ordered to the Southward to supply the place of...
26605William & Reuben Mitchell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Griffin call’d on us yesterday for a settlement of the Crop of Wheat purchased of you, and we lament to find our understanding upon the subject at variance. we thought we had been expressive, and that M r Griffin had understood our bargain; to give a specific price and the rise for forty days was what we never thought of or intended. Our offer, and what we supposed to have been accepted by...
26606From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Brother returnd this Evening from Boston and gave me notice that a vessel would Sail for Sweeden tomorrow the notice is So Short, that I can only write you a Short Letter. I Shall in future follow your advice, have a Letter ready for the occasion and not wait for the opportunity. it was not however, untill last Saturday that I received a Letter from William Smith, that I was informed of...
26607Jonathan Brunt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Last December but one, soon after I had left your seat a at Monticello , I was very unfortunate in being poisoned two or three times; I believe all the masters of the different families were innocent, except one.—I parted with clear blood, three or four days together, except the intermission of one day.—This was within 60 miles of Winchester .—It is evident, that Divine Providence fought for...
26608Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 24 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r M c lure , the bearer of this, has been employed in this neighborhood for some time in making spinning machines, and we are anxious to get him removed here. to this he consents, but says candidly that he owes some money, about 500.D. in your neighborhood, his present residence, which he must pay or secure before he comes away. we have therefore, a number of us, subscribed 50.D. apiece to...
26609Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 24 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I participate in all your hostility to dogs, and would readily join in any plan for exterminating the whole race. I consider them as the most afflicting of all the follies for which men tax themselves. but as total extirpation cannot be hoped for, let it be partial. I like well your outlines of a law for this purpose: but should we not add a provision for making the owner of a dog liable for...
26610Robert Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Some days ago, I received your favour of the 11 , with the French poem on Astronomy. The Society had rec d a copy of the same work from the Author , & therefore they wish me to return your copy. They have eagerly embraced your proposal respecting the universal standard of weights and measures , and have referred the subject to a Committee who earnestly solicit, not merely your co-operation,...