54501To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 31 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Not having been favd: with any of yours since the 6th. Ulto. I am quite uneasy—lest some untoward accident hath deprived me that satisfaction augmented by recent publications &c. fabricated—by the breath of Slander—so prevalant, basely scandalous, & disgracefull to society. from a review of last Mos a/c, it does not much exceed $600.—a few such would be gratifying indeed:—a state thereof shall...
54502To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 31 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Jas. Monroe’s best respects to Mr. Jefferson. as he sits out to Richmond to morrow or next day, & will probably not see him before his departure, he will thank Mr Jefferson for information on the following subjects. The state of Maryld. has set up a claim to the territory lying within this State no. the so. Branch of Potowk., on the principle that the so. branch is her true boundary. She...
54503From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 31 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed some days answering your favor of the 24th. instant on the subject of Mr Nicholas King’s appointment to be Surveyor of the City, because possessing no papers nor means of information on the subject here, and not having it in my memory, I feel some difficulty. I have some idea that that officer has not been heretofore salaried, but has depended on perquisites paid by those who...
54504To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 31 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On making out Capt. Barron’s orders I find that we are without your signature to any of the printed instructions to the commanders of our armed vessels, I have therefore the honor to enclose twelve copies, & to ask that you will be pleased to Sign & return them by the next Mail— Capt. Barron is hauling out of the Eastern Branch, & will have dropped down to Hampton Road before these...
54505To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 31 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In addition to the Instructions to Commodore Morris copy of which had been transmitted to you by the last Mail , I have found it necessary to send to him further powers of which the enclosed is a Copy. From the best information I have been able to obtain through various channels these Gun Boats will be indispensibly necessary. Accept the assurances of my high respect— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by...
54506To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your two favors of the 25th. & blank were recieved yesterday; and all the papers forwarded me are returned by this post. I must pray you to direct an extract from so much of mr. Clarke’s letter as relates to the dissatisfaction of the Chickasaw chief with the Spanish governor, to be taken & sent to Genl. Dearborn to whom I have written on the subject. Mr. Clarke’s letter cuts out a...
54507To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 August 1802, Madrid. “By Mr Gibson & Mr Codman you will receive full accounts of every thing up to this time.… We have nothing new here except that the Emperor of Morocco has permitted Mr Simpson to return to Tangiers & means to be at peace with us.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, DD , Spain, vol. 6). 4 pp. Docketed by Wagner as received 24 Nov. The body of this letter is substantially the same as that...
54508From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 30 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose for your consideration & to take order, a petition from the inhabitants of Cahokia, a letter from I. Darneille on behalf of those of Pioria, and a letter inclosing them from Govr. Harrison. the Poutawatamies have killed two Americans on their farms about 5. leagues above Cahokia; and altho’ the inhabitants of that place call it a declaration of war, yet from the amount of the aid...
54509To Thomas Jefferson from John Drayton, 30 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of herewith transmitting you, a certified copy of a Talk, lately received from the head men of the Upper Cherokee indians. The purport, I flatter myself will be gratifying to you: and I have written them, that I will promptly transmit any matters, which you may think proper to communicate to them through me, on the subject. With high respect and consideration I have the honor...
54510From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 30 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 27th. was recieved yesterday. mine of the 20th. had informed you that I approved of mr Wentworth on the recommendations of Messrs. Langdon & Whipple, & that of the 24th. gave you the name of John Shore as successor to Heath; but I write by this post to mr Madison to order his commission to be filled up & forwarded. I must take time to enquire of a good successor for Reynolds. the...
54511From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of the 25th. & blank were recieved yesterday; and all the papers forwarded me are returned by this post. I must pray you to direct an extract from so much of mr Clarke’s letter as relates to the dissatisfaction of the Chickasaw chief with the Spanish governor, to be taken & sent to Genl. Dearborn to whom I have written on the subject. mr Clarke’s letter cuts out a considerable...
54512To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Sébastien Mercier, [30 August 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
honnoré de L’amitié de Thomas Payne, permettéz que Je sois ici L’interprete du corps litteraire qui voit avec joye sur la liste de ses membres Le nom d’un de ces hommes éminement chers aux lettres et à la liberté. c’est donc un hommage merité et volontaire que nous nous sommes empressés à vous rendre. nous avons acquitté la dette de plus d’une Nation et nous nous sommes ainsi honorés nous...
54513From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 30 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 27th. was recieved yesterday. the host of commissions had come to hand and been signed & sent back by the last post. those now recieved are therefore returned: as are also the instructions to Commodore Morris with the suggestion of a small alteration or two. I doubt too whether it might not be proper to say something on the conditions of peace with Tripoli & Marocco; to wit that...
54514To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, [on or before 29 August 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 27. came duly to hand. I had recd. the letter from W. Hampton & F. Maury. I had proposed to observe to them , that the case fell wholly within the State laws, & that it was probable the several Governors would be led to attend to it by the correspondence between the Mayor of N.Y. & the French consul & Admiral. It had occurred also that it might not be amiss for the President to...
54515From Thomas Jefferson to Elias Boudinot, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Boudinot, and his thanks for the grains inclosed him, which have been safely recieved. tho’ not entirely unknown here, it has been so rare as not to afford an opportunity of investigating it’s botanical appellation. it has been once raised in the neighborhood by the name of the live-oat : yet it may be doubted whether it be an oat at all. he prays...
54516To Thomas Jefferson from William Deblois, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced to this freedom by the desire of Thomas Paine Esqr. who is shortly to embark from hence for America; He very deservedly merits my friendship and esteem, and from his observations on his long tryed acquaintance with you, I am induced to entertain a hope you will look with an indulgent eye, on the liberty I now take, and when you know the cause I wish it may plead a further excuse;...
54517From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing whether the postmasters from hence to & at Boston are all true, I inclose the within to you and ask the favor of your cover to the postmaster or any other person you can confide in at Boston to deliver it. Your favors of Aug. 23. & 24. are recieved. pray forward me by post one of mr Bishop’s new pamphlets , & let it stand in account between us till we meet. I see with sincere grief...
54518From Thomas Jefferson to Willem H. van Hasselt, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 20. was recieved only on the 23d. inst. there was certainly nothing in my former letter which was meant to give you offence, nor can I, on a review of it, find any thing more in it than the caution of a stranger writing to a stranger. the sample of silk is recieved & shall be forwarded to some manufacturer of that article in Philadelphia or wherever else I can hear of one:...
54519To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Warren, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A few weeks since I received an intimation from General Dearborn that you had determined to appoint me Collector for the Port of Marblehead: since which it has been publicly announced in the papers. Be pleased to suffer me at this moment, to express to you my grateful sentiments for your notice & attention—and the extreme regret I feel at declining the acceptance of any appointment with which...
54520To John Adams from David Humphreys, 28 August 1802 (Adams Papers)
A combination of circumstances having prevented me from having the honour of paying my respects in person to Mrs Adams & yourself, I could not proceed on my journey to the Westward, without expressing in this manner my extreme sensibility of the disappointment. When I was in this Town, a few weeks ago, on my way to the Province of Main, I so fully indulged the expectation of making the visit,...
54521From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 28 August] 1802 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 27. came duly to hand. I had recd. the letter from W. Hampton & F. Maury. I had proposed to observe to them, that the case fell wholly within the State laws, & that it was probable the several Governors would be led to attend to it by the correspondence between the Mayor of N. Y. & the French consul & Admiral. It had occurred also that it might not be amiss for the President to...
54522To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I send you my account for the last three months. The only charge of consequence is for the Post Office which is to me a very disagreeable one because they will give no Voucher. I have applied to them repeatedly & they always say they never do. While almost every American who has friends or Business in Madrid incloses his letters & packets under cover to me & particularly while large Bundles of...
54523To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 August 1802, Hamburg. Calls JM’s attention to “a Subject which has been frequently urged upon the former Administration, without effect, by my Predecessor Mr. Pitcairn. From the great variety of petty Sovereignties which divide the Circumjacent Country and particularly the Shores of the Elbe, a general imbecility in the execution of the Consular functions and, in many instances, Serious...
54524To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have now the honor to inform you of my arrival here and Recognition by the Magistracy of this City as Consul from the United States of America. Having written you from London, requesting to be appointed to the Agency at Marseilles, but having Since announced my establishment here to a very extensive Circle of mercantile friends, I beg leave to relinquish my application, to be removed to...
54525From Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 28 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
You very justly suppose, in your’s of the 9th. inst. that the act of duty which removed your brother from office, was one of the most painful and unwilling which I have had to perform. very soon after our administration was formed, the situation of his accounts was placed under the notice of the Secretary of the treasury, and consequently communicated to me . he was written to. the failure to...
54526From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 28 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Being unacquainted with the rules of proceeding in the land office of the U.S. I am unable to say whether they will admit a patent to be made out for yourself, rather than the heir at law. I suspect it must be for the latter; leaving you to make good your claim in opposition to him in a court of law, but this is conjecture only. Perhaps if not inconvenient for you to come by, you might in...
54527John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 27 August 1802 (Adams Papers)
I duly received your letters of the 21 st: enclosing the pamphlet of Gentz, and likewise the post-note, with your account— This last I have not yet examined, but I presume it to be substantially correct.— I am again to repeat my thanks for your attention to my affairs. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you soon here, though I hope also that the tremendous menaces of malignant yellow fever...
54528To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you a letter from W. Hampton & Fontaine Maury on the subject of apprehensions that the negroes taken from Guadaloupe will be pushed in on us. It came to me under the superscription of mr. Brent, so may not have been seen by you. Would it not be proper to make it the subject of a friendly letter to M. Pichon. Perhaps Govr. Clinton should also recieve some mark of our attention to the...
54529To James Madison from Edward Thornton, 27 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I am sorry to be obliged to call your attention once more to the subject of the Transport Ship Windsor in consequence of additional information, which I have received from His Majesty’s Consul at Boston, and which, as I have no doubt of its correctness, seems to impeach in a high degree the accounts, which the officers of the United States in that port have given you on the subject of the...
54530To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Bouldin, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 24th Ulto I received the letter which you did me the honor to write me from Washington dated the 20th. in reply to mine of the 15th. of the same: And Wherein you mention your intention to pass at Monticello, this, & the ensuing Month. I, therefore, take the liberty to forward to you, at that place, the inclosed. Though perhaps I ought to apologize for Obtruding myself upon you a second...
54531From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen R. Bradley, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid some want of sufficient explanation has prevented my recieving recommendations of proper persons as Commissioners of bankruptcy for your state. I had thro’ a particular channel desired that the favor might be asked of yourself & judge Smith to recommend; & understood it would be done on your return home. a recent circumstance however makes me doubt whether you had so understood it....
54532From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 22d. was recieved last night, and I now return the papers it inclosed. the exact statement of the boundary of cession by the Choctaws to the British is indeed important. I know not the character of Purcell [. . .] writer, but the minuteness of the details call for credit. I think the [spirit] of our former instructions is to be observed, but as they looked only generally [to] the...
54533From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 24th. came to hand last night. the rapidity with which the post moves between Washington & New York will render our communications probably quicker while you are there than if you had retired into the country. Mine of the 23d. gave you the Christian name of Doctr. Shore, to wit John . a further conversation with the Governor leaves no doubt of the propriety of the appointment....
54534To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I leave the office under the care of Mr Nourse, and if I can stand the journey will set off for New York this day, but feel much indisposed. Please to let me know whether you approve the recommendations of Messrs. Langdon & Whipple for officers of the revenue cutter, and in that case to send me their names with which I may fill blank commissions. I have presumed to get a commission for the...
54535From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from W. Hampton & Fontaine Maury on the subject of apprehensions that the negroes taken from Guadaloupe will be pushed in on us. it came to me under the superscription of mr Brent, so may not have been seen by you. would it not be proper to make it the subject of a friendly letter to M. Pichon. perhaps Govr. Clinton should also recieve some mark of our attention to the...
54536From Thomas Jefferson to Israel Smith, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid some want of sufficient explanation has prevented my recieving recommendations of proper persons as Commrs. of bankrupts for your state. I had thro’ a particular channel desired that the favor might be asked of yourself & General Bradley to recommend, and understood it would be done on your return home. by your letter to mr Madison of the 16th. inst recommending Samuel Prentiss...
54537To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your letter of instructions of the 23d I have put in Commission the additional frigate. I have selected the John Adams because she is the smallest and of course the Cheapest and she will, besides, answer all the purposes of the largest frigate. Dispatch is of the Utmost importance. Notwithstanding the oppressively hot weather we have been progressing with the New York with an...
54538To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Being apprehensive that the blank Commissions & Warrants mentioned in my Letter to you of the 17th instant, to have been transmitted to receive your signature, and which appear to have been Mis-sent, may not be recovered in time to accomodate Capt. Barron &. some other officers attached to the New York, I now do myself the honor to enclose twelve blanks of each, additional, & have to request...
54539From James Madison to George Simpson, 26 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I request that the Proceeds of the enclosed Bill of the Treasurer of the United States, for Eight thousand two hundred dollars, may be placed to the Credit of the Secretary of State of the United States, for the time being, in the Bank of the United States, for the benefit of Jeremiah Condy and Company and others, interested in the Ship, Wilmington Packet, and her Cargo. With respect, I am,...
54540To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 26 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 August 1802, Leghorn. Submits for the president’s decision a plan to coerce Yusuf Pasha of Tripoli to agree to a permanent treaty with the U.S. and “perpetual protection” for his brother Hamet by threatening him with the “use of such means as God had already placed in our hands … join’d to our influence at the sublime Port.” Encloses William Eaton’s letter to him of 12 July “with my...
54541To James Madison from John J. Murray, 26 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 August 1802, Glasgow. Reports problems carrying out the law of 2 Mar. 1799 regulating the collection of duties on imports and tonnage. Some captains consider it a hardship to travel to Glasgow from Greenock “for the sole purpose of taking & subscribing the Oaths required before me.” Believes they have no grounds for refusal, as neither Greenock nor Port Glasgow “is above two hours by Land...
54542To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 26 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my dispatch of yesterday give me leave respectfully to submit to the Presidents decision—Whether, supposing government should think proper to put an end to the War with Tripoli without prosecuting it to extremity; it would not be to the interest of the United States to embark Hamet Pacha on board our Comodores Ship & proceed with him before Tripoli, to then inform his brother...
54543To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 26 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Yellow Fever which is a sore evil in every sense of the word and your making up your mind not to sell your Tobacco for less than six Dollars pr Cent and I making up my mind not to give it especially as you inform me it is not of the first quality is the sole cause whey you have not had an answer from me sooner to your of the 6th. Ultimo—My last letter from Richmond is dated the 10th. the...
54544To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Preble, 26 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Having established myself at this Port; and finding that Mr. Peter Dobell who was some time since appointed Commercial Agent of the US. at Havre, intends to resign that office, I beg leave to solicit the same when vacant; it would be particularly valuable to me, as I shall most probably pass great part of the remainder of my life at this Place. I have thought it needless to trouble you with...
54545To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Wingate, Jr., 26 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of War being absent, I have the Honor to request that if the enclosed nominations for Officers of the Militia of the District of Columbia, should meet with your approbation, that you would sign the Blank Commissions herewith enclosed, and forward them to Mr. Madison, to be by him countersigned and transmitted to this Office— I have the honor to be very respectfully your Obedt....
54546From Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris, [25 August 1802] (Hamilton Papers)
It was my intention to have come to see you this afternoon, among other things to confer about the affair of the loan. But the uncertain state of the weather & some bodily indisposition prevent me. As to the security for the loan: I hold it to be the better opinion that no foreigner can be in any form a cestuy que trust of land—that consequently no conveyance directly for the security of the...
54547From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 25 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 23d. has been duly recd. Mr. Brent had informed me that copies of the letters from the Mediterranean had been sent to you by Mr. Smith, and therefore I did not send the originals by express. The declaration of a rupture by the Empr. of Morocco, put me at a loss what to say to Simson on the subject of the Gun carriages, and how to decide as to the letter you left with me. As the...
54548To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 25 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 23d Inst., with the several papers enclosed in it, which were immediately given to the Secretaries of the Treasury and Navy, agreeably to your direction. The latter having just returned them to me, copies will be forthwith made of all of them but of the letter to the Emperor of Morocco, (which does not go) as well for the Office, as for Mr Smith, who is...
54549To James Madison from Samuel Sheild, 25 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Office of Collector of the Port or District of York-Town having lately become vacant by the Death of Mr. Wm. Reynolds, I have taken the Liberty to write to the President of the United States on the Subject and to recommend Mr. William Cary of that Town, as a proper Person to supply the Vacancy. To address the Head of the Treasury Department also rather than the Secretary of State might be...
54550To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 25 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 August 1802, Leghorn. No. 11. During his residence at Tripoli, transmitted to the State Department a history of the reign of Ali Pasha, father of the reigning sovereign, including the “different revolutions in that State,” the murder of Mohammed Bey, and the usurpation by Yusuf Pasha Qaramanli of the throne of his brother Hamet Pasha. Is convinced that the inhabitants of Tripoli hold the...