1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802

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Description

The period covered by this volume brings to a conclusion Thomas Jefferson’s first year as president. His annual message to Congress conveys good news: peace between France and England is restored; a growing population will increase the revenue and, with reduced expenditures, permit the abolition of internal taxes; the military establishment can be reduced; “peace & friendship” with Indian neighbors prevails. Jefferson recommends two particular matters to the attention of Congress: a revision of the naturalization laws that will reduce the term of residence required for citizenship; a review of the Judiciary Act, one of the final pieces of legislation of the Adams administration.

Two delegations of Indian nations—the Miamis led by Little Turtle and the Shawnees and Delawares led by Black Hoof—come to Washington to meet with Jefferson and Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. Jefferson observes that it is good for all of them to “renew the chain of affection” in person.

He regularly entertains members of Congress and the Cabinet at the President’s House, offering outstanding food, fine wines, and “Very Philosophic conversation.” On New Year’s Day, the president receives a “Mammoth Cheese,” a token of esteem from the citizens of Cheshire, Massachusetts, that the Baptist clergyman John Leland accompanied to Washington. Jefferson’s answer to the citizens praised the Constitution’s prohibition of religious tests and on the same day he replied to the October 1801 letter of the Danbury Baptists, assuring them that “religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god.”

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword	vii
Editorial Method and Apparatus	xvii
Illustrations	xlv
Jefferson Chronology	2


To Andrew Sterett, 1 December 1801	3
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr.,
enclosing Statement of Principles, 1 December 1801	4
To James Currie, 2 December 1801	9
To Thomas Leiper, 2 December 1801	9
To George Jefferson, 3 December 1801	10
To James Madison, [ca. 3 December 1801]	10
To Craven Peyton, 3 December 1801	11
From Andrew Sterett, 3 December 1801	12
From Abishai Thomas, 3 December 1801	12
Memorial from the District of Columbia Commissioners, 4 December 1801	13
From the Georgia Legislature, 4 December 1801	17
From George Jefferson, 4 December 1801	18
To George Latimer, 4 December 1801	19
To John Monroe, 4 December 1801	19
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 December 1801	20
From Christopher Smith, 4 December 1801	21
To Caspar Wistar, 4 December 1801	22
To Joseph Bloomfield, 5 December 1801	22
From Sylvanus Bourne, 5 December 1801	23
From Henry Dearborn, 5 December 1801	24
From John Glendy, 5 December 1801	25
To Gideon Granger, 5 December 1801	27
From James Hall, 5 December 1801	27
To James Lyon, 5 December 1801	29
To Isaac Story, 5 December 1801	30
From “Philanthrophos,” [on or before 6 December 1801]	31
Bill to Establish a Government for the Territory of Columbia	32
I. Draft Bill, [before 7 December 1801]	34
II. From John Thomson Mason, [7 December 1801]	40
From Tench Coxe, [before 7 December 1801]	41
Henry Dearborn’s Plan for Reorganizing the Army, [7 December 1801]	42
From Albert Gallatin, 7 December 1801	48
From Horatio Gates, 7 December 1801	50
From George Jefferson, 7 December 1801	51
From the Senate, 7 December 1801	51
Annual Message to Congress	52
I. To the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, 8 December 1801	57
II. First Annual Message to Congress, 8 December 1801	58
III. Note for the National Intelligencer, [ca. 8 December 1801]	67
Henry Dearborn’s Statement on Indian Trading Houses, 8 December 1801	68
To Albert Gallatin, 8 December 1801	70
From George Jefferson, 8 December 1801	70
From Matthew Lawler, 8 December 1801	71
From James Lyon, 8 December 1801	71
From James Madison, 8 December 1801	73
To Bishop James Madison, 8 December 1801	75
From James Monroe, 8 December 1801	76
General Statement of Account with John Barnes, 9 December 1801	77
Memorandum from John Barnes, 9 December 1801	78
From William P. Gardner, 9 December 1801	79
From John Vaughan, 9 December 1801	80
DeWitt Clinton’s Statement on a Political Faction in New York, [before 10 December 1801]	81
From James Cheetham, enclosing James Cheetham’s Statement on a Political Faction in New York City, [10 December 1801]	82
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 10 December 1801	88
From James Madison, [10 December 1801]	89
From the War Department, with Jefferson’s Reply, 10 December 1801	89
From “An American,” 11 December 1801	91
From Benjamin Hawkins, 11 December 1801	93
To the Senate, 11 December 1801	94
To the Senate, 11 December 1801	95
From Jean Chas, 12 December 1801	95
From James Currie, 12 December 1801	97
From John Dickinson, 12 December 1801	97
From James Dinsmore, 12 December 1801	98
To Christopher Ellery, 12 December 1801	99
From Lewis Littlepage, 12 December 1801	99
From Elijah Paine, 12 December 1801	100
From Albert Gallatin, [13 December 1801]	101
To James Monroe, 13 December 1801	104
From James Ray, 13 December 1801	105
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 14 December 1801	106
To Albert Gallatin, 14 December 1801	107
From William Judd, 14 December 1801	108
From George Meade, 14 December 1801	109
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 14 December 1801	111
From François Soulés, 14 December 1801	112
From Antoine Félix Wuibert, 14 December 1801	114
From Jacob Crowninshield, 15 December 1801	116
From Albert Gallatin, [15 December] 1801	120
From Abishai Thomas, 15 December 1801	122
From Thomas Bruff, 16 December 1801	123
From Henry Dearborn, 16 December 1801	125
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 16 December 1801	125
From Bishop James Madison, 16 December 1801	126
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 17 December 1801	127
From Hugh Holmes, 17 December 1801	133
From David Walker, 17 December 1801	134
From John Devereux DeLacy, 18 December 1801	135
To Peter Lyons, 18 December 1801	157
From Nathaniel Macon, 18 December 1801	158
From William Short, 18 December 1801	158
To James Taylor, Jr., 18 December 1801	163
From David Austin, 19 December 1801	163
From William Cranch, 19 December 1801	164
To John Dickinson, 19 December 1801	165
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 19 December 1801	166
From Benjamin Henfrey, 19 December 1801	167
From Robert Patterson, 19 December 1801	170
From Richard Williams, 19 December 1801	175
To Horatio Gates, 20 December 1801	176
To Levi Lincoln, 20 December 1801	176
From James Monroe, 20 December 1801	177
To Benjamin Rush, 20 December 1801	177
From George Baron, 21 December 1801	178
Statement of Account with Thomas Carpenter, 21 December 1801	181
From Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, 21 December 1801	182
To Levi Lincoln, 21 December 1801	183
Resolution of the Mississippi Territory 1801
General Assembly, 21 December 1801	183
From James Monroe, 21 December 1801	185
Proclamation on Ratification of the Convention with France, 21 December 1801	187
From John Vaughan, 21 December 1801	189
From Charles Douglas and Susan Douglas, 22 December 1801	190
To the Senate, 22 December 1801	190
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 22 December 1801	192
From Lewis Littlepage, 23 December 1801	194
To Lewis Littlepage, 23 December 1801	194
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 23 December 1801	195
From Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1801	195
From George Hadfield, 24 December 1801	197
From Josiah Hook, 24 December 1801	198
From Kennebec County, Maine, Constitutional Republicans, 24 December 1801	198
From John Stuart Kerr, 24 December 1801	200
From James Madison, 24 December 1801	201
From Overton Carr, 25 December 1801	202
To James Currie, 25 December 1801	203
To Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 December 1801	203
Memorandum to Albert Gallatin, with Gallatin’s Reply, [on or before 26 December 1801]	204
From Albert Gallatin, 26 December 1801	205
From Albert Gallatin, 26 December 1801	205
From Robert R. Livingston, 26 December 1801	206
From the National Institute of France, 26 December 1801	208
From Albert Gallatin, enclosing
Outline of Government Offices, 27 December 1801	210
From Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1801	215
To Adam Lindsay, 27 December 1801	216
From Caesar A. Rodney, 27 December 1801	217
To Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 27 December 1801	220
From William Adamson, 28 December 1801	220
From James Jackson, 28 December 1801	224
From John F. Mercer, 28 December 1801	225
From David Stone, 28 December 1801	226
From James Cheetham, 29 December 1801	228
From Andrew Ellicott, 29 December 1801	229
To Albert Gallatin, 29 December 1801	231
To James Madison, 29 December 1801	231
To James Madison, 29 December 1801	232
From Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 29 December 1801	233
From Edmund O’Finn, 29 December 1801	234
From Robert Smith, 29 December 1801	234
From John Vaughan, enclosing List of Learned Societies, 29 December 1801	235
From Dr. John Vaughan, 29 December 1801	238
From Henry Voigt, 29 December 1801	239
From Timothy Bourn, [before 30] December 1801	241
To William Eustis, 30 December 1801	242
From William Henry Harrison, 30 December 1801	242
From Thomas Oben, 30 December 1801	245
Presentation of the “Mammoth Cheese”	246
I. From the Committee of Cheshire, Massachusetts, [30 December 1801]	249
II. From the Committee of Cheshire, Massachusetts, [1 January 1802]	250
To the Committee of Cheshire, Massachusetts, [1 January 1802]	252
Reply to the Danbury Baptist Association	253
I. Draft Reply to the Danbury Baptist Association, [on or before 31 December 1801]	254
II. From Gideon Granger, [31 December 1801]	256
III. To Levi Lincoln, 1 January 1802	256
IV. From Levi Lincoln, 1 January 1802	257
V. To the Danbury Baptist Association, 1 January 1802	258
A Bill for the Relief of Sufferers under Certain Illegal Prosecutions, [1801]	258


From James Dinsmore, 1 January 1802	260
To John Wayles Eppes, 1 January 1802	261
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 January 1802	262
From Philip Turner, 1 January 1802	263
From Caspar Wistar, 1 January 1802	264
From “A. B.,” 2 January 1802	266
From Gideon Granger, 2 January 1802	268
From George Jefferson, 2 January 1802	268
To James Oldham, 2 January 1802	269
To Samuel Smith, 2 January 1802	269
From James Taylor, Jr., 2 January 1802	269
From Albert Gallatin, 3 January 1802	270
From David Austin, 4 January 1802	271
From Sarah Blackden, 4 January 1802	273
Conference with Little Turtle	274
I. Address of Little Turtle, [4 January 1802]	280
II. Jefferson’s Reply, 7 January 1802	286
III. Henry Dearborn’s Reply, 7 January 1802	287
IV. Response of Little Turtle, [7 January 1802]	289
From Joseph Crockett, 4 January 1802	290
From Louis Desmarets, 4 January 1802	290
To Theodore Foster, 4 January 1802	291
From Gideon Granger, 4 January 1802	292
From Benjamin Henfrey, 4 January 1802	293
From John F. Mercer, 4 January 1802	293
From Louis de Tousard, 4 January 1802	294
From William Goforth, 5 January 1802	297
To Benjamin Henfrey, 5 January 1802	303
To the Senate, 5 January 1802	303
From Samuel R. Demaree, 6 January 1802	304
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 6 January 1802	305
From Blair McClenachan, 6 January 1802	307
From Thomas Newton, 6 January 1802	308
To the Senate: Interim Appointments, 6 January	309
I. Tables of Justices of the Peace for the District of Columbia, [before 16 March 1801]	314
II. Memorandum on Justices of the Peace for the District of Columbia, [on or before 16 March 1801]	316
III. List of Interim Appointments from the State Department, [on or before 26 December 1801]	317
IV. Draft of Interim Appointments, [on or after 26 December 1801]	322
V. Key to the Arrangement of Interim Nominations,[before 6 January 1802]	328
VI. To the Senate, 6 January 1802	331
To the District of Columbia Commissioners, 7 January 1802	337
From William Duane, 7 January 1802	337
To George Jefferson, 7 January 1802	338
To Christopher Smith, 7 January 1802	339
To James Taylor, Jr., 7 January 1802	339
To Antoine Félix Wuibert, 7 January 1802	340
From David Austin, 8 January 1802	340
From James Currie, 8 January 1802	340
From Henry Dearborn, 8 January 1802	341
To George Jefferson, 8 January 1802	342
To James Taylor, Jr., 8 January 1802	343
From Albert Gallatin, 9 January 1802	343
To George Jefferson, 9 January 1802	344
From David Mandeville, 9 January 1802	344
To Samuel A. Otis, 9 January 1802	345
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 January 1802	346
From Albert Gallatin, 10 January 1802	346
From John Hughes, 10 January 1802	348
To Edward Savage 10 January 1802	350
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 January 1802	350
From David Austin, 11 January 1802	351
From Richard Dinmore, 11 January 1802	352
From Henry Esch, 11 January 1802	353
From La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 11 January 1802	355
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 11 January 1802	356
From Isaac Story, 11 January 1802	357
From James Sullivan, 11 January 1802	359
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 January 1802	359
To Albert Gallatin, 12 January 1802	361
From John Gardiner, 12 January 1802	362
To the House of Representatives, 12 January, enclosing From James Madison, and Estimate of Expenses, 11 January 1802	363
From Charles Willson Peale, 12 January, enclosing Substance of an Address, [ca. 12 January 1802]	365
To the Senate, 12 January 1802	367
From Albert Gallatin, 13 January 1802	367
From George Jefferson, 13 January 1802	368
To John Vaughan and Charles Willson Peale, 13 January 1802	369
To James Currie, 14 January 1802	369
To George Jefferson, 14 January 1802	370
From George Jefferson, 14 January 1802	371
From George Washington McElroy, 14 January 1802	371
To John Vaughan, 14 January 1802	372
To Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 January 1802	373
To Philip Barraud, 15 January 1802	373
From John James Dufour, 15 January 1802	373
From Lewis Geanty, 15 January 1802	376
To the Georgia Legislature, 15 January 1802	377
From Simon Harris, 15 January 1802	378
To David Mandeville, 15 January 1802	379
From Robert Smith, 15 January 1802	380
From Augustus B. Woodward, 15 January 1802	380
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., enclosing Invoice for Wine, with Jefferson’s Notations, 15 January 1802	381
To Albert Gallatin, 16 January 1802	384
To Kennebec County, Maine, Constitutional Republicans, 16 January 1802	384
To Charles Willson Peale, 16 January 1802	385
To Henry Voigt, 16 January 1802	386
To James Cheetham, 17 January 1802	386
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 17 January 1802	387
To Hore Browse Trist, 17 January 1802	389
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 18 January 1802	390
From Allen McLane, 18 January 1802	392
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 18 January 1802	394
From James Wilkinson, 18 January 1802	394
From David Austin, 19 January 1802	395
From William Dunnington, 19 January 1802	396
From Robert Smith, 19 January 1802	397
From Jacob Bayley, 20 January 1802	397
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 January 1802	399
From George Jefferson, 20 January 1802	399
From James Madison, [ca. 20 January 1802]	400
From the Mississippi Territory House of Representatives, 20 January 1802	400
To David Austin, 21 January 1802	401
From William C. C. Claiborne, 21 January 1802	402
From Thomas Claxton, 21 January 1802	402
From Josias Wilson King, 21 January 1802	403
From Charles Willson Peale, 21 January 1802	404
From Anna Young, 21 January 1802	405
From Joseph Anthony, 22 January 1802	409
From John Beckley, 22 January 1802	415
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 22 January 1802	415
To John Wayles Eppes, 22 January 1802	416
From Agnes Jackson, 22 January 1802	418
From William King, 22 January 1802	419
From Hore Browse Trist, 22 January 1802	419
From Thomas Claxton, 23 January 1802	420
From James Dinsmore, 23 January 1802	421
To Lewis Geanty, 23 January 1802	422
From William Short, 23 January 1802	423
From John Cleves Symmes, 23 January 1802	424
From Mary Jefferson Eppes, 24 January 1802	426
From Richard Brent, [25 January 1802]	427
From Ebenezer Elmer, 25 January 1802	428
From Albert Gallatin, [25 January 1802]	428
From Benjamin Hichborn, 25 January 1802	429
From Edward C. Nicholls, 25 January 1802	431
From William Barnwell, 26 January 1802	432
To James Madison and Family, 26 January 1802	432
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 26 January 1802	433
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 26 January 1802	434
To Joseph H. Nicholson and Rebecca Nicholson, 26 January 1802	435
From David Stone, 26 January 1802	435
From Richard Willson, 26 January 1802	436
From James Currie, 27 January 1802	436
To Richard Cutts, 27 January 1802	437
From Abraham Du Buc de Marentille, 27 January 1802	438
From Albert Gallatin, 27 January 1802	440
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 27 January 1802	440
From John Davis, 28 January 1802	443
From Richard Dinmore, 28 January 1802	444
To Levi Lincoln, 28 January 1802	446
From James Lyon, 28 January 1802	446
From David Austin, 29 January 1802	447
To Andrew Ellicott, 29 January 1802	448
From Albert Gallatin, 29 January 1802	448
From Robert Morris, [on or before 29 January 1802]	449
From Benjamin Vaughan, 29 January 1802	449
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 January 1802	454
To John Wickham, 29 January 1802	455
From Isaac Briggs, 30 January 1802	457
Charges Against Arthur St. Clair	458
I. From Thomas Worthington, 30 January 1802	461
II. List of Charges Against Arthur St. Clair, [ca. 30 January-20 February 1802]	465
III. Thomas Worthington’s Charges and Explanations, 20 February 1802	466
From Delamotte, 30 January 1802	470
From Denniston & Cheetham, 30 January 1802	472
From Lafayette, 30 January 1802	480
To William Wardlaw, 30 January 1802	482
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 30 January 1802	482
To Matthew Anderson, 31 January 1802	484
From Andrew Ellicott, 31 January 1802	485
To Dwight Foster, 1 February 1802	486
From Benjamin Hawkins, 1 February 1802	486
To the Senate, 1 February 1802	487
From Joseph Wheaton, 1 February 1802	489
From John Wayles Eppes, 2 February 1802	490
From George Jefferson, 2 February 1802	492
From Levi Lincoln, 2 February 1802	493
To Thomas Newton, Jr., 2 February 1802	496
From Samuel Quarrier, 2 February 1802	497
From Samuel Quarrier, 2 February	498
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 2 February 1802	499
From Robert Smith, 2 February 1802	501
Memorandum from Tench Coxe, 3 February 1802	502
Invoice from William Duane, 3 February 1802	503
To George Jefferson, 3 February 1802	503
To James Monroe, 3 February 1802	504
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 February 1802	505
From Albert Gallatin, 4 February 1802	506
From Samuel Morse, 4 February 1802	507
To Anna Young, 4 February 1802	512
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 4 February 1802	512
Conference with Black Hoof, 5 February 1802	513
I. Address of Black Hoof, [5 February 1802]	517
II. Jefferson’s Reply, 10 February 1802	522
III. Henry Dearborn’s Reply, 10 February 1802	523
IV. Henry Dearborn to Chiefs of the Delawares and Shawnees, 10 February 1802	526
To Aaron Burr, 6 February 1802	527
Philippe Jacques Dahler to Jefferson and Congress, 6 February 1802	527
From James B. Heard, [on or before 6 February 1802]	529
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 February 1802	530
From Jacob Wagner, 6 February 1802	531
From Joseph Barnes, 7 February 1802	532
From Lewis DuPré, 7 February 1802	533
From Andrew Ellicott, 7 February 1802	535
From John Guerrant, 7 February 1802	536
From Stephen Sayre, 7 February 1802	537
From Burgess Allison, 8 February 1802	540
From Daniel Carroll, 8 February 1802	541
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 8 February 1802	542
To the House of Representatives, 8 February 1802	543
From George Jefferson, 8 February 1802	545
To Nathaniel Macon, 8 February 1802	545
To Samuel A. Otis, 8 February 1802	546
From Robert Smith, 8 February 1802	546
From Worsley & Murray, 8 February 1802	547
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 9 February 1802	547
From Catherine Church, 9 February 1802	549
From George Clinton, 9 February 1802	550
To the District of Columbia Commissioners, 9 February 1802	551
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 9 February 1802	551
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 9 February 1802	552
From Thomas Eddy, 9 February 1802	553
From Albert Gallatin, 9 February 1802	554
From John Thomson Mason, 9 February 1802	555
To Hore Browse Trist, 9 February 1802	556
To Abraham Baldwin, 10 February 1802	557
From Samuel Quarrier, 10 February 1802	557
To Daniel Carroll, 11 February 1802	559
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 February 1802	559
Tench Coxe’s Reflections on Cotton, 11 February 1802	562
From Manasseh Cutler, [11 February 1802]	563
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 11 February 1802	564
To James Oldham, 11 February 1802	565
From Henry Voigt, 11 February 1802	565
From David Campbell, 12 February 1802	566
From James Dinsmore, 12 February 1802	567
From Albert Gallatin, 12 February 1802	568
From James Monroe, 12 February 1802	571
From Thomas Newton, 12 February 1802	572
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 12 February 1802	572
From Horatio Gates, 13 February 1802	573
From George Jefferson, 13 February 1802	574
From Levi Lincoln, 13 February 1802	574
From James Monroe, 13 February 1802	576
From Samuel Quarrier, 13 February 1802	577
From Arthur St. Clair, 13 February 1802	578
From Andrew Ellicott, 14 February 1802	579
From “A Federalist Democrat,” 14 [February 1802]	581
To George Hay, 14 February 1802	581
From David Lummis, 15 February 1802	582
From Philadelphia Merchants and Traders, [before 16 February 1802]	586
From Albert Gallatin, 16 February 1802	589
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, enclosing From James Madison, 16 February 1802 and Albert Gallatin to James Madison, 30 January 1802	592
From Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, [16 February 1802]	598
From Tench Coxe, 17 February 1802	600
From Nicholas Reib, 17 February 1802	602
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 17 February 1802	603
From Robert Smith, 17 February 1802	604
Circular to Naval Commanders, 18 February 1802	605
From Thomas Newton, 18 February 1802	606
To the Senate, 18 February 1802	606
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 18 February 1802	607
To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 19 February 1802	607
From John Murray Forbes, 19 February 1802	608
From George Hay, 19 February 1802	609
From William Barton, 20 February 1802	610
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 February 1802	611
To John Page, 20 February 1802	613
From Robert Smith, 20 February 1802	615
From John Dawson, 21 February 1802	615
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 21 February 1802	616
From Lewis Mayer, 21 February 1802	617
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 21 February 1802	618
From John Coburn, 22 February 1802	620
From Tench Coxe, 22 February 1802	623
From John Drayton, 22 February 1802	625
From Lyman Spalding, 22 February 1802	626
To Albert Gallatin, 23 February 1802	627
To Albert Gallatin, with Gallatin’s Reply, [23 February 1802]	628
From Moses Myers, 23 February 1802	628
To Andrew Ellicott, 24 February 1802	629
To Albert Gallatin, with Gallatin’s Reply, [on or before 24 February 1802]	630
To George Hay, 24 February 1802	631
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 24 February 1802	631
To Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Munsee Indians, with Henry Dearborn, 24 February 1802	632
From Maria Cosway, 25 February, enclosing Proposal to Publish Etchings of Pictures in the Louvre, 1 February 1802	636
From Albert Gallatin, 25 February 1802	638
From James Madison, 2[5] February 1802	638
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 February 1802	640
From “A—X,” [26 February 1802]	641
From Anthony Campbell, 26 February 1802	641
To James Madison, with Madison’s Reply, 26 February 1802	654
From Samuel Morse, 26 February 1802	655
From Anne Cary Randolph, 26 February 1802	656
From Ellen Wayles Randolph, [ca. 26 February 1802]	656
From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 26 February 1802]	657
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 26 February 1802	658
From Charles Peale Polk, 28 February [i..e. ca. 27 February 1802]	658
From Thomas Ballendine, 28 February 1802	660
To William R. Davie, 28 February 1802	662
From Thomas T. Davis, 28 February 1802	662
To James Monroe, 28 February 1802	663
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 February 1802	663
From Tench Coxe, 1 March 1802	664
From Edward Savage, 1 March	666
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 1 March 1802	666
From Robert Smith, 1 March 1802	668
From Robert Eastburn, 2 March 1802	669
Statement of Medical Services by Edward Gantt, 2 March 1802	671
From James Hardy, 2 March 1802	671
To the Mississippi Territory General Assembly, 2 March 1802	673
From Samuel Morse, 2 March 1802	673
To Thomas Newton, 2 March 1802	674
To John Wayles Eppes, 3 March 1802	675
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 3 March 1802	676
From George Hay, 3 March 1802	677
From “Thomas Khronyngler,” 3 March 1802	678

APPENDICES
Appendix I: Letters Not Printed in Full	679
Appendix II: Letters Not Found	681
Appendix III: Financial Documents	685
Appendix IV: Statements of Accounts with John Barnes	688

Index	699

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

"A. B." (pseudonym)

criticizes Charleston custom house, 266-8, 384

letter from, 266-8

abolition, 534n, 586

Aborn, Thomas, 320, 327, 332

Academia Botanica (Florence), 237n

Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras (Sevilla), 236, 237-8n

Académie des sciences, 294, 295

Académie Royale des Sciences (Turin), 236, 237n

Académie Royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, et Arts (Lyons), 236, 237n

Académie Royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, et Arts (Rouen), 236, 237n

Accademia del Cimento (Florence), 237n

Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto (Bologna), 236, 237n

accountants, 92, 118, 133, 175n, 345n, 659

Account of the State Prison or Penitentiary House, in the City of New-York (Thomas Eddy), 553-4

Adams, Abigail, 165n

Adams, John

contingent expenses, 627-8

and Convention of 1800, 189n

and District of Columbia, 13, 17n, 32, 564

and election of 1800, 128-9, 131

and France, 349

and Friend's Orebank lease, 91n

and Ga. land claims, 202n

history of administration of, 228-9, 387, 472-80

instructions to American warships, 122n

late-term appointments, 309, 311-13, 315n, 316, 321, 327n, 328, 333-4, 400n, 575n

levees held by, xlvi

and Little Turtle, 275, 522n

makes appointments, 185n, 244n, 434n, 483, 488n, 557, 608-9n

portraits of, xlvii

removals by, 328, 602n

sends correspondence, papers to Congress, 67, 68n

and St. Clair's reappointment, 578, 579n

and Tripoli, 65n

Adams, John Quincy, xlix, 608n

Adams, Fort, 42, 45, 93-4, 420n, 632n

Adams (U.S. frigate), 615n, 668n

Adamson, William

letter from, 220-4

seeks assistance for Irish refugees, 220-4

Addison, Joseph

Cato, 558, 559n

Addison, Thomas

appointed justice of the peace, 314, 316, 318, 326, 335

Address to the People of the United States (John Beckley), 476, 479n

Africa, 576, 577n

Age of Reason. Part the Second (Thomas Paine), 31

Agricultural Museum (Georgetown, D.C.), 435n

agriculture

agricultural societies, 423

fertilizer, 168

one of four pillars of prosperity, 63

plows, 282, 288

principal source of American wealth, 199

promotion of, 503n

publications on, 435n, 458n

viticulture, 373-6, 383n

wisdom of rural citizens, 390

Aikin, Charles Rochemont

Jennerian Discovery, 80, 189, 203, 341, 359, 370, 436, 454-5

Aitken, Robert, 235, 236n, 547n

Akin, James, 366n

Albany Register, 86, 87-8n

Albemarle Co., Va.

Birdwood plantation, 420n

Carlton plantation, 656n

inns, 269n

alcoholism

among candidates for office, 672

among Indians, 276, 278-9, 282-3, 288, 441, 443n, 633, 634n

among TJ's family, 656n

removals from office due to, 329

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'

Mélange de Littérature, d'Historie, et de Philosophie, x, 20, 21n

Alessandro Veronese. See Turchi, Alessandro (Alessandro Veronese, l'Orbetto)

Alexander, Archibald, 27n

Alexander, Charles

appointed justice of the peace, 314-17, 326, 335

Alexandria, D.C.

care of sick and disabled seamen in, 590

mayors, 546n

merchants, 133, 546n

militia, 33

newspapers in, 72

opposes bill for D.C. government, 33

Orphans Court, 318, 325, 333

Presbyterians in, 272n

Alexandria Expositor, 352n

Alfred the Great, 149

Alger, James

appointed commissioner of loans, 319, 325, 328, 331

Algiers

consul at, 557n, 666-7

corsairs of, 667n

dey of, 65n, 667n

and Great Britain, 597n, 667n

mediator between U.S. and Tripoli, 394n

ransom of U.S. prisoners in, 594-8

treaty with U.S., 596n

tribute for, 59, 65n, 394, 594-5, 597n, 666-7

U.S. warships arrive at, 667n

Alien Enemies Act (1798), 247

Alien Friends Act (1798), x, 219n, 223, 247, 430n, 672

aliens. See immigrants

Allegany Turnpike Road, 417n

Allen, Hancock, 346n, 530

Allison, Burgess

letter from, 540

recommends Jenkins, 540

Allison, Patrick (Baltimore), 26n

Alston, Theodosia Burr, 472

Alston, Willis, 357n

alum, 141

"American" (pseudonym)

criticizes Simons, 91-3, 215, 216n

letter from, 91-3

American and Daily Advertiser (Baltimore), 86, 88n, 247, 443n

American Artillerist's Companion (Anne Louis de Tousard), 297n

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York), 85, 87n, 254, 619n

American Philosophical Society

displays mastodon skeleton, 264-6, 366, 386

elects members, 51n, 432n, 564n

exchanges publications with other societies, 235-8, 372

and Indian languages, 279

loans money to C. W. Peale, 265-6n

and Peale's museum, 405n

publishes Transactions, 230n, 236n, 264, 485n, 581n

receives communications, specimens, 22, 28, 29n, 50-1n, 189, 200-1, 230n, 264, 265n, 279, 294, 295, 296n, 305n, 581n, 626

reelects TJ president, 369

TJ as president of, 28, 174n, 200-1, 230n, 294, 295, 372

TJ's report on the megalonyx, 548-9n

American Revolution

artificers, 602-3

bounty and pension claims, 24-5, 273-4, 396, 405-8, 512, 602-3

and Canada, 398n

compared to French Revolution, 112

in Conn., 109n, 264n

and France, 114-15, 295, 296

histories of, 95, 96, 112, 113n, 477, 547

Loyalists, 156-7n

persistent principles and spirit of, 401

in Philadelphia, 71n, 307n

physicians, 263-4

prisoners, 297n, 349

privateers, 71n, 307n

in Va., 571n

veterans of, 25, 100n, 108-9, 114-15, 242n, 263-4, 273-4, 295, 296, 307n, 358n, 393n, 396, 398, 405-8, 428n, 489n, 537n, 571n, 573, 602-3

in Vt., 398n

Amiens, France, 23

Anacostia River, xlv, 33-4, 217n

Analytical Hints Relative to the Process of Ackermann, Suardy, & Co's.

Manufactories for Waterproof Cloths, and Wearing Apparel, 20, 21n, 233, 262

Anderson, Joseph, 51n, 52, 191n, 567n

Anderson, Mary Dabney, 484

Anderson, Matthew

identified, 484n

letter to, 484-5

sends silk to TJ, 484-5

Andrews, George

letter from cited, 684

payments to, 696

Annals of the Corporation, Relative to the Late Contested Election: with Strictures upon the Conduct of the Majority (Tunis Wortman), 479n

Annual Message to Congress (1801)

criticism of, 55-6

delivered in writing, vii, 52, 57, 178, 261, 262

note on, to National Intelligencer, 56-7, 67-8

praise for, 97-8, 126-7, 127-33, 185-6, 219, 378

preparation and copying of, 52-6, 108n

publication of, 54-6, 219, 220n

supplementary documents, 54, 65-6n

text of, 58-67

Anthony, Joseph (Philadelphia), 693

Anthony, Joseph (Richmond)

identified, 414n

letter from, 409-14

plan to emancipate and educate slaves, 409-14

Antwerp

consul at, 320, 326, 331, 332

Apology for the Bible (Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff), 31n

Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family, 520n, 521n

Appleton, John, 488

Archer, John, 195n

Arkansas River, 394

Armenteros, José García

letter from cited, 201n, 682

sends shells to APS, 200-1

Armstrong, Gen. John

health of, 573, 574n

resigns Senate seat, 388n, 416, 505, 550-1, 573-4

Army, U.S. See War, U.S. Department of

art

artists, 659n

education, 472, 478n

museums, 350n, 636-7

physiognotrace, xlvi, 610

portraits, xlv-xlix

sculpture, 611-12, 663

Ash, George, 515, 519, 520n, 521n

Astronomie (Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande), 536n, 580

astronomy

astronomical instruments, 28, 29n

calculation of equal altitudes, 629

calculation of longitude, 229-30, 485-6

constellations, 535-6

eclipses, 22

Pleiades, 580-1

attorneys

legal profession criticized, 508

mentioned, 100n, 108-9, 380n, 431n, 474, 497n, 567n, 608n, 609-10

overabundance of, 127, 130

Atwater, Reuben, 100, 101n

Atwater, Sarah Lamb, 100, 101n

Auglaize River, 517, 520n

Aurora (Philadelphia)

alleges misuse of public funds, 479n

and British import duties, 67, 68n

and D. L. Barnes appointment, 86

publishes "Franklin" essay, 502, 503n

remains in Philadelphia, 121n

Austin, David

asked by TJ to cease writing, 401-2

letters from, 163-4, 271-2, 340, 351-2, 395-6, 447

letter to, 401-2

National "Barley Cake," 272, 447

observations on Barbary affairs, 271-2

seeks appointment, 163-4, 271-2, 340, 351-2, 395-6, 447, 682

sends pamphlets to TJ, 447

sermons of, 674n

TJ gives money to, 692, 695

Austin, David, Sr. (1732-1801), 395, 396n

Austria, 99-100, 453n

"A-X" (pseudonym)

letter from, 641

sends death threat, xi, 641