29391Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 27 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Enquirer of the 19 th just now recieved here I see that the petition of Ashlin to build a dam across the river adjacent to Ross’s lands, & consequently not far above it’s mouth has been reported reasonable. where a mill dam assists navigation it is well to allow it because it becomes a public good. M c gruder’s I believe stands on this ground. Wood ’s
29392John W. Quincy to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
You will excuse the freedom I take in writeing you on what may be considered my private concerns, or from Interested motives, Your long and valuable Services in promoteing every enterprise tending to the Independance of our Country, will be sufficent excuse for my looking up to you for your influence with the Heads of Departments either Naval or Millitary to employ my manufactured Articles for...
29393To John Adams from Henry Dearborn, 26 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your several communications in relation to Manufactories, including your note of the 20th. inst. enclosing a letter from John Webb. Having sent about one hundred & fifty letters to different Gentlemen in various parts of this State in the month of August last, I had presumed that before this time I should have received so much information on the interesting...
29394From James Madison to John Stark, 26 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
A very particular friend of your’s, who has been much recommended to my esteem, has lately mentioned you to me in a manner of which I avail myself to offer this expression of the sense I have always entertained of your character and of the part you bore as a Hero and a Patriot, in establishing the Independence of our country. I cannot better render this tribute, than by congratulating you on...
29395From James Madison to the Vermont General Assembly, 26 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have received the address of the General Assembly transmitted to me on the 15th ult. with the impressions which ought to be made by the sentiments expressed in it. Conscious as I am, how much I owe the high trust with which I am invested, to a partiality in my fellow citizens which overrated my qualifications, I am compelled to mingle my regret that these are not more adequate, with the...
29396To James Madison from Sarah W. Lapsley, 26 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
Pardon the presumption of a female, in troubling you, with this addres⟨s.⟩ I had the misfortune, when an infant to loose my father, Capt. Samuel Lapsley; and with him, the greater part of what, as his Child I had a right to inherit. Amongst the rest was, two Certificates for his faithful services, during the late revolutionary war, containing 2360 dollars. My Mother has repeatedly applied to...
29397To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 26 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
As an American citizen I think it my duty to inform you of the extraordinary and (as I thought) most unwarrantable treatment, which I this day received from his Britannic Majesty’s Consul Phineas Bond esqr., at his residence in this place. Before I left Washington, (on my way to Europe) desiring such a protection as the Government of my Country might be pleased to afford me while abroad; I...
29398Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, 26 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Dec. 12. and should willingly have given any information on the subject of it within my power, but I have not the smallest recollection of mr Lefevre , nor of the transaction to which your letter refers. the any deposit of money made into the treasury of Virginia , will doubtless appear in the treasury books at Richmond , and on what account it was paid. at...
29399Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Shoemaker, 26 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have considered your proposition of yesterday to endorse a bill of 500.D. for you to be put into the bank of Richmond & on mature reflection must decline it. I have never carried my name into that bank, & if any thing could have induced me to it, it would have been my own present difficulties. but for a mere farmer to go into a bank for money destroys his credit at once. but the insuperable...
29400John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to request your acceptance of the small volume on the rotation of the earth, which accompanies this letter. As the theory I believe is new, it would afford me much satisfaction to be favoured with your opinion of the principle upon which it is founded; for I am perswaded there are few persons in this country so conversant with mathematical and philosophical subjects. It gives me...