55141To James Madison from John Rodgers, June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Influenced by a sense of honor, and Duty, I feel myself bound on all occasions, to protect my Country, and its Government; and in Justice, feel its Government bound to protect me, in every Honorable, Laudable, and Lawful pursuit. I therefore, in Equity to both think it proper to acquaint you with, and submit to your Judgment, the unjust, insulting, and Cruel Treatment, wantonly exercised over...
55142George Hadfield’s Estimate of Cost for Building a Jail, [June 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Summary Estimate of the expense necessary for building the Goal; by G. H. 275 Yards of digging for foundation at 20 Cents pr. yard $ 55 916 Perches of rough stone for walls, flues and floors @. $.1.25 pr. Perch. 1145 1032 Bushels of Stone lime for mortar and grout @. 54 Cents pr. bushel. 557 28 206 Barrels of sand and gravel @. 20. Cents pr. Barrel 41 20 Mason’s work and labour for 916...
55143Notes on Building the Jail, [June 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes for building the jail Walls. to be built of granite 2. f. thick the mortar half of good lime in all the walls half of clean gritty sand in all the inner walls one fourth of clean gritty sand one fourth of fine sifted gravel from the beach of the Potomac } for the outer walls overcast on the outside with plaister of Paris plaistered & white washed within. Roof. to have rafters 9. I....
55144From James Madison to Roger Gerard van Polanen, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
The ship Mary, belonging to Mr. Jeremiah Yellott of Baltimore, whereof Isaac Phillips was master, was, with a very valuable cargo, captured on the 4th. of February. 1800. by a French privateer, & carried into Curracoa. As the ship was bound from Batavia, a Dutch port, to Baltimore, a neutral port, restitution was due, and was claimed from the Governor of Curracoa but without effect, under the...
55145From James Madison to Jeremiah Yellott, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 30th. with the documents to which it refers were duly received. The case of the ship Mary, I find, was committed to the patronage of Mr. Murray, the Minister of the U. States then resident at the Hague, by a letter from this Department of June 16. 1800. A letter from Mr. Murray of Septr. 2. 1801. shews that he had repeatedly pressed the claim on the Batavian Government, and...
55146To James Madison from Edward Thornton, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
You were so good as to promise before my departure from Washington, that you would give me a definitive answer on the subject of the Transport Ship Windsor in time for the sailing of the July Packet. I propose to dispatch my final letters on the 7th of next month, and I am anxious to learn the decision of the President on this matter. I have already had the honour of mentioning to you...
55147To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 30 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1802, Bordeaux. Addresses JM “on the subject of various claims mentioned in my former letters from 25th September 1800 to 24 December 1801 , to none of which I have yet received an answer.” Requests JM’s attention to the accompanying accounts and vouchers. “I have presumed upon the validity and justice of these claims, by drawing on the Department of State for my reimbursement in the...
55148To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
The peculiar hardship of my Situation obliges me to address you on the subject of various claims mentioned in my former letters from 25th September 1800 to 24 December 1801, to none of which I have yet received an answer. The accounts and vouchers which accompany this, I beg your attention to. I have presumed upon the validity and justice of these claims, by drawing on the Department of State...
55149To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bloomfield, 30 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I do my Self the honor of transmitting the enclosed. Mr. Mott who resides near Sandy Hook was lately in Trenton, and requested me whenever Dr. Condit & Mr. Southard should recommend Commissioners of Bankruptcy, for the Eastern part of New-Jersey; to mention his concurrence in their recommendation, and of the recommendation enclosed, of Isaiah Shinn, from Mr. Elmer’s district , & that it is his...
55150To James Madison from John Gavino, 29 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 June 1802, Gibraltar. No. 93. “After referring you to mine No. 91 & 92 ⅌ this Conveyance, still detaind by Contrary Wind, have now to inform you that Yesterday Saml: Moor Commander of the English Brig Mary from Mahon, who parted Company on the 24th: Inst: to the Eastward of the Rock with the American Brig Rose whose Commander deliverd him the following note, Vizt: ‘Captain Andrew Morris,...
55151To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 29 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 June 1802, Málaga. Forwards a copy of his 10 May dispatch and encloses a return of U.S. shipping that arrived at Malaga between 1 Jan. and 29 June. Commodore Morris has sailed from Gibraltar to Tangier “on some Business of Consequence Which you must Already be acquainted with, I sincerely Wish He may … prevent a rupture With the Emperor of Morocco.” Reports that “there has been for some...
55152To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, [29 June 1802] (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon with his respects returns Mr Madison the letter of the Attorney General which Mr M. was so kind as to communicate to Mr. P. Mr Pichon requests Mr Madison to forward to him an answer on that claim as soon as convenient as the claimants are very pressing on Mr. P. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , France, vol. 1). 1 p. Undated; date assigned here on the basis of information in n. 1. Pichon...
55153To James Madison from John Gavino, 29 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
After referring you to mine No. 91 & 92 ⅌ this Conveyance, still detaind by Contrary Wind, have now to inform you that Yesterday Saml: Moor Commander of the English Brig Mary from Mahon, who parted Company on the 24th: Inst: to the Eastward of the Rock with the American Brig Rose whose Commander deliverd him the following Note, Vizt: “Captain Andrew Morris, Brig Franklin bound to Martineca,...
55154To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 29 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had last the Honor of addressing you on the 10 Ulto. as ⅌ inclosed Copy, and Come now to wait on you with a Return of our Shipping that have arrived here, since the beginning of January last, to this date, for your Information, and Government. I do not hear any particular News from our Frigates aloft, or that the Swedish Admiral has yet Come to Terms of Accommodation with the Bashaw of...
55155To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
If you should chance to open this at a time which does not afford leisure to contemplate its contents, be pleased to lay it by, or at least reserve it for a second reading, until such time arives; for it is not a letter of business, which requires immediate attention—Neither, as the author supposes, does it contain a single idea which has not presented itself to you, at some time or other,...
55156From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Briggs, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 26th. came to hand last night. that of Jan. 30. had been recieved in due time. with more business than can be dispatched at once, I am often obliged to lay by to a more leisure moment that which will best bear delay. this lot falls often on my philosophical and literary correspondence. to this circumstance alone is owing the omission to answer that part of your letter which...
55157From Thomas Jefferson to John Langdon, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 19th. was recieved last night. that of May 14. had arrived while I was on a short trip to Monticello from whence I returned on the 30th. Ult. commissioners of bankruptcy, made up from your’s & some other recommendations were appointed on the 14th. inst. and no doubt were recieved a few days after the date of your last. Nicholas Gilman , John Goddard, Henry S. Langdon & John...
55158To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing is more difficult than to give you a suitable nomination for comrs. of bankry. at Norfolk. I relied on a gentn. who lately went there for information on that subject, and he declined writing me, preferring to communicate his ideas in person on his return, wh. was not till within a few days. Littleton W. Tazewell lives in Norfolk, but as he has taken a commn. of notary publick of the...
55159From James Madison to John Rodgers, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your narrative dated June 1802; of the outrages committed on you in St. Domingo, under the administration of that Island. The proper use will be made of the facts stated in this document, to support the remonstrances to the French Republic, and to urge the satisfaction due from it to the United States, and which ought equally to flow from its own...
55160To James Madison from Benjamin Grayson Orr, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter from Mr Walter Jones is the result of my consultation with him on the subject of the negro Plato. I beg you to consult your own convenience entirely in your determination in this business—except a voluntary surrender of the property to the present Claimant, I am willing to do any thing that you will suggest. With great esteem I am Dr Sir Yr. mo Obedt Servt RC ( DLC )....
55161From James Madison to Benjamin Grayson Orr, [28 June] 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have just received yours of this morning inclosing Mr. Jones’ opinion on the subject of Negro Plato. I am sorry on the negro’s account as well as yours for the claim on him which has emerged. I admit also that having counted on his service for a particular purpose, during a given time, some inconveniency would result from a loss of that service. The course most agreeable to me would...
55162To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Parmi les affaires de prises demeurées pendantes Se trouve celle de la Diane, bâtiment de la République armé et commissionné à la Guadeloupe; Monsieur le Sécrétaire de la Trésorerie a differé de la regler, afin d’éclaireir la nature de quelques réclamations dont cette prise fait l’objet. Les Recherches ont fait connaitre que des Sujets Britanniques, habitans de l’isle de Nevis, ont présenté...
55163From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Department of State. Requests that payment of $250 from the fund for Barbary negotiations be made to Thomas Thompson of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, “to enable him to pay the storage which has accrued upon a parcel of oars that he procured by the request of the late Secretary of State, and which are still on hand.” RC ( NHi : Gallatin Papers); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL ,...
55164From James Madison to Ebenezer Stevens, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Department of State. “Your letter of the 22d Instant has been duly received. The arrangement which you suggest for settling with Mr. Daniel Cotton, on account of the freight of his vessel, is quite satisfactory, and you will be pleased to take measures for carrying it into effect.” RC ( NjP : Crane Collection); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s...
55165To James Madison from Thomas Aborn, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Providence. Informs JM that he left Cayenne on 9 Apr. “On my arrival at that Port which was on the 5th. Feby 1802 I waited upon the Governor Victor Hugues and acquainted him of my appointment as Vice Commercial Agent of the United States.… The Governor observed to me that he was not authorised to receive an Agent from the United States, as he conceived the American Government had...
55166To James Madison from John Gavino, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Gibraltar. No. 92. Informs JM that “the faltering hopes given us the 22d: Inst: by Consul Simpson & Communicated to you in mine of 24th. No: 91 [not found] respecting our affairs with Morrocco are Vanishd.” Simpson arrived at Gibraltar 25 June, “fresh orders having reachd Tanger the 24th: Currt: for his quiting the Country immediately. He tells me the Empr: had mentiond in...
55167To James Madison from Anthony Haswell, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Bennington. Has published the laws of the last session of Congress, according to JM’s order, as well as “a resolution relative to Capt. Sterritt” and the treaties between the U.S. and the Choctaw and the Chickasaw. RC ( DNA : RG 217, First Auditor’s Accounts, no. 13,611). 2 pp. RC written below Has-well’s account; Brent added a note dated 12 July, “The foregoing account is...
55168To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Georgetown. Has received JM’s letter on the subject of Captain Davidson and will transmit the contents to General Leclerc. Draws JM’s attention to several cases about which he has received no response. The first is the affair of the corvette Cassius , a French property, long contested by the U.S., formally delivered to Adet, and abandoned by him long after the disagreement....
55169To James Madison from Thomas Aborn, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have to inform you of my arrival from Cayenne, which place I left on the 9th. of April last. On my arrival at that Port which was on the 5th. Feby. 1802 I waited upon the Governor Victor Hugues and acquainted him of my appointment as Vice Commercial Agent of the United States for the Port of Cayenne &c. The Governor observed to me that he was not authorised to receive an Agent from the...
55170To James Madison from John Gavino, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I am now sorry to inform you that the faltering hopes given us the 22d: Inst: by Consul Simpson & Communicated to you in mine of 24th. No: 91 respecting our affairs with Morrocco are Vanishd. Said Gentleman arrived here the 25: Inst: fresh orders having reachd Tanger the 24th: Currt: for his quiting the Country immediately. He tells me the Empr: had mentioned in publick that his Cruisers were...