1 June to 31 December 1792

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This volume finds Thomas Jefferson grappling with a series of problems arising from the radicalization of the French Revolution in Europe and the polarization of domestic politics in the United States. The overthrow of the French monarchy leads the Secretary of State to suspend debt payments to that nation and to formulate a diplomatic recognition policy that will long guide American diplomacy. After an abortive effort to initiate negotiations with the British minister in Philadelphia on the execution of the Treaty of Paris, Jefferson deflects a British proposal to establish a neutral Indian barrier state in the Northwest Territory. As he awaits the start of negotiations on major diplomatic issues with Spain, he must deal with a threatening Spanish effort to incite hostilities between the Southern Indians and the United States.

The conflict between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton reaches a new stage when the Secretary of the Treasury brings the cabinet struggle into full public view with the publication of four series of pseudonymous newspaper attacks on Jefferson. In letters to President Washington, Jefferson insists that Hamiltonian policies pose a fundamental threat to the survival of American republicanism, and in other documents he sets forth reforms for remedying the defects he sees in Hamilton’s system. During this period Jefferson finds time to investigate the ravages of the Hessian fly on American wheat, make plans to remodel Monticello, and welcome the birth of his first grandson.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Foreword	vii
Guide to Editorial Apparatus	ix
Illustrations	xli
Jefferson Chronology	2
1792
continued

To John Paul Jones, 1 June	3
To James Madison, 1 June	10
From Henry Middleton, 1 June	10
Notes on the Hessian Fly, [1-15 June]	11
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 June	14
To Isaac Shelby, 1 June	15
From Cavelier fils, 2 June	15
From the Commissioners of the Federal District, 2 June	16
From George Hammond, 2 June	17
From George Hammond, 2 June	18
To George Hammond, 2 June	18
From George Hammond, 2 June	19
To George Hammond, 2 June	19
From George Hammond, 2 June	19
From George Washington, [2 June]	20
To C. W. F. Dumas, 3 June	20
To Daniel L. Hylton, enclosing Mortgage for Elk Hill, 3 June	21
To John Witherspoon, 3 June	23
From Thomas Bell, 4 June	24
From Thomas Hemming, 4 June	24
To James Madison, 4 June	25
Notes of a Conversation with George Hammond, 4 June	26
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 4 June	33
From Delamotte, 5 June	34
To William Blount, 6 June	35
From the Commissioners of the Federal District, 6 June	36
From George Hammond, 6 June	36
To George Hammond, 6 June	37
From John Garland Jefferson, 6 June	38
To Alexander Martin, 6 June	39
To John Dobson, 7 June	39
To Thomas Leiper, 7 June	40
To Alexander Donald, [8 June]	41
From C. W. F. Dumas, 8 June	41
To Jean Antoine Gautier, 8 June	42
From William Green, 8 June	43
To Thomas Pinckney, 8 June	43
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 8 June	43
To David Rittenhouse, 8 June	44
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, 9 June	45
From Gouverneur Morris, 9 June	46
To Hore Browse Trist, 9 June	46
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 9 June	47
To George Washington, 9 June	48
From George Washington, 9 June	49
To Le Veillard, 10 June	49
To James Madison, 10 June	50
From Gouverneur Morris, 10 June	50
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, 11 June	56
From George Gilmer, 11 June	57
From William Green, 11 June	57
To Thomas Hemming, 11 June	58
To Thomas Pinckney, 11 June	59
To Thomas Pinckney, 11 June	59
From David Rittenhouse, 11 June	64
George Washington to Thomas Barclay, 11 June	66
From Thomas Barclay, 12 June	67
To John Dobson, 12 June	68
From James Madison, 12 June	69
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 12 June	71
To Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 12 June	72
From James Yard, 12 June	72
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 13 June	73
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 13 June	73
From William Bingham, 14 June	74
To Thomas Pinckney, 14 June	74
To George Washington, 14 June	76
To Jerman Baker, 15 June	76
From William Barton, 15 June, enclosing
John A. De Normandie to Jefferson, 24 May	77
To Nathaniel Burwell, 15 June	80
To John Hylton, 15 June	81
To John Garland Jefferson, 15 June	81
To Samuel Mackay, 15 June	82
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 June	83
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, 15 June	84
From George Washington, 15 June	84
To Lafayette, 16 June	85
From James Mease, 16 June	86
To Gouverneur Morris, 16 June	88
From David Rittenhouse, 16 June	89
From David Humphreys, 17 June	90
To James Madison, [17-18 June]	90
From James Monroe, 17 June	91
From Gouverneur Morris, 17 June	93
From George Washington, 17 June	95
Notes on Arthur Young's Letter to George Washington, 18 June	95
To Thomas Paine, 19 June	99
From Charles Gottfried Paleske, 19 June	99
From George Wythe, [before 19 June]	101
To Joel Barlow, 20 June	101
From Alexander Hamilton, 20 June	102
From David Humphreys, 20 June	102
From David Redick, 20 June	103
To George Washington, 20 June	104
To George Washington, 20 June	104
To James Madison, 21 June	105
To Samuel Blodget, Jr., 22 June	107
To Peter Carr, 22 June	107
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 June	108
To William Duval, 22 June	108
To B. Francis, 22 June	109
To Henry Knox, 22 June	109
To Adam Lindsay, 22 June	110
To John de Neufville, 22 June	110
From Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 22 June	110
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 June	111
To John Cleves Symmes, 22 June	112
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 22 June	112
From Elnathan Haskell, 23 June	112
To Joseph Hopkinson, 23 June	113
To James Monroe, 23 June	114
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 23 June	115
From Nathaniel Burwell, 24 June	116
To Joseph Fay, 24 June	117
To Alexander Hamilton, 24 June	117
From James Madison, 24 June	118
To Thomas Pinckney, 24 June	119
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 25 June	119
From Augustine Davis, 25 June	121
From James Madison, 25 June	121
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 June	121
From William Short, 25 June	122
From F. P. Van Berckel, 25 June	125
From Alexander Hamilton, 26 June	126
From William Pollard, 26 June	126
From Edmund Randolph, 26 June	127
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 26 June	129
From Thomas Auldjo, 27 June	131
From Alexander Hamilton, 29 June	131
From Joseph Hopkinson, 29 June	132
To Daniel L. Hylton, 29 June	133
To James Madison, 29 June	133
From James Madison, 29 June	134
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 29 June	136
From William Short, 29 June	137
From George Washington, [29 June]	139
From James Anderson, [before 30 June]	139
From John Carey, 30 June	140
From Tobias Lear, 30 June	141
Memorandum on Americans Captured at Sea during the Revolutionary War, 30 June	141
From Edmund Randolph, 30 June	142
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 30 June	142
To James Brown, 1 July	143
From David Humphreys, 1 July	144
To Daniel L. Hylton, 1 July	145
From Gouverneur Morris, 1 July	145
To Elnathan Haskell, 2 July	146
To Henry Knox, 2 July	146
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 2 July	147
To Hugh Rose, 2 July	148
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 2 July	149
To F. P. Van Berckel, 2 July	149
From Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 2 July	150
To John Carey, 3 July	151
To Andrew Ellicott, 3 July	151
To James Madison, 3 July	151
To Thomas Pinckney, 3 July	153
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 3 July	153
To David Stuart, 3 July	154
To Edward Telfair, 3 July	155
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 3 July	156
To Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 3 July	157
From Edmund Randolph, 4 July	157
From F. P. Van Berckel, 4 July	157
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 5 July	158
From the Commissioners of the Federal District, 5 July	159
From George Hammond, 5 July	160
From James Madison, 5 July	162
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 5 July	163
To George Hammond, 6 July	164
From George Hammond, 6 July	164
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 6 July	165
From George Washington, 6 July	165
Edmund Randolph's Opinion on Recess Appointments, 7 July	165
From George Washington, [7 July]	168
From James Brown, 8 July	168
The Settlement of Jefferson's Accounts as Minister
Plenipotentiary in France	169
I. Accounts as Minister Plenipotentiary in France, 8 July
II. Explanatory Notes on Accounts, [8 July]
III. James Wilson's Certification of Jefferson's Oath on Accounts, 9 July
To Thomas Chittenden, 9 July	200
From Nathaniel Cutting, 9 July	200
To George Hammond, 9 July	202
To George Hammond, 9 July	202
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 9 July	203
From George Washington, 9 July	204
To George Washington, 9 July	204
George Washington to David Rittenhouse, [9 July]	205
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 10 July	205
To Thomas Leiper, 10 July	207
From Gouverneur Morris, 10 July	207
Notes of a Conversation with George Washington, 10 July	210
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, 11 July	212
To Joseph Hopkinson, 11 July	213
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 11 July	213
To James Madison, 11 July	214
Note of Agenda to Reduce the Government to True Principles,
[ca. 11 July]	215
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 July	217
From George Washington, 11 July	217
To Samuel Blodget, Jr., 12 July	218
To Thomas Chittenden, 12 July	218
To Christopher Gore, 12 July	219
To Alexander Hamilton, 12 July	219
From George Hammond, 12 July	220
To George Hammond, 12 July	221
To David Humphreys, 12 July	221
To Thomas Leiper, 12 July	222
To Gouverneur Morris, 12 July	222
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 July	223
To Edmund Randolph, 12 July	223
To F. P. Van Berckel, 12 July	224
To George Wythe, 12 July	224
From Thomas Barclay, 13 July	224
To Alexander Hamilton, 13 July	225
From George Hammond, 13 July	225
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 13 July	226
From Hans Rodolph Saabÿe, 13 July	226
From Tench Coxe, 14 July	228
From Alexander Hamilton, 14 July	229
From Madame de Neufville, 15 July	229
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 16 July	232
From Joseph Fenwick, 16 July	233
From Joseph Moore, 16 July	234
From James Monroe, 17 July	235
From George Washington, 17 July	238
From Charles Wintersmith, 17 July	238
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 July	240
From William Short, 20 July	240
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 20 July	246
To Pierre Guide, 21 July	246
From Delamotte, 22 July	247
From Peyton Short, 22 July	247
From Henry Lee, 23 July	248
From George Washington, 23 July	248
From George Wythe, 24 July	248
To James Brown, 26 July	249
From William Short, 26 July	249
From James Madison, 27 July	259
From William Short, 27 July	260
From William Short, 27 July	261
From Adrien Petit, 28 July	262
To James Brown, 29 July	263
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, 29 July	264
To Daniel L. Hylton, 29 July	264
To James Lyle, 29 July	265
To George Taylor, Jr., 29 July	266
To John Witherspoon, 29 July	267
From James Brown, 30 July	267
From Malesherbes, 30 July	267
To Francis Walker, 30 July	268
To George Washington, 30 July	269
From Thomas Barclay, 31 July	269
From William Short, 31 July	270
From James Brown, 1 August	272
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 1 August	273
From Gouverneur Morris, 1 August	275
From Gouverneur Morris, 1 August	277
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 2 August	278
From George Hammond, 3 August	278
From George Hammond, 3 August	279
To Bowling Clark, 5 August	279
From William Short, 6 August	280
From William Short, 6 August	281
From Thomas Pinckney, 7 August	282
From Charles Clay, 8 August	283
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 8 August	284
From Thomas Auldjo, 9 August	285
From Charles Gottfried Paleske, 9 August	285
To Henry Remsen, [10?] August	285
From E. Laughlan, 11 August	286
From James Lyle, 11 August	286
From David Humphreys, 12 August	287
To David Rittenhouse, 12 August	287
To George Washington, 12 August	289
From Joseph G. Chambers, 13 August	290
To Henry Lee, 13 August	293
To Adrien Petit, 13 August	294
To George Taylor, Jr., 13 August	295
From George Taylor, Jr., 13 August	295
To John Vaughan, 13 August	296
From George Washington, 13 August	296
From John Garland Jefferson, 14 August	297
From William Short, 15 August	298
From George Wythe, 15 August	299
To William Carmichael, 16 August	299
To Etienne Clavière, 16 August	300
From Joseph Fenwick, 16 August	301
From Gouverneur Morris, 16 August	301
From George Taylor, Jr., 16 August	306
From Gouverneur Morris, 17 August	307
To William Knox, 19 August	308
To Sampson Mathews, 19 August	309
To Charles Gottfried Paleske, 19 August	309
To George Taylor, Jr., 19 August	310
To George Washington, 19 August	310
To Edmund Winston, 19 August	311
From Edward Telfair, 21 August	312
From Thomas Barclay, 22 August	312
From Gouverneur Morris, 22 August	313
To William Barton, 23 August	315
From George Washington, 23 August	315
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 24 August	319
From Alexander Martin, 24 August	321
From William Short, 24 August	322
From Josiah Parker, 26 August	325
From Edmund Randolph, 26 August	326
From George Taylor, Jr., 26 August	326
From James Yard, 26 August	327
To George Taylor, Jr., 27 August	328
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 27 August	328
To George Washington, 27 August	329
From Thomas Pinckney, 29 August	329
From Gouverneur Morris, 30 August	331
From William Short, 31 August	335
From Joseph Fenwick, 1 September	339
From George Taylor, Jr., 1 September	339
From John Syme, 2 September	340
To Timothy Pickering, 3 September	341
From James Currie, 4 September	341
From Powhatan Bolling, 6 September	342
From Alexander Donald, 6 September	343
From Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 6 September	344
From Thomas Barclay, 8 September	345
From Samuel Blodget, Jr., 8 September	346
From Thomas Pinckney, 8 September	346
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 8 September	348
From David Humphreys, 9 September	348
From John Garland Jefferson, 9 September	349
To Needler Robinson, 9 September	350
To Archibald Stuart, 9 September	351
To George Washington, 9 September	351
From Thomas Barclay, 10 September	360
From Blow & Milhado, 10 September	360
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 10 September	362
To Daniel L. Hylton, 10 September	363
From Gouverneur Morris, 10 September	364
To George Taylor, Jr., 10 September	365
To George Webb, 10 September	366
To Basil Wood, 10 September	366
To James Brown, 11 September	367
To Charles Clay, 11 September	367
From Ferdinando Fairfax, 11 September	368
From Joseph Fenwick, 11 September	369
To Robert Fleming, 11 September	370
To Henry Middleton, 11 September	371
To Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 11 September	372
To Hugh Rose, 11 September	372
To Edward Rutledge, 11 September	373
To George Wythe, 11 September	373
From Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 14 September	374
From James Brown, 15 September	374
From William Short, 15 September	374
From George Washington, 15 September	383
To James Monroe, 16 September	385
To James Madison, 17 September	386
To Edmund Randolph, 17 September	387
To John Syme, 17 September	387
From George Webb, 17 September	388
From J. P. P. Derieux, [18 September?]	389
From William Knox, 18 September	389
From William Vans Murray, 18 September	389
From William Short, 18 September	390
From Fulwar Skipwith, 18 September	403
To George Washington, 18 September	403
From James Maury, 19 September	404
From Gouverneur Morris, 19 September	404
From Thomas Pinckney, 19 September	406
From J. P. P. Derieux, 20 September	406
From C. W. F. Dumas, 20 September	406
To Powhatan Bolling, 21 September	408
To Bowling Clark, enclosing Power of Attorney for Sale of
Slaves, 21 September	408
From Stephen Hallet, 21 September	410
Memorandums for Manoah Clarkson, [23 September]	412
To Thomas Bell, 25 September	415
To John Garland Jefferson, 25 September	415
To Randolph Jefferson, 25 September	416
Receipt for Nicholas Lewis, 25 September	416
To Henry Mullins, 25 September	417
To Nathaniel Pope, 25 September	417
From John Syme, 26 September	418
From Gouverneur Morris, 27 September	419
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [after 27 September]	422
From James Anderson, 28 September	423
From Joseph Fenwick, 28 September	424
From William Short, 28 September	425
From David Campbell, 29 September	427
Notes of a Conversation with George Mason, 30 September	428
From Thomas Barclay, 1 October	430
From Joel Barlow, 1 October	430
From Daniel L. Hylton, 1 October	431
To James Madison, 1 October	432
To James Madison, 1 October	432
Notes of a Conversation with George Washington, 1 October	433
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 October	436
From Dugald Stewart, 1 October	437
To James Madison, 2 October	437
From Edward Telfair, 3 October	438
From Alexander Martin, 4 October	439
Paragraph for George Washington to Gouverneur Morris,
4 October	440
From Théophile Cazenove, 5 October	440
From Delamotte, 5 October	440
From Thomas Pinckney, 5 October	441
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 5 October	443
From John Carey, 6 October	443
From Mary Gomain Hallet, [ca. 6 October]	444
From Alexander Hamilton, 6 October	445
John Sheppard to the Committee of the American
Philosophical Society, [ca. 6 October]	446
From John F. Mercer, 7 October	447
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 October	448
To Henry Remsen, 7 October	449
From George Washington, 7 October	450
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 8 October	450
From Joseph Fay, 8 October	451
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 8 October	451
From William Rawle, 8 October	452
To William Rawle, 8 October	453
From George Gilmer, 9 October	453
From Joshua Johnson, 9 October	453
From James Madison, 9 October	455
From William Short, 9 October	455
From Ernst Frederick Walterstorff, 9 October	458
From Wilson Miles Cary, 10 October	458
From Joseph G. Chambers, 10 October	459
To Delamotte, 10 October	461
To Joseph Fenwick, 10 October	461
To Jean François Froullé, 10 October	462
From Henry Remsen, 10 October	463
From Elias Vanderhorst, 10 October	465
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October	466
To J. P. P. Derieux, 11 October	467
To Alexander Donald, enclosing Invoice of Books and
Articles to be Bought in Dublin and London, 11 October	467
From Alexander Hamilton, 11 October	470
To D. Vassy, 11 October	470
From James Mease, 12 October	471
From Joseph Nourse, 12 October	472
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 October	472
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 12 October	473
From William Short, 12 October	474
To Blow & Milhado, 13 October	476
To Daniel Carroll, 13 October	477
From Daniel Carroll, 13 October	477
From Ernst Frederick Gayer, 13 October	478
To Alexander Hamilton, 13 October	478
To William Carmichael and William Short, 14 October	479
From the Commissioners of the Federal District, 14 October	481
To William Short, 14 October	482
To George Washington, 14 October	484
From William Knox, 15 October	484
To Gouverneur Morris, 15 October	484
Paragraphs for the President's Annual Message to Congress,
15 October	486
From Henry Remsen, 15 October	487
From Samuel Ward & Brothers, 15 October	488
To Joseph Fenwick, 16 October	489
From James Monroe, 16 October	489
To William Short, 16 October	490
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 16 October	492
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 16 October	493
To George Washington, 16 October	493
To James Madison, 17 October	493
To George Washington, enclosing Observations on the
French Debt, 17 October	494
Estimate of the Domestic Expenses of the State Department
for 1793, 18 October	498
From George Washington, 18 October	499
To James Currie, 19 October	500
From Alexander Hamilton, with Jefferson's Comment,
19 October	500
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 October	501
From William Short, 19 October	502
To Samuel Ward & Brothers, 19 October	504
From George Washington, 20 October	505
From John Garland Jefferson, 21 October	506
From J. P. P. Derieux, 22 October	507
From Alexander Hamilton, 22 October	507
To Alexander Hamilton, 22 October	508
To Alexander Hamilton, enclosing Statements of Salaries
and Disbursements of the Department of State, 22 October	508
From William Hylton, 22 October	511
To Thomas Pinckney, 22 October	511
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 October	512
From William Short, 22 October	513
From Jean Antoine Gautier, 23 October	522
From James Madison, 23 October	523
From Gouverneur Morris, 23 October	524
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, enclosing Observations on
La Forest's Commission, 23 October	530
From Henry Lee, 24 October	531
From Daniel Carroll, 25 October	533
From Thomas Barclay, 26 October	534
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 26 October	534
From William Short, 27 October	535
From Daniel Smith, 27 October	537
To George Washington, 27 October	538
From John F. Mercer, 28 October	539
To Edmund Randolph, 28 October	540
From John Joseph de Barth, 29 October	540
Report on the Proceedings of the Northwest Territory,
29 October	541
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 29 October,
enclosing Extract of Carondelet to Viar and Jaudenes,
24 September	541
From Samuel Ward & Brothers, 29 October	544
From James Currie, 30 October	544
From James Yard, 30 October	545
To Alexander Hamilton, 31 October	545
From David Humphreys, 31 October	545
From Tobias Lear, 31 October	547
Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the Southern Indians and Spain,
31 October	547
From Tobias Lear, 1 November	550
Edmund Randolph's Opinion on the Theft of Slaves from
Martinique, 1 November	551
Revised Paragraph for the President's Annual Message to
Congress, 1 November	552
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 1 November	552
To George Washington, 1 November	553
From William Cobbett, 2 November	554
To J. P. P. Derieux, 2 November	555
From Alexander Hamilton, 2 November	556
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 November	556
From William Short, 2 November	557
From William Short, 2 November	560
To George Washington, 2 November	562
To George Washington, 2 November	563
From James Anderson, 3 November	564
To William Carmichael and William Short, 3 November	565
From George Washington, 3 November	567
To George Washington, enclosing Accounts of the
Department of State, 3 November	568
To John Bolling, Jr., 4 November	573
To James Brown, 4 November	573
To Wilson Miles Cary, 4 November	574
To Joseph Dickerson and Isaac Winfrey, 4 November	575
To Joseph Fay, 4 November	575
To Richard Hanson, enclosing
Power of Attorney to Richard Hanson, 4 November	576
To John Garland Jefferson, 4 November	577
To Adam Lindsay, 4 November	577
To Matthew Maury, 4 November	578
To John F. Mercer, 4 November	578
To George Reveley, 4 November	579
To F. P. Van Berckel, 4 November	579
To Joseph G. Chambers, 5 November	580
To William Cobbett, 5 November	580
From the Commissioners of the Federal District, 5 November	581
From James Currie, 5 November	582
From Alexander Hamilton, 5 November	582
To George Washington, enclosing Estimates of the
Foreign Fund and Foreign Establishment, 5 November	583
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 6 November	585
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 6 November	586
To David Humphreys, 6 November	587
From John Garland Jefferson, 6 November	588
To the Mayor and Municipality of Marseilles, 6 November	589
To Thomas Pinckney, 6 November	590
From Thomas Pinckney, 6 November	591
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 6 November	591
From Alexander Donald, 7 November	592
From James Maury, 7 November	592
To Gouverneur Morris, 7 November	592
To Gouverneur Morris, 7 November	594
To David Humphreys, 8 November	595
To Thomas Pinckney, 8 November	596
From Rodolph Vall-Travers, 8 November	597
George Washington to the Senate, 8 November	598
From James Brown, 9 November	598
To Matthew McAllister, 9 November	599
From Thomas Pinckney, 9 November	600
To Edmund Randolph, 9 November	601
From William Short, 9 November	601
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 9 November	603
To George Turner, 9 November	604
From John Clarke, 10 November	604
To Arthur St. Clair, 10 November	605
To Alexander Donald, enclosing Directions for Window
Sashes, 11 November	605
Notes on Alexander Hamilton, 11 November	607
Notes on the Circulating Medium of Philadelphia and
Great Britain, 11 November	607
To Samuel Campbell, 12 November	608
From Tobias Lear, 12 November	609
From Edmund Randolph, 12 November	609
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 12 November	610
To George Washington, 12 November	610
To George Washington, 12 November	610
To Stephen Willis, 12 November	611
To Jacquelin Ambler, 13 November	612
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, enclosing
George Washington to Jacquelin Ambler, 13 November	612
From C. W. F. Dumas, 13 November	613
From Joseph Leacock, 13 November	614
From James Maury, 13 November	614
From Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 13 November	615
To Thomas Pinckney, 13 November	615
To Henry Remsen, 13 November	616
To Christian Baehr, 14 November	617
To William Blount, 14 November	617
Circular to Consuls and Vice-Consuls, 14 November	618
To Thomas FitzSimons, 14 November	620
From John Steele, 14 November	621
To Thomas Barclay, 15 November	621
To James Brown, 15 November	622
To Joseph Donath, 16 November	622
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 November	623
From William Short, 16 November	624
To George Washington, 16 November	626
To George Washington, 16 November	626
From Alexander Hamilton, 17 November	627
From Alexander Hamilton, [17 November]	627
From Tobias Lear, 17 November	627
To the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, 17 November	628
Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,
[17 November]	629
From Richard Chandler, 18 November	630
From John Garland Jefferson, 18 November	631
From Adam Lindsay, 18 November	632
Notes on the Legitimacy of the French Government, with
Addendum, [18-19] November	632
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 November	634
To George Washington, 18 November	634
From J. P. P. Derieux, 19 November	635
To William Fitzhugh, 19 November	636
From Alexander Hamilton, 19 November	636
To Adam? Hunter, 19 November	637
From Thomas Mifflin, 19 November	637
Notes on Alexander Hamilton, 19 November	638
From John Page, 19 November	638
To Mann Page, 19 November	639
From Henry Remsen, 19 November	640
To George Washington, 19 November	642
From George Washington, with Jefferson's Comment,
19 November	642
From Thomas Barclay, 20 November	643
From Joseph G. Chambers, 20 November	644
To Thomas Mifflin, 20 November	645
To Thomas Pinckney, 20 November	646
From William Short, 20 November	646
From Thomas Shubrick, 20 November	650
To Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 November	652
To Alexander Hamilton, 21 November	654
From James Monroe, 21 November	655
To J. P. P. Derieux, 22 November	655
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 22 November	656
To Daniel L. Hylton, 22 November	656
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 November	657
From Joseph Leacock, [23] November	658
From Tobias Lear, 23 November	660
To Joseph Leacock, 24 November	661
To George Washington, 24 November	661
To James McHenry, 25 November	662
To Henry Remsen, 25 November	662
To George Divers, 26 November	663
From Andrew Ellicott, 26 November	664
From James Maury, 26 November	664
Report of the Petition of John de Neufville, 26 November	664
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 26 November	667
To Thomas Pinckney, 27 November	668
From David Rittenhouse, 27 November	668
From Richard Harrison, 28 November	668
From David Humphreys, 28 November	669
From Tobias Lear, 28 November	671
From David Rittenhouse, 28 November	671
From Abner Vernon, 28 November	672
To George Washington, 28 November	673
George Washington to the Senate and the House of
Representatives, [28 November]	674
From William Fitzhugh, 29 November	674
From Richard Harrison, 29 November	675
From Tobias Lear, 29 November	675
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 29 November	676
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 November	676
From William Short, 30 November	677
From William Short, 30 November	679
From James Traquair, [30 November]	683
Petition of Oliver Evans to the Patent Board, [ca. 1 December]	683
To Richard Harrison, 1 December	684
To Samuel Jones, Jr., 1 December	685
From James Maury, 1 December	685
To Nathaniel Tracy, 1 December	686
To George Washington, enclosing Draft Clause on Foreign
Intercourse, 1 December	686
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 2 December	687
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 2 December	688
To Joseph Fenwick, 2 December	690
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 2 December	691
From Simeon Baldwin, 3 December	691
A Bill to Redeem the Public Debt, [3 December]	692
Clause for Bill on Offenses against the Law of Nations,
[3 December]	693
Opinion on Offenses against the Law of Nations, 3 December	693
To Thomas Pinckney, 3 December	696
From Philip Wilson, 3 December	697
From Oliver Ellsworth, 4 December	698
From Robert Gamble, 4 December	698
From the Commissioners of the Federal District, 5 December	699
From William Green, 5 December	700
Memorandum on James Traquair, 5 December	702
Edmund Randolph’s Opinion of Offenses against the Law of
Nations, 5 December	702
From Thomas Auldjo, 6 December	703
To Daniel L. Hylton, 6 December	703
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 December	704
From Archibald Stuart, 6 December	704
From Francis Eppes, 7 December	706
From William Murray, 7 December	706
From John Waller Johnston, [ca. 8 December]	707
From William Short, 8 December	708
To George Washington, 8 December	713
From Jacob Hollingsworth, [9] December	713
To Thomas Leiper, 9 December	714
From Jacquelin Ambler, 10 December	715
From Joseph Leacock, 10 December	715
To James Madison, [ca. 10 December]	717
Notes for a Conversation with George Hammond, [ca. 10 December]	717
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting on Indian Affairs, 10 December	721
From Peyton Short, 10 December	721
Thoughts on the Bankruptcy Bill, [ca. 10 December]	722
From James Brown, 11 December	723
From Tobias Lear, 11 December	724
To Samuel Biddle, 12 December	724
From Alexander Donald, 12 December	726
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 12 December	727
Notes of a Conversation with George Hammond, 12 December	728
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 December	730
To Abner Vernon, 12 December	730
To James Brown, 13 December	731
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, enclosing
Drawing of a Mill for Sawing and Polishing Stone, 13 December	731
From Charles Everett, [13 December]	733
From John F. Mercer, 13 December	733
Notes of a Conversation with George Washington, 13 December	734
From Thomas Pinckney, 13 December	735
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 13 December	740
To John Clarke, 14 December	741
From Tench Coxe, 14 December	741
To J. P. P. Derieux, 14 December	742
From Alexander Hamilton, 14 December	742
From Thomas Pinckney, 14 December	743
From Martha Jefferson Carr, 15 December	744
To George Gilmer, 15 December	744
To William Pearce, 15 December	745
To Ambrose Vasse, 15 December	745
To Charles Bellini, 16 December	746
To Thomas Leiper, 16 December	746
To Bishop James Madison, 16 December	748
To St. George Tucker, 16 December	748
From Thomas Barclay, 17 December	749
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, 17 December	749
Notes of a Conversation with George Hammond, 17 December	750
Notes on the Reynolds Affair, 17 December	751
From William Short, 18 December	751
From William Short, 18 December	752
To George Washington, 18 December	755
From Thomas Barclay, 19 December	756
From Benjamin Smith Barton, [19 December]	756
To Francis Eppes, 19 December	756
To John F. Mercer, 19 December	757
To James Brown, 20 December	758
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 December	759
From Joseph Fenwick, 20 December	759
From Tobias Lear, 20 December	760
From Condorcet, 21 December	760
From Gouverneur Morris, 21 December	762
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 December	774
From Hans Rodolph Saabÿe, 22 December	775
To the Commissioners of the Federal District, 23 December	776
From David Humphreys, 23 December	776
From John Brown Cutting 24 December	778
From Jacob Hollingsworth, 24 December	779
From Elias Vanderhorst, 24 December	780
To John Rutherford, 25 December	781
From Gaudenzio Clerici, 26 December	785
To Richard Dobson, 26 December	788
From Alexander Hamilton, 26 December	789
To John Jones, 26 December	790
From Thomas Barclay, 27 December	791
From Thomas Barclay, 27 December	791
From John Nancarrow, 27 December	792
Notes of a Conversation with George Washington on French
Affairs, 27 December	793
From Joseph Fenwick, 28 December	795
From Benjamin Hawkins, 28 December	796
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 December	797
From David Rittenhouse, 29 December	798
From Madame d’Enville, 30 December	798
From Henry Lee, 30 December	799
To Gouverneur Morris, 30 December	800
Notes on the Legitimacy of Government, 30 December	802
To Thomas Pinckney, 30 December	802
From George Washington, 30 December	804
To Daniel L. Hylton, 31 December	804
From William Pearce and Thomas Marshall, 31 December	805
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 December	806
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 December	806
From Elias Vanderhorst, 31 December	807
From George Washington, 31 December	807
From George Washington, [31 December]	808
Jefferson’s Account of the Bargain on the Assumption and
Residence Bills, [1792?]	808
From John Nancarrow, with Drawing by Jefferson, [1792-1793]	808
Notes on the National Debt, [1792-1793?]	810

Index	811

Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Abbey (TJ's slave), 408

Abda, Morocco

in Moroccan civil war, 312, 643, 756

Abdalmeluk Ben Idris

in Moroccan civil war, 224, 225

Abderhaman Benasser

in Moroccan civil war, 67, 225, 345, 643, 749

Abraham (TJ's slave)

work assignment, 413

Absulem

in Moroccan civil war, 67

Account of the Sugar-Maple Tree of the United States

(Benjamin Rush)

translated into Dutch, 407

Accusation contre Maximilien Robespierre (Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray>

sent to TJ, 771, 774n

Adams, Mr. (Va.), 152

Adams, Abigail Smith (Mrs. John Adams)

reportedly plans not to return to Philadelphia, 152

Adams, John

and ransom of captives in Algiers, 3-4

reception in Great Britain, 60

and Anglo-American armistice, 63

reception by Dutch government, 124

reportedly will not run for vice-president, 152

settlement of accounts, 169, 173

in TJ's French accounts, 180, 184

and diplomatic expenses, 198n

and house rent, 198n

Discourses on Davila, 356

absent from Philadelphia, 578

and sinking fund, 629-30

electoral vote for as vice-president, 697, 698, 705, 733, 757

unpopularity of, 698, 704-5, 733

Adams, John Quincy

"Publicola" letters, 356

Adams, Samuel

and Union Bank, 120

and National Gazette, 623

Advice concerning Bills of Exchange (John Marius)

cited by Edmund Randolph, 157

Advice to the Privileged Orders of Europe (Joel Barlow)

received by TJ, 101

Aeschylus

tragedies ordered by TJ, 462

Agricultural Society of New York

transactions of, 471, 676, 685

Agricultural Society of South Carolina

and olive culture in S.C., 344, 451, 615, 690, 795

agriculture

TJ's views on, 21

TJ's notes on, 95-8

productivity in England, 97

productivity in Va., 97-8

Aiton, William

Hortus Kewensis, 797

Albany Co., N.Y.

vote in gubernatorial election, 105, 114

Albemarle Co., Va.

TJ's overseer in, 81

sheriff of, 412

Albert, Duke. See Saxe-Teschen, Albert, Archduke of

Alburgh, Vt.

dispute with British over town government in, 160-2, 164,

165, 200, 202-3, 218-19, 220, 221, 222, 223, 248, 269,

296-7, 310-11

Alcudia, Duke of. See Godoy Alvarez de Faria, Manuel, Duque

de la Alcudia

Alexandria, Va.

bank in, 433n

Algiers

British consul in (see Logie, Charles)

J. P. Jones's mission to, 3-9, 59, 66-7, 131

Lamb's mission to, 3-4

payment of tribute to, 5-6, 240, 270

proposed treaty with, 5-6, 66-7

relations with Tunis, 6

proposed naval blockade of, 8

U.S. consul in, 8, 66-7

Barclay's mission to, 59, 66-7, 283, 330, 472-3, 600, 616,

619n, 737, 791, 802

relations with U.S., 66-7, 240

naval reinforcements for, 102

peace with Sweden, 240, 270

currency, 270

piracy of, 320n, 587, 622

Algiers, American captives in

ransom of, 3-5, 6-7, 66-7, 547, 622

subsistence of, 102-3, 145n, 270

letter published on, 356, 359n

Algiers, Dey of. See Ali Hassan; Muhammad ibn Uthman

Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers

relations with U.S., 3

Allen, Ira

land claims in Alburgh, 161n

Almanach Royal, 411

Alsace

allegedly supports Austro-Prussian invaders, 94

Alta, Eelko

letter to Washington cited, 440

proposed treatise on pasturing, 440

Ambler, Charles

legal reports ordered by TJ, 469

Ambler, Jacquelin

letter to, 612

letter from, 715

letter from Washington, 613

mentioned, 699, 760

Ambrose (TJ's slave)

sale of, 408, 410

Amelia (ship), 13)

“American, An”

To the Independent Electors of Pennsylvania, 282n

pseudonym used by Hamilton, 326, 354, 359n, 387, 495n

American Philosophical Society

investigates Hessian fly, xli, 13n, 77-80, 103, 234, 446-7, 471

John De Normandie's membership in, 80n

letter from John Sheppard to committee of, 446-7

Earl of Buchan elected member of, 565n

James Anderson elected member of, 565n

John Nancarrow elected member of, 792n

mentioned, 597, 598n

American Remembrancer (John Carey)

never published, 140n

Short subscribes to, 562

Ames, Fisher

congressional reelection campaign, 623

Amsterdam

U.S. bankers and American commissioners in (see Willink,Van Staphorst & Hubbard)

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