4 March to 30 June 1802

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Description

This volume opens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the nation's third president, and closes on 30 June. In March, a delegation of Seneca Indians comes to Washington to discuss their tribe's concerns, and Jefferson names a commissioner to handle a land sale by Oneida Indians to the state of New York. In April, the Senate ratifies a treaty with the Choctaw nation for a wagon road across their lands. Jefferson worries about an increasingly dictatorial France taking back control of New Orleans, prompting him to the intemperate remark that he would "marry" America's fortunes to the British fleet. Charles Willson Peale sends him sketches of the skull of a prehistoric bison found in Kentucky. During the closing, and very frustrating, weeks of Congress, he distracts himself with a cipher devised by Robert Patterson. He prepares lists of books to be purchased for the recently established Library of Congress and also obtains many titles for his own collection. Even while he is in Washington occupied with matters of state, Jefferson has been keeping close watch on the renovations at Monticello. In May, he has Antonio Giannini plant several varieties of grapes in the southwest vineyard, and he orders groceries, molasses, dry Lisbon wine, and cider to be shipped to Monticello in time for his arrival. He looks forward "with impatience" to the moment he can embrace his family once more.

Table of Contents

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

1802

From William C. C. Claiborne, 4 March		3
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 4 March		5
From Anonymous, [before 5 March]		6
To Henry Dearborn, [5 March]		7
From Henry Dearborn, 5 March		9
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with Jeﬀerson’s Reply,
[on or after 5 March]		10
From John Hughes, 5 March		11
To Samuel Smith, 5 March		12
To Henry Voigt, 5 March		13
From Simon Chaudron and John James Barralet,
6 March		13
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 March		14
From Abishai Thomas, 6 March		16
From Elizabeth House Trist, 6 March		16
From John Archer, 7 March		18
From Abraham Baldwin, 7 March		19
To William C. C. Claiborne, 7 March		19
To Anne Cary Randolph, Thomas Jeﬀerson Randolph, and
Ellen Wayles Randolph, 7 March		20
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 8 March		21
From James Walter, 8 March		22
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin on Nominations, [9 March]		23
To the Senate, 9 March		23
From Robert Smith, 9 March		24
From Samuel Smith, [9 March]		25
From Tench Coxe, [before 10 March]		25
From “A Lover of his Country,” 10 March		27
Conference with Handsome Lake, Cornplanter, and
Blue Eyes		29
I.	Address of Handsome Lake, [10 March]	33
II.	Henry Dearborn’s Reply, 13 March	35
III.	Address of Handsome Lake, [15 March]	36
IV.	Address of Cornplanter, [15 March]	38
V.	Address of Handsome Lake, [15 March]	39
VI.	Address of Blue Eyes, [15 March]	39
VII.	Henry Dearborn’s Reply to Handsome Lake,
	Cornplanter, and Blue Eyes, 17 March	40
VIII.	Conﬁrmation of Title to the Seneca and
	Onondaga Indians, 17 March	42
From John Dickinson, 10 March		43
From Christopher Ellery, 10 March		44
From Andrew Ellicott, 10 March		45
From George Jeﬀerson, 10 March		47
From Charles Le Brun, 10 March		47
From Charles McLaughlin, 10 March		50
To John Minor, 10 March		50
To the Senate, 10 March		51
To the Senate, 10 March		52
Sentence in the Court-Martial of John Spence		54
I.	Henry Dearborn’s Preliminary Draft, [10 March]	55
II.	Henry Dearborn’s Second Draft, with Jeﬀerson’s
	Revisions, [20 April]	56
From John Trumbull, 10 March		57
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 March		61
From John Wayles Eppes, 11 March		61
From Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 12 March		62
Account with Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 12 March		64
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March		64
From Benjamin Rush, 12 March		68
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 13 March		69
From David Fergusson, 13 March		70
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 March		71
From Robert Smith, 13 March		71
To Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 14 March		72
From John Thomson Mason, 14 March		72
From James Monroe, 14 March		73
From Susannah Santoran, 14 March		74
From William Barnwell, 15 March		75
From William Barton, 15 March		75
From Elizabeth Chester, 15 March		76
From Anthony S. Gadbury, 15 March		77
From Caesar A. Rodney, 15 March		78
To George Jeﬀerson, 16 March		79
To Robert R. Livingston, 16 March		79
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 16 March		80
From John Thomson Mason, 17 March		81
From John Minor, 17 March		81
From Thomas Paine, 17 March		82
From John Beckley, 18 March		85
To Benjamin Rush, 18 March		86
To James Dinsmore, 19 March		86
From George Jeﬀerson, 19 March		87
From Philip Myer, 19 March		88
To James Walter, 19 March		89
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 March		90
From David Austin, 20 March		91
From Tench Coxe, 20 March		92
From William R. Davie, 20 March		93
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 20 March		94
From Anthony S. Gadbury, 20 March		95
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 March		95
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 March		97
To Elizabeth House Trist, 20 March		98
To Robert Bailey, 21 March		100
From James Monroe, 21 March		100
To Gouverneur Morris, 21 March		101
From Gouverneur Morris, 21 March		101
Description of a Wheel Cipher, [before 22 March]		102
To Robert Patterson, 22 March		107
From Stephen Sayre, 22 March		109
From William Vallance, 22 March		111
To Caspar Wistar, 22 March		112
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 23 March		113
From Gideon Granger, 23 March		115
From the Navy Department, [on or before 23 March]		115
From Delaware Democratic Republicans, [on or after 24 March]		116
From Sarah McKean Irujo, 24 March		118
To Levi Lincoln, 24 March		119
To the Senate, 25 March		120
From Robert Smith, 25 March		121
From George Washington McElroy, 26 March		122
From Samuel Bishop, 27 March		122
From Henry Dearborn, 27 March		123
From John Page, 27 March		124
From Nicholas Reib, 27 March		125
From Daniel Carroll, 28 March		126
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 March		127
From Leonora Sansay, [28 March]		130
To Watson & Higginbotham, 28 March		131
From Abraham Baldwin, 29 March		131
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 29 March		132
From DeWitt Clinton, 29 March		133
To Mary Jeﬀerson Eppes, 29 March		133
From James Madison, 29 March		135
To the Senate, 29 March		136
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 29 March		138
From Robert Smith, 29 March		140
From Daniel Carroll Brent, 30 March		141
From Aaron Burr, 30 March		143
From Henry Dearborn, 30 March		144
From William Eustis, 30 March		144
From Richard Fenwick, [on or before 30 March]		145
To Robert Gourlay, 30 March		146
To Charles Wyndham Grymes, 30 March		147
To Philip Ludwell Grymes, 30 March		147
From Samuel Osgood, 30 March		148
To Edward Savage, 30 March		149
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 30 March		149
From Robert Smith, 30 March		150
To the House of Representatives, 31 March		150
From John Thomson Mason, with Jeﬀerson’s Reply, 31 March		151
From John Minor of North Carolina, 31 March		152
To James Monroe, 31 March		153
To Francis Peyton, 31 March		154
To the Senate, 31 March		155
To Simon Chaudron and John James Barralet, 1 April		156
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 1 April		156
To Albert Gallatin, 1 April		157
To Peter Legaux, 1 April		159
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, [1 April]		159
From Robert Smith, [1 April]		160
From Tench Coxe, [before 2 April]		161
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 2 April		165
From George Jeﬀerson, 2 April		167
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 2 April		167
From Edward Livingston, 2 April		168
To John Page, 2 April		169
From Francis Peyton, 2 April		170
To DeWitt Clinton, 3 April		170
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 April		170
From George Jeﬀerson, 3 April		172
From Ezra L’Hommedieu, 3 April		172
To the Mississippi Territory House of Representatives, 3 April		173
From Samuel Quarrier, 3 April		174
To Martha Jeﬀerson Randolph, 3 April		175
To the Senate, 3 April		176
From William Short, 3 April		177
To Albert Gallatin, 4 April		178
To John Bartram, Jr., 5 April		179
From Sebastian Bauman, 5 March [i.e. April]		179
From Philippe de Létombe, 5 April		180
To the Senate, 5 April		181
From Henry Dearborn, 6 April		182
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 6 April		182
To William Branch Giles, [6 April]		183
From Louis Portas, 6 April		185
To the Senate, 6 April		187
To Albert Gallatin, 7 April		187
From John S. Lillie, 7 April		188
From Albert Gallatin, 8 April		189
From Samuel Quarrier, [on or before 8 April]		190
To the Senate, 8 April		191
From Henry Voigt, [before 9 April]		193
From Henry Dearborn, 9 April		194
From William Kilty, William Cranch, and
John Thomson Mason, 9 April		195
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 April		196
To Nicholas Reib, 9 April		197
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 10 April		197
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [10 April]		198
From Nathaniel Ingraham, with John Steele’s Note, 10 April		199
To George Jeﬀerson, 10 April		200
From Philip Mazzei, 10 April		201
From Deborah Stewart, 10 April		204
From Caspar Wistar, 10 April		205
To Levi Lincoln and John Thomson Mason, 11 April		207
From James Ogilvie, 11 April		209
From Pierpont Edwards, 12 April		210
From Albert Gallatin, [12 April]		210
From Albert Gallatin, 12 April		211
From Levi Lincoln, 12 April		212
From John Thomson Mason, 12 April		214
From Samuel Latham Mitchill, 12 April		217
From James Monroe, 12 April		218
From “Noname Iota,” 12 April		219
From Robert Patterson, 12 April		220
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 13 April		222
To John Isaac Hawkins, 13 April		223
From Alexander White, enclosing Draft of a Resolution
for the City of Washington, 13 April		224
From Philip Wilson, 13 April		226
To Caspar Wistar, 13 April		227
To Abraham Baldwin, enclosing List of Books
for the Library of Congress, 14 April		227
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 14 April		233
From Edward Stevens, 14 April		234
To Alexander White, enclosing Draft of a Resolution
for the City of Washington, 14 April		235
From “Yankey Doodle,” 14 April		236
To the House of Representatives, 15 April		237
From Bishop James Madison, 15 April		241
From Philip Wilson, [on or before 15 April]		242
From Henry Dearborn, 16 April		243
To Philip Ludwell Grymes, 16 April		243
To George Jeﬀerson, 16 April		244
From George Jeﬀerson, 16 April		244
James Madison’s Report on Claims under Article 7
of the Jay Treaty, 16 April		245
From Martha Jeﬀerson Randolph, 16 April		246
From Caesar A. Rodney, 16 April		247
From Robert Smith, 16 April		248
From James Tilton, 16 April		249
From Elias Boudinot, 17 April		249
From Henry Dearborn, 17 April		251
To Levi Lincoln, 17 April		251
From Philip Mazzei, 17 April		252
To Robert Patterson, 17 April		254
From Robert Patterson, 17 April		254
From William Thornton, 17 April		255
From Tench Coxe, [before 18 April]		260
To Robert R. Livingston, 18 April		263
Method of Using Robert Patterson’s Cipher		267
I.	Description of Method, [18 April]	272
II.	Sample Encipherment: The Lord’s Prayer, [18 April]	275
III.	Sample Encipherment: “To the People of Great-Britain”	278
To Anne Cary Randolph, 18 April		281
From Bartholomew von Heer, 19 April		282
From James McGurk, [on or before 19 April]		283
From John Page, 19 April		285
To William Short, 19 April		287
From Charles Douglas, 20 April		291
From Joseph Fay, 20 April		292
To the House of Representatives, 20 April, enclosing
From James Madison, 18 April		292
From “S,” 20 April		294
To Volney, 20 April		295
To Henry Dearborn, 21 April		298
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 21 April		298
From Mary Jeﬀerson Eppes, 21 April		299
From Albert Gallatin, 21 April		300
From John Isaac Hawkins, 21 April		301
From Robert Smith, 21 April		302
From William Baker, 22 April		302
From Henry Dearborn, [22 April]		304
From Henry Dearborn, 22 April		304
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 22 April		305
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 22 April		306
To James Cheetham, 23 April		308
To Madame de Corny, 23 April		308
From John Redman Coxe, 23 April		310
From William Duane, 23 April		311
List of Newspapers, [ca. 23 April]		312
From Thomas Martin, 23 April		313
From Gouverneur Morris, [23 April]		313
To William Thornton and Others, 23 April		314
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin,
with Jeﬀerson’s Comment, [before 24 April]		314
From Mathew Carey, 24 April		315
From William C. C. Claiborne, 24 April		319
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 April		320
From Albert Gallatin, 24 April		323
List of Candidates for Appointments, [ca. 24 April]		324
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 24 April		326
To James Oldham, 24 April		327
From Robert Patterson, 24 April		327
To Martha Jeﬀerson Randolph, 24 April		329
To Caesar A. Rodney, 24 April		330
From Joseph Dougherty, [on or before 25 April]		331
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 25 April		332
From Thomas McKean, 25 April		334
From James Monroe, 25 April		335
From David Austin, 26 April		337
To Sebastian Bauman, 26 April		338
From Isaac Briggs, 26 April		339
Statement of Account with Thomas Carpenter, 26 April		340
From Charles Johnson, 26 April		341
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 26 April		343
From Robert Smith, 26 April		345
From Ebenezer Tucker, 26 April		345
From Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 April		346
From Robert Leslie, 27 April		347
To the Senate, 27 April		348
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 27 April		349
From John Archer, 28 April		350
From John Brown of Boone County, Kentucky, 28 April		351
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 28 April		352
From Michael Leib, 28 April		353
From Catherine Church Cruger, 29 April		354
From Christopher Ellery, 29 April		354
To John Wayles Eppes, 29 April		354
To Heads of Departments, 29 April		355
From John Heard, 29 April		356
From Samuel Meredith, 29 April		357
Notes on Charges against Arthur St. Clair, [ca. 29 April]		357
From Edward Savage, 29 April		361
From Samuel Smith, 29 April		362
From Sebastian Bauman, 30 April		362
From Joseph Bloomﬁeld, 30 April		363
To John Redman Coxe, 30 April		364
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 April		365
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 April		367
Memorandum from Christopher Ellery and
Joseph Stanton, Jr., 30 April		376
From Albert Gallatin, 30 April		377
From Albert Gallatin, 30 April		378
From William Helms, 30 April		381
From William Jones and Joseph Clay, 30 April		382
To Levi Lincoln, [on or after 30 April]		382
From Thomas McKean, 30 April		383
To John Milledge, enclosing Itinerary from
Georgetown Ferry to Edgehill, 30 April		384
From Caesar A. Rodney, 30 April		386
Query from Albert Gallatin, with Jeﬀerson’s Reply, [April]		387
To Abraham Baldwin, 1 May		388
To Mary Jeﬀerson Eppes, 1 May		389
To Albert Gallatin, 1 May		390
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 1 May]		390
To James Jackson, 1 May		391
From James Jackson, 1 May		392
To Robert Leslie, 1 May		394
Notes on the Establishment of New Revenue Districts,
[ca. 1 May]		394
From David Stone, 1 May		395
From Thomas McLean, 2 May		396
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 May		398
From Theodorus Bailey and Philip Van Cortlandt, 3 May		398
To Joel Barlow, 3 May		399
Memorandum from John Brown and John Breckinridge,
3 May		402
From DeWitt Clinton, 3 May		402
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 May		403
From George Jeﬀerson, 3 May		403
From James Mease, 3 May		404
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 May		405
To the Senate, 3 May		406
From David Austin, 4 May		406
To Mathew Carey, 4 May		407
From Samuel Hanson, 4 May		408
To James Jackson, 4 May		409
To Levi Lincoln, 4 May		409
From Robert R. Livingston, 4 May		410
From Robert Smith, 4 May		416
From John Strode, 4 May		416
From David Austin, 5 May		417
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 5 May		418
To Albert Gallatin, Henry Dearborn, and
Robert Smith, 5 May		420
To John Langdon, 5 May		420
To Robert R. Livingston, 5 May		421
To James Madison, 5 May		422
From Robert Patton, 5 May		422
To Charles Willson Peale, 5 May		423
To John Smith, 5 May		423
From John Churchman, 7 May		424
From Henry Dearborn, 7 May		426
From James Madison, 7 May		427
To John Page, 7 May		429
From Robert Smith, 8 May		429
From Isaac Story, 8 May		430
From John Vaughan, 8 May		431
From “A Lover of his Country,” 9 May		435
To James Madison, 9 May		437
To James Monroe, 9 May		438
To Thomas Sumter, Sr., 9 May		438
From John Barnes, 10 May		439
From Charles W. Goldsborough, 10 May		440
To George Jeﬀerson, [10] May		440
From Étienne Lemaire, 10 May		441
List of Vaccinations, 10 May		442
From Joseph Dougherty, 11 May		443
From Andrew Ellicott, 11 May		444
From Andrew Ellicott, 11 May		447
From John Wayles Eppes, 11 May		448
From Gideon Granger, 11 May		449
From James Madison, 11 May		449
From Michael Weyer, 11 May		451
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 May		451
From Arthur Fenner, 12 May		458
From “A Sybilline Voice,” [before 13 May]		458
To John Barnes, 14 May		459
To Henry Dearborn, 14 May		459
From Gideon Granger, 14 May		460
From John Langdon, 14 May		462
To Étienne Lemaire, 14 May		463
To James Madison, 14 May		463
To Robert Smith, 14 May		464
“A reall friend” to Albert Gallatin, with
Jeﬀerson’s Note, 15 May		465
From Caesar A. Rodney, 16 May		466
From Gideon Granger, 17 May		468
From James Monroe, 17 May		468
From Joseph Rapin, 17 May		469
Statement of William Short’s Tenements, 17 May		472
From “A republican of Woodbridge,” 19 May		474
To Gideon Granger, 20 May		475
To Étienne Lemaire, 20 May		475
From John Barnes, 21 May		475
From Daniel Brent, 21 May		477
From Richard Richardson, 21 May		478
From Madame de Tessé, 21 May		480
From Robert R. Livingston, 22 May		481
From Robert Smith, 22 May		485
From Jonathan Williams, 22 May		486
From Gideon Granger, 23 May		488
From Thomas Law, 23 May		488
From Samuel Brown, 24 May		489
From John Lambert and Others, 24 May		491
From Étienne Lemaire, 24 May		492
To James Madison, 24 May		493
From James Penn, 24 May		493
From Charles Pinckney, 24 May		494
From Abraham Hargis, 26 May		502
Statement of William Short’s Tenements, 26 May		503
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 May		504
From Charles Willing Byrd, 27 May		505
From William Canby, 27 May		506
To George Jeﬀerson, 27 May		507
Étienne Lemaire’s Memorandum of Items
for the President’s House, 28 May		508
From Thomas Mendenhall, 28 May		509
From James Monroe, 30 May		510
From James Monroe, 30 May		511
From Craven Peyton, 30 May		512
From Thomas Sumter, Sr., 30 May		512
From Thomas Worthington, 30 May		514
From DeWitt Clinton, enclosing Candidates for
Bankruptcy Commissioners and Comments on the
Congressional Election in New York, 31 May		514
From Henry Dearborn, 31 May		517
From David Hall, 31 May		517
To Thomas Law, 31 May		519
From Robert Lawson, 31 May		520
From Caesar A. Rodney, 31 May		521
From John Berry, [on or before 1 June]		521
From William C. C. Claiborne, 1 June		522
From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 1 June		523
From Moses Myers, 1 June		523
From Thomas Newton, 1 June		524
From John Page, 1 June		525
From Elkanah Watson, 1 June		526
From Francis Mentges, 2 June		528
From John Beckley, 3 June		530
To Robert Brent, 3 June		530
From Robert Brent, 3 June		531
To James Monroe, 3 June		531
From James Monroe, 3 June		533
To Martha Jeﬀerson Randolph, enclosing
Itinerary from Edgehill to Washington, 3 June		533
To Joseph Rapin, 3 June		536
From Sir John Sinclair, 3 June		536
From Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 3 June		538
From “Honesty,” [before 4 June]		538
From Elisha Jenkins, 4 June		539
From William Kilty, 4 June		540
To Benjamin Dearborn, 5 June		541
From Delaware Democratic Republicans, [5 June]		542
From Robert King, Sr., 5 June		544
From John F. Mercer, 5 June		547
To Albert Gallatin, 6 June		549
From Cyrus Griﬃn, 6 June		549
From Charles Willson Peale, 6 June		550
From Daniel Carroll Brent, 7 June		553
From Henry Dearborn, 7 June		553
To Robert King, Sr., 7 June		553
From Edward C. Nicholls, 7 June		554
From Josiah Smith, 7 June		555
From Daniel Carroll Brent, 8 June		556
To George Jeﬀerson, 8 June		557
To Craven Peyton, 8 June		557
To Craven Peyton, 8 June		558
From Stephen Sayre, 8 June		558
From John Vaughan, 8 June		559
From Caspar Wistar, 8 June		564
To David Campbell, 9 June		566
From David Hall, 9 June		567
From Levi Lincoln, 9 June, enclosing
From Levi Lincoln, 25 May		568
To Thomas McLean, 9 June		572
To Edward Savage, 9 June		572
From William Thornton, [9 June]		573
From DeWitt Clinton, 10 June		573
From William Davidson, 10 June		574
From Henry Dearborn, 10 June		577
Memorandums to Albert Gallatin, 10 June		577
From Samuel Miller, 10 June		579
From Mitchell & Buel, 10 June		580
From Charles Willson Peale, enclosing
Diagrams: Top of Bison Skull and
Diagram: Back of Bison Skull, 10 June		581
From David Redick, 10 June		584
From Alexander White, 10 June		586
From George Jeﬀerson, 11 June		587
From James Monroe, 11 June		588
To William Wardlaw, 11 June		589
From John Barnes, 12 June		590
To George Jeﬀerson, 12 June		590
From Thomas McKean, 12 June		591
From Joseph Priestley, 12 June		592
From Joseph Priestley, [on or before 12 June]		593
From Robert Smith, 12 June		596
To Thomas Claxton, 13 June		596
From Thomas Claxton, 13 June		597
To Roberts & Jones, 13 June		597
To Thomas Whitney, 13 June		598
From George Jeﬀerson, 14 June		599
To Tobias Lear, 14 June		599
To Thomas McKean, 14 June		600
From David Mellinger, 14 June		600
To Caesar A. Rodney, 14 June		601
From Arthur Fenner and Theodore Foster, 15 June		602
Memorandum from Thomas Munroe, [15 June]		603
Robert Smith’s Observations on the Charges Against
Arthur St. Clair, 15 June		604
From Andrew Jackson, 16 June		608
From George Jeﬀerson, 16 June		609
From Lewis Littlepage, 16 June		610
From William Lovering, 16 June		610
To Thomas Munroe, 16 June		611
To John Barnes, 17 June		612
From William Bentley, 17 June		612
To John Isaac Hawkins, 17 June		613
From Nathaniel Macon, 17 June		614
From Francis Peyton, 17 June		615
To Thomas Claxton, 18 June		615
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [18 June]		616
To Lewis Littlepage, 18 June		617
To William Lovering, 18 June		617
From Francis Peyton, 18 June		618
To Martha Jeﬀerson Randolph, 18 June		618
From William Bache, 19 June		619
To Albert Gallatin, 19 June		620
From John Langdon, 19 June		621
James Madison’s Opinions on the Charges Against
Arthur St. Clair, 19 June		622
From Thomas Munroe, 19 June		624
To Joseph Priestley, 19 June		625
To David Redick, 19 June		627
From Caesar A. Rodney, 19 June		628
From Joseph Marie Lequinio de Kerblay, 20 June		632
Memorandum from the Treasury Department, 20 June		634
From a “True Friend, Alltho a woman,” 20 June		635
From Willem H. van Hasselt, 20 June		636
From Mary Jeﬀerson Eppes, 21 June		647
To Albert Gallatin, 21 June		648
From Nathaniel Ingraham, 21 June		648
Memorandum to Albert Gallatin, [on or before 21 June]		649
From Thomas Moore, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, 21 June		650
From Samuel Smith, 21 June		651
John Barnes’s Memorandum on William Short’s Account, 22 June		652
To James Dinsmore, 22 June		653
To Mitchell & Buel, 22 June		654
To James Oldham, 22 June		654
To Henry Sheaﬀ, 22 June		655
To George Washington Varnum, 22 June		656
To Albert Gallatin, 23 June		656
From Thomas Leiper, 23 June		657
From Thomas Leiper, 23 June		657
To John F. Mercer, 23 June		659
To Caesar A. Rodney, 24 June		660
To Samuel Smith, 24 June		660
From John Wayles Eppes, 25 June		662
From Albert Gallatin, 25 June		662
From John Harshe, 25 June		663
To George Jeﬀerson, 25 June		664
To John Barnes, 26 June		665
From Daniel Carroll Brent, 26 June		665
From Isaac Briggs, 26 June		666
Memorandum on Delaware River Piers, 26 June		667
To James Monroe, 26 June		668
From John Ponsonby, 26 June		668
From John Condit, 28 June		669
From Ebenezer Hazard, 28 June		670
From David Humphreys, 28 June		671
From Henry Ingle, 28 June		675
From Levi Lincoln, 28 June		676
From Caesar A. Rodney, 28 June		677
From John Steele, 28 June		680
From Thomas Tingey, 28 June		682
From Anonymous, 29 June		684
To Isaac Briggs, 29 June		688
To John Langdon, 29 June		688
From James Monroe, 29 June		690
From Joseph Bloomﬁeld, 30 June		691
To John Steele, 30 June		693
George Hadﬁeld’s Estimate of Cost for Building a Jail, [June]		694
Notes on Building the Jail, [June]		695

APPENDICES

Appendix I: List of Appointments, [3-23 June]		697
Appendix II: Bankruptcy Commissions		701
I.	List of Candidates for Bankruptcy Commissions,	703
	[ca. 1 May-6 July]
II.	List of Nominations for Bankruptcy Commissions,	707
	[8 June 1802-18 November 1803]
Appendix III: Letters Not Printed in Full		713
Appendix IV: Letters Not Found		715
Appendix V: Financial Documents		719

Index

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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

Abeel, John, 38n

abolition, 507n

Abrahams, Abraham David, 194-5, 325, 349

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire ancienne des empires et des républiques (Jacques Lacombe), 232

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire d'Angleterre (Thomas Salmon), 232

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de Pologne (Friedrich August von Schmidt), 232

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire des Juifs (François Nicolas Charbuy), 232

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire d'Espagne et de Portugal (Charles Jean François Henault), 232

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire du Nord: ou des etats de Dannemarck, de Russie, de Suède, de Pologne, de Prusse, de Courlande, &c (Jacques Lacombe), 232

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire universelle depuis les premiers empires du monde (Johannes Sleidanus, trans. Antoine Hornot), 232

Abridgment des plusieurs cases et resolutions del common ley (Henry Rolle), 230

Académie Française, 232

Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), 582n

Ackermann, Suardy, & Co., 668-9

Adams, Abigail, 84n

Adams, John

administration praised, 436

and the Berceau, 184, 185n

criticism of, 658

declarations of fast days, 294n

family of, 84n

and France, 436

late-term appointments, 53n, 89n, 99

makes appointments, 53n, 117, 135n, 136n, 253n, 356n, 363, 474, 609n, 658, 675n

and President's House, 332n

and Priestley, 595n

removals by, 27-8, 164n, 410n

and Saint-Domingue, 453, 456

steward of, 610, 611n

use of patronage by, 686

and V. du Pont, 223n

Adams, Samuel, 188, 189n

Adams, Fort, 52n, 129n

Adams (U.S. frigate), 71, 160n, 248

Adams's Mill (Orange Co., Va.), 534

Adet, Pierre Auguste, 564n

adultery, 392

Aertsen, Guilliam, 711

Africa

removal of condemned slaves to, 469, 531-3, 588-9

agriculture

agricultural societies, 172-3, 177, 179, 217, 290, 339-40, 639, 643-4, 646n

animal husbandry, 332n

crop rotation, 97, 289, 472-4, 503-4

difficulty establishing farms, plantations, 448

fertilizer, 97, 194n

hoes, 40, 41n

merino sheep, 674n

plows, 95, 105n

promotion of, 172-3

publications on, 340

recommendations for a national board or society, 172-3, 217, 227, 339-40, 537, 688

scientific, 15

and self-sufficiency, 638, 643

superiority of, over commerce, 609-10

tenants, tenancy, 14-15, 289-90, 448, 472-4, 494, 503-4

and transportation costs, 638, 643

viticulture, xi, 12n, 159, 185, 186

Ainsworth, Robert

Latin and English Dictionary Abridged, 232

Alabama River, 52n

Albany, Bank of, 538n

Albany Register, 312

Albemarle Co., Va.

courts, 15

Franklin plantation, 619, 620n

land values in, 289-90

migration from, 129n

parishes of, 247n

quality of tobacco from, 657

roads, 386n

schools, 247n

T. M. Randolph's landholdings in, 15

taverns, 384, 386n

alcoholism

among Indians, vii, 30, 32, 33-4

among judges, 463n

removals from office due to, 463n

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'

Encyclopédie, 232

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 202, 203, 204n

Alexander, Archibald, 78

Alexander, Charles, 154

Alexandria, D.C.

booksellers, 537n

butchers, 720

capital punishment in, 208, 215

collector at, 303n

commissioners of bankruptcy, 618, 699, 702, 705, 709

education in, 615

Federalists in, 170

jail, 139n

laws of Virginia adopted in, 212, 215

mayors, 170n, 303n

merchants, 170n

physicians, 489n

postmaster, 716

Republicans in, 170

roads to, from, 134, 385

smallpox vaccination in, 291

warrant executions in, 142

Alexis, Louis, 485-6

Algeciras, Spain, 293n

Algiers, 671, 674n, 675n

Alien Friends Act (1798), 595n, 626

aliens. See immigrants

Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers, 671, 675n

Allegheny River, 32, 37n, 38, 42

Allen, Drury M., 416

Allen, Nathaniel, 710

Allen, Thomas, 23, 52, 53n

Alliance (Continental frigate), 692

Allibone, William, 502, 503n, 519n

Alonzo and Melissa (Isaac Mitchell), 580n

Alston, Aaron Burr, 513n

Alston, Theodosia Burr, 513n

Ambassades de monsieur de la Boderie (Antoine Lefèvre de La Boderie), 229

Ambassadeur et ses fonctions par monsieur de Wicquefort (Abraham de Wicquefort), 229

American and Daily Advertiser (Baltimore), 312

American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America (Thomas Jefferys), 232

American Board of Agriculture, 340n

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York), 308, 312

American Farmer and Dutchess County Advertiser (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), 580n

American Literary Advertiser (Washington, D.C.), 312, 409

“American Merchant” (T. Coxe), 164

American Mercury (Hartford), 312

American Philosophical Society

elects members, 207n, 351n, 426n

offered Rittenhouse clock, 193

proposed convention of agricultural societies, 172-3, 227

publishes Transactions, 46n, 431, 434n, 487n, 504, 592

receives communications, specimens, 205, 207n, 227, 351-2, 425n, 431, 434n, 487-8n, 489, 551, 572, 581-2

requests census returns, 431, 434n

TJ as president of, 105n, 172-3, 351-2, 425, 486

American Revolution

artificers, 179n

artillery, 144-5

bounty and pension claims, 76n, 152-3, 178-9

cavalry, 404

dragoons, 356n, 363

and France, 320, 321, 454, 456

Loyalists, 19n, 153n, 192

Maréchaussée Corps, 282n

naval forces, 645-6n

in N.Y., 399n

paymasters, 152, 153n

in Philadelphia, 404

physicians, 43n

prisoners, 152

recruiting officers, 76

slaves lost during, 532

in Va., 313n

veterans of, xlvii, 18n, 19n, 76, 143, 144-5, 152-3, 195n, 205n, 313n, 346n, 356n, 363, 381n, 384n, 399n, 404, 405n, 503n, 517, 518-19n, 520n, 539n, 543n, 579n, 596, 636n, 692, 716

Amherst Co., Va., 656n

Amiens, France

peace negotiations at, 83, 84n, 91, 484n

Amiens, Treaty of

impact of, 479, 501n

signed, 84n

Amsterdam, 83, 476

Anacostia River, 126-7, 256

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

Manufactories for Waterproof Cloths, and Wearing Apparel, 668-9

Anderson, Mr. (Washington, D.C.), 361

Anderson, Adam

Historical and Chronological Deduction, 231

Anderson, Charles, 466, 467n

Anderson, James, 699

Anderson, Joseph

as committee member, 121n, 144n, 349n

and federal lands in Tenn., 251-2n

letters from cited, 145n, 713

recommends Ebenezer Stevens, 145n

Anderson, Matthew, 61, 62n

Anderson, Richard, 131n, 503, 504n

Anderson, Turner

letter from cited, 716

Anderson, William Preston

letter from cited, 609n, 717

resignation of, 608-9

Andréossy, Antoine François, 484n

Angus, John, 356n, 363

Annales de chimie, 562, 564n

Annales romaines, ou Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire romaine (Philippe Macquer), 232

Annals of Agriculture (Arthur Young), 562, 564n

Annual Message to Congress (1801), 82-3, 84n

Annual Register (Great Britain), 232

anonymous letters

warn of influence of British literature, 684-7

Anstey, John, 57, 58, 60n, 137n

Antient Right of the Commons of England Asserted (William Petyt), 231

Antwerp, 699, 700

Anville, Jean Baptiste Bougignon d', 232

Apollo (Washington, D.C.), 312n

Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family, 51n, 585n, 631, 632n, 660

Appleton, Thomas, 253n

Arabia, 452, 455

Aranjuez, Spain, 500

Aranjuez, Treaty of, 501n

Arbuthnot, John

Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, 231

Arcana Parliamentaria: or Precedents Concerning Elections, Proceedings, Privileges, and Punishments in Parliament, 231

Archer, John

identified, 18n

letter from cited, 716

letters from, 18, 350-1

recommends aspirants for office, 18, 350-1, 716

Archer, John, Jr., 18

architects, l, 611n

architecture

of hospitals, 649

of jails, x, 694-6

of public buildings, 649

Argou, Gabriel

Institution au droit françois, 230

Aristotle, 113

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

art

physiognotrace, 224n

sculpture, 73-4, 101-2, 218n

support for, 13-14

Ashby, Matthew

Ashby and White, 231

Ashby and White: or, the great question, whether an action lies at common law for an elector (Matthew Ashby and William White), 231

Ashley River, 639, 644

assault and battery, 195-6, 210-11

"Astronomical, and Thermometrical Observations, made on the Boundary between the United States and His Catholic Majesty" (Andrew Ellicott), 46n

Astronomie (Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande), 446, 447n

astronomy

asteroids, 447n

astronomical instruments, 11, 12n, 46, 107-8, 193, 194n, 220-1, 254, 327, 329n, 446-7, 596, 598-9

calculation of equal altitudes, x, 46, 107, 108n, 444-7

calculation of longitude, 46, 431, 434n, 487n

discovery of new planets, 446-7

eclipses, 46, 446

government support for, 434n

magnetic variations, 424, 425n

solar observations, 11

TJ's interest in, x, 105n, 107-8, 193, 398n

Athabasca, Lake, 566n

Athenæ Oxonienses: An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford (Anthony à Wood), 232

Atkyns, Robert

Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament, 231

Atlas portatif à l'usage des colleges (L'Abbé Grenet and Rigobert Bonne), 231

attorneys

education of, 51n, 173n, 405, 567

fees, 522n

legal profession criticized, 6-7

mentioned, 51n, 85n, 129n, 173n, 326n, 353, 398-9, 462, 510-11, 512, 516-17, 518-19n, 540, 549, 555n, 574n, 579n, 602, 621, 631, 668, 678, 691, 692, 703-6

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