1To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 27 October 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 October 1803, Washington . “I am afraid I have not made myself perfectly understood by the secretary of state, with respect to some parts of the conversation I had lately the honor to hold with him. I will therefore add one or two observations to what was then mentioned.… I am now much disposed … to resign my present situation to another brother, … who will be obliged to leave this city in...
2To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 12 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 December 1803. Calendared as a two-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
3To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 14 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 14 March 1806, Washington. “By an act of Congress of May the eighth one thousand seven hundred ninety two, laws of the United States volume two, page one hundred twenty five, the Secretary of State is to have printed certain laws, and to distribute ten sets of other laws. “By the act of january the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred five, laws of the United...
4To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 8 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 8 May 1806, Washington. “I have the honor to communicate to the Secretary of State the constructions which the Governor and the judges of the Territory of Michigan have been compelled to give to their powers of legislation, in the course of exercising them. “The operative words of the ordinance are the Governor and the judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and...
5To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 4 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 4 September 1806, Detroit. “Mr. Wagner’s letter of the 9. of august I had the pleasure to receive. The mail to Pittsburgh is very large, and I believe no inconvenience would result from the transmission of the package for me by mail. “I have to acknowledge the reception of the Acts of Congress, for which I am very grateful. “I am very sorry our own laws are not...
6To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 27 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
During my stay here the subject of opening an intercourse between our government and that of China has been pressed on my attention. It is certainly a matter perfectly congenial with my sentiments, and wishes; and I have consented to lay before the President of the United States a memorial on that Subject. In any mission our government might deem advisable to that country I would consider Mr....
7To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 12 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to the president of the united states the observations alluded to in a former letter; and to be, with the greatest respect, his obedient servant, Considerations addressed to the president of the united states, on the subject of opening an intercourse between the american and Chinese governments. Several features of similitude exist between china and the united...
8To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 31 March 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 March 1812, Michigan. Has “the honor to present his respects to the President of the United States; and to subject to his inspection the two enclosed papers.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, TP , Michigan). RC 1 p.; printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Michigan , 10:381. Enclosures 7 pp.; printed in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections , 36 [1908]: 249–51. For enclosures, see n....
9To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 26 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
The intelligence of a pacification, if authentic, as I presume it is, makes a great alteration not only in the state and affairs of the nation, but also of most individuals; and will excuse my addressing you a line personally. I dare not undertake to determine for myself whether the enterprize I have in view, and of which you are apprized, would be advanced, or retarded by a gratification of...
10To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 14 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
The indifference which has sometimes been exhibited, in the execution of those regulations of the military department which relate to chaplains, has occasionally attracted the observation of a portion of the public. I think that I have heard both Major General Brown, and Major General Macomb, express their wish that a more strict attention were directed to this subject. Of the great delicacy...
11To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Woodward has the honor to present his respects to the President of the United States of America, and to submit to his perusal a discussion on the organization of the executive departments of the government of the United States. The papers are the property of the honorable Judge Duvall, of the Supreme Court of the United States; to whom Mr. Woodward solicits of the President the favor that...
12To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
Allow me to present my acknowledgments for your obliging letter of September 11. 1824; which I had the happiness of receiving at St. Marks, in Florida. The principle, on which is founded the proposition of a standard of measure, in the memorial to the Senate, is at once so novel, and so simple, as to require time to admit its recognition. When the abstract verity of the principle is...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 15 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. William O’Neale of the City of Washington, was originally invited to this place by the late Genl. Washington, for the purpose of exploring quarries for the public works. He has vested very considerable property in the City; but owing to that stagnation of business which has affected the United States generally, and which has particularly retarded the progress of the City, he finds himself...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 16 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing will satisfy the unhappy James Mc.Girk, who is sentenced to be executed on the twenty eighth of this month, but that I should go to Monticello, to intercede with the President for his life. Oppressive and inconvenient as it is to me at this time, I suppose I must comply. I am the rather prompted to it, as I persuade myself that when his case is fully understood by the President, he...
15Petition of Augustus B. Woodward and Others, with Jefferson’s Order (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscribers beg leave to represent to the President that a man by the name of John Henderson was tryed and Convicted before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington during their present Term for keeping a gaming table and fined agreeable to Our Laws One hundred thirty three dollars thirty three and one third Cents which together with the Costs of the...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 4 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The senate having struck out the provision I contemplated in my late observations to the president, prevents any further attention to that point at this time. It is an object, which, for reasons that are obvious, interests me much; and I will be happy in the presidents retaining a recollection of it. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR ); addressed: “The president of the united states”; endorsed by TJ as...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the happiness to transmit to the president, by mister digges, a paper entitled “memoir addressed to the president of the united states on the colonization of louisiana,” unaccompanied by my signature. Without a comparison of sentiments, the views of different minds are sometimes so dissimilar on the same subject, and so extremely divergent, that it is not without considerable diffidence...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 20 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In the volume of the encyclopédie, which the president was so kind as to lend me, I find a reference to a figure which is not contained in the same volume. I conclude therefore the plates are in a separate volume. The reference is (fig. Astron. 171.). If the president can conveniently turn to this figure I will be obliged to him to permit the bearer to bring the volume containing it. I...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 1 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter is presented to you by Mr. John Woodward, my father; who waits on you for the purpose of soliciting some appointment under the government, such as he may be competent to, and which may serve as a retreat for his declining years. Aware how numerous applications to you of this nature are, and how difficult it is to gratify even a small portion of those who make them, whatever their...
20Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you, Sir, a work on the Executive of the United States . In every constitution formed in America , during the æra of the revolution, a council was attached to the executive. It is even a part of the British constitution. The federal constitution is the first without it. It is certainly of less importance in the State governments, than in that of the Union. You...
21Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of may 27. awakens, sir, anew, my sense of your undeviating kindness and condescension.— The system, of which the work I have transmitted is a partial developement, was formed in 1795, in rockbridge ; and just before I had the happiness of a first interview at monticello . The result of the presidential elections of 1796, and 1800, prevented me from presenting it to the public. In...
22Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
It would have been a great satisfaction to me to have had the pleasure of rendering you a visit at a more early period than the present. As I contemplate a resignation of the station I have held in the Western country , and settling in New-york , I propose to myself the happiness of seeing you previous to my return to the latter place. At this time, and in this place, I may consider the...
23Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by Judge Woodward , whose great merits, in various respects, are not unknown to you. The Judge is about to visit you, for the purpose of your position concerning a work on the “classification of human knowledge,” in which he has long been engaged. I have had frequent conversations with M r Woodward , who has developed to me, at length, the outlines of his plan, in...
24Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been diverted by public business from waiting on you so early as I expected. I contemplate setting out for Monticello to-morrow, or the day after. I am charged with two packages for you from D r Barton , of Philadelphia ; which I shall have the honor of presenting you, on my arrival. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Honorable Thomas Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Apr. 1814...
25Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I left Washington this afternoon in prosecution of my journey to Monticello , and shall proceed on, in the stage, to Fredericsburgh , to-morrow morning. Presuming that the mail will travel faster than the state of the roads and weather will allow me to do I forward this line, from this place; not contemplating to write again on the road, unless detained by some unexpected contingency. Col....
26Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Woodward has the honor to transmit a small Philadelphia publication, which contains among other singular cases the case and speech of Eugene Aram ; and to present his respects.— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 12 Aug. 1814 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: The Criminal Recorder: or, An Awful Beacon to the Rising Generation of Both Sexes, Erected by the Arm of Justice to Persuade...