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