31Enclosure: Cherokee Nation to Baron de Carondelet, 5 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Translation from a Spanish translation of a paper written by the Cherokee nation to the Governor of New Orleans. Full of respect and gratitude, the Cherokee nation united, has heard with satisfaction the message by the persons you sent, and gives you expressive thanks for the great generosity with which you offer to assist them with all the means which depend on your power. A general meeting...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Carstairs, 14 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to Mr. Carstairs if he can be at his office tomorrow exactly at 10. aclock in the morning to go with him to the President’s with the drawings &c. RC (Mrs. L. Carstairs Pierce, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 1946). Not recorded in SJL . Thomas Carstairs (1759–1830) was a Scottish carpenter, draftsman, and architect who immigrated before February 1784 to Philadelphia, where...
33From Thomas Jefferson to William Channing, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you copies of two letters from Judge Marchant to the President of the United States, and of sundry depositions taken by him, from which there is reason to believe that the Marshal of that district has been guilty of a very unjustifiable negligence, if not a connivance, in suffering the escape of a certain William James Davis, against whom he was charged with criminal process. It is...
34Enclosure: Carondelet’s Speech to the Cherokee Nation, 24 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
To the chiefs, warriors and others of the Cherokee nation. Brothers. I have seen with much satisfaction the chiefs Respiracion, Chickamoga Charles, and the Bloody-fellow warrior of your nation: I have heard their words, which I will preserve in my heart. The losses and misfortunes of your nation have afflicted me, and I desire sincerely to relieve them. I transmit to the great king of the...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 7 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsr. de Noailles has been so kind as to deliver me your letter . It fills up the measure of his titles to any services I can render him. It has served to recall to my mind remembrances which are very dear to it, and which often furnish a delicious resort from the dry and oppressive scenes of business. Never was any mortal more tired of these than I am. I thought to have been clear of them...
36Enclosure: Edmond Charles Genet’s Notice to the Citizens of the United States, 17 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Citizen Genet Minister Plenipotentiary of the french Républic to the citizens of the United States. Whereas several american citizens who have furnished provisions to the Colonies of the French Republic in the West Indies, have received bills drawn by the administrators of the respective colonies on citizen Laforest late Consul Général of the Républic in the United States and lately on myself...
37From Thomas Jefferson to John Clarke, 28 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Taylor wrote you a letter on the 10th. inst. (which you probably received a day or two after your’s of the 15th. and) which would inform you of what was necessary to be done by you to prosecute the claim to your discovery under the new law. I can add nothing more on the subject, but that as far as the choice of arbitrators shall be left to me, I shall endeavor to select from the...
38From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 1 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Monsr. de Hauterive, appointed Consul at New York in the place of M. de Crevecoeur, having brought me some very particular recommendations from friends at Paris , who would not give them lightly, I comply with their desire in presenting him to your notice. In a short conversation which I had with him, I found him a man of literature, and a genuine republican, under which...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Collin, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Colin and asks the favor of him to act as an Arbitrator with Mr. Patterson and Mr. Boardley in the case of three interfering applications for a Patent for the discovery of a wheel with vertical valves to be turned by any moving fluid in which it is immersed. The parties will attend the Arbitrators at any time and place they may appoint: and as the...
40George Washington to the Commissioners of Accounts for the States, [22 June 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Having considered the two questions referred to me in your letters of yesterday, I am of opinion that the Report of your proceedings may be made to the President of the US. and that your books and papers will be most properly deposited in the Treasury department. You will therefore be pleased to deliver them to the order of the Secretary of the Treasury. Dft ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); in TJ’s hand,...
41From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Federal District, 15 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s post I have the honour to return the drawings of the Capitol which had been left here in order to have an estimate made; I send also that estimate, together with the rates of the different work, as made by a skilful workman here. The sum total it is supposed will enable you to form some idea of the whole cost of your building, as there is a tolerably well-known proportion between...
42Enclosure: Thomas Carstairs’s Estimate of the Cost of Masonry for the Capitol, [ca. 15 August 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of the President of the United States, and the Honble. Thomas Jefferson, the subscriber has measured and estimated the cut stone and Ruble work of a Capitol as seen in the plan and one elevation hereto annexed at the Philadelphia rates, viz. Cut Stone round building including 24¾ Columns and 2. pelestars £ 37278.13.0 Setting Do. & building rough Stone work 14705. 0.0 Rough...
43Enclosure: Unknown to Tench Coxe or Daniel W. Coxe?, 7 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The information you requested concerning the Province of West Florida I find myself unable to give correctly having never committed any remarks to paper, and must rely entirely to memory for what I mention concerning it—it will however serve you as a clue to obtain better information. When west Florida was ceded to Great Britain it comprehended the territory situated between East Florida on...
44From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 4 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 13th. of May has been duly received. My former letters had informed you that by Mr. Barton’s retiring from the bar, a term had been lost in your case. Mr. Serjeant to whom it was turned over, had at first a thought that it might possibly be repaired by running two measures into one. But on further enquiry he found it would not be permitted. It cannot therefore be finished till the...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Delamotte, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The sloop Hannah, Capt. Curvan goes on public account to Havre to carry public dispatches for Mr. Morris our minister at Paris. The Captain is to go with those dispatches himself to Paris. I take the liberty of mentioning this to you to ensure to them your particular aid and patronage should it be needed. Tho every precaution has been used to furnish them with every thing or the means within...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Delamotte, 27 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Livingston, goes to France with a view of settling some commercial correspondences. I have not the pleasure of being acquainted with him myself, but he is recommended to me by Governor Lee of Virginia, as a worthy and respectable citizen, and as such I take the liberty of presenting him to you, and asking for him that information and advice which may be useful to him in...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Delamotte, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall at present not acknolege the receipt of your letters, except that of Jan. 15. because the present is intended to be merely on so much of the subject of that as relates to my books which it mentions you had received from Mr. Froullé. I had desired you to draw on Donald & Burton for the amount, to whom I wrote and received an assurance they would pay your draught. They stopped payment...
48From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 18 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am mortified at not having written to you ere this, but if you could follow me from morning to night and from Sunday to Saturday you would agree that I am excusable in not writing when I have nothing essential to communicate. The truth is that for some time past Mr. Vaughan has promised to have your affair wound up and the balance remitted in cash. I was to have had it the week before last,...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Jean B. Desdoity, 5 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
[…] favor of […] Grand & Co. of Paris. I am always glad to recieve their commands, and shall with chearfulness testify it in rendering you any service I can. In the particular case on which you are pleased to consult me, I will observe that though the law of the United states requires a residence of two years to make a citizen, yet some of the states admit a citizen on shorter residence,...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Dobson, 30 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I last wrote to you I expected that I should have been permanently fixed at home this autumn. I have been obliged however to defer it to the winter. But I shall make a visit there about the middle of October, and therefore will be obliged to you to lodge there for me in the mean time a statement of the paiments made on my bill of exchange and bond, and of the balance due, and I will see...
51From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yet to acknolege your favors of Mar. 10. and Apr. 4. Just before their receipt I had heard of the calamity which had befallen you and which has since befallen so many on your side the water. I heard it with poignant distress, for however it may be with others, I find that my earliest affections are my strongest. I have delayed answering your letter because I wished to be able to say...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Dowse, 26 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few days ago, by the way of Charleston, your favor dated at Ostend Mar. 4. wherein you mention your expectation of being at Boston in two months. At the same time came the two boxes of china mentioned in your letter. I am extremely sensible of your friendly attention in this business, and of the thanks I owe you for it. It has happened that being placed, on my return to America,...
53Enclosure: Sir John Sinclair to Enoch Edwards, 13 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The conversation I had the pleasure of holding with you a few days ago, having given rise to a variety of reflections which may be of service to Great Britain and America, I think it right to take this mode of submitting them to your consideration. In the first place, I think it might be of considerable utility were you to draw up for our Board , in the order of printed queries , a general...
54From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 12 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received from Donald & Burton the invoice of your books . Thinking you would be impatient to hear something of them, I inclose you the invoice . They have been shipped from Dublin on board the Young eagle, Elias Lord. The four last in the invoice came here under the care of Mr. Marshal, who told me he would have them delivered to me as soon as they could be come at in the ship....
55From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your favor of May 16. and at the same time learnt the arrival of my wine at Baltimore, from which place I have ordered it to Virginia, whither I shall follow it finally at the close of the year. I thank you for your attention to the commission, and your bill on me shall be honored, it being more convenient to me to pay it here than remit. I had avoided writing to you...
56From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Freeman, 11 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday the honour of your letter of the 1st. inst. covering an application from a number of the inhabitants of Portland to have the laws of the Union published in the gazette of that place, and think it my duty to give them the earliest explanation of the footing on which the law has placed those publications. The act of Congress makes it the duty of the Secretary of state, on...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Gamble, 18 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just received information from Mr. Archibald Campbell merchant of Baltimore of the arrival there of 14. cases of claret for me, I have taken the liberty of desiring him to forward it to Richmond to your address, he drawing on me here for the freight to Richmond. I take this liberty because you will best know of the conveyances up to Monticello, to which place I would pray you to send it...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Gamble, 19 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 10th. and 13th. inst. and shall with great pleasure render you any service in my power with Mr. Genet. The footing on which Mr. Anderson places his views, with the priority of your application to Mr. Genet as well as the patronage under which it was presented, will, no doubt, have their weight. I do not think that these purchases will be...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 18th. instant , on the subject of the bills drawn by the administration of St. Domingo in favor of certain citizens of the US. I am instructed to inform you that the funds therein mentioned have been so clearly understood on all hands to be specifically appropriated for the payment of the bills which were recognised by the former agents of France here, as to be...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to you the Memorial of Nicholas Cruger and others, citizens of the US. owners and underwriters of the schooner the York. They set forth that their vessel had been sent on a voyage to the Spanish coast in the bay of Mexico, with a cargo assorted to that market, and armed as usual in such cases; that on their return, being distressed for water and other...