53671To James Madison from Lafayette, 1 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
Had I Not a proper Reliance on the Steadiness of Your Sentiments I Might fear You Have forgotten the old friend Who Has Not for Many, Many Years Received one Line from You. But I Conclude from the feelings of My Own Heart that Your Reciprocal Affection to Me Has not diminished, and that through the Vicissitudes of a Life as Stormy as it is Now Quiete, I Have Been Accompagnied With Your...
53672To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 1 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
The President, by the time this reaches you, will have received from Mr. Livingston & Mr. Sumter respectively a statement of the causes & issue of their present open and avowed rupture, being in a great degree the renewal of a misunderstanding that unfortunately commenced between them last Winter. On that occasion, as well as on the present, the Ministers conduct in respect to some of the...
53673From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 1 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Nov. 25 is recieved and I have ordered the patera wanting for the tea-room. with respect to the joists for the N. West wing of offices, I leave it to yourself to decide; only let there be no danger of failure for want of due strength. I am quite at a loss about the nailboys remaining with mr Stewart. they have long been a dead expense instead of a profit to me. in truth they require...
53674To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Fowler, 1 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry that Electioneering tactics should have been the means of bringing my name and Character before your Excellency in so deformed a point of veiw; for I find I have not only been represented to the President of the United States, as having relinquished my political principles, but of having become a debaucher and a sot .—I feel for the wretched depravity of such men, and lament the...
53675From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 1 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Derieux has for years past urged such perpetual demands on me for charity, that I have long since gone beyond the proportion which he had a right to expect of what I can give in charity, and consequently has been infringing on what other objects had a better right to. I have therefore for some time rejected his applications. he makes one now however under circumstances to which I cannot be...
53676To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 1 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22d. ultimo inclosing a letter for Doctor Bache was received here the 25th., but it so happened that it was filed away without my seeing it, and it was not until this morning a few moments before the closing of the Charlottesville mail, that I observed it. Having the day before yesterday received a letter from Dr. B. in which he informed me he had declined going by Norfolk as...
53677Memorial of the Kentucky Legislature, 1 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Memorial Of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky . Having on a former occasion, when we represented the obstructions to the Navigation of the river Mississippi, experienced the attention and justice of the General Government, in providing by a treaty with the court of Spain, not only for the free navigation of that river, but for what, in our remote...
53678To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Elliot, 30 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
When I address you as the President of a great and independent Republic, I am impressed with diffidence & awe; but when I recognize you, as the mild and philanthropic Jefferson —when I behold you as the author of several valuable literary productions, and the uniform admirer and friend of Science, and all useful & entertaining lucubrations, my Diffidence, in some measure vanishes, and, clothed...
53679Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 November 1802 (Adams Papers)
The Eastern Mail brought your letter of the 23 d: this morning. The business part of it stands thus. D r: Woodhouse has been in the habit of putting up chemical equipage at various prices, and when our friend Quincy wrote for one, last year I communicated the order to the D r: Professor himself, who promised to attend to it. This promise no doubt escaped his memory, as he has since been twice...
53680From John Adams to Bernard Hubley, Jr., 30 November 1802 (Adams Papers)
I have received our favor of 30 October & return the subscription paper for Hubly’s journal with my name to it. The journals of officers who served with reputation in the revolutionary war must be valuable and authentic original documents for history. I rejoice in the prosperity of your family and pray for blessings on your promising and deserving children—As to the dedication you may do as...
53681From John Adams to Thomas Truxtun, 30 November 1802 (Adams Papers)
I have many apologies to make for omitting so long to acknowledge the receipt of your obliging favour of the 10 of July— The copy you have done me the honor to present to me, of the medal voted by Congress, and executed according to my directions, to the Secretary of the Navy, I accept with great pleasure, not only from a personal regard to the giver, but because I esteem every laurel bestowed...
53682To Alexander Hamilton from William Constable, 30 November 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
I have conversed with Mr G M since I had the Pleasure of seeing you relative to my being authorized to settle the Lands contained in the Deed of Trust. He sees no possible Objection to my having such Authority, the Money & Bonds received being paid over for the Use of the Lenders & will execute any Thing that you will order made out for the Purpose. May I request that you will direct Mr Ogden...
53683From James Madison to John and James De Wolf, 30 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 18th. has been received stating that the board of Commissioners sitting in London under the British Treaty had refused your claim for further compensation on account of the capture and condemnation of the Snow Sukey, grounding their refusal on a mistaken conception, that the slave trade, in which she was engaged, was contrary to our laws at the time of capture. If you recur...
53684To James Madison from Daniel Ludlow, 30 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 November 1802, New York. Encloses a receipt from Capt. Charles Muir of the Mary for a box directed to JM from Leghorn. Has paid freight of $2 and duties and permit of $3.50 and asks JM to pay Robert Smith for Ludlow’s account. RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 1 p. Enclosure (1 p.) is Muir’s receipt, dated 27 Nov. 1802, for a box received at New York which he promised to deliver to JM at...
53685To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Bloodworth, 30 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to express the gratefull sence of my obligation for the favor you have bestow’d, in the appointment of Collector for the Port of Wilmington . Please to accept my sincere acknowledgment, for this evidence of your indulgence. and rest assured, that I shall endeavor by my conduct, to merit your confidence. When I came into Office, I found it in a deranged Situation, the Deputy Collector...
53686To Thomas Jefferson from James Garrard, 30 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Two days ago I received the inclosed letters from Doctr James Speed, and Meeker & Co. from New Orleans; together with a copy of a proclamation issued by Juan Ventura Morales Intendant of the Spanish Government of Louisiana; and which I do myself the honor to inclose, for your information. The Citizens of this State are very much alarmed and agitated; as this measure of the Spanish government...
53687To Thomas Jefferson from Ephraim Kirby, 30 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Several of my respectable fellow citizens, understanding there is still a vacancy in the Commission of Bankruptcy in this State, have solicited me to address you on this subject, and to name Majr. William Judd , as a candidate for the appointment. Majr. Judd’s location is convenient and accomodating to the public service. He resides in Farmington, which is much the largest commercial town,...
53688Order on John Barnes, 30 November 1802 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
Pay to mr Lemaire or order one hundred & thirty five dollars three cents for value recieved on account of Your humble servt 135. D 03 c RC (Iconic Auctions, Scottsdale, 30 July 2022); at foot of text: “Mr. John Barnes Georgetown”; endorsed by Barnes; receipt for payment signed by Boulý, who was possibly William Short’s servant (see TJ to Short, 9 Oct. 1802 , and MB James A. Bear, Jr., and...
53689To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 30 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Je suis chargé de la part de Madame Felix et de Mr. le Général Kosciusko de remettre à Votre Excellence le Douple de l’acte de Cession faite a cette dame par le Général de sa Terre sur le Scioto , et de recevoir de vos mains non seulement les Titres originaires du Général et autres Papiers y relatifs en Original, mais aussi les Ordres, et Instructions pour la prise de Possession au Nom de...
53690To John Adams from John Morton, 29 November 1802 (Adams Papers)
Having furnished the respectable Editon of the Medl. Repository with a summary Accot. of the City of Hava. I beg a presumption to request your acceptance of a Copy of that article from their last number. You will perceive Sir that, as there stated, it is but a summary; but as I intend collecting all my Notes into one View, I shall at a future day beg your acceptance, also, of that collection....
53691From James Madison to William C. C. Claiborne, 29 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
I commit to your particular attention the inclosed letter to Mr. Hulens which covers one from the Spanish Minister here, on the subject of the late decree at N. Orleans against the deposit of American merchandize at that place. The letter to Mr. Hulens is left open, that you may know the light in which this proceeding is viewed by the President and the steps taken in consequence of it. You...
53692From James Madison to William E. Hũlings, 29 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 18th Ult, has duly come to hand, with the extract from the decree of the Intendant prohibiting the deposit of American merchandize at New Orleans without assigning any other on the Banks of the Mississippi. This proceeding can be viewed in no other light than as a direct and palpable infraction of the Treaty of 1795, and a heavy aggression on the immediate interests of the...
53693To James Madison from John Graham, 29 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that the Court left Barcelona on the 8th. Inst. for Valencia, and on the same day Mr. Pinckney resumed his Journey for Italy. I accompanied him to Barcelona for the purpose of being presented as Chargé des Affaires, during his absence, in which capacity I am at present recognized. About ten days ago I returned to Madrid, and should have written you sooner, but...
53694From James Madison to James Monroe, 29 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 November 1802, Department of State, Washington. “I beg the favor of you to insert Mr. christian name, in the enclosed commission, to send it to him and inform me of the name you shall insert.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. Left blank in letterbook. This was probably James Nimms. In a 2 Dec. 1802 note to JM, Jefferson wrote: “Mr. Nimms the Commr. of bkrptcy appointed for...
53695From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 29 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 November 1802, Department of State. Asks for the letter Yrujo intended to transmit to New Orleans through the State Department “if it can be expedited before 3 OClock this day; as at that time [the] Secretary’s Dispatches for the Mississippi will be closed.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
53696To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 29 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 November 1802, Malta. No. 16. Acknowledges JM’s 18 Apr. and 10 May letters, received from Commodore Morris on 12 Oct. Enclosures nos. 1 and 2 will give JM the latest intelligence from Tripoli; no. 3 contains Cathcart’s opinions on the proper steps to take in the present crisis; and no. 4 shows the terms of a separate peace Sweden concluded and Danish and Dutch arrangements with Tripoli. “We...
53697To James Madison from William Jarvis, 29 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 November 1802, Lisbon. Last wrote on 26 Nov. via the brig Washington of Provincetown covering a dispatch from Pinckney. Now forwards another received at the same time. “The following is an extract of a letter from Mr Gavino dated 9 Novr. ‘You will have heard of the American Ship Prosperity of Philada. being ordered out of Cadiz on accot. of the Fever in some of the U. S. She arrived here...
53698To James Madison from Elijah Russell, 29 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 November 1802, Concord, New Hampshire. As publisher of “a Republican newspaper,” the American Republican Gazette , which circulates from Concord to Portsmouth and north to Coos, he wishes to print the federal laws. Presumes the propriety of publishing the laws in his paper in preference to their being printed in two newspapers in one town is obvious. John Langdon told him “in June last”...
53699To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 29 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
On the 12th: of October I had the honor to be presented, with yours of the 18th: of April and 10th: of May last, by Commodore Morris. No. 1 and 2 of the enclosures, will give you our latest intelligence from Tripoli. No. 3 Contains my Opinion relative to the Measures most proper to be adopted in the present crisis. And No. 4 will inform you the terms on which Sweden has concluded a Seperate...
53700To James Madison from William Jarvis, 29 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last respects of the date of the 26th. Inst. covering a dispatch from Mr. Pinckney was ⅌ the Brig Washington, Captn. Dyer via Provincetown in Massa ts. I have now the honor to inclose another from him which I recd. at the same time. The following is an extract of a letter from Mr. Gavino dated 9 Novr. “You will have heard of the American Ship Prosperity of Philada. being ordered out of...