1To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 5 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed has just now been put into my hands. one reason, namely, the people of the district haveing no constitutional organ of communikation with the Executive has induced me to lay it before you The writer Mr Summers is an inteligent and sincere republican attached to the Administration. he is a man highly esteemed by your obedient Hble Servt DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of Application and...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 26 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Editor of the enclosed new Work called the Ohio & Missisipi Navigator has requested me to present it to you in his name— As I believe the little work will be useful & that the Western people are beholden to him for his industry I chearfully comply with his request and am very respectfully your very hble Servt DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
3To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 6 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed Petition has been inclosed to me with a letter from gentlemen of Respectability in the Illinois Country pressing me in the most earnest manner to use my influence for the promotion of its object— I consider it my duty to forward it to you without any farther remarks as I can say nothing new on the Subject I am very respectfully your Obedient Servt DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 26 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honour of waiting on you a day or two since on the subject of the Judge to be appointed in the new Western circuit I do not recolect your mentioning the name of Ninian Edwards amoung those you seemed to consider candidates. I feel it my duty to present his name to you that he may stand with the other Candidates for that office— He is a gentleman of a regular law education, he...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 22 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
You will pardon the anxiety of A friend who is solicitous not only for your reputation; but for the welfare of his neighbors in Louisiana when he says that if you leave the place of Governor of that Territory unsupplied until the riseing of Congress, your enemies will say that you mean to keep the emoluments of that Office for General Wilkinson and the place open for him to go there to commit...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 3 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Last Evening I received a letter from the Honble Ninian Edwards Cheif Justice of Kentucky requesting me to use my influence with the President of the US in behalf of Mr Talbot of Frankfort whom he had recomended in a letter to the President for the office of Attorney of the US for the District of Kentucky Mr Talbot I am not personally acquainted with but presume from the Solicitude with which...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 22 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The interest I feel in every thing which concerns your Charracter will I hope serve as an Apology for my presenting to your view a paragraph in the inclosed circular Letter against which I have drew my pen, I hope I shall be pardoned when I say that the Sentiment there expressed is more or less in the mouths of your best friends—I have been a friend to General Wilkinson for near 30 years I...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 3 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Both the last times I had the pleasure of speaking with you on the Subject of appointments in Vermont it sliped my mind to Mention the US Attorney in that District, the present Attorney is Charles Marsh a Violent Federalist. I have no particular cause of complaint against him, but several friends have wrote me wishing him to be displaced. we have but two Respectable Republican Lawyers in the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 9 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I was about to call on you last tuesday & wished to have done so every day since but could not absent my self from the house on account of the question for removing the Seat of Government. My object in calling was merely to acquaint You that my letters from the Westward express a great anxiety least the Savages be let loose upon the people Unawares & before they are alarmed & prepared. I meant...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 30 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately seen an account of the Death of Thos T Davis in a newspaper—previous to that Gentlemans appointment to the office of Judge in the Indiana Territory I wrote you from Kentucky recomending Judge Witherill of Vermont for that Office and I understood that recomendation was seconded by the Vermont deligation— General Bradley Judges Smith, Olin, & my self have since taken the liberty to...