Volume 32 Index
V
Vaccà-Berlinghieri, Francesco
professor of medicine, 273, 276-7, 279n
associated with revolutionary movement, 554, 555
Valedictory Lecture Delivered Before the Philosophical Society of Delaware (Dr. John Vaughan), 269-70
Valon du Boucheron, Comte de. See Ambrugeac, Alexandre Charles Louis d'
Van Benthuysen, John, 304, 307, 342, 367n, 406
Van Cortlandt, Philip, 289
Vanderheyden, Ariana, 64n
Vanderlyn, John, xxxvi-xxxvii
Van Metre, John, 127n
Vanmetre, John (Johannes)
letter to, 126-7
supports TJ, 126-7
identified, 127n
letter from cited, 127n
Van Staphorst, Jacob, 274, 277
Van Staphorst & Hubbard
letter from, 48
and Mazzei's business affairs, 47, 57, 64, 114, 275, 278
handle correspondence, 48, 89, 147
and Kosciuszko's funds, 48
on representative government, liberty, 48
TJ's bonds to, 48
Varina (Randolph estate)
T. M. Randolph hopes to sell, 84, 152
Varnum, Joseph Bradley, 495n
Vatican, 88, 90n
Vattel, Emmerich de
Droit des Gens, 179
Vaughan, Dr. John
letters from, 269-70, 441-3
writings in science, medicine, 269-70
identified, 269-70n
letter to quoted, 270n
Del. politics, 441-3
Vaughan, Jane Taggert, 269n
Vaughan, Joshua, 269n
vehicles, 17, 128n
Venable, Abraham B., 577n
Vendée, France, 345n
Vengeance (French frigate), 113
Venice, 340, 525, 526n
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de, 41, 42, 453
Vermont
history of, 178
addresses on XYZ affair, 197-200
Freemasons, 198
militia, 198, 199
Republican prospects, support for TJ, 229, 291, 322, 357
newspapers, 261-2n
paper works, 261n
and election of 1800, 263, 322, 347, 357, 358, 358n, 367n, 418, 419n, 487
base for projected attack on Canada, 361n
Republicans seek federal offices, 581-2
U.S. marshal's position, 582
attorneys, 582n
clergymen, 582n
legislature, 582n
physicians, 582n
Vernon, Edward, 566
Vertot, René Aubert de
Revolutions de Portugal, 177
vetch, winter, 275, 278
Vie de Turgot (Marquis de Condorcet), 180
Vienna, 478, 586
View of the Evidences of Christianity (William Paley), 111, 112n, 179
Views of the Public Debt, Receipts & Expenditures of the United States (Albert Gallatin), 219, 220n
Vindication of Thomas Jefferson (DeWitt Clinton), 135-6n
Vine and Olive Colony, 320n
Virgil
Eclogues, 487, 488n, 571
Virginia
Agriculture
Hessian fly threat, 21, 185, 441
quality, quantity of wheat harvest, 21, 39, 43
crop selections, 108, 110
sheep, wool production, 148-9, 152
potential for saffron, 152
agricultural economics, 152-3
See also tobacco
Constitution
restrictions on voting, 52-3, 102-3
TJ's draft of, 102-3, 124
Declaration of Rights, 124
Constitution of U.S.
ratification of, xxxvi, 180, 525n
Council of State
and Gabriel's insurrection, 131n, 145n, 174-5
and quarantine of Norfolk, 131n
and lack of militia preparedness, 137
Courts
oyer and terminer, to try slaves, 131, 174-6
legal counsel assigned to Gabriel, 421n
General Court, 525n
Description
boundaries, 479, 480n
Economy
Scottish merchants, 3n
river transportation, 14, 20, 29, 37, 47, 61, 92, 172, 546, 549, 573
personal debts to British firms, 70
and farm tenancy, 82-4, 87-8, 108-10, 116, 151-2, 163-6, 310
costs of land, 84
Green Sea land investments, 84-5
fire insurance, 104-7
transactions in Va. currency, 108, 209, 400, 402n, 409-10, 413-14, 427, 440, 441n, 450, 470-2, 473, 499, 534, 535, 558
flour milling, 109n, 116
difficulty of negotiating drafts, obtaining credit, 127-8, 130, 139, 241, 251, 568
potential for wine production, 153
and federal Stamp Act, 171
roads, 272
taverns, inns, 272n
continental loan office, 374
See also Richmond, Va.
Education and Science
TJ seeks to create new university, xxxix, 30, 95, 114n
TJ's education bill, 124, 125n
works on natural history, 178
plant specimens collected, 232n
academies, 359-60, 398-9
state charter to Liberty Hall Academy, 360n
Washington and Lee University, 360n
maps, 464n
See also William and Mary, College of
General Assembly
and James River Co., 82
will not act against slavery, 82
and revisal of laws, 122-5
and Gabriel's insurrection, 131n, 145n, 160, 311, 389, 482
TJ's contacts in, 181n
and Callender, 236
sessions of, 372n, 403, 481-2, 511
ready to take action in resolution of presidential election, 403-4, 425, 481-2, 511
Tarleton attempts to capture, 452n
House of Burgesses
as source for TJ's parliamentary manual, xxxvi, 21-9
dissolved by Dunmore, 21n
members, 328n, 564n
House of Delegates
members, 3n, 131n, 234n, 290n, 328n, 359, 360n, 389, 421n, 451n, 460n, 524-5n, 563n
bill to restrict where free blacks, mulattoes may live, 482n
speaker, 525n
Laws
insanity and homicide, 39n
Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom, 45, 53, 54n, 122-3, 124-5n
on debtors, 70n, 117
Sequestration Act, 70n
revisal of, 122-5, 131n
on citizenship, 123, 125n
on inheritance, entail, 123, 125n
prohibiting importation of slaves, 123, 125n, 482n
for criminal trials of slaves, 131n, 174-6
to transport condemned slaves, 145, 160, 482n
E. Randolph's Abridgment, 471, 472n
restricting African Americans, 482
cession of federal district to U.S., 601
Militia
and voting qualifications, 102
and slave insurrection, 131, 136-7, 145
poor state of readiness, 136-7
addresses to Adams, 196, 198, 199
possible mobilization of, in resolution of presidential election, 404n
patrols, militia bolstered after Gabriel's insurrection, 482n
during American Revolution, 564
Politics
and Burr, viii, 234
Federalists, xxxvi, 255
election of 1800, 15-16, 239, 243, 244, 253, 329, 367n, 368
Republicans, 16, 38, 41, 126-7, 131n, 239
rumors of TJ's death, 48
dominance of aristocrats, 52-3
addresses on XYZ affair, 196, 198-201
Callender sees himself as apostle, 233
Republican newspapers, 262n
postmasters, 286-7, 324
news of presidential outcome awaited, 310, 364
rumors of Federalist intrigue to name an acting president, 399, 403-4, 481-2
state's response to presidential election situation, 404, 425, 482
Public Finance
Va. certificates, 77-9
land taxes, 127-8, 139, 164
state bank proposed, 404n
Public Opinion
newspapers, 100-1, 104, 124, 125n, 127n
and Gabriel's insurrection, 160, 168
fear that federal government could foster slave uprising, 248
joy at TJ's election, 477
Senate
members, 290n
Society
attorneys, 3n, 477n, 524n, 561
mental illness, 39, 236
Baptists, 54n
prospective home for Du Pont de Nemours, 65-6, 67, 92, 313, 314
retention of prerevolutionary place names, 111, 167
health, 131n
colonial history, 141, 178
alcoholism, 153
almanacs, registers published, 220-1, 334
coat of arms, 220-1
Mazzei longs for Va., 274, 277
words borrowed from other languages, 295-6, 297n
V. du Pont oath of allegiance, 313, 315
county surveyors, 360n
free blacks required to register, have employment, 482n
customs of hospitality, visiting, 557
State Institutions
Capitol, 123, 136-7, 220, 335
penitentiary, 123, 136-7, 335
treasury, 145
Weather
hail storm, 43
hot spell, 65, 67, 92
cold, 342
mild, in winter, 364
Virginia (b. 1793, TJ's slave), 163
Virginia, University of, 181n
Virginia & North Carolina Almanack of 1801, 221n
Virginia Argus (Richmond)
prints biographical sketch of TJ, 124, 125n
reports on Gabriel's insurrection, 138n
reports election returns, 226n
and Callender, 233, 236, 238
Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser (Richmond)
Federalist sympathies of, 255
Virginia Herald (Fredericksburg, Va.), 104, 234-5n, 498n
Vita degli eccellenti commandanti, Vitae excellentium Imperatorum (Cornelius Nepos), 177
Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf
converses with Thornton about university, 144n
Ruines, 179
condemned as atheist, blasphemer, 236-7
and U.S.-French negotiations, 244n
portrait by Barralet, 374-5
departure from U.S., 383n
Voltaire's Head
publishing house, 262n
Voyage dans les États-Unis d'Amérique (Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt), 85
Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce (Abbé Jean Jacques Barthélemy), 177
Vuy, Giuseppina, 274, 277, 279n