Taliaferro, Francis, 193

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de (Bishop of Autun)

correspondence with Gerry, 18-19, 21-2, 24, 30, 34, 52

makes diplomatic overture, 44-50, 63-4, 195, 525n

and new French government, 357

corresponds with Grenville, 473-4n

opens communication with U.S. envoys, 475-6, 477n, 480, 483

tallow

from Poplar Forest, 270

Tandy, James Napper, 220, 221n

Tartars, 27, 237

Tattnall, Josiah, 10

taxes

N.Y. legislation on, 4-5

federal excise, 33, 277

resistance to, checks Federalist power, 110

expected revenues from federal, 277-8

driven up by military spending, 280n

proposed, on stocks, banks, 306, 342, 358

avoided in election year, 343

ad valorem, on Va. land, 506

See also carriage tax; Direct Tax (1798); Stamp Act (1797)

Taylor, Creed, 583

Taylor, George Keith, 250, 391, 433

Taylor, John

letter to, 244-5

letter from, 40-2

supports Monroe, 40, 205n

on politics, political parties, 40-2

prefers agriculture to politics, 42

and Va. Assembly, 67n, 244, 250, 300n

TJ sends regards to, 98, 521

in Senate, 230-1n

letter from cited, 245n

supports Va. Resolutions, 289

and Callender's trial, 590n

Taylor, Thomas Augustus

and purchase of Elk Hill, 146-7, 162-3

letter from cited, 147n

Tazewell, Dorothea Elizabeth Waller, 230n

Tazewell, Henry

successor in Congress for, 8-9, 40, 227, 241n

death a regrettable loss, 21, 66

TJ's long acquaintance with, 230, 376

Tazewell, Littleton W.

letters to, 229-31, 442-3, 491-4

letters from, 375-6, 470-2

as agent for Welch, 229-31, 375-6, 442-3, 470, 491, 492n

in Congress, 230-1n

identified, 230-1n

attorney in Batture case, 231n

exchanges views on politics, 443, 470-2, 491-4

and collection of money owed Short, 532

receives Appendix, 553

Tazewell, William, 610

Temple, William, 165n, 305

tenancy

in Va., 144, 506-7, 513-14, 518

as alternative to slave labor, 145n

TJ seeks farm tenants, 222-3, 507

sharecropping, 507

in Pa., 535n

Tennessee

availability of lands in, 7

Indians, antiquities of, 195-6, 309, 310, 312, 433-4

settlement in, 196n

selection of presidential electors, 201

and federal court circuits, 261-3, 267, 336, 344

land law in, 262

courts, 434n

citizens of, petition Senate, 601

unappropriated lands, 603

Tennessee River, 196n

Testard, Monsieur, 510n

Texas, 236-7, 238n

Thacher, George, 454-5

Thebes, 132, 134n

Thermometrical Navigation. Being a Series of Experiments and Observations (Jonathan Williams), 308

Thomas, Philemon, 267

Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), 102-3

Thompson, James (Philadelphia), 575, 577n

Thomson, Charles, 412, 551

Thomson, John

Letters of Curtius, 14-15

death, 15n, 20

Thornton, Mr., 168

Thornton, Anna Maria, 567n

Thornton, William

letter to, 538-9

letter from, 563-7

and design of U.S. Capitol, 538-9, 563

receives Appendix, 551, 552

recommendations for sanitation, controlling disease, 563-7

Three Lectures upon Animal Life, Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania (Benjamin Rush), 150-1, 182-3

Three Letters (Charles Pinckney), 228n

threshing machines, 271

Throop, John, 74n

Thurso, Scotland, 91

Tiebout, Cornelius, xli

Timothy, Benjamin Franklin, 438n

Tinsley, Peter, 208, 343

Toaldo, Giuseppe, 567n

tobacco

proceeds used to block Varina foreclosure, ix, 390-1, 403, 406, 473, 497, 562

shipment, sale of TJ's, ix, 14-15, 21, 32, 43, 54, 57-8, 63, 81-2, 86-8, 93, 104-7, 111-12, 121-2, 124-6, 135, 149n, 149-50, 167, 211-12, 230, 239, 242, 298, 305, 307, 334, 338-9, 341-2, 359, 382-3, 388, 414-15, 425-6, 441-3, 449, 576, 577-8n

and suspension of intercourse with France, ix, 105-6, 111, 189, 209, 212, 216, 230, 280n, 288, 299, 314, 315-16n, 331, 333, 339, 343, 359, 383, 408, 413-15, 442-3

and Britain, 11, 105-6, 111-12, 218

overseas markets, 11, 82, 85, 87-8, 93, 105-7, 111-12, 115-16, 167, 189, 209, 218, 229n, 338-9, 408, 413-15, 443, 489, 532

price in England, 11, 111

as crop at Monticello, Poplar Forest, 14, 119, 120, 121

TJ provides information about, 54

TJ sells neighbor's crop with his, 58, 235, 236n, 239, 242, 250, 388

at Pantops, 92, 147

stories of falling prices "fabrications," 93

storage and inspection of, 104, 239, 407, 428-9, 437-8, 448-9

quality of TJ's, 106, 121, 124, 167, 189, 235, 338, 429, 437-8

problems with crop, 119, 147, 167, 189, 440

sales of TJ's before Revolution, 122n, 491

TJ's strategy for sales in rising, falling markets, 124, 230

market is "in the dust," 189

at Shadwell, 200n

from Elk Hill, 209-10

in settlement of account with D. Ross, 209-10

favored over grains, 216

and Wayles estate debt, 230, 231n, 442-3

storage house, at Tufton, 271

almost not worthwhile to produce, 331, 333, 343

domestic manufacture of, 338-9

costs of marketing, 383, 497

supplanted by grains, 387n

losses at warehouse, 407, 428-9, 437-8, 448-9

proceeds of crops obligated, 432, 497, 503, 562

collapse of prices in Va., 497

sharecropping, 507

falling prices affect land values, 508

price of, and relations with France, 532

See also New York City; Philadelphia; Richmond, Va.; snuff

Tom. See Shackleford, Tom (TJ's slave)

Tomlinson, Nathaniel, 449

tongues and sounds. See cod

tools, 87, 89

To the Citizens of Accomack, Northampton, Elizabeth-City, Warwick and York (John Page), 32-3

Toulon, France, 133

Toussaint-Louverture

vies with Rigaud, 9, 10-11n, 133, 134n

relations with U.S., 9-10, 22, 24, 29-30, 32, 44, 45n, 49

town planning

Sinclair's design, 91

and disease, health, 183-4

Tracy, Uriah

introduces legislation, 26n

and census bill, 295n, 600

in Senate, 416, 453n, 545, 603, 610

elected president pro tem, 580n

treason

under British law, 165n

Fries convicted of, 521-2n

treasury, secretary of. See Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.

Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation (Robert Fulton), 144-5, 501

Treatise on the Justice, Policy, and Utility of Establishing an Effectual System for Promoting the Progress of Useful Arts (Joseph Barnes), 220-1n

trees

of Southwest, 203

pecan, at Monticello, 309, 594

hurt by frost, 523

See also fruit trees

Trenton, N.J.

Notes on Virginia printed in, xlv

as refuge from yellow fever, 297, 301-2, 392n

Trigg, Abram, 113

Trigg, John, 110-11, 113

Trinity College (Dublin), 381-2

Trist, Elizabeth House

herring shipped to, 116

in Charlottesville, 437

mentioned, 20

Trist, Hore Browse

travels to, plans to settle in Albemarle Co., 93, 96, 188-9, 354, 368

family of, 212-13

carries letters, items, news, 241n, 305, 342, 348, 408, 481

in Charlottesville, 437

Trist, Mary Brown

death of father, 212-13

in Charlottesville, 437

Trist, Nicholas P., 174n

Troy, 341n

Trueman, Alexander, 612

Trumbull, John

subscriptions to prints of, 374-5, 557-8, 575, 579

Battle of Bunker Hill, 375n, 557-8

Death of General Montgomery, 375n, 557-8

Trumbull, Jonathan (1710-1785), 26

Trumbull family

and Conn. political elite, 18n

Trump, Daniel

supplies tools, 89

carpentry, 130, 586

payments to, 587, 588n

Trump, John, 587, 588n

Truxtun, Thomas

commands Constellation, 408, 410n

awarded medal, 455, 456n, 606

tuberculosis, 276n

Tucker, St. George

and dispute over common law, 171n

and reorganization of chancery courts, 241n, 375

Letter, to the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, 317, 318n, 365

receives Appendix, 552

Tufton (TJ's estate)

Indian Field, 271, 273n

tobacco barn, 271

Turkey. See Ottoman Empire

Turner, Mr. (tavern keeper), 533

Turpin, Philip (TJ's cousin), 362, 389

Two Discourses, Occasioned by the Death of General George Washington, at Mount-Vernon, December 14, 1799 (Uzal Ogden), 369-70