1IV. William Tatham to William Armistead Burwell, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request, I have endeavoured to charge my recollection more minutely, concerning the particulars of my intercourse with Mr. Jefferson (at present the President of the United States) at several times while the British Army were in Virginia, in and about the year 1781. At the time General Arnold arrived within the Capes, I was preparing for a journey from Richmond, on...
2V. Deposition of Christopher Hudson respecting Tarleton’s Raid in June 1781, 26 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In the Month of June 1781, near Milton on my way to Join the Marquis La Fayette’s Army I met with a Mr. Long, who informed Me that Duvit [Jouett] had arrived the preceeding evening at Charlottesville, and brought information of the approach of the English to that place under Tarleton. Upon inquiring from Long whether Mr. Jefferson had receiv’d information he was ignorant; I immediately...
3I. First Draft, [before 4 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Called by the voice of our country to undertake the duties of it’s first executive magistrate I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look towards me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious...
4II. Revised Draft, [before 4 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Called upon to undertake the duties of the first Executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled, to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look towards me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, & that I approach it with those anxious & awful...
5III. First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Called upon to undertake the duties of the first Executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look towards me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Of all your old Friends, none can more sincerely rejoice than I, on your elevation to preside in the Councils of the American People. Not so much from personal feelings, or a local attachment; but from a confidence, that you will restore the administration of their government, to the original principles of the Revolution: to the dignity of the Rights of Man. Minute Philosophers, and...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Claxton, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have thought it my duty to inform you, that at four oClock this morning the late president left this house, which, by order of the Secretary of the Treasury , I took possession of immediately— I have the honor to be with the most sincere Respect & esteem, Your most obt. Hble. Svt. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 4 Mch. and so recorded in SJL . Thomas Claxton (d. 1821), the doorkeeper...
8To Thomas Jefferson from the District of Columbia Commissioners, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Writing sufficiently explains it’s object, and we presume, the utility of the Measure proposed, must be apparent, especially to those who have seen the number of wooden Houses lately erected by the Description of people whose accommodation is more immediately contemplated. We however, respectfully submit the Subject to Your Consideration; and if the Measure be approved, we request...
9Enclosure: Suspension of Certain Building Regulations, 11 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States Whereas by the first Article of the Terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the 17th. day of October 1791, for regulating the Materials and manner of Buildings and Improvements on the Lots in the City of Washington it is provided, “that the outer and party Walls of all Houses in the said City, shall be built of Brick or Stone...
10To Thomas Jefferson from William Falkener, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
As Secretary to the Committee, appointed by the Inhabitants of Warren County, to prepare an Address to the President of the United States , I have the Honour to forward the enclosed— Accept my Sincere Wishes for your personal Happiness and beleive me to be With great Respect Your mot. obt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 16 Mch. and so recorded in SJL . William Falkener (d. 1819)...
11Enclosure: From Warren County Inhabitants, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Inhabitants of Warren County in the State of North Carolina duly impressed with the awful Check the Will of the People of the United States met with by the House of Representatives, do now feel themselves in the highest of Exultation from the public Will being at last explicitly expressed; we do in the utmost Joyfulness of our Hearts congratulate you Sir on your Election to the cheif...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Fayetteville Republican Citizens, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You have long been ranked among the number of distinguished Patriots, whose transcendent virtues claim the Plaudits of United America. In chusing you to fill the arduous office of First Magistrate of the Union, the Nations of the Earth shall behold another signal Instance evincing decided Worth alone, deserves the Suffrages of Freemen! Whatever diversity of opinion may have recently prevailed,...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Cyrus Griffin, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to offer the most sincere congratulations upon your election to the Office of President. We anticipate with heartfelt pleasure that your wise Administration will reconcile the contending Parties of our common Country. From early and long attachment, & with the most perfect respect and esteem, I have the honour to be, dear Sir, your faithful & obedient Servant and friend, RC ( DLC );...
14From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to call on mr Callender & to inform him that I have recieved his letter; that his fine will be remitted, but that as it requires the presence of the head of the department, it cannot be done till his arrival, which will be in a very few days. the moment he is here & qualified, it shall be dispatched. A cask of clover seed marked TMR. is gone to the address of...
15To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now about to address you on a subject which I am very apprehensive may be deemed obtrusive and impertinent; for it certainly does not become me to advise you what your conduct should be—as my acquaintance with you does not justify such a liberty, and much less am I justified, from ability to give counsel: but being by my Brother placed under the disagreeable necessity of forwarding the...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Legaux, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Le moment de La naissance des Arts, de La régénération de La Liberté en Amérique et de L’Encouragement que son Agriculture sollicite depuis Longtemps est Enfin arrivé aujourdhuy; je m’en félicite infiniment ainsi que Ces Contrées qui L’attendoient avec la derniere impatience. La Crainte de Blesser une des moindres qualités du phylosophe qui doit opérer ces heureux pronostics; sa modestie...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Mentges, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I trust that my Official conduct from the 20t. july 1790, when I was honored with the Appointment as Inspector of the troops in the service of the United States, has been such, as to merit approbation, and to prove in the best manner the sense entertained of the favors and attention towards me during the continuance of service to the present time— Permit me then Sir to solicit your Attention...
18To Thomas Jefferson from the New Jerusalem Church of Baltimore, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with singular pleasure and profound respect, that WE the Minister and Acting Committe of the New Jerusalem Church, in the City of Baltimore, beg leave to congratulate you, on your accession to the chief Magistracy of our beloved Country—A Country hitherto eminently favor’d by the Divine Providence with a peculiar degree of Civil and religious liberty. The present sanguinary & turbulent...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
When Congress first began to fortify the ports & Harbours of the United States in 1794, among others a fort was directed to be erected on Beacon Island near Ocracock bar, to defend that Inlet. An Engineer was sent forward, who laid off the fort and the works were commenced, & carried on untill November following. In 1795. From the neglect of the then Secretary of War (Genl. Knox) nothing was...
20To Thomas Jefferson from John Cleves Symmes, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Samuel Heighway esquire, and Mr. John Poole , both of the Miami purchase, have lately invented a Machine on the principle of steam, that I am inclined to believe will excel any thing of the kind that the world has yet been favored with. From several years acquaintance with Mr. Heighway, and prepossession in favor of his integrity and judgment, I am inclined to hope that the gentlemen are not...
21To Thomas Jefferson from James Warren, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having seldom been in the habit of Addressing Men in high Stations, and in no instance of flattering them, the feelings of my own heart, on an Occasion so Congenial to its sentiments, must be my Apology for troubling You with this Letter. I sincerely congratulate my Country on the happy result of their Change of Opinion, and I as sincerely congratulate You, on your Elevation to the first...
22To Thomas Jefferson from “Your Unknown Friend”, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit a natural born Citizen of the United States independent as to pecuniary concerns of expecting or wishing any post of profit under or in the gift of any department in the United States,—to sugest to you what in his opinion will contribute to your honour and the happiness of the people who you will preside over— N.B. Since writing the above I have had the pleasure of reading your Publick...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Muy Señor, mio, y de todo mi Respecto confiado, en la Rectitud de su Justicia me tomo la Livertad de Molestar por este Momento su Atension, en el Idioma Castellano por qe V.E lo entiende, y me es mas fasil produsirme, en el con la Claridad que desseo, y respecto qe devo en el Año de 93 fui mi Hijo Influxo de mis Amigos Nombrado Consul de Cadiz por este Govierno, y quando V.E Administró la...
24Circular Letter to Midnight Appointees, [after 4 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The late president, mr Adams, having not long before his retirement from office , made several appointments to civil offices holden during the will of the President, when so restricted in time as not to admit sufficient enquiry & consideration, the present President deems it proper that those appointments should be a subject of reconsideration & further enquiry. he considers it as of palpable...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson and William Cocke, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In order to exhibit a mere commensurate Veiw, of the ground, upon which we conceive a treaty with the Cherokee Indians Ought to be held—we beg leave to Submit the following Statement It is well known to you Sir, that at the time of forming the Old Confederation, the States respectively reserved to themselves—exclusive Jurisdiction and right of Domain, to all the lands, which lay within their...
26To 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...
27To Thomas Jefferson from William Findley, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
After the freedom I have used in writing to you under cover to Mr Gregg a few days Since, the present attempt might Justly require an apology. The confidence I have of your good nature and of your favourable opinion of my intentions, is however the only apollogy I shall make free to offer Since the State Legislature adjourned I have travailed through several of the most oppulent Counties of...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas King and Others, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the Magistrates to be appointed for this District, of Columbia, it would be pleasing to many of our fellow Citizens in Washington to see the name of Benjamin More .—A man whose industry, talent, and integrity, we are persuaded will enable him to discharge the duties of that station with honor to himself, and advantage to society. We are sir with respect Yours &ca. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe de Létombe, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The kindness and effect with which you have been so good as to exert yourself in procuring me a Maitre d’Hotel require and recieve my friendly thanks to you. I accede to the proposition to recieve the man you speak of and his wife at the annual wages of one hundred guineas. I should be glad to recieve him as soon as possible. his wife may come at her leisure, as I shall probably leave this...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
in pursuance of the act of Congress providing that in case of vacancy in the office of Secretary of state the President of the US. may authorize a person to perform the duties of the same, I am to ask the favor of you & hereby authorize you to perform the duties of the Secretary of state until a successor to the office shall be appointed. I have the honor to be Sir your most obedt. servt PrC (...
31Receipt from John Minchin, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
March 5th 1801 Bot. of John Minchin One pair of Shoes 3. One ditto Silk Strings .25 One ditto Bootees 6. $9. 25/166 Received payment infull MS ( MHi ); in Minchin’s hand and signed by him; at head of text: “His Excellency Thos. Jefferson, President of the United States”; with order in TJ’s hand at foot of text: “Mr. Barnes will be pleased to pay the above. Th: Jefferson.” John...
32To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to present to yr. acquaintance the bearer Mr. Voss of Culpepper county, a young man of merit, who has expressd a wish of being personally known to you. He is a lawyer by profession, of respectable standing at the bar, and a fair prospect of becoming eminent if he pursues his profession. He intends making a visit this spring to the south, and hearing that it is proposed to adjust the...
33Notes on New Jersey Patronage, [ca. 5 March–before June 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1:0665); undated; entirely in TJ’s hand, probably written at three sittings, as indicated by the horizontal rules, the first entries dating from early March; endorsed by TJ: “New Jersey Attorney Marshall.” Before he left Washington in early March, James Linn recommended George Maxwell as district attorney and Dr. Oliver Barnet as marshal for New Jersey. In April, Linn...
34To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, my dear Jefferson, yours of the 12th. Ultimo after its circuitous Rout through the Post Roads to Richmond, & thence by the Weekly Post-cross-Road to Gloucester Court House, where I suppose it arrived eight days later than it would have arrived had it not reached Richmond after the Gloucester weekly mail had been closed, or sent off. I mention these Circumstances as an Explanation...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recollect before I left Carolina I requested you by letter not to make any arrangements or take any step respecting that State until I had seen you as I had some opinions & information to communicate on that subject— On reflection since, I have been induced to suppose that this request on my part was an improper one, & that I ought not to presume so far as to wish to intrude on you my...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Providence Citizens, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit us in behalf of a number of respectable Citizens of this Town to offer to you our sincere congratulations on your elevation to the first magistracy of the United States— Persuaded as we are that a government entirely elective is alone consistent with the dignity of man—best calculated to promote his happiness & exclusively adapted to the genius—habits & situation of the People of the...
37From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The offices of Secretary of state, Secretary of war, Attorney general of the United States, and Minister plenipotentiary to the republic of France being vacant, I nominate the following persons to them James Madison junr. of Virginia, to be Secretary of State: Henry Dearborn of Massachusets to be Secretary of War: Levi Lincoln of Massachusets to be Attorney General of the United States: Robert...
38To Thomas Jefferson from John R. Smith, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It being more agreeable to the feelings of Mr. Caldwell , to whom the enclosed papers relate, to present them in person than through the usual official channels, I have at his request Sir, taken the liberty of introducing his name to you. The lapse of time & the consequent alterations produced by it in the person, would otherwise perhaps prevent your recollecting in him Sir the adopted son of...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Thornton, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The voluntary expression of those sentiments of just and enlarged policy, which you were pleased to make me the organ of conveying to His Majesty’s Government, encourages me to request a few moments’ audience, on another subject no less important to the two countries.— The Packet Boat, now lying at New York, will be dispatched in a few days to England; and the King’s Ministers will naturally...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been inform’d that Allen McLane Collector of the Port of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware intends resigning his office—I have been requested to mention Major Peter Jaquet of the County of New Castle—as a Candidate for that appointment—he Served as an Officer in the Delaware Regiment , through the whole Revolutionary War—Supported a fair Character, and has never appostatized from his...
41To 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...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Columbia, South Carolina, Citizens, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
We rejoice in common, with the rest of our republican fellow Citizens, that the Clouds which lately overshadowed our Country, are happily dispelled, and our political horison again exhibits a serene aspect, in consequence of your accession to the Presidential Chair—It is with difficulty that we can refrain from expressing our indignation, at the nefarious efforts, which have been made, to...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas T. Davis, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to assure you, that my not paying you a visit before I left this place, did not proceed from a want of due respect to you, or to the high office you fill.—taking upon yourself a trust of great weight—rendered more difficult by conflicting political opinions; I concluded your mind must be engaged on subjects highly interresting; from which it would be, wrong in any friend, to toll it...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Dayton and Aaron Ogden, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, informed of Mr. Stockton’s resignation of the office of the U. States Attorney for that district, have drawn up & unanimously signed the enclosed certificate in favor of Isaac H. Williamson Esq. with the hope that it might promote his nomination to fill the vacancy. Prior to it’s rect. the late President had nominated Mr....
45From Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
No pleasure can exceed that which I recieved from reading your letter of the 21st. ult. it was like the joy we expect in the mansions of the blessed, when recieved within the embraces of our fathers, we shall be welcomed with their blessing as having done our part not unworthily of them. the storm through which we have passed has been tremendous indeed. the tough sides of our Argosie have been...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By an act intituled “An Act to amend the act intituled “An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the territory north west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river,” passed 10th May 1800, it is provided, that the purchase money shall be paid in four equal payments, the first payable within 40 days & the three last within two, three & four years respectively...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd your favor of the 16th. ult. just as I was leaving New York for this place which has delayed till now my acknowledging the distinguished attention you have shewn me in procuring for me the honor of a place among the American philosophers. The moment you chose for doing has not a little encreased the obligation, since it was one in which the whole American world (except the man who...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Morris, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by the kind & prompt attention you have been so good as to pay to my letter of the 26th. your testimony and mrs Morris’s in favor of mr Tate would have been decisive with me, but in the interval between that date and my receipt of your answer a proposition came to me of a very capital Maitre d’Hotel, whose character was so well vouched that I thought it imprudent to let it...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of yesterday is just now put into my hands. it is so far from being improper to recieve the communications you had in contemplation as to arrangements in your state, that I have been in the constant expectation you would find time to do me the favor of calling & making them, when we could in conversation explain them better than by writing, and I should with frankness & thankfulness...
50To Thomas Jefferson from John W. Pratt, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Should the office of Marshall for the District of Columbia become Vacant I beg leave to tender to you my services and to Solicit from you the appointment. Unknown to You my Self I have Sought for the Recommendation of those Whose Characters have been Respected. I have the Honour to inclose you letters from Mr. Duvall one of our Supreme Judges Mr. Duckett one of the Judges of our County Court...