42031From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
I fear your Father may have given you unnecessary anxiety; I told him at the time it was not best to mention an indisposition so slight as John’s was, but he said if he wrote; he must tell all. I had observed for several days about noon a high coulour in his cheeks, and at that time, he was unusually irritable, Some other Symptoms indicated a redundancy of Bile, which proved to be the case....
42032From James Madison to Hugh Lennox, 5 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The President of the United States having been pleased to appoint you their Agent at Jamaica; you will be pleased to observe that your public duties are altogether confined to the relief of our Seamen, who may be left destitute in that Island, or who may be impressed. As respects the latter, you will on hearing of impressments, endeavor by all temperate & discreet means to obtain their...
42033From James Madison to Nathaniel Macon, 5 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, in Compliance with the order of the House of Representatives of the 6th of January, directing him to lay before it, “A Return of the number of American Seamen, who have been impressed or detained by the Ships of War or Privateers of Great Britain, whose names have been reported to the Department of State since the statement was made to the House, at the last session of...
42034To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
I think the several modifications in Mr. Gallatin’s paper may be reduced to simple instructions in some such form as follows. The sum to be paid will consist I. of 2. millions ready money. II. of a residuary sum, not exceeding 3. millions, to be paid afterwards as shall be agreed. I. the ready money (as a 1st. proposition) not to be paid till possession of the whole country ceded is delivered...
42035To James Madison from Richard Söderström, 5 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Richard Söderström. 5 March 1806, Washington. “In behalf of Bd: Nootnagel, Schwarts and Roques, Henkel & Enibeke, Rucker & Westphalen, Rucker and Wortman, William Peltzer & Ferdinand Peltzer, Johann Schuckmaker, Benecke and Co. and Johann Gottard Martens, Residents and Citizens of the Free Imperial City of Hamburg, and owners of the Cargo of the Danish Brign. Henrick, and as their...
42036From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you come & take an Indian dinner with us tomorrow. there is one of the chiefs who is really a curiosity, as possessing the art of speaking by signs, of which we have often heard, but never before seen an example. the hour, as usual, half after three. Wednesday. Mar. 5. 06. OCHP : Whelpley Autograph Collection.
42037To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cullen Carpenter, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Author of “the Monthly Register, and Review of the United States,” requests the Presidents acceptance of that work. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
42038To Thomas Jefferson from John Cogdell, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On being presented to you on Monday last, it was my intention to have tendered for your acceptance the enclosed Head, but on entering we were informed you were engaged with the Secretary of State, & therefore I determin’d—not to occupy one moment of that time so seriously in demand by my Country—then perchance may be some leisure moment to peruse—I have therefore Sir, taken the Liberty of...
42039To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The post has arrived but brings no letter from you. Can it be possible that my two letters of the 10th of January & 10th of February have miscarried. If either has failed, every further attempt of mine will be abortive. I pray you inform me only of this point, by a letter to me at the Yellow Banks post office, without delay, for I am now determined to raise money upon my own credit and pursue...
42040To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not necessary to nominate district paymasters to the Senate,—nor to nominate Cadets. as you have not returned the list of Cadets I presented to you, with the other list of appointments you may have sent the Cadet list with the others—if so it may not be improper to recall it. I am Sir Your Obedt. Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
42041To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Dill, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a Very weighty & Important business & concern lays upon you Sir; in the place and Station you are put into by & with the voice of the people of the American States; but how can I or how Shall I or any other Individual know whether the Almighty God of heaven Approverth or Disapproverth of you & of your way of transacting business; if you fear & love the lord god of heaven & Earth in truth...
42042Draft Terms for a Treaty with Spain, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
1. Spain shall cede & confirm to the US. East & West Florida, with the islands & waters thereon depending & shall deliver possn thereof immedly. 2. The US. shall pay to Spain in the city of Madrid on delivery of possn 5. M. D. within months after the treaty shall have been ratified by Spain. 3. Spain & France to have the same privileges respecting trade in the Floridas as is [had] in Louisa...
42043From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I think the several modifications in mr Gallatin’s paper may be reduced to simple instructions in some such form as follows. The sum to be paid will consist I. of 2. millions ready money. II. of a residuary sum, not exceeding 3. millions, to be paid afterwards as shall be agreed. I. the ready money (as a 1st. proposition) not to be paid till possession of the whole country ceded is delivered &...
42044Notes on a Conference, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
1806 Mar. 5. for particular instrns to Armstrong & Bowdoin relative to the purchase of the Floridas from Spain, see my letter of this day to mr Madison. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
42045From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I discover that with my message to the Senate of Feb. 24. I, by mistake, sent a list of Cadets proposed to me by the Secretary at war. as these places are not offices, nor the Cadets officers, they are never nominated to the Senate; and it was not designed that they should be comprehended in the message. according to our usage of informally correcting mere errors, by consent, and without...
42046To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Allyne Otis, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your request I return your message of 24th, having the permission of the V President & of the chairman of the committee to whom it was referred. You will have the goodness to return it to me when you have made such alteration as you may judge proper I have the honor to be very respectfully your most humble Sert DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
42047From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
1. Spain shall cede & confirm to the US. of A. East & West Florida, with the islands & waters thereon depending, & shall deliver possession thereof on the ratification by her of this treaty. 2. The US. shall pay to Spain in the city of within after this treaty shall have been ratified on her part five millions of dollars. 3. Spain & France shall have the same privileges respecting trade &...
42048To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Stewart, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been informed that the Consulate at Havana is or will Soon be vacant by the resignation of Henry Hill Junr Esquire and that it is the intention of my freind Mr Patrick Ysnardy to make application for that office I have taken the liberty to introduce myself to your notice in Consideration of said Gentleman having mentioned his desire of my Accompanying him as assistant in the discharge...
42049From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request of the Senate expressed in their resolution of the 3d. inst. I now transmit the extract of a letter from the Secretary of State to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the US. at Paris, the answer to that letter, & two letters from Henry Waddell a citizen of the US. relative to the interference of the sd minister in the case of the ship New Jersey, & to the principles...
42050From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 4 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of the 5th. Ultimo, I stated that measures had been taken for examining into the circumstances which attended the Capture of the Xebeque commanded by Raiz Hassan bo Ally and her two prizes, and that the determination to be made would bear the marks of a friendly disposition towards the Bey. In this investigation it has been made to appear, that the Xebeque and prizes were captured...
42051From James Madison to Louis F. Delesdernier, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Louis F. Delesdernier. 4 March 1806, Department of State. “I enclose an extract from the Gazette, stating under the head of St. John’s, 20 Jany. the condemnation at the Court of Vice Admiralty there of the Sloop Falmouth, which had been seized, in October last, by the Union Cutter, under the direction of a British officer of the Customs, for receiving plaster of Paris out of a British...
42052From James Madison to Thomas Dobson, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas Dobson. 4 March 1806, Department of State. “I request the favor of you to state at what rate pr. half sheet, a reputable printer would undertake to print the laws of the present Session of Congress at Philadelphia, in the usual octavo form in which other Sessions appear; the number of copies to be 10,000. The object of this request is to test the price demanded for the printing...
42053To James Madison from William Lee, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Lee. 4 March 1806, Bordeaux. “By two Imperial Decrees dated the twenty second, and twenty fifth of last month, the importation into this country of White and printed Cottons, and muslins is prohibited: Cotton wool is henceforth to pay a duty of sixty francs, per decimal quintal, equal to thirty francs, on one hundred pounds, and Tobacco is hereafter to pay a duty, of two hundred...
42054To James Madison from James Maury, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 4 March 1806, Liverpool. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 31st: January. I have, in part, executed a bond agreeable to your instructions of 1st: July, which is sent to Mr. Christopher Johnston of Baltimore, who, after having the execution compleated by the insertion of the sureties, will forward it to you.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a...
42055To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Josef Yznardy. 4 March 1806, Cádiz. “I am just returned from Madrid to reside here, I have left Mr. Erving in good health, who has been received with the highest attention and politeness by the Prince of Peace, and Minister of State, with whom I have had various conferences respecting the pending affairs with the United States, and to the best of my believe their wishes are to establish...
42056To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with the receipt of your Letter of the 16. of January; and its enclosure has been delivered to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I have also received from the department of State, Commissions for four members of the Council; the fifth member is not yet notified to me—but I trust his Commission will arrive previous to the meeting of the Legislature, which will be on the...
42057To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Survey; 20 Townships of six miles square each, lay out one half of each Township into 100. acre lots, say 115 lots, in each Township—and in 20 Townships 2300 lots, of which, probably 2000 would be fit for settling.—give one lot to each able bodied white man of not more than thirty years of age, who shall within a reasonable time actually become a settler and shall continue to reside on said...
42058From Thomas Jefferson to Jay Marsh, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1st. instant informing me of your discovery of a method of converting iron into steel, is recieved. however desirable & useful improvements in the arts are to every nation, yet ours, by their constitution, has allowed no particular encouragement to be given but a patent securing for 14. years the exclusive benefit of his invention to the inventor. To this I must add that,...
42059To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Philip DePeyster writes me that John Lyle Esqr. is dead; that two Vessels, one in 24 days and the other in 28, have arrived at New York, with that News and that Captn. Jones of the Schooner Franklin was at his funeral. It is therefore that Mr. DePeyster requests me to write again to you, he says that he has wrote to the Secretary of State, Doctr Mitchel and Mr. Rumford. I am not acquainted...
42060To Thomas Jefferson from John Preston, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty, to adress you on a subject which after making all possible inquiry, have not been able to obtain any information. Trusting, that, as you have it in your power, you will give yourself the trouble to satisfy anxious Freinds, and a disconsolate Mother, respecting James Gickie a young Lad, who went from this place October 1801—A John White of Albemarle Countie who went from...