Oakson, Isaac, 422

oats, 612

“Observations and Experiments relating to equivocal, or spontaneous, Generation” (Joseph Priestley), 24, 25n

Ocmulgee River, 29

Ogden, Mr. (N.J.)

letter from cited, 624

Ohio

Cincinnati land office, 443, 541, 620

Jefferson Co., 572n

legislature, 572n

militia, 301

preemption rights in, 522n

ratifies Twelfth Amendment, 311

Steubenville land office, 572

and transfer of Louisiana to U.S., 301

Youngstown, 141

See also Federalists; Republicans

Ohio River, 373

oil

for lighthouses, 178-9

Olcott, Simeon, 8n

Oldham, James

letters from cited, 50n, 623, 624, 625

letters to, 50, 254

letter to cited, 50n, 623

payments to, 254

and sheet iron for Monticello, 50, 254

Olin, Gideon, 547n

Oregon, 7

Orleans Gazette (New Orleans), 55n

Orleans Territory

attorney general, 373n

calls for representative government in, 543

courts, 32, 35n

creation of government for, vii, 31-6, 37, 44, 103, 316, 410, 441n, 543

establishment of, vii, 31, 316, 441n

extension of federal laws over, 35n

governor of, 542

land claims in, 414n

legislative council, 308

legislature, 32-3, 35n

marshal, 169

regulation of trade in, 504

secretary, 32

slavery in, 33, 35n, 40

U.S. attorney, 177-8, 408, 494-5

See also Louisiana; New Orleans

Orvill, Robert, 512n

Osage River, 189

Osborne, Mary

asks TJ for money, 57-8

identified, 58n

letter from, 57-8

Osgood, Samuel

letter from cited, 403n, 626

recommends aspirants for office, 403n, 626

Ostend, 36n, 94, 95, 620

Otis, Samuel A.

letter to, 545

as secretary of the Senate, 131, 132n, 541n, 545

Ottawa River, 295

Otter Creek, 496

otters, 298

Otter Tail Lake, 194

Ottoman Empire, 395-6

Overton, Samuel

letter from cited, 626

letter to cited, 626

Ovid

Metamorphoses, 20, 21, 224, 225n

Remedia Amoris, 223, 225n