1John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am greatly obliged to you for your Letter of the 9 th It has entirely convinced me that the Mecklenburg Resolutions are a fiction, when I first read them in the Essex Register, I was struct with astonishment—It appears appeared to me utterly incredible that they should be genuine; but there were so many circumstances calculated to impose on the public; that I thought it my duty to take...
2John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am dill diligently & laboriously occupied, in reading & hearing your “political economy”—I call it yours because I do not believe that Tracy s is more of an original in point of purity , perspicuity or precission—I have read as yet only to the 90 th page—it is a connected chain of ideas and propositions, of which I know nothing not which link to strike out. His philosophy appears to me to roll
3John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taxed my eyes with a very heavy imost impost to read the senator Tracy ’s Political Economy & been amply rewarded for the expense. When I first saw the volume I thought it was impossible I should get through it, but when I had once made a begg beginning I found myself led on in so easy a train from proposition to proposition, every one of which appeared to me self evident, that I could...
4John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have transmitted your letter to Samu el Adams Welles Esq r in Boston as you desire This gentleman is a singular character he is I beleive the only surviving male of his Grandfather the late govenor of Massachusetts Samuel Adams who never had but two children a son and a daughter; his son who bore his name died early a surgeon in the army of the Revolution without issue; his daughter married a
5John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As you was so well acquainted with the philosophers of France I presume the name and character of Mademoiselle De Lespinasse is not unknown to you. I have almost put out my eyes by reading two volumes of her letters which as they were printed in 1809 I presume you have read long ago. I confess I have never read any thing with more ennui, disgust and loathing. The eternal repitition of mon dieu...
6John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a National Register, to convince you that the Essex Register is not to blame for printing the Mecklenburg County Resolutions, on the Contrary I think it to be commended—for if those Resolutions were genuine they ought to be published in every Gazette in the world—If they are one of those tricks which our fashionable Men in England call hoax’es and boares —they ought to be printed...
7John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of March 21 st I will communicate to Mr Bowditch , and Pickering — You may put my Letters upon the Subject of Tracy ’s Book into any hands you please, with or without any verbal alterations, as you may think fit —“what you would have them, make them.” or as James Otis used to say to Samuel Adams —here take it. and “ Quicu Wuicu ” it — I am obliged to borrow the hand of a friend to...
8John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
All the Literary Gentlemen of this part of the Country have an Ambitious Curiosity to see the Philosopher and Statesman of Monticello —and they all apply to me for Introductions—and if I had ever received one introduction from you, I should have less scruple of Conscience in granting their requests—in the Stile of our New-England —the Reverend Mr Greenwood the successor of M r Thatcher and D r...
9John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As you know I have often been ambitious of introducing to your acquaintance some of our literary characters, I now send you in the same spirit, some mathematical papers by our M r Bowditch who has translated La Place ’s mechanique coeliste & has written commentaries upon it as voluminous as the book—; which are thought by our scientific people to be one of the greatest astronomical productions...
10John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
May I inclose you one of the greatest curiositys and one of the deepest Mysterys that ever occoured to me—It is in the Essex Register of June the 5 th 1819.— it is entitled from the Raleigh Register Declaration of Independence— How is it possible that this paper should have been concealed from me to this day— had it been communicated to me in the time of it—I know, if you do not know, that it...
11John Quincy Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
An Italian Sculptor, of great merit, in his profession, named Cardelli , now here, and who has been for sometime working at the Capitol , is earnestly desirous of taking a Bust of you, and I have undertaken to solicit for him your permission that he should go to Monticello for that purpose—As it is with a view of taking Casts from it, one of which I wish to possess I am not entirely without an...
12John Quincy Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this Letter, M r Cardelli , is a Sculptor by profession, a Republican by principle, and a Roman by birth—He is ambitious of the honour of taking your life bust from the life, and I believe him to be by his talent worthy of it—Thinking with one of his illustrious countrymen of a former age “ non intercedendum imaginibus, quae marmore aut aere finguntur ,” I wish him success to his...
13Enclosure: Anonymous Notes on the Alleged 20 May 1775 “Declaration of Independence” of Mecklenburg County, North … (Jefferson Papers)
N. Carolina , Mecklenburg county , } May 20, 1775. In the spring of 1775, the leading characters of Mecklenburg county , stimulated by the enthusiastic patriotism which elevates the mind above considerations of individual aggrandisement and scorning to shelter themselves from the impending storm, by submission to lawless power, &c. &c. held several detached meetings, in each of which the...
14Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am ordered by the Historical Committee to inform you that they have caused to be transmitted to you a Copy of the first Volume of their Transactions, which I understand the Bookseller has already forwarded by Mail. This was rather done irregularly, their order having been anticipated by one of their officers. I have now the honor to request in their name your acceptance of the Book as a...
15Vachel Worthington and George W. Anderson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
We the undersigned having been appointed by the members of the Calliopean Society to inform You of your being unanimously elected an honorary member of said society, deem it essentially necessary to inform you of our motives, and intentions. They are purely literary and are designed exclusively for the promulgation of useful knowledge, uniting its members in the indissoluble bands of unity,...
16Robert Anderson to Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the papers of my deceased friend Mary Stith , who departed this life on the 21 January 1816 , and who appointed me her sole Executor, I found a letter from you to her , bearing date 7 th March 1811 , in which mention is made of some lands in albermarle County in which her father, yours, and others were, and are interested. For the benefit of Miss Stith ’s residuary legatee, may I beg the...
17Giovanni Andrei to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Essendo pregato dal Sig r Jeremiah Sullivan di racomandarlo a V:S: mi prendo la Libertà di Farlo, informandola del Carattere della detta Persona posso asicurarlo che L’esperienza della Capacità, e Sobrietà Sobria Condota che ho avuto per lo Spazio d’un anno che egli ha lavorato Sotto la mia direzione alle Publiche Fabbriche di questa Città in q ualità d’ornatista di mano, Capace d’eseguire un...
18“Zed” (“Franklin”) to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As the publck has gave you the credit of Drafting the Declaration of Independance, and as you have fill d the greatest office s in the power that the people have to their power give you, which dutis you apear to have Discharg d to their Satisfaction, all this has plac d you on a eminance, that your opinion and good Judgment, or recomendation will go further than any one other Citizeen in the U...
19Christopher Anthony to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof M r Gorman a stone cutter by trade has been employed for uppwards twelve months in the marble quarry near this place: Having had no direct agency in the managment of the business myself, I have but little personal knowledge of his conduct, but have been informed by my Brother, (whose information is fully confirmed by our observation as far as it gos) that he is an industrious...
20Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last letter of the 10 th of november , I inform’d you, Sir, that I had engag’d the two architects, Jacob & Michael Raggi , and would be convey’d by the first vessel to the U:S —for all their qualifications, either in relation to their profession, or to their morality, I refer you to that very ample letter .— they are embark’d on board the Brig Strong Captain Concklin for Baltimore ; and
21Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 23 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15 th of the present month, I receiv’d your letter of the 28 of may ; at the Same time, was convey’d to me a draft by m r Vaughan on Paris for=450– dollars; and on the 19. ins t I deliver’d & paid to m. & m de Pini —444= dollars for the year’s interest, as will appear by their receipt now inclos’d—
22Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 30 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter, Sir, was in date of 25 th february , but departed from hence, only on the 18 th of march, & given in charge to the two Architects who sail’d on that day in the Brig Strong Capt: Concklin for Baltimore .— at the same time, I inclos’d you the contract which binds them for three years; as likewise, the receipt of mad: Pini for the year’s interest.—
23Enclosure: Thomas Appleton’s Agreement to Hire Giacomo Raggi and Michele Raggi, 17 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Per l’Atto presente benche privato, da valere, e tenere come se fosse un Publico Instrumento, apparisca e sia noto Qualmente Fra l’Illmo Sig Tommaso Appleton Console Generale degli Stati Uniti d’America in Livorno , ed in questa Parte nella Qualità di Incaricato dal Sig Tommaso Jefferson di Virginia in America da una, ed i Sig i Michele Raggi , di Condizione Scultore Ornatista, e Jacopo Raggi...
24John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
When I last had the pleasure of hearing from you , you had determined to decline the executorship of Gen: Kosciusko ’s will and I have since learned, thro’ M r Wirt , that in persuance of his advice , a gentleman of your neiborhood, M r John Hartwell Cocke of Fluvianna County , had qualified, under the laws of Virginia , as administrator.
25Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 24 July I recieved yesterday—it seems that the carpenters had not arrive at the date of your letter they left here that the last week and I imagin has arrive before this time. we have a serious time here of the horrid time prospect of a crop of corn. it is considerd by the people Genrally that all the raine that could fall would not make half a crop I consider the prospect fully...
26Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
upon the subjec of mooving I have really considerd untill my mind is much distresed. I am desireous to come to some understanding about it. my arraingments is such that it is very important that I should go if I can but if I cannot get of f in time this fall to escape the winters weather that I should waite untill spring or fall come yeare it is tharefore important that I should not be here...
27Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a few lines to inform You of our affairs here we have cleaned out the canal took us 4 ½ days with 13 hands. no hands of M rs Randolph & Colclasor done any part of it nor neither have they yet sent a single hand to help us tighten the dam my gang is now about it. we have got the mill at work but it has got as yet but little work the weather is very dry supposed at least one third of...
28Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I had an offer yesterday of 50 bar ls corn at 3$ about 9 miles distant and 90 days from the middle of may for payment. we may buy at 20/ nigher but not so neare as to get home more than one load a day. I think tharefore that we had as well take that 9 miles of f as we can get one load a day. that with what we shall get from Higginbotham will Carry us on towards harvest. it seems that the mill...
29Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
It appears that your statement of our acc ts are correct. I have not compared it with my own but my Idea is that nothing is rong only that instead of calculateing them the time of this yeare to end on the first of sep r it may be carried to the 10 day of that month as I am shore that I cannot set of f sooner than probably the middle of the month tho it would be very important that I should set...
30Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 2 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I trouble you with a few lines merly to acquaint you with my desire more fully respecting my mooving as the time or day that I consider best to set out upon my Journey being now but ninty days in the first place the day on which I my present yeare of ingagement with you ends is not untill the 22 nd day of sep r which is exactly that 22 days latter than I would wish it to be before I set off...
31Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 14 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I saw M r Pollock some days since and made the application for the money as we agreed he then said that I should have it and have to day recieved sixty three dollars. I have paid M r Craven and dont remember exactly what is due to M r Maupin as I gave you his note of the quantity of corn had from him will You be so good as to let me Know the amount due to Maupin
32Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 19 May 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
It appears that nearly all the persons whom we owe money is desireous of recieveing it. John H Craven says that he was Obliged to borrow with the promise of returning depending upon those owing to himself Maupin the presidnt s agent says that he is in want also. Campbell has given Meeks who lives with us an order on us for what we owe to him and I have not yet Known from him whither the money...
33Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
in makeing my arraingments to moove the ensueing fall I am under the necessaty of asking you for some advise with respect of my taking such money as will be good at Missouri I find that some people here who aught to be acquainted with the nature of the differant banks of virginia as well as the banks of some other states appeare to rather think any none of their paper at this time pearfectly...
34Jerman Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt on this day of your very friendly letter of the 14 Ins t & beg you, Sir, to accept my acknowledgements for your kind offer of attention to my Son Wayles of which I hope he will prove himself worthy. I am desirous that he should commence the French Language immediately & prosecute it diligently, for which purpose I furnished him with such Books I...
35Jerman Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
When I left Cumberland last Week my friend M r Eppes was about to set out for Staunton with Francis & Wayles ; Since my arrival here I have met with M r Brockenbrough who informs me that M r
36John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to acknowledge receipt of your much respected letter, of the 8 th instant : with the enclosure of five dollars: the balance in your favor of four dollars, will remain in my hands, as you are pleased to direct. I am thankful that my labour is approved by you; and with lasting sentiments of Gratitude and Respect, RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 18 Mar. 1819 and so...
37John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much Respected letter of the 11 th January last , came to hand; I beg leave Sir, to return you thanks for your goodness in Remitting me my proposal with your Signature.— I have just published my work, and take the liberty to Remit a Copy herewith: should this Small work of my own experience and memory be approved of by you, it will be a lasting Satisfaction to him, who begs leave to...
38Charles L. Bankhead to Thomas Jefferson, [received 6 February 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
the course I now take in addressing you is disapproved of by my wife whose Judgment but rarely errs; she thinks your time & feelings have been already too much encroached upon & excited: but when I cease to respect myself, then I consent that all others may cease to respect me. The veneration which from my infancy I was taught to feel for you, renders it impossible that I should remain passive...
39James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On my leaving Washington , I cheerfully, at the request of M r Macon , took charge of a box; as also of a letter addressed to you—I was informed of the contents of each—If the wine Sent you, by M r Macon , equal his hopes, Justified as they are by the Specimens furnished our mess, this winter, by the politeness of D r Hall , it will be to him peculiarly gratifying—For to the pleasure of...
40Enclosure: Resolutions of the Trustees of Smith & Riddle, 9 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
We, the undersigned duly appointed Trustees, for the Estate of the late firm of Smith & Riddle , Merchants of this City, for the benefit of their Creditors, having the most implicit confidence in the honor and integrity of Mr. Andrew Smith , a partner of the late firm, have solicited and received his consent, to lend his aid in endeavouring to settle the outstanding accounts, and closing the...
41Nelson Barksdale and Thomas Jefferson’s Advertisement for Workmen for the University of Virginia, [by 3 March 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
W orkmen wanted —For the buildings to be erected at the University of Virginia , near Charlottesville to wit: Brick Makers and Brick Layers, Stone Masons House Carpenters and Joiners, Plaisterers, Painters and Glaziers, who can produce certificates from known characters, of their perfect skill in their line of business, and of their good faith and punctuality in the performance of their...
42Enclosure: John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October [1818?], enclosure no. 1 in John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 26 … (Jefferson Papers)
From the statement of my account with the late General Kosciusko , transmitted the 17 th Oc t 1817 the apparent residue unaccounted for of $278. (exclusive of interest on my advance 26 th Nov. 1816 ) I beg leave to call to your recollection the very critical situation in which his finances were then in, when the unexpected unfortunate protested bill of exchange for £200. sterling was returned...
43John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 21 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreable to your fav r 12 h I called at the Residence of M. Poleteca —and delivered the inclosier to his servants, who informed M r P. was then on a Visit—to Mount Vernon , and expected his Return in a day or two—I left my Name and withal—from whom the packet was recd— He Replied M r P.
44John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On the late distressing scene of the distroying Element, at Monticello (without the effective Aid—and Materials, to arrest its impetuos Ravages,) what painfull Anxieties—you—with the good family, must have suffered (can be more readily conceiv’d than expressed) still I Hope! has terminated —with less, serious consequences than expected.— that the Main Dwelling—the Mansion House, with its...
45John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
This morning the Hon ble Rufus King of the Senate called on me to make inquirey into the particulars of the late Gen l K— Affairs—having learnt of my Agency thro you &: &c—I answered him—namely—to what was generally known. viz: that the good Gen l K— had previous—to his leaving this Country left you his sole Executor—by his Will—to which—the late John Dawson —then a Member of Congress
46John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length had an interview with the Hon: M r King , though much engaged;—who was pleased to inform me he had received a few days since a letter from General Armstrong to the following purpo r t; viz: Of your having declin’d the Trus t in favour of John Hartwell Cock Esq. of Fluvanna County in Virginia , Administrator with the will annexed of
47Enclosure: John Barnes’s Claims Against Tadeusz Kosciuszko’s Estate, 20 October [1818?], enclosure no. 2 in John Barnes … (Jefferson Papers)
Minute of charges ags t the estate of the late General Kosciusko ,—by John Barnes , hitherto not presented, and now submitted for M r Jefferson ’s approbation, wherewith I shall be perfectly contented .—. viz, John Barnes ’ & col d man servant’s expenditures, to & from Philadelphia
48John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 2 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Polettia —Russian Envoy, called on me this day requesting information—respecting the late Gen l Kosciusco ’s—Public Stock &c a &c a in Order, to make report thereof to his Goverment—that he had already addressed you on the subject but had not received any Answer—I informed— I had the Hon r of Acting (for many Years)—as your Confidential Agent—and waited—your directions whereby to govern my...
49John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to Acknowledge— your Esteemed fav r 14 th — should any explanation—of mine to be necessary—in the statem t of my several Acco ts —or any Agency—wherein I could be Usefull—in Aid of the Administrator— Gen l Cocke —or should his presence be Necessary here—
50Thomas Taylor (for Reuben G. Beasley) to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few days since a Case of Seeds from M r Thouin of the Jardin du Roi to be forwarded to your address by the first opportunity, And as no direct conveyance at present offers I have shipped it on board the Brig John Burgwin — Capt: Perry bound to Philadelphia to the care of the Collector , with a request that he will cause it to be forwarded to you immediately after its arrival.—...