27441John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to be delinquent in dischar g ing my note to you at the time it became due but it has proceeded from a failure in those opportunities of remittance which I had calculated upon and the difficulty of procuring others as substitutes. I had confidently expected to remit the money by a very safe had hand in the latter end of February but was disappointed in the crossing of the mountain...
27442Skeffington Selby to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Tho s Hunt Surviving Partner of the late firm T. & R. Hunt , London — informs me Edm d Pendleton jun r Esq r Caroline County Virginia received from
27443David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of informing you that the President , on the 2d Instant, was pleased to nominate me as Consul t at Paris , and the nomination was confirmed, the following day, by the Unanimous vote of the Senate . I have proposed to embark with mr. Barlow , but am, this day, advised, for several reasons, political, as well as private, to embark on the John Adams , which, the Secretary of...
27444To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
Herewith th r ough the politeness of Mr Quincy you will receive the Coins for your son. I regret that some of them are not recently coined. None such have been issued lately from the mint. Your Son Thomas’s friend Mr Erving has paid me for them. Permit me to Congratulate you upon your Son John’s honourable Appointment to a Seat upon the bench of the United States. It gives great Satisfaction...
27445From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
You will no doubt receive from the President of the United States permission to return home, as he has been pleased to appoint you to an important office in the judiciary of the United States. the unanimous approbation of the Senate, and the Satisfaction which all parties unite in expressing must weigh in your mind powerfully. From What ever motives this general consent arrises, it proves,...
27446From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to your situation. the thought struck me to say, that some light might spring up, where we did not foresee it, and extricate you from your difficulties. Such a light appears to me to have arrisen in the midst of surrounding darkness, by the appointment of mr Adams an associate judge of the Supreem...
27447From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
This Letter is devoted to one Subject. Since the Death of Judge Cushing there has been frequently expressed in Conversation, much regret at your Absence, among People of all Parties. Presuming that Absence to be an insuperable Bar to any Nomination as a Judge, I have taken very little Notice of such Insinuations of Regret and imputed some of them to one Motive and Some to another. I need not...
27448From James Madison to William Steuben Smith, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
Reposing a special Trust and Confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability: I have appointed you the said William Steuben Smith Secretary of Legation of the United States of America to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias; authorizing you hereby to do and perform all such matters and things as to the said place or office doth appertain, and the same to Hold and exercise...
27449To James Madison from Samuel Smith, 4 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 March 1811, Washington. “My excellent young friend Mr. John Skinner of Annapolis, (who I believe was presented to you by Mr. Duvall) intends going to the Western Country. He wishes to commence his Career there in Some public Employ.” Skinner’s legal studies and service as a clerk in the state legislature qualify him for a secretary’s position, and his “connections & family are among the most...
27450To James Madison from William Tatham, 4 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 March 1811, Norfolk. “Perhaps there never was a period when speedy communication was more important to the safety and prosperity of the United states than the present; especially when we consider how difficult it must be to manage a population so far and widely expanding itself.” Encloses a sketch to demonstrate a method of telegraphic communication “whereby I deem it practicable to pass a...
27451Thomas Jefferson to Skelton Jones, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
An absen absence of upwards of a month from this place has put it out of my power sooner to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Jan. 15 . on my return home I make it my first duty to offer you this apology for the delay of my answer. I was under the necessity of visiting, in a very inclement season, a possession I have in Bedford , near 100. miles from this, where I have continued from...
27452Thomas Jefferson to Mary Page, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 2. by some unusual course of the post was near a month before it reached this place, to which a further delay has been added by my absence of upwards of a month from home, to which I returned but two days ago. I make it among my first duties to acknolege it’s reciept, to offer this apology for so late a reply, and to give you assurances of the pleasure I should recieve from...
27453Dudley Richardson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will Pardon me For Pestering you with Letters But Rely on your Tender Cear for your Fellow Man. I wood be glad to know if you have heard from my Son Richard Richardson Since I Rote you 1810 & to know if he Has got aney Letter from me or from George Richardson . As I am Desirous of Hearing from him as I am at a Loss to know how I Can Convay A Letter to him as have Got No Account from...
27454Caesar A. Rodney to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter enclosing the additional observations on the subject of the Batture directed to me at this place way was received on my arrival here on the first of february. Since that time I have read them with much pleasure & satisfaction, & highly approve of them. The President M r Gallatin & M
27455From Thomas Boylston Adams to William Meredith, 3 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your very highly esteemed favour of the 25th: ult: came to hand this day. An acquisition of such value, demands a prompt acknowledgment, and I avail myself of a slight indisposition, as a plausible excuse for absenting myself from Church, that I may have the pleasure of once more communing with you. It was at the instance of my Brother, that I transmitted to you a set of the Lectures, of which...
27456From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 3 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
Mr: Erving has not yet left Boston, but expects to go for Newport on the 5th instant, for the purpose of embarking in the John Adams Frigate, in a few days. I think it probable he will not sail, under a fortnight from this time. The news of your appointment as an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court for the Massachusetts District, has just reached us, and as it is the harbinger of your speedy...
27457To James Madison from Joseph Anderson, [3 March] 1811 (Madison Papers)
The nominations you Sent in to day—will not be finally acted on for want of time. By a rule of Senate, they must lie one day for consideration—an attempt has been made to Suspend the rule but without Success. If therefore—you consider those nominations of Suffic[i]ent importance—to require the attendance of Senate to morrow—we meet again at Six OClock—and I have taken leave to give you this...
27458To James Madison from John Armstrong, 3 March 1811 (Madison Papers)
The first paragraph of your letter of the 24th. Ult. on the subject of Warden’s character & conduct, makes it a duty on my part to speak fully and freely to you with regard to this Adventurer. He is an impostor in every thing, and as deficient in capacity, as he is in fidelity. He has not written a single page of those memoirs, which have been so ostentatiously published as his, and on which...
27459Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 3 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I left this place on the 27 th of January for Bedford from whence I did not get back till yesterday. I found here your letter of Jan. 25. and regret much that this circumstance had rendered the return of the papers now inclosed impossible at the day prescribed, Feb. 22. but I hope you will have filed the pleas without waiting for my judgment. indeed that was not worth consulting; because of...
27460Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 3 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of Feb. 9. from Poplar Forest informed you of the sale of my tob o and of the disagreeable situation of my wheat crop in Bedford . I staid there till the last day of February in the hope of withdrawing it from the mill there and sending it down to Scott’s to be ground and forwarded to Richmond . but altho’ the mill dam was carried away a second time they refused to let me
27461Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 3 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, just as I was preparing for a journey to Bedford , your letter of Jan. 15. informing me that the Directors of the Rivanna Company had changed their first resolution of carrying the navigation thro’ my canal, and had determined to follow the bed of the river: that in that case they would consider my mill dam as an obstruction to the navigation, and a lock to pass it necessary; and...
27462From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 2 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
How often I have in imagination I have visited you this Dreary season. I know not, but not a day has past without my thinking of you, and wishing that it had been my good fortune to have been situated in the Neighbourhood of you. then would your cheering countenance have enlivened the confinement I have experienced since I saw you. for the week after I was taken sick and am now only leaving my...
27463From James Madison to Charles Jared Ingersoll, 2 March 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 26. Ult: referring to a pamphlet previously sent me; and for which now that I know to whom I am indebted, I return my thanks. Having recd. the pamphlet at a moment, which permitted a very hasty perusal only, my judgment of it ought to have the less value even with those most partial to it. I am able to say, however, without compliment, that the perusal of the...
27464To James Madison from Richard Forrest, [2 March] 1811 (Madison Papers)
Judge Anderson seems to think that, some doubts exist respecting the situation of my nomination. Some of the Members think it still in the possession of the Senate, and others that a new one must be made, and as tomorrow is the last day, he conceives it would be well to have it ready in case it should become a question, for the new one to be used only in case of need. I think there is no doubt...
27465To James Madison from Samuel McKee, 2 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 March 1811, Washington. Solicits an appointment as secretary or judge in one of the territories for Craven Peyton Luckett. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Luckett”). 1 p. JM received similar letters on Luckett’s behalf from Henry Clay, William T. Barry, Nicholas Ruxton Moore, Benjamin Howard, Samuel Smith, George Poindexter, Buckner Thruston, and John Pope, all dated between 3...
27466André Thoüin to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous donner avis que je vous adresse du port de l’orient , par un Navire americain, une petite caisse de Semences de végétaux etrangers à l’amerique Septentrionale . Elles Sont au nombre de plus de 200 Especes differentes. Choisies parmi celles et de grand arbres dont les bois peuvent etre utiles aux arts 2 e d’arbrissea ux et d’arbustes utiles à l’ornement des bosquets. 3 e...
27467Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
you have probably Seen in some of the federal papers an article pretended to be the extract of one of my father’s speech in the council of Elders; I will loose no time in contradicting this infamous, wicked and Slanderous publication, but in the mean time I think I owe to the frienship with which you have always honored my father to cancel your doubts, if you could have any about it, in...
27468George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Lest your failing to forward a note in time to renew yours in the bank should occasion you some uneasiness, I have concluded to inform you that it has not been attended with the smallest inconvenience: the situation of G & J’s account in the bank at this time being such, as to enable them to raise the money by putting in their own note. Had it been at all important, I should probably have...
27469Tadeusz Kosciuszko to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Il est vrai que j’ai eu rarement tres rarement l’honneur de ricivoir de vos lettres, qui même etaient séches et courtes; aussi ai-je negligé de vous écrire craignant d’etre importun. il me repugnait, je l’avoue, de vous ranger au nombre des hommes, qui changent de sentiment en raison des circonstances—Pardonez moi maintenant si mon amitié aussi a, semblée se refroidire; mais soyez persuade que...
27470Robert Wash to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of enclosing you, a rude Map of the surrounding Country. The number & relative positions of the principal Rivers, Villages &C. of the settled parts of this Territory , have been sketched I believe, with tolerable accuracy. This recommendation may possibly obtain procure it an occasional reference, until the appearance of some well executed Map. If this rude draught,...
27471To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, February 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
February 1811. Forwards to JM “parts of a letter written to a friend on the 27. of July last which has lately returned to my hands.” Hopes it may contain some ideas of benefit to the country. RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , R-103:5). 1 p. Signed “A Republican.” Docketed by a War Department clerk as received 9 Feb. 1811, with the notation: “Reflections on the situation of the U. S. with regard to S....
27472Thomas Jefferson’s Conveyance of James Hubbard to Reuben Perry, February 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
This deed poll and bipartite made between Thomas Jefferson of the county of Albemarle of the one part and Reuben Perry of the county of Bedford of the other part witnesseth that the said Thomas hath sold and now conveys to the said Reuben a negro man slave called Jame Hubbard aged about twenty seven years, who has lately, and is at this time absconded from his habitation in Albemarle , for the...
27473Notes on Shipping Costs for Flour, [February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
1 bl Sfine flour Sold at $9. 1 bl Sfine flour 6 bus @ 6/9 6 75 freight & provisions, 1.50 tol l & Drayage 25 Storage & Cooperage
27474To John Adams from David Humphreys, 28 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
I think we agree in sentiment, that the wealth & prosperity of a Country depend essentially on the Industry , Instruction & Morality of its Inhabitants : on the first for acquiring, and on the two last for making the best use of the means, for public felicity. Nor shall we differ in opinion, that the acquisition
27475From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 28 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Hague, September 12, 1782—wrote to Mr. Livingston: “Your letters express a desire that I should endeavor to form an acquaintance with the representatives of crowned heads, and you seem to be of opinion that much may be learned from their conversation. It is very true, that hints may be dropped, sometimes, which deserve to be attended to, and I shall not fail to avail myself of every...
27476From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Letter of Novbr 16th was an unexpected pleasure, for after yours of october the 13th, I had given up the Idea of receiving a line from you untill june, or july. you may easily imagine that your Letter was not only an unexpected, but a welcome guest, and the more so as it came drest in smiles of more content, than some of your Letters. I do not however wonder at your dislike of a climate...
27477From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 28 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letters by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write to give you all the information I have been able to collect, respecting your Son Mr George Black has lodgings near him and is frequently at Quincy. I got him to call and bring me word respecting him. my last account was on Monday, 2 days since. he was then getting better; tho not able to go out. the...
27478From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
We assisted last week, at the public examination of the Institute of the order of St: Catherine, a boarding school, or College for the Education of young Ladies of noble families; under the Patronage of the Empress-Mother The young Ladies are divided into four Classes, and are two years in each class—They enter from six to ten years of age, and when their education is finished, they pass this...
27479From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 28 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An act for the relief of Richard Turvin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory” I now return the same to the House of Representatives in which it originated, with the following objection: Because the Bill, in reserving a certain parcel of land of the...
27480From James Madison to Congress, 28 February 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 February 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of state relative to deficiencies in the returns of the census. RC and enclosure, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 11A-E3). Each RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure is Robert Smith to JM, 27 Feb. 1811 .
27481Thomas Jefferson’s General Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson, [ca. 28 February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson } ads Plea—“Not guilty.” Livingston And the said Thomas, according to the Statute in such case made & provided, & by leave of the court, for further plea in this behalf saith; that he is not guilty of any of the several trespasses above laid to his charge, in manner & form as the said Edward hath above thereof complained against him; and of this he putteth himself upon the Country...
27482Thomas Jefferson’s Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Acting Officially, [ca. 28 February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
And the said Thomas according to the Statute in Such case made and provided, and by leave of the Court, for further plea in this behalf Saith, that as to the force and arms and as to the breaking in pieces and Cutting in pieces and destroying of the goods and chattels of the said Edward , either by the said Thomas himself or by his Servants, and as to the digging and raising or causing to be...
27483Thomas Jefferson’s Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Jurisdiction, [ca. 28 February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson—dft } ads In trespass.— Livingston plt. And the said defendant by George Hay William Wirt and Littleton Waller Tazewell his attornies in his proper person comes and defends the force and injury &c and saith that the said plaintiff ought not to have or maintain his said action thereof against him because he saith that the messuage or dwelling house & close or parcel of land being a...
27484Thomas Jefferson’s Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Intrusion, [ca. 28 February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
And the said Thomas according to the Statute in such case made and provided, and by leave of the court, for further plea in his behalf saith, that as to the force and arms; and as to the breaking, cutting in pieces, and destroying of the goods and chattells of the said Edward , either by the said Thomas himself or by his servants; and as to the digging and raising, or the causing to be dug and...
27485Thomas Jefferson’s Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Justification to Abate a Nuisance, [ca. 28 February … (Jefferson Papers)
And the said Thomas, according to the statute in such case made and provided, and by leave of the Court, for further plea in this behalf saith, that as to the force and arms; and as to the breaking cutting in pieces and destroying of the goods & chattells of the said Edward , either by the said Thomas himself or by his servants; and as to the digging and raising, or causing to be dug and...
27486Thomas Jefferson’s Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Justification under an Act of Congress, [ca. 28 February … (Jefferson Papers)
And the said Thomas, according to the statute in such case made &c and provided and by leave of the court, for further plea in this behalf saith, that as to the force and arms; & as to the breaking, cutting in pieces, and destroying of the goods and chattells of the said Edward , either by the said Thomas himself or by his servants; and as to the digging and raising, or the causing to be dug...
27487Thomas Jefferson’s Motion to Dismiss Livingston v. Jefferson, [ca. 28 February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson } Demurrer In Bar. ads Livingston And the said Thomas by his attorney comes & defends the force and injury &c, as to the second, fifth, sixth, seventh & eighth counts of the said declaration, he the said Thomas saith, that the same, & the matters therein contained, are not sufficient in law, for the said Edward to maintain his action aforesaid, against him the said Thomas had; to...
27488From John Adams to Richard Sharp, 27 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
Through the favor of Mr Russel Sturgis I have received the original and a Duplicate of your kind Letter of the 19th December. It is to me a great Pleasure to learn, that you have become acquainted with Mr Harris, whom I esteem very much, and who is generally considered here as a most amiable Character well informed and accomplished. Your “Regrets that I had not a longer opportunity, in an...
27489From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
As I read the Essays of The elegant Botanist as when they appeared in the Monthly Anthology, with much pleasure, I am very glad to learn from your kind Letter of the 25th that they are to appear together in a Volume. If our dear Countrymen had loved one another as well as Some of them do England and Scotland and if our Mecenas’s encouraged American Litterature as much as they do Scottish; this...
27490To James Madison from Robert Smith, 27 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State respectfully represents to the President, that agreeably to the several Acts of Congress authorizing the third Census or enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States and the Territories thereof, instructions were issued to the several Marshals and Secretaries, conformably to the provisions of the Law; in consequence of which, regular returns of the population of...