13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803

Volume Details

Description

This volume opens on 13 November 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president. The central issue of these months is the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, an act that threatens the economic wellbeing of Westerners. Jefferson asks his old friend Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to remind the French government of the strong friendship between the two nations. To disarm the political opposition, the president sends James Monroe, who is respected by the Federalists, to Europe as a special envoy to work with Robert Livingston in negotiating the dispute with France. Jefferson proposes a "bargain" that will result in the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory. In a confidential message to Congress, Jefferson seeks $2,500 to send a small party of men to explore the Missouri River. Congress concurs, and Jefferson's secretary Meriwether Lewis will lead the expedition. Settling the boundaries with Native American lands is a major theme of the volume. In reality, "settling" results in major cessions of Indian lands to the American government. During the months of this volume Jefferson never leaves the capital, even for a brief sojourn at Monticello. He does, however, enjoy a visit of six weeks from his daughters and two of his grandchildren. They participate in Washington society, capture the affection of Margaret Bayard Smith, and brighten Jefferson's days.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	vii
EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS	xv
ILLUSTRATIONS	xlv
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY	2

1802

Receipt from Vincent Ducomb, 13 November 1802		3
From Gibson & Jeﬀerson, 13 November 1802		3
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 13 November 1802		4
From Craven Peyton, 13 November 1802		4
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, [before 14 November 1802]		5
From J. P. P. Derieux, 14 November 1802		6
To the National Institute of France, 14 November 1802		7
To Connecticut Republicans, 15 November 1802		8
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 15 November 1802		9
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 16 November 1802		10
To Samuel Harrison Smith, 16 November 1802		11
To Dabney Carr, 17 November 1802		11
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 17 November 1802		12
From Robert Hewes, 17 November 1802		12
From Peter S. Marks, 17 November 1802		13
To Thomas Newton, 17 November 1802		14
Drafting the Annual Message to Congress		14
I.	Referral of the Draft to James Madison, 18 November 1802	17
II.	Referral of the Draft to Albert Gallatin, 19 November 1802	18
III.	Gallatin’s Remarks on the Draft, [19-21 November 1802]	18
IV.	Statement of Receipts and Expenditures,
	[on or before 21 November 1802]	25
V.	Referral of the Draft to Henry Dearborn, 22 November 1802	27
VI.	Dearborn’s Remarks on the Draft, [23 November 1802]	28
VII.	Robert Smith’s Remarks on the Draft,
	[on or before 25 November 1802]	28
VIII.	Referral of the Draft to Levi Lincoln, [25 November 1802]	28
IX.	Lincoln’s Remarks on the Draft, 25 November 1802	29
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 18 November 1802		30
From Albert Gallatin, 18 November 1802		31
From George Helmbold, 18 November 1802		32
From William S. Jacobs, 18 November 1802		32
To Edward Preble, 18 November 1802		33
From John Dawson, 19 November 1802		34
From James Jackson, 19 November 1802		34
From Archibald McCall, 19 November 1802		35
From John Thomson Mason, with Jeﬀerson’s Order,
19 November 1802		36
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 19 [November] 1802		37
From Robert Smith, 19 November 1802		39
From Arsenne Thiébaut de Berneaud, 19 November 1802		39
From John Avery, 20 November 1802		46
From John Carr, 20 November 1802		46
From Albert Gallatin, [20 November 1802]		47
Statement of Account with Edward Gantt, 20 November 1802		48
From Richard Humpton, 20 November 1802		49
From Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 20 November 1802		50
To Robert R. Livingston, 20 November 1802		50
To Thomas Newton, 20 November 1802		51
To Craven Peyton, 20 November 1802		52
Statement on Loan Certiﬁcates for William Short, 20 November 1802		52
From Landon Carter, [21 November 1802]		53
From Samuel Hanson, 21 November 1802		54
From Joseph Marie Lequinio de Kerblay, 21 November 1802		56
Statement of Account with Meriwether Lewis, 21 November 1802		57
To Francis Mitchell, 21 November 1802		58
To William Bache, 22 November 1802		59
From Henry Dearborn, 22 November 1802		59
From Henry Dearborn, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, [22 November 1802]		60
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 22 November 1802		60
To John Wayles Eppes, 22 November 1802		61
From David Gelston, 22 November 1802		62
Memorandum from Benjamin H. Latrobe, [22 November 1802]		63
To John Mason, 22 November 1802		64
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 November 1802		64
To the Senate and the House of Representatives,
[on or after 22 November 1802]		65
To George III, King of Great Britain, 23 November 1802		66
To Samuel Hanson, 23 November 1802		67
To James Monroe, 24 November 1802		67
From J. P. P. Derieux, 25 November 1802		68
From George Helmbold, 25 November 1802		69
From John Milledge, 25 November 1802		69
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 25 November 1802		70
From John Brown, 26 November 1802		71
From William Duane, [26 November 1802]		73
From Robert R. Livingston, 26 November 1802		74
From Matthew Lyon, 26 November 1802		76
From John Smith, 26 November 1802		78
From St. George Tucker, 26 November 1802		80
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, [28 November 1802]		81
To Caesar A. Rodney, 28 November 1802		82
To Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802		83
From Blair McClenachan, 29 November 1802		84
From John Morton, 29 November 1802		85
To Joseph Priestley, 29 November 1802		85
From Stephen Sayre, 29 November 1802		87
From Hippolyte Ferdinand de Widranges, 29 November 1802		89
From Timothy Bloodworth, 30 November 1802		90
From James Garrard, 30 November 1802		91
From Ephraim Kirby, 30 November 1802		92
From Philippe Reibelt, 30 November 1802		93
From Samuel Elliot, November 1802		96
To James Dinsmore, 1 December 1802		98
From Alexander Fowler, 1 December 1802		99
To George Jeﬀerson, 1 December 1802		103
From George Jeﬀerson, 1 December 1802		104
Memorial of the Kentucky Legislature, [1 December 1802]		104
To John Bartram, Jr., 2 December 1802		105
From Daniel Carroll, 2 December 1802		106
To James Madison, 2 December 1802		106
To William Short, 2 December 1802		106
From Therese Ceracchi, 3 December 1802		107
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 4 December 1802		108
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 4 December 1802		110
From Aﬃnity Megeath, 4 December 1802		111
From John Brown, 5 December 1802		112
To John Redman Coxe, 6 December 1802		113
From Albert Gallatin, 6 December 1802		113
From George Jeﬀerson, 6 December 1802		114
To Benjamin Jones, 6 December 1802		114
From Levi Lincoln, 6 December 1802		115
From the Navy Department, [on or before 6 December 1802]		117
From “A True Republican,” [ca. 6 December 1802]		117
From Francis Deakins, 7 December 1802		117
From Elizabeth Ford, 7 December 1802		119
To Albert Gallatin, 7 December 1802		119
To George Jeﬀerson, 7 December 1802		120
To S. & S. Myers, 7 December 1802		121
From Carlos Martínez de Irujo, [8 December 1802]		121
From Richard W. Meade, 8 December 1802		122
To Thomas Newton, 8 December 1802		123
From Robert Smith, 8 December 1802		123
To Robert Bailey, 9 December 1802		125
From Laurence A. Dorsey, 9 December 1802		126
To Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 9 December 1802		127
From James Mease, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, [9 December 1802]		128
From Abraham Baldwin, 10 December 1802		128
From John Redman Coxe, 10 December 1802		129
To James Dinsmore, 10 December 1802		129
From Albert Gallatin, enclosing List of Appointments, with
Notes by Gallatin and Jeﬀerson, and Gallatin’s Notes
on Appointments, with Jeﬀerson’s Orders, 10 December 1802		130
To Ephraim Kirby, 10 December 1802		133
From Robert Smith, 10 December 1802		134
To John Steele, 10 December 1802		134
From Marten Wanscher, 10 December 1802		135
To John Barnes, 11 December 1802		136
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 11 December 1802		136
From J. P. P. Derieux, 11 December 1802		137
To John Wayles Eppes, 11 December 1802		138
To James Monroe, 11 December 1802		139
From S. & S. Myers, 11 December 1802		139
From Richard Claiborne, 12 December 1802		140
From George Rogers Clark, 12 December 1802		141
To Albert Gallatin, 12 December 1802		143
From William Jones, 12 December 1802		143
From Charles Willson Peale, 12 December 1802		144
From Jonathan Williams, 12 December 1802		145
From John Wayles Eppes, 13 December 1802		147
From Harry Innes, 13 December 1802		148
From George Jeﬀerson, 13 December 1802		149
To Levi Lincoln, 13 December 1802		149
From Levi Lincoln, 13 December 1802		150
To John Smith, 13 December 1802		154
From Timothy Bloodworth, 14 December 1802		155
From Gabriel Duvall, enclosing Distribution of Votes in Maryland,
14 December 1802		156
To Albert Gallatin, 14 December 1802		158
From Thomas Marston Green, 14 December 1802		158
From Thomas Randall, 14 December 1802		159
From Caesar A. Rodney, 14 December 1802		160
From William Short, 14 [December] 1802		162
Annual Message to Congress, 15 December 1802		162
To John Barnes, 15 December 1802		172
To Jones & Howell, 15 December 1802		172
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 15 December 1802		173
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 15 December 1802		174
To the Senate, 15 December 1802		175
From John Conrad & Co., 16 December 1802		175
From Thomas T. Davis, 16 December 1802		176
To Thomas T. Davis, 16 December 1802		177
From John Wayles Eppes, 16 December 1802		177
From Jesse Franklin, 16 December 1802		178
To James Garrard, 16 December 1802		179
From Craven Peyton, 16 December 1802		180
From Léonard Honoré Gay de Vernon, 17 December 1802		180
From “Jack A Dandy,” [ca. 17 December] 1802		181
From James Monroe, 17 December 1802		182
To the Senate, 17 December 1802		182
From Thomas Cooper, 18 December 1802		182
From Albert Gallatin, 18 December 1802		183
From Rufus King, 18 December 1802		184
From Philippe Reibelt, 18 December 1802		185
From Philip Pearson, 19 December 1802		186
From Caesar A. Rodney, 19 December 1802		188
From Johann Gotthilﬀ Angerman, 20 December 1802		189
From Joseph Barnes, 20 December 1802		190
To Francis Taliaferro Brooke, 20 December 1802		195
From Thomas T. Davis, 20 December 1802		195
From Albert Gallatin, 20 December 1802		196
From Thomas Munroe, 20 December 1802		197
From Robert Snelson, 20 [December] 1802		200
From Henry Voigt, 20 December 1802		201
From Joshua Wingate, Jr., 20 December 1802		202
To John Armstrong, 21 December 1802		202
From Therese Ceracchi, 21 December 1802		203
To Albert Gallatin, 21 December 1802		205
From Peder Blicher Olsen, 22 December 1802		206
From Benjamin Gorton, 22 December 1802		206
To the House of Representatives, 22 December 1802, enclosing
From James Madison, 21 December 1802		208
From Robert Snelson, 22 December 1802		210
From Thomas Worthington, 22 December 1802		210
From John Wayles Eppes, 23 December 1802		211
To the House of Representatives, 23 December 1802		212
Statement of Account with Jones & Kain, with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 23 December 1802		213
From Francis Taliaferro Brooke, 24 December 1802		214
From Andrew Ellicott, 24 December 1802		214
From John Wayles Eppes, 24 December 1802		214
To Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1802		215
From Thomas S. Cavender, 25 December 1802		216
To Albert Gallatin, 25 December 1802		217
From Thomas Paine, enclosing Paine’s Memorandum
on Louisiana, [25 December 1802]		217
From John Vaughan, 25 December 1802		218
To Jonathan Williams, 25 December 1802		220
From William Bache, 26 December 1802		221
To the Senate, 27 December 1802		221
To the Senate, 27 December 1802		223
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 27 December 1802		225
From John Smith, 27 December 1802		225
From Indiana Territory Citizens, 28 December 1802		226
From Arnold Oelrichs, 28 December 1802		228
From Jean François Perrey, enclosing From William Henry
Harrison and Others, 28 December 1802		229
Memorandum for Henry Dearborn on Indian Policy, 29 December 1802		231
From John Condit, 30 December 1802		234
From Edmund Harrison, 30 December 1802		235
To the House of Representatives		236
I.	To the House of Representatives, 30 December 1802	237
II.	To the Speaker of the House, 30 December 1802	238
From Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 30 December 1802		238
From James Miller, 30 December 1802		239
To Timothy Bloodworth, 31 December 1802		240
To Dwight Foster, 31 December 1802		241
To Heads of Departments, [31 December 1802]		241
From John Joseph Rey, 31 December 1802		241
To Caesar A. Rodney, 31 December 1802		243
From John Vaughan, 31 December 1802		244
From George Trisler, enclosing Circular on the
Winchester Triumph of Liberty, 1802		244
1803
From E. T. Hadwen, 1 January 1803		246
From David Humphreys, 1 January 1803		253
From Joseph Coppinger, 3 January 1803		254
From William Dean, 3 January 1803		255
To James Dinsmore, 3 January 1803		256
From Albert Gallatin, 3 January 1803		257
From E. T. Hadwen, 3 January 1803		259
From Ephraim Kirby, 3 January 1803		260
From John Reich, 3 January 1803		264
From John Wayles Eppes, 4 January 1803		265
Petition of William Connor, with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 5 January 1803		266
From John Redman Coxe, 5 January 1803		267
From William Dunbar, 5 January 1803		268
To the House of Representatives, 5 January 1803		271
To John Smith, 5 January 1803		272
From Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson,
6 January 1803		272
To John Barnes, 6 January 1803		273
From Abijah Hart, 6 January 1803		273
From Anthony Van Mannierck, 6 January 1803		274
From Horatio Gates, 7 January 1803		275
From George Meade, 7 January 1803		277
From Caesar A. Rodney, 7 January 1803		278
To the Senate, 7 January		279
From Albert Gallatin, [8 January 1803], enclosing
Andrew Ellicott to Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1802		280
From George Jeﬀerson, 8 January 1803		283
From James Lovell, 8 January 1803		283
From Thomas Munroe, 8 January 1803		285
To Owl and Others, 8 January 1803		286
From Samuel A. Ruddock, [on or after 8 January 1803]		290
From William Wirt, 8 January 1803		292
From Carlos Martínez de Irujo, [9 January 1803]		293
From James Jackson, 9 January 1803		294
From James Monroe, 9 January 1803		295
From Joseph Anderson, 10 January 1803		296
From John Conner, 10 January 1803		296
From Henry Dearborn, enclosing List of Army Appointments,
10 January 1803		297
From Henry Dearborn, 10 January 1803		299
From William Edgar, 10 January 1803		299
To George Jeﬀerson, 10 January 1803		300
From Robert Leslie, 10 January 1803		301
From Levi Lincoln, 10 January 1803		302
To James Monroe, 10 January 1803		306
From Charles Willson Peale, 10 January 1803		306
Petition of John Baker, with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 11 January 1803		308
From Mary Jeﬀerson Eppes, 11 January 1803		309
Petition of John Henderson, 11 January 1803		310
To George Jeﬀerson, 11 January 1803		311
To John Langdon, 11 January 1803		311
To the Senate, 11 January 1803		312
To the Senate, 11 January 1803		313
To the Senate, 11 January 1803		316
To the Senate, 11 January 1803		316
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 11 January 1803,
enclosing From Elias Boudinot, 1 January 1803		318
Commission for James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston,
12 January 1803		320
To George Jeﬀerson, 12 January 1803		321
To George Jeﬀerson, 12 January 1803		321
To James Monroe, 12 January 1803		322
From Thomas Paine, 12 January 1803		322
To Christopher Smith, 12 January 1803		323
To S. Smith & Buchanan, 12 January 1803		323
From Albert Gallatin, [13 January 1803]		324
To Albert Gallatin, [13 January 1803]		327
To James Monroe, 13 January 1803		328
To Thomas Paine, 13 January 1803		331
From Henry Dearborn, 14 January 1803		332
From Harry Innes, 14 January 1803		332
From Thomas S. Kennedy, 14 January 1803		333
From Benjamin Hawkins, 15 January 1803		334
From George Jeﬀerson, 15 January 1803		335
Proclamation Extending Building Regulations in the
City of Washington, 15 January 1803		335
From John Smith, 15 January 1803		336
From William Hamilton, 16 January 1803		337
From Peter Carr, 17 January 1803		337
To John Wayles Eppes, 17 January 1803		338
From E. T. Hadwen, enclosing Religious Testimony of
E. T. Hadwen, 17 January 1803		339
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 January 1803		341
From Markes Vandewall, 17 January 1803		342
Meriwether Lewis: Estimated Costs of Missouri River
Expedition, [before 18 January 1803]		342
To Mary Jeﬀerson Eppes, 18 January 1803		343
From Albert Gallatin, 18 January 1803		344
To James Garrard, 18 January 1803		347
Notes on Navy Appropriations for 1803, [on or after 18 January 1803]		348
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 18 January 1803		350
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 18 January 1803, enclosing
Henry Dearborn: Report on Indian Aﬀairs, 17 January 1803		354
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, [18 January 1803]		357
From the Town Committee at York, Massachusetts, with
Jeﬀerson’s Notes, 18 January 1803, enclosing Memorial
from the Town Committee at York, Massachusetts,
17 January 1803		358
Petition of Augustus B. Woodward and Others, with
Jeﬀerson’s Order, 18 January 1803		360
From John Wayles Eppes, 19 January 1803		361
From Lewis Harvie, [19 January 1803]		361
From Edward Livingston, 19 January 1803		363
From “A Merchant of Charleston,” 19 January 1803		364
From Robert Smith, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, 19 January 1803		366
From Dr. John Vaughan, 19 January 1803		367
From William Helms, 20 January 1803		368
From John Langdon, 20 January 1803		368
From John Lithgow, 20 January 1803		369
To John Page, 20 January 1803		369
To Peder Blicher Olsen, [21 January 1803]		370
From Daniel Carroll Brent, 21 January 1803		371
To Thomas C. James, 21 January 1803		373
From James A. Stewart, 21 January 1803		374
From Albert Gallatin, enclosing Estimate of Navy Appropriations
for 1803, 22 January 1803		376
Memorandum for Henry Dearborn, 22 January 1803		379
To John Avery, 23 January 1803		381
From Peder Blicher Olsen, [23 January 1803]		382
To Peter Carr, 23 January 1803		383
To Charles Willson Peale, 23 January 1803		383
To the President of the Senate, 23 January 1803		384
To John Reich, 23 January 1803		384
From Robert Smith, 23 January 1803		385
To William Tazewell, 23 January 1803		385
To Dr. John Vaughan, 23 January 1803		386
From H. Bredaugh, 24 January 1803		386
From Albert Gallatin, [24 January 1803]		386
To Albert Gallatin, 24 January 1803		387
From Samuel McFetrich, 24 January 1803		387
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 24 January 1803		388
From William H. Beaumont, 25 January 1803		389
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 25 January 1803		390
To Samuel Hanway, 25 January 1803		391
To Lewis Harvie, 25 January 1803		392
From John Langdon, 26 January 1803		393
From Robert Leslie, enclosing Plan of a Dry Dock, 26 January 1803		394
To William Hill Wells, 26 January 1803		398
From Christopher Ellery, 27 January 1803, enclosing
Petition of Nathaniel Ingraham, [on or before 27 January 1803]		398
To Horatio Gates, 27 January 1803		401
To Robert Leslie, 27 January 1803		402
Petition of William Mattox, with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 27 January 1803		403
To Martha Jeﬀerson Randolph, 27 January 1803		404
To John Campbell White, 27 January 1803		405
From John Conrad Lange, 28 January 1803		406
From Charles Willson Peale, enclosing Description of the
Physiognotrace, 28 January 1803		406
From Peter Carr, 29 January 1803		409
From Albert Gallatin, 29 January 1803		410
From Robert Smith, 29 January 1803		410
From William Adamson, 30 January 1803		411
From Levi Lincoln, 30 January 1803		415
To Madame de Tessé, 30 January 1803		416
To Madame de Corny, 31 January 1803		417
To Maria Cosway, 31 January 1803		418
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 31 January 1803		419
From Augustine Eastin, 31 January 1803		422
From Albert Gallatin, 31 January 1803		422
From Levi Lincoln, 31 January 1803		425
From John Washington Scott, 31 January 1803		425
From William Canby, 1 February 1803		426
From Henry Dearborn, [1 February 1803]		427
From Henry Dearborn, 1 February 1803		427
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 1 February 1803		427
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 1 February 1803		428
From James Miller and Others, 1 February 1803		432
From William Bache, 2 February 1803		433
From John Daly Burk, 2 February 1803		434
From James Currie, 2 February 1803		435
From Philadelphia Merchants and Others, 2 February 1803		435
To the Senate, 2 February 1803		436
From “A. B.”, [on or before 3 February 1803]		438
From Susana Carter, 3 February 1803		440
From Joseph Eaker, 3 February 1803		441
From Thomas Marston Green, 3 February 1803		442
To the House of Representatives, 3 February 1803		443
To Robert R. Livingston, 3 February 1803		444
From Joseph Stokes, 3 February 1803		446
To Abraham Baldwin, 4 February 1803		447
From Robert Brent, 4 February 1803		448
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 4 February 1803		448
From William Hoge and Joseph Hiester, 4 February 1803		449
To William Jones, 4 February 1803		451
To Pierre Auguste Adet, 5 February 1803		451
From Henry Dearborn, enclosing
From Henry Dearborn, 5 February 1803		452
To Marc Auguste Pictet, 5 February 1803		456
To Charles Pougens, enclosing Jeﬀerson’s Volumes of
the Encyclopédie Méthodique, 5 February 1803		458
To Justus Erich Bollmann, 6 February 1803		462
To Jones & Howell, 6 February 1803		463
List of Groceries for Monticello, 6 February 1803		463
To Louis Sébastien Mercier, 6 February 1803		463
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 6 February 1803		464
To Thomas Newton, 6 February 1803		465
To Daniel Trump, 6 February 1803		465
To Volney, 6 February 1803		466
From James Ash, 7 February 1803		467
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., enclosing List of
Groceries Wanted from Marseilles, 7 February 1803		468
List of French Wines, [on or before 7 February 1803]		471
From Thomas McKean, 7 February 1803		471
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 7 February 1803		475
To John Joseph Rey, 7 February 1803		475
From Edward Savage, 7 February 1803		475
From William Wingate, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, 7 February 1803		476
From William, Benjamin, and W. L. Bakewell, 8 February 1803		478
From James Brobson and John Warner, 8 February 1803		479
To George Jeﬀerson, 8 February 1803		480
To James Madison, 8 February 1803		481
To Craven Peyton, 8 February 1803		482
From Thomas Hobbes Scott, 8 February 1803		482
To Charles Smith, 8 February 1803		483
From Robert Smith, 8 February 1803		484
From Albert Gallatin, [9 February 1803]		485
From John Barnes, 10 February 1803		485
From John Breckinridge and Others, 10 February 1803		486
From Robert Eastburn, 10 February 1803		488
From John Wayles Eppes, 10 February 1803		488
To Albert Gallatin, 10 February 1803		490
From Thomas Newton, 10 February 1803		491
From Clement Storer and Others, 10 February 1803		491
Topics for Consultation with Heads of Departments,
[on or after 10 February1803 ]		493
To Cornplanter and Others, 11 February 1803		496
From Samuel Hanson, 11 February 1803		497
Letter of Credence for James Monroe, 11 February 1803		498
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 11 February 1803		499
From Elisha Bennett, 12 February 1803		499
To Handsome Lake, 12 February 1803		500
From Thomas Mendenhall, 12 February 1803		502
From Robert Leslie, 13 February 1803		504
From Jean Vermonnet, 13 February 1803		507
From J. P. P. Derieux, 14 February 1803		509
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 14 February 1803		510
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 14 February 1803		511
From Rolfe Eldridge, 14 February 1803		513
To Farmer’s Brother and Others, 14 February 1803		514
From James Jackson, 14 February 1803		518
From Charles Willson Peale, 14 February 1803		523
To the Senate, 14 February 1803		524
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 14 February 1803		525
From James Burnham, 15 February 1803		525
From Madame de Corny, 15 February 1803		527
To Henry Dearborn, 15 February 1803		529
From Albert Gallatin, 15 February 1803		531
From Philip Mazzei, 15 February 1803		532
To James Jackson, 16 February 1803		541
From Thomas Newton, 16 February 1803		543
To John Breckinridge, 17 February 1803		543
From Daniel Carroll Brent, 17 February 1803		544
From Joseph Coppinger, 18 February 1803		545
To Benjamin Hawkins, 18 February 1803		546
To George Jeﬀerson, 18 February 1803		549
From Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson, 19 February 1803		549
From Samuel J. Cabell, 19 February 1803		550
From Henry Dearborn, 19 February 1803		551
To Thomas McKean, 19 February 1803		552
From Craven Peyton, 19 February 1803		555
From Robert Smith, [19 February 1803]		555
From James Taylor, Jr., 19 February 1803		556
From John Carroll, 20 February 1803		556
From Thomas Rodney, 20 February 1803		557
From Elize Winn, 20 February 1803		558
To John Daly Burk, 21 February 1803		559
To John Wayles Eppes, 21 February 1803		560
From James Madison, [21 February 1803]		560
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 21 February 1803		561
To Thomas Jeﬀerson Randolph, 21 February 1803		562
To the Senate, 21 February 1803		562
Statement of Account with George Andrews, [on or before 22 February 1803]		563
To James Madison, 22 February 1803		564
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 22 February 1803		565
From Lyman Spalding, 22 February 1803		566
To Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson, 23 February 1803		566
From Nicholas Gouin Duﬁef, 23 February 1803		567
To Joseph H. Nicholson, 23 February 1803		568
To Craven Peyton, 23 February 1803		569
From Benjamin Reynolds, 23 February 1803		569
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 23 February 1803, enclosing
Madison’s Report on the Hendrick, 22 February 1803		573
From Anne Cary Randolph, [before 24 February]		575
From Thomas Jeﬀerson Randolph, [before 24 February 1803]		575
To Lacépède, 24 February 1803		576
To John Carroll, 25 February 1803		579
Circular to the Governors of the States, 25 February 1803		579
From Pierpont Edwards, 25 February 1803		581
To George Jeﬀerson, 25 February 1803		581
From Levi Lincoln, 25 February 1803		582
From Schuyler Livingston, [25 February 1803]		582
To Thomas Mendenhall, 25 February 1803		583
To James Monroe, 25 February 1803		584
To James B. Richardson, 25 February 1803		585
To William Wingate, 25 February 1803		586
From Peter Hughes, 26 February 1803		586
To Anne Cary Randolph, 26 February 1803		588
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 February 1803		588
To William Henry Harrison, 27 February 1803		589
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 28 February 1803		593
From Matthew Clay, 28 February 1803		594
From Albert Gallatin, 28 February 1803		595
To William Henry Harrison, 28 February 1803		596
To Lewis Harvie, 28 February 1803		597
From Alexander Moultrie, 28 February 1803		598
To Benjamin Rush, 28 February 1803		598
From Robert Smith, 28 February 1803		600
Abstract of Warrants from Robert Smith, 28 February 1803		600
To Caspar Wistar, 28 February 1803		601
From Joseph Croswell, February 1803		602
From Abraham Baldwin, 1 March 1803		606
From Isaac Briggs, 1 March 1803		606
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 1 March 1803		608
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, enclosing
Invoice for Books, 1 March 1803		609
From Christopher Ellery, 1 March 1803		610
To the House of Representatives, 1 March 1803		611
From Michael Leib, 1 March 1803		611
Memorandum to James Madison, 1 March 1803		612
To Joseph H. Nicholson, 1 March 1803		613
To Philip Pearson, 1 March 1803		613
To the Senate, 1 March 1803		614
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 March 1803		615
To Richard Winn, 1 March 1803		616
From John Page, 2 March 1803		617
To Robert Patterson, 2 March 1803		618
Statement of Account with Rapine, Conrad & Co., 2 March 1803		619
From Robert Smith, 2 March 1803		621
From Joseph Anderson, 3 March 1803		621
From John Bacon, 3 March 1803		622
To William Dunbar, 3 March 1803		623
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 March 1803		624
From Joseph Hamilton, 3 March 1803		626
From Craven Peyton, 3 March 1803		627
To William Short, 3 March 1803		627
From David Thomas, 3 March 1803, enclosing
From James McCrea, 13 September 1802		628

APPENDICES

Appendix I: List of Appointments,
[13 November 1802-4 March 1803]		631
Appendix II: Letters Not Printed in Full		636
Appendix III: Letters Not Found		637
Appendix IV: Financial Documents		641

Index

645

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)

letter from, 438-40

seeks appointment, money, 438-40

Abercrombie, Charles, 522n

abolition, 89n, 92n, 480n

Abrams, 341

acacia, 337

accountants, 292n

Account of the Skeleton of the Mammoth (Rembrandt Peale), 306, 307n, 383

Adams, John

criticism of, 74n

and election of 1796, 519

electors for, 118n

and Ellicott, 282

makes appointments, 78n, 149n, 415n

as minister to Great Britain, 49

and Poellnitz, 89n

and recommendations for appointments, 490

removals by, 359

suggested as candidate for president in 1804, 472

and T. Paine, li

Adams, Rev. John

Anecdotes, 619, 620n

Flowers of Modern History, 619, 620n

Adams, Samuel, 604

Adams, Fort, 401, 443n, 481, 493, 494n, 634

Adamson, William

letter from, 411-15

seeks assistance for Irish refugees, 411-15

Addison, Alexander

impeachment of, 472-3, 474n

persecution of Republicans by, 389

Adet, Pierre Auguste

letter to, 451-2

TJ sends news of politics, diplomacy to, 451-2

Adriatic Sea, 192

Aertsen, Guilliam, 585n, 633

Aeschyli Tragoediae quae supersunt ac desperditarum fragmenta (Christian Gottfried Shütz), 461

Aeschylus, 461

Africa

removal of condemned slaves to, 184-5

Age of Reason. Part the Second (Thomas Paine), l, li, 73

agriculture

agricultural societies, 75, 105, 106-7, 254, 255n

apples, 235n

droughts, 534-5, 538

experimental farming, 89n

fertilizers, 74-5

merino sheep, 122n

potato cultivation, 254

U.S. an agricultural nation, 430, 457

Aikin, John

Letters from a Father to His Son, 619

Aitken, Jane, 523n

Aitken, Robert, 523n

Alabama River, 401, 402, 493, 529, 530n

Albano Laziale, Italy, 99n

Albemarle Co., Va.

academy authorized in, 178n

Birdwood plantation, 70

courts, 47n

Henderson lands in, 4-5

sheriffs, 555n

alcoholism

accusations of, 99, 101

among Indians, 232, 287, 289n, 353n, 496, 515

among judges, 368, 423-4n

among navy officers, 183n

among officeholders, 258, 358

as cause of poverty, 142n

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'

Encyclopédie, 461n

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 83, 84n, 85-6, 532-40

Alexandria, D.C.

bakers, 486n

fortifications at, 508n

merchants, 485, 486n

plasterers, 135

W. Short seeks to purchase land in, 162

Algiers, 169n, 253, 254n

Alien Enemies Act (1798), 622n

Alien Friends Act (1798), 622n

aliens. See immigrants

Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers, 253, 254n

Allegany Turnpike Road, 117-18

Allegheny River, 496, 497n

Allen, Ethan, 299n

Allen, Hannibal M., 299

Allen, James, 400

Allen, Nathaniel, 514n

Allen, Samuel, 400

Allison, Burgess, 307n

Alps, 534, 538

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York), 8n

American Museum (New York City), 475, 476n

American Philosophical Society

election of officers, 373-4n

elects members, 33n, 128n, 269, 270n, 433n, 459n

expels members, 433n

Philosophical Hall, 523, 524n

publishes Transactions, 270n, 449, 466, 576, 578n, 610

receives communications, specimens, 71, 74-5, 268, 270n, 588, 589n, 601, 602n, 623

secretaries, 373-4n

TJ as president of, 373-4

American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking (Caleb Bingham), 619, 620n

American Revolution

books, writings on, 420, 421, 512-13n

bounty and pension claims, 441-2, 499-500, 586-7, 588n

in Del., 38, 557n

engineers, 508n

foreign officers in, 508n

Irish in, 414n

Loyalists, 35-6n, 583n, 587, 588n

in Mass., 290

naval forces, 33n, 499-500

in N.C., 178n

in Pa., 49-50, 450n

prisoners of war, 342n, 442n, 450n, 500

privateers, 374, 436

quartermasters, 586, 588n

in S.C., 187n

and slaves, 184, 185n

surgeons, 441-2

in Va., 35-6n, 342n

veterans of, 38, 46n, 49-50, 93, 142n, 159, 160n, 178n, 187n, 195n, 216n, 327, 342n, 359n, 411n, 435, 441-2, 450n, 499-500, 503, 508n, 586-8, 594n, 598n, 617n

in western territories, 142n

Amiens, Treaty of, vii, 72n, 163, 411

Amsterdam, 27n

Anacostia River, xlvi-xlvii, 20, 124-5n

Anderson, James, 315

Anderson, Joseph

advises on appointments, 272-3, 296

as committee member, 316n, 525n

letters from, 272-3, 296, 486-7, 549-50, 621-2

letter to, 566-7

letter to cited, 273n

opposes Ross resolutions, 554n

and road through Indian territory, 486-7, 549-50, 566-7

seeks appointment, 621-2

Anderson, Walter G., 621

Anderson, William Preston, 315

Andrews, George

account with TJ, 563-4

and ornaments for Monticello, 99n

Anecdotes, Bon-Mots, and Characteristic Traits of the Greatest Princes, Politicians, Philosophers, Orators, and Wits of Modern Times (Rev. John Adams), 619, 620n

Angerman, Johann Gotthilff

Anweisung, wie das Holz, 189

forwards pamphlet to TJ, 189

letter from, 189

Anglican Church, 483n

Annual Message to Congress (1801), 15-17

Annual Message to Congress (1802)

consideration of, by Congress, 272n

criticism of, 188, 211-12, 260, 278

delay in presenting, vii, 139, 169n

delivered in writing, 17, 169n

drafting of, vii, 14-30

praise for, 188, 211-12, 260, 278, 344n, 527, 528, 529n

publication of, 171n, 174

text of, 162-72

Annual Visitor; or Almanac (Thomas, Andrews & Butler), 620n

Antwerp, 275n, 315

Anweisung, wie das Holz zum Haus- und Schiffsbau so zubereitet werden könne, dass es vor Feuer, Faulniss und Wurmfrass (Johann Gotthilff Angerman), 189

Apalachicola River, 303

Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family, 290n

Appleton, Thomas, 42, 45, 46n, 107, 108, 190, 191, 194n

Aquia Creek, 544

Archer, Thomas, 131, 314, 315n

architects. See Hadfield, George; Latrobe, Benjamin Henry

architecture

arched roofs, xlvi-xlvii, 124n

books on, 99n

in Italy, 99n

of jails, 371-3, 419

windows, 465-6

Arkansas River, 591

Armistead, Bartholomew D., 551, 614

Armistead, Francis, 314, 315n

Armistead, Theodorick, 543

Armstrong, John (1755-1816)

and Kosciuszko's lands, 202-3

letter to, 202-3

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

Arnold, Benedict, l

art

Indian portraits, xlviii-l, 322 (illus.)

miniature portraits, 508n

museums, 475, 476n

patriotic, 241-3

physiognotrace, 306-7, 383-4, 406-9

schools, societies, 363-4, 407, 408n

sculpture, 229n, 363n, 561-2

study of, 458n

Art poétique (Nicolas Boileau), 5, 6

Ash, James (Md.)

identified, 467-8n

letter from, 467-8

sends book proposal to TJ, 467-8

Ashash, Abd al-Rahman, 169n

ash trees, 126

astronomy

astronomical instruments, 220n, 342, 343n, 607, 618

calculation of longitude, 606-8

comets, 536, 539

meteors, 269, 270-1n

Atala (François René de Chateaubriand), xlix

Athenaei Dipnosophistarum, sive, Conenae Sapientum Libri XV (Athenaeus), 448, 449n, 511, 512, 610

Athenaeus

Athenaei Dipnosophistarum, 448, 449n, 511, 512

attorneys

benefits of legal training, career, 392

education of, 334, 363n

mentioned, 272, 293, 362, 498n, 522

Audrain, Peter, 257, 258n

Audubon, John James, 479n

Aurora (Philadelphia), li, 74n, 301, 302n, 523n

Austin (hired slave), 61

Austin, Jonathan L., 635n

Australia, 483n

Austria, 12

Avery, John

forwards maps of Mass. to TJ, 46

identified, 46n

letter from, 46

letter to, 381

thanked by TJ, 381

Ay (Aij), France, 471

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

Selected Documents

29 December 1802

Memorandum for Henry Dearborn on Indian Policy

Jefferson outlines policies for a consolidation of settlement along the Mississippi River that will require some Indians to live within greatly reduced borders and some to relinquish claims to land east of the river.

18 January 1803

To the Senate and the House of Representatives

Jefferson solicits congressional support for extending external commerce, especially by funding an exploration of the Missouri River and the territory beyond it. He suggests an appropriation of $2,500 to advance "the geographical knowledge of our own continent" and to find a route to the Pacific Ocean.

1 February 1803

To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours

Jefferson relies on his French friend to help maintain peaceful relations between the United States and France, informs him of James Monroe's appointment as a special envoy, and stresses the importance of the Mississippi and the American right of deposit at New Orleans.

[before 24 February 1803]

From Anne Cary Randolph

Jefferson's granddaughter accepts his invitation to become a correspondent, requests he send a French dictionary, and updates him on the schooling of her siblings.

26 February 1803

To Anne Cary Randolph

Jefferson responds to his granddaughter's request for a French dictionary and his grandson's wish for a book of geography.

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APPENDICES

A

"A. B." (pseudonym)

letter from, 438-40

seeks appointment, money, 438-40

Abercrombie, Charles, 522n

abolition, 89n, 92n, 480n

Abrams, 341

acacia, 337

accountants, 292n

Account of the Skeleton of the Mammoth (Rembrandt Peale), 306, 307n, 383

Adams, John

criticism of, 74n

and election of 1796, 519

electors for, 118n

and Ellicott, 282

makes appointments, 78n, 149n, 415n

as minister to Great Britain, 49

and Poellnitz, 89n

and recommendations for appointments, 490

removals by, 359

suggested as candidate for president in 1804, 472

and T. Paine, li

Adams, Rev. John

Anecdotes, 619, 620n

Flowers of Modern History, 619, 620n

Adams, Samuel, 604

Adams, Fort, 401, 443n, 481, 493, 494n, 634

Adamson, William

letter from, 411-15

seeks assistance for Irish refugees, 411-15

Addison, Alexander

impeachment of, 472-3, 474n

persecution of Republicans by, 389

Adet, Pierre Auguste

letter to, 451-2

TJ sends news of politics, diplomacy to, 451-2

Adriatic Sea, 192

Aertsen, Guilliam, 585n, 633

Aeschyli Tragoediae quae supersunt ac desperditarum fragmenta (Christian Gottfried Shütz), 461

Aeschylus, 461

Africa

removal of condemned slaves to, 184-5

Age of Reason. Part the Second (Thomas Paine), l, li, 73

agriculture

agricultural societies, 75, 105, 106-7, 254, 255n

apples, 235n

droughts, 534-5, 538

experimental farming, 89n

fertilizers, 74-5

merino sheep, 122n

potato cultivation, 254

U.S. an agricultural nation, 430, 457

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Agriculture

Aikin, John

Letters from a Father to His Son, 619

Aitken, Jane, 523n

Aitken, Robert, 523n

Alabama River, 401, 402, 493, 529, 530n

Albano Laziale, Italy, 99n

Albemarle Co., Va.

academy authorized in, 178n

Birdwood plantation, 70

courts, 47n

Henderson lands in, 4-5

sheriffs, 555n

alcoholism

accusations of, 99, 101

among Indians, 232, 287, 289n, 353n, 496, 515

among judges, 368, 423-4n

among navy officers, 183n

among officeholders, 258, 358

as cause of poverty, 142n

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'

Encyclopédie, 461n

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 83, 84n, 85-6, 532-40