55751From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
It is now long since I have heard from Maria or yourself. Congress will rise certainly on the 3d. and I shall leave this on the 5th. for Monticello where I shall be one fortnight, and return hither. I mention my movements that if you should be meditating a visit to your plantation about that time we may meet, and at any rate that you may know whither to direct a letter to me. no important...
55752From Thomas Jefferson to Heads of Departments, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson 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...
55753To Thomas Jefferson from John Heard, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Collector Mr Daniel Marsh of the Port of Perth Amboy and the Captain of the Revenue Cutter, was Drowned Yesterday in takeing the Cutter to Amboy. it is supposed She has Sunk, as She has not been seen since. Several of my friends has called on me this day advising me to make application immediately to you for that Office, as they supposed there was not the least doubt but that I would have...
55754To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Meredith, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
As the Agency which my Son in Law John Read Junr. at present holds respecting British Debts will probably soon cease, & it will be some time before he can recover his professional business which his attention to his Office obliged him to give up, Should a Vacancy happen in the Commissionship of Bankruptcy for this state, permit me to recommend him to your Notice as a person capable of filling...
55755Notes on Charges against Arthur St. Clair, [ca. 29 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
1. The Ordinance, in the paragraph respecting counties, speaks of laws adopted or made, which must refer both to the 1st. & 2d. stage of government; it then gives the Govr. power to lay out counties from time to time, reserving a right to the legislature thereafter to alter them. this may mean that the Govr. is always to lay out first, & the legislature thereafter to alter, or it may mean that...
55756To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Savage, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I Recd your favour of the 30 of March at that time the fraimes ware all made, I Beg your forgiveness for not Answering your Letter Sooner. I put it of from Day to Day Expecting to have an oppertunity of Sending the fraimes at the Same time I wrote. the Schooner Tryal is the first oppertunity that I have meet with: there is a Mr Anderson in the City of Washington who will be a good hand to put...
55757To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor to inclose you a letter I have recieved from J. H. Purviance. permit me to Say that I know no Gentleman who I think every way So Compleatly qualified to Succeed Mr. Sumpter or who Could be So useful to Mr. Livingston. I am sir/ with the highest Esteem your friend & servt. RC ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR ); endorsed by TJ as received 29 Apr. and “Purviance John H. to be Secy. legn...
55758To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel extremely anxious to take my family to New York—Both my children are sick; change of air is essential in their disorder; and change of situation is not less so to Mrs. G. at present. I called this morning, but you were absent, in order to obtain your consent for my absence on that occasion as early after the adjournment of Congress as you think it may take place without injury to the...
55759John Quincy Adams to Walter Hellen, 28 April 1802 (Adams Papers)
I received last evening your favour of the 20 th: inst t: containing the distressing intelligence of M r: Johnson’s decease; which I had indeed been in some measure prepared to expect, by a letter from M rs: Johnson to M rs: Adams, received a few days before— I endeavoured to communicate the melancholy event to my wife in a manner which might soften as much as possible the shock— The agitation...
55760To John Adams from Cotton Tufts, 28 April 1802 (Adams Papers)
Know All Men by these Presents that I Cotton Tufts of Weymouth in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executor of the last Will and Testament of Norton Quincy late of the Town of Quincy, Esquire, deceased, being in the County of Norfolk aforesaid. By Virtue of the Power and Authority given to me in and by the said last Will & Testament, as well as by the free Consent of...
55761To James Madison from Joseph Fenwick, 28 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Seeing from the public prints that there was a probability of Mr. Lear’s return from St. Domingo —if my services there could be usefull to the U. S. as principal Agent I can offer them in the course of four or five months from this. An interest in several important plantations in that Island held by the family of my wife leads me to look forward to a visit there for the preservation of her...
55762To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 28 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Amongst the claims laid by Mr. Pichon, under the convention with France, there are three which have been suspended, and on which your opinion is requested. 1st. He claims the “Magicienne,” formerly “Retaliation,” Francis Lagaux, Commander, taken by the Merrimack, condemned at Philadelphia, on 29th. November 1799. This vessel is not in the list furnished by the Navy Department, and certified by...
55763To Thomas Jefferson from John Archer, 28 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctr: Joseph MCreary of Wilmington State of Delaware is desirous of being appointed a Surgeon to the Hospital to be established at New-Orleans. He is recommended to me by Doctr: Geo: Monro of the State of Delaware as a Gentn. of Talents well qualified to discharge the Duties of his Profession, sober and industrious and firmly attached to the present Administration—Dr: Monro is a Gentn. of...
55764To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown of Boone County, Kentucky, 28 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Pleasure to inform you that I have forwarded to Mr. Peale a Present to the Sosiety, of Curious Matter. It consists of Part of the skull Bone , the neck Joint on the head, the Pith of the left Horn now Twenty one Inches in Circumference, the end off & in a decay’d State. I suppose it to have been Part of the head of the Animal whose large Bones are found in so many Parts of America &...
55765To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 28 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mon Libraire à Paris, me fait quelquefois la Galanterie de mêler avec les livres que je lui demande des brochures quand il les croit propres à m’interesser. Je les destine à mon tour, après les avoir parcourues, à ceux qui comme vous ont la bonté d’encourager mon établissement—Parmi celles qu’il m’a envoyé dernièrement, il S’en trouve une où j’ai lu quelque chose de fort Juste à votre...
55766To Thomas Jefferson from Michael Leib, 28 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The power of appointing Commissioners of Bankruptcy being very properly delegated to you by a law, which has just passed the Legislature, I take the liberty to name to you two gentlemen, who are, in my apprehension, well calculated, both as to character and qualifications to fulfill this trust— John W. Vancleve and Samson Levy are the gentlemen to whom I allude—They are respectable...
55767Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, [on or after 5 March] (Jefferson Papers)
This recommendation appears unexceptionable—Mr Macon says that there is no one in that part of the country on whom greater reliance may be placed than Mr. Spaight . Mr Stone who lives nearer to, though not in the district, is absent [ Reply by TJ :] not one of the recommendations say a word about mr Cheney’s politics, an omission which, in applications to this administration, I have observed...
55768Memorandum from Theodorus Bailey, 27 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
How much did it cost under the late Administration to pay Algiers for the years 1796–97 & –98? How much was paid by the present Administn. to the same, for the years 1799–1800 & 1801? Mr: Bailey will be under obligations to the Honorable Mr. Madison if he will favor him with answers to the queries above stated. RC ( DLC ).
55769To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Depending on your indulgence Sir, I send my son , the bearer of this letter to your Excellency; to solicit your good offices, by which he may obtain redress , for extreme severity, and the most degrading humiliation: which he has suffered: his ship and cargo illegally and violently seized by the Portuguese our friends and Allies; at a moment of undisturbed peace and security, when on the Coast...
55770To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Leslie, 27 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
before I went to London , I made you a Small Clock with a Sceleton frame, which I was informed did not perform well. I tharefore Wrote to Mr Price , to return you the money you paid for it, and send the Clock to me, Some time after which, I received the Clock, and Supposed Mr Price had refunded the money. I have now finished the examination of Mr Prices Books and papers, and do not find any...
55771From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 27 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Edward Harris of North Carolina to be a judge of the fifth circuit, vice Henry Potter who has accepted the office of District judge. Michael Mc.Clary of New-Hampshire to be Marshal of the district of New-Hampshire vice Bradbury Cilley whose commission is expired. Robert Champlin Gardiner of Rhode island to be Consul at Gothenburg. William Stewart of Pensylvania to be Consul at...
55772From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 27 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners who were appointed to carry into execution the VIth. article of the treaty of Amity, commerce & navigation between the US. and Great Britain, having differed in their construction of that article, & separated in consequence of that difference, the President of the US. took immediate measures for obtaining conventional explanations of that article for the government of the...
55773To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 26 April 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Hartford, April 26, 1802. On May 19, 1802, Hamilton wrote to Wadsworth : “I have the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 26th. of April.” Letter not found. ]
55774From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 26 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
We have the Honor to enclose a copy of an Agreement enter’d into between the Commissioners of the United States and those of Georgia, in pursuance of the Act entitled “An Act supplemental to the Act entitled ’An Act for an amicable settlement of Limits, with the State of Georgia; and authorizing The Establishment of a Government in the Mississippi Territory. [’”] The nature & Importance of the...
55775To James Madison from Moses Young, [26 April 1802] (Madison Papers)
On the 13th, of March 1800, I addressed a letter to the Department of State, to which having never received any answer, I take the liberty of repeating a part of the substance, to wit—That I had never been concerned in any private business in Madrid, directly or indirectly. That from the 1st, of October 1797, my whole time, viz. seven days in the week, at late & early hours, had been devoted...
55776To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Having attended the hand of national fulness as long as finances would serve, & having pressed for attention by means which decency or delicacy would scarcely warrant, I find myself set down in this City.—My thoughts are for Phila. or farther eastward: still as I am likely to pass a few days with the good people of this place I am induced once more to signify to the President that it is with...
55777From Thomas Jefferson to Sebastian Bauman, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr Dupont, it is very important should be put safely into his hand, as he is near his departure for France. but as he had apprised me he might have a temporary absence from New York before his departure, I have thought it safest to commit them to your particular care, to be delivered to him if now at New York, or whenever he may return there, so that he may get the...
55778To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
It was with a high degree of satisfaction, I observed in a letter I lately received from my friend Dr. Saml L. Mitchill of New York, the following paragraph:—”In consequence of a suggestion of the President of the United States, I had previously written to Mr. L’Hommedieu an account of the Project of attempting to mature a National Agricultural Society. I hope these communications will have...
55779Statement of Account with Thomas Carpenter, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esq. 1802. Dr January 29 To Thomas Carpenter— Putting new facing to an under Waistcoat $1.50 To 3 pr linnen drawers & 3 pr fustain Drawers 13.50 To a pr Overhawles of Quean’s rib 5.50 March 22 Making a Silk Coat & trimings 3.25 6 Pearl Buttons 25
55780To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Johnson, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just had the honour of receiving your two Notes of this date . My present very reduced situation leaves me little room to hope that I shall be able to comply with your invitation to dine with you on Wednesday: for which be pleased to accept my thanks. W T. Muse who recommends Mr James L Shannanhouse to be Surveyor of New-begun creek, is clerk of Pasquotank County, and is a very...
55781From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In pursuance of the act entitled ‘ an act supplemental to the act intituled an act for an amicable settlement of limits with the state of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Missisipi territory’ James Madison Secretary of State, Albert Gallatin Secretary of the treasury, and Levi Lincoln Attorney General of the US. were appointed Commissioners to settle by...
55782To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Jas Roach , the young gentleman for whom the enclosed Warrant is intended—has been mentioned to me in terms of approbation— Should you approve his appointment, the enclosed will require your signature— I have the honor to be with the greatest respect, Sir, your mo ob: st. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “President U: States”; endorsed by TJ as received from...
55783To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Tucker, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing an additional Proof of the inattention of the Collector of this District to the Duties of his Office, the people here of all parties are disgusted with his Conduct, they come to and go from the Office, & Cannot get their bussiness done, and the present Administration Really suffers reproach even by its friends, and enemies, by Continuing this man in Office. he...
55784To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Dougherty, [on or before 25 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
What I have to Communicate to you is More than I Can do when face to face so I beg lave to do it in this manner so as it may be Correct. In the first place Mary is requested by Mr. Lamaire to Count the Linens belonging to the House She Dont. wish to refuse it but she is not willing to do it on the Acount she knows the number will be far short of what it should be This circumstan should not...
55785To John Adams from James Asheton Bayard, Jr., 25 April 1802 (Adams Papers)
I have been extremely flattered by the letter which you did me the honor to write me on the 10th. Inst. It is no virtue to be insensible to the praise of great & good men. I could not have received a more grateful reward for any labour than your approbation. I beg the favor of being presented very respectfully to Mrs. Adams. and / have the honor to be / with sentiments of the highest...
55786To Alexander Hamilton from James A. Bayard, 25 April 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
I have considered with a great deal of Attention the project recommended in your last letter of connected associations in the different States for the support of our Constitution & religion. The plan is marked with great ingenuity, but I am not inclined to think that it is applicable to the state of things in this Country. Such an association must be bottomed upon a stronger & more active...
55787To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 25 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 April 1802, Leghorn. No. 4. “The enclosed extracts from my correspondence & Mr. Eatons dispatches will inform you of our actual position, every thing seems to be in a train to promise apparently a satisfactory conclusion to this war which I assure you envolves serious consequences ’tho visibly it is of little moment. I have before observed that Tunis and Algiers have their eyes fix’d on...
55788To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 25 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed extracts from my correspondence & Mr. Eatons dispatches will inform you of our actual position, every thing seems to be in a train to promise apparently a satisfactory conclusion to this war which I assure you envolves serious consequences ’tho visibly it is of little moment. I have before observed that Tunis and Algiers have their eyes fix’d on Tripoli to know how far their...
55789From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 25 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The week being now closed during which you had given me a hope of seeing you here, I think it safe to inclose you my letters for Paris lest they should fail of the benefit of so desireable a conveyance. they are addressed to Kosciuzko, Volney, Madame de Corny, mr Short, and Chancellor Livingston. you will percieve the unlimited confidence I repose in your good faith and in your cordial...
55790To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McKean, 25 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
If the Bill, altering the mode of appointing commissioners of bankrupts, shall pass into a law, I will name two more gentlemen for that office to your consideration, Messrs. Alexander James Dallas & Robert Mc;Kean—My son has had a college education, and, tho’ bred a merchant, he has studied the laws relating to policies of insurance, bankrupts, bills of exchange & the law-merchant, and...
55791To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 25 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned on friday from Albemarle without having accomplished the object of my trip by the sale of my land above Charlottesville. In my absence an alarm took place at Norfolk relative to the negroes, wh. was felt here, but which seems to have little foundation for it. Such is the state of things that it is hasardous for me, in regard to the publick opinion, to be absent from this place at...
55792Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Comment, [before 24 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
North Carolina recomnds Laurence Mooney present surveyor of Winton has been absent, in Ireland, five years & his business done by deputy. he is returned and to be continued Frederick B. Sawyer present surveyor at Newbiggen Creek has removed 25 miles The above communicated by Mr. Johnson M.C. for N. Carolina who makes the enclosed recommendat[ions] MS ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR , 8:0397); undated; in...
55793From James Madison to Samuel Cabot, 24 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 9th. of this Month, and also a communication from the American Commissioners appointed under the 7th. Article of the British Treaty to which it alludes. It is not observed that any substantial difference existed between the appointment of Commercial Agent and that of Assessor to the Board under that article. The former seems to have been created and a Salary...
55794To James Madison from Christopher Gore and William Pinkney, 24 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
We have the Honor to transmit herewith enclosed a Copy of a List lately prepared by us of the American Claims depending before our Board, in which the actual State of each Claim in reference to the judicial Remedy, and of course to the extraordinary Title to Redress under the Treaty is explained. To render this List perfectly intelligible it may be proper, after so long a suspension of our...
55795To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 24 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I send with this duplicates of my two last letters & the notes that have since passed between me & the minister on the subject of prizes tho I found much clamor on my arrival I confess I have found less reason for it than I expected there are not more than four or five cases on which we have any just cause of complaint. The Winyaw mentioned in my note was evidently british property covered by...
55796To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 24 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 April 1802, Natchez. On 18 Apr. received JM’s letter of 22 Feb. enclosing Dr. David Lattimore’s commission as a member of the legislative council of the Mississippi Territory; Lattimore, who has accepted the appointment, “unites to pure Republicanism, handsome Talents & an Honest Heart.” The “utmost harmony” exists between Americans and Spaniards at New Orleans. Supports the president’s...
55797To Thomas Jefferson from Mathew Carey, 24 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Well knowing how much you are liable to be persecuted with the applications of the vain, the idle, and the interested, and how many important objects must necessarily occupy your mind, I hope you will believe that nothing short of the magnitude of the subject on which I presume to address you, could have forced me to trespass on you. For a considerable time past, it has been strongly impressed...
55798To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 24 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On last evening, I had the honor to receive your much esteemed favor of the 7th. Ultimo, together with its enclosures;—the Letters to the President of the Council, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory, have been carefully delivered, and were received with great pleasure by the Gentlemen, to whom they were addressed.— The Resolutions which the Legislature...
55799To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Votre aimable Lettre ajoute à ma peine parce que je me vois dans l’impossibilité de prendre dix jours qu’il me faudrait pour la course à Washington. Il faut que je parte avant les calmes, car il faut que j’arrive.—Un petit caillou mis à tems et à propos peut arrêter ou détourner le cours d’un torrent. J’entendrai vos lettres à demi mot à tiers de mot. Mon coeur, ma raison, mes principes, mon...
55800To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 24 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am prevented from going to day to the office, & beg leave to refer you to the office of the Secretary of State for a precise description of the office of surveyor. & indeed of the several others —I think it to be “Surveyor of the port of in the district of ( State ).” My only doubt is whether the words “in the district of ” be necessary. There are to my knowledge but three vacancies...