61To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you a draught of a letter to Governor Pinkney, & to observe that I suppose it to be proper that there should, on fit occasions, be a direct correspondence between the President of the U.S. and the Governors of the states; and that it will probably be grateful to them to recieve from the President answers to the letters they address to him. the correspondence with...
62To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have duly considered the letter you were pleased to refer to me, of the 18th of August from his Excellency Governor [Charles] Pinckney to yourself, together with the draught of one proposed to be written by him to the Governor of Florida claiming the redelivery of certain fugitives from justice who have been received in that Country. The inconveniencies of such a receptacle for debtors and...
63To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 10 Nov. 1791. Sends a copy of a report he has prepared for the Senate. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . On 3 Nov. the U.S. Senate requested the secretary of state to prepare a report on the petition presented by John Mangnall on 2 Nov. requesting a pension and compensation for losses during the Revolutionary War ( Annals of Congress Joseph Gales, Sr., comp....
64To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 10 Nov. 1791. After examining the enclosed papers relating to the land purchase of John Cleves Symmes on the Great Miami River, he thinks it proper to lay them before Congress, to demonstrate not only the foundation of Symmes’s larger claim but also the “expediency of providing some speedy and regular mode of deciding this and other questions of a like nature which might arise...
65To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States the Report of the proceedings in the Executive department of the North Western territory, for the month of July 1791, made by the Secretary of the said territory, thereupon Reports That the letter of July 12. 1791. therein entered, having been already communicated to the legislature of the United states,...
66To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 21 Nov. 1791. Encloses a copy of his report of this day to the House of Representatives on the petition of Jacob Isaacks, noting: “it is printed on the back of a Permit in order to shew that the proposition therein made is perfectly practicable.” ALS , NUtM ; ALS (letterpress copy), DLC : Thomas Jefferson Papers; LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 59, Domestic Letters.
67Thomas Jefferson to Tobias Lear, 22 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia, 22 Nov. 1791]. Sends a statement for 1,680 livres, the cost of champagne imported for GW this year, and, since there were insufficient funds deposited abroad to cover GW’s present order for thirty dozen bottles of champagne, requests a bill on Amsterdam for 800 florins. This, with the undervaluation of the previous shipment, will probably total more than 2,000 livres. AL , owned...
68To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and sends him a draught of letters to Majr L’Enfant & the Commissioners, prepared on a conference with mister Madison. perhaps the former may be too severe. it was observed however, that tho’ the president’s sentiments conveyed to him thro’ mister Lear, were serious, & ought to have produced an effect on him, he gave them the go-by in his...
69To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have given you the trouble of more reading on the subject of Major Lenfant’s letter, than you perhaps intended. I have done it from an apprehension that your mind might not be thoroughly satisfied whether he was not equally justifiable in the demolition of mister Carrol’s house, as in the demolition of trees & other obstacles, which he urges in his own justification. the truth is that...
70Memorandum of Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
The discussions which are opening between mister Hammond & our government, have as yet looked towards no objects but those which depend on the treaty of peace. there are however other matters to be arranged between the two governments, some of which do not rest on that treaty. the following is a statement of the whole of them. 1. The Western posts. 2. the Negroes carried away. 3. the debt of...