151From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 14 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago from mr Edmund Randolph a note signed by mr Lyons & yourself undertaking to pay the amount of a decree of Royle’s admrs v. yourselves as admrs of Robinson, to mr Short or myself as his attorney. this undertaking is perfectly satisfactory, and I only wait your pleasure to be signified as to the time when, and place where it may suit you to make the paiment. as it was to...
152From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 14 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th. inst. came to hand yesterday. those of Nov. 15. 21. & 28. had been recieved in due time. that of the 21st. covered the assumpsit of Messrs. Pendleton and Lyons to pay the amount of the decree of Royle’s admrs v. Robinson’s admrs, to the use of mr Short. I should sooner have acknoleged these but that in that of the 21st. you mentioned that you had arranged the balance...
153Notes on a Conversation with Uriah Springer, 20 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 20. 1798. Cap Uriah Springer of Fayette county Pensva calls on me (with Judge Turner ) and informs me he was on the Monongehela in 1774. he lived there. that Logan’s family was killed by one Greathouse & others. that they had been over yellow creek a water of the Ohio 60. miles below Pittsbg & 130. above Kanhaway to the Shawanee encampment in a friendly way. that the Indians came over in...
154From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Legaux, 22 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the favor of your’s of the 8th. inst. I took the first occasion in my power of calling at No. 71. Chesnut street in hopes of finding you there & discussing more fully than can be done by letter, the subject of yours to me, and the way in which I might be useful. not finding you there, I still deferred answering in hopes of meeting you at the Philosophical society on Friday...
155To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1798 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you last on the 2d. inst. on which day I recieved yours of Dec. 25. I have not resumed my pen because there has really been nothing worth writing about but what you would see in the newspapers. There is as yet no certainty what will be the aspect of our affairs with France. Either the Envoys have not written to the government, or their communications are hushed up. This last is...
156From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 24 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 2d. inst. on which day I recieved yours of Dec. 25. I have not resumed my pen because there has really been nothing worth writing about but what you would see in the newspapers. there is as yet no certainty what will be the aspect of our affairs with France. either the Envoys have not written to the government, or their communications are hushed up. this last is...
157From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 25 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 13th. came to hand yesterday, and relieves my anxiety as to the health of the family. I thank you for your interference at Monticello & Shadwell. I had directed the managers at both to apply to you for your counsel when at a loss, and have only been prevented by the state of your health from asking a more onerous attention. George needs to be supported & Page to be moderated. Davy...
158Enclosure: Notes on Criminal Procecutions and Impeachment, [26 January 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
4. Blackstone. 5. ‘a crime or misdemeanor is an act &c ‘crimes & misdemeanors, properly speaking, are mere synonimous terms: tho’ in common usage ‘crimes’ denote offences of a deeper & more atrocious dye, while smaller faults are comprised under the gentler name of ‘misdemeanors’ only. ‘the distinction of crimes & misdemeanors from civil injuries &c. battery [nuisance] 6. ‘there are crimes of...
159From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Tazewell, 27 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
As you mentioned that some of your commee admitted that the introduction of juries into trials by impeachment under the VIIIth. amendment depended on the question Whether an impeachment for a misdemeanor be a criminal prosecution? I devoted yesterday evening to the extracting passages from Law authors shewing that in Law-language the term crimes is in common use applied to misdemeanors , and...
160From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Livermore, 28 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Having found it necessary, for my own government, to [consult?] the writers on Parliamentary law, a Summary of their proceeding in […] I have thought it might not be unuseful to put it into the hands of one of the Committee to which the bill on impeachment is referred. I take [the] liberty therefore of inclosing it to you. it may serve to refresh your me[mory] on a subject in which you...