A., Miss
relations with William Loughton Smith, 443
"A.B."
and public debt, 467n
Abbeville, France
and British military plans, 191
Abram (TJ's slave)
and canal for Monticello, 138
Abrégé de la théorie chymique (Hermann Boerhaave and Julien Offroy de La Mettrie)
for Mint, 490
Académie des sciences
impact of French Revolution on, 226
report on weights and measures, 226, 227n
acid, vitriolic
and Blanchard's balloon flight, 42
price, 42
Adam, 14, 349
Adams, John
letter to, 306
electoral vote for as vice-president, 9
letter from cited, 11n
and U.S. debt to France, 50
and sinking fund, 56, 63, 261
and French Revolution, 63-4
and Michaux's proposed western expedition, 78, 82
and criticism of Franklin, 274
and Ky. electoral votes, 306, 310
and captives in Algiers, 428
Adet, Pierre Auguste, 568n, 569n
Admiralty Court, British
and deserting British seamen, 151
and deserting seamen, 375
Aesop
fables, 334, 335-6n
Agoult (Dagout), Louis Annibal de Vincens de Saint Michel, Comte d'
discusses royal veto, 58
agrarian law
support for in France, 129
Ailhaud, Jean Antoine
commissioner to Saint-Domingue, 34n
Aimable Antoinette (ship), 84, 120, 133n
air
and Blanchard's balloon flight, 43
and temperature of snowfall, 304-5
Alcudia, Duke of. See Godoy Alvarez de Faria, Manuel, Duque de la Alcudia
Alexander, Caleb
letter from, 235
copyright for, 235
Grammatical System of the English Language, 235
identified, 235n
Alexander the Great
and Gordian knot, 335
Alexandria, Va.
passports for U.S. ships in, 650, 670
and French Revolution, 697
Algiers
Barclay's mission to, 7, 86-7, 278-9, 319n, 400n, 405n, 420,
429-30, 468-9
proposed treaty with Portugal, 29
relations with France, 88n
relations with Portugal, 88n
Spanish consul in, 88n
Lamb's mission to, 143
J. P. Jones's mission to, 144n, 405n, 420, 421
British consul in, 160
Dutch consul in, 161
relations with U.S., 161, 214, 359n
war with Netherlands, 161, 327, 358-9, 623
Cathalan's proposed mission to, 278-9
reported declaration of war on U.S., 327
Humphreys's mission to, 400n, 405, 413-14, 420-1, 423,
429-30, 438, 468-9, 532, 535, 542
piracy of, 406
war with Portugal, 406
proposed treaty with, 421
French consul ordered to leave, 623
plague in, 623
Swedish consul in, 623
treaty with U.S., 648n
Algiers, American captives in
subsistence of, 29, 86, 87-8n, 400n
ransom of, 86, 88n, 111, 143-4, 161, 421, 422n, 428, 623
Algiers, Dey of. See Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers
Alicante, Spain
U.S. consul at, 203, 227, 238, 369, 394, 435
Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers
relations with U.S., 161, 422n
reported declaration of war on U.S., 327
and war with Netherlands, 327, 331n
Allison, Robert
and TJ's Philadelphia house, 595
Allport, Thomas
partnership with Robert Crew, 252-3
letter from cited, 253n
almanacs
TJ's comments on, 54
Alps, 190
Alsace, France
evacuated by Prussians, 130-1
opposition to French Revolution in, 190
and allied military strategy, 191, 456
Alstorphius, Mr., 459
Amazon (ship)
passport for, 682n
American Oracle (Samuel Stearns)
copyright for, 100n
American Philosophical Society
and Michaux's proposed western expedition, xl, 18n, 71-2,
75-84, 85, 527, 530-1, 624-6
receives plaster bust of TJ, 31n
and viniculture, 93n
and hemp production, 256n
praised by R. R. Livingston, 304
Dugald Stewart elected to, 357
mentioned, 589, 651n
Ames, Fisher
and Republican effort to censure Hamilton, 288
stockholder in national bank, 432
Amiable Antoinette. See Aimable Antoinette
Amsterdam
U.S. bankers and American commissioners in (see Willink,
Van Staphorst & Hubbard)
exchange rate, 6, 69
trade with Germany, 146
U.S. consul at, 309, 369, 395, 439
U.S. ships detained at, 468n
and Federal District, 671
Anacostia (Annakostia) river
Indian name, 41, 54
anarchists
term of abuse in France, 374
"Anas"
entries in, 58, 63-4, 400 <illus.>, 153-5, 208, 243-5,
271-4, 301-2, 311, 432-3, 446, 469-70, 474, 517, 665-6,
667, 673-4
Andreani (Andriani), Paolo, Count
and watch for William Branch Giles, 318
Andrews, John, Jr.
sketch of TJ's home on the Schuylkill, xlii
angelica (herb)
gift for Emperor of Morocco, 234
Annakostia. See Anacostia river
Annapolis, Md.
lottery in, 263
Anne (ship), 663
Anthony, Joseph, & Son
and Pagan v. Hooper, 539
Anti-Federalists
Tobias Lear's comments on, 517
Antwerp
and French invasion of Austrian Netherlands, 343
loan to Dumouriez, 450-1
mentioned, 568
Apalachicola river
and boundary with Spain, 558
Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Conde de
and relations with U.S., 140
and relations with France, 326
Arbot, M. d'
French ambassador to Spain, 441
returns to France, 487, 623
Archdeken, Mr.
visits U.S., 587
Ardennes, France, 190
Arkwright, Richard
relations with William Pearce, 347
Armstrong, Martin, 419, 420n
Army, U.S. See United States: Army
Arrot (D'Arot), René Marie d'
flees Guadeloupe, 40, 271
artemisia dracunculus, 307
artichoke
flavor, 307
artists
TJ's comments on, 36
Artois, Charles Philippe, Comte d'
proposed assassination of, 128
Artois, France
opposition to French Revolution in, 190
Ashe, John Baptista
and Michaux's proposed western expedition, 82
and Republican effort to censure Hamilton, 290
assignats
exchange rate on, 6, 68
depreciation, 66, 68, 260, 368, 496-99, 502, 503, 505, 507
assumption
Hamilton's plan for additional, 155, 208, 533
of state debts, 281
Astronomie (Joseph Jérõme Le Franais de Lalande)
returned to Rittenhouse, 490
Asylum Company
promotes French immigration to U.S., 372n
Atkins, Philip
passport for, 648n
Atkyns, John Tracy
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court
of Chancery, 472
Attorney General, British. See Macdonald, Sir Archibald
Attorney General, U.S. See Randolph, Edmund
aubergine
seeds for, 306
See mélongène
Auditor, U.S. See Harrison, Richard
Auglaize
proposed site of peace conference with Western Indians, 19, 88-9
Augusta, Va.
flour milling in, 706
Auldjo, Thomas
letter to, 415-16
letter from, 409
consul at Poole, 202
expenses, 409
mentioned, 106
Aurora (ship)
captured by Patriote, 406, 458n
detained in Marseilles, 406
mentioned, 235
Austin, Mr.
Martha Jefferson Carr's debt to, 545
Austria
war with France, 95, 130-1, 165, 191, 335, 340n, 343-4, 374,
453-7, 524, 573, 576, 577
relations with Great Britain, 96, 190, 596
relations with Prussia, 130-1
trade with France, 165
loans from Genoa, 358-9
Ayamonte, Spain, 7