1To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
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2To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
...meant the ships would be coming home. Smith told Jefferson that he was holding a merchant vessel he had chartered to carry supplies to the Mediterranean while he awaited Jefferson’s decision about the 12 Oct. order and that Melimeni might return home in a small Navy Department brig that could be transferred to the State Department and then given to the Bey in lieu of the captured xebeque (
3To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
...discussed funding for the Cumberland Road; the location of roads from Vincennes, Indiana Territory; and his recent decision to authorize DeWitt Clinton to continue to support the three members of Soliman Melimeni’s staff still in New York, at government expense, for two weeks or until Jefferson’s decision on whether or not the government would pay their passage to Europe could be received...