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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Volume 24

edited by
Julian P. Boyd

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CONTENTS

June 1, 1792 to December 1792

FOREWORD                                                   vii
GUIDE TO EDITORIAL APPARATUS                           ix
ILLUSTRATIONS                                             xli
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY                                      2

{ 1792 }
 continued

June July August September October November December
INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS


June

To John Paul Jones, 1 June                            3
To James Madison, 1 June                             10
From Henry Middleton, 1 June                         10
Notes on the Hessian Fly, [1-15 June]                11
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 June                 14
To Isaac Shelby, 1 June                              15
From Cavelier fils, 2 June                           15
From the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 2 June                                   16
From George Hammond, 2 June                          17
From George Hammond, 2 June                          18
To George Hammond, 2 June                            18
From George Hammond, 2 June                          19
To George Hammond, 2 June                            19
From George Hammond, 2 June                          19
From George Washington, [2 June]                     20
To C. W. F. Dumas, 3 June                            20
To Daniel L. Hylton, enclosing Mortgage 
  for Elk Hill, 3 June                               21
To John Witherspoon, 3 June                          23
From Thomas Bell, 4 June                             24
From Thomas Hemming, 4 June                          24
To James Madison, 4 June                             25
Notes of a Conversation with George 
  Hammond, 4 June                                    26
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  4 June                                             33
From Delamotte, 5 June                               34
To William Blount, 6 June                            35
From the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 6 June                                   36
From George Hammond, 6 June                          36
To George Hammond, 6 June                            37
From John Garland Jefferson, 6 June                  38
To Alexander Martin, 6 June                          39
To John Dobson, 7 June                               39
To Thomas Leiper, 7 June                             40
To Alexander Donald, [8 June]                        41
From C. W. F. Dumas, 8 June                          41
To Jean Antoine Gautier, 8 June                      42
From William Green, 8 June                           43
To Thomas Pinckney, 8 June                           43
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 8 June                 43
To David Rittenhouse, 8 June                         44
To the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 9 June                                   45
From Gouverneur Morris, 9 June                       46
To Hore Browse Trist, 9 June                         46
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 9 June                   47
To George Washington, 9 June                         48
From George Washington, 9 June                       49
To Le Veillard, 10 June                              49
To James Madison, 10 June                            50
From Gouverneur Morris, 10 June                      50
To the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 11 June                                  56
From George Gilmer, 11 June                          57
From William Green, 11 June                          57
To Thomas Hemming, 11 June                           58
To Thomas Pinckney, 11 June                          59
To Thomas Pinckney, 11 June                          59
From David Rittenhouse, 11 June                      64
George Washington to Thomas Barclay, 
  11 June                                            66
From Thomas Barclay, 12 June                         67
To John Dobson, 12 June                              68
From James Madison, 12 June                          69
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 12 June                  71
To Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 
  12 June                                            72
From James Yard, 12 June                             72
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 13 June                  73
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 13 June                  73
From William Bingham, 14 June                        74
To Thomas Pinckney, 14 June                          74
To George Washington, 14 June                        76
To Jerman Baker, 15 June                             76
From William Barton, 15 June, 
  enclosing John A. De Normandie
  to Jefferson, 24 May                               77
To Nathaniel Burwell, 15 June                        80
To John Hylton, 15 June                              81
To John Garland Jefferson, 15 June                   81
To Samuel Mackay, 15 June                            82
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr, 15 June                 83
To the Speaker of the House of 
  Representatives of Pennsylvania,
  15 June                                            84
From George Washington, 15 June                      84
To Lafayette, 16 June                                85
From James Mease, 16 June                            86
To Gouverneur Morris, 16 June                        88
From David Rittenhouse, 16 June                      89
From David Humphreys, 17 June                        90
To James Madison, [17-18 June]                       90
From James Monroe, 17 June                           91
From Gouverneur Morris, 17 June                      93
From George Washington, 17 June                      95
Notes on Arthur Young's Letter to 
  George Washington, 18 June                         95
To Thomas Paine, 19 June                             99
From Charles Gottfried Paleske, 
  19 June                                            99
From George Wythe, [before 19 June]                 101
To Joel Barlow, 20 June                             101
From Alexander Hamilton, 20 June                    102
From David Humphreys, 20 June                       102
From David Redick, 20 June                          103
To George Washington, 20 June                       104
To George Washington, 20 June                       104
To James Madison, 21 June                           105
To Samuel Blodget, Jr., 22 June                     107
To Peter Carr, 22 June                              107
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 June                   108
To William Duval, 22 June                           108
To B. Francis, 22 June                              109
To Henry Knox, 22 June                              109
To Adam Lindsay, 22 June                            110
To John de Neufville, 22 June                       110
From Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 
  22 June                                           110
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 June               111
To John Cleves Symmes, 22 June                      112
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 22 June                   112
From Elnathan Haskell, 23 June                      112
To Joseph Hopkinson, 23 June                        113
To James Monroe, 23 June                            114
From Jean Baptiste Terant, 23 June                  115
From Nathaniel Burwell, 24 June                     116
To Joseph Fay, 24 June                              117
To Alexander Hamilton, 24 June                      117
From James Madison, 24 June                         118
To Thomas Pinckney, 24 June                         119
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 25 June                   119
From Augustine Davis, 25 June                       121
From James Madison, 25 June                         121
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  25 June                                           121
From William Short, 25 June                         122
From F. P. Van Berckel, 25 June                     125
From Alexander Hamilton, 26 June                    126
From William Pollard, 26 June                       126
From Edmund Randolph, 26 June                       127
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and 
  Josef de Jaudenes, 26 June                        129
From Thomas Auldjo, 27 June                         131
From Alexander Hamilton, 29 June                    131
From Joseph Hopkinson, 29 June                      132
To Daniel L. Hylton, 29 June                        132
To James Madison, 29 June                           133
From James Madison, 29 June                         134
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  29 June                                           136
From William Short, 29 June                         137
From George Washington, [29 June]                   139
From James Anderson, [before 30 June]               139
From John Carey, 30 June                            140
From Tobias Lear, 30 June                           141
Memorandum on Americans Captured at 
  Sea during the Revolutionary War, 
  30 June                                           141
From Edmund Randolph, 30 June                       142
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef 
  de Jaudenes, 30 June                              142


July

To James Brown, 1 July                              143
From David Humphreys, 1 July                        144
To Daniel L. Hylton, 1 July                         145
From Gouverneur Morris, 1 July                      145
To Elnathan Haskell, 2 July                         146
To Henry Knox, 2 July                               146
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  2 July                                            147
To Hugh Rose, 2 July                                148
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 2 July                  149
To F. P. Van Berckel, 2 July                        149
From Willink, Van Staphorst & 
  Hubbard, 2 July                                   150
To John Carey, 3 July                               151
To Andrew Ellicott, 3 July                          151
To James Madison, 3 July                            151
To Thomas Pinckney, 3 July                          153
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  3 July                                            153
To David Stuart, 3 July                             154
To Edward Telfair, 3 July                           155
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef 
  de Jaudenes, 3 July                               156
To Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 
  3 July                                            157
From Edmund Randolph, 4 July                        157
From F. P. Van Berckel, 4 July                      157
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 5 July                    158
From the Commissioners of the 
  Federal District, 5 July                          159
From George Hammond, 5 July                         160
From James Madison, 5 July                          162
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and 
  Josef de Jaudenes, 5 July                         163
To George Hammond, 6 July                           164
From George Hammond, 6 July                         164
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 6 July                    165
From George Washington, 6 July                      165
Edmund Randolph's Opinion on Recess 
  Appointments, 7 July                              165
From George Washington, [7 July]                    168
From James Brown, 8 July                            168
The Settlement of Jefferson's 
  Accounts as Minister Plenipotentiary
  in France                                         169
    I. Accounts as Minister 
       Plenipotentiary in France, 8 July            169
   II. Explanatory Notes on Accounts, 
       [8 July]                                     169
  III. James Wilson's Certification of 
       Jefferson's Oath on Accounts,
       9 July                                       169
To Thomas Chittenden, 9 July                        200
From Nathaniel Cutting, 9 July                      200
To George Hammond, 9 July                           202
To George Hammond, 9 July                           202
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de 
  Jaudenes, 9 July                                  203
From George Washington, 9 July                      204
To George Washington, 9 July                        204
George Washington to David Rittenhouse, 
  [9 July]                                          205
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 10 July                   205
To Thomas Leiper, 10 July                           207
From Gouverneur Morris, 10 July                     207
Notes of a Conversation with George 
  Washington, 10 July                               210
To the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 11 July                                 212
To Joseph Hopkinson, 11 July                        213
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef 
  Ignacio de Viar, 11 July                          213
To James Madison, 11 July                           214
Note of Agenda to Reduce the 
  Government to True Principles,
  [ca. 11 July]                                     215
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 July               217
From George Washington, 11 July                     217
To Samuel Blodget, Jr., 12 July                     218
To Thomas Chittenden, 12 July                       218
To Christopher Gore, 12 July                        219
To Alexander Hamilton, 12 July                      219
From George Hammond, 12 July                        220
To George Hammond, 12 July                          221
To David Humphreys, 12 July                         221
To Thomas Leiper, 12 July                           222
To Gouverneur Morris, 12 July                       222
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 July                         223
To Edmund Randolph, 12 July                         223
To F. P. Van Berckel, 12 July                       224
To George Wythe, 12 July                            224
From Thomas Barclay, 13 July                        224
To Alexander Hamilton, 13 July                      225
From George Hammond, 13 July                        225
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  13 July                                           226
From Hans Rodolph Saabye, 13 July                   226
From Tench Coxe, 14 July                            228
From Alexander Hamilton, 14 July                    229
From Madame de Neufville, 15 July                   229
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 16 July                     232
From Joseph Fenwick, 16 July                        233
From Joseph Moore, 16 July                          234
From James Monroe, 17 July                          235
From George Washington, 17 July                     238
From Charles Wintersmith, 17 July                   238
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 July                 240
From William Short, 20 July                         240
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 
  20 July                                           246
To Pierre Guide, 21 July                            246
From Delamotte, 22 July                             247
From Peyton Short, 22 July                          247
From Henry Lee, 23 July                             248
From George Washington, 23 July                     248
From George Wythe, 24 July                          248
To James Brown, 26 July                             249
From William Short, 26 July                         249
From James Madison, 27 July                         259
From William Short, 27 July                         260
From William Short, 27 July                         261
From Adrien Petit, 28 July                          262
To James Brown, 29 July                             263
To the Commissioners of the 
  Federal District, 29 July                         264
To Daniel L. Hylton, 29 July                        264
To James Lyle, 29 July                              265
To George Taylor, Jr., 29 July                      266
To John Witherspoon, 29 July                        267
From James Brown, 30 July                           267
From Malesherbes, 30 July                           267
To Francis Walker, 30 July                          268
To George Washington, 30 July                       269
From Thomas Barclay, 31 July                        269
From William Short, 31 July                         270


August

From James Brown, 1 August                          272
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 
  1 August                                          273
From Gouverneur Morris, 1 August                    275
From Gouverneur Morris, 1 August                    277
From Jean Baptiste Terant, 
  2 August                                          278
From George Hammond, 3 August                       278
From George Hammond, 3 August                       279
To Bowling Clark, 5 August                          279
From William Short, 6 August                        280
From William Short, 6 August                        281
From Thomas Pinckney, 7 August                      282
From Charles Clay, 8 August                         283
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 
  8 August                                          284
From Thomas Auldjo, 9 August                        285
From Charles Gottfried Paleske, 
  9 August                                          285
To Henry Remsen, [10?] August                       285
From E. Laughlan, 11 August                         286
From James Lyle, 11 August                          286
From David Humphreys, 12 August                     287
To David Rittenhouse, 12 August                     287
To George Washington, 12 August                     289
From Joseph G. Chambers, 
  13 August                                         290
To Henry Lee, 13 August                             293
To Adrien Petit, 13 August                          294
To George Taylor, Jr., 13 August                    295
From George Taylor, Jr., 13 August                  295
To John Vaughan, 13 August                          296
From George Washington, 13 August                   296
From John Garland Jefferson, 14 August              297
From William Short, 15 August                       298
From George Wythe, 15 August                        299
To William Carmichael, 16 August                    299
To Etienne Claviere, 16 August                      300
From Joseph Fenwick, 16 August                      301
From Gouverneur Morris, 16 August                   301
From George Taylor, Jr., 16 August                  306
From Gouverneur Morris, 17 August                   307
To William Knox, 19 August                          308
To Sampson Mathews, 19 August                       309
To Charles Gottfried Paleske, 
  19 August                                         309
To George Taylor, Jr., 19 August                    310
To George Washington, 19 August                     310
To Edmund Winston, 19 August                        311
From Edward Telfair, 21 August                      312
From Thomas Barclay, 22 August                      312
From Gouverneur Morris, 22 August                   313
To William Barton, 23 August                        315
From George Washington, 23 August                   315
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 24 August               319
From Alexander Martin, 24 August                    321
From William Short, 24 August                       322
From Josiah Parker, 26 August                       325
From Edmund Randolph, 26 August                     326
From George Taylor, Jr., 26 August                  326
From James Yard, 26 August                          327
To George Taylor, Jr., 27 August                    328
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 27 August                 328
To George Washington, 27 August                     329
From Thomas Pinckney, 29 August                     329
From Gouverneur Morris, 30 August                   331
From William Short, 31 August                       335


September

From Joseph Fenwick, 1 September                    339
From George Taylor, Jr., 1 September                339
From John Syme, 2 September                         340
To Timothy Pickering, 3 September                   341
From James Currie, 4 September                      341
From Powhatan Bolling, 6 September                  342
From Alexander Donald, 6 September                  343
From Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 
  6 September                                       344
From Thomas Barclay, 8 September                    345
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 8 September               346
From Thomas Pinckney, 8 September                   346
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 
  8 September                                       348
From David Humphreys, 9 September                   348
From John Garland Jefferson, 
  9 September                                       349
To Needler Robinson, 9 September                    350
To Archibald Stuart, 9 September                    351
To George Washington, 9 September                   351
From Thomas Barclay, 10 September                   360
From Blow & Milhado, 10 September                   360
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 
  10 September                                      362
To Daniel L. Hylton, 10 September                   363
From Gouverneur Morris, 10 September                364
To George Taylor, Jr., 10 September                 365
To George Webb, 10 September                        366
To Basil Wood, 10 September                         366
To James Brown, 11 September                        367
To Charles Clay, 11 September                       367
From Ferdinando Fairfax, 11 September               368
From Joseph Fenwick, 11 September                   369
To Robert Fleming, 11 September                     370
To Henry Middleton, 11 September                    371
To Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 11 September              372
To Hugh Rose, 11 September                          372
To Edward Rutledge, 11 September                    373
To George Wythe, 11 September                       373
From Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 
  14 September                                      374
From James Brown, 15 September                      374
From William Short, 15 September                    374
From George Washington, 15 September                383
To James Monroe, 16 September                       385
To James Madison, 17 September                      386
To Edmund Randolph, 17 September                    387
To John Syme, 17 September                          387
From George Webb, 17 September                      388
From J. P. P. Derieux, [18 September?]              389
From William Knox, 18 September                     389
From William Vans Murray, 18 September              389
From Powhatan Bolling, 6 September                  342
From Alexander Donald, 6 September                  343
From Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,
  6 September                                       344
From Thomas Barclay, 8 September                    345
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 8 September               346
From Thomas Pinckney, 8 September                   346
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard,
  8 September                                       348
From David Humphreys, 9 September                   348
From John Garland Jefferson, 
  9 September                                       349
To Needler Robinson, 9 September                    350
To Archibald Stuart, 9 September                    351
To George Washington, 9 September                   351
From Thomas Barclay, 10 September                   360
From Blow & Milhado, 10 September                   360
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 
  10 September                                      362
To Daniel L. Hylton, 10 September                   363
From Gouverneur Morris, 10 September                364
To George Taylor, Jr., 10 September                 365
To George Webb, 10 September                        366
To Basil Wood, 10 September                         366
To James Brown, 11 September                        367
To Charles Clay, 11 September                       367
From Ferdinando Fairfax, 11 September               368
From Joseph Fenwick, 11 September                   369
To Robert Fleming, 11 September                     370
To Henry Middleton, 11 September                    371
To Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 11 September              372
To Hugh Rose, 11 September                          372
To Edward Rutledge, 11 September                    373
To George Wythe, 11 September                       373
From Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 
  14 September                                      374
From James Brown, 15 September                      374
From William Short, 15 September                    374
From George Washington, 15 September                383
To James Monroe, 16 September                       385
To James Madison, 17 September                      386
To Edmund Randolph, 17 September                    387
To John Syme, 17 September                          387
From George Webb, 17 September                      388
From J. P. P. Derieux, [18 September?]              389
From William Knox, 18 September                     389
From William Vans Murray, 18 September              389


October

From Thomas Pinckney, 5 October                     441
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  5 October                                         443
From John Carey, 6 October                          443
From Mary Gomain Hallet, 
  [ca. 6 October]                                   444
From Alexander Hamilton, 6 October                  445
John Sheppard to the Committee of the 
  American Philosophical Society, 
  [ca. 6 October]                                   446
From John F. Mercer, 7 October                      447
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  7 October                                         448
To Henry Remsen, 7 October                          449
From George Washington, 7 October                   450
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 8 October                 450
From Joseph Fay, 8 October                          451
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 
  8 October                                         451
From William Rawle, 8 October                       452
To William Rawle, 8 October                         453
From George Gilmer, 9 October                       453
From Joshua Johnson, 9 October                      453
From James Madison, 9 October                       455
From William Short, 9 October                       455
From Ernst Frederick Walterstorff, 
  9 October                                         458
From Wilson Miles Cary, 10 October                  458
From Joseph G. Chambers, 10 October                 459
To Delamotte, 10 October                            461
To Joseph Fenwick, 10 October                       461
To Jean Francois Froulle, 10 October                462
From Henry Remsen, 10 October                       463
From Elias Vanderhorst, 10 October                  465
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October              466
To J. P. P. Derieux, 11 October                     467
To Alexander Donald, enclosing Invoice 
  of Books and Articles to be Bought 
  in Dublin and London, 11 October                  467
From Alexander Hamilton, 11 October                 470
To D. Vassy, 11 October                             470
From James Mease, 12 October                        471
From Joseph Nourse, 12 October                      472
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 October                      472
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  12 October                                        473
From William Short, 12 October                      474
To Blow & Milhado, 13 October                       476
To Daniel Carroll, 13 October                       477
From Daniel Carroll, 13 October                     477
From Ernst Frederick Gayer, 
  13 October                                        478
To Alexander Hamilton, 13 October                   478
To William Carmichael and William 
  Short, 14 October                                 479
From the Commissioners of the 
  Federal District, 14 October                      481
To William Short, 14 October                        482
To George Washington, 14 October                    484
From William Knox, 15 October                       484
To Gouverneur Morris, 15 October                    484
Paragraphs for the President's 
  Annual Message to Congress,
  15 October                                        486
From Henry Remsen, 15 October                       487
From Samuel Ward & Brothers, 
  15 October                                        488
To Joseph Fenwick, 16 October                       489
From James Monroe, 16 October                       489
To William Short, 16 October                        490
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 
  16 October                                        492
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 
  16 October                                        493
To George Washington, 16 October                    493
To James Madison, 17 October                        493
To George Washington, enclosing 
  Observations on the French
  Debt, 17 October                                  494
Estimate of the Domestic Expenses 
  of the State Department for
  1793, 18 October                                  498
From George Washington, 18 October                  499
To James Currie, 19 October                         500
From Alexander Hamilton, with 
  Jefferson's Comment, 19 October                   500
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  19 October                                        501
From William Short, 19 October                      502
To Samuel Ward & Brothers, 19 October               504
From George Washington, 20 October                  505
From John Garland Jefferson, 
  21 October                                        506
From J. P. P. Derieux, 22 October                   507
From Alexander Hamilton, 22 October                 507
To Alexander Hamilton, 22 October                   508
To Alexander Hamilton, enclosing 
  Statements of Salaries and
  Disbursements of the Department of 
  State, 22 October                                 508
From William Hylton, 22 October                     511
To Thomas Pinckney, 22 October                      511
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  22 October                                        512
From William Short, 22 October                      513
From Jean Antoine Gautier, 23 October               522
From James Madison, 23 October                      523
From Gouverneur Morris, 23 October                  524
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, enclosing 
  Observations on La Forest's
  Commission, 23 October                            530
From Henry Lee, 24 October                          531
From Daniel Carroll, 25 October                     533
From Thomas Barclay, 26 October                     534
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  26 October                                        534
From William Short, 27 October                      535
From Daniel Smith, 27 October                       537
To George Washington, 27 October                    538
From John F. Mercer, 28 October                     539
To Edmund Randolph, 28 October                      540
From John Joseph de Barth, 
  29 October                                        540
Report on the Proceedings of the 
  Northwest Territory, 29 October                   541
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef 
  de Jaudenes, 29 October, enclosing 
  Extract of Carondelet to Viar and 
  Jaudenes, 24 September                            541
From Samuel Ward & Brothers, 
  29 October                                        544
From James Currie, 30 October                       544
From James Yard, 30 October                         545
To Alexander Hamilton, 31 October                   545
From David Humphreys, 31 October                    545
From Tobias Lear, 31 October                        547
Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the 
  Southern Indians and Spain,
  31 October                                        547


November

From Tobias Lear, 1 November                        550
Edmund Randolph's Opinion on the 
  Theft of Slaves from Martinique, 
  1 November                                        551
Revised Paragraph for the President's 
  Annual Message to Congress, 
  1 November                                        552
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef 
  de Jaudenes, 1 November                           552
To George Washington, 1 November                    553
From William Cobbett, 2 November                    554
To J. P. P. Derieux, 2 November                     555
From Alexander Hamilton, 2 November                 556
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  2 November                                        556
From William Short, 2 November                      557
From William Short, 2 November                      560
To George Washington, 2 November                    562
To George Washington, 2 November                    563
From James Anderson, 3 November                     564
To William Carmichael and William 
  Short, 3 November                                 565
From George Washington, 3 November                  567
To George Washington, enclosing 
  Accounts of the Department of
  State, 3 November                                 568
To John Bolling, Jr., 4 November                    573
To James Brown, 4 November                          573
To Wilson Miles Cary, 4 November                    574
To Joseph Dickerson and Isaac 
  Winfrey, 4 November                               575
To Joseph Fay, 4 November                           575
To Richard Hanson, enclosing Power 
  of Attorney to Richard
  Hanson, 4 November                                576
To John Garland Jefferson, 
  4 November                                        577
To Adam Lindsay, 4 November                         577
To Matthew Maury, 4 November                        578
To John F. Mercer, 4 November                       578
To George Reveley, 4 November                       579
To F. P. Van Berckel, 4 November                    579
To Joseph G. Chambers, 5 November                   580
To William Cobbett, 5 November                      580
From the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 5 November                              581
From James Currie, 5 November                       582
From Alexander Hamilton, 5 November                 582
To George Washington, enclosing 
  Estimates of the Foreign Fund
  and Foreign Establishment, 
  5 November                                        583
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 6 November                585
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 6 November                  586
To David Humphreys, 6 November                      587
From John Garland Jefferson, 6 November             588
To the Mayor and Municipality of 
  Marseilles, 6 November                            589
To Thomas Pinckney, 6 November                      590
From Thomas Pinckney, 6 November                    591
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 6 November              591
From Alexander Donald, 7 November                   592
From James Maury, 7 November                        592
To Gouverneur Morris, 7 November                    592
To Gouverneur Morris, 7 November                    594
To David Humphreys, 8 November                      595
To Thomas Pinckney, 8 November                      596
From Rodolph Vall-Travers, 8 November               597
George Washington to the Senate, 
  8 November                                        598
From James Brown, 9 November                        598
To Matthew McAllister, 9 November                   599
From Thomas Pinckney, 9 November                    600
To Edmund Randolph, 9 November                      601
From William Short, 9 November                      601
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 9 November                603
To George Turner, 9 November                        604
From John Clarke, 10 November                       604
To Arthur St. Clair, 10 November                    605
To Alexander Donald, enclosing 
  Directions for Window Sashes,
  11 November                                       605
Notes on Alexander Hamilton, 
  11 November                                       607
Notes on the Circulating Medium of 
  Philadelphia and Great Britain, 
  11 November                                       607
To Samuel Campbell, 12 November                     608
From Tobias Lear, 12 November                       609
From Edmund Randolph, 12 November                   609
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  12 November                                       610
To George Washington, 12 November                   610
To George Washington, 12 November                   610
To Stephen Willis, 12 November                      611
To Jacquelin Ambler, 13 November                    612
To the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, enclosing George
  Washington to Jacquelin Ambler, 
  13 November                                       612
From C. W. F. Dumas, 13 November                    613
From Joseph Leacock, 13 November                    614
From James Maury, 13 November                       614
From Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 
  13 November                                       615
To Thomas Pinckney, 13 November                     615
To Henry Remsen, 13 November                        616
To Christian Baehr, 14 November                     617
To William Blount, 14 November                      617
Circular to Consuls and Vice-Consuls, 
  14 November                                       618
To Thomas FitzSimons, 14 November                   620
From John Steele, 14 November                       621
To Thomas Barclay, 15 November                      621
To James Brown, 15 November                         622
To Joseph Donath, 16 November                       622
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  16 November                                       623
From William Short, 16 November                     624
To George Washington, 16 November                   626
To George Washington, 16 November                   626
From Alexander Hamilton, 17 November                627
From Alexander Hamilton, [17 November]              627
From Tobias Lear, 17 November                       627
To the President Pro Tempore of the 
  Senate, 17 November                               628
Report of the Commissioners of the 
  Sinking Fund, [17 November]                       629
From Richard Chandler, 18 November                  630
From John Garland Jefferson, 
  18 November                                       631
From Adam Lindsay, 18 November                      632
Notes on the Legitimacy of the 
  French Government, with
  Addendum, [18-19] November                        632
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  18 November                                       634
To George Washington, 18 November                   634
From J. P. P. Derieux, 19 November                  635
To William Fitzhugh, 19 November                    636
From Alexander Hamilton, 19 November                636
To Adam? Hunter, 19 November                        637
From Thomas Mifflin, 19 November                    637
Notes on Alexander Hamilton, 
  19 November                                       638
From John Page, 19 November                         638
To Mann Page, 19 November                           639
From Henry Remsen, 19 November                      640
To George Washington, 19 November                   642
From George Washington, with 
  Jefferson's Comment, 19 November                  642
From Thomas Barclay, 20 November                    643
From Joseph G. Chambers, 20 November                644
To Thomas Mifflin, 20 November                      645
To Thomas Pinckney, 20 November                     646
From William Short, 20 November                     646
From Thomas Shubrick, 20 November                   650
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 November               652
To Alexander Hamilton, 21 November                  654
From James Monroe, 21 November                      655
To J. P. P. Derieux, 22 November                    655
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 22 November                 656
To Daniel L. Hylton, 22 November                    656
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  22 November                                       657
From Joseph Leacock, [23] November                  658
From Tobias Lear, 23 November                       660
To Joseph Leacock, 24 November                      661
To George Washington, 24 November                   661
To James McHenry, 25 November                       662
To Henry Remsen, 25 November                        662
To George Divers, 26 November                       663
From Andrew Ellicott, 26 November                   664
From James Maury, 26 November                       664
Report on the Petition of John de 
  Neufville, 26 November                            664
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 
  26 November                                       667
To Thomas Pinckney, 27 November                     668
From David Rittenhouse, 27 November                 668
From Richard Harrison, 28 November                  668
From David Humphreys, 28 November                   669
From Tobias Lear, 28 November                       671
From David Rittenhouse, 28 November                 671
From Abner Vernon, 28 November                      672
To George Washington, 28 November                   673
George Washington to the Senate and 
  the House of Representatives, 
  [28 November]                                     674
From William Fitzhugh, 29 November                  674
From Richard Harrison, 29 November                  675
From Tobias Lear, 29 November                       675
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 
  29 November                                       676
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  30 November                                       676
From William Short, 30 November                     677
From William Short, 30 November                     679
From James Traquair, [30 November]                  683


December

Petition of Oliver Evans to the 
  Patent Board, [ca. 1 December]                    683
To Richard Harrison, 1 December                     684
To Samuel Jones, Jr., 1 December                    685
From James Maury, 1 December                        685
To Nathaniel Tracy, 1 December                      686
To George Washington, enclosing 
  Draft Clause on Foreign
  Intercourse, 1 December                           686
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 2 December                687
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 2 December                688
To Joseph Fenwick, 2 December                       690
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 
  2 December                                        691
From Simeon Baldwin, 3 December                     691
A Bill to Redeem the Public Debt, 
  [3 December]                                      692
Clause for Bill on Offenses against 
  the Law of Nations, [3 December]                  693
Opinion on Offenses against the Law 
  of Nations, 3 December                            693
To Thomas Pinckney, 3 December                      696
From Philip Wilson, 3 December                      697
From Oliver Ellsworth, 4 December                   698
From Robert Gamble, 4 December                      698
From the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 5 December                              699
From William Green, 5 December                      700
Memorandum on James Traquair, 
  5 December                                        702
Edmund Randolph's Opinion on Offenses 
  against the Law of Nations, 
  5 December                                        702
From Thomas Auldjo, 6 December                      703
To Daniel L. Hylton, 6 December                     703
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  6 December                                        704
From Archibald Stuart, 6 December                   704
From Francis Eppes, 7 December                      706
From William Murray, 7 December                     706
From John Waller Johnston, 
  [ca. 8 December]                                  707
From William Short, 8 December                      708
To George Washington, 8 December                    713
From Jacob Hollingsworth, [9] December              713
To Thomas Leiper, 9 December                        714
From Jacquelin Ambler, 10 December                  715
From Joseph Leacock, 10 December                    715
To James Madison, [ca. 10 December]                 717
Notes for a Conversation with George 
  Hammond, [ca. 10 December]                        717
Notes of Cabinet Meeting on Indian 
  Affairs, 10 December                              721
From Peyton Short, 10 December                      721
Thoughts on the Bankruptcy Bill, 
  [ca. 10 December]                                 722
From James Brown, 11 December                       723
From Tobias Lear, 11 December                       724
To Samuel Biddle, 12 December                       724
From Alexander Donald, 12 December                  726
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 12 December                 727
Notes of a Conversation with George 
  Hammond, 12 December                              728
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 December                     730
To Abner Veron, 12 December                         730
To James Brown, 13 December                         731
To the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, enclosing Drawing of a 
  Mill for Sawing and Polishing Stone,
  13 December                                       731
From Charles Everett, [13 December]                 733
From John F. Mercer, 13 December                    733
Notes of a Conversation with George 
  Washington, 13 December                           734
From Thomas Pinckney, 13 December                   735
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  13 December                                       740
To John Clarke, 14 December                         741
From Tench Coxe, 14 December                        741
To J. P. P. Derieux, 14 December                    742
From Alexander Hamilton, 14 December                742
From Thomas Pinckney, 14 December                   743
From Martha Jefferson Carr, 15 December             744
To George Gilmer, 15 December                       744
To William Pearce, 15 December                      745
To Ambrose Vasse, 15 December                       745
To Charles Bellini, 16 December                     746
To Thomas Leiper, 16 December                       746
To Bishop James Madison, 16 December                748
To St. George Tucker, 16 December                   748
From Thomas Barclay, 17 December                    749
To the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 17 December                             749
Notes of a Conversation with George 
  Hammond, 17 December                              750
Notes on the Reynolds Affair, 
  17 December                                       751
From William Short, 18 December                     751
From William Short, 18 December                     752
To George Washington, 18 December                   755
From Thomas Barclay, 19 December                    756
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 
  [19 December]                                     756
To Francis Eppes, 19 December                       756
To John F. Mercer, 19 December                      757
To James Brown, 20 December                         758
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr.,20 December                759
From Joseph Fenwick, 20 December                    759
From Tobias Lear, 20 December                       760
From Condorcet, 21 December                         760
From Gouverneur Morris, 21 December                 762
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  21 December                                       774
From Hans Rodolph Saabye, 22 December               775
To the Commissioners of the Federal 
  District, 23 December                             776
From David Humphreys, 23 December                   776
From John Brown Cutting, 24 December                778
From Jacob Hollingsworth, 24 December               779
From Elias Vanderhorst, 24 December                 780
To John Rutherford, 25 December                     781
From Gaudenzio Clerici, 26 December                 785
To Richard Dobson, 26 December                      788
From Alexander Hamilton, 26 December                789
To John Jones, 26 December                          790
From Thomas Barclay, 27 December                    791
From Thomas Barclay, 27 December                    791
From John Nancarrow, 27 December                    792
Notes of a Conversation with George 
  Washington on French Affairs, 
  27 December                                       793
From Joseph Fenwick, 28 December                    795
From Benjamin Hawkins, 28 December                  796
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  28 December                                       797
From David Rittenhouse, 29 December                 798
From Madame d'Enville, 30 December                  798
From Henry Lee, 30 December                         799
To Gouverneur Morris, 30 December                   800
Notes on the Legitimacy of Government, 
  30 December                                       802
To Thomas Pinckney, 30 December                     802
From George Washington, 30 December                 804
To Daniel L. Hylton, 31 December                    804
From William Pearce and Thomas 
  Marshall, 31 December                             805
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 
  31 December                                       806
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 
  31 December                                       806
From Elias Vanderhorst, 31 December                 807
From George Washington, 31 December                 807
From George Washington, [31 December]               808
Jefferson's Account of the Bargain on 
  the Assumption and Residence Bills, 
  [1792?]                                           808
From John Nancarrow, with Drawing by 
  Jefferson, [1792-1793]                            808
Note on the National Debt, [1792-1793?]             810


INDEX                                                          811



ILLUSTRATIONS
Following page 404

JEFFERSON'S NOTES ON THE HESSIAN FLY

  Jefferson's notes, written during the first half of June 1792, reflect his use of
science in the interests of American agriculture and diplomacy. Jefferson com-
posed these notes in his capacity as chairman of a committee of the American
Philosophical Society investigating the Hessian fly, an insect that was ravaging
American wheat crops. In addition to finding ways of protecting wheat against
this pestilence, Jefferson was also concerned to prove that the Hessian fly did
not afflict American grain exports, so as to avoid a repetition of the 1789 British
embargo on grain imports from the United States. Despite Jefferson's concern
about the deleterious impact of the Hessian fly, however, there is no evidence
in the records of the American Philosophical Society that his committee ever
submitted a report. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)


JEFFERSON'S ACCOUNTS AS MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY IN FRANCE

  The settlement of the financial accounts pertaining to Jefferson's French
ministry was a long and arduous affair that spanned almost four decades. Frus-
trated in his initial effort to have his accounts settled by Thomas Barclay while
he was still in France, Jefferson finally submitted them to Auditor Richard
Harrison in July 1792, only to wait another twelve years before Harrison
completed his audit as well as an additional five years before one last claim in
them was finally settled. In addition to the anxiety that the repeated delays in
the settlement of these accounts caused the financially troubled Jefferson, he
also had to suffer the indignity just a few years before his death of a public
accusation that he had defrauded the United States government with respect
to one item in them. So infuriated was Jefferson by this slur on his honor that
he abandoned his customary aversion to personal involvement in public con-
troversy and openly defended his financial probity. The characteristic care and
attention to detail that marked the preparation of Jefferson's accounts are evi-
dent in the pages of the third draft and the press copy of the final version of this
document illustrated in this volume. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)


JEFFERSON'S NOTE OF AGENDA FOR REDUCING THE GOVERNMENT TO
TRUE PRINCIPLES

  Jefferson wrote these cryptic shorthand notes on or about 11 July 1792,
shortly after a private meeting in which he had tried unsuccessfully to under-
mine President Washington's confidence in Alexander Hamilton and his
policies. In consequence of this failure, Jefferson here set forth the legislative
remedies he regarded as essential for curbing the excesses of Hamiltonianism.
It is not known why he first wrote it using a form of shorthand devised in
the seventeenth century by Thomas Shelton, an English stenographer. Nor is
there any evidence that he shared it with any of his political allies. Nevertheless,
it strikingly reveals his assessment of the gravity of the threat that Hamilton-
ian finance posed to the success of the American experiment in republicanism.
(Courtesy of the Library of Congress)


ALEXANDER HAMILTON (ca. 1755-1804)

  Jefferson's long-simmering conflict with his great antagonist in the Depart-
ment of the Treasury burst forth into public view with spectacular effect in
the summer of 1792 as Hamilton launched four series of pseudonymous news-
paper essays criticizing Jefferson for unwarranted opposition to Hamiltonian
policies and for certain shortcomings as minister to France. Although Jefferson
refrained as a matter of principle from publicly replying in kind to these attacks,
which were immediately recognized as Hamilton's, he did defend himself pri-
vately in letters to Washington and provide material to James Monroe for a
series of newspaper articles in Jefferson's defense that Monroe wrote partly
with the help of James Madison. In an ironic turn of events, Hamilton's pub-
lic criticism of Jefferson, which was obviously designed to discredit him and
drive him from office, actually induced Jefferson to remain as Secretary of State
until the end of 1793 instead of retiring at the start of Washington's second
administration as he had originally planned.
  Portrait by John Trumbull, 1792. (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art)


WASHINGTON'S EXCISE PROCLAMATION

  Washington's 15 Sep. 1792 proclamation, reproduced here from the 29
Sep. 1792 issue of the National Gazette, was prompted by widespread oppo-
sition to the federal excise tax in western Pennsylvania-a foretaste of the
much greater Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Although signed by Washington
and countersigned by Jefferson, this proclamation was largely the work of
Alexander Hamilton and Edmund Randolph. Jefferson signed the proclama-
tion reluctantly because he was sympathetic to western concerns about the
excise and doubted that the opposition in western Pennsylvania had exceeded
the bounds of constitutionally permissible public protest. (Courtesy of the
American Antiquarian Society)


MONROE AND MADISON'S DEFENSE OF JEFFERSON

  Alongside Washington's excise proclamation in the National Gazette is a
reprint of part of the first in a series of six unsigned and untitled essays that
initially appeared in Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser. Written by James
Monroe with some assistance from James Madison, the essays sought to defend
Jefferson against Alexander Hamilton's pseudonymous public criticisms of his
record. In the first essay, a collaborative effort, the two Virginians refuted the
charge that Jefferson had opposed the federal Constitution, one of the main
themes of the Secretary of the Treasury's critique. Although it is not known
whether Jefferson initially sanctioned this public defense of his record, it is
indisputable that he later provided Monroe with material for use in subsequent
essays in this series rebutting Hamilton's criticism of Jefferson's handling of the
American debt to France during his ministry to that nation. (Courtesy of the
American Antiquarian Society)


JOSEF DE JAUDENES (1763-ca. 1819)

  A protege of Don Diego de Gardoqui, the first Spanish minister to the
United States, Jaudenes served as one of two Spanish agents accredited to
the new American nation from 1790 to 1796, when another regular minister
was appointed by the Spanish government. During his tenure as Secretary
of State Jefferson had frequent dealings with Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de
Viar, the other Spanish agent, on a variety of issues. Foremost among them,
as the present volume reveals, was the question of Spanish interference with
the Southern Indians, a problem Jefferson viewed with such gravity that he
even thought it might lead to war between the United States and the Spanish
Empire.
  Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1794. (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art)


MARQUIS DE CONDORCET (1743-1794)

  The points of contact between Jefferson and Condorcet, the distinguished
philosophe, mathematician, humanitarian reformer, and spokesman for French
science, reveal the cosmopolitan side of the Virginia statesman. Jefferson
became acquainted with Condorcet during his ministry to France and shared
his belief in the progress of science as one of the main keys to social
improvement. Jefferson manifested his admiration for Condorcet by acquiring
virtually all of the Frenchman's major works for his library and by beginning
an English translation of a work by Condorcet condemning slavery. After his
return to America, Jefferson and Condorcet corresponded about weights and
measures as well as the the intellectual achievements of blacks. In December
1792 the Girondist Condorcet wrote a letter to Jefferson introducing Edmond
Charles Genet, the new French minister to the United States, and downplaying
the significance of the defection of Lafayette from the revolutionary cause. This
was the last letter exchanged by these two exponents of the Enlightenment
before Condorcet was engulfed in the maelstrom of the French Revolution.
In his last will and testament, written shortly before he died in prison in
1794, Condorcet commended his beloved daughter, Eliza, to the care of Jef-
ferson and Benjamin Franklin Bache, Benjamin Franklin's grandson, in certain
eventualities.
  Portrait by an unidentified French artist. (Courtesy of the Musee National
du Chateau de Versailles et de Trianon)


FIRST PAGE OF SENATE REPORT ON WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

  In a sense this report was a joint production of Jefferson and the committee
on weights and measures that actually submitted it to the Senate. Senator John
Rutherford of New Jersey, the committee chairman, solicited Jefferson's com-
ments on an alternate set of resolves on weights and measures in December
1792. Jefferson responded on Christmas Day with a detailed letter to Ruther-
ford suggesting a number of amendments. Virtually all of these amendments
were reflected in the committee's January 1793 report to the Senate. Although
the Senate ordered that the report be printed for the use of its members, it
never passed legislation establishing a uniform system of weights and measures
such as Jefferson had advocated in his great report of 1790 on this matter.
(Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society)
		

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