73231To Thomas Jefferson from John Smith of Ohio, 21 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry, that I have it in my power to inform you that the bill requiring the next meeting of Congress to commence on the first monday of november, has passed the Senate by a large majority— I have the honour to be Sir very respectfully your most obedt Servt. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; at foot of text: “The President of the U States”; endorsed by TJ as received 22 Mch. 1804 and so...
73232To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Gourlay, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Entreating you will pardon the liberty I now take, not having the honor of being known to Your Excellency.—& complying with Mr. Jenings request, by the accompanying letter, I have the pleasure to enclose, the suppos’d necessary papers , for your acceptance, of what we are willing to persuade ourselves, (from your very kind Correspondence with Mrs. Randolph,) your Excellency will be so obliging...
73233To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Claxton, 6 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor of laying before you my accounts, there were left in my hands unexpended five hundred dollars—this sum has since been expended and I flattered myself that I might have gone on until after the adjournment of Congress without troubling you on this subject; but there is due to Mr Webb something more than two hundred dollars which he is distressed for consequently I am...
73234To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 9 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to present for your approbation, Pascal Paoli Peck , of Rhode Island, James Marshall of Virginia, & Robert Gamble of Pensya. to be Midshipmen in the Navy.— Mr. Peck is highly recommended by Governor Fenner and others; Mr. Marshall, by Colonels Taylor & New, and Mr. Gamble, by Capt. Jones, Mr. Muhlenburgh, Mr. Beckley and other Gentlemen of Phila.— Should you approve of these...
73235To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Elder, [ca. October 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Lyons being just about to Step aboard a Ship bound to Amsterdam, on his way to Paris, have embraced so favourable an opportunity of droping you a few lines. If his departure had not been so sudden I should have wrote more at large.—I suppose you have been informed of Colo. Randolphs two Sons being at the University of this place in pursuit of those branches of Literature to be acquired...
73236To Thomas Jefferson from Littleberry Mosby, 24 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the Instructions given by you I sent all the Men that cou’d be furnished with Armes, which Amounted to one Hundred and Six Rank and file, under the Command of Captains Hughes and Williamson. Majr. Thomas Harris being Sick stay’d at Home; tho I think the Captains will prove Sufficient for the Command they will have as they are two Gentlemen I have a great Opinion off. Our Militia...
73237To Thomas Jefferson from Elisha Bennett, 12 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Honoured Sir I wish to inform your Excellency of the Cruell intreatment which I Have Met with in Regard to wages Being Due to Me for Servisses Dun In the Continantal Servis in the Late american war. May it Please your Excellency, I Enterd on Board the Continantal frigate: Trumbull, Dudley Saltonstall Esqr Commander: on the 7th. of jany. 1777 and Continued on Board until the 13th of februay...
73238To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 5 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the paper you were so good as commit to my care yesterday . I have perused it with attention and pleasure, and think its contents ought to be used so as to produce to the publick the beneficial effect likely to result from them. The only doubt which I entertain is as to the channel into which it is proposed to put the paper, whether for example, a state legislature can interfere in a...
73239To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Turner, 10 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I find, I have no where else to go, but to the head of the nation, who’s natural, and official character is Justice, where reigns silence, and peace, my Claims are unhappily embarrassed by the Act of limitation, they are acknowledged by all Justly due, and by the resolutions of congress intitled to half pay during life or a commutation of five years full pay, a compensation and reward for past...
73240Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
During Several months I intended to write you—which for a while was delayd by my occupations during the Summer Seasons—and Some gloomy apprehensions, that I should write in vain. In this painful anxiety Some dark rumours, that mr jefferson was Severily indisposed made me abandon the thought and I listened rather to fear than to hope. Indeed this year had been to me peculiarly distressing—by...
73241To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 5 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request I have procured and now send you a copy of the Constitutions &c. published by order of Congress. I know not why the order in which they stand in the Resolution was varied by the Committee in binding them up. The encomium on the inhabitants of Rhode Island was a flourish of a Delegate from [that] State who furnished the Committee with the account of its...
73242To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Moore, 28 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Colonel Thomas Lehre of Charleston the Gentleman who will do me the honer to deliver this letter, intends making a tour to the springs in Virginia with Mrs. Lehre & his family, and returning to Carolina by Washington. It gives me great pleasure to have it in my power to introduce him to you, as one of our most respectable characters, & a firm Republican, who has long possessed the confidence...
73243To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 16 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last Mail I received your Letter of the 28th. of October, and was happy to learn your determination to appoint Mr. Brown the Successor of my friend Trist. I have particularly observed the Conduct of Mr. Brown in public and private Life, and I doubt not but he will continue to merit your Esteem and Confidence.—The family of my departed friend are in the enjoyment of health, and I am...
73244Spencer Roane to Thomas Jefferson, 22 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, a few days ago, your favour of 12 th instant , enclosing the scheme of my opinion, in the case of Martin v Hunter. I am very much flattered and gratified by the receipt of that letter. Going up to the springs , about the last of August, I had intended to avail myself of that opportunity, to pay the homage of my respects, to our first Citizen: Your absence from home, both as I went...
73245To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 28 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 28 July 1779 . Circular letter to the state executives enclosing resolves of Congress of 23 July respecting, first, the better preservation of buildings belonging to the United States and, second, the delivery of horses, cattle, and other stores owned by the United States to proper officers. FC ( DLC : PCC , No. 14); 2 p. Enclosure ( Vi ); signed by Charles Thomson; endorsed by...
73246To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Byrne, 12 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
your draft for $ 20.75 came safe to hand being the amt. of my demand for books sent you & is full of all accts. with me—my pamphlets are numerous, as yet I have not been able to make a complete list of them, when I do I shall send you a catalogue, I am Sir with the greatest respect yr. oblidgd & very hue Sert RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “182 Market St.”; endorsed by TJ as received 21 Mch. and...
73247To Thomas Jefferson from Rufus King, 20 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
After a good deal of Correspondence with the office for foreign affairs on the subject of M r Bonnycastle’s removal to Virginia; it has resulted in this conclusion, that Virginia will in no circumstance be called upon for the Forfeiture of M r Bonnycastle’s Bond; and this has been so understood, after it was distinctly observed, that should he or his Bondsmen be called upon, that Virginia...
73248II: Comments on the Congressional Election in New York, 31 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Republican Members of Congress John Smith } re-elected Samuel L. Mitchill Philip Van Cortlandt David Thomas Beriah Palmer } members of the Old republican party—In whom every reliance may be placed Andrew Mc.Cord Isaac Bloom Frederik Sammons John Patterson } The two first Emigrants from Massachusetts— the last from Connecticut. Oliver Phelps Erastus Root Patterson was a Brigadier Genl. in the...
73249To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 8 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The admn. likely to change its tone & I to be swept from the stage. On the 25. of April I was resolved to press the business with more earnestness than I had done; to remind Mr. Fox of his engagmts & thro’ him produce some effect in the Cabinet. In that state he found it necessary to secure quiet somewhere & asked me if Mr. M. or Mr K. were coming over. I verily believed that no one was coming...
73250To Thomas Jefferson from John Hollins, 20 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed that R. Etting Esqr the present Marshal is about to resign, I use the freedom to address a few lines in favor of a very deserving & worthy Citizen—Major Thos. Rutter ,—I shall only add that I am fully convinced upon enquiry you will find this Gentleman worthy of the Appointment, & shd. he be so fortunate as to get it, I shall feel very happy I have the Honor to be Sir yr. mo....
73251To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 12 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I had yours of the 7th. by yesterday’s mail. The danger of reaction is the evil to be fear’d from an energetic course, of disgusting and disuniting the republican party by an opposit one. These are the rocks, (to use a worn out metaphor) which you have to shun and which it is not easy to shun, but which may be done. On which side is the greater danger? In my judgement the latter. On which side...
73252Francis Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of visiting you last fall, you spoke so kindly of my Father that I have felt it a duty that the intelligence of his departure should be communicated in a manner more respectful than through the public Journals.— After wrestling for near six months; with a complication of diseases excrutiating in the extreme, he resigned his spirit on Tuesday last , leaving a fond family...
73253To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that our efforts have eventuated in success, and that the College party have been defeated in the House of Delegates by a majority of 24. You need not give yourself any further trouble on this subject. Our friends & myself concur in thinking that it would be improper to bring in the bill for dividing the funds of the College. The public mind is not prepared for so bold...
73254To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Auguste Adet, 6 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
un homme extremement recommandable sous tous les rapports, qui m’a donné des preuves du plus vif attachement, et pour qui j’ai une amitié bien sincere, le docteur deveze a èté assez heureux pour se rendre utile à Votre pays lors de la terrible épidemie qui ravager philadelphie en 1793. par ses soins assidus, et ses lumieres, il est parvenu a arracher à la mort beaucoup de victimes, et il a...
73255To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Ferris, 20 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Pursuant to the directions of Isaac Briggs I have completed a Clock for thee. he informed me that it was not in any degree for ornamental purposes and particularly requested that it might be made plain; The workmanship is good, and the regulation nearly perfected. I had the rod of the pendulum made of well seasoned Wood, it being less affected by the changes of the weather than either Brass or...
73256To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson & Company, 1 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
We now forward your account—which has been delayed for some days, as we wish’d to make it up to the end of the year; and as we were desirous too, that the drafts mentioned in yours of the 17th. ultimo should be included. those in favor of Mr. Marks & Mr. Clarkson have not yet appeared. We received yesterday of Mr. Pendleton, as you will observe from the account, the further sum of One thousand...
73257To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Noêl Destréhan, 14 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The house of representatives of the territory of Orleans, penetrated with the Sense of the eminent Service you have rendered your country, and impressed with the highest respect for that wisdom and integrity which induced a free people to call you to your present elevated Station, Seize with pleasure the first moment of their legislative existence, to assure you of their esteem and confidence....
73258To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Barrett, 12 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
New York, 12 Jan. 1790 . Has received TJ’s letter from Paris [of 24 May 1789] and waited four weeks hoping for personal interview. Is obliged to leave for Boston and has asked Mr. Dalton to deliver this and discuss “my application … for an Appointment in the Consulate of France.—I am happy to find that my proposition for the Department of Normandy met with your Approbation, but as my residence...
73259To Thomas Jefferson from John Gibson, 30 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to your Excellency by Ens. Tannehill paymaster to the 7th. Virg Regiment whom I have sent Express to Richmond in order to procure the 4 months pay allowed by the Honorable the Assembly of Virga. towards the Depreciation of their former pay, for the noncommissioned Officers and soldiers of the same regiment. I hope when your Excellency is Assured that they have not...
73260José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind Letter of the 5 of this month reached me in due time, and i must entreat your forgiveness for not answering it sooner, neither my health, nor the hurry to finish the botanical course in which i was engaged without defrauding my heare r s of any of the promised Lectures have given me a moment’s rest. Under severe rhumatic pains, i have Lectured almost every day in the afternoon, and...