28901To James Madison from Josiah Jackson, 23 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 April 1810. Reports that his father-in-law, Henry Madison, “as well as the rest of us were much g[r]atifyed in the short answer” [not found] JM sent. The old gentleman “is still in tolerable Health except a giddiness in the Head that causes a staggering.” His own family includes eight living children; in addition, “We have had about the same number of Blacks to raise.” While educating his...
28902To James Madison from Joseph H. Macklefrith, 23 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 April 1810, Fort McHenry. Rumors that provisional army is to be disbanded prompts this request for a discharge from the Fifth Infantry Regiment. Macklefrith (a sergeant) must properly care for his family. If the country were endangered or lacked an army, “I should prefer the Cause of my Country to that of my family but its to the reverse.” RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , M-177:5). 3 pp. Docketed...
28903Archibald Fisher to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ it may seem impertinent for a Stranger placed in an inferior rank in Life, thus to address a person of such distinguished Eminence, yet presuming on that philanthropic Character you hold with all unprejudiced minds, I thus venture obtrusively to solicit a hearing. I am a poor alien,—a Child of misfortune, thrown, by a train of untoward Events, on these shores.—I have been here a...
28904James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16 th has been rec d . It is not improbable that there will be an early occasion to send for public purposes, a ship to G.B. & France; & that Norfolk will be the port of Departure. I recommend therefore that your plow be lodged there as soon as may be, with the proper instructions to your Agent. It may not be amiss to include in them a discretion to forward the plow to any other...
28905John Hollins to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your respects of the 8 th Ins from Poplar Forest , came in course to hand, inform g of the arrival of the plaister at Richmond , also that Mess s Gibson & Jefferson woud remit me the amount, say $80:40, which they have done, & is at your credit, it will be satisfactory to learn at a future day, that the plaister answer’d the purpose I am really sorry to find our friends Mess s
28906Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Shoemaker, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A little before my departure for Bedford I informed you that the pressures on me for money for corn & other objects would oblige me to rely on you for a very considerable sum of money, of which no delay could be admitted. on my return it was some days before I went to the mill to call on you, & then learned for the first time that you were gone to the Northward & would not be back till June, &...
28907From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have already drawn for three hundred pounds Sterling, of the credit, for which Mr: Gray gave me a letter upon his correspondents here. He will call upon you for the money; which does not quite amount to the balance I left in your hands for the purpose—I have written to you that I shall in all probability be compelled to draw upon you for more, but as by the course of exchange I draw at great...
28908Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here your letter of the 2 d on my return from a three weeks visit to Bedford : and as I see by a resolution of Congress that they are to adjourn on the 23 d I shall direct the present to Eppington where it may meet you on your passage to Carolina . mr Thweatt is to let me know when I am to set out for
28909To James Madison from Samuel Fulton, 20 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
On my quittal of the Service in the year Eighteen hundred and three I had the Honour of addressing you on the Subject of my quitting a foreign Service, and offring it to my Native Country. Some Short time after I had the Honour of receiving from you an answer Informing me that nothing Could be Done at that moment nor untill a new organization would take place. About five years past I became a...
28910Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Feb. 15. & Mar. 13. were recieved in due time, but were not acknoleged because I was daily in expectation of the cuttings which should have accompanied the latter. on the 15 th inst. I recieved yours of the 10 th & concluding the bundle of cuttings had been rejected at some post office as too large to pass thro’ that line, I had yesterday, in despair, written my acknolegements...