30781To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 16 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of receiving a few days since your Circular of the 9th. April. The necessity the Captains of our merchant men are now laid under of delivering their Papers to the Consul or Vice Consul on arrival will enable us to forward you in future the semiannual return of American shipping frequenting the Port which heretofore it was not possible to procure with any degree of certainty, as...
30782To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 17 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I received by last Post a Letter from Governor Claiborne in which he asked for information respecting the Boundaries & population of Louisiana and supposing that he meant to communicate the result of his enquiries to you I have taken pains to obtain the best official statements which I now forward. By the Census of 1785 and a Comparison with that of the present Year you will see the increase...
30783To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 29 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Herewith I forward you the answer to the Query respecting the Indian Nations in Louisiana, and by consulting the Map already forwarded you, their Position will be easily perceived. I am collecting further information respecting the Nations in the Provinces bordering on & to the West of Louisiana which you will shortly receive. I now take the Liberty of drawing on you in compliance with the...
30784To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 27 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since my last the most remarkable Circumstance that has occurred is the arrival of the Prefect & his Family, accompanied by the Adjutant General and an Engineer who are all busily employed in making preparations to receive the Capt. General & the Troops who are hourly looked for. A National Brig has also arrived from Dun kirk with military Stores. Another that sailed with her was lost on the...
30785To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Clark, 12 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving the letter you wrote me in June last , and of delivering that which was inclosed for Mr Dunbar who thinks himself honor’d by your application to him. Whilst at his House we had the satisfaction of seeing Mr Philip Nolan arrive from New Mexico, he has brought with him 1000 head of Horses and by a singular favor of Providence has escaped the snares which were...
30786To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 14 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have this Morning seen the Papers mentioned in my Letter of Yesterday, they are positive not to deliver any thing more to France than what was possessed by Spain East of the Mississippi, when Great Britain possessed West Florida, it not being as the Minister expresses himself, his Majesties intention to surrender to the French any Country that was not received of them, and by all means to...
30787To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 18 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your Letter of the 20th. ulto. came to hand this Evening. I shall in every thing as far as I am able endeavor to fulfill your Wishes, and regret that the immediate return of the Post prevents my replying to some of the subjects mentioned in it, which I will take an immediate opportunity of doing. I flatter myself you will excuse the hasty & inaccurate manner in which the duplicate of the...
30788To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Clark, 29 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have answered before this your letter of the 20th. January , the duplicate of which forwarded by Sea as well as the original by Post having reached me, had I not entertained hopes that Mr. Brown would have forwarded the Busts agreeable to your directions, and that I should have the pleasure of advising you of their reception—I have however heard nothing of them and the Season being...
30789To George Washington from David & Francis Clark, 13 September 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 9th Instant I have received —with Respect to Mr Morris’s Coach, he has no Coat of Arms theron, but a Cypher on Doors, back & front, with a Chryst over the Cypher, and no inclosure—the ground colour of your Coach being White, the silver in our opinion will have but a bad effect—should you prefer continuing the seasons as already on the carriage, on the Doors, front & Back,...
30790To Benjamin Franklin from Anne Johnson Clarke, 2 March 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Permit me again to take up the pen (after many years being deprived the pleasure of writing to You) to inquire after your health, and to give You some account of myself since I last wrote to You. I have long wish’d for a proper opportunity to pay my Duty to You, even at this distance and yesterday Mrs: Woolford call’d to inform me a Relation of Hers was...
30791To Benjamin Franklin from Anne Johnson Clarke, 5 May 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I take the liberty to acquaint you we arriv’d here the 9 of Deceber. last and tho it was a long passage it was not a bad one. I was very kindly receiv’d by Capt. Clarke’s Mother and relations; Capt. Clarke not finding A [sea?] Man here, was oblig’d to go to Antigue in search of him in eight days after our arrival, upon which his Mother gave me a very...
30792James Ogilvie to Thomas Jefferson, November [1814] (Jefferson Papers)
The young gentleman, M r Colin Clark , who will present this letter was formerly a pupil of mine; his academical proficiency & good conduct, gave him a solid claim to my confidence & affection: of the sincerity of these sentiments I afford him an unequivocal evidence, by making him known to you.— I can scarcely indulge the hope of seeing you again, but assuredly, wherever hereafter, my...
30793William Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to recommend to your notice and good offices, the bearer of this letter, my young friend, m r Colin Clarke , son of col o James Clarke of Powhatan county , with whom you are acquainted:—He is at present a practitioner of the law; but wishes to serve his country, in at this crisis, in a military capacity, and solicits, from you, a letter in his favour to the secretary of war.—I have...
30794To James Madison from Edward Clark, ca. 9 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 9 April 1812. States that there are ports in the U.S. “without adequate means of defence against attack by ships” and that “in some of these ports, land forts are not sufficient safe guards, because the channels are too far distant from the shores to admit the hope of arresting the enemy’s fleet when sailing under the auspices of fair winds and favorable tides.” Military men and statesmen...
30795To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Clarke, 10 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of writing you on a subject highly interesting to the Citizens of our state, and perhaps not more so, than to those of Tennesee & Kentucky—An attempt will probably be made at our next legislature, to improve the navigation of the Savanah river, between the towns of Augusta & Petersburg—The intelligent & enterpriseing part of our Citizens, are turning their attention to...
30796To Alexander Hamilton from George Clarke, 15 August 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Catskill [ New York ] August 15. 1797 . “… I waited on Mr. Scott Attorney at Law at Cattskill, to know if he had obtained your Answer & Opinion respecting my Title to the Land at Cattskill Point.… I have made every enquiry in my Power in order to discover the deed of Trust from John Lindesay … (which Deed is not recorded but only noted as a memorandum on the Margin of the Patent to Lindesay)...
30797James Clarke to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Fearing that you have many intrusive correspondants, and that I may be rank’d among the number, it is with great deference I make this little communication; which I hope you will excuse. When I had the pleasure of being in your company (about 8. or 9 years ago, at Monteceloe ) conversing on the subject of the Odomater, you asked me, if I thought it practicable to construct a machine that could...
30798James Clarke to Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed, I send you a small sample of the cotton, and the coffee, which grows Spontaneously on that part of the coast of Africa now colonising with the free people of Colour from America. It was sent to Richmond by one of the first adventurers from Virginia He writes, the country is remarkably healthy and the soil extremely fertile—It gives me a pleasing hope, that we shall, in time, get rid...
30799To Thomas Jefferson from James Clarke, 27 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your letter of the 22d Instant respecting an instrument on my pheaton for measureing distances in traveling, and the pleasure I feel in complying with your request in having it coppied and introdused into publick use, will be greatly increased by your acceptance of it as a present. I would send it on to you by the first opportunity, or if you expect to return to Montecelo...
30800James Clarke to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Through some neglect in the post offices your letters of the 19 Jan y and 22 d Feb y both came to hand the first of last week only—or I should sooner have had the pleasure of supplying the part lost from your Odometer I now send herewith, a case containing the rod with the wheels (from the same moulds) already fixed, and have directed it to the care of the postmaster in Milton If the rod...
30801James Clarke to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September [1820] (Jefferson Papers)
By the advice, and persuation of several Gentlemen who are anxious to get an Odometer like mine, I have at length concluded to take a pattent, and establish a manufactory of them. As you have had one of them in use many years, I’ll thank you for your opinion of them, as to accuracy, Simplicity, and durability; whether it incommodes, or disfigures a carriage. And, whether you believe the plan...
30802To Thomas Jefferson from John Clarke, 10 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. William B. Giles member of congress, a considerable time past, was kind enough to take with him to philadelphia the Models and explainations of my new invented Machine which you have seen in miniature, when I saw you at Monticello. The Models and explainations together with a petition for a patent were inclosed in a box address’d to you, which Mr. Giles promised he would deliver to you on...
30803John Clarke to Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I salute you as the Father and the friend of American Independence, and presume to lay before you, my humble sentiments on a subject, which in consideration of its importance to our Country at the present crisis, cannot fail to excite your warmest solicitude. I mean the protection of our coasting-trades between our own States, with our own shipping, and in our own waters. A commerce of the...
30804To Thomas Jefferson from John Clarke, 15 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having heard nothing respecting my petition for a patent for my Machine for a considerable time, And being Anxious to know the success it has met with, I have once more taken the liberty to address you on that subject and humbly request that you will inform me what State the matter is in, the first time you are at leisure. I have not yet found a man who will Lease your mill-seat at Monticello,...
30805To Thomas Jefferson from John Clarke, 17 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 28th. of June, for which I humbly thank you. Being unacquainted in Philadelphia, I was at a loss to know who I should get to be my arbitrator, but was happy to find by your letter that you intend to select (for arbitrators) men of integrity and other proper qualifications for deciding who is best entitled to the patent contended for. I was also happy to...
30806John Clarke to Thomas Jefferson, 2 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In addressing the first man of an enlightened nation, upon a political subject; I feel that diffidence which a consciousness of the great disparity between our respective intellects, naturally inspires.—The sun cannot borrow light from a twinkling star, nor can the brilliancy of your mind, receive additional lustre from the weak and obscure reflections of mine. But as the most able Generals...
30807To Thomas Jefferson from John Clarke, 19 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
As I am uncertain whether or not you will require of me a power of attorney in Appointing Arbitrators, I have Sent one, with a blank for the name of the person you please to appoint. I rather suppose it will be unnecessary, for According to the latter part of the ninth section of the new Law, if the parties do not all unite in Chooseing three Arbitrators, The power rests with you to appoint...
30808Edward Hansford and John L. Clarke to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
We the subscribers most earnestly solicit, that your honor will give us your opinion, on the following extraordinary Phenomenon Viz: At hour on the night of the 25 th instant, we saw in the South a Ball of fire full as large as the sun at Maridian which was frequently obscured within the space of ten minutes by a smoke emitted from its own body, but ultimately retained its briliancy, and form...
30809To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Clarke, 8 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I was yesterday favor’d with your Excellency’s Letter of 27th: Decr: in answer to one I had the honor to write you of 22d: Novr: relative to the Provisions due to the Convention Army; I take the earliest opportunity to acquaint you, Sir, that agreeable to your desire I have ascertain’d the quantity due, to the satisfaction of the Issuing Commissary, and he has certify’d it to Mr. Hawkins the...
30810To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Clarke, 20 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 20 Feb. 1781 . Since last writing to TJ, Clarke has received a letter from Brig. Gen. [James] Hamilton “acquainting me that it was not agreeable to Maj. Gen. Phillips that the Convention Troops should receive money for the Provisions due to them, and therefore he wishes that the Germans should receive the Provisions here and the British at Frederick Town.” RC ( Vi ); 2 p.;...