28951Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 7 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I remitted you some time ago 200.D. through Gibson & Jefferson and I take measures through by the present mail from this quarter to remit through them another sum of 100.D. until I could pay up one of the two quarters of supply due, I preferred letting my nailery be without employ. this is their present state. I must therefore now pray you, with as little delay as possible to send me on a...
28952Proposal to Renew Nonintercourse, [ca. 5 April] 1810 (Madison Papers)
Re-enact the Non-Intercourse; with a proviso that its operation shall not commence untill the day of Unless in the meantime either G. B. or Fr. shall have repealed &c. its Edicts &c., & the other shall fail to do the same; in which case it shall be lawful for the P. by proclamation, to fix an earlier day on which the Act shall go into operation, towards the Nation so failing to revoke &c. Ms (...
28953From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 4 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 April 1810. Transmits report of the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 26 Mar. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 4 Apr. report (2 pp.), transmitting an abstract of returns on impressment of 903 American seamen by the British navy between 1 Oct. 1807 and 31 Mar. 1809 (1 p.) and an extract of G. T. Ladico,...
28954Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Clark, 4 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In the expectation of your being at Campbell superior court I sent a letter there for you, but understanding it is doubted whether you were there I write this by express to your house. the object is to engage your assistance in conjunction with mr M c lealand in obtaining attaining a writ of forcible entry & detainer against Samuel Scott , who has entered on a tract of my land adjoining him,...
28955Christopher Clark to Thomas Jefferson, [4 April 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of this instant is just now delivered by mr Griffin I have been compeled for a fortnight past by the necessary attention to a sick family to neglect all other business this same cause has kept me from Campbell Superior Court I think to dey M rs C is a little mended if in this I shall be happily not deceved and She continues to improv it will be in my power to attend to your request...
28956To James Madison from Napoleon, 3 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 April 1810, Paris. Announces his recent marriage to Marie-Louise, archduchess of Austria. RC ( DNA : RG 59, Communications from Heads of Foreign States); FC ( AAE : Political Correspondence, U.S., 63:72). RC 1 p. Written in French; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Napoleon. FC addressed “Au Président du Congrès des Etats-unis.” JM offered his “Cordial congratulations” in response on 3 Nov. 1810...
28957Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it has not been in my power to Wait on you agreeable to my promise to M r Griffin . The Boy brings you a Letter from M r M c Cleland advising, I believe, that he has Changed the Day for Trying the Title of the Land to Friday; on which Day if possible I will meet you—If the Jury Should Declare the Land yours, I would Suggest the propriety of your having somebody ready to put in...
28958From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 25th. Mar: has been duly recd. Every thing is so uncertain at this moment with respect to our approaching relations to France & G. B: that I can only say that a conveyance of your plow to the Former will be favored as much as possible, and that I will endeavor to have more definite information on the subject ready at Monticello for your return from Bedford. I am glad to learn that...
28959John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Since M r Carr left us I have been confined at least two thirds of my time—I am at present confined to my room— During the whole winter I have been subject to relapses more or less violent and life at times has been felt almost as a burthen of which I would be willing on any terms to be released—My complaint has in every attack been confined to the same knee—which was for the first time...
28960Thomas Jefferson to Thomas S. McCleland, 2 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Reflecting on the immense current of business which will be passing through your mind this week, & that it will probably sweep away the traces of much of what we discoursed on on Saturday, I have concluded to comply with your request to commit to writing some of the topics of our case. I have done it hastily & briefly, by way of notes, & under the confusion of a considerable indisposition...