Volume 44 Index
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Pacific Ocean, 595
Page, John
letters to, 235, 706-7
letters from, 62, 221, 403-5, 623-5, 637-8, 638-9
invited to Monticello, 62, 221, 403-4
TJ laments lost friends to, 62
introduces G. Newton, 221
sends election news to TJ, 221
and transmission of yellow fever, 235, 404-5
and removal of condemned slaves from Va., 623-5
and Logwood’s case, 637-9, 705-7
letter from cited, 732
Page, Mann, 112, 113n
Page, Margaret Lowther, 62, 221, 235, 405
Paine, Thomas
American Crisis, 699
Palmer, Beriah, 716, 722
Pani River. See Platte River
Pantin (Pontin), Lewis, 262
Panton, Leslie & Co., 283
Pantops (Eppes estate, Albemarle Co., Va.), 97
Paolina (polacre), 275n, 281-2
pardons
petitions for, 59-60, 137-9, 157, 171, 209-10, 224-5, 227, 390-2, 485-6, 501, 604-5
granted by TJ, 60n, 139n, 210n, 227n, 303, 391-2n, 476, 486n, 501n, 605n
Paris
Champs Élysées, 67
Rue Neuve de Berri, 67
hotels, 67-8
Langeac, Hôtel de, 67-8
schools, 67-8
cost of living at, 68
watchmakers, 553n
Montmartre, 635
Parish, William, 196, 730
Parker, Alexander
letter from, 569
recommends aspirant for office, 569
Parker, Daniel, 507
Parmelee, David, 606
Parrish, John
letter from, 609-10
sends observations on slavery and the U.S. Constitution, 609-10
identified, 610n
Parry, Mr.
letter from cited, 131n
Parry, Robert, 267n
Parsons, Theophilus, 441n
passports
fraudulent use of, 255n, 281, 354n
Neapolitan, 319, 323
Pastey, Vicomte de
letter from, 193
asks to dedicate poem to TJ, 193
patents
brick manufacturing, 46n
button manufacturing, 46n
nail manufacturing, 46n
shingle manufacturing, 46n
steamboats, 46n
circular saws, 183n
signing of, 184
astronomical instruments, 438
British, 438
cost of, 438
Paterson, John, 716, 722
Paterson, N.J., 407n
Patterson, Robert, 437-8, 441n, 481n
Patterson, William (N.Y.), 172n, 186m
Patty (sloop), 691
Paul, St., 316, 321
Peacock, Robert Ware
letter from, 297
recommends aspirant for office, 297
Peale, Charles Willson
letters to, 258-9, 399-400, 493-4, 527, 659-60
letters from, 132-3, 147-8, 259, 297-8, 425-6, 508-9, 625-6
and polygraph, 132-3, 147, 258-9, 297-8, 399-400, 425-6, 493-4, 508-9, 527, 625-6, 659-60
asks TJ to sit for profile, 147-8
receives mineral specimens from TJ, 148, 259
TJ sends horned lizard to, 148
and Delacoste’s museum, 195n
museum, 259, 425, 508
payments to, 259, 333
resumes work as portrait artist, 259
painting of mastodon exhumation, 259n
Peale, Raphaelle, 147-8, 426n
Peale, Rembrandt, 132, 259
Peale, Rubens, 259
Pearson, William, 231
Pedesclaux, Peter, 363n
Peleg, Mr., 77
Pelham, William
letter to, 260
sends book to TJ, 260
identified, 260n
letter from cited, 260n, 731
Pendergrast, Garrett Elliott
letter from, 293-4
seeks appointment, 293-4
identified, 293-4n
Pendleton, Edmund, 112, 113n
Penington, Edward, 734
Penn, Richard, 426
Pennsylvania
York Co., 159n
postal service in, 186n, 335, 336n, 384-7
elections in, 220-1, 229-33
Delaware Co., 230-1, 233n
Quids, 233n
Centre Co., 401
iron manufacturing, 401
and Twelfth Amendment, 548
See also Federalists; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Republicans
Pennsylvania, Bank of, 734
Pennsylvania, University of, 44, 293n, 545n
Penrose, Joseph, 229, 233n
Penrose, William, 233n
Pensacola, W. Fla.
Spanish garrison at, 363n, 704
Perdido (Perdigo) River
claimed as Louisiana boundary, 36n, 46-7, 50, 54, 312, 466n, 528n
free navigation of, 47
Perit, Anthony, 75n
perpetual motion, 181-3, 464-5
Perrot, Frédéric, 382
Perrot & Lee (Bordeaux), 516
Perry, George W., 619
Perry, John
and arbitration with J. B. Magruder, 425
TJ’s memorandum of tasks for, 428
payment to, 482n
TJ makes payment for, 732
Perspective View of the Loss of the U.S. Frigate Philadelphia, lii
Peru, 112, 113n
Peter, Robert, 540-1
Peters, Richard (judge), 264
Petersburg, Va., 518n
Petit, Pierre
characterized, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 309
candidate for appointment, 168, 169
recommended for appointment, 238, 309
Peyroux de la Coudrèniere, Henri, 169
Peyton, Craven
letter from, 49
and deeds for Henderson lands, 49
and Henderson warehouse, 482
Peyton, Francis, 138
Peyton, John, 576, 729
Peyton, Robert, 49, 731
Phelps, Oliver, 716, 722
Philadelphia
Osage delegation visits, xlix, 78, 103, 148, 275
navy yard at, 63-7
attorneys, 174n, 412
Republicans in, 204, 229-33, 302, 481n, 547-8
Harp and Eagle tavern, 229, 233n
Rising Sun tavern, 231, 233n
sheriff, 231-2
Jews in, 232
merchants, 254n, 415n, 699
trade with Haiti, 254n
ghost shows, 272n
immigrants to, 272n
opticians, 272n
health of, 305
navy storekeeper at, 341, 342n
postal service, 384-5
construction of gunboats at, 395
yellow fever in, 404
Baptists in, 481n
carpenters, 481n
naval officer at, 547, 548n
surveyor at, 547-8, 690, 702
paper hanging factors, 596n
stationers, 596n
Society of Friends in, 610n
apprentices, 699
Philadelphia (U.S. frigate)
negotiations for release of crew, x, 175-8, 185n, 198n, 275n, 371-2n, 423, 424n, 654, 655
captured by Tripoli, li, lii
burned by U.S., lii, 733
Philosophie de Kant (Charles François Dominique de Villers), 645
Phipps, David
deemed unfit for navy promotion, 602
letter from cited, 602n, 732
physiognotrace, xlix, 298
Pichegru, Jean Charles, 185n
Pichon, Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart
death of son, ix, 57, 58, 105
invited to visit Montpelier, 281, 292, 363
health of, 644
Pichon, Louis André
letters from, 57-8, 643-4, 698
death of son, ix, 57, 58, 105
protests British warships in U.S. ports, ix, 253-4, 281
and loan from Du Pont, 11n
leaves Washington for Philadelphia, 57, 58
invited to visit Montpelier, 292, 363
and change in form of French government, 362-3
and delivery of Louisiana Purchase stock, 536, 672-3
protests armed U.S. merchant vessels trading with Haiti, 591
TJ forwards letter to, 643-4
and wine for TJ, 698
Pickering, Timothy
and Boanson, 148
member of Eighth Congress, 719
dines with TJ, 723
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 74n
Pinckney, Charles
and negotiations over claims convention, ix, 79-80, 300, 349, 397-8, 403, 423, 430-1, 433, 466, 507
rumored departure from Madrid, 79-80, 396, 431n, 432, 512, 514, 702
and Mobile collection district, 300, 301n, 349, 350n, 466, 507
criticized by Irujo, 356
correspondence with Madison, 423, 431n, 507
requests passports, 431n
and Yznardi, 512, 513, 514
letter of recall, 522, 528n
remains at Madrid, 522n
joint mission with Monroe, 528n, 688, 702
Pinckney, Thomas, 392, 574
Pinckney family, 574
Pinkney, William
offered appointment as judge in Orleans Terr., 106, 168, 170, 180, 183, 201, 233, 279, 328, 341, 350
and Md. Bank of England stock, 107n
potential minister to Spain, 463-4
duties on personal baggage of, 659
returns to U.S., 659n
Pitot, James
mayor of New Orleans, 14n, 217n
characterized, 16, 18, 20, 23, 309
recommended for appointment, 238, 309
recommends aspirants for office, 330n
and threat of slave insurrection in New Orleans, 411n
administers oath of office to Claiborne, 479
Pitt, William, 217n, 300, 403, 556
Pittsburgh, 290, 384, 386, 634
Plan of the City and Suburbs of New Orleans (Jacques Tanesse), 57n
Plans, coupes et élévations (Johann Karl Krafft and Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette), 645
plaster, 635
Plater, Thomas, 717
Platte River, 99, 650
Plattin Creek, 81, 89
Plumer, William, 719, 724
Plymouth, Mass.
collector at, 26n
Podophyllum diphyllum. See Jeffersonia diphylla (twinleaf)
Poeyfarré, Jean Baptiste
characterized, 16, 18, 20, 21n
Pointe Coupee, 22, 239, 305, 307, 309, 652-3, 712
Poland, 317, 322
Pole, Edward
letter from, 414-15
offers books to Library of Congress, 414-15
identified, 415n
Polereczky, John, 455-6
Political and Commercial Register (Philadelphia), 63, 67, 117
See also Jackson, William
Polk, William (Md.), 547n
Pollard, Joseph
letter from cited, 733
Pollock, George
candidate for appointment, vii, 169, 234, 305, 307, 328, 350, 355, 652-3
characterized, 20, 23
recommends aspirants for office, 330n
polygraphs
folding, 132
covers for, 132-3, 147, 297
Latrobe’s improvements, 132-3, 147, 696
pens for, 132-3, 147, 258, 493-4, 508, 626, 659-60
for Monticello, 137, 493
mounting for, 137
praised by TJ, 258, 298, 399-400, 425
springs, 258, 297, 399, 626
Hawkins’s improvements, 298, 425-6, 493, 508-9, 527, 626, 660
portable, 399, 425, 426n, 660
drawers, 425
inkpots for, 425
penbars for, 425
Brunel’s, 425-6
growing popularity of, 425-6
for the State Department, 508, 509n, 527, 626, 659
modifications to, 625-6
manufacture of, 626
prices, 626
use of quills in, 696
Pomona (ship), 417-18, 422n
Pontchartrain, Lake, 36
Poole, William
letter from, 509
recommends aspirant for office, 509, 656n
identified, 509n
Poor, Charles M.
letter from, 158-9
seeks appointment, 158-9
identified, 159n
Pope, Edward, 26, 31
Pope, Thomas, 734
Popham, Sir Home Riggs, 108
Poplar Forest (TJ’s estate), 97, 354
Porcile, Andrea, 135n
Porcile, Antonio
letter from, 133-6
ransom, release of his daughter, 133-6
identified, 135-6n
Porcile, Carlo Vittorio, 135n
Porcile, Giovanni, Conte di Sant’Antioco, 135n
Porcile, Maria Anna
ransom, release of, 133-6
Porcupine’s Gazette (Philadelphia), 130, 131n
Porée, Thomas
characterized, 16, 18, 20
Porter, Andrew
family of, 174n
seeks appointment, 589-90, 731, 732
letter from cited, 731
Porter, John Ewing
letter from, 173-4
sends Oration to TJ, 173-4
identified, 174n
letter to cited, 731
Porter, Robert, 174n
Porter & King (Bath, Me.), 517
Portsmouth, N.H., 64
Portsmouth, Va., 702
postal service
distrusted, 110, 188
between Monticello and Washington, 157, 161
establishment of post road between Washington and New Orleans, 184, 206, 334-5, 406n, 459-61
establishment, alterations to post roads, 186n, 335, 336n, 384-7
appointments and removals in, 206
postal service through W. Fla., 206
duties of postmaster general, 384-5
postal contracts, 385-6
maps of postal routes, 596n
See also Granger, Gideon
Postlethwait, John
letter from, 569
recommends aspirant for office, 569
Potomac District, 213n
Potter, Charles, 132
Potter, Samuel J., 634n
Potter, Thomas M.
letter from, 409
recommends exchanging part of Louisiana for Florida, 409
identified, 409n
Pottsgrove, Pa., 384
Pougens, Charles
letter from, 282
publishes catalog, 282
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 295n
poultry
chickens, 341
bantams, 654
Poursuivante (French frigate), 301
Powell, John F., 587
Poydras, Julien
candidate for appointment, vii-viii, 169, 234, 305, 307, 328, 350, 355, 652-3, 712
characterized, 20, 22, 309
recommended for appointment, 23, 239, 309
prairies, 634
Preble, Edward
attack on Tripoli, x, li-lii, 354 (illus.), 371, 497-8, 499, 500n
acquires gunboats from Naples, 177, 275n, 371n
and negotiations for Philadelphia prisoners, 177-8n, 185n, 371-2, 422n
fraud committed in name of, 234-5
negotiations with Tunis, 275n, 372n
commander of Mediterranean squadron, 354n
pregnancy. See women
Prentis, Joseph, 690, 702
Prentiss, Joshua, 77
Presbyterians, 179n
President (U.S. frigate), 500n
President’s House
dinners hosted by TJ at, lii-liii, 354 (illus.), 495, 552, 714-27
free blacks at, 33
riotous behavior by laborers, 33, 71-2
slave laborers at, 33
digging at, 94
drains, sewers, 94, 467, 552
statement of expenditures on, 164-5
cellars, 165, 187
colonnade, 165
bedrooms, 187
floors, 187
ice house, 187
servants, slaves at, 195, 408, 734
coal for, 211, 212, 408, 430, 475, 503, 525, 538, 706
cooks at, 408n
carpenters for, 467
plasterers, 467
roof, 467, 484
gutters, 484
and meridian line at Washington, D.C., 539-41
washhouse, 552
lamps, 595-6, 613, 685-6
criticism of Latrobe’s management of, 696-7
groceries, supplies for, 729, 734
furniture, 734
stable and household accounts, 734
See also Dougherty, Joseph; Jefferson, Thomas: Personal Affairs; Lemaire, Étienne
press, freedom of
state laws may limit, 380-1
and the U.S. Constitution, 601
Prevost, John B.
letter to, 124-5
letter from, 155
candidate for appointment, vii, 106, 168, 170
offered, accepts appointment as judge for Orleans Terr., 124-5, 155, 180, 181, 233, 307, 328, 350, 355, 689, 712
identified, 124-5n
Prevost, Salomon
letter from, 449-52
characterized, 18, 20, 21n, 22
and Louisiana memorial, 449-52
Price, Chandler, 397
Price, Joseph
manager of Indian Camp, 117, 415-17
letter to cited, 732
Price, Richard (Milton, Va.), 729
Price, William, 208
Prince, Joseph, 577n
Princeton, battle of, 481n
Principia (Sir Isaac Newton), 40
privateers
French, x, 35, 36n, 48, 354, 363-4, 418, 422n, 578, 591, 671
trespass within U.S. jurisdiction, x, 48, 578
illegally outfitted in U.S., 533-4
arming of merchant vessels to protect against, 591-5
Prospect Before Us (James Thomson Callender), 6n, 129
Providence, R.I., 335
Prussia, 219n
Publius Virgilius Maro. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis (Virgil), 645
Puckshunubbee (Choctaw Indian)
letter from, 283
offers to sell land, 283
Pugh, John, 221n
Purviance, John H., 204, 205n
Purviance, Robert, 619, 659n
Purviance, Samuel D., 336, 337n, 718
Putnam, Rufus, 155n