Pacific islands
languages of, 37
packet ships, 147, 496
Pacte maritime: addressé aux nations neutres (Thomas Paine), 203n, 223n
Page, John, 548, 579n
Page, Mann, 579n
Page, William, 471, 472-3n
Paine, Seth, 217n, 266n
Paine, Thomas
letters from, 185-93, 195, 204, 222-4
attacked as infidel, 140
object of Federalist wrath, 140, 189
expected in U.S., 185, 190, 191
sends essays for publication, 185-93, 204, 222, 223n, 360-1
and Burr, 186
sees Ellsworth, 186
sends news from Europe, 186-7, 204, 222-4
urges that U.S. join neutrals' alliance against Britain, 186-9, 191-2n
Compact Maritime, 188, 189, 191n, 192n, 204n, 223n, 578-9
"On the Jacobinism of the English at Sea," 188, 189, 191n, 192n
designs bridges, 189-90, 192-3n
Age of Reason, 190-1, 193n
conflict with English religious establishment, 190-1, 193n
suggests gunboat invasion of Britain, 191n
"Dissertation on the Law of Nations," 195, 204
seeks employment, 195
Maritime Compact pamphlet, 202, 204n
visits Conn., 203-4n
borrows from Haley, 203n
Pacte maritime, 203n, 223n
"Observations on some passages," 222, 223n
Letter to George Washington, 361n
Paley, William
View of the Evidences of Christianity, 111, 112n, 179
Palmyra, Tenn., 119-20, 265, 603
Panama
settlement of Darien, 231
Panton, Leslie & Co., 52n
Paoletti, Ferdinando, 554, 556
paper
production of, 261n
Paradise, John, 525-6
Paradise, Lucy, 525, 526n
Paradise, Lucy Ludwell (Mrs. John Paradise)
letter from, 525-6
estate of, 238-9, 525-6
identified, 525-6n
letters to, from cited, 526n
Paradise Lost (John Milton), 523, 551
Paris
art, artists of, 61-2
attempts on Bonaparte's life, 62n, 431n
Opéra, 62n
Kosciuszko in, 69, 101-2, 445
commercial firms, 89, 147
diplomats in, 90n
publishing in, 114n, 180, 188, 192n, 334, 345n
Americans in, 141-4, 186, 189, 292, 354, 455
booksellers, 147, 158
news from, 185-93
newspapers, 188, 192n
TJ in, 190, 273, 276, 394n, 457n, 583-5
toll system, 273, 276, 326, 327, 354
U.S. consular position at, 291-2, 296n
books about, 345n
Munford at, 350
and Lunéville negotiations, 372
Tuileries palace, 429, 431n
and Sayre's proposed international congress, 454
Park, Mungo
Travels, 168
Parker, Daniel, 79
Parkyns, George Isham, 373-4n
Patricot (of France), 157, 158n, 331
Patricot (of Saint-Domingue and U.S.)
letters to, 331, 505
letter from, 474-5
sought by brother, 157, 158n, 331, 505
in New York, 372, 474-5
letter from cited, 505n
Patten, John, 218n
Patterson, Robert
letter to, 298
letter from, 388
and APS, 230, 298, 388, 480n, 481n, 509, 510n
Patterson, William, 351n
Patty. See Hern, Patty
Paul, St., 205, 308, 309n, 521, 523n
Paul I, Emperor of Russia
and L. Littlepage, 40, 478, 479n
forms league of armed neutrality, 188, 192n, 222-4, 478, 479n, 586
plant specimens for, 232n
and Malta, 294-5, 296n, 586
peaches
in Pa., 112, 403n
decay of peach trees, 230, 232n
peacocks, 443
Peale, Charles Willson, xxxv, 232n, 317n
Peale, Eleanor May Short, 317n
Peale, Rachel Brewer, 317n
Peale, Rembrandt
letter from, 316-17
writes lyrics, xxxv
seeks aid to study abroad, 316-17
family, 317n
identified, 317n
portraits of TJ, 317n
Pearson, John, 221-2
peas
demand for, in Britain, 30
in TJ's crop rotation plan, 110, 165
Albany, 441
Pease, Calvin, 6-7, 97
pecans, 471, 472n
penal institutions
solitary confinement in, 123, 335
Pendleton, Edmund
letter from, 21-2
authority on parliamentary procedure, xxxv-xxxvi, 21-9
and Short's salary, 251, 261, 402
and TJ's comments on constitutional principles, 381n
Penn, William, 206
Pennsylvania
and election of 1800, vii, 45, 135, 209-10, 214, 215, 218, 234, 234n, 367n
selection of presidential electors, 45, 222, 231, 242, 256, 289
Baptists, 54n, 269n
land prices, 85
tenant farmers in, 85
penal system, 123, 335
and election of 1796, 124, 435n
history of, 178
ratification of U.S. Constitution, 180
participation in presidential election in doubt, 185, 231, 242, 253, 256-7, 263, 267-8, 271, 332
militia, 196, 434
Northampton Co., 196
addresses on XYZ affair, 196-201
legislature, 197, 198, 210n, 221-2, 231, 242, 271, 307-10, 336n, 576
Senate, 198, 256, 263, 308-9, 336n
Lancaster Co., 201, 221, 222n, 225, 242, 309n
early colonization of, 206
currency, 209
tobacco, snuff production in, 210n
Federalists, 221, 222n, 225, 308-9, 348
election results, 221-2, 224-5, 231-2, 242, 253, 307, 329
some Quakers decline to vote, 222, 242, 253
special session of assembly, 222, 231, 242, 259, 307-10, 348
election impasse resolved, 289, 299, 306, 307-10, 318, 336n, 589
Chester Co., 308
Cumberland Co., 308
and resolution of tied electoral vote, 322, 368
attorneys, 348, 483
Republicans, 348, 434-5, 574
and Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 372n
Lycoming Co., 403
Presbyterians, 411n
party feeling overrides principle in, 418
importance of agriculture, 422
increase of population, 422
will act to forestall subversion of presidential election, 433
potential removal of federal officeholders in, 433-4, 542, 575
land speculation, 469n
boundaries, 479, 480n
courts, 519n
transactions in Pa. currency, 573
sugar refining, 575, 576n
Council of Censors, 576
Land Office, 576n
Lutherans, 576n
Pennsylvania, Bank of, 114
Pennsylvania, University of, 31n, 218n, 269n, 349n, 415-16n, 502n, 510n
Pensacola, Fla., 51
"People's Friend" (John Isaac Hawkins, Rembrandt Peale), xxxv
Pericles, 344, 345
Perkins, Nathaniel, 286-7
Perry, John
leases land, 108, 109n
carpenter, supervisor, 109n, 417
in financial transactions, 402n
Perry, Reuben
leases land, 108, 109n
carpenter, 109n
letter from cited, 109n
Perth Amboy, N.J., 198
Peters, J., 495
Peters, Mr. (Switzerland), 161-2
Peters, Richard (judge), 111
Petersburg, Va.
potential purchase of horse at, 43
newspapers, 100, 101n, 138
and Gabriel's insurrection, 131n, 138n
publishing, 220-1
maligned, 221
price of tobacco, 259
mail service at, 347n, 364, 391, 488
militia, slave patrol, 482n
Petty, Sir William
Several Essays in Political Arithmetick, 179
Peyton, Craven
letter to, 469-70
letter from, 558-9
leases Shadwell fields, 108, 109n, 116, 470n
purchases land for TJ, 469-70, 558-9
letter from cited, 470n
Peyton, Francis, 338
Peyton (Paiton), Mr., 598
pheasants, 443
Philadelphia
pianos built in, xxxv
physicians, xxxvii, 269n, 415-16, 510n, 573
artists, xxxvii-xxxviii, xxxix, 61-2, 316-17, 374-5
stagecoaches, 16n, 320, 415
commercial, financial relationships with Va., 17, 30-1, 46-7, 55, 64-5, 71, 127-8, 130, 139, 151, 171, 172, 209, 241, 471-2, 568
source of furniture, 30, 46, 55, 57-8, 64-5, 128, 130
carpenters, housejoiners, 30-1, 57, 64, 70-1
newspapers, 31n, 42n, 134n
printers, 31n, 220, 221n, 447n
and rumor of TJ's death, 42n, 44-5, 111
almshouse, 44, 45
iron, nailrod ordered from, 46, 92, 171-2, 406n, 472
waterworks, 46
yellow fever in, 46, 112, 166, 206, 345n
churches, 46n
merchants in, 62n, 64-5, 89n, 135n, 171, 210n, 573
grocers, 65n
as source for window sashes, 71
P. Butler's residence, 91
political attitudes in, 91
postal service, 104
as market for tobacco, 107, 209, 210n, 235, 240, 259, 297, 301, 471, 516, 545-7, 549
as source for books, 112, 150, 212, 213n, 214, 217n, 343-5
prisons at, 123, 335
financial center, 127, 130, 151, 561
former seat of government, 139, 168
wine ordered from, 171, 406n
stoves ordered from, 172, 405n, 472
XYZ addresses from, 197, 199, 200, 201
quarantine, 206
elections, 209, 210n, 221-2, 224-5
militia, military units, 210n
attorneys, 218n
sewers, 230-1
Bishop's pamphlet printed in, 263
Federalists hold federal positions in, 308, 309n, 348, 541-4
taverns, 309n
museums, 317n
hotels, boarding houses, 320
jewelers, goldsmiths, watchmakers, 320, 419-20, 497, 560-1
émigrés from France, Saint-Domingue, 320n, 345n, 447-8
Freemasons, 320n
French schools, 345n
Universal Book Store, 345n
lodgings cheaper than in Washington, 347
Burr, S. Smith meet in, 399-400
Presbyterians, 411n
French consul, 419-20
Republicans seek federal positions in, 433-4, 457n
auctioneers, 434, 435n
superintendent of military stores, 435n
dancing instructors, 447
debtors' prison, 462-4, 574-5
Priestley in, 480
Federalist holdouts seek any alternative to TJ, 483
commerce with Del., 496-7
travelers, communication with Washington, 572
heavy snowfall, 573
McPherson's Blues, 573, 574n
confident TJ will become president, 574
sugar refining, 575, 576n
customs collectorship, 575-7
transportation routes to Baltimore, 602
See also Aurora (Philadelphia)
Philadelphia Gazette
reports TJ's death, 42n
news on foreign affairs in, 134n
reports comments by Burr, 400n
articles by T. Coxe in, 572n
Philippines, 52n, 454
Phill. See Hubbard, Philip
Phill (d. 1809, TJ's slave), 417
Philosophia Botanica (Carolus Linnaeus), 178
Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society of London), 231, 233n, 479, 480n
Philosophical Works (Viscount Bolingbroke), 179
Philosophi opera (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), 179
philosophy
works on ethics, 179
TJ's election a victory for philosophy, morality, 313, 315
physics
books on, 178, 180, 237, 298-9
Newtonian, 299, 444-5
magnetism, 350n
and standard units of measure, 361-3, 444-5
perpetual motion, 512-13
physiognotrace, xxxvii
Phytologia; or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening (Erasmus Darwin), 112
pianos
fortepiano for Monticello, xxxv, 39, 538
illustrated, 328
Piatolli (Piattoli), Scipione, Abbé, 274, 277
Pichon, Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, 430, 431-2n
Pichon, Louis André
sent to U.S., 291-2, 296n, 431n
and Swan, 354
to press Gérard claim, 384-5
friendly to U.S. interests, 429
marriage, 430, 431n
carries letters, 431n
Pickering, John, 218n
Pickering, Timothy
Robbins case, 33-4
and Short's salary, 74-6
maligned, 189, 193n, 194-5, 465-6, 491-2
Federalist leader, 386n, 492
dispute with Spanish minister, 396-7
defends Yznardi, 397n
and E. Randolph's resignation, 426n
as secretary of war, 435n
reports on Gerry-Talleyrand correspondence, 465-6, 468, 469n, 491-2
land speculation, 466, 469n
and northern boundary of U.S., 479, 480n
sends recall to envoys, 490, 495n
Ellicott's reports to, 548
Pickett, Pollard & Johnston
financial transactions, 14, 470-2
letters from cited, 472n
Pickford, Mr. (Georgetown), 496, 501
Pierce, John, 90n
Pike, Nicolas
New and Complete System of Arithmetic, 180
Pinckney, Charles
letter to, 242-3
letters from, 214-17, 256-8, 266-9, 279-81, 332-3, 412-13, 505-6, 568-9
essays as "Republican," "Republican Farmer," 214, 217n, 242, 267, 280, 281n
introduces jury bill, 214, 217n
and Ross election bill, 214, 217n
seeks to prohibit officeholding by judges, 214, 217n
Speeches, 214, 217n, 242, 280, 281n
exchanges political information, 214-17, 242-3, 256-8, 266-9, 279-81, 300, 332-3, 505-6, 568-9
relationship with C. C. Pinckney, T. Pinckney, 215, 217n, 256, 267
letters from cited, 216-17n, 243n
essential Republican leader, 266
confers with TJ, 267, 280
cautions TJ about entreaties from S.C., 268, 333, 413
takes Senate seat, 269n
addresses common law issue, 280
ill, injured, 412-13, 505, 568
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
presidential candidacy, 91, 217n, 272n
support for, in New England, 97, 116, 229, 263, 271
and S.C. politics, 215, 217n, 256, 267, 280
support for, in Del., 217-18, 263
Hamilton supports, 239, 254, 255, 256n
electoral vote, 263, 271, 300, 307, 322, 324, 347, 358n
in state senate, 268
in Md. electoral vote, 271
potentially joined on ticket with TJ, 280, 281n, 505-6
and Federalists' patronage expectations, 308
and divisions among Federalists, 341n
as envoy to France, 466-8, 490-5
fêted on return from France, 493
Pinckney, Frances Henrietta, 412, 413n
Pinckney, Henry Laurens, 412, 413n
Pinckney, Mary Eleanor, 412, 413n
Pinckney, Mary Eleanor Laurens, 413n
Pinckney, Thomas
in Callender's Prospect, 213n
and S.C. politics, 214, 217n, 290
vacates House seat, 258n
as minister to Britain, 436, 439n
Pinckney Treaty, 397n
pineapples, 206
Pintard, John M., 397n
piracy
Barbary States associated with, 192n, 195
case of Ranger, 212, 213n, 236
Pisa, Italy
university, 273, 276, 279n
trial of suspected Jacobins, 553-4, 555-6
pisé construction, 72, 89n
Pitcairn, Joseph
consul at Hamburg, 174n
forwards correspondence, 584, 585n
Pitt, William, 173, 339, 379, 478
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Republicans, 221, 486, 519
Brackenridge at, 319n, 484
Federalists, 486, 488n, 518-20
physicians, 518
Pittsburgh Gazette, 486, 488n
Pius VII, Pope, 88, 90n
Platt, Jonas, 419n
Pleasants, Samuel
publishes paper, pamphlets, 124, 125n
and Callender, 238
See also Virginia Argus (Richmond)
plow, moldboard, 8
Plutarch
works of, 177
Plymouth, Mass., 197
"Poem on the Death of General Washington" (David Humphreys), 162
Poésies Choisies (Simon Chaudron), 320n
poetry
on list of recommended readings, 180
Poland
L. Littlepage in, 4n, 40, 68-9, 368, 478
partitioned, 40, 368
Mazzei in, 274, 277
expatriots of, in France, 445
Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces (Benjamin Franklin), 180
Political Disquisitions: or, An Inquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses (James Burgh), 179
Political Progress of Britain (James Thomson Callender), 179
Polk, William, 61n
Pollard, Robert
and James River Co., 258, 427
letters to, from cited, 258n
Pollio. See Asinius Pollio, Gaius
polygraph, xxxv
Poor Clares, 392-5
Pope, Alexander
in M. Carey's reader, 319n
Messiah, 488n
Poplar Forest (TJ's estate)
TJ visits, 241, 248
sale of tobacco from, 245, 546
TJ declines to sell, 476, 535
value of timber at, 535
Porcupine (London), 405
porter, 29n, 31, 115n, 260n, 472
Portsmouth (U.S. frigate)
sent to France, 72, 149
returns with Davie, 185, 191, 202, 222, 360
carries letters, 191, 202, 325, 326, 327, 360
Portsmouth, N.H., 387, 603
Portugal
U.S. ministers in, 75-6
history of, 177
relations with U.S., 440
colonies, 454
postal service
distrusted, xxxvi, 17, 214, 216, 246-7, 251, 257, 304, 307, 309, 310, 321-2, 333, 357, 375, 376, 421, 434, 465, 498, 510, 517, 533, 537, 538, 594
Granger made postmaster general, 7n
schedules, efficiency of, 15, 30, 104, 129, 138, 171, 208, 213, 259, 266, 271, 364, 390, 417, 436, 488, 498, 499, 500, 503-4, 516, 556, 557
as conveyance for packages, seeds, 20, 66-7, 92, 128, 161, 207, 214, 246-7, 313, 314, 360, 376, 474
TJ's memorandum on, 104, 202n
abuse of franking privilege, 128
in New England, 155
payments sent through, 251, 254, 402, 414, 472n
could interfere with distribution of newspapers, 255
postmasters, 286-7, 324, 357, 358n, 386, 387n, 498
post roads bill, 323, 324n, 336-7
benefits of post roads, 423
1803 survey for New Orleans post road, 502-3n
See also Habersham, Joseph
Postell, James, 265
Postlethwaite, Samuel, 308
potatoes, 206, 527
Potomac Canal Company, 143n
Potomac River, 551n
Potter, John
Archaeologica Graeca: Or, the Antiquities of Greece, 176
Pottstown, Pa., 201
Pougens, Charles
source of books, 147, 158
Pouncey's tract (TJ's property), 418, 419n
Powell, Mr.
expected at Monticello, 47, 341, 347, 390, 414, 418, 488, 499, 517, 598
Powell, Leven, 259n
Pratt (schooner), 497n
Preble, Henry, 162
Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons (John Hatsell), 179, 286n
Précis du droit des gens moderne de l'Europe (Georg Friedrich von Martens), 179
Presbyterians, 135n, 317-18n, 411n, 567n
President (U.S. frigate), 114n
press, freedom of
toasted, 60
as essential principle, 96
and Federalist postmasters, 255
Price, Richard (Milton, Va.), 418
Priddy, Thomas, 20, 29
Pride, Thomas, 566, 567n
Priestley, Joseph
letter to, 95
letter from, 30
on design of steam engines, 9, 11n
on higher education, 30, 95, 114n
Chart of Biography, 177
New Chart of History, 177
Essay on the First Principle, 179
History of the Corruptions of Christianity, 179
responds to Cobbett, 467, 469n
Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland, 469n
in Philadelphia, 480
primogeniture, 123, 125n
Prince George Co., Va., 196, 244
Princeton, N.J.
Dufief in, 345n
battle of, 370
See also New Jersey, College of (Princeton)
Prince William Co., Va., 272n, 460n
Principia (Sir Isaac Newton), 445n
Pringle, Sir John, 112
Prospect Before Us (James Thomson Callender)
TJ sees early pages, supplies information, 100, 129-30, 174, 211-12, 233, 236, 254, 414
second volume of, 137, 138n, 255n
advertised, 212, 213n
TJ subsidizes second volume, 235, 238, 240
Madison subscribes to, 238, 250
Prospect of Exterminating the Small-Pox (Benjamin Waterhouse), 264, 355
Prospectus, Charter, Ordinances and Bye-Laws of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 4, 311
Prospectus of a Daily Paper, Called The Porcupine (William Cobbett), 405
Prospectus of a National Institution (Joel Barlow), 144n
Prosser, Thomas, 138n
Prosser, Thomas Henry, 131n, 136, 138n
Proud, Robert
History of Pennsylvania, 178
Providence, R.I., 166, 199-200
Prussia
seeks neutral status, 170
joins armed neutrality, 192n, 293-4, 296-7n, 586
news from, 223
U.S. relations with, 293-4, 296n
and 1780 league of armed neutrality, 453, 455-6
Puerto Rico, 453, 454
Pufendorf, Samuel, Baron von
Les devoirs de l'homme, 179