49021To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles Eppes, 23 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last Maria has had a return of her puking—She is again recovering—Her breast is still somewhat inflamed but not I hope in much danger of going further—Mrs. Lewis to whose care and attention we already owe so much is again with her—We have prevailed on her to ride out twice and she will ride again to day—On monday we intend to go over to Monticello as I think change of air and of scene...
49022To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, with Jefferson’s Note, 23 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inform the President of the United States, that I have this day Shipp’d, (subject to His orders); for Alexandria, on Board the Sloop Unity Captn. Hand, Six Boxes, forwarded to me by Wm. Lee , Esqr. of Bordeaux, said to contain almonds, prunes, & preserved fruit—Likewise a small Box, reciev’d from New Orleans, without any directions, Contents unknown, but said to contain...
49023To Thomas Jefferson from Israel B. Parshall, 23 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote your Excellency Some few days past and not having Recd an answer from You, I Presume you have not Recd. my letter, or Buss. of more Importance has Engaged Your Attention which has obliged Your Excellency To Neglect the Petition of a poor Mechanic— I will state the Bussiness to Your Excellency in as precise A manner as I can—viz—I Began the Bussiness in the Shoemaking Line Last Summer...
49024From Thomas Jefferson to John Francis Vacher, 23 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am late in acknoleging the reciept of your favor of Apr. 30. and in returning you thanks for the extracts of your poem which you were so kind as to communicate, and which I have read with great pleasure. but believing that no one can be sensible of those delicacies of language in a foreign one which are the charm of poetry I have not the presumption to declare it’s merit nor to anticipate...
49025Enclosure: Memorandum on the Edward Stevens Claim, 23 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The constitution having provided that the President should appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls and all other officers which shall be established by law, the first Congress which met passed a law (1790. July 1.) authorising him to draw from the treasury 40,000. D. annually ‘for the support of such persons as he shall commission to serve the US. in foreign parts, & for the...
49026To Alexander Hamilton from Louis Le Guen, 22 March 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
Je Profitte de L’occasion du Cel. Williamson qui Part Pour Newyork Par Le Mail, Pour Vous Aviser, que depuis 10. Jours absent de chés Moy, je nai recu que hier, Votre Lettre du 6. Je ne Sai a quoy devoir Latribuer, Sy Ce nest à la Négligence du directeur de La Poste Office a trenton, il n’en Est pas moins Vraie, que Cella ma Empeschée de Proffiter des Avantages, que Votre attention Génereuse...
49027To James Madison from John Gavino, 22 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 March 1804, Gibraltar. No. 147. Encloses a duplicate of his dispatch no. 146 [19 Mar.]. Encloses a letter from Preble “with the very pleasing and interesting account of the Capturing and distroying” of the Philadelphia in Tripoli: “the Gallant and brave manner in which it was accomplishd by Capn. Decature does him and others Employd on that hazardouse service much honour.” “I have got the...
49028To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Banks, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been this day employed by several persons to prepare a Memorial, to be forwarded to you, the design of which will be to postpone your Ratification of an act of Congress which has been passed in conformity to an act of the Assembly of Virginia for establishing a Company to open the Navigation of James River to this City. The Memorial will set forth, that the Law deprives trading Vessels...
49029To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Banning, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday receiving a letter from the Honble The Comptroller of the Treasury informing me of my being remov’d from office induces me at this time to take the liberty of addressing you, being fully convinc’d of your laudable love of justice emboldens me in the business I now undertake— I have no doubt but that information has been given you of some misconduct of mine which I am at present a...
49030From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
You remember how anxious I was, when with you at Marseilles, to get the admirable olive of your canton transferred to my own country, and how much trouble you were so kind as to take to effect it. it did not happen that any one of those among whom the plants were distributed took up the plan with the enthusiasm necessary to give it success, and it has failed. Mr. John Couper of St. Simon’s...
49031To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour of enclosing as correct a list of the officers (above the grade Lieut.,) who served in the Army of the United States in our revolutionery war, as I have been able to collect. with respectfull consideration I am Sir Your Obedt Servt RC ( DLC ); at head of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the War Department on 23 Mch. and “list of...
49032To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the land office recommendations. The result seems to be 1. Benjamin Tupper of Marietta Receiver of public monies at Marietta—vice—Backus resigned 2. Willys Silliman of Ohio Register of the land office at Zanesville 3. Thomas Van Swearingen of Ohio Receiver of public monies at Zanesville The office at Zanesville was established by a law of the last session of Congress, but had not yet...
49033To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18th. inclosing manifests for two hhds Tobacco is received. the Tobacco has arrived. Mrs. R’s letter is sent to her. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Mch. and so recorded in SJL . The letter was likely TJ to Anne Randolph, 16 Mch. (not found, but see TJ’s letter of the same day to John Page ).
49034From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate William Johnson of South Carolina to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the US. in the place of Alfred Moore resigned. John Samuel Sherburne of New Hampshire to be District judge of the district of New Hampshire. Jonathan Steele of New Hampshire to be Attorney for the US. in the district of New Hampshire. Joseph McIlvaine of New Jersey to be Attorney for the US. in the...
49035From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I lay before Congress the last returns of the militia of the US. their incompleatness is much to be regretted and it’s remedy may at some future time be a subject worthy the attention of Congress. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a House clerk. RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ). Notation in SJL : “militia return.”...
49036To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Watkins, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
by Examineing Congressenal proceedeings on the Subject of Louisiania as Stated in the Publick prents I find a Resolution directing the presedent to appoint persons to Examine and Explore the Cuntry of Louisiania and make Memerandoms of the Same in order I suppose to form an Accurate Map—the Better to Enable Government to have a full View of this newly acquired Teretory and to form Governmental...
49037To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of informing you that I have received from Mr Livingston at Paris, the Natural History of Fishes, by the Celebrated La Cepede, which the Author delivered to him to be presented to you—it composes six Quarto Volumes—I ought not to trouble you with the enquiry how to send it, but as I know of none but the circuitous rout by Sea—I believe it will be best to wait for your...
49038To James Madison from Elias Boudinot, 21 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1804, Philadelphia. “Having lately lost, by death, two or three of our Work men in the Mint, whose places I have power to supply, I am led respectfully to suggest, thro’ you, to the President of the United States, the propriety of authorising me as director of the Mint, to supply the Places of any Officer⟨s⟩ of the Mint, (who may be removed by death) from the surviving Officers, till...
49039To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 21 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1804, Leghorn. No. 5. “Enclosed I have the honor to transmit twelve copies of a translation of the President’s two last speeches to congress, the[y] retain sufficient elegance of stile to recommend them ’tho dress’d in a foreign language; besides as we are indebted to the old world for a vast fund of knowledge; I think it but just that we should repay them when we have an opportunity:...
49040To James Madison from Peder Pedersen, 21 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1804, Washington. Is informed by an official communication that a new lighthouse has been erected on Agnos Point [Agdenes], near the port of Trondheim, Norway. Is directed to publish this communication “for the information and benefit of such mariners and navigators of the United States, as hereafter may visit that port.” Transmits a translated copy of the notice with “the request,...
49041To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 21 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1804, Washington. Received JM’s letter of 19 Mar. in response to his of 7 and 17 Mar. Has reread with great attention Sections 4 and 11 of the act with which his own letter deals but finds nothing in them to alter his opinion of the insult offered, particularly by Section 11, to the rights of the king. Insists, though JM believes it can be deduced that Congress did not intend to...
49042To James Madison from Thomas Hope, 21 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 21 March 1804. Acknowledged in Daniel Brent to Hope, 27 Mar. 1804, as an inquiry into the case of B. Maloney, an impressed seaman (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14).
49043To Thomas Jefferson from John Thomson Mason, with Jefferson’s Query, 21 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
John Duffy of the County of Alexandria who now stands committed to the Jail of that County was tried and convicted at the last term in the month of December for keeping a disorderly house, for the fine then imposed he then was committed and has ever since remained in Jail. I know not the man or his situation in life, the witnesses on the trial were respectable persons, they deposed that he was...
49044To Thomas Jefferson from John Smith of Ohio, 21 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry, that I have it in my power to inform you that the bill requiring the next meeting of Congress to commence on the first monday of november, has passed the Senate by a large majority— I have the honour to be Sir very respectfully your most obedt Servt. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; at foot of text: “The President of the U States”; endorsed by TJ as received 22 Mch. 1804 and so...
49045John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 20 March 1804 (Adams Papers)
A letter is now reading from Captain Bainbridge, with an account of the loss of the frigate Philadelphia, wreck’d on rocks on the coast of Tripoli—the last week in October— They were in pursuit of a Tripolitan Cruizer, and struck on rocks, not laid down in any Chart they had on board — Captain Bainbridge and 307 men, are prisoners in Tripoli.— I have already seen an account of this misfortune...
49046To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 20 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I ought long since to have written to you satisfactorily on the subject of your last to me, but exclusive of circumstances that occupied my attention disagreably, I had some things resting in my mind, that interested & indeed agitated me, on which I wishd to write you fully. On them I may address some lines to you but certainly I shall write you on the former subject. In the interim a French...
49047To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson and Others, 20 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
We the Undersignd being Sensibly impress’d, with the importance of haveing a proper Character for Governor of Orleans—and believeing it to be our duty, to bring to your View Such a one as we believe will so Conduct—as to promote the best interests of the United States—and possess the Confidence of the Western people whose interests will be Verry greatly concernd therein—and believeing that the...
49048To Thomas Jefferson from William Barnwell, 20 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very liberal offer of Executive Patronage to our Philosophical Society encourages me again to address you . Doctor Wistar by whose advice this is wrote, has lately informed me that Doctor Beach is about to resign his appointment at New-Orleans these and similar considerations have induced me again to offer my Professional Service in that Place. I have long wished for an opportunity to...
49049To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Crockett, 20 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John Clay informs me that he is an applicant for the office of Register or Prothonotory in new Orleans I beg leave to recommend him to you as a person well qualified for the discharge of the duties of either of those offices; and as a person of real merit. He is a native of Virginia and about twelve years ago removed to this Country, where he resided untill eighteen hundred, since that...
49050To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 20 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have herewith the honor of presenting a General Return of the Militia of the United States—excepting the States of Delaware , Maryland & Tennessee , from which no returns have been received. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my high respect & consederation— RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the War Department on 20 Mch. and “roll...