571From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 22 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
What I am now to write about will be in perfect confidence between ourselves. the legislature is likely to establish a marine hospital at New Orleans, where we lose about 400. boatmen & seamen annually by sickness. I think it probable that we shall have a run on us, of recommendations of young men, just from their lectures, unsettled, and without experience, to obtain the superintendance of a...
572From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 10th. inst. I wrote to you inclosing a check on the bank of the US. for D. 590.72 the amount of the bill for the last wines you were so good as to send me. not knowing whether you were in Baltimore or Philadelphia, the letter laid by me two days for enquiry, and I then inclosed it to Genl. Smith , asking him to superscribe on it the proper place. I mention this because mr Barnes informs...
573From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The pipe of dry Pacharetti, pipe & two half pipes of Sherry, which you were so kind as to send me last, arrived here safe, and I now inclose you for the same a check of the branch bank of the US. of this place for 590.72 D amount thereof as stated in your letter , payable at the bank of the US. at Philadelphia. the wines are not yet sufficiently settled to be bottled. after their qualities...
574Notes on Building the Jail, [June 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes for building the jail Walls. to be built of granite 2. f. thick the mortar half of good lime in all the walls half of clean gritty sand in all the inner walls one fourth of clean gritty sand one fourth of fine sifted gravel from the beach of the Potomac } for the outer walls overcast on the outside with plaister of Paris plaistered & white washed within. Roof. to have rafters 9. I....
575I. Description of Method, [18 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Method of using Mr. Patterson’s cypher. 1st. Operation.—In writing the original paper which is to be cyphered, use no capitals, write the letters disjoined, equidistant, and those of each line vertically under those of the one next above. this will be greatly facilitated, by using common black-lines, chequered by black-lines drawn vertically, so that you may place a letter between every two...
576List of Newspapers, [ca. 23 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
[ca. 23 Apr. 1802] Boston Chronicle Telegraph 3. 3. } Genl. Varnum Connect. American Mercury Bee 2½ 1. } mr Granger Albany Albany register .
577III. Sample Encipherment: "To the People of Great-Britain" [after 25 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
152879634 836147259 735841926 312694758 key of lines 831694725 291846375 369285741 825163974. key of letters first operation. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 w h e n a n a t i o n l e d t o g r e a t n e s s b y t h e
578Notes on Charges against Arthur St. Clair, [ca. 29 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
1. The Ordinance, in the paragraph respecting counties, speaks of laws adopted or made, which must refer both to the 1st. & 2d. stage of government; it then gives the Govr. power to lay out counties from time to time, reserving a right to the legislature thereafter to alter them. this may mean that the Govr. is always to lay out first, & the legislature thereafter to alter, or it may mean that...
579Account with Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 12 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
His Excellency the President of the United States , Philadelphia, March 12th . 1802. To Zachariah Poulson, junr. Dr. For the American Daily Advertiser, from the first day of October , 1800, to the last day of December 1801, } $11.25 MS ( MHi ); printed form, with blanks filled by an unidentified hand reproduced in italics; endorsed by TJ: “Newspapers.” Zachariah Poulson, Jr. (1761–1844),...
580Statement of William Short’s Tenements, 26 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the preceding I have settled with Richard Shackleford. his lands have been tended as follows as. ps. 1800 1801 1802 No. 1. 7–49. oats rest corn 2 6–72 corn wheat rest 3 85 new tobo. corn
581Description of a Wheel Cipher, [before 22 March 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Project of a cypher . Turn a cylinder of white wood of about 2. Inches diameter, & 6. or 8. I. long . bore through it’s center a hole sufficient to recieve an iron spindle or axis of ⅛ or ¼ I. diam. divide the periphery into 26. equal parts (for the 26. letters of the alphabet) and, with a sharp point, draw parallel lines through all the points of division, from one end to the other of the...
582Statement of William Short’s Tenements, 17 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A statement of mr Short’s tenements, for mr Lilly. Joseph Price holds a tenement from Carter for life, as is said, at 20. Dollars a year. I have never seen his lease nor do I know it’s contents but from report. he has paid up to the end of 1800. George Haden. by a survey made by mr Nicholas Lewis in 1800. of all the cleared lands in mr Short’s tract, which were then occupied on rent by his...
583Sentence in the Court-Martial of John Spence: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
I. HENRY DEARBORN’S PRELIMINARY DRAFT [10 MCH. 1802] II. HENRY DEARBORN’S SECOND DRAFT, WITH JEFFERSON’S REVISIONS [20 APR. 1802] Among the myriad duties that devolved on Jefferson as president of the United States was the periodic review of general courts-martial proceedings. According to federal law, such proceedings were to be forwarded to the president in times of peace if the...
584Notes on the Establishment of New Revenue Districts, [ca. 1 May 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Agenda under the law making new ports after June 30 the District of East river (Virga) established the proper place for the port of entry & delivery to be designated by Presidt Collector & Surveyor of the customs to reside thereat to be appd by Pres. Bennet’s cr. N.C. put down as a port of delivery port of delivery establd. at the Tombstone on Salmon creek Surveyor of the customs to be...
585Method of Using Robert Patterson’s Cipher: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
I. DESCRIPTION OF METHOD , [18 APR. 1802] II. SAMPLE ENCIPHERMENT : THE LORD’S PRAYER, [18 APR. 1802] III. SAMPLE ENCIPHERMENT : “TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT-BRITAIN,” [N.D.] Jefferson received Robert Patterson’s letter of 19 Dec. 1801, in which Patterson described the cipher that he had invented, six days after it was written. On 22 Mch. 1802, Jefferson acknowledged the letter and informed...
586II. Sample Encipherment: The Lord’s Prayer, [18 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
1st. Operation, or Original. key of letters. 8.3.1.6.9.4.7.2.5. | 2.9.1.8.4.6.3.7.5. | 3. key of lines. 1.5.2.8.7.9.6.3.4. | 8.3.6.1.4.7.2.5.9. | 1. 2cd. Operation, or transcript in cypher. 1 abountga ohnhasaetiniiho 5 inf aetlisdstueusweewmirb 2 o ueaystdshntvnersndotvxu 8
587Conference with Handsome Lake, Cornplanter, and Blue Eyes: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
When Israel Chapin, the U.S. agent to the Iroquois nations, informed the War Department in January 1802 that a delegation of Seneca Indians would be setting off on a visit to Washington, he identified Cornplanter as the head of the group. Similarly, when newspapers, which took little notice of the deputation, mentioned its passage through Pittsburgh, they described the group as consisting of...
588List of Vaccinations, 10 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
1802 Vaccinations with the thread . May. 10. < John Hemings .> failed John Perry < his apprentice .> failed < Henrietta .> failed 19.
589List of Candidates for Appointments, [ca. 24 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
State < Wm. Cutting of N. Y. to be a Commr. bkrptcy of N. Y. > [Robert Champlin Gardiner of R.I. to be Consul at Gothenburg 3 Michael Mc.Clary of N.H. to be Marshal. v Bradbury Cilley expird. Wm. Stewart Pensva. to be Consul at Smyrna. 1. John Steele late Secy. of the Missi. T. to be Secretary 2 Edwd. Harris of N.C. to be judge of the 5th. circuit v. Hen. Potter appd District judge Treasury <...
590Memorandum on Delaware River Piers, 26 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress having appropriated a sum of 30,000. D. for repairing and erecting public piers in the river Delaware we ought not so to employ the money as to oblige them to give double the sum, but to plan the works on the scale they have fixed. certainly a wharf is not a pier, and not authorised to be built with money appropriated to piers. I approve of the proposition to repair the decayed piers...