55701From James Madison to Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 2 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison presents his best respects to Mr. Dupont de Nemours, and requests that he will be so obliging as to take charge of some despatches for the American Minister at Paris, which are forwarded by the present mail to the post-master at Philada. They are to be handed by him to Mr. Dupont. Should a failure happen, Mr. M. will take it as a favor, if Mr. Dupont will please, before he embarks,...
55702To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McLean, 2 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Should any perticular mode or title of address to the first Magistrate of the United States exist; the unimportance of such form will sufficiently apologize for my ignorence of it. Although a man in political eminence can always find matters of importance sufficient to exercise his utmost powers of judgment; yet, when any thing new in science, or in the application of principlis already known...
55703From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot this was post day till the moment of the mail’s being made up. I have only time therefore to say Congress rises tomorrow. mr Milledge & mr Clarke will probably set out in the evening, be at Orange courthouse on Wednesday evening & go thence to dine with you on Thursday. I shall be two or three days after them. tender love to my dear Martha & the young people & affectionate attachment...
55704From Alexander Hamilton to Simeon Baldwin, 1 May 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, May 1, 1802. “Capt. Du Buisson who has obtained a decree of restitution of his vessel & cargo tells me that there are some obstacles, which he cannot explain, to his receiving the moiety of the proceeds reserved for the Captors, and remaining as he understands it in deposit with you. As he has solicited my aid which I have promised, you will oblige me by explaining as early as may...
55705From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
You will be pleased to cause a warrant to be issued in favor of John Davidson for four hundred and fifty three dollars and nine cents, to be paid out of the fund for defraying the expenses incident to the intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, he being the holder of a bill of Exchange for that sum, drawn upon me by James Leander Cathcart, the drawer to be charged with the same on the books...
55706From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed account is sent to you, that it may be settled at the Treasury. A reasonable compensation, to be ascertained by the Accounting Officers of that Department, is to be allowed to Capt. Wood, for the passages of the American seamen to this Country. Their sea stores were furnished at the public expense, by the Commercial Agent of the United States at Bordeaux before their departure...
55707From James Madison to William Hull and Others, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
We are ready according to the terms of our Commission to enquire into the claims which may be made to any part of the lands containd within the conditional cession of Georgia & for that purpose we invite you to communicate to us with precision the nature & extent of the claims made by yourselves & other persons whose agents you are. Transcripts of the several deeds company Articles & other...
55708From James Madison to Rufus King, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your several letters to No 56 have been duly received. The Convention relating to the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of 1794 has at length received the sanction of the Senate, two members only dissenting, and is herewith forwarded to you under the necessary forms of ratification, to be exchanged for the British ratification. The delay in the Senate pretty certainly proceeded from...
55709From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last of which a duplicate is now sent, was of the twenty sixth day of March. I have since received yours not then acknowledged including the Dispatch of Feby 26 which came to hand two days ago. The conduct of the French Government in paying so little attention to its obligations under the Treaty, in neglecting its debts to our citizens, in giving no answers to your complaints and...
55710From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
You will receive by Mr. Dupont herewith a public letter on th⟨ose⟩ subjects most important in your hands. You will receive at the same time a private letter from the President in which he refers for fuller communications than he gives on the subject of Louisiana & the Floridas. I have thought it best however not to go as far into certain views of the subject as he has done, because they are in...
55711To James Madison from Samuel Cabot, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the recet of your letter dated the 24th ulto. authorising my return to London for the purpose of executing the duty of an assessor, under the 7th art: of the British treaty. In obedience to your instructions I shall immediately repair to England, for which place I have already engaged my passage in a Vessel that is intended to sail from hence by the 15th...
55712From James Madison to George Deneale, 1 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 May 1802, Department of State, Washington. “I send herewith a Commission of the Peace for the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to be deposited, and to remain in your office.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. George Deneale (1766–1818) was a colonel of militia and clerk of the U.S. Circuit Court in Alexandria County (Franklin L. Brockett, The Lodge of...
55713From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A mr Putnam of Georgia was lately appointed to the command of a revenue cutter on the recommendation of yourself, Genl. Jackson & mr Milledge; and I trust on good grounds. the Washington Federalist however of Apr. 30. charges him with having been tried and convicted of having stolen a gold watch. a charge so specific brought forward in the public papers, I have always supposed sufficient to...
55714From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your’s of April 21. bringing me the welcome news that you are all well. I wrote 2. or 3. days ago to mr Eppes to inform him that Congress would rise the day after tomorrow, that on the 6th. I should set out for Monticello where I should stay a fortnight, & had some hopes of meeting him there. it is even possible that Congress may rise to-day, which makes me so full of...
55715From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Decide according to your own & mrs Gallatin’s inclinations on the time and extent of your absence from hence. I sincerely sympathize with you on the circumstances which produce the necessity. I leave this myself on Thursday, and shall stay at home one fortnight. mr Madison goes about the 11th. as I learn and will return a little after me. I wish to write finally to mr Page on the subject of...
55716Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
District East River (taken from Yorktown Virga.) includes Matthews County—a collector & surveyor to reside there 200 dollars each port delivy Bennet’s creek (Edenton) ceases as port of delivery and Tombstone on Salmon Creek institd. with a surveyor do. Slades Creek (Washington N.C.) port of delivery surveyor to reside there 150 drs. District Marietta. N.W. Territory—Collector 150 dollars New...
55717From Thomas Jefferson to James Jackson, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably have seen in the Washington federalist of April 30. mr Mitchell appointed Atty of Georgia on your recommendation , denoted a man of most infamous character. this is merely calling of hard names which I never notice. but the editors pretend that they are possessed of a fact which is too bad for publication . whether the fact be of such a nature as to make it the duty of the...
55718To Thomas Jefferson from James Jackson, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of this morning, respecting the attack on Mr Mitchells character, in the Washington Federalist of yesterday. I had understood, that the extract was sent to Mr Governeur Morris, who had it inserted—I this morning questioned Mr Morris if this was the case, who denied it—To call on the Editors of that calumnious paper, without recourse to violent measures...
55719From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Leslie, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of Apr. 27. I do not believe I ever paid for the skeleton clock, as I never recieved it. it would not have entirely escaped my memory if I had, so that I am pretty certain you have nothing to refund. with respect to the house clock, I had occasion to employ the man who made it after you went away, to rectify her more than once. but as I employed him myself, I...
55720Notes on the Establishment of New Revenue Districts, [ca. 1 May 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Agenda under the law making new ports after June 30 the District of East river (Virga) established the proper place for the port of entry & delivery to be designated by Presidt Collector & Surveyor of the customs to reside thereat to be appd by Pres. Bennet’s cr. N.C. put down as a port of delivery port of delivery establd. at the Tombstone on Salmon creek Surveyor of the customs to be...
55721To Thomas Jefferson from David Stone, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed note from Mr. Stanley contains a recommendation of Mr Selden Jasper as Surveyor at Slade’s Creek. No other person at this place has any knowledge of Mr Jasper or any one else in that quarter RC ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR ); addressed: “The President of the United States.” Enclosure: John Stanly to Stone, undated, suggesting that Selden Jasper would discharge the duties of surveyor at...
55722Query from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, [April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Is it worth while to institute an enquiry? Banning is a very weak man. A.G. [ Reply by TJ :] I think he should be called on to shew that no inconvenience is produced by his non-residence, or be compelled to move to the port, or lose his office. MS ( NHi : Gallatin Papers); undated, but see below; on a scrap of paper, with an undated query from John Randolph to Gallatin written on the other...
55723Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 31 [sic] April 1802 (Adams Papers)
I have been gratified by receiving two kind letters from you. No circumstance of joy or sorrow that affects my Sisters, can be uninterresting to me; not from an idle curiosity, but a wish. to heighten the pleasures of life by participation, & lessen the misfortunes by sympathy & sincere affection. The same kind Parents nurtured our Infant Days, & taught us “all the Charities” of social life....
55724From James Madison to Rufus King, 30 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a protest by Capt. Newell of the American Schooner Sea Flower, which shews that the habits of the British Commanders in impressing our Seamen have not ended even with the State of War which was made a pretext for the outrage. The spirit lately manifested by the British Government, and which the Government here is sincerely desirous to meet and to cultivate justifies our confidence,...
55725To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The heavy oppression and gloom under which I am labouring and which I have no prospect of recovering from but by an entire exemption from business, accompanied with a change of scene, render it necessary, that I shou’d take my leave of your office. It is impossible for me to express to you the sensations with which this determination is made: they cannot be conceived but by those who have...
55726To James Madison from Rufus King, 30 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 April 1802, London. No. 63. Reports ratification of definitive treaty and the proclamation of peace “with the accustomed formalities.” British begin to reduce army and navy, and the “warrants and orders to impress Seamen have been recalled.” Lenox has closed his agency and delivered his papers to Erving, as a special office for the relief of American seamen is now unnecessary. Sweden has...
55727To James Madison from William Marshall and Others, 30 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 April 1802, Charleston, South Carolina. Recommends Simon McIntosh, a Charleston lawyer, for the post of commissioner of bankruptcy. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1801–9, filed under “McIntosh”). 1 p. Signed by Marshall, Theodore Gaillard, O’Brien Smith, Paul Hamilton, and James D’Oyley. Docketed by Jefferson. This was probably the Simon McIntosh who was the son of Lachlan McIntosh (d. ca. 1789)...
55728To James Madison from John Webb, 30 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 April 1802, Charleston. Sends JM a copy of his letter to Colhoun and a duplicate of the certificate enclosed in it, “as there is a probability Mr. Calhoun may not be in the City, on the Arrival of the Mail at Washington.” Asks JM to present these to the president if Colhoun is absent and if the proposed alteration in the appointment of commissioners of bankruptcy has taken place. RC and...
55729To Thomas Jefferson from Sebastian Bauman, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknowlidge your letter of the 26. inst, Covering one for Mr. Duport, which I delivered in Person to his son, Mr. Duport himself I Could not see, he being unwell. any thing Sir, which may require dispatch, or of a Confidential nature you have to pase through the Post Office here which I have the honor to hold, you may I hop Sir, Confide in my punctuality, and in whatever...
55730To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bloomfield, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of transmitting the enclosed. I have letters from Perth-Amboy, which mention that Daniel Marsh, late Collector of that Port, was drowned on the 27: inst. John Heard raised a company of Dragoons, always kept a full company, and served with great credit and reputation during our revolutionary war, and is now general of the cavalry of this State. He was defeated in his...
55731From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Redman Coxe, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 23d. and am happy to learn that you mean to favor the public with an account of the vaccine inoculation from your own experience, which I am persuaded will be highly useful. I think it an important object in such a work to bring the practice of the inoculation to the level of common capacities: for to give to this discovery the whole of it’s value, we...
55732From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 24th. has been recieved; and the most important object of it anticipated by mine of the 25th. the rest of it I will now answer mot à mot . you may give assurance of our religious & rigorous neutrality, without the smallest partiality to the one or the other nation, should the war be rekindled. you may say that our supplies will be free and abundant to both parties, they paying...
55733To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai recu votre lettre et vos dépêches .—J’ai lu celle dont vous m’avez permis de prendre connaissance .—Je les remettrai avec fidelité, et j’en appuierai le contenu de tout mon faible pouvoir. Je conçois toute l’importance de leur sujet. C’est le but principal de mon voyage.—une guerre qui me priverait du doux azyle de l’Amerique, à moins que je ne me déterminasse à une abdication entiere de...
55734Memorandum from Christopher Ellery and Joseph Stanton, Jr., 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Persons worthy to be appointed Commissioners of Bankrupts in the State of Rhode Island &c— Constant Taber Samuel Vernon Thomas Peckham Paul M Mumford } of Newport, County of Newport John Waite James Sheldon William Taylor Thomas Rumreill Amos Cross Thomas Cole George Thomas } South Kingston Richmond So. Kingston North Kingston
55735To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In pursuance of the President’s request , the Secretary of the Treasury, submits the following opinion on the subject of the Charges exhibited against Governor St. Clair, observing however, that every Document in support of the Charges is missing, and that the territorial laws would assist in forming a more correct view of an important part of the subject. The Charges & references to documents...
55736To Thomas Jefferson from William Helms, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Judiciary Law just passed the two houses of Congress, the appointment of Commissioners of Bankrupcy is with the President of the United States, permit me to mention the name of John W. Van Cleive Esquire as a person whose Appointment would be satisfactory, This gentleman is originaly from Jersey where I was well acquainted with him, and know his principles to be good, and his integrity...
55737To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones and Joseph Clay, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
As the Judiciary bill now pending before the Legislature invests the Executive with the power of nominating the commissioners of Bankruptcy, we are invited to address you on this subject by motives of justice to an individual, and a knowledge of your disposition to appoint men in all respects worthy of the public confidence. We therefore beg leave to represent that Mr Thomas Cumpston one of...
55738To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McKean, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
As the power of appointing Commissioners of Bankrupts is at last vested in the President of the United States, I am induced by duty & affection to name Doctor George Buchanan for your consideration as a Gentleman qualified for one of them in the district of Maryland. Altho’ he has the degree of Doctor of Physic, and the practise of Physic has been his only profession, yet he has for several...
55739From Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Milledge and incloses him an itinerary from hence to mr Randolph’s, with a strong recommendation to him to let no man’s persuasion induce him to vary the route in any part, Th:J. after near 30. years travelling and trying every road, having by little and little learned this particular route, which he believes no other person is acquainted with, and...
55740Enclosure: Itinerary from Georgetown Ferry to Edgehill, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Itinerary from Georgetown Ferry to Edgehill from George town ferry to (1.) Thomas’s (blacksmith) 6. miles Oxroad 2½ Richd Fitzhugh’s 4 Lane’s on Centerville road 11 (2.) Songster’s 4½ Bull run 5. * Brown’s tavern
55741To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar A. Rodney, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Court in Sussex County adjourning much earlier than usual, furnished me with an opportunity of returning home, previous to the sittings in Kent County; or I should not have had the pleasure of receiving your affectionate & flattering letter of the 24. inst:, for these two weeks to come, which would have been to me matter of serious regret. On my arrival last night I found it on my table &...
55742From James Madison to William Savage, 29 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your two Letters of the 20th. and 25th. January last have been received, and the two Bills which you draw upon me on those days, the first in favor of James Martin for fifteen hundred and Eighty Eight Dollars and thirty Cents, and the other for fifteen hundred Dollars in favor of Elliston and John Perott, have been accepted. But the acceptance is not to be understood as having reference to a...
55743To James Madison from Bird, Savage, and Bird, 29 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Inclos’d we send you dupe. of our last respects of 22d. Ulto. The Arms having been shipp’d on board the Medusa frigate, by order of His Excellency Rufus King we made the following insurance on them, vizt. £5⟨810⟩. valued at the amount of the cost of the Arms by the Medusa frigate to Gibraltar & at and from thence by ⟨any⟩ American Ship of War to Tunis ⟨at 2½⟩ ⅌ Ct., duty £10. making £137.⟨0.2⟩...
55744Circular Letter from Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the heads of the departments to examine and consider the charges of Colo. Worthington against Govr. St. Clair with the answer of the latter and the documents in support or invalidation of the charges; & to favor him with their opinion in writing on each charge distinctly, whether ‘established’ or ‘not established,’ and whether those ‘established’ are...
55745To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 29 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 April 1802, Amsterdam. Regrets that the situation of his family, an account of which was given in his last letter, still prevents him from attending to JM’s request. Apologizes for apparent neglect of his duties. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Amsterdam, vol. 1). 1 p. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
55746To James Madison from Peter Stirling, 29 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 April 1802, Barcelona. “It is Publickly Said here, and I observe the Board of Health begin to take measures, for avoyding an introduction in this Country, of a Pestilential, Epidemical, Disorder, that has of late broke out, and rages in Oran , on the Barbary Shore. Said Board of Health is officially informed, of that reigning malady there, that it dayly Sweeps, great numbers of People off....
55747To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 29 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Continuance of that afflicting dispensation of Providence in my family; of which I gave you an Account in my letter by Mr. Meyer a few days past, Still prevents me from giving a due attention to the Object of your favour of the 25 January, & must be my apology for any apparent neglect. I hope it may please Heaven Soon to restore my friend & partner to the possession of her reason & health,...
55748To James Madison from Peter Stirling, 29 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have thought it an incumbent Duty on me, to lay before you, for the Publick good. It is Publickly Said here, and I observe the Board of Health begin to take measures, for avoyding an introduction in this Country, of a Pestilential, Epidemical, Disorder, that has of late broke out, and rages in Oran , on the Barbary Shore. Said Board of Health is officially informed, of that reigning malady...
55749To Thomas Jefferson from Catherine Church Cruger, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me my dear Sir to introduce my Brother to the honor of your notice—his journey has for motive Business of a very interesting nature in which he will have to sollicit your favor, & I shall not be of our family the one who will not share the obligation it will confer on him, & the pleasure of knowing that the wrongs he has suffered will find redress— It is very long since I have heard of...
55750To Thomas Jefferson from Christopher Ellery, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
C. Ellery wishes to peruse, before he leaves Washington, the letters written under a feigned signature , to the President, from Newport, the last summer and respectfully solicits the loan of them—with permission to copy if he should desire it after reading— RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 29 Apr. and so recorded in SJL . LETTERS WRITTEN...