1To Thomas Jefferson from William B. Giles, 13 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment honord with your very polite favor of this morning, inclosing sundry papers the purport of which I have attentively examined. I have made inquiries of some of my Friends of this town who were with me at the Receipt of your favor, respecting Mr. Mark’s situation in life and from their advice have reason to apprehend that Monsr. de Vernon may repent the confidence, he hath...
2To Thomas Jefferson from William B. Giles, 6 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A written request from you was some days since, presented to me as one of the delegation in Congress for the state of Virginia, to communicate to you such information respecting the present state of Debts due to British subjects in that state, as had come to my knowedge; in compliance with which request, I now furnish you with the following state of facts.—Previously to my election to...
3II. William Branch Giles’s Resolutions on the Secretary of the Treasury, [27 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved , That it is essential to the due administration of the government of the United States, that laws making specific appropriations of monies should be strictly observed by the administrator of the finances thereof. Resolved , That the violation of a law making appropriations of monies, is a violation of that article of the Constitution of the United States, which requires, that no...
4To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 7 December 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your very friendly and polite letter three days ago, but had not an opportunity till yesterday of makeing the inquiry, you request respecting your demand upon the late Mr. Banister’s estate. On yesterday I called on Mr. Shippen for that purpose, but was informed that he was too much indisposed to be seen on business. I intimated the thing however to Mrs. Shippen, who informed me...
5To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 4 January 179[5] (Jefferson Papers)
I Received your favors of the 17th Ultimo two days ago and thank you for their contents. I waited on Mr. Shippen last evening and mentioned your business to him. After remarking that he thought the estate of Mr. Banister’s father should in strictness pay the debt, as he was travelling under his father’s direction at the time it was contracted, Mr. Shippen promised to pay it himself, but not...
6To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 16 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
After the date of my last letter to you from Philadelphia, I inclosed to Mr. Shippen the statement of your demand against him as representative of Mr. Banister. I also submitted to his inspection your letter to me relatively to that subject, and informed him that I was authorised to receive the amount, and close the transaction. Mr. Shippen acknowledged himself the proper person to receive the...
7To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 13 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been several days in this place engaged in inquireing amongst the money changers, as to the present, and the probable future, prices of wheat and tobacco. The market for wheat seems not yet to be fixed. I think there are but few purchasers at this time in the market. They speak however of from eight to ten shillings Per Bushel, and it is supposed by some that two dollars may be had in...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 29 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived in this place last evening, and found the memorial contained in the inclosed paper in circulation here, although I heard nothing of it in Richmond where I have spent several of the last preceeding days. Upon inquiry I find it almost impossible to get any paper respecting the treaty into the press here without some pointed remarks upon its unconstitutional feature, which is considered...
9To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 9 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Having had no intelligence of importance to communicate, and presumeing upon your anxiety to see the President’s speech to the present Congress, I have delayed writeing until I could gratify you with its inclosure. It is accordingly contained in the accompanying Newspaper. You will observe that the speech wears a conciliatory and not a dictatorial complexion; and in this respect, has not, I...
10To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 15 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I take pleasure in forwarding you the accompanying newspaper , because whilst it announces the arrival of the treaty after the exchange of ratifications; it also contains the antidote to its execution. The speech of the Brittish King will I think silence the war-hoop which has resounded through the U.S. for some time past; and if the treaty can once be brought before the house of...