1To James Madison from James Wilson and Daniel McMillan, 28 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
Being publickly notified from the department of state in the public prints that all British subjects within the United States are required forthwith to report to the marshals &c. concerning themselves and the various circumstances attaching to them we the undersigned seeing the propriety of such a measure in the present important crisis have accordingly given in our report of this date to the...
2To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilson, 20 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteem’d favour of the 17th. augt. last, in which you have so politely accepted our tender of service, has been duly received, and I now beg leave to observe that, having at first overlooked the necessity of deciding on the time for which the tender was made, and having since had a meeting for that purpose and decided on the six months service, I am consequently instructed by the troop to...
3To James Madison from James Wilson, 21 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
At the particular desire of the members of a Committee appointed by the citizens of this county at a meeting held in the early part of last October I beg leave to lay before you such information as have come to the knowledge of the Committee relative to some late proceedings of Aaron Burr and his emissaries or Agents in this Western Country. A few months ago a publication appeared in a...
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilson, on or before 30 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to inform you I am the person that made application to you at Monticillo for a small employment under Goverment you were pleas’d to refer me to Mr. Gallatan and I have waited in Town untill I am destitute of the means to stop longer unless it is your pleasure the little money when I set out from Baltimore to Montcillo was only Eight dollars which was the whole sum I was possess’d...
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilson, on or before 16 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with considrable embarassment I attempt to address you, conscious that I have no Claim to your Patronage either from recommendation or services done the states, my dependance is entirely upon your Known Benevolence towards the necessitous it is this that induces me in this manner earnestly to solicit your Favour that you would be pleas’d in your Goodness to have me promot’d to some...
6To John Adams from James Wilson, 13 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing you upon a Subject, which, though of little Importance to you, is yet highly interesting to me. On the 26th of May last you were pleased to give a verbal Order to the Secretary of War, through Major Tousard, to make out for me a Commission of lieutenant in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers. Mr McHenry, then in the Hurry of Business necessarily attendant...
7To John Adams from James Wilson, 2 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
The Officers of the second Lincoln regiment of Militia in the State of North Carolina, in Court Martial met at Lincolnton on the 2d. of October 1798. Resolve that Colo. James Wilson be requested to prepare and send forward an address to the President of the United States expressive of our approbation of the measures adopted by the Executive respecting our differences with the French Republic....
8To Alexander Hamilton from James Wilson, 10 October 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, October 10, 1796. On October 12, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Théophile Cazenove : “I have received two letters of the 6th & 10th of October from Judge James Wilson.” Letter of October 10 not found. ]
9To Alexander Hamilton from James Wilson, 6 October 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, October 6, 1796. On October 12, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Théophile Cazenove : “I have received two letters of the 6th & 10th of October from Judge James Wilson.” Letter of October 6 not found. ]
10Enclosure: Affidavit from James Wilson, 2 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I James Wilson one of the associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States do hereby certify that I have this day administered to Edmund Randolph in pursuance of an act entituled “An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths,” an oath, that he will support the constitution of the United States; and that I have also at the same time administered to the same...