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Your favor of Mar. 25. has been recieved, & the letter therein inclosed is referred to the Secretary of the Navy, who will give it just consideration whenever a vacancy in the body of Midshipmen occurs. if any thing can be done he will give notice of it. Congress have just closed a long & uneasy session, in which they had great difficulties external & internal to encounter. with respect to the...
Philad—April. 26th. 1806 Received of Thomas Jefferson President of the United States Eighteen Dollars in full of his Subn. to the daily Advertiser to the 1st. day of January last Inclusive. Receved by the hand of John Vaughan—for Zachariah Poulson Thomas Jefferson P. of US. Dear Sir Philad: 26 April 1806  Your letter of 15 April was this day presented & I consequence paid his accot. amt. &...
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mrs. Warren & his thanks for the copy of her History of the American revolution which he recieved yesterday. his emploiments have not yet permitted him to enter on it’s reading; but he anticipates much pleasure from the perusal of a work which taking truth, both of fact and principle, for it’s general guide, will furnish in addition original...
Your letter of Nov. 26. was recieved here Dec. 13. the young Sac, who was the subject of it arrived here some time after. during the short time he continued in health he certainly appeared to great advantage among his companions, both as to person & manners. but he was early taken ill, and was but barely able to travel when he left us, so that we saw less of him than of the others. the...
Through your polite Attention to my Letter of the 20th. Instant I have received the Treasurers Dft, in our Bank at Sight, for the amount of the Dft. inclosed you, for Acceptance. I have also to acknowledge a remittance of One Hundred and Twenty Dollrs. from Alexr. Sheppard. As you will observe the Check is drawn in your favor, and payable to your order. I am necessitated to return it for your...
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 25 April 1806, Amsterdam. “In consequence of the late proceedings of the Prussian Govt in taking possession of Hanover, Shutting its Ports to the English &c. the Rivers Elbe, Weser, & Emmol are declared to be in a State of Blockade. Should this information not have before reached the U States you will doubtless deem it of importance to be made known—if my information on...
§ From DeWitt Clinton. 25 April 1806, New York. “I enclose you certain documents in favor of an American Citizen now in confinement at Guadaloupe. The Captn states that he will probably be condemned to death (unless interference takes place in his favor) owing to false testimony and violent prejudices against him and that the chief criminal Judge assured him that the prisoner would be...
§ From Albert Gallatin. 25 April 1806, Treasury Department. “The Secretary of the Treasury, presents his respectful compliments to the Secretary of State, and transmits for his consideration thereon, a letter from Ambrose Nelson of Philadelphia, dated the 23 instant, accompanied with a sett of bills for two hundred dollars, and other documents in relation to his claim on the French Government,...
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Balch whose letter of the 21st. he did not recieve till yesterday. the present Minister of the US. at London having a Secretary attached to him, the additional emploiment arising from the occasional mission lately determined on, has not been thought sufficient to require an additional Secretary: nor consequently the occasion of being useful to those...
According to Lafon’s map, which is the most minute & probably the most correct, of the Environs of N. Orleans, it may seem doubtful whether it is best to cross the Pearl river at the Spanish road & come down on the West side to the Rigolet at Stikinoula, or to take off from that road on the East side of the river where it is intersected by one of the Indian paths travd by Lafon, & come down to...
I have the honour to transmit herewith to Your Excellency Copy of my respects of the 25th. of last month since which the Nebiole Wine (five cases containing 200 bottles) has arrived from Turin and been shiped for Leghorn to the care of Mr. Appleton who will forward it to the United States according to your Excellencies instruction I feel the greatest regret that obstacles should have...
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr McMahon for the book he has been so kind as to send him. from the rapid view he has taken of it & the original matter it appears to contain he has no doubt it will be found an useful aid to the friends of an art, too important to health & comfort & yet too much neglected in this country. the seeds which Th:J. recieved from the Missouri had been send to...
25. Present all the members of the Cabinet.  All the articles of a treaty, in maximo & minimo, were agreed to, without a single dissent on any article. the former instrns of Monroe were made the groundwork.  It was proposed to consider whether any measures should be taken under the act. for detaching 100,000. militia. it was agreed not on the following grounds. 1. it would spread considerable...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 24 April 1806, Havre. “I have the honor to transmit to your Department in obedience to your ‘Standing’ and Subsequent instructions to Consuls of the U:S.—a report of the Vessels of the U: States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg during the last Six months of 1805—together with the accompts relative to receipts and Expenditures for seamen at the...
§ From William Pinkney. 24 April 1806, Baltimore. “I have just had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 23d Instant, by which I am informed that, by a Nomination of the President, with the Concurrence of the Senate, I am united with Mr. Monroe, in a Commission plenepotentiary & extraordinary, for settling all matters of Difference between the United States & the United Kingdom of Great...
The absence of Mr Kuhn gains me the honor to answer your Excellencys esteemed lines address’d to him under date of March 14th. last. (only now received) requesting a supply of Nebioule Wine in compliance thereto. I have written my friend at Turin on the subject, and have to regret that the general idea entertained of that wine, is that it will not bear a transport to America for want of a...
His Excellency Th jefferson   To Isaac Cooper Jr dolls june 7th 1805— to Straining a painting on mahogany board and white frame for Do delivered to Mr g Stewart 4
As far as can be judged from the maps, the road from Fort Stoddert ought to bear down South Westwardly, to get into the Spanish road leading from Mobille to Baton Rouge, before it crosses Pascagoule river. then follow that road (which is nearly due West) till it crosses Pearl river. then quit it & go nearly due South to the neck between Lakes Borgne & Pontchartrain opposite to Chef Menteur....
After delivering my letters to Dr. Jones, I recieved one from mr Thomas Strode, to whom I presume the father had mentioned what had passed between him and myself here. my enquiry of him here had arisen merely from the accident of his coming here while my letter to you was still in my own hands, and to refresh my own memory as to what had been stated to me. I did not suppose he would have given...
Some days ago a person called at my door with your account, & as I was engaged in business with some persons, he told the servant he would call again. as he has not done so, I inclose you a letter to mr Vaughan which will explain the accidental omission in a former letter to him, & which he will now supply. be pleased to seal & deliver the letter. Accept my salutations MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Your two letters of Apr. 9. & 15. were recieved together on the 21st. inst only. I am sorry you have given yourself so much trouble about the little circumstance of conversation which I had mentioned to your father. I spoke with him on the subject merely because he happened here just as I had written to Genl Lee & before I had sent away the letter; and merely to satisfy myself of the...
Your last letter bears date on the 12th. February. Those of 18 Octr. 11. 26 Novr. 11. 23 Decr. 28 Jany. & 12 Feby. last had been previously received. Congress adjourned the evening before the last. The Gazettes before and herewith sent will give you a general view of the proceedings of the Session. As soon as the laws passed shall be ready, a compleat copy of them will be forwarded. For the...
I have the honor to make known to you that by a nomination of the President with the concurrence of the Senate you are united with Mr Monroe in a Commission Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary “for settling all matters of difference between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, relative to wrongs committed between the parties on the high seas, or other waters,...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 23 April 1806, Paris. “With my respects of the 26th. Ulto. I had the honor to transmit copies of papers relative to a personal insult passed upon me by Michael O’mealy—as I was coming out of General Armstrong’s House on the 13th. of march last —and of the utter refusal of this Minister to Shew me that countenance and Support to which as an officer of the United States...
§ From John Dawson. 23 April 1806. “I call’d to see you on this morning, but you were engag’d. I am much push’d for some money to clear out and if you can lend me one hundred dollars it Shall be returnd with many thank [ sic ] on the day I arrive at Fredericksburg.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.
The Petition of John Adams, humbly Sheweth, That your petitioner hath been convicted at the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, of smuggling a small quantity of Coffee, for which Offence he hath agreeably to Law been sentenced to pay a fine of four hundred Dollars, all which will more fully appear to your Excellency, by the Certified transcripts from the...
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following promotions & appointments in the Second Legion of the Militia of the District of Columbia. Ensign James Millan of the Infantry to be promoted to the Rank of Lieutenant in the same, vice, Lt. Thomas W. Peyton, removed from the District Ensign Frederick Shuck of the Infy to be promoted to the Rank of Lieutenant vice Lieut. John...
I have laid my Petition before the Senate in behalf of the Heirs of Captn. Carver praying for a Ratification of the Deed from the Naudowessie Sachems to Capt Carver—dated May 1st. 1767, at the great Cave in General Council;—of a Territory near the fall of St. Anthony in the Mississippi.— The Senate appointed a Committee to examine & report on the claim—but they have examined & adjourned...
Have the goodness to cause the Book containing proceedings of the Senate in their risen capacity, in order that the record may be brot up. I have the honor to be your most humble Sert DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Presuming too much upon Mr Jeffersons polite attention to me while I resided in the United States of North America, I take the liberty of announcing the Bearer of this, Counsellor Sampson, as a man whose honour integrity and patriotism have so much attached me to him as to make me guilty of this almost impertinent intrusion. I am with sincere respect your obedient servent DLC : Papers of...