171To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Peters, 28 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the friendly Attention you paid to my Request of witholding the Commission ’till this Time. I had fixed the Matter so as to resign the Chair of the Senate on Tuesday Morning but I will do it on Monday Afternoon. On Tuesday the House will of Course choose a Speaker and when this is done I will resign my Seat as a Senator which cannot be done before the Senate is perfect in its...
172To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Peters, 13 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to present you with the Plan I send you for a State Society of Agriculture. I drew it up at the Request of our Philada. Society and have Hopes that I shall get it thro’. It is only the Beginning of a Plan I have in View in which, at some future Day, I will attempt embarking our Government. At present I keep it out of View. I wish every State would do something in this Way as the...
173Richard Peters to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I was gratified by the Receipt of your polite Letter of the 6 th instant which only came to hand a few Days ago. Amidst the Storms which have long agitated our Country, & rendered our Citizens more hostile to each other, when political opinions were adverse, than public Enemies; Recollections of old Attachments are doubly pleasant. I have preserved a Tranquillity on such Subjects which has...
174Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
AT a Special Meeting of “ The Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture ,” held October (10th mo.) 30th, 1816, It was resolved, unanimously, T hat the Curators, with the assistance of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary, and any other Member or Members of the Society, who will procure and give information, collect facts relating to Agriculture and Horticulture, and of all circumstances...
175Richard Peters to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I waited for a monthly Meeting of our agricultural Society , before acknowledging the Receipt of your kind & polite Attention to my Request , in sending the Hill-side plough. I had it placed in the Society ’s Ware-room; where it will be viewed by those who will take Advantage of it, as a Pattern. The Society were much pleased with the Present, & very thankful to you for the Donation; which...
176To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Peters, 30 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Gregg writes to me, that you wish that I should inform you of the Circumstances operating to induce our fixing the Term of 5 Years for the Imprisonment of one Coleman , as Part of the Sentence passed on him, by Judge Washington & myself at the Circuit Court, in April last. For the Purpose, he states, of enabling you to judge of the Propriety of your Interposition to remit Part of the...