RC (DNA: RG 59, CD); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Yznardi; at foot of text: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson.” Recorded in SJL as received 11 June with notation “S.”

Vera Cruz: writing as secretary of the navy on 23 May, Samuel Smith sent TJ the “Deposition & Application of Messrs. Leamy. Price & Coxe, (Citizens of Philada.), praying that a public armed ship may be directed to Call for Certain Monies they have now laying at La Vera Crux.” The applicants were probably Philadelphia merchants John Leamy, Chandler Price, and Daniel W. Coxe, all of whom had trading interests with Spain and its possessions. They may have made their request as early as April (RC in DLC, endorsed by TJ as received 23 May and so recorded in SJL with notation “Leamy &c.,” enclosures not found; NDQW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War between the United States and France, Naval Operations, Washington, D.C., 1935–38, 7 vols. (cited by years) description ends , Dec. 1800–Dec. 1801, 193; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins J. C. A. Stagg, ed., The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, Charlottesville, 1986–, 8 vols. description ends , 1:417–20, 4:221; Marshall, Papers description begins Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Charles F. Hobson, and others, eds., The Papers of John Marshall, Chapel Hill, 1974–2006, 12 vols. description ends , 6:520, 522; Cooke, Coxe description begins Jacob E. Cooke, Tench Coxe and the Early Republic, Chapel Hill, 1978 description ends , 334–6). Veracruz was an important source of specie within the Spanish empire. In the summer of 1800 a voyage by a U.S. Navy ship, the Warren, to pick up specie there for American citizens caused problems because the trip had not been authorized by the Navy Department, the ship’s station off the coast of Cuba was left unattended, and a number of the crew died during the voyage from yellow fever contracted at Havana before their departure (Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins J. C. A. Stagg, ed., The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, Charlottesville, 1986–, 8 vols. description ends , 4:546, 556n, 589; NDQW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War between the United States and France, Naval Operations, Washington, D.C., 1935–38, 7 vols. (cited by years) description ends , June-Nov. 1800, 255, 345–6, 381–2; NDQW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War between the United States and France, Naval Operations, Washington, D.C., 1935–38, 7 vols. (cited by years) description ends , Dec. 1800–Dec. 1801, 244–5; Palmer, Stoddert’s War description begins Michael A. Palmer, Stoddert’s War: Naval Operations during the Quasi-War with France, 1798–1801, Columbia, S.C., 1987 description ends , 228–9).