1To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 20 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 7th of Feby., with the enclosure from Mr. Fanning, was duly received. In the letter to Mr. Fanning, which I do myself the honour to enclose, I have given him all the information he will need for the security of his surveys. It must undoubtedly have occurred to you, Sir, that the present unexplained state of our southern and western boundary must have rendered it improper for...
2[To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 25 November 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
[ New York, 25 Nov. 1788 . Recorded in SJL as received 4 Feb. 1789. Not found, but the nature of its contents is revealed in TJ to Fanning, 10 Feb. 1789 and Fanning to TJ, 21 Feb. 1789.]
3To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin and Benjamin Taliaferro, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By the treaty between the United States and the Creek Indians at New York in the year 1790 the County of Tallisee, on the frontier of the State of Georgia, was ceded to the Creek Indians, as the only condition on which a treaty could be effected; this measure occasioned great uneasiness and alarm to the citizens of that State, both on account of the principle on which it was founded, and the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Since our conversation on the administration of the department of the Postmaster General, I have made it my business to trace to their causes, as far as was in my power, the complaints which, I find, are so industriously circulated against that officer. 1. I have no doubt there is an intrinsic difficulty in the discharge of the duties of that department, so as to give any good degree of...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 1 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
For these ten days I have been on a journey on our frontier, and am just informed that Mr Clay refuses to accept the appointment of Circuit Judge. I avail myself of a transient opportunity and a coarse piece of paper to execute my promise of giving you all the information in my power in such contingences. I know you are fully [under] the impression of the ill consequences of multiplying the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 13 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having determined that our negociations with the Chickasaws, Chocktaws, Cherokees & Creeks should be conducted by the same Commissioners, going a circuit for that purpose, & that Davie, Wilkinson & Hawkins should be the Commissioners, we were obliged to postpone the commencement on account of the necessary absence of Genl. Wilkinson in the Northwest. the instructions however and every thing...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 12 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been, for several weeks, in one of the western counties of this state near the mountains, where we are building a college . It is so seldom I have had opportunities to send to Augusta for my letters, that yours of the 13th ult has not reached me till this morning. My colleagues Jackson and Taliaferro are almost on the other opposite extremes of the state, it is now so late that I cannot...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 10 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a message from you the other day on the subject of Cathcart . he is the person who was appointed by mr Adams & confirmed by the Senate as Consul at Tripoli. he is personally known to me, & pretty well known. he is the honestest & ablest consul we have with the Barbary powers: a man of very sound judgment & fearless . he married the daughter of some respectable family in...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 7 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
It is most probable W Hobby is the author of the piece , he lives at that place and is supposed to write much for the Herald. In my former letter on that subject , I suggested there might be some foundation for such remarks, that I considered the question clearly confined to the three, of these, two had been reputed ancient whigs but modern tories, the other a uniform modern whig but not...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 29 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Mansfield informed me several weeks ago that he should avail himself of your obliging offer by forwarding to your address a box containing fifteen copies of his Mathematical work. The delay is so much longer than I expected, that there is reason to apprehend they will not reach us. I shall write him on the subject tomorrow RC ( MHi ); addressed: “The President of the United States”;...