1To Thomas Jefferson from Abishai Thomas, 13 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Ab Thomas has the honor & the satisfaction to inform the President that Letters are received from Capt. McNeill & the Navy Agent at New York , announcing that the Frigate Boston was got off the ledge of Rocks on which she had struck, at 10 OClock P.M. on the 9th inst.—previous to which all the water had been started and all the Guns, shot, provisions, anchors & heavy stores taken out of...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Abishai Thomas, 3 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the instruction of the President A Thomas had the honor to Submit the enclosed *Statement to the Secretary of State, who approved of the information it contains being communicated to Mr. Pichon. [ In TJ’s hand :] *of French prizes carried into Mass. New Hamp. Connecticut & Rhode island. RC ( DLC ); with TJ’s note written in margin; address on verso partially torn away:...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Abishai Thomas, 15 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
John Thompson Mason Esquire having applied for an official copy of the instructions to the commanders of armed Vessels in the Service of the United States of the 10th July 1798, as being necessary to be exhibited as testimony in a trial now pending in the Supreme Court in relation to the French Schooner Peggy I have the honor to transmit the copy herewith, and in the absence of the Secretary...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Abishai Thomas, 6 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
For the information of the President A. Thomas, in the absence of the Secretary of the Navy, has the honor to enclose to him a Letter receiv’d this morning from Com. Truxton , containing the pleasing intelligence that the Beef & Pork ordered for the Chesapeake about the safety of which some apprehensions were entertained has safely arrived. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; addressed: “President...