157141To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have been honoured with your letter of 22d. Ulto. containing an order for a pipe of Messrs Murdoch’s L. P. Madeira Wine which went forward per brig Louisa McNamara & expect the wine will come out in her. There is no doubt but these gentlemen’s wine improved by one or two years of our climate will prove of a very superior quality, & I hope merit your attention. I beg leave to express my hope...
157142To James Madison from Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer à Votre Excellence des Mémoires Sur la vie d’un Grand Homme, dont je vous ai déja fait passer les Oeuvres , où vous aurez vu combien votre République naissante lui donnait d’esperance et lui inspirait d’attachement. Ces Mémoires complettent l’Edition. Ils vous Seront portés par une branche de ma Famille qui me précede dans mon retour aux Etats-Unis. Elle est composée...
157143To James Madison from the Inhabitants of St. Clair County, Illinois Territory, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
In approaching the chief Magistrate of our country, we should not do Justice to our feelings, were we to neglect expressing our confidence in his administration, and our sincere respect and esteem for his person. And, although we are situated far from the seat of our National government; and not possessed of the best means of information respecting our National concerns—we humbly conceive,...
157144To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
It was my intention to have undertaken the survey of the line of the Western Navigation of the State of New York, and I had already accepted the Office of Engineer offered to me by the Commissioners of that State, when you left the city. But on reconsidering the duty I have to perform for the Navy department here, & the injury which so long an absence might occasion to my other concerns I...
157145To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
“Illustrious” Madison! canting “Fellow Citizen”!!! ☞ ☞ ☞ I hope you and all your infernal Set, are now in the Suds : if you are not yet, a post or two, will convince you. War, has taken place, between Britain, and the United States; you may recollect this, & credit anonymous’ account, in future . All , that I have predicted, & warned you of, will come to pass. A commence , you will hear of,...
157146To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 6 September 1811. Acknowledged in JM to Rush, 20 Sept. 1811 . Forwards a copy of a pamphlet received from the earl of Buchan.
157147Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 19 . came to hand only 4. or 5. days ago. I should have answered it by post hat had not Martin arrived with your second. I am glad to learn you are becoming a Roman, which a familiarity with their history will certainly make you. the putting you into qui, quae, quod , was only to strengthen your memory, which you may do quite as well by getting pieces of poetry by heart....
157148Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 6 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I had before learned with great concern your affliction with the rheumatism. your remedy of the cold bath is new to me, except a single instance of the wife of an overseer of mine who uses the cold bath every day of her life, and the day she omits it, has a return of Rheumatic symptoms. I have had an attack of it myself for two months past, confined a part of the time, without fever, and...
157149Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 6 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Our sis worthy sister Carr has at length yielded to the wasting complaint which has for two or three years been gaining upon her. without any increase of pain, or any other than her gradual decay, she exi expired three days ago, and was yesterday deposited here by the side of the companion who had been taken from her 38. years before. she had the happiness, and it is a great one, of seeing all...
157150From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 7 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
The preliminaries of peace were signed and I was weary of writing in the night. I do not find that I kept any journal during the remainder of the winter, until the month of May, 1783. I spent my time in looking at France, in the court and the city, in the theatres, churches, and especially in the palace, where the courts of justice are held. This survey of the laws, government, history,...
157151To James Madison from James Monroe, 7 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
The dispatches from France & England have kept me constantly occupied since their receit yesterday. A note to Gales shall be sent by the next mail. I now send a project of an answer to Mr Serrurier’s former letter, which you will dispose of as you find proper. I shall send one by the next mail, on the subject of his last letter, relating to the late proceeding in Phila. I have just recd. a...
157152To James Madison from James V. S. Ryley, 7 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 September 1811, Schenectady. Has been informed by “A Gentleman Just arrived from Detroit,” that his son, John, is bound for Washington with a deputation of Ottawa chiefs “on subjects of National Concern.” In the present crisis of foreign relations “it behoves every real American … to exert himself for the public good”; suggests that the chiefs be sent via Schenectady on their return home, as...
157153David Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Without a personal acquaintance I beg leave to ask of you an answer to the following enquiries. In October 1780 a volunteer expedition was fitted out from the County of Washington under the command of Colonel William Campbell , which with extraordinary promptitude marched to the State of South Carolina and in conjunction with other militia from the Carolinas defeated and made prisoners, the...
157154From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 8 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
In your letter of 18. January to your Mama, you mentioned that you read to your Aunt Cranch a Chapter in the Bible, or a Section of Dr: Doddridge’s annotations every Evening—This information gave me great pleasure, for so great is my veneration for the Bible, and so strong my belief that when duly read and meditated upon, it is of all the books in the world that which contributes most to make...
157155From James Madison to William Eustis, 8 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 2d. was duly recd. The course which the B. Govt. pursues, particularly in sending a Squadron to our Coasts, with such menacing indications, calls for our vigilance in every respect; and incidents may ensue, which would make a stronger claim on the services of the Members of the Ct. Mart: at Frederick town, than is made by the Object of that Court. It is so desirable...
157156Thomas Jefferson to Charles Wingfield, 8 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The death of mrs Carr , my sister, which took place a few days ago, and the desire that she should be buried here by the side of her husband , induce me to trouble you with a request that you would be so kind as to come and officiate on the occasion of her funeral. it is proposed that it shall take place on Wednesday the 11 th at 12 aclock. it will be private, her near connections only...
157157Charles Wingfield to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yours , of the date abovementioned, have observed the contents; shall attend at Monticello on wednesday the eleventh, at 12 OClock, to officiate on the occasion of the funeral Solemnities. Accept the assurance of my great esteem & respect. RC ( MHi ); addressed: “M r Thomas Jefferson Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 8 Sept. 1811 and so recorded in SJL .
157158To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 9 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Sickness in my family which has occupied much of my time for some days past has prevented my forwarding, at an earlier moment, the enclosed copy of a letter from Capt. Porter for your information. As Capt Porter’s operations are sanctioned by the orders which, some months since, in obedience to your instructions I issued to the Commanders of our Vessels of war, I shall inform him that his...
157159Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I most chearfully accept your kind invitation of a renewal of corrispondance; tho’ with very little expectation that I shall be able to add to your stock of Information in your favorite occupations, however with this pleasing hope, that as my subjects must necessarily be on the culture of the Earth, I must shall get instruction in my new occupation, that of a farmer, which thus may be difused...
157160From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
The first page of the enclosed Press-Copy of my last Letter is so faint that unless you should have received the original, before it comes to hand, I know not whether you will be able to read it—The second however is more plain, and contains the material information of the whole; the birth of my daughter—This information has since been repeated in letters to my father and my brother,...
157161Nathaniel H. Hooe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a letter from M r John Daingerfield of the 2 nd Ins t who sayes says he was authorised by M rs Mary Daingerfield to make a reques t of me whether I had written to you relative to the Balance of money due her & whether I had herd from you & if I had to be informed of the prospect of her geting the money due her Viz the full hire of
157162Thomas Jefferson to William McClure, 10 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In order to commence the establishment for family manufacture in our neighborhood, on which we conversed the other day, I will, for myself, engage of you a spinning Jenny, and a loom with a flying shuttle, doing towards them myself whatever my workmen can do; I will furnish six women or girls to work for myself on them under your direction, build a house for them to lodge in, contribute to a...
157163James Walker to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I send the bill of scantling for your sawmill which you gave to me the other day =as also a bill for the pitt gears of the same=the bill you gave me was not the sam that I supposed—I sent you a 2 d bill whilst you ware at Beadford which I suppose your servant has not delivered to you, however you may destroy that as the two which I now send will be sufficient=please have them filled up as soon...
157164Enclosure: James Walker’s Timber List for Thomas Jefferson’s Sawmill, [ca. 10 September 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Nomber Length in ft &. Inches Breadth in inches Thickness in Inches— Terms for the different pieces of Timber 2 50 14 12 Main sills pine or poplar 2 50 9 9 Plates ditto 3 11 .½ 18
157165Enclosure: James Walker’s Timber List for Thomas Jefferson’s Sawmill Pit Gears, [ca. 10 September 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Nomber Length in feet &. parts Breadth in Inches &. parts Thickness in Inches &. parts Terms for different pieces— 18 8 19 .½ 3 ¼ shrouding for Water wheel heart pine } Clear of cracks 8 20 .½ 19½.
157166From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
Not one ray of information has reached us respecting your Family, or my Dear Mrs Cranch’s ill health, since your letter written the day after leaving here. I cannot but hope that she is convalesent, & that you my Friend with her Family & others, may yet be blessed with her society on earth a while longer. But if it should be otherwise directed by an allwise Providence, I doubt not but that you...
157167To James Madison from William Eustis, 11 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose for your consideration a Letter from W. Jones Esqr Judge Advocate requesting instructions relative to the proceeding of the General Court Martial in the case therein mentioned. If the court shall determine that they will not take cognizance of any charges implying offences of more than two years standing, those laid in the five first charges, together with all the...
157168To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 11 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed was presented me this morning by Mr. Smith, the gentleman in whose behalf it was written. He stated that he had been waiting here for three weeks expecting your arrival, on which, he intended to deliver it, but as he was informed that the period of it was uncertain he had been advised by his friends to offer it to me. He stated to me, most positively, that he knew the contents and...
157169James Robertson to Willie Blount, 11 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
“There is in this place a very noted Chief of the Chickesaws, a man of truth, who wishes the President should be informed, that there is a combination of the Northern Indians, promoted by the English, to unite in falling on the frontier settlements, and are inviting the Southern tribes to join them.” Tr ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). This paragraph was extracted from a 9 Sept. 1811 letter from Chickasaw...
157170Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 11 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Oemler , not having found me here, delivered me your letter of May 1. on the 19 th Ult. at a place 90. miles Southwestwardly near the New London of this state, which I visit frequently, & with considerable stay. this absence & the date of delivery will account for this late answer. We are in no hurry for Persoone , and I am happy in it’s emploiment to a good purpose. for altho’ I do not...
157171Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 11 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed work came to me without a scrip of a pen other than what you see in the title page. ‘A Mons r le president de la societé.’ from this I conclude it intended for the Philosophical society , & for them I now inclose it to you. you will find the notes really of value. they embody and ascertain to us all the scraps of new discoveries which we have learnt in detached articles, from less...
157172Littleton W. Tazewell to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been flattering myself during the whole summer, with the hope of having it in my power to pay a visit to the Mountain Country, and in the course of my projected tour I contemplated calling upon you; but the situation of my family, and some perplexing business which I have found greatly great difficulty in adjusting, has protracted my stay here to so late a period, that I find myself now...
157173From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit, has some Truth in it and you have addressed several Examples of it: But it is by no means an universal Aphorism; nor do I believe it to be generally true. You seam to think that Integrity is less envied than Talents. This Question deserves consideration. Under the Roman Emperors nothing was envied so much as Integrity or even the Appearance or suspicion...
157174From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith, 12 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
Altho I cannot personally be with you, oweing to the Sickness in my own Family, to pay the last tribute of respect to the remains of your Dear Departed Son, be assured my dear afflicted Friends, that my Heart, my Thoughts, and my affections are with you, and that I do most tenderly Sympathize with you in this day of your visitation May that all Mercifull Being, whose ways are not as our ways,...
157175From Abigail Amelia Adams Smith to Benjamin Rush, 12 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
you will I hope pardon the Liberty I have taken to address myself to you Sir upon a Subject which has become very interesting to myself. since I have been on a visit to my Parents, I have met with a volume of your Medical inquiries, in which are containd some observations upon the use of Arsenic in the cure of Cancers and schirrous complaints— about May 1810 I first perceived a hardness in my...
157176To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 12 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 September 1811, Madeira. Advises that the wines JM ordered are cased and awaiting a vessel for Alexandria or Baltimore. Both JM’s and Monroe’s wines will be forwarded as soon as a ship is available. “I have taken the liberty to include the Pipe of wine for Mrs. Lucy Washington in the bill I have drawn upon you this day in favor of Matthew Cobb Esqr. of Portland for £378. Stg.” Wishes to be...
157177Benjamin Galloway to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The recent appearance, in a public paper, of a letter reported to have been written and transmitted by you to the Earl of Buchan , some years ago, has it may with truth be affirmed, astounded your political adversaries in this quarter; nor are they of the least most scrupulous Cast. It has compleatly thrown them on their Beam Ends: nor will their shattered Barques from present appearances, be...
157178Thomas Jefferson to David Higginbotham, 12 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The lot in Richmond which is the subject of your enquiry , mr Jefferson was some time ago authorised to sell whenever he could get what I gave for it, and a fair interest on it, that is to say, adding prin interest to principal at every doubling of the latter at 6. percent. I gave Col o Byrd for the lot £25. Jan. 8. 1774. it in that period there would be two consolidations of interest with the...
157179Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ my Letters to you Have for a very Long time Remained unanswered, I Cannot let madame de puzy Go to America without these lines from me—Not that she is in Need of a Recommendation to the friend upon whose Sentiments for Herself and Her parents she and Her children are chiefly to depend. she abandons the prospects to which the Distinguished Services of Her Husband , not only in our times,...
157180Charles Wingfield to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yours of the twelfth instant , shall attend agreeably to request, tomorrow at 12 OClock, unless the rain should be very excessive. with the assurance of my esteem & respect. RC ( MHi ); addressed: “M r Thomas Jefferson Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Sept. 1811. TJ’s note to Wingfield of the twelfth instant is not recorded in SJL and has not been found. On 13 Sept. 1811...
157181From James Madison to John Armstrong, 13 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 2d. instant, inclosing a newspaper statement of a conversation imputed to you, has been recd. with the respect due to the motives for the communication. I need scarcely say that evidence of that sort could have no weight with me, when opposed by so much improbability, and by the predispositions which it could not fail to find in me. I might add that the disproof furnished by...
157182To James Madison from John Graham, 13 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
I should have answered by the last Mail, the Letter you did me the Honor to write me, expressing a hope that my Health was returning; had I not been so sick on the day of its departure that I could not sit up. In consequence of a powerful dose of medicine, I am some what better, and have begun again to take Bark tho: I very much doubt whether my Stomach is properly prepared for it. The City is...
157183To James Madison from James Monroe, 13 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to submit to your consideration a subject of peculiar delicacy. It is to suggest a doubt of the propriety of your making a visit at this time to this neighbourhood. You will be satisfied that I do suggest it from an attachment to your fame & that of your administration. If you come up, it being just before the meeting of Congress, it will be concluded, & probably so represented in...
157184From James Madison to James Monroe, [13 September] 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your favor of this date. I need not express the perfect confidence I feel in the friendly & considerate inducements to your suggestion. But having made definitive preparation for the intended visit; having in no instance omitted it for many years, & the motive being strengthened by the late one recd. by myself, I think the omission, if tested by prudential calculations of a...
157185To James Madison from John R. Phillips, 13 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 September 1811, Newport, Delaware. Admits to some embarrassment in approaching JM, but the village of Newport wishes this autumn to erect and finish by subscription “a neat but plain building as a house for public worship (with a burying ground attachd. to it).” The principles of the plan are that “it will be free to all but belonging to none under the Care of a Committee appointed Yearly...
157186To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 14 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
Some time in the month of June last there was published in the Boston Patriot, a pretended State-Paper, purporting to be signed by the Duke of Cadore, addressed to His Excellency—as in extreme secrecy, and containing a common-place invective against the British Nation-Constitution, and Royal Family; mixed up with a panegyric upon the Duke of York, and the incendiary Jackson—a curse upon the...
157187From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 14 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed Letter was brought to me by the young gentleman in whose behalf it was written. He had other respectable recommendations addressed to you, which he has doubtless forwarded: His personal appearance does not make against him. He therefore stands in fair comparison with the other candidates to be taken into view, and who are better known to you than to me. The accounts by the Jno....
157188To James Madison from William Eustis, 14 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
It is with reluctance that I am obliged again to trouble you on the subject of the court martial, the details of which it was hoped might have been arranged by the department. Since my last it appears that it has been determined to take congnizance of all the charges. A new demand, as will be explained by the enclosed copy of a Letter from the Judge Advocate, is now made by the General thro...
157189To James Madison from James Taylor, 14 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
I am informed that application will be made to you in favor of a Mr. Sloo for an appointment as Indian Agent. He informs me that he was in the revolutionary army from nearly the beginning to the close in the quarter Master department, & that his father was an officer during I think the whole War. I have known Mr. Sloo for a number of years slightly but not well enough to speak of my own...
157190To James Madison from the Officers of the Second Brigade and Second Division of the Ohio State Militia, 14 September … (Madison Papers)
14 September 1811, Chillicothe. At a time when the nation’s peace and prosperity are threatened by the European belligerents and “the menaces of cruel savage hordes” on the western frontier, it is the duty of every American soldier to avow his confidence in the administration. The committee formed by the officers therefore addresses JM as the chief magistrate of “a free, independent people .”...