Fairfax, Ferdinando

letter to, 58

letter from, 12-13

and TJ's retirement from office, 12-13, 58

views on public service, 12-13

invited to Monticello, 58

Farell & Jones

and Wayles estate, 107, 115-17n, 289-90n

Faris, George, 608, 616

farmers

and West Indies trade, 28

TJ on, 551

oppose embargo, 607

farm implements

drill, 68, 93, 112, 226, 233, 234, 249, 327, 328

seed box, 326-7, 339-40

harrow, 342.

See also

plow, moldboard

threshing machines

Fatio, Jean, 143

Fauchet, Jean Antoine Joseph

received by Washington, 22-3

conduct of, praised, 25, 27, 43

replaces Genet, 27, 30, 32-3

and U.S. partisan politics, 30-1

requests recall of G. Morris, 52

requests advance payment on French loan, 92-3

and criticisms of Short, 356

and letter for Monroe, 373

dispatch No. 10, 450-1n, 563

and E. Randolph's resignation, 450-1n, 540n, 564

Fayette Co., Pa.

state assembly expels legislators from, 222n

"Features of Mr. Jay's Treaty"

essays by A. J. Dallas, 475-7

Federal District

and plans to relocate Genevan academy, 130, 312

commissioners select architects for, 207

Short criticizes plans for, 256

prospective Ceracchi monument for, 302-3

G. Washington hopes to establish university in, 306-8

Federalists

relations with Fauchet, 27

in support of Great Britain, 35, 41, 506-9

political maneuvers in Congress, 38

Monroe considers to be an aristocracy, 46

characterized as monocrats, tories, 49-50, 228, 566, 567

and the embargo, 84-5

influence Washington in denunciation of democratic societies, 228

called subordinate to Britain, 359

and Jay Treaty, 400n, 475-6, 554-5

support Proclamation of Neutrality, 433n

sources of strength, 509

regional divisions, 547, 568

and public opinion, 559

oppose proposition for commercial restrictions, 602

Fenn, Joseph

Instructions Given in the Drawing School Established by the Dublin-Society, 441, 442n

works on mathematics, 441, 442n

Fenno, John

prints D'Ivernois's letters on Genevan Revolution, 144n

as cause of public's misunderstanding of TJ, 339

edits Gazette of the United States, 424, 506, 509

attacks E. Randolph, 562

mentioned, 25, 39.

See also Gazette of the United States

Fenwick, Joseph

and wine for TJ, 448, 449

Fenwick, Mason & Company

TJ's account with, 304

letter to cited, 304n

Fenwick, William, 288

Féraud, Jean Bertrand, 393

Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 457

Ferrand. See Féraud, Jean Bertrand

fertilizers

J. Taylor's views on, 93-5

fever

Gates recovers from, 37

Polly Bolling suffers from, 419, 429.

See also yellow fever

figs

received from Gibraltar, 53

cultivated at Monticello, 181

Wythe desires to cultivate, 185

on TJ's grocery list, 432

TJ enjoys, 455

Finch, Sir Henry

Reports of Cases Decreed in the High Court of Chancery, 351

First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. Or, A Commentary upon Littleton (Sir Edward Coke)

price of, 331-2

TJ sells to A. Stuart, 351

fish

purchased by TJ, 98, 418, 431, 604

salted, in slaves' diet, 233

TJ orders herring, 609n.

See also cod

Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony

New Natura Brevium, 351, 399

FitzSimons, Thomas

attacks Madison's resolutions, 32

as candidate, 202, 221

denounces democratic societies, 212

flags

exchanged by U.S. and France, 578-9

Flanders

and War of First Coalition, 23

Fleming, John

trip to Philadelphia, 155, 186, 187, 202, 211

Fleming, Mary Randolph (Mrs. Tarlton Fleming), 225

Fleming & McClenahan

TJ's payment to, 345

letters from cited, 345n

letters to cited, 345n

sell nails from Monticello, 345n

draft in favor of, 552n

Fleta

anonymous work in Houard's Trait's, 186-7, 315-16

Fleurieu, Compte de. See Claret, Charles Pierre, Compte de Fleurieu

Fleury, François Louis Teisseydre, Chevalier de, 103

Floridas

prospects of U.S. trade with, 496

and Pinckney Treaty, 624n

flour

bartered, 48

prices at Philadelphia, 220, 555, 563, 607, 617

British bounty on, 606-7

Floyd, William, 265

Fluvanna Co., Va.

plans address on Jay Treaty, 435

Ford, Bartlett

in TJ's accounts, 413-15

forges

destroyed by storm, 439

Forster, Johann Reinhold

German abridgment of Notes on Virginia, 424, 428n

Fort Recovery, Northwest Terr.

Indians attack, 111

Fortunatus, 279

Foster, Sir Michael

Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, 351

Foster, Theodore, 31n

Fox, Charles James, 316

France

in state of vigor, increasing power, 43, 397

studied by Germans, 426

Agriculture

and fig trees at Monticello, 181

Army

officers of, in American Revolution, 343-4, 463-4, 498, 613-14

Committee of Public Safety

and Short's suitability as U.S. minister, 83

and end of Reign of Terror, 146, 147n

and Genevan Revolution, 160, 163n

Constitution

of the Year III, 390-1, 392n, 394, 529-32, 534n

of 1793, 393, 394

sent to TJ, 510-11

and two-thirds decree, 530-1, 544-5

commencement of new, 562, 577

Directory

under new constitution, 390-1, 529-30, 534n

and 13 Vendémiaire, 532-3, 534n

military leadership of, 532-3

executive authority under, 618, 619n

Economy

national treasury said to be full, 39

assignats, 59, 461-2

shortage of food, 102, 393, 395

and British efforts to cut off supplies of food, 411-12

Foreign Relations

with Great Britain, 20, 423n, 500-1

and relations between U.S. and Great Britain, 70

minister to Spain, 122

and Genevan Revolution, 134-45, 162, 177, 314

decrees pertaining to neutral shipping, 147, 148n, 411-12

and Genevan exiles, 191-2

minister to Great Britain, 411

and Jay Treaty, 449

National Convention

praised for recalling Genet, 22-4

reports of proceedings, 74

decree on the Supreme Being, 97

factions in, 102

and end of Reign of Terror, 145-6, 147n

receives Monroe, 145, 147n

mentioned, 253, 522n

authority challenged, 392-4, 398n, 530-2, 533-4n, 544-5

first propagandist decree (decree of fraternity), 411, 412n

Provisional Executive Council

and Duke of Brunswick's invasion of France, 81-2

and objections to Short, 83

Public Opinion

toward America and Britain, 391

U.S. Relations with

and plan to liberate Louisiana, 9-10

and Genet's recall, 22-5

and sale of French prizes in U.S., 24

French envoys to U.S., 30

and G. Morris as minister, 30

TJ rumored as G. Morris's successor, 43, 83, 253

and embargo proposition, 46, 84

and French West Indies, 49

and appointment of envoy to Britain, 51-2

loan during American Revolution, 80-3, 92-3

and selection of U.S. minister, 85

Monroe's appointment, reception, 86-7, 91, 215

fails to respect U.S. rights on the seas, 316

and British orders in council, 391, 392n, 421-2

and Jay Treaty, 391, 396-7, 433-4, 546, 557

and treaty of amity and commerce, 396

and Spain, 496, 546

and peace with Algiers, 546, 614

Washington's opinions, 546, 567

exchange of flags, 578-9

War of First Coalition

accounts of French successes in, 21, 52, 63, 67, 90, 184, 203, 215, 244, 248, 250, 337, 373, 394-5, 533, 562-3

effects on European states, 23, 90-1, 103, 146, 412n, 421-2

and Toulon, 23, 25, 33, 37, 39-40, 63

prospects of French success in, 37, 102, 146-7

and Corsica, 96

campaign in Savoy, 135

as impetus to further revolution, 172

and campaign against England, 245, 250

prospects of peace, 245, 250, 388, 533

and combined forces, 310

and Amsterdam, 316, 328

TJ blames the conflict on Britain, 366-7

Monroe on future course of, 395

at sea, 401

declaration of war, 411

seizure of provisions, 411-12

defeat of royalists at Quiberon, 426

peace with Spain, 426, 490, 548n

retreat to Rhine, 532.

See also West Indies, French

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

and War of First Coalition, 102, 203, 245, 395, 426, 532

Franklin, Benjamin

lends gong to TJ, 168-9, 377

on Le Veillard, 361

TJ requests collected works of, 377, 561

and Vall-Travers, 470

mentioned, 596n

Franklin, William Temple, 377n

Fredericksburg, Va.

cost of travel from Baltimore to, 20-1

as shipping center for TJ, 267

wheat prices at, 521

Fredericksburg Academy, 401-3, 404-5, 440

Frederick William II, King of Prussia

and war with France, 90, 96, 102

manifesto by, 91-2

threatens Paris with destruction, 92n

and Polish insurrection, 102, 172

receives British subsidies for war effort, 203

intercedes between Austria and France, 426

French language

J. Hemings's fluency in, xxxix

TJ feels lack of competence in, 60

and plan to relocate Genevan academy, 128, 208-9, 262

Monroes study, 147, 391

essential to study of law, 166

French Revolution

as example to Genevan Revolution, xxxviii, 159

removal of Louis XVI, 81

interference of European powers in politics of, 90, 532

executions, 96, 145, 183, 496

British counterrevolutionary propaganda, 132n

Reign of Terror subsides, 145-6, 147n, 528

Monroe assesses, 146, 392-7, 530-2, 533-4n

and education, 151, 208

effects of spread of, 171-2

Blackden assesses, 188

TJ's thoughts on, 216, 263, 337, 340, 357, 451-2, 453-4, 551

exiles from, in U.S., 319-21

expansion to the Netherlands, 330

helps secure republicanism in U.S., 360

Robespierre as threat to future liberties under, 373

and internal dissent, 392-4, 398n

Mountain party, 393-4

information about, in Germany, 426

hostility of New England merchants in France to, 510-11

chouans, 530, 534n

Thermidor, 533

Adams's views on, 600

mentioned, 522

Freneau, Philip, 509

Frontignan wine

TJ orders, 449

Froullé, Jean François

letter to, 357-9

TJ orders books from, 357-9, 361, 362, 448

letter from cited, 359n

TJ recommends to Monroe, 360-1

fruit

at Monticello, 76

on TJ's grocery list, 431-2

fruit trees

establishment of Monroe's orchard, 35, 45, 56, 147, 360, 528

survive drought, rain at Monticello, 50, 56

orange, requested by TJ, 542

Fry, Joshua (b. ca. 1760)

letter to, 302

identified, 302n

and manufacture of potash and pearl ash, 302

letter from cited, 302n

and limestone lands, 570-1

Fry, Joshua (ca. 1700-1754), 302n, 570-1

Fry, William Adams, 570-1

Fry's tract (Albemarle Co.), 187, 354

furniture

shipment of TJ's, 8-9

fur trade

and Jay Treaty, 265

Fuzier-Cayla, Guillaume, 141, 159