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to Governor Clinton

Seeking advice on various appointments from the Governor. In part: "To you I need not make the observation that of all the duties imposed on the Executive head of a government, appointment to office is the most difficult & most irksome..." He goes on...

GLC00986

[Mediterranean ship passport for the schooner Charlotte]

Signed as president and countersigned by Secretary of State Madison. Partially printed document permits the passage of the merchant schooner Charlotte, commanded by Samuel Candler. Notes that the schooner weighed 103 tons, was mounted with no guns...

GLC01250

to John Adams

Complete text: "Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President of the US and will have the honor of waiting on him to dinner on Thursday next. / Jan.17.1801"

GLC01632

to Samuel Mitchill

President Jefferson sends New York Senator Mitchill an enclosed letter (not included) regarding a case involving General John Armstrong. He asks if the Tripoline Treaty experiences delay in the Senate. One full length seated engraving of Jefferson...

GLC01737

[An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defense by establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States].

Countersigned in type by Speaker of the House Jonathan Trumbull, President pro tempore of the Senate Richard Henry Lee, and President Washington. The act requires the enrollment in the militia of all able-bodied white men between the ages of...

GLC01959

to Jean Guillaume Neuville re: whether foreigners can own land in the U.S.

Written as President to Baron Hyde de Neuville. Jefferson ventures an opinion but refers the question to lawyers, particularly in the several states.

GLC01960

[Land grant for Toppan Webster].

Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. Grants 100 acres to Webster, an assignee of Samuel Jess, on the basis of the act of Congress appropriating land for former soldiers and for the society of the United Brethren. The act had been...

GLC02010

Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson vol 1

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Second edition. Published in Boston by Gray and Bowen. Signed by Hamilton Fish. This was the first of several attempts to replicate Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. Volumes 1 and 4 are mis-identified on the...

GLC08584.01

Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson vol 2

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Second edition. Published in Boston by Gray and Bowen. Signed by Hamilton Fish. This was the first of several attempts to replicate Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. Volumes 1 and 4 are mis-identified on the...

GLC08584.02

Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson vol 3

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Second edition. Published in Boston by Gray and Bowen. Signed by Hamilton Fish. This was the first of several attempts to replicate Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. Volumes 1 and 4 are mis-identified on the...

GLC08584.03

Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson vol 4

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Second edition. Published in Boston by Gray and Bowen. Signed by Hamilton Fish. This was the first of several attempts to replicate Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. Volumes 1 and 4 are mis-identified on the...

GLC08584.04

An Act making Provision for the Reduction of the Public Debt.

Official act of Congress, signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State. Enacts provisions made by the second session of Congress on 4 January 1790 for deceasing the national debt of the United States. Printed names of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg...

GLC00003

to Thomas M. Randolph

A business letter concerning the management of Monticello while Jefferson served as president. Jefferson writes that he cannot increase an employee's wages from 60 pounds to 100, and asks Randolph to find a replacement. Thomas Randolph and Jefferson...

GLC00032

[Passport for the brigantine "Alert" of Newburyport, commanded by Samuel Herrick]

Countersigned by Secretary of State Madison and Collector for the port of Newburyport Ralph Cross. The ship weighed 148 tons, had no mounted guns, and was navigated by an eight man crew. Printed on vellum and numbered 19. Signed as President.

GLC00058

to Charles Willson Peale [painter] re: thanks for educating grandson

Thomas Jefferson Randolph was Jefferson's favorite grandson and eventual executor of his estate. Jefferson writes to thank the artist Peale for educating his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph in the natural sciences. Randolph attended lectures at...

GLC00074

[Thomas Jefferson's defense of the Embargo Act of 1807]

Sent to Elijah Brown, Jr. Esq. Circular sent in response to criticisms of the Embargo Act of 1807 by people in the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Explains and defends the Embargo Act as a recourse for securing the United States' rights to...

GLC00115.01

to Wilson Cary Nicholas

Written as President to his close friend Wilson Cary Nicholas whom he asks to run for the House (he did and won) and to write him unreservedly with facts and opinions. Docketed by recipient. Nicholas died the year before Jefferson and is buried at...

GLC00290

to John W. Eppes

Eppes planned to sell his estate which Jefferson wanted to buy. Jefferson also mentions that indebtedness from his Washington residence has been nearly paid. Eppes rejected the proposal. At the end of the letter, Jefferson talks about the plans of...

GLC00315

to Isaac Briggs

Asks Surveyor General for the Territory of Mississippi Briggs to visit Thomas Moore's oil mill and report on dimensions and design. Regarding Jefferson's wish to build a beni oil mill for personal use. Beni oil is made from sesame seeds.

GLC00496.040

to James Ronaldson

Mentions his failing health. The plaster bust of Jackson, by William Rush, was ordered by Ronaldson for a number of important Americans. The only surviving terra-cotta is at the Art Institute of Chicago; the only surviving plaster is at the...

GLC00496.041

to John Trumbull re: his engraving "Declaration of Independence", Univ. of Va.

With integral address leaf, free franked. Docketed by recipient. Jefferson agrees to subscribe to a copy of Trumbull's engraving of the signing of Declaration (Staufer 679) and also orders a print of Washington's resignation. He invites Trumbull...

GLC02483

to James Monroe re: correspondence with Jedediah Morse

Written to President Monroe and docketed by him. Jefferson asks Monroe to consider his letter to Morse and forward or suppress it. Morse wanted to establish a Society for the improvement of Indians, which Jefferson did not approve. Written in...

GLC02708

An act concerning the registering and recording of ships or vessels.

Signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State. Authorized by Jonathan Trumbull, Speaker of the House of Representatives and John Adams, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Approved by President George Washington 31 December...

GLC02716

to the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pittsburgh

Written as President in response to the Society's "friendly address" concerning religious freedom and mentioning the "time of trouble" in which they live.

GLC02793.010

to M. de la Motte re: recommendation of Tobias Lear

Written in a clerk's hand while Jefferson was serving as Secretary of State, introducing Lear to de la Motte, Vice-Consul for the U.S. at Le Havre: "he is well known as the late Secretary of President Washington, and I can further assure you that he...

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