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 Franais 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