1Reuben Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , held on the 27 th ultimo Thomas Jefferson of Monticello was duly elected a Corresponding member. The object of this institution being the promotion of all the various branches of Natural Science, especially the investigation of the natural productions of the United States , we shall be happy to receive, and communicate any...
2John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your kind congratulations on the return of my little family from Europe . To receive them all in fine hea l th and good Spirits, after So long an absence, was a greater Blessing, than at my time of Life when they went away I had any right to hope or reason to expect. If the Secretary of State can give Satisfaction to his fellow citizens in his new Office it will be a Source of...
3John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you M r Horace Holley who is on his Way to Kentucky where he has been invited to undertake the Superintendanc e of a University. This Gentlem an was Settled very young at Greenfield as Successor to D r Dwight ; but having a Mind too inquisitive for Connecticut
4John Quincy Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed Commission for the Sieur Sagrenet at the port of in France , which the President has executed, leaving a blank for the name of the port, which he says you will be so good as to fill, as you are apprized of it, and it has escaped his recollection. Upon your doing this I have to request that you take the additional trouble of returning the...
5John Quincy Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few days since from my father , the enclosed pamphlet, with directions, after availing myself of the opportunity of perusing it, to return it to you, to whose kindness he was indebted for the loan of it. I have found in it no material fact, with which I had not been before acquainted, unless it be the authentication by his own narrative of the author’s treachery to his Master; and...
6Albemarle County Circuit Court Order in Jefferson v. John Hudson and Charles Hudson, [9 October 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Demandant } against upon a writ of Right John Hudson & Charles Hudson Tenants On motion of the Demandant by his attorney it is ordered by the Court that the Surveyor of this County, do go upon the land in controversy , survey the same, and return five fair plats thereof to this Court— MS ( Albemarle Co. Law Order Book [1809–21], 306); in Alexander Garrett
7Albemarle County Court Order Concerning a Proposed Road, [6 October 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Brightberry Brown , Horseley Goodman , and John Slaughter three of the persons appointed by a former order of this Court to view the road petitioned for by Thomas J Randolph , and Thomas Jefferson leading from the Orange fork near Lewis’s ferry downwards, through the lands of Richard Sampson , Thomas J Randolph , and
8“Laban Stringfellow” to Thomas Jefferson, [by 19 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
This circular which I take the Liberty of addressing to you is the effusion of an old fellow who has like your Honour retired from the world to repose on the Bosom of Literature, and tho: my “ Circular ” will not give me place with Campbell and Tom Moore I dare swear your excellency will agree it is equal to the subject. Before I take my leave allow me in the fullness of my heart to seize upon...
9Enclosure: Poem by “Laban Stringfellow” on a Footrace between William Darby and Joseph Aborn, [by 19 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
F or your edification and amusement, I send the following poem , in which my feeble muse endeavors to describe a Match Race , run about the year 1809, at Oppelousas, in Louisiana , between W illiam D arby , Esq. geographer and map maker, and Mr. J oseph A born , deputy collector of the district of the Teche
10Memorandum from Joseph Antrim to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Joseph Antrim . Is willing to Plaister the Central College at the following Prices, Lath 4 d Nales and lathing— 1/2 per y d two Coat Plaistering & Materials 2/ 〃 〃 three D o
11Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter in date of 18 th of July 1816, with its inclosure , reach’d my hands only on the 23 d of June last ; and that of the 1 st of August of the present year, was deliver’d me on the first of November — In the former letter you say, you know not where the undertaker of the propos’d life of m r
12Peter Jefferson Archer to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Having generaly understood, it to have been your wish at a very early period of my existance to have Supertended my education—I now take the liberty of Soliciting your patronage—Having a disposition to continue my studies in order to comple te my hitherto unfinished education beleiving that under the care of so distinguished a personage—I may derive such information that may enhance my future...
13William Armistead to Thomas Jefferson, 15 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You will have the goodness to excuse the liberty I have taken in addressing you this letter, when I tell you, that, knowing you to be the frie n d of W C Nicholas Esq r to whom I am indebted through your goodness for the place which I now hold in this Department and whose absence from Richmond at this time prevents me from addressing him on a subject of material importance to me, The recent...
14John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Some years before I left Paris Gen. Kosciuszko put into my hands the paper, of which the enclosed is a copy. Understanding that it was not to be used ’till the General ’s death, it has been in my cabinet unopened from that day ’till this & is now recurred to on the information brought by the mails of the day that the Gen l had died in Switzerland on the 15 th of Oct last & that his funeral was...
15Benjamin Austin to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Convinced that in your retirement, the concerns of your country arrest your attention, & as the most efficacious mode for the punishment of Criminals , has excited the consideration of many important States in the Union, I am induced to enclose a paper containing some remarks on this subject. Being sensible they are “not free from objections,” I more readily Submit them to your candid...
16Enclosure: Richard Bache’s Prospectus for the Franklin Gazette, [ca. 3 January 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING A DAILY MORNING NEWSPAPER, IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, TO BE CALLED THE FRANKLIN GAZETTE , BY RICHARD BACHE . PROSPECTUS . THE Lively interest taken by the American people, both in general and local politics; the extensive diffusion of information, which renders them a reading community; and the rapid augmentation of the population of the country, encourage a belief,...
17Richard Bache to Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The kindness with which you have always treated every individual of my family, personally acquainted with you, and the desire of evincing my own respect, induces me to enclose you a prospectus of a paper I am about establishing. Should it meet your approbation I shall be h ighly gratified; I can hardly venture upon asking you to continue a correspondence, notwithstanding I should feel highly...
18Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, [15] November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find it is necessary that I should arrainge all my little might of money to the best advantage that none should lie without drawing Interst altho it would be compound interst yet I Consider it Just. I dont wish to draw a single dollar out of your hands if it soots you to give me interst upon the whole amount say $1247.27. it is what I would Prefer. otherwise it would be more to my advantage...
19Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
John sets off in the morning agreable to Your request Pearticulally examined his cart and have Put it in good condition and haveing no oats out gave him 2 bus ls corn for his mules.— after waiting untill the 7 day of this month say three days ago before I Purchased Corn at last had to give 14/. and should not have got at that Price but that the man was obliged to moove in a short time and he...
20Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now send You a few lines upon an important subjec to me. I have long been advised by my brothers to moove to the missourie Country . I acknowledge that I have all desire to do the best I can for my family but am really sorry to leave the part of the world whare I was raised to go to a part that is unknown to me my brothers too of them has came in and says they Came with intention to go with...
21Jerman Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
You will find enclosed a subscription paper which was put into my hands some time last Fall; As an appology for not returning it at an earlier day I must observe that I have detained it in the expectation of encreasing the amount. You will find the Names of M r Page & M r Skipwith erased in consequence of their having recieved subscription s papers. My affectionate regards to M rs Randolph ....
22John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Honored with your much Respected Letter of the twelfth instant ; myself and all my family, Sir, will ever bear in grateful remembrance your feeling consideration in your goodness and favorable mention of myself, family and Situation to The President of the United States: whom I have had the Honor to call upon, on the fourth day after his late return, His Excellency, was pleased to receive...
23John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I pray your Goodness to forgive, my being importune; M r Lee , having particularly recommended me, to apply to The President , by letter, for the Consulate of Tunis , which he informed me was vacant; I had the Honor to address The President , on the thirtieth ultimo: Copy of which letter, I take the liberty Sir, to enclose: with the Copy of a letter, written me by Commodore John Shaw , (now in...
24John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Honored with your Respected letter of the fourteenth ultimo , and beg leave to return you my most grateful thanks for your friendly and kind intentions in my favor, which Sentiment I hope, trust and confide to continue worthy ever to merit. I labour under the disadvantage Sir, of not being particularly acquainted with the present Secretary of State, The Honorable John Quincy Adams . my...
25Ann C. Bankhead to Thomas Jefferson, [received 25 March 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Bankhead feels a delicacy in mentioning to you the subject on which M r Lighfoot has writen to us & I am very sorry to be obliged to give you the trouble of reading his letter . but he has always been so kind & attentive to me that I should like to perform his requests as far as it is in my power and conclude that the best way that I can serve him is by sending his letter to speak for...
26John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
At the earnest request of M r Tyler with whom I am Acquainted—and who has executed that Memorable—and never to be forgetting testimony, and seal, of—our Independance,—with an exactness highly Approved— Similies —of each Signature— has solicited thro me—to the Dedication of his performance in your Name—and as Author thereof—it is truly Elegant—and much praise is due to him.— his Numerous...
27John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On receipt of your fav r 5 th with inclosiers to the Sect y of the Treasury and Att y Gen l —I yesterday presented to the former at his Office— not knowing where to meet with M r Wert I inquired of
28Enclosure: John Barnes’s Account (as Agent of Thomas Jefferson) with Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 26 November 1816–15 October … (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Thaddeus Kosciusko . … In ℀ with John Barnes —Agent for Thomas Jefferson Esq r from 26 h Nov r 1816 a 15 th
29John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with the deepest regret I have to Announce the Death of our dearly beloved friend and much revered Correspond t the Worthy—the Great—the good & Virtuous Gen l Kosciusko :— see the Balt o Patriot from the Paris de Commerce—of 31 st Oct r from w ch you will—(if not already) receive, the Meloncholy particulars—
30Isaac Cox Barnet to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you—herewith—a letter received by me yesterday from General Kosciuszko . General La Fayette is in town and in good health—He honored me with a call day before yesterday. His friends are exerting themselves to make a Deputy of him and the ministerialists are most actively engaged on their side to avort his election … Several libellous pamphlets have been...