1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800

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As this volume opens, partisan politics in the United States are building to a crescendo with the approach of the presidential election. Working for a Republican victory, Jefferson consults frequently with Madison, Monroe, and others to achieve favorable results in state elections. He corresponds with controversial journalist James T. Callender. Sifting information from published rumors and private letters, he follows events in Europe, including Bonaparte's unexpected rise to power in France, and sees the value of his tobacco crop plummet as U.S. legislation cuts off the French market. Jefferson grows concerned at Federalist promotion of English common law in American jurisprudence and at proceedings in the Senate against William Duane, printer of the Philadelphia Aurora. Drawing heavily on British legislative practice, however, as well as advice from Virginia, he begins in earnest to compile a manual of parliamentary procedures for the Senate.

As president of the American Philosophical Society, Jefferson calls for reform of the United States census. He publishes an appendix to Notes on the State of Virginia defending his account of the Mingo Indian Logan's legendary 1774 speech. And Jefferson consults Joseph Priestley and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours about the curriculum for a projected new university in Virginia. While continuing the reconstruction of Monticello, he mourns the death of the infant girl of his younger daughter, Mary Jefferson Eppes.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

FOREWORD	vii
EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS	xiii
ILLUSTRATIONS	xli
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY	2

1799


To Elisha Boudinot, 1 February	3
From Aaron Burr, 3 February	4
From John Cleves Symmes, 3 February	5
From James Wood, 4 February	8
To James Madison, 5 February	9
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 5 February	11
To John Wayles Eppes, 7 February	12
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 7 February	13
To George Jefferson, enclosing
Tobacco Statement, 7 February
From John C. Ogden, 7 February	16
From James Madison, 8 February	18
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 8 February	20
From Bishop James Madison, 10 February	21
To Aaron Burr, 11 February	22
To James Monroe, 11 February	23
Notes on the Connecticut Cession, 11 February	25
From Daniel Clark, 12 February	27
To James Madison, 12 February	29
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 February	31
From John Page, 13 February	32
To Archibald Stuart, 13 February	33
To Tench Coxe, 14 February	36
To Edmund Pendleton, 14 February	36
From James Monroe, 15 February	40
From John Taylor, 15 February	40
From George Jefferson, 16 February	42
From George Jefferson, 19 February	43
To James Madison, enclosing Extracts on Relations
Between United States and France, 19 February
To James Monroe, 19 February	47
To Edmund Pendleton, 19 February	48
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 February	50
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 21 February	51
From Cipriano Ribeiro Freire, 22 February	54
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 February	54
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 22 February	55
To Robert R. Livingston, 23 February	56
To George Jefferson, 24 February	57
From Edmund Pendleton, 24 February	58
To Elisha Boudinot, 25 February	60
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 25 February	60
To Louis of Parma, 25 February	61
From Timothy Pickering, 25 February	62
To George Jefferson, 26 February	63
To James Madison, 26 February	63
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 February	65
From Thomas Lomax, [before 27 ] February	66
To Bishop James Madison, 27 February	67
To William G. Munford, 27 February	68
Statement of Account from John Francis, [1 March]	69
From Harry Innes, 2 March	69
From John C. Ogden, 5 March	72
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 8 March	75
From John Barnes, 10 March	75
To Thomas Lomax, 12 March	77
From Mary Jefferson Eppes, 13 March	78
Notes on Postal Service between Philadelphia and
Charlottesville, [on or after 13 March]
To George Jefferson, 16 March	80
From John Barnes, 17 March	81
To George Jefferson & Company, 18 March	82
From George Jefferson, 18 March	82
To Samuel Clarke, 21 March	83
To John McDowell, 21 March	83
From John McDowell, 21 March	84
From John Carr, 22 March	84
From George Jefferson & Company, 26 March	85
From Carlo Bellini, 1 April	85
From George Jefferson, 1 April	86
From John Barnes, 2 April	87
To George Jefferson, 5 April	88
From John Barnes, 6 April	89
From John Barnes, 6 April	90
From George Jefferson, 8 April	90
From Sir John Sinclair, 8 April	91
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 13 April	91
From John McDowell, 13 April	92
To George Jefferson, 18 April	93
From Lafayette, 19 April	94
From George Jefferson, 22 April	96
To Edmund Pendleton, 22 April	96
To Carlo Bellini, 24 April	98
From Tench Coxe, 29 April	100
From John Barnes, 1 May	102
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 May	102
From La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 4 May	104
From George Jefferson & Company, 6 May	104
To James Lyle, 6 May	105
To Henry Remsen, [6 May]	105
To John Wickham, 6 May	107
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 12 May	107
To James Monroe, 13 May	108
To John McDowell, 14 May	109
To Archibald Stuart, 14 May	109
From John McDowell, 16 May	111
To George Jefferson, 18 May	111
To Tench Coxe, 21 May	112
To John Barnes, 26 May	114
From John Barnes, 26 May	115
From George Jefferson, 27 May	116
To George Jefferson, 29 May	117
To George Wythe, 29 May	118
From George Jefferson, 3 June	118
To John Wayles Eppes, 7 June	119
To George Jefferson, 8 June	120
To Henry Remsen, 8 June	121
From George Jefferson, 10 June	122
To John Barnes, 15 June	123
To George Jefferson, 15 June	124
From George Jefferson & Company, 17 June	125
From George Jefferson, 17 June	126
To William G. Munford, 18 June	126
From John Barnes, 20 June	130
To Harry Innes, 20 June	130
From Tench Coxe, 21 June	132
To George Jefferson, 21 June	135
To Daniel Clark, 23 June	135
From George Jefferson, 23 June	136
To Tench Coxe, 24 June	137
To William Dunbar, 24 June	137
From Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 June	139
Indenture for Land Exchange with Nicholas Meriwether Lewis and
Mildred Hornsby Lewis, 1 July
From William Short, 2 July	144
To George Jefferson, 3 June [i.e., July]	145
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 July	146
To John Wayles Eppes, 4 July	146
From George Jefferson, 8 July	147
To George Jefferson, 12 July	148
From George Jefferson, 14 July	149
To George Jefferson, 25 July	149
From George Jefferson & Company, 29 July	150
From Benjamin Rush, 29 July	150
To John McDowell, 31 July	151
From Elijah Griffiths, 4 August	151
From William Cobbett, 5 August	153
Indenture for the Sale of Elk Hill, 5 August	162
From James Thomson Callender, 10 August	163
To Daniel Call, 15 August	165
To John Barnes, 16 August	166
To George Jefferson, 16 August	167
To William G. Munford, 16 August	168
To Edmund Randolph, 18 August	168
To George Jefferson, 19 August	172
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 20 August	172
To James Madison, 23 August	172
From Joseph Mathias Gérard de Rayneval, 24 August	175
From Daniel Call, 26 August	176
From George Jefferson, 26 August	177
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 26 August	177
From George Jefferson, 27 August	178
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 5 September	178
To James Thomson Callender, 6 September	179
To George Jefferson, 6 September	182
To Benjamin Rush, 12 September	182
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 15 September	184
To John Barnes, enclosing Statement of Account
with John Barnes, 16 September
To William Frederick Ast, [17] September	186
To William Bache, 20 September	188
From Daniel Call, 23 September	190
To Archibald Stuart, 24 September	191
To John Coalter, 25 September	192
To Daniel Call, 28 September	193
From James Thomson Callender, 29 September	194
From Morgan Brown, 1 October	195
To John McDowell, 1 October	196
Indenture with Craven Peyton for
the Lease of Fields at Shadwell, 1 October
From John McDowell, 3 October	200
To James Thomson Callender, 6 October	200
From William Dunbar, 4 [i.e., 6] October	203
From James Thomson Callender, 7 October	203
From George Jefferson, 7 October	204
From Philip Norborne Nicholas, 8 October	204
From Daniel Call, 13 October, enclosing
Virginia High Court of Chancery Decree, 1 October
To Charles Clay, 14 October	208
To George Jefferson, 14 October	209
To George Jefferson, 14 October	210
To Henry Remsen, 14 October	211
To John Barnes, 15 October	212
To James Brown, 16 October	213
To Carter Bassett Harrison, 16 October	213
To Peyton Short, 16 October	214
To George Jefferson, 17 October	215
To Thomas Newton, 17 October	216
To Daniel Call, 23 October	217
From Thomas Newton, [23 October]	218
From Joseph Barnes, 25 October	218
From James Brown, 27 October	221
To Stevens Thomson Mason, 27 October	222
From George Jefferson, 28 October	224
To George Ruffin, 28 October	225
To Charles Pinckney, 29 October	226
From Dugald Stewart, 29 October	228
Memorandum to Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 October	229
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 30 October	229
Notes on Sir William Scott, 1 November	231
From James Madison, 2 November	231
To Philip Norborne Nicholas, 2 November	232
From James Madison, 3 November	233
From George Jefferson, 4 November	233
To George Jefferson, 8 November	234
To George Jefferson, 8 November	234
From George Jefferson, 11 November	235
From Daniel Clark, 12 November	236
From James Thomson Callender, 16 November	238
From George Jefferson, 18 November	239
To John Coalter, 19 November	240
To James Madison, 22 November	240
From George Jefferson, 25 November	242
To James Madison, 26 November	243
To John Taylor, 26 November	244
To William Bache, 27 November	245
To George Jefferson, 28 November	246
Safe Conduct for Three Chickasaw Indians, 28 November	246
To James Wood, 28 November	247
From John Coalter, 29 November	248
From George Ruffin, 30 November	249
From George Jefferson, 2 December	250
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 December	250
To George Jefferson, 4 December	251
To John Harvie, enclosing Statement for Arbitrators
in Land Dispute with John Harvie, 5 December
From Peyton Short, 5 December	259
From Harry Innes, 6 December	260
From Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy, 9 December	264
From Samuel Adams, 11 December	265
From John Breckinridge, 13 December	266
From James Thomson Callender, 18 December	268
To John Coalter, 19 December	268
To George Jefferson, 19 December	269
Memorandum to Richard Richardson, [ca. 21 December]	270
To John Wayles Eppes, 21 December	274
From Charles Brockden Brown, 25 December	275
From George Jefferson, 26 December	276
Notes on Treasury Statement, [after 28 December]	277
From James Madison, 29 December	278
Memorandum on Attendance of
the Vice President, [after 29 December]
From George Jefferson, 31 December	284
Notes on the Doctrine of Epicurus, [ca. 1799?]	284

1800

To Tench Coxe, 1 January	285
From John Wayles Eppes, 1 January	286
To George Jefferson, 1 January	286
Notes on a Conversation with Tench Coxe, 2 January	287
From James Madison, 4 January	288
From James Monroe, 4 January	289
To Bishop James Madison, 6 January	291
To Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy, [7 January]	292
American Philosophical Society Memorial to
U. S. Congress, [7-10 January]
From James Madison, 9 January	295
To Thomas McKean, 9 January	296
Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, 10 January	296
To George Jefferson, 12 January	297
From James Madison, 12 January	299
To James Monroe, 12 January	300
Notes on a Conversation with Samuel Smith, 12 January	301
To George Jefferson & Company, 13 January	302
Notes on a Conversation with John Nicholas, 13 January	303
From Josiah Parker, 13 January	303
To Josiah Parker, 13 January	304
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 January	304
To Henry Remsen, 14 January	307
To Charles Brockden Brown, 15 January	308
To Jonathan Williams, 15 January	308
To Morgan Brown, 16 January	309
To Daniel Clark, 16 January	309
To William Dunbar, 16 January	311
To James Wilkinson, 16 January	312
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, [17 January]	313
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 17 January	314
From Bishop James Madison, 17 January	316
From George Jefferson, 18 January	318
From James Madison, 18 January	319
To Joseph Priestley, 18 January	319
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 18 January	323
Notes on a Conversation with Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 January	324
From James Barbour, 20 January	325
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 January	326
From George Jefferson, 20 January	329
To Angelica Schuyler Church, 21 January	330
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 21 January	331
To Catherine Church, 22 January	332
To John Wayles Eppes, 22 January	333
From Benjamin Hawkins, 23 January	334
To Harry Innes, 23 January	335
Notes on a Conversation with Mr. Smith of Hamburg, 24 January	337
From Henry Remsen, 25 January	338
To Joseph Priestley, 27 January	339
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 January	341
To William Wardlaw, 28 January	342
To John Breckinridge, 29 January	344
From Joseph Priestley, 30 January	346
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 30 January	347
To Richard Symonds, 30 January	348
From Samuel Adams, 31 January	349
To Bishop James Madison, 31 January	349
To John McDowell, 1 February	352
Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, 1 February	352
To William Bache, 2 February	353
To Elisha Boudinot, 2 February	355
From Philip Norborne Nicholas, 2 February	356
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 February	357
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 February	359
From George Jefferson, 5 February	361
To George Jefferson, 6 February	361
To James Monroe, 6 February	362
From John Wayles Eppes, 7 February	362
To Richard Richardson, 10 February	363
From Bishop James Madison, 11 February	364
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 11 February	365
To Aaron Burr, 12 February	367
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 12 February	367
To George Jefferson, [12] February	369
To Uzal Ogden, 12 February	369
From Samuel Miller, 13 February	370
Statement of John Sappington, 13 February	370
From James Madison, 14 February	374
From John McDowell, 14 February	375
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 14 February	375
From James Thomson Callender, 15 February	376
From John Wayles Eppes, 16 February	377
From Baron von Geismar, 16 February	378
To James Monroe, 16 February	381
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 February	382
To Richard Richardson, 17 February	383
From George Jefferson, 19 February	385
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 February	385
From John Wayles Eppes, 20 February	386
To John Beale Bordley, 21 February	387
To George Jefferson, 21 February	388
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February	389
From George Wythe, 22 February	391
To John Barnes, 24 February	392
From John Heckewelder, 24 February	393
From George Jefferson, 24 February	393
To Samuel Miller, 25 February	394
To Samuel Adams, 26 February	395
To Auguste Belin, 27 February	396
From Robert R. Livingston, 28 February	397
Statement of William Robinson, 28 February	397
To George Wythe, 28 February	400
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 1 March	402
To William Jackson, 1 March	402
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 March	403
From Joseph Barnes, 4 March	403
To George Jefferson, 4 March	406
To James Madison, 4 March	407
From Samuel Miller, 4 March	411
From James Monroe, 4 March	413
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 March	413
To Henry Remsen, 4 March	415
Notes on Senate Debates, [after 5 March]	416
To Auguste Belin, 6 March	417
To John Dickinson, 7 March	417
To George Jefferson, 7 March	418
From Thomas McKean, 7 March	418
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 March	420
Notes on John Marshall’s Speech, [after 7 March]	421
To John Wayles Eppes, 8 March	421
To George Jefferson, 9 March	423
From Henry Knox, 9 March	423
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 March	425
To Henry Remsen, 9 March	425
From Joseph Barnes, 10 March	426
From James Thomson Callender, 10 March	427
To George Jefferson, 11 March	428
From George Jefferson, 11 March	428
Notes on Conversations with
Abigail Adams and Edward Dowse, 11 March
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 March	430
Notes on Senate Debates, [11-12 March]	430
To George Jefferson, 13 March	431
To George Meade, 13 March	432
From James Thomson Callender, 14 March	432
To David Campbell, 14 March	433
From John Gibson, 14 March	435
To Benjamin Hawkins, 14 March	435
From George Jefferson, 14 March	437
Notes on Charleston Printers, 14 March	438
From William Floyd, 15 March	438
From James Madison, 15 March	439
From John Wayles Eppes, 16 March	440
To James Lyle, 17 March	441
From Edmund Pendleton, 17 March	442
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 17 March	442
From B. D. Armistead, 18 March	443
From John Dickinson, [18 March]	445
From James Monroe, 18 March	446
From George Isham Parkyns, 18 March	446
Notes on Senate Debates, 19 March	447
To B. D. Armistead, 20 March	448
To George Jefferson, 20 March	448
To John Gibson, 21 March	449
Notes on John Marshall, 21 March	451
From Thomas Cooper, [23 March]	451
From William Duane, 24 March	453
Notes on a Conversation with Perez Morton, 24 March	454
To James Madison, 25 March	455
From Robert Patterson, 25 March	456
Statement for the Aurora, 25 March	457
To James Monroe, 26 March	461
From James Monroe, 26 March	463
To William Short, 26 March	463
From William Duane, 27 March	466
From George Jefferson, 27 March	467
Notes on a Conversation with Hugh Henry Brackenridge, 27 March	467
Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, [27 March or after]	469
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 29 March	470
From Bishop James Madison, 30 March	472
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 March	472
To Richard Richardson, 31 March	474
From David Campbell, 2 April	475
To Peter Carr, 4 April	475
Deposition of John Gibson, 4 April	477
To James Madison, 4 April	480
From James Madison, 4 April	481
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 April	482
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 6 April	484
To Philip Norborne Nicholas, 7 April	485
To George Wythe, enclosing
Queries on Parliamentary Procedure, 7 April
To Henry Knox, 8 April	487
To Everard Meade, 8 April	488
From James Monroe, 8 April	489
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 10 April	491
From George Wythe, 10 April	494
From Edward Livingston, 11 April	494
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 April	495
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 April	497
To Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 12 April	497
To James Monroe, 13 April	499
Jefferson’s Letter to William Short	500
I.
II.
III.

IV.

V.
To George Jefferson, 15 April	519
From George Jefferson, 15 April	520
To George Jefferson, 19 April	520
To Edmund Pendleton, 19 April	520
From Thomas Mann Randolph, [ca. 19 April]	522
From James Madison, 20 April	524
From James Thomson Callender, 21 April	525
To Martha Jefferson Carr, 21 April	525
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 21 April	527
To John Wayles Eppes, 21 April	531
From George Jefferson, 21 April	532
From John Wayles Eppes, 22 April	533
To William Hamilton, 22 April	533
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 April	535
To Richard Richardson, 22 April	536
From James Monroe, 23 April	537
From James Monroe, 23 April	538
To William Thornton, 23 April	538
From George Wythe, 23 April	539
From George Jefferson, 24 April	540
From James Monroe, 26 April	540
From James Madison, 27 April	542
From Aaron Burr, 28 April	543
From James Thomson Callender, 28 April	543
To Philip Mazzei, 29 April	543
Notes on Senate Debates, 29 April	545
To Richard Richardson, 29 April	545
To Edward Livingston, 30 April	546
To Robert R. Livingston, 30 April	549
Recipients of Appendix to the
Notes on the State of Virginia, [ca. April]
From Edward Livingston, [before 3 May]	554
To Edmund Pendleton, 3 May	555
From Tench Coxe, 4 May	555
From Aaron Burr, [before 5 May]	556
To Joseph Anthony, 6 May	556
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 6 May	558
To Dugnani, 7 May	559
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 7 May	560
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 May	561
From William Thornton, 7 May	563
From John Dickinson, 8 May	567
From Joseph Priestley, enclosing
Thoughts on Education, 8 May
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 8 May	570
From William Frederick Ast, 10 May	571
To Samuel Brown, 10 May	573
From Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 10 May	574
Statement of Account from John Barnes, 12 May	575
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 May	578
To James Madison, 12 May	579
To Samuel A. Otis, 14 May	580
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 May	581
Statement of Account from John Francis, 15 May	582
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 15 May	582
Mortgage of Slaves and Goods from Edmund Randolph, 19 May	583
From James Wilkinson, 22 May	585
From John Barnes, enclosing Statement of Account, 24 May	586
From James Monroe, 25 May	588
To James Monroe, 26 May	590
From Gibson & Jefferson, 27 May	591
From Andrew Ellicott, 28 May	592
From Daniel Clark, 29 May	593

APPENDIX: Notations by Jefferson on Senate Documents	597

INDEX	613

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

abolition

in N.Y., 4-5

Abraham (Abram, TJ's slave), 271

Abridgment of the Public Permanent Laws of Virginia (Edmund Randolph), 406, 407n, 520

acacia, 535

Accomack Co., Va., 32-3

Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond, on Monday, the Third Day of December, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Eight, 117, 122, 136-7

Adams, Abigail

and husband's visit to Trenton, 297n

TJ has conversation with, 429

Adams, Fort, 585

Adams, John

Minister to Great Britain

and negotiation with Algiers, 200, 202n

Opinions

on progress of knowledge, 128, 129n

said to favor former Loyalists, 493n

Personal Affairs

portrait by G. Stuart, xlv

addressed by millennialist, 476n

Politics

relations with Federalists, 45, 46n, 48, 50, 63-4, 290, 297, 301-2, 337-8, 509, 512, 562-3n, 581

watched for political errors, 133

relations with Hamilton, 297, 337-8, 563n, 581n

patronage, 419

identified as author of Davila, 429, 430n

late-term appointments, 434n

as candidate for reelection, 464-5, 509, 512, 561, 562-3n, 581

President

inauguration, xlii

power over expanded army, 11, 33, 44, 97-8, 227

and retaliatory act against French citizens, 12-13, 23, 30, 34

28 Jan. 1799 message to Congress, 13n, 598

sends correspondence, papers to Congress, 13n, 23, 30, 34, 37, 47, 49, 306-7n, 323n

and M. Lyon's petition, 17-18n, 72-4

8 Dec. 1798 annual message to Congress, 19

XYZ affair, 19, 44, 46, 47, 50, 129n

and Saint-Domingue, 22

and suspension of trade with France, 24, 29, 190n, 315n

makes appointments, 24n, 31, 34, 37-8, 45-50, 63-5, 67, 144n

and French policy in W. Indies, 44, 45n

accused of withholding information, 45, 47, 48, 50

opens new negotiation with France, 45-50, 63-5, 67, 133, 279, 297, 301-2, 338, 525n

cabinet politics, 63-4, 297, 301-2, 419, 562-3n, 581

conflict with J. Ogden, 72-4

criticized, 74n, 181n, 219, 289-90, 410n, 452n, 492, 493n, 525, 531, 589-90n

and organization of new regiments, 98n, 481, 483, 581n

at Quincy, Braintree, 98n, 133, 301-2, 338

relations with Liston, 153n

and Supreme Court, 166n

and Robbins case, 181n, 408, 410n, 421

and Judiciary Act of 1801, 263n, 434n

in Trenton, 297, 301-2

as commander in chief, 305, 306-7n

and J. Randolph incident, 305, 306-7n, 314

and proposed military academy, 323n

threat of lifetime term for, 324

toasted, 337-8

and loans, 422, 456n, 605, 610

and military commissions, 424, 481

Dec. 1799 annual message to Congress, 434n

signs legislation, 443n, 581n

sends Portsmouth, dispatches to France, 455, 456n, 461, 463, 473, 476, 480, 483

and medal for Truxtun, 456n

receives intelligence from frontiers, 468

dispatches from Ellsworth, Murray, Davie, 475-6, 477n, 480, 483, 492

appointment of Brooks rejected, 481, 483

and prosecution of sedition trials, 493n

accused of "delirious dreams" of monarchy, 495

pardons Fries, 522n

and bill to cover expense of moving household, 525n

and search for sources of copper, 548-9n

removes Pickering, McHenry, 581

and Ellicott, 592-3

message on death of Washington, 600

miscellaneous messages, 600

and negotiations with Prussia, 601

and Western Reserve, 607

Relations with Jefferson

correspondence, 500

Vice President

attendance, 280-3

Writings

Discourses on Davila, 429-30

Adams, John Quincy, 74n, 326n, 525n

Adams, Samuel

letter to, 395

letters from, 265-6, 349

introduces travelers, 265-6, 349, 395, 461

receives Appendix, 551, 553

Adams, Thomas, 491

Adamson, Mr., 90

Addison, Alexander

asserts principles of common law, 232-3

Liberty of Speech, 233n

Address to the Congress of the United States, on the Utility and Justice of Restrictions upon Foreign Commerce (Charles Brockden Brown), 276n

Address to the Government of the United States, on the Cession of Louisiana to the French (Charles Brockden Brown), 276n

Adet, Pierre Auguste, 469n

Africa

and yellow fever, 564

Aggey (E. Randolph's slave), 583

Agnes (ship), 133, 134n

agriculture

crop rotation, 197, 198n, 506-7, 518

farm laborers as proposed census category, 294

in college curricula, 321, 569

innovations in, 326n, 387-8n, 530n

societies for promoting, 387-8n, 397

as basis of political economy, 395

and debt, bankruptcy, 443, 471

Du Pont plans agricultural settlement, 530n

Albany, N.Y.

printing at, 346, 347n

newspapers, 425, 426n

Albany Gazette (Albany, N.Y.), 425, 426n

Albemarle Co., Va.

and TJ's petition on jurors, 41-2

commerce with Richmond, 82

courts, court days, 83, 173, 177, 191, 196, 475, 476, 477n, 482, 522

and American Revolution, 100n

land transactions, 140-3

and fire insurance, 187

land prices, 189, 190n, 503, 508

rain damages crops in, 189

commerce with Philadelphia, 199n, 502

Nicholas family of, 205n

churches, 209n

elections, 241, 274, 526, 542

surveyors, 253-8

criticism of TJ from, 268n

legislative representation, 290n

French residents of, 464

consumption by wealthy, 523

alcoholism, 245, 249, 360, 523

Aldridge, William J., 271, 273n

Alexander, William

makes payment, 109

letter from cited, 110n

Alexandria, Va.

custom house, 353

residents of, 463

potential home for Du Pont, 481, 483, 531n

Algiers

ransom of U.S. captives in, 33

U.S. treaty with, 194, 200-1, 202n

Alien Friends Act (1798)

opposition to, 23n, 35, 36, 77, 117, 137, 266, 268n, 279-80n, 289, 299, 326n, 344, 345n, 446

defended, 42n

House refuses to debate, 64-5

as part of Federalist program, 169

House receives petitions on, 173, 174n

unconstitutionality of, 173, 278, 280n, 295

Allegheny Co., Pa., 435

Allegheny Mountains, 468-9

Allen, Richard H., 20

Allen, Wilson, 584n

Almon, John, 454n

Altona, Germany, 132

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 294-5n

American Philosophical Society

TJ presides over, viii, 294-5n, 563

and U.S. census, viii, 293-5

and Priestley portraits, xli

publishes Transactions, 56, 57n, 61, 139n, 549-50, 578, 593n

and Livingston's steam apparatus, 56-7

TJ's report on megalonyx, 61-2, 162n, 317, 318n

and information about American west, 135-6, 138, 203

elects members, 139n, 189n, 266n, 291n, 311n, 312-13n, 387n, 573, 578

committees, 291n, 295n, 313n, 434n

meetings, 294-5n

officers, 295n

papers by members, 308n, 578n

receives communications, specimens, 313n, 593n

TJ serves on committees of, 313n

and N.C. stone formation, 317, 318n

collects data on languages, 434n

as clearinghouse for information, 443, 445, 448

and TJ's moldboard plow, 549-50

American Revolution

Italian émigrés volunteer in, 100n

destruction of laws, records during, 117

fading of generation that created, 128, 550

as preservation, not innovation, 129n

principles of extolled, 150

effect on state laws, 169-70, 171n

as origin of U.S. sovereignty, 170

France's participation in, 175n, 469n

in Va., 180

filings for land grants, 253-5

Wilkinson's service in, 312n

political principles of, 395

former Loyalists, 462-3n, 493n

nonimportation agreements, 491

treatment of Loyalists during, 534

American Universal Geography (Jedidiah Morse), 317, 318n

"Americanus" (pseudonym)

attacks TJ, 241n

Ames, Fisher, 429-30

Amherst Co., Va., 240, 248

Amsterdam

and Kosciuszko's funds, 51-2, 87

as tobacco market, 112

British hope to capture, 221n

blockade of, affects correspondence, 543-4

letters sent through, 559

anatomy

importance of study of, 127

in college curricula, 291n, 321

Anderson, Bentley, 584

Anderson, David

business, 474, 475n

letter to cited, 475n

Anderson, Garland, Jr., 542

Anderson, Joseph

in Senate, 408, 411n, 603

Andrews, Robert, 278, 280n

Anglesey, Wales

supplies copper, 548n

Annapolis, Md., 86n

Anthony, Joseph (Philadelphia)

letter to, 557-8

sells Trumbull's prints, 557-8, 575, 579

Anthony, Joseph (Richmond), 361-2, 385, 393

Anthony, Joseph, & Son (Philadelphia), 107-8

Antichristian Conspiracy (Augustin Barruel), 351n

Antimonarchical Conspiracy (Augustin Barruel), 351n

Antisocial Conspiracy (Augustin Barruel), 349, 351n

Appeal to the Candid upon the Present State of Religion and Politics in Connecticut (John C. Ogden), 17n

Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family

documents printed in, 71n, 263-4n, 373n, 393, 399n, 479-80n

as revision of Notes on Virginia, 131, 335-6, 449-50, 556

printing of, 373n, 449-50, 553-4n, 573, 575, 577n

Sappington statement added to, 373n, 573

TJ's "historical statement" for, 373n

distribution, 551-4, 555-7, 567, 573

Clark statement omitted from, 573

Appomattox River, 244

Archimedes, 126

architecture. See Jefferson, Thomas: Architecture

Architecture of Andrea Palladio, 579, 580n

Argall, Sir Samuel, 412-13

Argus (New York), 493n

Armistead, B. D.

letter to, 448

letter from, 443-5

offers treatise, 443-5, 448

Armstrong, John (1755-1816), 560, 561n

Arnold, Thomas, 603

art

in college curricula, 321

role of luxury in study of, 340

artisans

and proposed census categories, 294

Asia

wild horses of, 237, 309-10

asparagus

grown at Monticello, 92

Ast, William Frederick

letter to, 186-8

letter from, 571-2

fire insurance program, 186-8, 571-2

letter from cited, 572n

astronomy

education in, 127, 321

Dunbar studies, 139n, 203n

orreries, 424

and study of the earth, 444

in France, 465n

and saros, 564, 567n

cycles of seasons, disease, 564-5

and calculation of longitude, 592

attorneys

and Federalist power in New England, 97, 492

as proposed census category, 294

in Va., 326n

in Philadelphia, 335

in Md., 387n

in Pittsburgh, 468n

and Federalist influence in N.C., 485

Augusta Co., Va. See Staunton, Va.

Augustine (Eppes's slave), 274

Aurora (Philadelphia)

publishes political essays, 10, 19, 98n, 228n

reaches New England, 16

J. Ogden writes for, 17-18n, 72-3, 351n

reports foreign news, rumors, 134n, 334n, 343, 474n, 562n

and Fries Rebellion, 151, 152-3n

as Republican source of information, 151

prints letters, documents, 153n, 153-62, 165n, 231, 383n, 453n, 454n, 458-9n, 467n, 556

reprints item from Porcupine's Gazette, 161-2n

Callender's relationship with, 163-4

subscriptions to, 342, 343n, 524-5, 575, 577n, 580

commentary by, 382n, 581n

advertises pamphlets, 417n

prints Ross election bill, 453n, 491

later history of, 454n

management of, 454n

TJ supplies information to, 457-61

criticizes Adams administration, 493n

Hamilton accused of scheme to suppress, 493n

and prosecution of Haswell, 493n, 521

and publication of Liston's dispatches, 522n

Austria

imprisons Lafayette, 94-6, 265n

in coalition against France, 133-4, 218-19, 221n, 358

military victories, 134n, 223, 227, 232-3, 248-9, 279

and French peace overtures, 404, 405-6n

Avery, Billy Haley, 225-6, 249, 348

Avery, Mrs. Billy Haley, 225-6, 249

Avery, Edward, 226, 249

Avery, Elizabeth, 226, 249

Avery, Lucy, 226, 249

Avery, Mary Ann, 226, 249

Avery, William, 226, 249

Azanza, Miguel José de

viceroy of New Spain, 236