1Proclamation Offering a Reward for Murderers of a Cherokee Woman, 30 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation: Whereas information has been received that an atrocious murder was in the month of August last committed on an Indian Woman of the Cherokee Tribe in the peace and friendship of the United States, in the County of Knox in the State of Tenessee, aggravated also by the consideration that it was committed at a moment when a friendly...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 28 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your own opinion & that of the Atty Genl. are sufficient authorities to me to approve of prosecuting in the case of the Schooner Sally. and I will candidly add that my judgment also concurs. the handcuffs & bolts are palpable testimonials of the intention of the voyage, & the concealment of them, & their omission in the statement of the cargo, strengthens the proof. the traffic too is so...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John G. Ladd, 28 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having often occasion to have packages of various contents brought to Alexandria; to be forwarded here, & consequently to have some person at Alexandria to whom my correspondents may consign them, mr Barnes, who acts for me here in all pecuniary matters, has encouraged me to hope you would be so good as to recieve and forward my packages from time to time to his address. I have therefore taken...
4XIII. Fair Copy, First Annual Message, [by 27 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Fellow citizens of the Senate & House of Representatives. Peace. It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me, that on meeting the great council of our nation, I am able to announce to them, on grounds of reasonable certainty, that the wars & troubles, which have for so many years afflicted our sister-nations, have at length come to an end; & that the communications of peace & commerce...
5XIV. To Levi Lincoln, 27 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the message on the state of the nation to be sent to Congress on their meeting. I will ask the favor of you to give it serious perusal & to favor me with such observations, corrections & queries as you may think expedient: to observe also on any negligences of style, which may be corrected without weakening expression: for wherever by a small sacrifice of the rigorous rules of...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Newton, 27 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of the 18th and after due thanks for your attention to the procuring the cyder, I according to your desire mention that it may be consigned to mr John G. Ladd, merchant at Alexandria, who will receive & forward it to the address of mr John Barnes his correspondent & my agent here. I sincerely congratulate you on the unexpected news of peace. it is a happy event...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph, 27 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter and am very happy to find you have made such rapid progress in learning. when I left Monticello you could not read; and now I find you can not only read, but write also. I inclose you two little books as a mark of my satisfaction, and if you continue to learn as fast, you will become a learned lady and publish books yourself. I hope you will at the same time...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Nov. 18. by mr Trist has been duly recieved. my business is become so intense that when post day comes, it is often out of my power to spare a moment. the post too, being now on the winter establishment is three days longer in carrying our letters. I am sincerely concerned at the situation of our dear little ones with the whooping cough, but much rejoiced that they have past the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Lyons, 26 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An old account between mr Wayles’s & Bathurst Skelton’s estate is shortly to be settled between the parties interested. in that account is the following item. ‘1792. July 3. To my assumpsit to pay your bond (i.e. B. Skelton’s bond) to Thos. Moore assigned to Saml. Farmer who assigned to Peter Lyons £20. To interest on do. from 17[67. Nov. 3.-?]’ at a meeting with Meriwether Skelton & Jerman...
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed is the result of consideration & consultation between mr Madison & myself. if there be any thing you may think could be changed for the better, send it back , & it shall be altered. I congratulate you on the certain event of peace, whatever it’s conditions may be. health & happiness cum ceteris votis . RC ( DLC : Monroe Papers); addressed: “James Monroe Governor of Virginia...
11From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I had not been unmindful of your letter of June 15, covering a resolution of the House of Representatives of Virginia, and referred to in your’s of the 17th. inst. the importance of the subject, and the belief that it gave us time for consideration till the next meeting of the legislature have induced me to defer the answer to this date. you will percieve that some circumstances, connected...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 24 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 19th. and with it the pamphlet of Naval architecture for which I thank you. it may be of use in our navy office where I shall deposit it. I am extremely glad to hear that the infection from the vaccine matter I sent has succeeded. but my great anxiety now is to know whether it prevents the small pox: and my anxiety arises not from any doubt that it would...
13From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 22 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Virginia resolution inclosed was, I am sure, in full confidence that you would contribute your counsel as well as myself. I have only relieved you from the labour of the premier ebauche . I must you to consider the subject thoroughly, and either make the inclosed what it should be, or a new draught. it should go on without delay, because I shall desire Monroe, if there is any thing in it...
14From Thomas Jefferson to John Steele and Ann Nessfield Steele, 21 November 1801 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favor of Mr. & Miss Steele’s company to dinner the day after tomorrow at three oclock. Saturday Nov. 21st. 1801. RC ( Nc-Ar : John Steele Papers); in Meriwether Lewis’s hand; addressed: “Mr. Steele.” Ann Nessfield Steele (1784–1804), the oldest daughter of John Steele, was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, and educated at the Moravian School in Bethlehem,...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Amos Marsh, 20 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great satisfaction the Address you have been pleased to inclose me from the House of Representatives of the Freemen of the state of Vermont. the friendly and favorable sentiments they are so good as to express towards myself personally are high encouragement to perseverance in duty, & call for my sincere thanks. With them I join cordially in admiring and revering the...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 19 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of yesterday I forgot to put the inclosed and to ask the favor of you to address it to the proper place. it is in answer to one I received three months ago , dated in Dumfries, but the gentleman was there only as a traveller and did not advise me where to address the answer. I inclosed it to mr Gallatin having heard him speak of the writer. but he returned it to me two months ago,...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Digges, 19 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
My memory is so unfaithful that I am always afraid to affirm any thing on it’s authority. but I believe I am not decieved in saying that a little before I went out of office in 1793, I did recieve from you the specimens of coins you describe, with an account of the falsifications going on in England, and that I published in the news papers what related to the latter in order to guard the...
18III. Jefferson’s Memorandum, 19 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
As trustee for the Seneca Indians it appears to me just that the charge of mr Meredith be allowed & be deducted from the dividends. at the same time, considering their want of familiarity with these subjects, and the natural jealousy of ignorance, it seems desireable that the US. should in future have their business transacted for them clear of expence, so that they may recieve their dividends...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 18 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th . has been recieved, as have been those also of Sep. 4. & 23. in due time. these letters all relating to office, fall within the general rule which even the very first week of my being engaged in the administration obliged me to establish, to wit, that of not answering letters on office specifically, but leaving the answer to be found in what is done or not done on them....
20XI. To James Madison, [16 November 1801 or after?] (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as once more to revise this? altho’ I have not entirely obliterated all the passages which have been thought objectionable, yet I have very much reduced & smoothed them. still verbal & minor corrections of style or sentiment will be thankfully recieved & made. RC ( ViU ); undated, but perhaps written after TJ saw Gallatin’s remarks and made changes to the early draft....
21From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted in my last note to you to express my approbation of what you propose as to mr Nourse. his known integrity and every other circumstance of the case make it proper. it would seem by Genl. Smith’s letter that Isaac Smith of Northampton has been invariably a whig . if so there need be no further hesitation to appoint him for Cherriton’s, and the rather as he says that Bowdoin has...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 16 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to hear that the children are likely to bear the attack of the whooping cough with vigour. it is a most unfortunate season for it to have come on; and I cannot but be anxious about them through the whole winter: consequently desirous to hear as often as possible how they are. my business I find will often prevent my writing by post. it is now got to a steady & uniform course. it...
23VII. Calculation of Annual Debt Payment, [ca. 15 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
A debt of 21,955,900. D bearing an interest of 1,310,401.50 is to be paid in 8. years, by eql. annl. paimts. what is the annual paiment? if the interest were uniform, it would be of 6. pr. cent wanting an insensible fraction. but 6,481,700. D. bears an interest of 8. p. cent, = 518,536. then 15,474,200. D. must be at 5 117 1000 p. cent =
24Notes on the Funded Debt, [15 November 1801 or after] (Jefferson Papers)
Schedule of the funded debt of the US. Sep. 30. 1801. English Dutch Geneva Switzerland all other foreigners States Incorporated bodies Sinking fund Domestic individuals Total 6. p. cents 3,961,104.43 7,054,657.64 435,028.03 451,174.25 2,298,251.65 5,236,840.34 1,884,680.22 8,669,246.28 30,040,982.89
25V. To Albert Gallatin, 14 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Gallatin to examine the inclosed rough draught of what is proposed for his first communication to Congress: not merely the part relating to finance but the whole. several paragraphs are only provisionally drawn, to be altered or omitted according to further information. the whole respecting finance is predicated on a general view of the subject, presented...
26From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 14 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is mr Whitney of Connecticut a mechanic of the first order of ingenuity, who invented the Cotton gin now so much used to the South; he is at the head of a considerable gun manufactory in Connecticut, and furnishes the US. with muskets, undoubtedly the best they recieve. he has invented moulds & machines for making all the peices of his locks so exactly equal, that take 100...
27Notes for Draft of Annual Message, 12 November 1801 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
In complying with my constnl duty of ‘giving to Congress information of the state of the Union ,’ it is matter of great consoln that I have to state no agressions from abroad, no insurrections at home, no extraordinary afflictions by sickness, nor general sufferings from want, no interruptions of the course of civil justice nor new encroachments on the rights of conscience under colour of law....
28From Thomas Jefferson to William Barton, 12 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Oct. 30. and the honour of your proposition to address to me your treatise on the law of nations. this proof of respect cannot but be flattering to one who entertains a sincere esteem for your person and character. the subject is important, involved in errors & contradictions, which, for the peace of the world, it is very desireable to see rectified. but the...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelius Coningham, 12 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
If the laws had permitted the application of the public money by way of loan to individuals suffering by unfortunate occurrences, I should have had great pleasure in administering relief against the untoward circumstances which render it desireable to yourself. but not a dollar can be applied but in conformity with an appropriation previously made by law, and rigourously exacted by the...
30I. Preliminary Draft: Naturalization, [before 12 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
recommend a revisal of the law respecting citizens. every man has a right to live somewhere on the earth. and if somewhere, no one society has a greater right than another to exclude him. becoming indeed a member of any society, he is bound to conform to the rules formed by the majority. but has the majority a right to subject him to unequal rules, to rules from which they exempt themselves. I...