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...