11To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President Govr Clinton’s letter. also to send him a statement of mister Genet’s conversation with him in which he mentioned Gouvernr Morris. this paper Th: J. prepared several days ago, but it got mislaid which prevented it’s being sent to the President. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence...
12To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses a letter from the Governor of Pensylvania in answer to one from mister Genet praying him to deliver the French sailors (whom he calls deserters ) on board a vessel to be transported to New York, there to be put on board a man of war. The Convention having directed the proceeding to be observed in this case, and the laws having directed...
13To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President translations of papers received from Mr Jaudenes. he submits whether it will not be proper to communicate them to Congress, as being nearly similar to those which closed the great communication on Spanish affairs. if the President thinks they should be sent in, Th: J. will have copies prepared. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL...
14To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President’s approbation the draught of letters to mister Genet and the Attorney Genl on the subject of the prosecution desired by the former to be instituted against Messrs Jay & King. He also incloses the form of a warrant for D=2544.37 for the Director of the Mint for the purchase of copper. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress...
15To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the letter of mister Rumaine praying to be relieved from duties on the wrecks of fortune with which he escaped from St Domingo. Th: J. has put the letter of the same person to himself, with those of mister Genet into the hands of mister Murray, to make them the foundation of a bill of relief. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB ,...
16To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that the Spanish papers are now all ready. he sends him a set for his examination & will send two others Monday morning. he also sends the draught of the message he would propose, with the blank filled up which had been left in it whenever the President is satisfied about it, either with or without amendments, Th: J. will have copies made...
17Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Report on Morocco and Algiers, 14 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State having duly examined into the Papers and documents of his Office relative to the negotiations proposed to be undertaken with the Governments of Morocco and Algiers, makes thereupon to the President of the United States, the following Report. The Reports which he made on the 28th of Decemr 1790, on the trade of the United States in the Mediterranean to the House of...
18To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to send him the letters & orders referred to in Mr Morris’s letter, except that of the 8th of April, which must be a mistake for some other date, as the records of the office perfectly establish that no letters were written to him in the months of March & April but those of Mar. 12. & 15. & Apr. 20. & 26. now inclosed. the enigma...
19To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & incloses him some letters just received. Mr Pinkney’s & mister Morris’s information relative to the doing & undoing the decrees of the National assembly, in the case of the ship Lawrence and some other expressions in mister Morris’s letter seem to render it proper to lower the expression in the message purporting the just & ready redress...
20To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters brought by the Rider yesterday afternoon, & which he found on his return home in the night. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. According to GW’s journal, these enclosures were letters “From Thos. Pinckney Esqr. of the 25 Sept. 93,”...
21To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President returns the inclosed. he will mention M. de la Fayette to mister Pinckney in a letter he is now about to write, to go by the William Penn on Thursday. The other paper was inserted in Brown’s paper of Friday, probably by the governor. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His...
22VII, 22 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Notes Text cases where individuals (as Henfield &c.) organize themselves into military bodies within the U.S. or participate in acts of hostility by sea, where jurisdiction attaches to the person . What is the present legal mode of restraint? binding to the good behavior? military restraint? or what? or can the act only be punished after it is committed? The Constitution having...
23To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose for his information the following letters written in consequence of the two last consultations preceding his departure. there being quadruplicates of most of them, the trouble of looking over them will be proportionably diminished to the President. Nov. 8. four letters to the foreign ministers on the extent of our...
24To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Smith supposes the bill he incloses must be laid before Congress. on a former suggestion of the same kind Th: J. being able to find nothing which rendered it necessary, consulted the Attorney General, who was of opinion it was not necessary, but promised make more diligent enquiry. the result will now be asked of him by Th: J. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59,...
25To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State having received from the Secretary of the territory South of the Ohio a report of the Proceedings of the Governor of that territory from Mar. 1. to Sep. 1. 1793. has examined the same and Reports to the President That he finds nothing therein which will require his immediate agency. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; ALS (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers;...
26To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose several letters for the perusal of the President. when he wrote to the Governor of Kentuckey, on a former intimation from the Spanish representatives, there was no probability that the intervention of military force would be requisite, and as far as illegal enterprizes could be prevented by the peaceable process of law, his writing was proper. it is...
27To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends for his perusal some of the letters which had been accumulating at his office, & which he received yesterday. he will wait on the President to-day to translate the Spanish papers sent by mister Short, as also with some other letters in foreign languages. Th: J. sends to the President a supply he received yesterday of paper, of which the...
28To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I was the day before yesterday honored with your favor of the 7th inst. by post and yesterday I received that of the 11th by express from Colo. Carrington. I will take care to be at Germantown by the 1st of the month. as the ploughing thro the roads of the month of January would be disagreeable with my own horses, I shall send them back from Fredericksburg, for which place I will set out...
29To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of answering, by the return of post, your favor of Sep. 27. recieved this day, inclosing the letter & memorial of messieurs King, Pratt & others, owners of the ship Andrew, & her cargo, desiring the interposition of the Executive on account of the cargo of rice taken by a decree of the general council of L’orient, & of the freight & detention of the vessel. the memorialists...
30To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I received from mister Gore by yesterday’s post the evidence on the aggression committed by mister Duplaine Vice Consul of France at Boston, and it appears fully to establish the fact against him. I have therefore prepared & countersigned a Revocation of his Exequatur, with letters on the subject to him, to mister Genet, & mister Morris; as also instructions to mister Bankson in what way to...
31To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose him a commission from the French Executive council to mister Dannery to be Consul for them at Boston, also an Exequatur, countersigned by himself, which will want the Presidents signature, & then the seal of the U.S. with these is a letter to mister Genet, & a cover to mister Bankson directing him what to do. should the...
32To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter he has received from Mr Bournonville, & his answer. he is in hopes mister Dandridge will be able to translate the letter to the President, & if he approves of the answer he will be pleased to stick a wafer in it, as well as in the cover to mister Bankson. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC :...
33To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose herewith the following papers. 1. a Note from mister Coxe which covered a letter from Nassau. 2. a letter from George Nicholas which covered his commission, returned. 3. a letter from mister Gore, relating to mister Duplaine, & the communications between him & Govr Hancock, which I asked at the desire of the Secretary at war, & which are for him. 4. a letter from...
34Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 22 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Heads of answer to the Caroline resolutions. Taking them up in their order, they appear susceptible of answer in the following way. The 1st & 2d by a concurrence of sentiment for the maintenance of the constitution, & preservation of peace, & the pleasure with which the President recieves their assurances of support in these objects. 3. Notice of the expressions of their personal respect. 4....
35To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15–16 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your two favors from Chester and Elkton, and have now the honour to inclose you an address from the town & vicinity of Petersburg, which in a letter from mister Peachey I was desired to deliver you. I also inclose you a letter from mister Genet on the subject of Galbaud, and his conspiracies, with my answer sent to him. my hurry of business has prevented my translating the...
36To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose him draughts of letters to mister Genet & mister Hammond, as agreed on Saturday. if Genl Knox & the Attorney Genl should wait on the President to-day, it would be well they should see them. Th: J. will have that honour before he leaves town. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s...
37To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Jefferson, 6 Sept. 1793. GW wrote Jefferson on 7 Sept. : “I have received your letter of yesterday’s date.”
38To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2–4 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President his letter of Aug. 7. to mister Hammond, which was confined to the special cases of three vessels therein named. the object of mister Hammond’s letter of Aug. 30. is to obtain from the government a declaration that the principle of those special cases shall be extended to all captures made within our waters or by the proscribed vessels,...
39Cabinet Opinions on the Roland and Relations with Great Britain, France, and the Creek Indians, 31 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the Heads of departments & Attorney General at the President’s on the 31st day of Aug. 1793. A letter from mister Gore to mister Lear, dated Boston Aug. 24. was read, stating that the Roland, a privateer fitted out at Boston & furnished with a commission under the government of France, had sent a prize into that port, which being arrested by the Marshal of the district by...
40To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter received from Mr Maury, Consul at Liverpool, inclosing a copy of the order of the British government for intercepting our commerce in Grain. we shall doubtless receive it authentically & soon from mister Pinckney. in the mean time mister Maury’s information seems sufficient foundation to instruct mister Pinckney provisionally to...