1 September to 31 December 1793 with Supplement, July 1764 to July 1793

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Description

This volume brings to a close Jefferson’s increasingly stormy tenure as Secretary of State. Against the background of the deadly yellow fever in Philadelphia, he copes with obstreperous French consuls and informs Edmond Charles Genet that the American government has requested his recall. After a brief visit to Monticello, where he continues preparations for his retirement, he resumes his official duties in Germantown and plays an important part in the historic definition of the maritime limits of the United States. Continuing his epochal duel with his great antagonist at the Treasury over the conduct of American foreign policy, Jefferson prevails upon President Washington and the Cabinet to inform Congress of the British refusal to carry out the disputed provisions of the Treaty of Paris at the same time that it is told of the Washington administration’s request for Genet’s recall. In a final effort to implement his policy of commercial retaliation against Great Britain, Jefferson submits to Congress in December his long-awaited Report on Commerce—nearly three years in the making—setting forth in great detail the various forms of discrimination that American trade suffers at the hands of the British. The early stages and final version of this influential state paper are presented in all their textual complexity. At last worn down by the daily drudgery of office, disappointed by President Washington’s tepid response to his criticisms of Alexander Hamilton’s fiscal policies, frustrated by the Treasury Secretary’s rising influence over American foreign policy, anxious to resume the personal management of his estates, and eager to enjoy uninterruptedly the pleasures of domestic life, Jefferson retires from office on the last day of 1793, determined never again to suffer the torments of public life.

The volume is also noteworthy for a supplement and three appendices. The supplement prints, summarizes, or notes some 270 documents for the period 1764-1793 that have come to light or been reclassified since the publication of the last supplement in Volume 15 (1958). In accordance with the design of the edition, the appendices account summarily for several hundred documents that were not intended for publication, summary, or even brief digest in the annotation in the State Department volumes. The final appendix describes and illustrates official papers—commissions, laws, passports, patents, and the like—that Jefferson signed ex officio as Secretary of State.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

FOREWORD	vii
GUIDE TO EDITORIAL APPARATUS	xi
ILLUSTRATIONS	xlix
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY	2

1793

To James B. M. Adair, 1 September	3
To J. P. P. Derieux, 1 September	4
From David Humphreys, 1 September	4
From James McHenry, 1 September	5
To James Madison, 1 September	6
To Thomas Pinckney, 1 September	8
To David Meade Randolph, 1 September	9
To Abraham Runnels, 1 September	9
To George Taylor, Jr., 1 September	10
From Elias Vanderhorst, 1 September	10
To Samuel Ward, 1 September	12
To Wilson, Potts & Easton, 1 September	12
Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph to George Wythe, 1 September
To Christopher Gore, 2 September	13
To James McHenry, Robert Gilmor, and Samuel Sterett, 2 September
From James Madison, 2 September	15
From James Madison, 2 September, enclosing Resolutions on
Neutrality and Friendship with France, [ca. 27 August]
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 September	20
From John Vaughan, 2 September	22
To George Washington, [ca. 2-4 September]	22
From Nathaniel Cutting, 3 September	23
From David Humphreys, 3 September	24
From Thomas Sim Lee, 3 September	25
To Samuel Miller, 3 September	26
From James Monroe, 3 September	26
From Thomas Griffin Peachy, 3 September	28
From Elias Vanderhorst, 3 September	29
To Thomas Chittenden, 4 September	30
Memorial from George Hammond, 4 September	30
Notes on Cabinet Meetings, 4 September	32
From Jeremiah Wadsworth, 4 September	34
From Jeremiah Wadsworth, 4 September	35
From Tench Coxe, 5 September	35
To George Hammond, 5 September	35
From Edmund Randolph, 5 September	38
George Taylor, Jr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 5 September	39
From Anonymous, [ca. 6 September]	39
From John Barret, Benjamin Harrison, Jr., and James Heron,
6 September
From James Currie, 6 September	40
From Edmond Charles Genet, 6 September	41
From George Hammond, 6 September	43
Memorial from George Hammond, 6 September	44
Henry Knox's Report on Defense, with Opinion by Jefferson
and Edmund Randolph, 6 September
To David Rittenhouse, 6 September	47
Memorial from F. P. Van Berckel, 6 September	48
Cabinet Opinions on Relations with France and Great Britain,
7 September
Circular to French Consuls and Vice-Consuls, 7 September	51
From Robert Were Fox, 7 September	52
To Edmond Charles Genet, [7 September]	52
To Dennis Griffith, 7 September	53
From James Maury, 7 September	54
Notes for Replies to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, [7-9 September]
To Thomas Pinckney, 7 September	55
From George Washington, 7 September	60
To Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 7 September	60
From George Hammond, 8 September	61
To James Madison, 8 September	61
From James Madison, [after 8 September]	63
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 8 September	64
From Samuel Sterett, 8 September	64
From James B. M. Adair, 9 September	66
To Edmond Charles Genet, 9 September	67
To George Hammond and F. P. Van Berckel, 9 September	70
From Henry Knox, 9 September	72
From John Langdon, 9 September	73
To Edward Telfair, 9 September	73
To George Washington, 9 September	74
George Washington to the Commissioners of the Federal District,
9 September
To George Clinton, 10 September	75
To Tench Coxe, 10 September	76
To James Duane, 10 September	76
From Edmond Charles Genet, [10] September	78
To Alexander S. Glass, 10 September	79
From Christopher Gore, 10 September	79
To George Hammond, 10 September	82
From Alexandre Maurice d'Hauterive, 10 September	83
To Henry Knox, 10 September	84
To Adam Lindsay, 10 September	84
To David Meade Randolph, 10 September	85
To Richard Söderström, 10 September	85
To St. George Tucker, 10 September	86
From George Washington, 10 September	86
To Benjamin Bankson, 11 September	87
From John Bringhurst, [11 September]	88
To William Carmichael and William Short, 11 September	88
To George Hammond, 11 September	89
To David Humphreys, 11 September	90
From Henry Knox, 11 September	90
To Gouverneur Morris, 11 September	91
To Thomas Pinckney, 11 September	91
To Henry Remsen, 11 September	93
To Samuel Sterett, 11 September	93
From George Taylor, Jr., with Jefferson's Note, 11 September	94
From George Washington, 11 September	94
To Willing, Morris & Swanwick, 11 September	95
Circular to Certain Consuls and Vice-Consuls, 12 September	95
To Edmond Charles Genet, 12 September	97
To Alexander Hamilton, 12 September	99
To George Hammond, 12 September	99
From George Hammond, 12 September	100
From George Hammond, 12 September	100
To James Madison, 12 September	102
From Henry Remsen, 12 September	102
To Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 12 September	103
From Edmond Charles Genet, 13 September	103
To George Hammond, 13 September	106
From David Humphreys, 13 September	106
To Patrick Kennan, 13 September	108
To Thomas Sim Lee, 13 September	108
To Stephen Moylan, 13 September	108
To Oliver & Thompson, 13 September	109
To Thomas Griffin Peachy, 13 September	109
To John Ross, 13 September	110
From John Ross, 13 September	111
To Arthur St. Clair, 13 September	111
Circular to Foreign Ministers in the United States,
14 September
From Edmond Charles Genet, [14] September	112
To John Kean, 14 September	114
To Thomas Pinckney, 14 September	115
To Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 14 September	116
Memorandums to Benjamin Bankson, [15 September]	116
To Nicholas Collin, 15 September	118
From Tench Coxe, 15 September	118
To James Currie, 15 September	118
To J. P. P. Derieux, 15 September	119
Agreement with James Hemings, 15 September	119
To James Kerr, 15 September	120
To James Madison, 15 September	121
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 September	121
To John Vaughan, 15 September	122
To George Washington, 15 September	122
To Valeria Fullerton, 16 September	124
To Edmond Charles Genet, 16 September	124
From David Humphreys, 16 September	125
To Moses Cox, 17 September	125
From David Humphreys, 17 September	126
From Edmond Charles Genet, 18 September	126
From Henry Lee, 18 September	135
From Michael Morphy, 18 September	135
From Benjamin H. Phillips, 18 September	136
From Tench Coxe, 19 September	136
From Patrick Kennan, 19 September	137
From Stephen Moylan, 19 September	137
From John Parish, 20 September	138
From Edward Church, 22 September	139
To George Hammond, 22 September	143
From Thomas Pinckney, 22 September	144
Memorandum to George Washington, 22 September	144
From Benjamin Bankson, 23 September	145
From Joret de Longchamps, 23 September	146
From Edmond Charles Genet, [24] September	147
From Edmond Charles Genet, 24 September	148
From Edmond Charles Genet, 24 September	149
From Edward Church, 25 September	149
From Thomas Pinckney, 25 September	149
From Thomas Pinckney, 25 September	151
To Robert Gamble, 26 September	152
From David Humphreys, 26 September	152
From Robert Leslie, 26 September	154
From Michael Morphy, 26 September	155
From James Simpson, 26 September	155
From Edmond Charles Genet, 27 September	156
From Thomas Pinckney, 27 September	158
From George Washington, 27 September	159
From Joshua Johnson, 28 September	160
From Henry Marchant, 28 September	160
From William Carmichael and William Short, 29 September	161
From Benjamin Bankson, 30 September	163
From Edmond Charles Genet, 30 September	164
From Moissonnier, [September]	170
From James Barry, 1 October	171
From Edmond Charles Genet, [1] October	171
From Edmond Charles Genet, 1 October	172
From Henry Remsen, 1 October	173
To Edmond Charles Genet, 2 October	175
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, enclosing
Descriptions of French Agents, 2 October
To Benjamin Bankson, enclosing Exequatur for Thomas Dannery,
3 October
To Benjamin Bankson, 3 October	182
To Benjamin Bankson, 3 October	183
To Bournonville, 3 October	183
To Tench Coxe, 3 October	184
To Antoine Charbonnet Duplaine, enclosing
Revocation of Duplaine's Exequatur, 3 October
To Edmond Charles Genet, 3 October	186
From David Humphreys, 3 October	187
To Gouverneur Morris, 3 October	188
To George Washington, 3 October	188
To George Washington, 3 October	189
To George Washington, 3 October	189
To George Washington, 3 October	190
To George Washington, 3 October	190
From John Harriott, 4 October	192
From David Howell, 4 October	194
From Henry Lee, 4 October	195
From Isaac Shelby, 5 October	196
From David Humphreys, 6 October	196
From Benjamin Bankson, 7 October	198
From David Humphreys, 7 October	199
From Henry Remsen, 7 October	200
From William Short, 7 October	201
From George Washington, 7 October	218
From Edward Church, 8 October	220
From David Humphreys, 8 October	222
From John M. Pintard, 8 October	223
From James Simpson, 8 October	224
To George Washington, 9 October	224
To John Hopkins, 10 October	225
From Tobias Lear, 10 October	226
From Thomas Paine, 10 October	226
From Philip Freneau, 11 October	227
From George Washington, 11 October	228
From Edward Church, 12 October	230
From Alexandre Maurice d'Hauterive, 13 October	235
From John Bowman, 14 October	236
From James Monroe, 14 October	236
From Henry Remsen, 14 October	238
From John Hopkins, 15 October	238
From John M. Pintard, 15 October	239
From Eli Whitney, enclosing Long Description of the
Cotton Gin, Drawing of the Cotton Gin, and Short
Description of the Cotton Gin, 15 October
From Jean Pierre Blanchard, 16 October	251
From Peter Walsh, 16 October	252
From Peter Walsh, 17 October	253
To George Washington, 17 October	253
To Richard Hanson, 18 October	255
To Daniel L. Hylton, 18 October	255
To Martha Jefferson Carr, 19 October	256
From Edmond Charles Genet, 19 October	257
To Anna Scott Jefferson Marks, 19 October	257
From Thomas Paine, 20 October	258
From David Meade Randolph, 20 October	259
From Benjamin Bankson, 21 October	259
From James Currie, 21 October	260
From Edmond Charles Genet, 21 October	260
From Christopher Gore, 21 October	261
From Edward Church, 22 October	262
From Edward Church, enclosing Luís Pinto de Sousa Coutinho to
Edward Church, 22 October
Memorandums to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [ca. 22-22 October]	267
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 23 October	268
From Richard Wayne, 23 October	269
From Peter Carr, 24 October	270
To John Breckinridge, 25 October	270
To Hague and Lester, 25 October	271
From Edmond Charles Genet, 27 October	272
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [27 October]	274
From Enoch Edwards, 28 October	275
From Benjamin Hawkins, 28 October	278
From Edmond Charles Genet, [29] October	279
From Edmond Charles Genet, 29 October	280
From Edmond Charles Genet, [29] October	282
From John M. Pintard, 29 October	282
From Edmond Charles Genet, 30 October	284
Note from Edmond Charles Genet, enclosing Address to Canada,
[ca. 30 October]
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 October	294
From Edmond Charles Genet, 2 November	295
To James Madison, 2 November	297
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 November	299
To Richard Dobson, 3 November	300
To Walter Boyd, 5 November	300
From Angelica Schuyler Church, 5 November	301
From Tench Coxe, 5 November	301
To Delamotte and Others, 5 November	301
To Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November	302
To Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November	303
To Tobias Lear, 5 November	304
From Joseph Nourse, 5 November	305
To George Washington, 5 November	305
From William Frederick Ast, 6 November	306
To John Bowman, 6 November	309
To Brown Folger, 6 November	310
To Henry Knox, [6] November	310
To Henry Knox, 6 November	311
To David Rittenhouse, 6 November	311
To Isaac Shelby, 6 November	312
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 6 November	313
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 6 November	314
To George Washington, 6 November	314
George Washington to the Trustees of the Germantown Academy,
[ca. 6 November]
From George Hammond, 7 November	316
Memorial from George Hammond, 7 November	319
From George Hammond, 7 November	321
Notes on the Roehampton and the Pilgrim, [7-14 November]	321
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 November	322
Report on the Proceedings of the Southwest Territory,
7 November
From William Short, 7 November	324
To George Washington, [7 November]	328
To Certain Foreign Ministers in the United States, 8 November	328
To Edmond Charles Genet, 8 November	330
From Tobias Lear, 8 November	332
From George Taylor, Jr., 8 November	332
From James Currie, 9 November	333
To James Madison, 9 November	334
From James Philip Puglia, 9 November	334
To Henry Remsen, 9 November	335
From Edward Rutledge, 9 November	336
To Peter Carr, 10 November	337
To the District Attorneys, enclosing Instructions to the
District Attorneys, 10 November
To Foreign Ministers in the United States, 10 November	340
To Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 10 November	342
To Henry Knox, 10 November	343
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 10 November	345
To Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 10 November	345
From Tench Coxe, 11 November	346
To Edmond Charles Genet, 11 November	347
From Edmond Charles Genet, 11 November	347
To Herman LeRoy, 11 November	348
From William Short, 11 November	350
From Henry Cooper, 12 November	351
Memorial from Lucas Gibbes and Others, 12 November	351
From Edmond Charles Genet, 13 November	352
To George Hammond, 13 November	353
To Charles Homassel, 13 November	353
To John Hopkins, 13 November	354
To Patrick Kennan, 13 November	354
To Robert Morris, 13 November	355
To William Moultrie, 13 November	356
From William Short, 13 November	356
To William Frederick Ast, 14 November	359
To Giuseppe Ceracchi, 14 November	360
To Robert Gamble, 14 November	361
From Edmond Charles Genet, 14 November	361
From Edmond Charles Genet, 14 November	363
From Edmond Charles Genet, 14 November	364
From Edmond Charles Genet, 14 November	364
From Edmond Charles Genet, 14 November	365
From Edmond Charles Genet, 14 November	367
To George Hammond, 14 November	368
To Patrick Hart, 14 November	373
To Zebulon Hollingsworth, 14 November	374
To Zebulon Hollingsworth, 14 November	375
To David Howell, 14 November	376
To William Mewburn, 14 November	376
To Oliver & Thompson, 14 November	377
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 November	377
To Edmond Charles Genet, 15 November	378
To Edmond Charles Genet, [15-22 November]	378
From Edmond Charles Genet, 15 November	380
From Edmond Charles Genet, 15 November	382
To Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 15 November	382
To Henry Knox, with Jefferson's Note, 15 November	383
To Henry Knox, 15 November	384
Notes on Alexander Hamilton and the French Revolution,
15 November
To William Rawle, 15 November	384
From Edmond Charles Genet, 16 November	385
From Edmond Charles Genet, 16 November	387
To John Kean, 16 November	388
From Richard Söderström, 16 November	389
To George Taylor, Jr., 16 November	390
From Volney, 16 November	390
To George Washington, [16 November]	391
To Eli Whitney, 16 November	392
From Edmond Charles Genet, 17 November	393
To Mary Jefferson, 17 November	394
To Herman LeRoy, 17 November	394
To James Madison, 17 November	395
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 November	396
From James Currie, 18 November	397
From Philip Mazzei, 18 November	398
Notes of Cabinet Meetings on Edmond Charles Genet and the
President's Address to Congress, [18] November
Memorandums to George Taylor, Jr., 18 November	402
From George Taylor, Jr., 18 November	403
To Edmond Charles Genet, 19 November	404
From Edmond Charles Genet, [19] November	404
To John Ross, 19 November	406
From George Taylor, Jr., 19 November	406
From William Davies, 20 November	407
From Patrick Kennan, 20 November	408
To John Mason, 20 November	408
To Richard Söderström, 20 November	409
From Robert Gamble, 21 November	409
From Edmond Charles Genet, 21 November	410
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 21 November	411
Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President's Address to Congress,
21 November
To Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November	413
To Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November	414
To Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November	415
To Christopher Gore, 22 November	416
From George Hammond, 22 November	416
From George Hammond, 22 November	417
From George Hammond, 22 November	417
From George Hammond, 22 November	418
From George Hammond, 22 November	418
From Apollos Kinsley, 22 November	419
From Henry Knox, 22 November	421
Materials for the President's Address to Congress,
[ca. 22 November]
Memorandum to George Taylor, Jr., 22 November	424
From George Washington, 22 November	425
Cabinet Opinions on Various Letters, [23 November]	426
From Christopher Gore, 23 November	427
From John Hopkins, 23 November	427
Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President's Address to Congress,
23 November
To Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November	429
To Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November	429
From James Madison, 24 November	430
To Myers, 24 November	431
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 November	431
To Archibald Stuart, 24 November	432
To George Washington, 24 November	433
From Eli Whitney, 24 November	433
From Charles Carter, 25 November	435
From Edmond Charles Genet, 25 November	435
From Edmond Charles Genet, 25 November	436
From Robert Morris, 25 November	439
From Richard Graham, 26 November	443
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 26 November	445
From Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, [26 November]	446
From Charles Williamson, 26 November	447
To Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 November	449
To Thomas Pinckney, 27 November	450
From Thomas Pinckney, 27 November	451
From George Washington, [27 November]	451
From Joseph Mussi, 28 November	452
To John Nancarrow, 28 November	453
Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President's Address and
Messages to Congress, 28 November
To Certain District Attorneys, 29 November	456
From Edmond Charles Genet, 29 November	457
To George Washington, 29 November	458
To Edmond Charles Genet, 30 November	458
From Edmond Charles Genet, 30 November	460
From Alexander Hamilton, 30 November	461
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 30 November	462
From John F. Mercer, 30 November	464
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 November	464
From Richard Söderström, 30 November	466
To George Washington, 30 November	466
From Patrick Hart, 1 December	467
Notes of a Conversation with John Beckley, 1 December	467
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 1 December	467
From George Washington, 1 December	468
From Joel Barlow, 2 December	469
To George Washington, 2 December	471
From George Washington, with Jefferson's Note, 2 December	473
To George Washington, 2 December	473
George Washington to the Senate and the House of Representatives,
[2 December]
From Edmond Charles Genet, 3 December	479
From Alexander J. Dallas, 4 December	481
From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 4 December	481
From Edmond Charles Genet, 4 December	481
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 4 December	483
From Samuel Livermore, 4 December	483
From John Mason, 4 December	484
From James Monroe, 4 December	484
From Henry Remsen, 4 December	485
To Zebulon Hollingsworth, 5 December	486
To Edmond Charles Genet, 6 December	486
To Edmond Charles Genet, 6 December	487
Edmund Randolph's Opinion on Sureties for Mint Officers,
6 December
Cabinet Opinions on Edmond Charles Genet and James King,
7 December
Estimate of State Department Expenses, 7 December	490
To James King, 7 December	491
To John F. Mercer, 7 December	491
To James Brown, 8 December	492
To James Currie, 8 December	493
To J. P. P. Derieux, 8 December	494
To Robert Gamble, 8 December	494
To Richard Graham, 8 December	494
From Robert Morris, 8 December	495
To Mann Page, 8 December	496
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 8 December	496
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [8-9 December]	498
From Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 8 December	498
From James Arthur, 9 December	499
To Edmond Charles Genet, 9 December	500
To John Barker Church, 11 December	502
From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 11 December	503
To William Davies, 11 December	504
From Alexander Hamilton, 11 December	504
Report on Edmond Charles Genet and Gouverneur Morris,
11 December
From St. George Tucker, 11 December	506
To Alexander Hamilton, 12 December	507
To Robert Leslie, 12 December	507
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 December	508
From Jacob Hollingsworth, 13 December	509
From Joseph Leacock, [13?] December	510
From Thomas Mifflin, 13 December	511
From Jean Pierre Blanchard, 14 December	512
To William Rawle, 14 December	512
Report on Morocco and Algiers, 14 December	513
To George Washington, 14 December	518
George Washington to the Senate and the House of Representatives,
[14] December
George Washington to the Senate and the House of Representatives,
[14-16 December]
To Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 14 December	521
To Jean Pierre Blanchard, 15 December	522
To Edmond Charles Genet, 15 December	522
From Christopher Gore, 15 December	523
To Mary Jefferson, 15 December	523
Certificate for Raphaelle Peale, 15 December	524
To George Washington, 15 December	525
From Brown, Benson & Ives, 16 December	525
From Edmond Charles Genet, 16 December	526
From Edmond Charles Genet, enclosing Edmond Charles Genet
to Edmund Randolph, 16 December
Proposed Public Statement on Edmond Charles Genet,
[ca. 16 December]
Report on Commerce	532
I. First State of the Report on Commerce,

II. Second State of the Report on Commerce,

III. Final State of the Report on Commerce, [16 December]
IV. Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of

V. Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate,

From Richard Söderström, 16 December	581
From Samuel Ward & Brothers, 16 December	581
To Thomas Willing, 16 December	582
From Edmond Charles Genet, 17 December	582
To Jacob Hollingsworth, 17 December	582
To Edmond Charles Genet, 18 December	583
From Alexander Hamilton, 18 December	583
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 18 December	584
To Caleb Lownes, 18 December	586
To Edmund Randolph, 18 December	587
To Samuel Ward & Brothers, 18 December	589
To George Washington, 18 December	589
From Charles Carter, 19 December	589
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 December	590
To George Washington, 19 December	591
From William Frederick Ast, 20 December	591
From Edmond Charles Genet, 20 December	592
From Edmond Charles Genet, 20 December	593
From Edmond Charles Genet, 20 December	593
To Charles André Kierrulf, 20 December	595
From Joseph Leacock, enclosing Thoughts on the Algerines,
[ca. 20 December]
From Thomas Mifflin, 20 December	597
Notes on the Proclamation of Neutrality and the Law of Nations,
20 December
From Edmond Charles Genet, 21 December	601
From Edmond Charles Genet, 21 December	603
To Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 21 December	603
To Thomas Mifflin, 21 December	605
From Murray & Mumford, 21 December	605
To Benjamin Carter Waller, 21 December	606
To George Washington, 21 December	607
To Robert Gamble, 22 December	607
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 December	608
To St. George Tucker, 22 December	609
To George Washington, 22 December	610
From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 23 December	610
From Alexander Hamilton, 23 December	611
From George Hammond, 23 December	611
To Richard Harrison, 23 December	612
From Richard Harrison, 23 December	613
To William Moultrie, 23 December	614
To William Short, enclosing
Certificates Received for William Short, 23 December
George Washington to the Senate and the House of
Representatives, 23 December
From Jacob Hollingsworth, 24 December	617
From Henry Knox, 24 December	618
To Edmond Charles Genet, 25 December	618
From Edmond Charles Genet, 25 December	619
From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 December	620
To George Hammond, 26 December	620
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 26 December	622
From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 26 December	625
From Timothy Pickering, 26 December	628
From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 27 December	629
From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 27 December	629
To George Washington, 27 December	630
From Harry Innes, 28 December	630
From Jeremiah Wadsworth, 28 December	631
To George Washington, 28 December	632
From George Washington, [28 December]	632
From George Hammond, 29 December	632
From George Taylor, Jr., 29 December	635
From Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 29 December	636
To George Clinton, 30 December	636
To Enoch Edwards, 30 December	637
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 December	637
To Edward Rutledge, 30 December	638
Supplementary Report on Commerce, 30 December	639
To George Washington, 30 December	643
To George Washington, 30 December	645
George Washington to the Senate and the House of
Representatives, 30 December
George Washington to the Senate and the House of
Representatives, [30 December]
To Edmond Charles Genet, 31 December	649
Memorandum on State Department Business, [31 December]	649
To George Washington, enclosing Statement of the
Foreign Fund Account, 31 December
George Washington to the Senate and the House of Representatives,
31 December
From George Washington, 31 December	655
From George Washington, 31 December	656
To George Washington, 31 December	656
From Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 31 December, enclosing
Statement of Jefferson's Account as Secretary of State, 28 December, and Treasury Report on Jefferson's Account as Secretary of State, 28 December
To Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 31 December	661

SUPPLEMENT

1764

To , 26 July	665

1769

Report on Parliamentary Procedure, [8 November-8 December]	666

1770

From Samuel Jordan, with Jefferson's Notes, 7 August	668

1771

To Thomas Turpin, 3 June	670

1772

From John Lewis, 4 October	671

1773

To Ann Eppes Harris, 26 April	672
Notes for Epitaph and Grave of Dabney Carr, [after 16 May]	673
Deed from Jane Randolph Jefferson for the Conveyance of
Slaves, 29 September

1774

From John Hook, 12 May	677

1775

Election Tally for the Virginia Committee of Safety, [17 August]	678

1777

To William Bradford, 26 April	680
Memorandum on Paper Money, [October 1777-January 1778]	680
Will of Ann Eppes Harris, [1777]	681

1778

From Edmund Randolph, 13 November	683

1779

From Riedesel, 19 June	683
From John Jay, 26 September	684
From Arthur Lee, 28 September	684
From Arthur Lee, 13 October	685
From Stephen Hopkins, 28 October	686
Board of Trade to Oliver Pollock, 6 November	687

1780

To Bernardo de Gálvez, 29 January	688
From Charles Thomson, 1 February	688
From Arthur Lee, 7 February	689
From Samuel Huntington, 12 February	689
To James Wood, 20 March	689
To the Board of Trade, 23 March	690
Board of War to , 25 March	691
To the County Lieutenants of Berkeley and Certain Other Counties, 19 April
To Charles Thomas, 10 May	693
To Philip Mazzei, 12 May	694
From Arthur Lee, 13 May	695
To Arnold Henry Dohrman, 24 May	695
From the Continental Board of Admiralty, 19 June	696
To Thomas Sim Lee, 28 June	696
To George Gibson, 7 July	697
From Bernardo de Gálvez, [18 July]	698
William Armistead to Samuel Smith, 3 August	699
List of Virginia Recruiting Officers, with Jefferson's Note,
[after 28 August]
From Samuel Huntington, 29 August	700
Appointment of a Commissioner of the Provision Law,
[ca. 4] September
Certificate from the Virginia Delegates in Congress,
5 September
To John Page, 10 October	702
To Timothy Pickering, 21 November	703
To Robert Lawson, 23 November	703
From Theodorick Bland, 17 December	704
To the Virginia Delegates in Congress, 18 December	704

1781

George Muter to the Auditors, 3 January	705
To John Woodson, 4 January	705
From George Weedon, 11 January	706
From Steuben, 13 January	707
From George Weedon, 23 January	707
From Edward Stevens, 11 February	709
From Thomas Nelson, 14 February	710
From Commissary Benjamin Harrison, 20 February	710
From the Virginia Delegates in Congress, 27 February	711
From Steuben, 28 February	712
From Steuben, 4 March	712
From Lafayette, 8 March	712
From Steuben, 22 March	713
To William Davies?, 27 March	714
From Robert Hoakesly, 28 March	715
From James Barbour, 5 April	715
To Thomas Walker, John Walker, and Nicholas Lewis, 5 April	716
Contract between Thomas A. Talbot and the Board of War, 6 April	716
From Samuel Huntington, 7 April	716
To William Davies, 9 April	717
From George Weedon, 9 April	717
From the Virginia Delegates in Congress, [ca. 10 April]	718
From Samuel Huntington, 29 April	718
From Silas Deane, 2 May	719
To the Commander of the Essex County Militia, 8 May	719
From La Luzerne, 4 June	720
From Harry Innes, enclosing State of the Case, with
Jefferson's Notes, 29 November

1782

From Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., 10 April	723
From Esteban Rodríguez Miró, 4 May	723
From John Taylor, with Jefferson's Opinion on Mary Wayland, [16 August]

Epitaph for Martha Wayles Jefferson, [after 6 September]	728

1783

From James Madison, 12 February	728
Memorandum from James Madison, [ca. 6 March]	729
Deed for the Purchase of Lego, [14 August]	731
Notes on Resolutions of Congress, [after 4 November]	734
From Eliza House Trist, 13 December	734

1784

To William Whipple, 12 January	735
To Thomas Hutchins, 24 January	737
From the Massachusetts Delegates in Congress, 29 February	737
To Benjamin Harrison, 16 April	738
To William Whipple, 27 April	739
From James Madison, 8 May	739
To Cabot, 24 July	739
Notes on France and Great Britain, [1784-1789]	741

1785

To David Hartley, [29 January]	742
Memorandum from Thomas Ruston, [April?]	743
To John Quincy Adams, 12 May	744
To Giovanni Fabbroni, 23 May	745
From John Paul Jones, 23 June	746
To John Paul Jones, 24 June	747
To Samuel Hardy, James Madison, and James Monroe, 5 July	748
To Jan Ingenhousz, 14 July	749
From Abigail Adams, 12 August	749
To John Langdon, [11 September]	752
From Thomas Boylston, 11 November	753

1786

To Giovanni Fabbroni, 2 March	754
From Thomas Robinson, 25 March	755
From Martha Jefferson Carr, 22 May	755
To Mary Barclay, 3 November	756
From J. F. Marmontel, 28 November	757

1787

From James Madison, 18 March	757
From Mary Jefferson Bolling, 3 May	758
From Tench Coxe, 15 September	759
From Tench Coxe, 4 October	760
From Jarnac, 30 November	760

1788

Memorandum on Wine, [after 23 April]	761
To Boyd, Ker & Company, 9 May	764
To Martha Jefferson, 16 June	764
From John Ledyard, 4 July	764
To Mary Jefferson, [12 July]	765
John Paradise's Power of Attorney to Nathaniel Burwell, 8 August
Memorandums to William Short, [before 17 September]	766
From Thomas Boylston, 18 November	768
To Adrian Kissam, 24 November	769

1789

From D'Estaing, 14 March	770
Notes on Arranging Books at Monticello, [before 26 September]	771
To James Brown, 19 December	771

1790

From Lafayette, 1 February	772
From Richard R. Saltonstall, 5 February	772
Memorandum on Land Dispute with John Harvie, Jr.,
[after 12 February]
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., 15 February	776
Notes for the Settlement of the Estate of Jane Randolph
Jefferson, [ca. February]
Notes on the Will of Jane Randolph Jefferson, [ca. February]	778
Notes on Executive Departments, [after 21 March]	780
Marriage Certificate for Louis Guillaume Otto and America Francès de Crèvecoeur, 13 April
From Sylvanus Bourne, 19 April	781
To Alexander Hamilton, 29 April	782
To Tench Coxe, 6 June	782
Petition of William Pollard to the Patent Board, 29 June	783
To William Temple Franklin, 6 July	784
Notes on Fresco Painting, [before 6 August]	784
From William Blount, 20 August	785
Memorandums to Henry Remsen, 31 August	785
From Samuel Clarke, 2 September	787
From William Blount, 26 November	787
From Tench Coxe, 26 November	788
Memorandum to George Washington, [29 November]	788
From Michael Jenifer Stone, with Jefferson's Note, 23 December	790

1791

From Nathan Read, 8 January	790
Petition of Ezekiel Hall to the Patent Board, 11 January	792
From James Madison, [ca. 11 January]	793
To Albert Gallatin, 14 January	794
From John Woodward, 1 February	794
From Tobias Lear, 5 February	795
To James Brown, 9 February	795
To David Ross, [6 May]	795
From Alexander Martin, 10 May	796
John Stevens to the Patent Board, [10 May]	797
To Pierre Guide, 21 July	798
Petition of Henry Voigt to the Patent Board, [before 10 August]	798
From Thomas Leiper, 16 August	798
From James Madison, 16 August	799
From Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 August	800
Thomas FitzSimons's Notes on Jefferson's Draft Report on
Commerce, [23 August]
From Benjamin Bourne, [after 26 August], enclosing Extracts from
Benjamin Peirce's Letters on Trade with Denmark, [1791]
From Nathaniel Irish, 27 August	803
From Tobias Lear, with List of Patents, 30 August	803
From the University of the State of Pennsylvania, 20 September	804
To James Strange, [7 October]	805
From David Campbell, 3 November	805
From Jan H. C. Heineken, 10 November	805
To James Brown, [13 November]	806
From Samuel Smith, 13 November	806
To Henry Remsen, [14 November]	807
From Thomas Keene, 23 November	807
From George Washington, [1 December]	808
From Willing, Morris, & Swanwick, 1 December	808
From Tench Coxe, [17 December]	808
From Edmund Randolph, [18 December]	809
Memorandum to James Monroe, [after 21 December]	809
Memorandum to James Monroe, [after 21 December]	811
From Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 30 December	812
From William Vans Murray, [1791-1793]	812
From William Vans Murray, [1791-1793]	812

1792

To George Hammond, 2 [January]	813
Memorandum to James Madison, [after 12 January]	813
From William Knox, 18 January	814
Circular to the Governors of the States, 1 March	815
From Tobias Lear, 3 March	816
From Tobias Lear, 13 March	816
From Tobias Lear, 16 March	817
From Tobias Lear, 16 March	817
From Edmund Randolph, [after 18 March]	817
Notes on Cotton, [ca. 24 March]	818
From Tobias Lear, 31 March	818
Memorandum to James Monroe?, [before 4 April]	818
To Alexander Hamilton, 10 April	822
Notes on John Robertson and Algerine Prisoners, 10 April	822
Notes on Headaches, 10 April	824
Dissenting Opinion on the Sinking Fund, [12 April?]	825
From William Lambert, 17 April	825
From Alexander Hamilton, 12 May	826
Edmund Randolph's Notes on Jefferson's Letter to George Hammond, [ca. 16 May]
From Eliza House Trist, [ca. 30 May]	828
Memorial from William Green, 11 June	829
From John Carey, 13 July	836
From John Fitch, 24 July	837
From Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 9 August	838
Petition of Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the Patent Board,
20 November
Directions for Building the Great Clock, [1792-1793]	839

1793

Memorandum from Tench Coxe, [before 5 February?]	840
To Tench Coxe, [on or before 8 February]	841
Memorandum to Henry Sheaff, [after 20 February]	842
To Nathaniel Cutting, 20 March	845
From Robert Montgomery, 23 July	845

APPENDICES

Appendix I: Letters Not Received by Jefferson	847
Appendix II: Miscellaneous and Routine Papers	851
Appendix III: Commissions, Laws, Passports, Patents, and
Other Forms

INDEX	873

Index

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

A

Abadie (Dabbadie), M. d’

TJ evaluates wine of, 763, 843

Acadia. See Nova Scotia

Acosta, M. d’. See Penet, d’Acosta Frères & Cie.

Adair, James B. M.

letter to, 3-4

letter from, 66-7

and model of threshing machine for TJ, 3-4, 66, 102-3, 173

and case of Jay, 4

and Sinclair’s queries on agriculture, 66-7

plans to visit TJ, 67

letter from cited, 67n

Adams, Abigail

letter from, 749-52

opinion of Great Britain, 749, 750

and household finances, 750-1

commissions TJ to make purchases, 751

Adams, John

letter to, 580

and “Camillus” essays, 6-8

nominates Prebble as consul at Cádiz, 60n

and ransom of American captives in Algiers, 142n

writings of admired in England, 276

and TJ’s report on commerce, 534, 580-1

and Barbary States, 750

expenses as diplomat, 750-1

wine for, 750

and seeds for TJ, 757

friendship for TJ, 769

mentioned, 67n

Adams, John Quincy

letter to, 744-5

TJ recommends, 744-5

Adams, Samuel

and case of Duplaine, 273-4n, 416n

Aerial (ship)

captured by British privateer, 54

Africa

Ledyard’s expedition to, 764

Agicourt, M. d’

vineyard, 762

agriculture

value of threshing machine to southern states, 3-4

Sinclair’s queries on, 66-7, 637

Harriott’s views on, 193

Short’s views on, 201, 204-6

and sharecropping by slaves, 204-5

crop rotation in British, 277

Edwards’s views on British, 277

and maple sugar manufacture, 546n

Aij, France. See Ay (Aij), France

Aimée (Amée) Marguerite (Amiable Margaretta; Providence) (French privateer and British sloop)

captures San Josef, 268-9, 343-4, 346

renamed from Providence, 343-4

and restoration of French prizes, 422, 625-8

Albany, N.Y.

military stores removed to, 47

and yellow fever, 174

Albemarle barracks

accounts respecting, 689

Convention troops held at, 689-90, 701n

Albemarle Co., Va.

resolutions on neutrality, 19n, 27

Short desires to reside near, 205

estate of T. M. Randolph, Jr., 294-5

fertility of soil in, 615

suitability of cultivating grain in, 766

suitability of cultivating grass in, 766

Albert de Rions, François Hector, Comte d’

naval command, 770

Alder, Charles, & Co.

and Pintard’s arrest, 239n

Alexander, Eli

overseer for Shadwell and Lego, 483, 497, 524, 582

TJ’s instructions for, 509

departs for Richmond, 617

Alexandria, Va.

Short considers purchasing lots in, 202-3

French vice-consul at, 282

Algiers

Humphreys’s mission to, 23-5, 106-7, 139-40, 152-3, 283, 636, 654, 845

relations with U.S., 60, 198n, 469-70, 513-18, 521, 522, 596-7, 637

Yznardi’s proposed mission to, 60, 498-9

navy, 107, 222, 283-4n, 823

piracy, 107, 135, 139-40, 187, 196-8, 199, 222-3, 224, 230-5, 252-3, 607-8, 609, 789

relations with Netherlands, 107

plague in, 126, 284n

Portuguese naval protection against, 196-8, 199, 222-3, 230-5, 252-3, 264-7

truce with Portugal, 196-8, 199, 222-3, 224, 230-5, 252-3, 262-7, 282-4, 469, 498-9, 503, 507, 508-9, 516-18, 607-8, 617, 619

truce with Netherlands, 284n

Skjöldebrand’s proposed mission to, 466

Leacock’s thoughts on, 596-7

relations with Gibraltar, 596-7

relations with Great Britain, 596-7, 637

Cutting’s mission to, 659-60

relations with Portugal, 752-3

relations with Spain, 752-3

Danish naval blockade, 823

relations with Venice, 823

vessel taken by Portugal, 823

Algiers, American captives in

ransom of, 142n, 513-18, 521, 822-4

numbers increase, 197n, 253, 284n, 469, 752-3

additional captures, 232

plea for ransom by, 466

subsistence of, 823

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

Alicante, Spain

Humphreys visits, 153, 187, 200

and colonial trade, 579-80

consul at, 845

Alice (ship), 266n

aliens

and peace treaty, 826-7

Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers

piracy of, 139

and ransom of American captives, 142n

and Portuguese-Algerine truce, 197n, 230-2

relations with U.S., 823

Allegheny Co., Pa.

and conflict with Western Indians, 34n

Allen, Capt. (master of Minerva), 283n

Allen, Jacob

and Creek hostilities with Ga., 463n

Allen, John

and patent for Whitney’s cotton gin, 246, 250

Allibone, William

and case of Hope, 634n

Ambitieux (French privateer)

captures Andrew, 159n

Ambler, Jacquelin

member Va. Board of Trade, 687n

Ambuscade. See Embuscade

American Museum

cited, 783

American Philosophical Society

elections to, 656

and sugar refining, 839n

American Remembrancer (John Carey)

subscription to publish, 836

Ames, Fisher

and “Camillus” essays, 8n

Amiable Margaretta. See Aimée (Amée) Marguerite

Amory, Rufus Greene

and case of Greyhound, 81-2n

Amory, Thomas, Jr.