1From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, [on or after 30 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The Attorney general will be pleased to carry into execution the inclosed resolution of the Senate of Apr. 30. respecting the claims of John Cleves Symmes . PrC ( DLC ); undated. Enclosure not found, but see below. A 30 Apr. RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE requested that the president direct the attorney general to examine the 1788 contract between the United States and JOHN CLEVES SYMMES for a grant...
2Notes 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....
3From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Briggs, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 26th. came to hand last night. that of Jan. 30. had been recieved in due time. with more business than can be dispatched at once, I am often obliged to lay by to a more leisure moment that which will best bear delay. this lot falls often on my philosophical and literary correspondence. to this circumstance alone is owing the omission to answer that part of your letter which...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Langdon, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 19th. was recieved last night. that of May 14. had arrived while I was on a short trip to Monticello from whence I returned on the 30th. Ult. commissioners of bankruptcy, made up from your’s & some other recommendations were appointed on the 14th. inst. and no doubt were recieved a few days after the date of your last. Nicholas Gilman , John Goddard, Henry S. Langdon & John...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 26 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson being to go into the country tomorrow will thank mr Barnes for 25. D. in small bills. RC ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); endorsed by Barnes; endorsed by TJ: “Barnes John.” GO INTO THE COUNTRY TOMORROW : in his financial records under 27 June, TJ recorded paying 68 ½ cents for ferriage “to & from the Carrs.” It is not clear which members of the Carr family TJ met with that day,...
6Memorandum 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...
7From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 26 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
We are waiting for your recommendation of Commissioners of bankruptcy for Norfolk. Moses Myers & Richd. Evers Lee have been proposed by some. mr Arthur Lee has been thought of. say frankly if any of them are proper or improper. Littleton W. Tazewell if he would accept would make an excellent one: but I believe he lives in or near Williamsburg.—I propose to be at Monticello during Aug. and...
8From Thomas Jefferson to John Steele, 30 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A press of business yesterday prevented my answering your letter recieved the evening before. I am happy in the occasion it presents of assuring you unequivocally that I have been entirely satisfied with your conduct in office; that I consider it for the public benefit that you should continue, & that I never have for one moment entertained a wish to the contrary. I will add, and with...
9From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 25 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Roberts & Jones have just shipped by the schooner Nancy £ 14. bars of bar iron 5 — 0 — 8 11. bars German steel 1 — 0 — 7 6 —0 — 15 which being of particular sizes and of particular quality, ordered for a special peice of work , I will ask your attention to in forwarding to Milton that it may not get mixed with others. perhaps a mark of chalk on each bar may be useful. accept my affectionate...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 24 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19th. & 21st. was recieved last night. the contents of it shall be inviolably kept to myself. I shall advise with my constitutional counsellors on the application relative to mr Mc.lane. some considerations occur at once, that a trial & acquittal, where both parties are fully heard, should be deemed conclusive; that on any subsequent complaint it cannot be regular to look to...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 24 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21st. was recieved last night. we had had letters from Genl. Wilkinson on the same subject of the office of Surveyor of the Missisipi territory. but there exists no such office: and the Executive cannot create such a one. this answer has been given to Wilkinson. when the Georgia convention shall be ratified by them, and a land office open a surveyor will be wanting. but...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 23 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Gallatin will be pleased to have this Maryland business finished in any form he pleases. I will desire mr Monroe to attend him for that purpose. it should be done without delay, as the Governor’s letter has already been long unanswered. if an account is to be called for from Annapolis, it will have the appearance of an affected delay: for the guarantee having been a simple transaction...
13From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Mercer, 23 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
While we are fumbling about forms at the treasury, I am afraid you will think me long acknoleging your letter of the 5th. I therefore write you this private one, merely that you may acquit me of inattention. our treasury will pay yours in the first week of July all the interest which will be then due on the 200,000. D. to wit 18,000. D. as to the 50,000. D. lent to the Commrs. Congress have...
14From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 22 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 17th. is recieved. a very useful emploiment for mr. Fitch will be the partitioning the side and end of the kitchen, and studding the 3. servants rooms. the kitchen partitions are to be of inch plank, planed on both sides, & square jointed. the front & partitions of the servants rooms and dairy to be bricknogged, with good lime mortar: or perhaps the front of the dairy had better...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Mitchell & Buel, 22 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I become with pleasure a subscriber to your paper, the Political barometer . you will oblige me by information of the most convenient place where I can pay the subscription. this would be the most so; but I could have it done in Philadelphia. accept my wishes for it’s success and my respects. PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Messrs. Mitchell & Buel”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. TJ received...
16From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 22 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 17th . is recieved. from my present view of the suit brought against the indorser of your note, I should think it better to let it go on, because if the law be here as it is in the other states (Pensylvania excepted) your account will be a set-off against it. it was so in Pensylvania till about 5. or 6. years ago when the banks had interest enough to get a law passed that when a...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Sheaff, 22 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 15th. has been duly recieved. before it would be possible to get any of your Burgundy here I shall be about setting out for Monticello to pass the months of August & September there for the sake of health. but moreover I know that the fine Burgundy wines will not bear a single day’s transportation either in very hot or very cold weather. they are brought to Paris only in Spring...
18From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington Varnum, 22 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. inst. was recieved yesterday. Genl. Dearborne is absent for about a week; but on his return I will put your letter into his hands. I do not believe however there is a single Lieutenancy vacant, as a number of supernumerary lieutenants were lately dismissed on the reduction of the army. there are vacant ensigncies, because this office is newly created; there having been...
19Memorandum to Albert Gallatin [on or before 21 June 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
A Premium of 50. D. is offered for The most approved plan of an Hospital of 4000. square feet area, two stories of 10 & 8. f. high with cellars below; the rooms for the sick to be well aired, & of varied sizes from 10. to 20. f. square. the appearance of the building , convenient distribution of the rooms, and economy of space & construction will be principally regarded in the decision. a...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 21 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am ready to appoint any persons whom mr Gallatin shall approve in place of the delinquent Collectors . RC ( NHi : Gallatin Papers); on verso of address sheet previously directed by Gallatin to the president; addressed by TJ: “The Secretary of the Treasury.” Not recorded in SJL . DELINQUENT COLLECTORS : see Memorandum from the Treasury Department, 20 June .
21From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 19 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
With respect to the bank of Pensva, their difficulties proceed from excessive discounts. the 3,000,000 D. due to them comprehend doubtless all the desperate debts accumulated since their institution. their buildings should only be counted at the value of the naked ground belonging to them; because if brought to market they are worth to private bidders no more than their materials, which are...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 19 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12th. has been duly recieved, and with that pleasure which the approbation of the good & the wise must ever give. the sentiments it expresses are far beyond my merits or pretensions: they are precious testimonies to me however that my sincere desire to do what is right & just is viewed with candour. that it should be handed to the world under the authority of your name is...
23From Thomas Jefferson to David Redick, 19 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10th. has been received, and I am duly sensible of the favor of your attention to the calumny which was the subject of it. seeing the impossibility that special vindications should ever keep pace with the endless falshoods invented & disseminated against me, I came at once to a resolution to rest on the justice & good sense of my fellow citizens, to consider from my general...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Claxton, 18 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13th . is recieved. the samples of straw floor cloths are beautiful, especially the finest one; but would not answer for the purpose I have in view which is to lay down on the floor of a dining room when the table is set, & be taken up, when the table is removed, merely to save a very handsome floor from grease & the scouring which that necessitates. the straw would fur up...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Littlepage, 18 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to General Littlepage, and according to the desire expressed in his letter of the 16th. this moment recieved, he sends him the sealed paper deposited in his care. he shall be happy to see Genl. Littlepage here according to his intimation. RC ( ViHi ); addressed: “General Lewis Littlepage Fredericksburg”; franked and postmarked. PrC ( MHi );...
26From Thomas Jefferson to William Lovering, 18 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Lovering and observes that the employment of the funds destined for furnishing the President’s house, is confided by the legislature to mr Claxton solely. he knows however that those funds are all but exhausted, and thinks it probable mr Claxton can contract no new engagement on them. PrC ( ViW ); endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. PRESENTS HIS...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear daughter, your’s of the 13th . by post. I regret extremely the situation of your family, not only for my disappointment here, but for what they are to suffer. I acknolege that, knowing when I came away the measles were in the neighborhood, I saw it was but too possible your visit here would be delayed. as it is, we must agree to the fall visit, and as Maria will be at...
28From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. incloses the within to mr Barnes because the captain will probably apply to him on his arrival. a box for me is gone to Philadelphia . how shall I get the freight paid there? RC (University Archives, Autographs and Historical Documents, Westport, Connecticut, 1996); addressed: “Mr. John Barnes George town”; endorsed by Barnes, in part: “for a Box expected from Richmond.” Enclosure: see...
29From Thomas Jefferson to John Isaac Hawkins, 17 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment recieved the inclosed bill of lading by which it appears that my Piano forte was shipped at Richmond on the 11th. inst. on board the Schooner Pearl capt. Nathaniel Thompson to your consignment. I have desired mr Barnes of this place, who acts for me in money matters, to give orders for the paiment of the freight. I see by the newspapers you have exhibited or were about...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 16 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
You will percieve by the inclosed letter from the Governor of Maryland that we are called on for the arrears of interest on the two loans of two hundred thousand and of fifty thousand dollars, the former guarantied by Congress, and the latter assumed by them in a specified mode. knowing that the city funds are not in cash to answer these demands, and that your office is constantly open for the...