53051To James Madison from John Graham, 7 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
You will see from the Dispatches which go by the Gentleman who takes this Letter that this Government have at last given a possitive answer to Mr Pinckneys Representations relative to the occlusion of the Port of New Orleans. I shall rejoice if this Answer reaches you before that place passes into the hands of the French for I am convinced there is but one way left, by which we can now obtain...
53052To James Madison from John Graham, 22 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
Altho you will doubtless receive from the Secretary of the Navy intelligence of the Glorious victory gained by our Fleet on Lake Erie yet I cannot deny myself the pleasure of sending the inclosed Paper as it affords me an opportunity of offering my Congratulations on an event so honorable to our arms and so important to our future movements in that quarter. I do not write to the Secretary of...
53053To James Madison from John Graham, 9 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Some time since I had the Honor of addressing you, to return my thanks for the Kentucky Papers which you had the Goodness to send me; and also to express my mortification for having troubled you with a request concerning pecuniary matters on which the Law had not given you power to decide. Since then I have not taken the Liberty to write to you; but as Mr Codman offers to me a safe conveyance...
53054To George Washington from John Graham, 14 September 1759 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter of the 10th Inst. and have Sent you a Copy of Spencers Deed to Osborn the original Deed, is marked in the Record, delivered ⟨ mutilated ⟩ Wade. There are no Deeds Recorded in this ⟨ mutilated ⟩fice from Spencer to French or Manley, I ⟨h⟩ave Searched for them very carefully, I apprehend they may have [been] purchassed from Some person that Spencer conveyed to, tho’ we...
53055To James Madison from John Graham, 15 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
As the enclosed Letters from Mr Wirt and Mr Mitchell relate to a subject of some delicasy and importance I have deemed it proper to transmit them to you, more particularly as it is doubtful, from the present appearance of the weather, when Mr Monroe will get back from Virginia. The Papers alluded to by Mr Wirt as having been forwarded by Judge Tucker, have I presume been sent directly to you....
53056To James Madison from John Graham, 10 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
A Stranger to the President & almost unknown to yourself, I fear, that I might possibly expose myself to the charges of Indelicacy & Presumption were I to state to you, the reasons why I wish to retire from my present situation; and yet to ask permission to do so, without assigning them, seems to discover a want of Manliness, & an insensibility to the Honor which has been done me. In this...
53057To James Madison from John Graham, 16 September 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 16 September 1805, New Orleans . “I had the Honor to forward to you by the last Post a Copy of a Letter from the Mayor of this City from which you would learn all that has transpired as to the Insurrection contemplated by Le Grand, or as he calls himself Grand Jean. Present appearances justify a belief that this Man had formed no party among the Negroes. “You will probably...
53058To James Madison from John Graham, 19 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to recieve your Letter of the 16th. last night. The Dispatches had been delivered to Mr. Gibbon the preceeding day, with instructions to deposit all of them, save those for England, with Mr. Short immediately on his arrival in Philadelphia. The Cypher will go on tomorrow as also the Instructions for the Departure of the Vessel, unless contrary directions should be received...
53059To Thomas Jefferson from John Graham, 24 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
J Graham has the Honor to inclose to the President some Papers which were transmitted to this office by the Secretary of the Senate and to ask whether they are be filed here. He at the same time begs to know whether the President will authorise him to give any answer to the Memorial of the House of Forbes & Co. which he had the Honor presenting some time ago. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
53060To James Madison from John Graham, 24 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to recieve last Evening your Letters of the 16th. and 20th. Inst. and have today forwarded your Letters under cover of the first, to Genl Turreau and Mr Dallas. I called at the Treasury to-day to see Mr Gallatin. He was not there and I was told by Mr Jones that he would probably set off for Philadelphia this afternoon. Mr Jones promised me however, that Mr Lewis’s Letter should...
53061To Thomas Jefferson from John Graham, 12 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed draft of a Letter to Mr Jennings is sent to the President—as it is very probable that the last Paragraph of it may not meet with his approbation. Th :J. to mr Graham . I have recieved the report expected from the Commrs. & am now preparing a message to Congress which will be sent in on Monday. would it not be better to await that in order to make your communication to mr Jennings...
53062To James Madison from John Graham, 28 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
It is with Regret I call your attention to an affair which concerns myself as an Individual; but the Circumstances which I am about to mention will I hope plead my Apology for doing so. When Mr Pinckney had presented me to His Catholic Majesty as Chargé des affaires of the United States and was himself about to depart for Italy, I asked him to give me a credit with his Banker, for my Salary...
53063To James Madison from John Graham, 11 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here yesterday after a passage of eighteen days from New Orleans. I came in the same Vessel with Genl Wilkinson who has brought round with him, some eight or nine of Burrs Men under an expectation that they will be important Witnesses. Some of them will probably tell all they know, but I fear this will not be the case with those who know most. The General has chartered a Pilot Boat...
53064To James Madison from John Graham, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 6th. Inst. and the Papers which it covered. The Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury enabled me to take up Mr Lears Bill which had been protested but not returned to the owners. I have forwarded the Certificate to Mr. Magdalena and made to Mr Dallas the request you pointed out. I apprehend there will be no great difficulty in getting a Person to...
53065To James Madison from John Graham, 5 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here a few days ago, after a very tedious passage from Natchez. If I am permitted to form an Opinion, from what I hear, the Situation of this Country is indeed an unpleasant one. All danger, however, I hope has passed away—but it has left the People here split up into various Parties, I had almost said Factions for so warm have they been, that a difference of Opinion is not...
53066To James Madison from John Graham, 23 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 23 October 1805, New Orleans. “I have the Honor to forward to you by this mail a copy of the Official Journal of the Governor of this Territory, from the 22d. of January (the time when mr Brown left this Office) to the 1st. July [not found]. “Circumstances over which I had no controul, prevented me from transmitting this Copy sooner; but in future I will take care to comply...
53067To James Madison from John Graham, 1 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
You will see it stated in the Mercantile Advertiser of New York that the Ship Thalia has brought Dispatches from Mr. Pinkny I therefore think it necessary to advise you that these Dispatches have not as yet reached the Department. It is probably they may come on to Night and if so I shall forward them by the Post Rider tomorrow. From a Norfolk Paper which I have just seen it appears that a...
53068To James Madison from John Graham, 20 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
No Letters having been received from the President or yourself last Night, I have this day forwarded the necessary Instructions for the departure of the Dispatch vessel. I have been so much taken up with this Business that I have not had time to read the Dispatches received last Night from Mr. Erving therefore it is that some of his Packets go to you by this Mail unopened. With Sentiments of...
53069To James Madison from John Graham, 13 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 13 February 1806, New Orleans. “I have the Honor to inclose you a Copy of the General Orders issued by the Governor of this Territory in his Character as Commander in Chief of the Militia; and also a List of the Civil appointments made by him. “The List of the military appointments can not, the Governor tells me, be made out until the return of the Adjutant Genera⟨l,⟩ who...
53070To James Madison from John Graham, 28 September 1816 (Madison Papers)
Owing to some accident I did not until this Moment discover the Memo which you put upon the Cover of one of Mr Monroes Letters to me, desiring that his Letter to you, which you sent on with it, might be returned to you. I hasten to comply with that request and have now the Honor to return the Letter accordingly. The ⟨wea⟩ther ⟨co⟩ntinues to be cool and pleasant and the City healthy. With the...
53071To James Madison from John Graham, 18 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Finding myself better today than I have been since I was last taken sick I rode to the Office this Morning and found on my Desk the Letter you did me the Honor to write to me on the 16th. I immediately sent to the Bank and have been enabled to get Virginia Notes for the amount of the Check excepting $100 which is sent in a note of the Bank of Columbia. I was some what at a loss whether you...
53072To James Madison from John Graham, 30 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have just arrived at this place from Paris, & hasten to avail myself of an opportunity (which this Moment offers itself) of sending on four Packets which were instrusted [ sic ] to me by Mr Levingston, for you. I also send one for the President from some Gentleman in Paris. These Packets will go to New York in the Ship Orlando, now waiting below for her Papers which will be sent on to Night....
53073To James Madison from John Graham, 8 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 February 1803, Madrid. Acknowledged receipt on 1 Feb. of JM’s 25 Oct., 27 Nov., and 1 Dec. dispatches for Pinckney. Will meet Pinckney at Aranjuez with the dispatches, “sensible that not a moment ought to be lost” in obtaining a royal order countermanding that of the intendant of New Orleans, which he sees by the newspapers “has engaged the attention of Congress, & drawn a very solemn...
53074To James Madison from John Graham, 6 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I send you a Letter from Mr Adams of old date which was received yesterday. Those which it covers are of some interest and I believe you have not seen them before. I have also the pleasure to send a Letter from Mr. Russell, and a Memorial from certain Merchants in Phia relative to thier claims on Denmark. Mr Forrest has returned from Baltimore and tells me that we may expect the translation of...
53075To James Madison from John Graham, 21 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
J Graham has the Honor to inform the President that a Letter has this Moment been received from Mr Pinkney dated 31st July—to say that the Bills in favor of Brown for £8,400 Stg had been paid. The Baring’s have received the Money on account of the UStates. Mr P. gives no news of any kind. Mr Maury writes under date 10th Augt that American Produce was very abundant at Liverpool and falling in...
53076To James Madison from John Graham, 24 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to inclose a Memo. of my Expences at the different Places where I stopped, (on my Journey to this Place) to execute the Orders you gave me, when I left the City of Washington. You will be pleased to observe that I do not introduce into this Memo. my travelling expences—these I understand from your Instructions are to fall on myself. They have perhaps bee⟨n⟩ some what increased...
53077John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
J Graham presents his most Respectful Compliments to m r Jefferson , and in transmitting to him the enclosed Packet which has just been received at this Dep t has the pleasure to inform him, that his Letter to m r Gallatin was forwarded under Cover with Despatches for that Gentleman, the day after it was received. RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 19 Sept. 1816...
53078To James Madison from John Graham, 16 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to forward you by this Mail the Letters mentioned in the inclosed List. You will observe from a Note of Mr. Gallatins, that he declined giving any answer to the application made by Mr Rademaker and I am advised by Mr Smith to send Mr Rs. Letter to you. As yet I do not learn that a vessel has been chartered to take out Mr Hill, so that the probability is, no time will be lost...
53079To Thomas Jefferson from John Graham, 18 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
From the Return made to this Office by the Secretary of the Orleans Territory it would seem that Moreau de Lisle was appointed Interpreter and from the printed Copy of the Laws it would seem that Moreau Lislet was the Interpreter. Which is the proper way of writing the name I know not. I have found this Morning the Pamphlet for which you asked yesterday and have now the Honor to send it to...
53080John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I had this Morning the Honor to receive your Letter of the 7 th Inst: requesting that I would send you by the return of Post the Memoire of Moreau de Lislet on the subject of the Batture . This Paper is, I believe, in the hands of the attorney General and agreeably to your directions I have written to him to send it either to you or to me as soon as possible. M r Poydrass no doubt has it; but...
53081To James Madison from John Graham, [3 September] 1811 (Madison Papers)
Mr Hamilton arrived last Night with the Despatches by the “John Adams.” By the advice of his Father I have decided that he should go on with them to you—thinking it probable that you might wish to make some enquiries of him on subjects not touched on in the Letters. It was my intention not to have opened any of the Despatches but I thought it right to inform the Heads of Departments who were...
53082To James Madison from John Graham, 30 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
After a very tedious passage I arrived here, via Mobile, on the 23d. Inst and the next morning delivered to Governor Folch the Letter with which I had been charged by Governor Claiborne & of which I beleive a Copy has been sent to you. I am sorry to say that neither this Letter, nor any representations I have been able to make to Governor Folch have induced him to suspend the execution of the...
53083To James Madison from John Graham, 5 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to your request I have looked thro: the Registers sent here from Paris and do not find that they contain any thing in relation to the Paper you want. They are a strange compound of Public & Private Papers—tho their general Character is I think decidedly official. I understood from Mr Skipwith when he was here, that he had directed them to be sent to the Dept of State 1st Because he...
53084John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not until yesterday that I had the pleasure to receive your Letter of the 19 th Ult o covering one for mr appleton at Leghorn . I am happy to inform you that I shall soon have it in my power to forward the Letter to M
53085To James Madison from John Graham, 8 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed Packets addressed to you were handed to me this Morning by Mr Thomson who has, as they will inform you, a Diplomatic appointment from the govt of Buenos Ayres. He does not intimate any expectation of being received in that Character at present, but he intimated an intention of waiting here until an answer was received from you. He also said that he was charged with the delivery to...
53086To James Madison from John Graham, 20 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor yesterday to receive your Letter of the 16th. and have this Morning been unsuccessfully employed in looking over Mr Bowdoin’s, Genl Armstrong’s, and Mr Skipwiths file, for the Paper a Copy of which you want. I shall renew the search tomorrow. We have no Parisian file in the office and as neither Mr Brent nor myself have any recollection of this Paper I have thought that you may...
53087To James Madison from John Graham, 3 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 August 1809, Willtown, South Carolina. Written by “a Sittezan of South Carolina … placed in a State of common Mediocraty,” who has invented a bridge which “may be distroyed whilest an Ennemy is passing, and the opperator … may be at the Distance of from one to four miles from the scene of action,” at a cost that “would not Exceed $50.” The bridge can be erected “in Ten or 20 minuets, and if...
53088To James Madison from John Graham, 29 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
As the inclosed Letters from Mr Adams and Mr Beasley are some what interesting I do myself the Honor to put them under cover to you thinking that it will not be inconvenient to you to forward them to the Secretary of State who is, as I learn by a late Letter from him, yet at his Seat in Virginia. I also forward to you by this Mail a number of English news Papers which were received yesterday...
53089To James Madison from John Graham, 17 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
In my Letter of yesterday, which went by the way of Fredericksburg, I mentioned that Mr. Gallatin had declined giving any opinion as to the propriety of permitting the Secretary of Mr. Rademaker to go out to Rio Janeiro in the vessel Chartered to take Mr. Hill there. I therefore sent the Letter of Mr. R. asking this permission to you. From the inclosed Note you will see there is yet time for...
53090To James Madison from John Graham, 1 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your Letter of the 29th of last Month. I regret very much that I have it not in my power to throw some light on the characters of the Gentlemen who are placed in nomination before you for the Legislative Council of the Mississippi Territory. Mr Shields is the only one of them of whom I have any recollection and with him my acquaintance was very slight. He is a young...
53091To James Madison from John Graham, 9 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 7th directing me to send a Blank Commission to Mr Dallas for the Collector at Waldsboroug. We have Blanks with your signature for such Commissions but they want the signature of the Secretary of State. As there is reason to believe that he will be here today I hope it will be in my power to forward on the Commission signed as you direct that it...
53092John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I was this day honored by your Letter of the 25 th In st and shall immediately write to Mr Robert Graham that you wish him to keep the wild Geese which he promised you, until you can send to him for them. Mr Graham lives about a mile below Dumfries on the South side of the Creek, on which the Town stands. Permit me, Sir, to offer my Congratulations on the success of the measures dictated by...
53093To James Madison from John Graham, 26 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
J Graham has the Honor, by direction of the Secretary of State, to forward to the President the inclosed Letter from General Armstrong and to inform him that it is the same which he lately sent to this Department unopened. RC ( DLC ). Graham probably forwarded the original of Armstrong’s 5 May 1810 dispatch to Robert Smith ( DNA : RG 59, DD , France). A duplicate had reached Washington in...
53094To James Madison from John Graham, 16 August 1811 (Madison Papers)
Not being able to hear of any one here who understood the Portuguese Language—I have endeavoured myself to find out what was the object of the writer of the Letter you sent me. It seems to be to induce you to enter into an alliance with England against France: and to propose to all the Nations “of Asia, Africa, Europe and America” to make common cause against her—to forbid all commerce or...
53095To James Madison from John Graham, 23 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
As the Secretary of State set off yesterday for Loudoun just before the arrival of Mr. Murray with important despatches from Mr. Shaler—I have had these Despatches copied and have now the Honor to send you the Copies. The Secty will return on Tuesday so that he will be here in time to receive your Instructions relative to the unpleasant occurrences at algiers. You will also receive by this...
53096To James Madison from John Graham, 25 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
We have Letters from Govr Cass of the 8th of this Month from which it appears that the British naval officers at Malden have in several instances boarded American vessels passing that place in search of Deserters. These Letters are accompanied by Depositions detailing the facts. I should have forwarded these Letters to you by this Mail but as the Secretary of State will be here today I thought...
53097To Thomas Jefferson from John Graham, 16 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
J Graham has the Honor to present his compliments to the President and to hand him the inclosed Letter from Mr Rademaker for perusal. It may perhaps be proper to mention that the Gentleman acting as Secretary to Mr Rademaker had so far back as 1804 obtained a Passport from this Office as an american Citisen—this was returned to the office and another one sent to him in the place of it. DLC :...
53098To James Madison from John Graham, 23 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
When I was in the City of Washington in the early part of Octr last I obtained the Presidents permission to return there this Summer on leave of absence. A day or two, however, before I set off for the Western Country I came to the conclusion of resigning my Employment in this Territory, so soon as I could do it with Honor. The Business with which you had then chargd me, and the aspect of...
53099John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
after some difficulty I have at last found the Report from the Patent office which you want and have now the pleasure to send you a Copy of it. The President continues to gain strength His recovery will I hope be more rapid when he gets to the Mountains—I understand his Departure is fixed for Monday— we hear but little now of the Enemy —Their vessels are moving about in the Bay in such a...
53100To James Madison from John Graham, 22 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you the day before yesterday to say that I had not been able to find the Paper transmitted from Paris previous to the Departure of Mr Bowdoin from that Place, a Copy of which you directed to be sent to you. I have continued the search thro: the files of Mr Bowdoin, Genl Armstrong, Mr Skipwith & Mr Barnet; but have not been so fortunate as to find any traces of this...