1To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 3 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 3 Mch. 1792 . He has been informed by the “Lieutenant au gouvernement général” and the intendant of Saint-Domingue that the situation on that island is critical because of a shortage of funds in the colony treasury and the uncertainty of receiving any financial aid from France.—In this extremity he feels obliged to apply to the U.S. government for “l’avance immédiate d’une somme...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 24 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Ternant’s compliments to Mr. Jefferson—sends the inclosed, which was amongst several letters brought by the King’s Store ship, Mozelle arrived yesterday in this port.—The ship was sent here to load supplies for the Cape. On the 4th. of march, there were only 1400 men arrived at that place out of the 6,300 troops officially announced to the Governor from france. Two ships of the line, four...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 13 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 13 June 1792. In sending the attached extract of a dispatch he has just received, he is happy to transmit on the King’s behalf the expression of sentiments he had anticipated and which he asks TJ to convey to the President. He also encloses a copy of one of the French laws of appurtenances, which he has been directed to communicate, and asks TJ to inform the President of it. PrC...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 23 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire hier avec les papiers qui l’accompagnoient, concernant un usage du Consul de France à Norfolk qui entrave l’exécution des loix fiscales des Etats-Unis. Nos loix prescrivent aux capitaines françois de faire leur rapport dès leur arrivée dans un port étranger chéz le Consul de leur Nation, et de lui représenter leur Congé ( Register...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 2 July 1792. In conformity with orders just received, he sends copies of the new clearance form for French merchant vessels. He requests TJ to show it to the President and to ask him to issue the necessary orders to American ports so that these vessels can receive clearance in accordance with the law and sail without impediment. Tr ( AMAE : CPEU, xxxvi ); 1 p.; in French; at head...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 2 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Conformément aux ordres de ma cour, j’ai l’honneur de vous informer, que sur la derniere reponse faite à Mr. de Noailles par la Cour de Vienne le 4 d’avril dernier, le Roi s’est rendu à l’Assemblée nationale où, après avoir fait exposer par son Ministre des affaires étrangéres, tous nos griefs contre la conduite de cette Cour, Sa Majesté a proposé au Corps législatif de délibérer sur le cas...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 8 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am once more disappointed which grieves me infinitely. Our last packet, just arrived, sailed from l’Orient on the 20th. of June, and yet, has not brought me a single ministerial dispatch, nor a private letter or a news-paper posterior to the 15th. of may which is the time when She ought to have put to sea. The official dispatch relative to my communication to you of the 2d. inst. reached me...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 7 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous addresser la copie d’une réquisition que vient de me faire parvenir la Commission nationale , chargée d’exercer l’autorité suprême de la Métropole à St. Domingue. Dans des circonstances assez interessantes au salut de la colonie pour avoir pû nécessiter une réquisition de cette nature, j’estime que, malgré le défaut d’instructions ministerielles ad hoc, et malgré les...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 8 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Deux objets qui intéressent le service de ma nation m’obligent de recourir encore au Gouvernement des Etats unis. Il sagit de pourvoir aux besoins pressans que la difficulté de placer des traites sur france fait éprouver depuis longtems à nos agens consulaires et de mettre celui d’entr’eux qui reside à Boston, en état de Solder un envoy de vivres qu’il a été ministeriellement autorisé de faire...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 15 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. ternant returns many thanks to Mr. Jefferson for the french papers now sent back—he incloses the letter received from Savanna, and begs Mr. Jefferson will return it with a duplicata of the letter of 9th. novr . to the district Judge of Georgia. The letter announced yesterday by Mr. Jefferson, on my colonial application, is not yet come to hand. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); at foot of text in...