Thomas Jefferson Papers

Jacob Wagner to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1805

From Jacob Wagner

Dep. State 3 Augt. 1805

J. Wagner sends his best respects to the President with the letter from M. Heise & a translation. He has received a letter from Mr. Madison, informing of his arrival with Mrs. M. at Philada. and that Dr. Physic thinks he can relieve her without any operation more painful than keeping the limb in a fixt posture. Mr. Merry proposes to go for Philada. to morrow. Capt. Murray proposes to sail in the Frigate to morrow. The newspapers mention the capture, by boarding, of one of the gun-boats by 3 Algesiras privateers, but that she was released afterwards. Mr. Simpson remained silent on the 7 June about the reputed rupture with Morocco.

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 8 Aug. and so recorded in SJL with notation “Heise’s Germn. lre.” Enclosures: see Gottfried Heise to TJ, 19 Apr.

In July, Robert Smith named Alexander Murray commander of the frigate Adams and also placed him in charge of the naval force assembling to protect U.S. commerce along the Atlantic coast (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 6:172-3; Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 8 July).

News of the capture and release of Gunboat No. 3 by Spanish privateers appeared in the National Intelligencer on 2 Aug. The incident took place on 15 June (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 6:119, 170).

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    Jacob Wagner to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1805
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    Wagner, Jacob
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    3 August 1805

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    “Jacob Wagner to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-47-02-0150. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 47, 6 July to 19 November 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, pp. 146–147.]

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