271From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 2 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment recieved yours of January 16. and answer it by the first post. It is indeed an interesting letter to me as it gives me details which I am sure will contribute to your happiness, my first wish. Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for only filling up the chinks of more useful and healthy...
272To Thomas Jefferson from William Nelson, Jr., 4 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you by post on the 22d. of November, since which I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you. I then enclosed you attested copies of the resolutions and acts of Assembly, as well as those of proclamations and certain orders of council which affect the debts, or other property, or the persons of British subjects or American refugees. The day after the date of my letter, I sent...
273From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 24 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing you a letter for a Monsieur le Roy, of Bordeaux, on the subject of which I must enter into some details. It is from a Monsieur De Rieux, a nephew of M. le Roy’s who is my nearest neighbor in Virginia. Being totally without fortune, and married to a young lady , whom he had become acquainted with in France, but who had lived some time in Virginia, he determined...
274George Washington to William Deakins, Jr., and Benjamin Stoddert, 17 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favors of the 9th. and 11th instant and shall be glad if the purchase from Burnes should be concluded before you recieve this at £15 or £15–10 as you hope. But as you mention that should he ask as far as £20. or £25. you will await further instructions before you accept such an offer, I have thought it better, in order to prevent delay, to inform you that I would wish his...
275To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 18 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn that a change of wind which lasted a few hours only at length allowed three of the vessels which had my letters, to get out of the Texel some days ago. Others were less fortunate and still remain there. My several letters by the way of England will previously have explained the cause of this uncommon delay. I mentioned to you in my last that the committee of commerce had wished to...
276V. Joseph Anderson to the President, 2 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose your Excellency the Certificate of Colonel Barber, and beg your indulgence, for again, offering to trouble you by letter. But trust that your Excellencys benevolence, will suffer my very delicate and peculiar Situation, to plead my Appology. Your Excellency yesterday Observ’d to me, that Major Jackson inform’d you, that Mr. Jaquet, in his letter to Mr. Vining, Observ’d that he had...
277VI. Affidavit of the Secretary of State on the Result of the Experiments, 26 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress having referred to me the Petition of Jacob Isaccks praying a reward for a secret he possesses of converting Salt-water into fresh, I procured a Cask of sea-water to be taken up without the Capes of Delaware at flood-tide, and brought to Philadelphia, and asked the favour of Mr. Rittenhouse, President of the American Philosophical Society, of Dr. Caspar Wistar, Professor of Chemistry...
278From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 13 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A former letter to Mr. Andrew Donald having miscarried, perhaps from a wrong address, as I know not his residence, I take the liberty of putting the inclosed under cover to you and asking the favor of your care of it as it is of some importance.—My information from Marseilles is that wheat finds a good market there, and will do so till harvest. I am Dear Sir Your most obedt. servt, PrC ( MHi...
279X. Jacob Isaacks to the Secretary of State, 1 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to address You on the subject of taking the fresh water from the Sea Water, notwithstanding I met not with the encouragement by Some that attended at the time I made the tryall before you, tho’ they were pleased to tell me that my method was not New, still it was their Oppinion that I was entitled to have some gratuity allowed me even for renewing the same, but I can say...
280No. 1: An Historical View of the Cod-fisheries of France, England, and the United States (Jefferson Papers)
An Historical View of the Cod-fisheries of France, England, and the United States. France England United States Vessels Tonage Seamen Rentals Value Dollars Vessels Tonage Seamen Rentals Value Dollars Vessels Tonage Seamen Kentals Value Dollars 1577
281To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Montgomery, 13 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Alicante, 13 Mch. 1791 . Refers to his of 21 Aug. 1790 and encloses letter from Algiers received yesterday. All is quiet in this quarter. Situation of Turks becomes daily more critical, according to best accounts from Constantinople. A very large Turkish vessel bound from Algiers to Constantinople captured lately by Russian cruiser. She was loaded with military stores and very large sum of...
282III. The President to James Seagrove, 20 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The confidence, which your character inclines me to place in you, has induced me to commit the enclosed letter, from the Secretary of State to Governor Quesada, and the negotiation which will be consequent thereon to your care and management. The letter which is under a flying seal, to be closed before it is delivered, will inform you of the import, and serve to instruct you in the mode of...
283From Thomas Jefferson to Moustier, 2 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Favor of November 6th. wherein you inform me that the King has thought proper, by a new Mission to the Court of Berlin, to put an End to your Functions as his Minister Plenipotentiary with the United States. The President, in a Letter to the King, has expressed his Sense of your Merit, and his entire Approbation of your Conduct while here, and has charged me to convey to...
284From Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 4 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Unremitting business since the meeting of Congress has obliged me to a rigorous suspension of my correspondencies, and this is the first day I find myself at liberty to resume them, and to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of Dec. 10. The drawings &c. were immediately laid before the board of arts, who, adhering to a general rule, desire a model of your invention and a more ample...
285From Thomas Jefferson to Powell & Fierer, 4 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A particular and pressing business having obliged me to suspend all correspondence for some weeks past it is not till this day that I am at liberty to answer the letters I have received. Among these are your favours of Dec. 23. and Jan. 26. the first of which covered a subscription paper for the glass works you propose to erect in Virginia. If the object of this was to procure subscriptions...
286To Thomas Jefferson from Delamotte, 25 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 25 Mch. 1791. Encloses duplicate of his of the 9th ult. by Le Vendangeur , bound for Charleston, in which he erred in saying that several of TJ’s cases remained there. He was thinking of some “Caisses de Marbres” sent last summer shortly after the main shipment. There remain here only “une voiture à quatre Rouës; un Cabriolet, quatre paniers vin de Champagne; une Caisse emballée...
287To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Johnson, 26 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 26 Mch. 1791. His of 26 ult. sent by Pigou , Capt. Collett.—Preparations here indicate immediate rupture between England and Russia. Upwards of 30 sail of the line lie ready at Spithead and many others have been commissioned in last few days. The King this day issued proclamation offering bounty for seamen. Fearing press warrants will be issued in the evening, he gave warning to all...
288To Thomas Jefferson from William Hay, 18 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Determination respecting the Encyclopédie in which Mr. Madison concurs with you, is perfectly satisfactory to me, and the more so, as you so obligingly offer your Services to dispose of it in Philadelphia. As I now consider myself bound to pay Doctr. Currie the Value of the original Subscription in standard English Books, perhaps you will be able to swap the Encylopédie with some of the...
289The President to the Senate, 18 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The aspect of affairs in Europe during the last summer, and especially between Spain and England, gave reason to expect a favorable occasion for pressing to accommodation the unsettled matters between them and us. Mr. Carmichael, our Chargé des affaires at Madrid, having been long absent from his country, great changes having taken place in our circumstances and sentiments during that...
290VII. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 4 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of State, that the opinion given by the Secretary in the case of Mr. Anderson agrees fully with that which the President has formed upon a complete view of the circumstances.—And it is the President’s wish that Mr. Anderson’s Commission should issue accordingly. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers). PrC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR );...
291VIII. Isaac Senter to the Secretary of State, 13 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of receiving a letter from you yesterday, dated 26th March, desiring me to send you some writings of Dr. Lind’s which you could not procure elsewhere, upon the subjecting of Distilling fresh water from that of the Ocean. It is Sir with the greatest pleasure that I embrace the first opportunity, by the post to comply with your request, as far as is in my power. All the writings...
292From Thomas Jefferson to James Innes, 13 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of Feb. 20. came to my hands only four days ago, and I have taken the first moment in my power to prepare my answer, which I now inclose. It is in fact a copy of what I had prepared while in Virginia, when I had the subject under contemplation, except that some useless asperities are rubbed off. I am in hopes either Mr. G. Carr, or Mr. Anderson of Richmond has given you a copy of...
293XII. Jacob Isaacks to the Secretary of State, 19 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved Yours with the Report, and was sorry to find You was so Hastity in Making the same so soon Publick, As it has proved greatly detrimental to my Interest. Altho’ you were not in possession of my secret which I am fearful wou’d have shared the same fate, you must be thoroughly senceable of the injury that report has done me by making it of Publick use without any advantage to the...
294No. 3: Abstract of the Produce of the Fisheries exported from the United States, from about August 20th. 1789, to … (Jefferson Papers)
Abstract of the Produce of the Fisheries exported from the United States, from about August 20th. 1789, to September 30th. 1790. Fish dried Fish pickled Oil-Whale Oil spermaceti Whale bone Candles spermaceti Total Value Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value
295To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 14 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 14 Mch. 1791 . Introducing his particular friend Col. [John] Hamilton, British consul in Virginia, “who with his Lady and pleasing female friend Miss Coxe are on their way to Philadelphia.” Relying on TJ’s friendship, he takes liberty of enclosing two bills of exchange of John Tayloe Griffin drawn on Richard Potter of Philadelphia. “After they have been presented by you or under your...
296V. The President to the Secretary of State, [10 March 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
The P. has given the enclosed letters an attentive reading and consideration, and has found nothing in them but what is just , and in the hands of a prudent user proper ; but at the end of the words of the letter to Mr. C “this wrong” 2d. page 10th. line may it not be well to add—“yet with that prudence and circumspection which will not commit the Government to the necessity of proceeding to...
297No. 7., 1 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Holland England Holland England 1578 Basques 25. 1758 159 52 1612 2 1759 155 34 1615 11 4 1760 154 40