28561From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 13 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
you will Smile my dear Madam when I tell you, that I began a Letter to you, wrote two pages, and was then call’d down to company, left it upon my table by the side of a window, and when I returnd to finish it, it had taken to itself wings and flown away, not a trace of it could I find pray have the faries borne it to you in its unfinished state as a punishment to me for having so long delayed...
28562To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I return you mr. Bassette’s letter & think you may safely tell him we possess no Dutch accounts of Virginia. We have De Laët; but it is a folio volume of Latin, & I have no doubt a good translation will sell well. I have not examined De Bry’s collection to see if that contains any Dutch account. That is in 3. folio volumes of Latin, and certainly will not take off one single reader from mr....
28563Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
As you take much interest in the knowledge of every thing relative to the american Mammouth, and other similar animals, I am persuaded that you will be glad to learn, that I have recently received from St. Petersburgh in Russia , some fine large drawings of the great Asiatic Mammouth, whose skeleton, together with some portions of the skin and muscular parts, has lately been discovered, in a...
28564Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you mr Bassette’s letter & think you may safely tell him we possess no Dutch accounts of Virginia . we have De Laët ; but it is a folio volume of Latin, & I have no doubt a good translation will sell well. I have not examined De Bry’s collection to see if that contains any Dutch account. that is in 3. folio volumes of Latin, and certainly will not take off one single reader from mr...
28565Thomas Jefferson to Théodore Pahlen, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 25 th Ult. and have to return you my thanks for those of Mad e de Tessé , & Gen l La Fayette , and for the print of Baron Humboldt , all of which are come safely to hand, & present to me the proofs & recollections of their much valued friendships. to these acknolegements permit me to add my congratulations on your safe arrival in the United states ,...
28566Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d inst. is duly recieved, and I agree to settle up the principal & interest now due to mr Welsh , and give a new bond for the whole in exchange for the former. the bonds were given in the order stated on the next leaf as agreed with mr Wickham , & I have settled the paiments by applying the first to the first bond until it was paid off, then to the 2 d in like manner & so...
28567Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Balance due to Wakelin Welch, [ca. 13 July 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
A statement of the bonds given to Cary & Welsh . 1797 Jan 20. 1 st bond paiable July 1. 1798. Principal £300. } with interest at 5. per cent from 2 d d o 1799 300. 1769
28568To John Adams from Benjamin Homans, 12 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
We have the honour to address you in conformity to a vote of the general Committee of the “Bunker Hill Association,” and request you to accept a Copy of the Oration delivered on the 4th. July last.— In commemorating the feelings and principles which led to the glorious event of our revolution, it is peculiarly congenial to our grateful sensibility on this occasion, to render homage to the...
28569From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 12 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
In the latter end of December, 1781, I concluded to present myself a second time to the President of their high mightinesses, for an answer to my former memorial, and drew up a memorial in English and French; but as I had reason to believe the Duke De La Vauguion and the Comte De Vergennes would not now oppose me, but on the contrary would be pleased by being consulted, I communicated my...
28570To James Madison from the Bunker Hill Association, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
We have the honour to address you, in conformity to a Vote of the general Committee of the “Bunker Hill Association,” and request you to accept a Copy of the Oration delivered on the 4th of July last. In commemorating the feelings and principles which led to the glorious event of our revolution, it is peculiarly congenial to our grateful sensibility on this occasion, to render homage to the...
28571To James Madison from William Eustis, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a Letter received from Governor Harrison by which it will appear that we are relieved from any apprehension of hostilities on the part of the Indians. With the highest respect I am Sir, your obedt. servt. 26 June 1810, Vincennes. Reports information he has received from a deputation of Potawatomi Indians about a council held at St. Joseph where the...
28572To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
It is a long time since I have had the honor to address a letter to you personally; but I hope you will not impute my silence to a want of respect, or to a forgetfulness of your favor and friendship; for I can most truly assure you that it has not been owing to either; but more to an apprehension of intruding upon your time, which must of late, have been very much occupied, and which is too...
28573To James Madison from Horatio Gates Spafford, 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to address one of these Letters to thee, because I can but suppose thou must feel an interest in every undertaking which interests & affects the community. Placed, as thou art, at the civil head of a Nation of Freemen, thy fatherly goodwill embraces, I trust, an anxious regard for the whole—& while I thus regard thee, I could but wish to engage thy attention to what is doing...
28574To James Madison from [Robert Smith?], ca. 12 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 12 July 1810. Mentioned in JM to Smith, 17 July 1810 . Forwards letters from Gov. David Holmes and Robert K. Lowry and a copy of his reply to Lowry.
28575Bunker Hill Association to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honour to address you in conformity to a vote of the general Committee of the ‘ Bunker Hill Association ,’ and request you to accept a Copy of the Oration delivered on the 4 th of July last .— In commemorating the feelings and principles which led to the glorious event of our revolution, it is peculiarly congenial to our grateful sensibility on this occasion, to render homage to...
28576Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 12 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 27. was very long on the road , and found me occupied in a business to which I have been obliged to apply every moment of my time till yesterday. I avail myself therefore of the first moment in my power to answer it. I am happy to hear you have entered on a work so interesting to every American as the history of our country. that of the last 30. or 40. years admits certainly...
28577John Steele to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A Package addressed to me came to hand a few days ago, which appeared, on opening the envelope, to be for you, and to contain a variety of seeds— Being unaccompanied with any letter of advice, I send it to the care of the Coll r at Richmond , with a request to forward it to you by the first opportunity RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); at foot of text: “Tho s Jefferson Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received...
28578From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
God bless it— mr Jones was so obligeing as to come this morning to Quincy, to inform us that he was to Sail this week for st Petersburgh and that he should be happy to take Letters to you, that he proposes to pass the next winter there, This gentleman is the Son of mr J Th Jones Since he left Colledge he has been in France. he appears an intelligent well informed young Gentleman; he is not...
28579To James Madison from William Eustis, 11 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a return exhibiting the several posts & stations occupied by the troops with their numbers & commanding officers. No further information has been received from Governor Harrison. In a conversation with a gentleman well acquainted with the country & with the state disposition & power of the Indians I have been encouraged to believe they will not commence hostilities:...
28580To James Madison from David Gelston, 11 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of 29th ultimo with $20. I have recieved, the box of hams I have forwarded to Chancellor Livingston. The sundry payments made are stated at foot, receipts enclosed, the bal: $2.46 will remain in your favor in Y/a. My son says he does not recollect the cost of the book it was however a mere trifle, very truly yours 30 May pd. duties on goods 5.79 6 July " Mer: Ad: 10 — 9 " " fret....
28581To James Madison from William Tatham, 10 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 July 1810, Norfolk. Believes it is important to add to his former communications the enclosed statement of facts concerning the legal right of the public to “the Desart” at Cape Henry. Is continuing his topographical work. Relates that his family is in distressed circumstances. RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 2 pp. Printed in McPherson, “Letters of William Tatham,” WMQ William and Mary...
28582Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jullien , qui Se propose, après avoir rempli la mission dont il est chargé en Italie , de passer aux Etats-Unis , me demande de lui donner d’avance auprès de Vous une Lettre d’introduction. S’il Se fixe en Amérique , comme je le crois, il Sera pour elle une acquisition précieuse. C’est un Penseur qui a beaucoup d’ordre dans les idées, et auquel nous devons deux ouvrages remarquables qu’il...
28583From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 9 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
Amsterdam, December 25, 1781—wrote to congress: “There has appeared an ulterior declaration, in addition to the ordinances of the thirtieth of April and the third of November concerning the navigation and the maritime commerce of the subjects of Prussia, during the present war. The ordinances, which the king has caused to be published of the 30th of April and third of November of this year,...
28584From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
We have this morning recieved your kind letter my dear Mother and I hasten to write you a few lines by a Vessel which I understand will sail immediately Mr. Adams is very well but so much engaged it will not be in his power to write by this opportunity having only notice of it late last night Mr Harrod is not yet arrived but is hourly expected—I shall be extremely happy to see him and shew...
28585To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 9 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Col. Patten of the post office here, was so good as to hand me your obliging letter relating to my opinion on an Insurance Case. I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your favour, and to express my high satisfaction at the approbation you have thought fit to bestow. It is approbation of the only kind worth having; laudari a laudato viro. I remain with sentiments of great respect Sir Your...
28586Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Darmsdatt, 9 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night yours of the 6 th . the price for the fish is indeed very high; and discouraging; but the necessity of it is still stronger. I will therefore desire you to send me a dozen barrels, one half to Milton , the other half to Lynchburg according to my former letter. I am Sir PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M r Joseph Darmsdatt”; endorsed by TJ.
28587From James Madison to William Bentley, 8 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 2d. inst: accompanied by a likeness of General Stark. I thank you for both. The latter, in its execution, seems to do so much credit to the talent of your pupil, that I, the more readily, confide in its likeness; and shall place it by the side of others, whose originals are known to have inspired the General with that esteem of which they are worthy. The...
28588From James Madison to Andrew Ellicott, 7 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Novr. 8. was duly received. I must trust to your own friendly inferences, for an apology for so long a delay in acknowledging it. I found that there were in the Navy Office three Sheets of Gaulds Survey referred to in your letter. They are now in my hands. I find also, among the Charts handed over by Mr. Jefferson: one, on a large scale, of the Coasts of W. Florida, & Louisiana,...
28589From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 7 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
A nephew of J. M. with the approbation of his father, is desirous of finishing a mercantile education, begun at Fredericksburg about a year & a half ago, in the Counting House of some respectable Merchant in N. York. The youth is about 19 or 20 years of age, believed to be of amiable temper and of virtuous habits. His father is willing to conform to the conditions usual in such cases. J. M....
28590From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Not knowing where I could be enabled to answer the inclosed, with so much confidence in the fact, as in your acquaintance with the historical antiquities of Virginia, I take the liberty of asking whether I may not say to Mr. Bassette, that no such accounts as he enquires after, are known to exist. As he seems desirous of an early answer you will oblige me by a few lines as soon as convenient....
28591To James Madison from John Strode, 7 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
On the 31 March last I executed my penal Bond to you for the Sum of £320.13.10 and left it for you in the hands of Doctr Isaac Winston and yesterday executed a mortgage Deed to You as a further Surety for the payment, which on my Sacred honor if God permit shall be either proved or Acknowledged at the Next Fauquir Court. The reason this Sum was delay’d so long I was in hope that I could ere...
28592To James Madison from Barent Gardenier, 7 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 July 1810, New York. Proposes the establishment of an office in New York City for the collection and securing of moneys owed by traders and others in the country to merchants and others in the city. Establishes a scale of fees for the services offered. RC ( DLC : Madison Collection, Rare Book Division). A three-page printed circular letter. Addressed to JM and signed by Gardenier.
28593Presidential Proclamation, 7 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 July 1810, Washington. Announces a sale for the disposal of the “quarter Sections of land adjacent [to] the old Indian boundary line, in the Indiana Territory, and East of the second principal Meridian,” to be held at Jeffersonville, Indiana Territory, on the [third Monday] in [November] 1810. Issues the proclamation in conformity with the authority conferred by the following acts: the...
28594To James Madison from Richard Forrest, 7 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 7 July 1810. Described as a one-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
28595James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing where I could be enabled to answer the inclosed, with so much confidence in the fact, as in your acquaintance with the historical antiquities of Virginia , I take the liberty of asking whether I may not say to M r Bassette , that no such accounts as he enquires after, are known to exist. As he seems desirous of an early answer you will oblige me by a few lines as soon as...
28596To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 6 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1810, Washington. Expresses views about that part of the law appropriating $20,000 for public buildings which relates to the “fireproofs” to be erected in the public building west of the President’s House. Observes that the only security that can be attained in safeguarding records from fire is against “fire from without,” since it is evident that in the case of “persons using the...
28597Joseph Darmsdatt to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have a Quantity of fine fish now coming up of M r Sam l Tredwells putting up—of Edenton they are of the best Quallity and Cost high; they cannot be sold under 6½$—and if you chose I shall furnish You—please direct a Line to me by next mail as I may reserve them for you Joseph Darmsdatt ⅌ Abr m Cardozo RC (
28598To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
In Contemplating the facility with which our Once chaste & vi mistress “American liberty” admits embraces of some of the most profligate and unprincipled men in our Country, I feel disposed to address her in the Words of the Song. “I loved thee! beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow, So altered are your face and mind, ’Twere perjury to love thee, now. ” MHi : Adams Papers.
28599From James Madison to Thomas Boylston Adams, 5 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have recd. the two Volumes of Lectures on Rhetoric & Oratory by your brother J. Q. Adams Esqr. Having not had an opportunity of perusing them, I can only return my thanks through you, and anticipate the pleasure promised by the application of his talents & taste to those interesting subjects. Accept my friendly respects MHi : Adams Papers.
28600From James Madison to Simon Snyder, 5 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your letter of June 9. covering the Resolutions of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, adopted at their last session. The principles & purposes avowed in these Resolutions, are such as were to be expected from a State which has given so many proofs of its readiness to maintain the rights & honor of the Nation, against foreign aggressions and insults....
28601Madison’s Draft of Robert Smith to John Armstrong, 5 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I avail myself of the oppy. by Mr. to forward copies of my several letters lately written to you; & to add the present. The arrival of the J. Adams brought your letters of the following dates . From that of the 16th. April, it appears that the seizures of Amn. property lately made, had been followed up by its actual sale, & that the proceeds had been deposited in the Emperors Caisse prive. You...
28602From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, ca. 5 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 5 July 1810. Acknowledged in Cooper to JM, 9 July 1810 . Congratulates Cooper for his dissenting opinion in Dempsey v. Insurance Company of Pennsylvania .
28603Littleton W. Tazewell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 28 th Ult o was received yesterday , after I had forwarded mine of that date to you, or it would have been then attended to. Altho’ I am not a practitioner at the bar of the Fœderal Circuit Court , and shall have no other inducement for attending at Richmond when it may be necessary, but to attend to this particular caze; yet the confidence which you have reposed in me, by...
28604To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have no objection to your knowing that by the “great hammer of the earth” I meant Napoleon. George the 3rd: I believe to be the great hammer of the ocean. I consider them both as the scourges of the human race, and in the language of the souls under the altar, I feel disposed to cry day and night,—“how long—how long” O! Lord wilt thou suffer them to trample upon the rights of individuals and...
28605To James Madison from John R. Bedford, 4 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed, I forward You the copy of a letter from one of the most opulent inhabitants of West Florida. This letter, together with a personal knowledge of many of the inhabitants of that Province, impresses me with a strong belief, that a revolution of some kind may be attempted in that country, before a great while. It has been suggested to me from other sources, that two plans have been...
28606To James Madison from William Nelson, 4 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 July 1810, Williamsburg. Reports a rumor of the death of Judge Cyrus Griffin and suggests St. George Tucker for the vacancy. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Tucker”). 2 pp. Nelson was a judge of the General Court of Virginia, 1791–1813 ( PJM William T. Hutchinson et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (1st ser., vols. 1-10, Chicago, 1962-77, vols. 11-17, Charlottesville,...
28607To James Madison from the Nelson Artillery Cadettes, 4 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 July 1810, Lovingston. Cites resolutions, passed unanimously at 4 July meeting, condemning Great Britain and France for violating American neutral rights and expressing confidence in JM. Ms ( DLC ). 2 pp. Signed by George W. Varnum, commandant, and attested by Thomas E. Fortune, secretary. Docketed by JM. Enclosed in Varnum to Robert Smith, 7 Aug. 1810 ( DLC ).
28608To James Madison from Thomas Newell, 4 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 July 1810, Zanesville. Complains that he has received neither pay nor land for his Revolutionary War service. A “Practical Surveyor … acquainted with Book Keeping,” he requests employment to support his family. RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , N-69:5). 2 pp.
28609Thomas Newell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Necessity is the Grounds of this Statement which I hope will not be unactable to You as the Friend of the Only Free People upon the Earth. I am a Friend to my Country and have ben from the days of my Youth—at which time I ingaged in the united states service and Continued in it until the Prize was won for which Service I Recieved Six dollars and three Crown only. to Pas over the Hardships...
28610From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 3 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
Amsterdam, December 14, 1781—wrote to congress: “The first public body, which has proposed a connection with the United States of America, is the quarter of Oostergo, in the province of Friesland. The proposition is in these words. Every impartial patriot has a long time perceived, that in the direction of affairs, relative to this war with England, there has been manifested, an inconceivable...