51John Taggart to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15th Ulto I rec d and acording to Your Instructions have Shiped the Oil and Lead on bord the Schooner Jane Benoni Jackson Master bound for Richmond to the Care of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of that place She is Expected to Sale on the 17th Inst. You will find a bill Enclosed I wish the artickles may be pleasing to you— RC
52Thomas Jefferson to Étienne Lemaire, 16 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
When I parted with you at Washington , it was my intention to have expressed to you all the sentiments of obligation I have felt myself under to you. but my heart was so full that I could utter but the single word Adieu. indeed the enlivening idea of rejoining my family and of being once more master of my own time & actions, was lost in the moment of separation from those who had lived so long...
53James W. Wallace to Thomas Jefferson, [received 16 March 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
I send to M r Jefferson the following Articles Viz Jeffersonia Antivenena (the Roots) in a large wafer Box Sun Brier in a Box Balsam Copaiba Tree in a Box (copaiba Brasiliensis) one Beet & one Carrot for Seed in the half Barrel. the Beet weighed 15¾ lbs in Oct. 12¼ lbs in Decr. March 10th 9.¾ lbs an astonishing loss 2 wild Geese—tis feared they are of one sex The Summer Ducks a wicked boy...
54James Hochie to Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In obeidiance to a resolve, of the Antient Plymouth Society , of this City, passed on the 16 h Ins t , I have the honor to inclose herewith, to your Excellency, their Vote of Thanks : Expressing the sentiments of the Society, towards your Person and Character. It will not perhaps be displeasing to your Excellency, to learn, that altho, our Society Constitutes but a small part of the community,...
55Enclosure: Resolutions of the Antient Plymouth Society, 16 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Members, of the “Antient Plymouth Society . (Instituted in the Seventeenth Century; in commemoration of the first landing of our Fore Fathers, in New England , and preserved, thro succeeding generations to the present day:) in the City of NewLondon, State of Connecticut , on the 16 th March 1809 , at Otis’s Hall ; previous notice being given to all the Members; James Hochie...
56Étienne Lemaire to Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Biens des pardon de la liberty que Je prend d’avoir l’honneur de vous adreser la presente, elle est pour minformer de votre sentez, Sachant que vous avés Éprouvé Un mauvais voÿage aûcassionné, par la neige et la plui, Je Crain qu’il ne vous soy ariver quélque accident, oû Biens soufair, de Même que vous n’avié a votre suite que shorter , qu’il n’auroit peû êttre pas sufit a vous rendre les...
57Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 17 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
On opening my letters from France in the moment of my departure from Washington , I found from their signatures that they were all from literary characters except one from mr Short , which mentioned in the outset that it was private, & that his public communications were in the letter to the Secretary of State , which I sent you. I find however on reading his letter to me (which I did not do...
58Republicans of Queen Annes County, Maryland, to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the numerous farewell Addresses presented to you by the Inhabitants of this great and flourishing Country, permit us, a part of the Republicans of Queen Ann’s County convened for the purpose at the Town of Centre Ville , to add ours— We are sure none can feel more Gratitude for your great Services and none can more appreciate the inestimable Blessings flowing from that Independence, in...
59Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church, Sendeth Greeting to our much esteemed friend, M r Thomas Jefferson . We Congratulate you in your Return home, from your labour and painful Servis of eight years. now to take some Sweet hours of retirment and rest.—Injoying at pleasure the Company of your loveing Friends, and neighbours. not that We were werey, or Dissattisfied with your Conduct, but were...
60Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is the bill of leading for your goods which left this place a few days ago, M r Colels Coles wrote you of the accident which happned to the vessel, on which they were first ship d — I re-shiped them on board the dolphin of york . Capt n John Mager —Master— a dove colour silk in the form of a bed, I think filled with down—was got in your bed room—after you left the
61James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By M r Dinsmore I take the liberty of rendering you, your account . You will see from the memorandum annexed thereto the agreement between M r Dinsmore & myself & afterwards Acceded to by M r Bacon — I should not at this time made Application but have been so much disappointed lately by M
62James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I feel reluctance in trespassing for a moment on the repose to which you have just retired, I can not well avoid enclosing a letter from M r La Trobe which he wishes may be seen by you before it be decided on, because he thinks you have already acquiesc’d in the reasonableness of of its object: and which I wish you to see, because I am so raw on the whole subject, as to need any...
63John Wyche to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your retirement from the presidency of the United States affords (I hope) a favourable oppertunity for me (although an entire stranger) to address you on a Subject which (from your known Patriotism—& Opinion that to be happy & free we must be Informed) I am assured will be pleasing to you: And without farther preface I will proceed to state to you that some fifteen or eighteen Months ago the...
64Ann Craig to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be surprisd, I doubt not, on receiving a Letter from a very old acquaintance, Ann Craig, formerly of Williamsburg , who takes the liberty of addressing you. When you studied law in Williamsburg , you did me the honor to lodge in my house: I was then in easy Circumstances; but from the fire in Richmond , the death of my Brother Doctor Pasture , and other misfortunes, this is far from...
65James Ronaldson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing coppy of a bill now before the Legistlature of Penn y , that may be considered as passed, wanting only the concurrence of the H R to some amendments made by the Senate I think it will confer honor on the Legistlature and produce incalculable benefit to the state; It is gratifying to observe the good sense and sound policy embraced in this bill, and if we may...
66Anonymous to Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel a reluctance in addressing myself to you, which the knowledge of your character will always inspire. For to occupy one moment of your time so well employed in noble pursuits, will I fear be too great an intrusion. But when I behold you in the character of the Father and Protector of youth, I am inspired with a confidence which at once overcomes every obstacle. As an individual you are...
67Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It was my intention in this to have given you the particulars of expenditures for & to M r Randolph at my settlement with him on his departure, but I have a variety of bussiness that engrosses my whole attention at this moment, in my next I will do it. I write now only to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 10 th Instant inclosing one hundred & fifty Dollars for the use of M r...
68Étienne Lemaire to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Recevez mes tres humble remercis mens pour la Letre tres flatteuse que vous m’avez fait lhonneur de mecrire, vous plaire pendent tout le tens que j’ai Été a votre service, a tous Gours été un de mes premiers soins, et il mest biens agréable, apres l’avoir quitté, d’apprendre que j’ai eu le bonheur de reusir. Ce seroit ingratitude de ma part de ne pas dire aussi que vous avez su Monsieur,...
69Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the accompanying tract from D r Fothergill of Philad a w ch I have the pleasure of transmitting to you in compliance with his desire. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq.”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Mar. 1809 and so recorded in
70Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In the number of gratulations on your return to private life I present mine with assurences that no one, is more sincerely gratified at the honorable termination of your Political career than I am, or derives greater happiness from the additional lustre reflected on your character, which has even impressd your enemies with sentiments of respect and admiration May Heaven spare you long to your...
71William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, [23 March 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee appointed by a meeting of your County men to express to you their feelings & sentiments on your late return, inclose you a copy of an address which they are instructed to present—Those gentlemen who live at a distance & are now in Town , wish to be inform’d at what Time & place it will be most agreeable to you to receive them— By order of the committee W D. Meriwether Chrm n RC (...
72Samuel DeButts to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great diffidence that I give you at this time the trouble of a letter. Yet I have a lively hope from your general character that you will overlook my presumption when you are acquainted that with every plea of honesty on my side I approach you to ask your influence to obtain justice for me from M r Sam l Carr . You will now recollect Sir my former application . Having purchased &...
73Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved yours of the 19 th just in time by the return of this day’s post, to inform you that the dove coloured silk, with down in it, is mine. it is an Eider-down coverlet which I bought in Philadelphia in 1793. when I lived there. as it can be rolled into a compass not bigger than a man’s leg, I would wish it to be packed in as small a box as it can be got into, & forwarded by the...
74Thomas Jefferson to Henry Foxall, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The cook which I had in Washington ( mr Julien ) and who is now with me for a time, informs me you made for the President ’s kitchen some irons of casting for the stoves or stew-holes in the kitchen, in which the box-part & the grilles grille or bars were all solid together, and that you made them of three sizes. I must ask the favor of you to make 8. for me, to wit, 2. of the largest size & 3...
75Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My packages from Washington must be now near arriving with you, and I will pray you to forward them by such boats as are deemed trusty. there will also be from mr Taggert of Philadelphia a cask of linseed oil & keg of white lead. I inclose you a bill of lading of for a box belonging to one of my workmen, mr Nelson , which he had addressed to me, to the care of your firm, which as you will see...
76Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you several letters which must have been intended for the office, & not the person named on the back. they belong therefore to your files, and I will pray you particularly as to those asking office on this & all other occasions to consider me merely as the channel of conveyance, & not as meaning to add an atom of weight to the sollicitations they convey. unless indeed I know any...
77Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended to have answered your kind letter by mr Stevenson yesterday evening but he left us without my knowing it. perhaps he considered as an answer, my saying to him that I presumed it would be most convenient for the gentlemen of the committee to meet on our next court day at Charlottesville , where I will attend them. I take the liberty therefore of proposing this to them, as other...
78New York State Legislature to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The legislature of the state of New York , on the occasion of your voluntary retirement to the shades of private life, from the office of chief magistrate of the United States , cannot, without injustice to their feelings refrain from expressing their respect for your exalted character, their gratitude for your public services, and their best wishes for your personal happiness. Like your great...
79Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great thankfulness your kind congratulations on my liberation from the duties & anxieties of my late situation. five & twenty years of affectionate acquaintance (perhaps it is uncivil to recall such a period to a single lady) leave me without a doubt of their sincerity. of the ground of congratulation nobody can be a more feeling judge than myself. I my present freedom of...
80Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 25 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter by post yesterday desired you to send my goods from Washington by trusty boatmen. I did not then know that mr r R andolph ’s boats would go off to-day. as they are entirely trusty, I pray you to deliver to them whatever you may have for me. the molasses particularly will come safe by them. we are entirely unable to get cotton seed in this part of the country. mr Bacon at my request...
81James Maury to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to congratulate you on your return to Monticello & hope you there enjoy that comfort in retirement which you had contemplated. I think the laws of the United States exempt from the expence of postage those who have served the high office you so lately filled: I therefore sent you a few days ago a packet of Newspapers: since the date of which the Duke of York has resigned . Annexed...
82John MacGowty to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of Writing to you as a sea faring man who has been to sea for 22 years and have had the Honour of Sailing Master of vessls with the Sea Letters, with your signature to them, Sir I have been about the world considrably and have red some, but I do not recoollect to have ever read or seen the instance of a man’s having Honour and riches enough, as it Seams Sir you have...
83Cunningham Harris to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
From a conviction that the cultivation of the Benni would prove a useful acquisition to both the medical and agricultural departments, and uncertain where to procure even a partial supply of the seed, I have taken the liberty to request that you will have the goodness to forward me by an early post such a supply as may not be deemed an unwarrantable requisition on that department. I have...
84George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made diligent search after M r Nelson ’s box, but cannot find it.— Cap t Hand I understand belongs to Philadelphia , or to Alexandria ,—he is however frequently here: I will make a point of ascertaining what he has done with the box, on his return to this place.—I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello in the course of the spring or summer. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text:...
85James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ the letter from M r Brown was probably intended for you, I could not hesitate in carrying it into effect; and finding that the Bill on the Navy Dep t will be paid, I inclose, in order to avoid the delay of a week, the sum drawn for in Bank notes. I send them to you rather than directly to M rs T. first because I do not know what the direct address ought to be, & 2 dly because it is...
86Thomas Jefferson to the Republicans of Essex County, Massachusetts, 28 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The reciept of your kind address in the last moments of the session of Congress , will, I trust offer a just apology for this late acknolegement of it. I am very sensible of the indulgence with which you are so good as to review the measures of my late administration: and I feel for that indulgence the sentiments of gratitude it so justly calls for. the stand which has been made on behalf of...
87James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yours of the 24 . The enquiry as to Franzoni will be made as soon as an opp y offers. F. Page had been app d before your letter was rec d , & his Comission forwarded. We have letters from Erving to Jan y
88Larkin Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot suppress the gratification which I feel, in expressing to you my sentiments of exalted respect, and veneration, for your eminent public services and private virtues. and altho’ the latter part of your Administration, was attended with circumstances, that must have been wounding to your feelings, and which I consider as eminating directly from a widely extended British influence, in...
89Thomas Jefferson to the Convention of Bristol County, Rhode Island, 29 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The reciept of your friendly address in the last moments of the session of Congress , will, I trust, offer a just apology for it’s late acknolegement. We have certainly cause to rejoice that since the waves of affliction & peril, raised from the storm of war by the rival belligerents of Europe , have undulated on our shores, the councils of the nation have been able to preserve it from the...
90Thomas Jefferson to the Republican Mechanics of Leesburg, Virginia, 29 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The reciept of your kind address , in the last moments of the session of Congress , will, I trust, offer a just apology for it’s late acknolegement. Your friendly salutations on the close of my public life, and approbation of the motives which dictated my retirement are recieved with great satisfaction. That there should be a contrariety of opinions respecting the public Agents & their...
91Thomas Jefferson to William McCandless, 29 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the evening of the 1 st of March the resolutions inclosed in your letter of Feb. 20. for the purpose of being laid before both houses of Congress . usage & perhaps sound principle not permitting the President to place himself between the representatives & their constituents, who have a right to address their legislature directly, I delivered, the next day a copy of your...
92James McKinney to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
For a number of years past I have wish d to be in your employ, (provided it would be under your immediate direction) in Any capacity that I would be found usefull, that wish is now encreas d Since you have declined all publick business—I am a Native of Pennsylvania ( Lancaster County ) & have been regularly bred to farming & Manufactering of flour on an extencive Scale—I removed with my family...
93Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 19 th came to hand by the last post; but that allows us so little time that I could not answer by it’s return. I had not before heard of mr Latrobe’s claim of Lenthall’s salary in addition to his own. that some of Lenthall’s duties must have fallen on him I have no doubt; but that he could have performed them all in addition to his own so as to entitle himself to his whole salary,...
94Thomas Jefferson to the Citizens of Allegany County, Maryland, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The sentiments of attachment, respect & esteem expressed in your address of the 20 th Ult. have been read with pleasure, and would sooner have recieved my thanks, but for the mass of business engrossing the last moments of a session of Congress . I am gratified by your approbation of our efforts for the public general good, and our endeavors to promote the best interests of our country, & to...
95Jonathan Law to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor, as secretary of a general meeting of the Republicans of Connecticut , holden in this City, on the 2 d day of March Inst. , to enclose to you some resolves passed at said meeting, ordered to be transmitted to the then president of the U. States . The duty of forwarding the Resolves, having by the meeting been omitted to be assigned to any particular individual, I have...
96Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letter of yesterday I have recieved yours of the 27 th & 28 th and in the former the 500.D. for mrs Trist . the bronze time piece mentioned will run a fortnight, but I found it better to wind it up once a week, as during the 2 d week the greater expansion of the spring occasioned her to lose time. with respect to newspapers , none can now come to Washington for me. of those which,...
97Thomas Jefferson to John Taggart, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by our last post your favor of the 15 th informing me you had sent on the oil & paint requested, and stating the amount 72.D. I accordingly now inclose you US. bank bills for 70.D. and for want of smaller, I have desired my grandson Th:J. Randolph to call on you and pay the additional 2.D. on his arrival in Philadelphia , and I pray you to accept my thanks with my respectful...
98John Breck Treat to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Having the preceeding three and half years resided at this place, during which time I have taken the observations contained in the following pages, if, from their perusal, you can derive, either, information or amusement, respecting the Climate of this part of our Country, your acceptance will be highly gratifying to RC ( PPAmP ); dateline at foot of text; above salutation: “To Thomas...
99Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note made me very happy as I began to entertain doubts of the safety of the letter in question I will take it as a favor when you write to the President to tell him I am not insensible to his very polite attention and return him many thanks any time when convenient to you will answer my purposes either sunday or any later day I am with Sincerity your ever obliged and affectionate friend...
100Thomas Jefferson to the Republicans of Washington County, Maryland, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The affectionate sentiments you express on my retirement from the high office conferred on me by my country, are gratefully recieved, & acknoleged with thankfulness. your approbation of the various measures which have been pursued, cannot but be highly consolatory to myself, & encouraging to future functionaries, who will see that their honest endeavors for the public good will recieve due...