44501From Thomas Jefferson to John Julius Pringle, 15 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The office of Attorney General of the US. being vacant, it would be extremely pleasing to me if I could avail the public of your services in that station. I therefore take the liberty of proposing the Commission to you. tho’ the circumstances which may principally influence your decision are unknown to me, it may not be improper to state some which lie more immediately under my view than your...
44502To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 15 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now recd your friendly letter , and take the earliest opportunity to express my entire satisfaction with the Contents of it. No man could have been nomd. as Mr B Successor that wd. be more agreeable to me than Mr Patter, & had I known before that he was a Candidate for the appt I should not have requested it. He will likewise I have no doubt be equally agreeable to all the officers...
44503To Thomas Jefferson from William Tatham, 15 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
W. Tatham’s compts. to the President—He has written to Messrs. Learmonth’s & Berry, (the House he is concerned for) Merchts. in London, for a Camera Obscura for the President’s use, to be made as elegantly Plain as possible, by the best Workmen, with spare Glasses of several focuses, Diagonal Head, &c, compleat.—It will be paid for out of W.Ts, own private Monies in the Companies hands; but he...
44504Enclosure: Recommendation for Hugh Lennox, 15 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed from unquestionable authority that William Savage Esquire, Agent for the United States, in the Island of Jamaica has resigned his appointment, and from the Great Mercantile intercourse between the United States and that Island, the residence of a Consul or Agent there is highly necessary, We therefore beg leave, from the knowledge we have, of the abilities & Integrity of Hugh...
44505From James Madison to William Lee, 14 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
Having found you so often ready to execute my little commissions, I take the liberty of asking the further favor of you to send me, in time to be here before the winter, six dozen best Bourdeaux red wine—and nine dozen if a cheaper sort also red to be used with water; with a quarter cask of best wine vinegar, or to be in bottles if you think it as well as that form. The Liqueiers you procured...
44506To James Madison from Henry Hill Jr. (Abstract), 14 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
14 June 1805 . “Since I had the honor of writing you the 12th. Inst., I have recd. a Letter from his Excelly. the Marquis of Someruelos in reply to My address to him of the 6th. of which I herein Enclose you a Copy & Translation; And I am happy to have it in my power to forward it by this opporty. that you may See at one view the Correspondence that has passed between his Excy. and Myself. “He...
44507To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 14 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
14 June 1805, Philadelphia . Says if the Huntress, carrying supplies for the U.S. squadron in the Mediterranean, has been seized by a Spanish privateer under the circumstances communicated in JM’s letter of 11 June , that he received on 13 June, he can only disapprove highly an act so contrary to the friendly disposition of the king toward the United States. Can only, however, note at the same...
44508From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 14 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 14 June 1805 . Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as “relative to sundry impressments &c &c” ( DNA : RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1); described in Merry’s 17 June 1805 reply as referring to the brig Happy Couple .
44509From Thomas Jefferson to Gibson & Jefferson, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you in Richmond bank bills 970. Dollars, and have this day drawn on you in favor of Charles Smith of Louisa for 621 . D. James Oldham 100 . William Wardlaw 46 .12 balance to the credit of my account with you 202 .88 970 which you will be pleased to honour. Accept my friendly salutations 4. bills of 100.
44510From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. inst. came to hand some days ago; but as the question about the sashes for the S.E. portico required attention & a recurrence to my papers, I have not had time to take it up till this moment. there are 5. arches to the Piazza, the measures of which you have taken. besides the sashes, they are to have Venetian blinds of a particular construction, now in hand here, under...
44511To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Lillie communicated to me, a few days after he had written to you, his intention of leaving Monto. this Autumn. I had never heard a word from him before on the subject although I had learned from others sometime before that he had thoughts of the kind. He says that he finds he is doing nothing for his family which consumes necessarily in the groceries and cloathing he is obliged to buy allmost...
44512To Thomas Jefferson from Ledyard Seymour, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In the absence of Mr Granger the Friend of my Father, and who has for ought I Know, been soliciting on my behalf, permit me to approach your respected asylum of the chief-Magistracy of this our happy Country; convinced as I am of the apparent impropriety of addressing you on any subject, incapable as I am, and fearing that either the diffidence of my mind, or the inexperience of youth may...
44513From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 15. was recieved in due time. you will now recieve inclosed a draught of the US. bank here on that at Philadelphia for 500. D. if I rightly estimate the calls which will come on me the beginning of July I am afraid they will disable me from making the remittance for that month. an unexpected one from Albemarle has deranged the calculations I had made for that epoch. after...
44514From James Madison to Robert Patton (Abstract), 13 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
13 June 1805, Department of State . “Your letter of the 25th. ult, with the enclos’d deposition of the Master of the Schooner Iris, has been communicated to the French Minister, who has undertaken to write to the French Captains General in the West Indies, in order that they may examine into the facts imputed to Capt. Brouard, if he should come within their jurisdiction, and to cause him to be...
44515To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne (Abstract), 13 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
13 June 1805, Amsterdam . “I apprehend to have made a little error in regard to the Leyden Gazettes for 1804 . sent you lately by duplicates, & which I mentioned as being already bound. I received them sealed up in a packett & thus forwarded them on under the impression that they were bound at Leyden—but on reflection I am led to think that those forwarded to you for 1803 were bound in this...
44516To James Madison from Turell Tufts (Abstract), 13 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
13 June 1805, Surinam . “In consequence of the Complaint of Capt J. Havens Horton of the Schr Julianne of Newburyport bound to Phila. I was induced to write a Letter to The Lieut Govr. William Carlyon Hughes who commands here instead of Sir Charles Green who has gone home. Aware of His antipathy to every thing that is American, I hesitated for Sometime before I ventured upon it, thinking it...
44517From James Madison to Richard Söderström, 13 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 13 June 1805 . Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as “enclosing an Exequatur &c &c” ( DNA : RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1).
44518IV. William Tatham to William Armistead Burwell, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request, I have endeavoured to charge my recollection more minutely, concerning the particulars of my intercourse with Mr. Jefferson (at present the President of the United States) at several times while the British Army were in Virginia, in and about the year 1781. At the time General Arnold arrived within the Capes, I was preparing for a journey from Richmond, on...
44519From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved information early last winter of mr Boudinot’s intention to retire from the Direction of the mint, and, as was then supposed, immediately, it became a matter of consideration with the administration who should be appointed to succeed him. it was thought that the duties of that office call for the best Mathematical talents which could be procured, as well on account of...
44520From Thomas Jefferson to Elias Boudinot, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter announcing your intention to retire from the Direction of the mint at the close of the present month has been duly recieved. presuming that before coming to that decision you had considered all the circumstances which might influence your determination, and had determined accordingly, it is not for me to say any thing on the subject, but, in consequence of your determination, to...
44521To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the copy of a letter from the Collector of New-Orleans, giving an account of the rescue of the schooner Felicity from two New-Providence privateers. The former circular letter of instructions, which the Collector has not yet received, related only to the services expected from the Cutters for the protection of the revenue. Neither the Masters of those vessels...
44522To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having the temerity to address your Excellency about four weeks ago—I again beg leave to solicit your attention to a yet unknown individual; upon the subject of Capt. Carvers Indian Claim. I then mentioned to Your Excellency; that I was employed by a Son of the late Capt. Carver, in behalf of his children to pursue such legal measures as would validate the claim to his Posterity, their Heirs...
44523Petition of Jane McGraw, with Jefferson’s Order, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of Jane McGraw of George Town in the County of Washington and District of Columbia, most respectfully showeth. That at a Circuit Court begun and held in the City of Washington on the fourth Monday in July One Thousand Eight Hundred and four, your Petitioner was presented by the Grand Inquest for the body of the County of Washington, for having retailed liquors contrary to Law. In...
44524From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having now recieved notice from mr Boudinot that he resigns his office as Director of the mint, on the last day of this month, you will recieve the commission to succeed him in due time to recieve from him whatever he may have occasion to deliver over in form. I write to him on the subject, so that you may now enter into communication with him thereon, and consider the matter henceforward as...
44525To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The Polygraph intended for your secretary and that for Mr. Volney were shipp’d yesterday, and the other which you are pleased to order is now in hand; having one ready made of the same board of which your Polygraph top is made, with a black and white string on the edge, it has a neat look, but not so rich as those with a variety of strings of different colours—it is about ¾ of an Inch longer...
44526From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 27th. of April I recieved from mr Jefferson for acceptance your note for 201. D. paiable about the last of July, which I sent back accepted and shall pay at maturity. I did not write you on it because I thought he would do so. since that your favors of Apr. 25. & June 9. have been recieved. the former proposed that I should pay £200. in 60. days (say July 1.) and £60. in 90 days (Aug....
44527Enclosure: Henderson Family Warehouse Shares, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A statement of the rights &c. in Henderson’s warehouses. the Widow’s dower. conveyed to Peyton price £85. pd. sold by Charles Henderson Att.y. in fact for the widow time of paiment. John. conveyed to Seabrook who by Anderson conveys to Peyton price. £50.— time of paiment Ninety days. Sarah Kerr conveyed to
44528To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Un Pharmacien et Medecin—generalement instruit, digne d’etre recû en bonne Societè, parlant les trois principales langues vivantes, qui a quittè la rive gauche du Rhin par le même Motif que Moi, c’est a dire, puisque Nous prevoions L’Empire se mettre a la place de la Republique—et que j’ai amenè avec Moi en çe pays, a le projet, de fonder a CharlottesVille (pres Monticello) une pharmacie...
44529From Thomas Jefferson to John Rhea, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 24. came to hand on the 11th. inst. exactly as I was signing renewed commissions for the renewed government of Orleans. in consequence of the hope held up in that that the information I had recieved respecting mr Duffield might not be correct, I have renewed his commission, and it is gone on by duplicates to New Orleans. still I must intreat you minutely to enquire into the...
44530From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A considerable time before the reciept of your letter of Apr. 29. it was known here that mr Boudinot intended to retire from the Direction of the mint, & as was expected, immediately. it had therefore been made a question to the members of the administration who should be his successor. it was supposed that the duties of that office required the best mathematical talents which could be found,...
44531To John Adams from John Avery, Jr., 12 June 1805 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that Your Excellency has been, this day, elected President of the Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture, and I with great pleasure transmit this notification— I am Sir with great Esteem and / Respect— / Your very huml. Servt. MHi : Adams Papers.
44532To James Madison from Thomas Corbett and Others, 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
The Memorial of the President and Directors of the South-Carolina Insurance Company, and of the Merchants, and others interested in the Commerce of the City of Charleston, Respectfully sheweth, That your Memorialists are deeply affected by the recent Capture, at the very entrance of this port, of the American Ship, Two Friends, by a french privateer. This event has excited, among all classes...
44533From James Madison to Peter Muhlenberg (Abstract), 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
12 June 1805, Department of State . “The Philadelphia papers mention that Capt. Kennedy of the Brig Eliza and Sarah, arrived at the Lazaretto from Porto Rico, was spoken by a Spanish Privateer off the Coast, which had captured an American Ship belonging to Portland, three days from Alexandria, with which he also fell in. The description he gives of the latter, corresponding with the Huntress,...
44534To James Madison from Henry Hill Jr. (Abstract), 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
12 June 1805, Havana . “I have the pleasure to inform of my arrival at this city the 27th Ulto. But it is with much regret that the manner I have been received, and the situation in which I have found the Consulate of the United States here, obliges me to give a detail which must be as disagreeable to you, as it is painful to me. “I understand from Mr Gray, that he has informed you of the...
44535To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill (Abstract), 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
12 June 1805, New York. “This will be delivered to you by Mr. Robert L. Patterson, who visits Washington for the purpose to solliciting a renewal of the Commission of Commercial Agent in favour of his Brother William D. Patterson now residing in that Capacity at Nantes. The reasons wherefore this request is made of the Secretary of State at this Time, to conform with the new Imperial style of...
44536To James Madison from James Simpson (Abstract), 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
12 June 1805, Tangier . No. 94. “I avail of an Express for Lisbon by way of Algarve to hand accompanying triplicate of No. 93 and to say that since its date I have not seen or heard of any more of the Gun Vessels entering the Straits. It appears the Syren sailed from Gibraltar in the Night of the 5th. The Emperours Frigate and Brig left Lisbon before the Orders sent them reached, and have...
44537From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 June 1805 . Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as “relative to the capture of the Huntress” ( DNA : RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1).
44538To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Smith Barton, 12 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
of the plants with which you have favoured me, No. 1. is a species of Dactylis. No. 2. Solidago glomerata of Bartram. No. 3. Solidago, a new species. No. 4. a species of Aster. No. 5. Solidago suaveolens: the Sweet-scented, or anise-Seed, Golden-rod of New-Jersey. No. 6. Ascyrum multicaule of Michaux. No. 7. Liatris elegans of Michaux. Serratula speciosa of Aiton. No. 8. } Three new species of...
44539From Thomas Jefferson to John Daly Burk, 12 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise in my former letter I wrote to mr Randolph to forward the volumes desired to Richmond, and to Govr. Page that I had at your request consigned them to him. I have just recieved his answer wherein he says ‘mr Burke deserves in my opinion encouragement to proceed in his work, & has every reason to believe that I will contribute any thing in my power to enable him to go on...
44540From Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 12 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On reading the inclosed letters, the bouncing airs the writer gives himself induced me to suspect he was not what he called himself. I sent my Secretary to Genl. Turreau with the letter to enquire who the writer was. they knew nothing of him, & their suspicions were not very different from mine. I should have taken no farther notice of the case but that the writer says the Attorney Genl. of N....
44541From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 12 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John D. Burke of Petersburg, engaged in writing the history of Virginia, has asked the use of a volume of laws & some volumes of antient newspapers from the library at Monticello. I have desired mr Randolph to send them to you, & will pray you to deliver the volumes of newspapers to mr Burke himself: but the volume of laws being the only copy of the laws of that period now existing, and...
44542From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 12 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have barely time to tell you that mrs Madison has executed your desires & I dare say to your mind. the commission to me has given me the greatest pleasure, as it always would that you would say to me freely at all times what want you have which I could gratify. my wishes are always to do what would be pleasing to you; but knowing nothing of what would be proper or acceptable, I do nothing. I...
44543To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 12 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
There is too much reason to fear that it is our Store-Ship that has been taken by the Spanish privateer. But when I consider the numerous documents on board of her all shewing the cargo to be the property of the U. States and destined for our Squadron in the Medn. I cannot allow myself to apprehend that she will be detained one Moment after she is carried into port & her papers examined by any...
44544From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 7th. inst. enclosing a copy of the paper addressed to the President in 1797. Altho’ the questions suggested in it, turn on points, a few of which only, are at present on the Anvil between this Country & G. Britain, they are all of importance in some respects. Are you not mistaken however in supposing that the British Treaty might be offensive to France as...
44545From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose Copies of the Instructions which the President has caused to be issued to the Marshals and Collectors respectively, who may have Occasion to execute certain Provisions in the Act “for the more effectual Preservation of Peace in the Ports and Harbours of the United States, and in the Waters under their Jurisdiction,” of which Act a Copy is also enclosed. It is...
44546From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
From information which seems to claim belief, it appears that the Ship Huntress, laden by the Government of the United States with Stores for their squadron in the Mediterranean, was taken about the third day after her departure from the Port of Alexandria by a Privateer stated to be Spanish. This lawless act is marked by circumstances which render it peculiarly impudent and provoking. The...
44547From James Madison to William Hull (Abstract), 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
11 June 1805, Department of State. “As no specific appropriation was made by Congress for the support of the Government of Michegan, it has been arranged, that the Salaries are to be paid out of the Contingent fund of Government; and the Governor Judges and Secretary may receive a quarters advance at the Treasury, reimbursable by the first salary which accrues to them respectively. It will be...
44548From James Madison to the Marqués de Someruelos (Abstract), 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
11 June 1805, Department of State . “I have the honor to inclose for your Excellency’s perusal, a copy of a letter I have this day written to His Catholic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. The letter sufficiently explains the case in which his interposition is requested, and will doubtless be made. In the mean time as some delay may happen from his present residence at...
44549To James Madison from Thomas Appleton (Abstract), 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
11 June 1805, Leghorn . “The immediate departure of a vessel for the U. States furnishes me with an opportunity of forwarding the inclosed which arriv’d this morning. As the considerations which induc’d the Genoese to unite themselves to the french government were in the italian language, I have translated them for your convenience; but the <s>peech of the Doge and reply of the King being in...
44550To James Madison from Robert Gamble (Abstract), 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
11 June 1805, Richmond. “My Son Robert—intending a tour to France & England—was preparing to go to Cherbourg in a ship which has commenced loading with Tobacco part of Which Will be under his controul but as she will not get off probably for a month—He has been induced to embrace the oportunity of a Brigg. Which will sail in about 10 days for Bordeaux from Norfolk—as a prospect of quicker...