29391Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 11 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 11. present the 4. Secretaries. qu. shall Rogers be removd in N.Y.? unan. to let lie till Congress. Qu. whether we shall proclaim the French treaty, or wait and lay it before the Senate? unan. not to proclaim but to say to Pichon we will go on with the exn. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 112:19297); entirely in TJ’s hand; follows, on same sheet, Notes on a Cabinet Meeting of 22 Oct. Louis André...
29392Proclamation on the Embargo, 19 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. Whereas information has been received that sundry persons are combined or combining and confederating together on lake Champlain and the Country thereto adjacent for the purposes of forming insurrections against the authority of the laws of the United States, for opposing the same and obstructing their execution, and that such combinations...
29393Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 8 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 8. present the 4. heads of department. agreed on instructions to Genl. Wilkinson which see. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
29394III. Partial Draft: Judiciary, Juries, and Naturalization, [before 12 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Judiciary. The Judiciary system of the US. and especially that portion of it recently erected will of course present itself to the contemplation of Congress; and that they may judge of the proportion which the institution bears to the business it has to perform, I have caused to be procured from the several states and now lay before Congress an exact statement of all the cases decided since...
29395Extract of a Letter from James Wilkinson, 9 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
“Having discovered that judge Workman had been promoting some enterprise of moment, I put in motion a couple of “adroit intrigants” to develope his projects. One of them soon discovered that he had proposed to three persons of distinction, the idea of establishing the independence of this territory, and afterwards revolutionizing Mexico; but they were all bound to secrecy, and I found, after...
29396Memo on Wines, Food, Other Items Shipped to Monticello, 10 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Sent to Monticello. Mar. 10. 06. No. 1. 2. two pipes Marsalla 3. 4. two Qr. casks Bucellas & Termo. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
29397Notes on the District of Columbia Commissioners’ Accounts, [after 3 October 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Elliptical room 2276. Pr’s house 1686 Board 1700 September labour 1300 Interest paid 1500 8462 whole funds 6255.94 present deficiency 2206.06 6962. D. debts due to the Commissioners 130,000 due on Morris & Nicholson’s lots 1000.
29398II. First Annual Message to Congress, 8 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Fellow citizens of the Senate & House of Representatives. It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me, that on meeting the great council of the nation, I am able to announce to them, on grounds of reasonable certainty, that the wars and troubles, which have for so many years afflicted our sister-nations, have at length come to an end; and that the communications of peace and commerce...
29399Notes on John Sibley’s Account of the Indians in the Louisiana Territory, 5 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Sibley’s acct of the Indians pa. 1. the French while possessing Louisiana had a fort & some souldiers 375 + 120 = 495. miles above Natchitoches on the Red river, at the antient settlement of the Caddos. their present settlemt 120. mi. N.W. from Natchitoches. the Caddos, Yattassees, Nandakoes, Nabedaches, Inias or Tachies, Nacogdoches, Keychias, Adais, & Natchitoches, all speak the Caddo...
29400I. Notes on King’s and Anstey’s Propositions, [ca. 13 June 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Debt due to Gr. Britain. mr King’s proposition Debt from US. to G.B. at commencemt of war 3,040,160 £ sterl. 1: year’s exports from G.B. to US. deduct insolvencies during war 1,520,080 1,520,080 since recovered by creditors 760,040 760,040 interest on that 760,040 1,520,080