1To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 25 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Having never before had the Honor to address Your Excellency, We now embrace the Opportunity that is offered to us by Mr. Daniel Parker a well known American Gentleman; Who informs us that having with some other People Supplied the American Army with several Necessaries and Money for the Pay of the Troops; They have liquidated their Accounts with Congress, And are credited on the Books of the...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 19 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s esteemed Favor of 31 July and are much Obligated by the very particular and satisfactory Manner in which you have furnished your Opinion of the Value of the different species of Public Funds in America. The Settlement of the Concerns of Mess. De la Lande and Fynje in any other possible Way than by Acceding to Mr. Daniel Parker’s Proposal presenting...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 20 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored by Your Excellency’s ever respected Favor of 12 Instant, obliging us much by your useful Information and your Readiness to serve us. We request Your Excellency to be assured We entertain a high Sense of Your Condesendsion, And shall ever esteem ourselves happy to evince it all in our Power. His Excellency John Adams Esqr. has already transmitted to Messrs. W. & J. Willink and...
4[To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 27 October 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Amsterdam, 27 Oct. 1785 . Recorded in SJL as received 1 Nov. 1785. Not found.]
5To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 3 November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 3 Nov. 1785 . Acknowledge receipt of TJ’s letter of 25 Oct.; they are grateful for his advice and are anxious to be of service to him. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in a clerk’s hand, with the signature of the firm; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 8 Nov. 1785.
6To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 9 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The Motives of the Present are to acquaint Your Excellency that our mutual Friend Mr. Philip Mazzei has favored us for a short time with a Perusal of “Notes on the State of Virginia written in the Year 1781 somewhat corrected and enlarged, in the Winter of 1782, for the Use of a Foreigner of Distinction, in answer to certain Queries proposed by him.” This Book appears from a Note of your Hand...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We are favored with your Excellency’s most esteemed of 2. March accompanying a Copy of your Notes on Virginia for which Mark of your Esteem We beg your Excellency will receive our warmest and most sincere Thanks, Relying its Publication in English shall never be hastened thro’ our Means. We are extremely happy to be able to inform your Excellency, The Interest due the First Instant on the Loan...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 24 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s most esteemed favor of 13 Inst. to our N.V.S. who is highly flattered to have served you by his particular Exertions in securing the regular payment of your current demands for the Legation of the U.S. Exclusive of our personal Respect for Your Excellency, which will always urge us to do all in our power to oblige you, We are so firmly persuaded of our...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 31 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We were honored in due time with your Excellency’s respected favor of 3rd. Inst. and have postponed replying to it, in the hope We should be able to advise the Discharge of the Fifty One Thousand Guilders due by the United States the 1st. Instant at the House of Hry. Fizeaux & Co. which we should certainly have accomplished, had not our Colleagues’ different Opinion on the Subject been...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 8 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with your Excellency’s respected Favors of 7 Ulto. from Frankfort and 18 ditto from Strasburgh , the latter advising your draft on us ƒ426. Holld. Cy. in favor of Mr. Jean de Turckheim , Which shall be discharged and placed to the Account of the United States. Similar Reception awaits Mr. Peuchen’s Bill for a Couple of Stoves which we will with greatest pleasure receive and...