1From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 18 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hill’s return to you offers so safe a conveyance for a letter that I feel myself irresistably disposed to write one, tho’ there is little to write about. you have been so long absent from this part of the world, and the state of society so changed in that time, that details respecting those who compose it are no longer interesting or intelligible to you. one source indeed of great change...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
At Mrs. Trist’s desire I forward to you about a dozen beans of three different kinds, having first taken toll of them as she had done before. They are of the scarlet flowering kinds. This is all I know of them. The most beautiful bean in the world is the Caracalla bean, which though in England a green house plant, will grow in the open air in Virginia and Carolina. I never could get one of...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 4 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowlege the receipt of your favors of Mar. 8. and June 9. and to give you many thanks for the trouble you have taken with the Dionaea muscipula. I have not yet heard any thing of them, which makes me fear they have perished by the way. I beleive the most effectual means of conveying them hither will be by the seed. I must add my thanks too for the vocabularies. This is an object I...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 16 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Trist who is here brought me her letter to inclose after I had [sent off my public ] one to the post office: […] I give it a special cover, which she thinks will render it safer than if committed to the post uncovered. she had neither sealed nor directed: but it [goes as I] […] [prying] into […] between […] & to lie. I forgot to say in my public letter that I shall be with the heads of...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 15 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, mr Chandler has contracted with the post-office for carrying the Orleans mail through your country. he has been personally known to me about a year or two, and is an active, enterprising, intelligent young man. I have great confidence in his fitness for effecting this purpose which we have so much at heart and are determined to go through with. he wishes to be placed under...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 4 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Isaac Briggs, Surveyor general of the territories of the US. South of Tennessee, now on his return to Natchez the place of his residence. being anxious to get the most direct road from Washington to N. Orleans, without crossing the mountains, mr Briggs has consented to go what we deem the most direct & practicable road to ascertain & plat all it’s remarkeable points...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 13 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 14. is come to hand and I am to thank you for your attention to my queries on the subject of the Indians. I have sent many copies to other correspondents, but as yet have heard nothing from them. I shall proceed however in my endeavors particularly with respect to their language and shall take care so to dispose of what I collect thereon as that it shall not be lost. The...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 22 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am going to put you on a wild goose chace to find out the person to whom the inclosed letter is addressed. He moved to N. Carolina in 1782. and is settled somewhere up towards the mountains and not a great way from the Virginia line. This is all which his family here can tell me of him. A son of his here claims under him 100. acres of land which are in my possession, but he has no deed for...
9[From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 28 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 28 Dec. 1783 . Entry in SJL reads: “Mr. Hawkins. Vocabulary—Buffon’s character of Indians.” Not found.]
10From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 14 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I had twice before attempted to open a correspondence by writing to you, but recieving no answer, I took for granted my letters did not reach you & consequently that no communication could be found. yesterday however your nephew put into my hands your favor of Jan. 23. and informs me that a letter sent by post by way of fort Wilkinson will be certain of getting safely to you. still I expect...