4 March to 10 July 1803

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Description

This volume opens on 4 March 1803, the first day of Jefferson's third year as president. Still shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, he confronts the potential political consequences of a cession of Louisiana to France that might result in a denial of American access to the Mississippi. But he resists pressures to seize New Orleans by force, urging patience instead. The cabinet determines in April that "all possible procrastinations" should be used in dealing with France, but that discussions with Great Britain move forward as well. In Paris, a treaty for the cession of the Louisiana Territory to the United States is signed, and in May the right of deposit is restored. On 3 July, word reaches Jefferson in Washington of the agreement that France has sold the entire Territory for $15 million. The glorious news, which may be the most momentous that Jefferson receives while president, appears in the National Intelligencer the following day. Having received congressional approval to send an expedition to locate a continental route to the Pacific, Jefferson drafts instructions and a cipher for Meriwether Lewis and arranges for the needed instruments. Following through on a promise to a friend to give his views of Christianity, Jefferson puts his religious creed on paper, a "Syllabus" of the morals of Jesus and the comparative merits of Christianity. He intends it only for a few trusted friends.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Editorial Method and Apparatus	xiii
Illustrations	xli
Jeﬀerson Chronology	2

1803

From Joseph Anderson, 4 March		3
To Joseph Anderson, 4 March		4
To Justus Erich Bollmann, 4 March		4
From John Dawson, 4 March		5
From Henry Dearborn, 4 March		5
To Rolfe Eldridge, 4 March		6
From James Jackson, Abraham Baldwin, and
Peter Early, 4 March		6
To Thomas Newton, 4 March		7
From Samuel A. Otis, 4 March		7
From Louis André Pichon, 4 March		8
To Edward Savage, 4 March		9
From Robert Smith, [4 March]		9
From Robert Smith, 4 March		10
To Hore Browse Trist, 4 March		10
From Augustus B. Woodward, 4 March		11
To Isaac Briggs, 5 March		12
From William Hylton, 5 March		12
To George Jeﬀerson, 5 March		14
To Daniel Carroll Brent, 6 March		14
From Andrew Ellicott, 6 March		15
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 6 March		16
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 6 March		17
To Joseph T. Scott, 6 March		18
To William Thornton, 6 March		19
From James Monroe, 7 March		19
To Thomas Munroe, 7 March		22
From Robert Smith, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, [i.e. 7 March]		22
From Baron von Geismar, 8 March		23
From George Jeﬀerson, 8 March		25
From James Madison, 10 March		26
From Edward Savage, 10 March		27
From William Short, 10 March		28
From Edward Tiﬃn, 10 March		29
From John Willard, 11 March		30
From Lewis Harvie, [before 12 March]		33
From Joseph Barbier, 12 March		34
From Robert R. Livingston		35
I.	Recipient’s Copy, 12 March	38
II.	Recipient’s Copy, 12 March	44
III.	Extract, [after 18 May]	48
Petition from the Mississippi Territory
House of Representatives, 12 March		50
From Benjamin Rush, 12 March		52
From Robert Smith, 12 March		56
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 13 March		57
From Jacob Lewis, 13 March		57
From Joseph Dougherty, 14 March		59
From Albert Gallatin, 14 March		59
From Ephraim Kirby, 14 March		61
From James Madison, 14 March		62
From Thomas Munroe, 14 March		64
From S. Smith & Buchanan, 14 March		67
From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 14 March		68
From John Warner, 14 March		68
From George Jeﬀerson, 15 March		69
From Levi Lincoln, 15 March		69
From Robert Patterson, 15 March		70
From John Vaughan, 15 March		74
From James Currie, 16 March		74
From John Page, 16 March		75
From John Warner, 16 March		76
To Henry Dearborn, 17 March		76
From Gideon Granger, 17 March		77
To Lewis Harvie, [17] March		78
To James Madison, 17 March		78
From James Madison, 17 March		79
Notes on Composition Ornaments, 17 March		80
To Robert Smith, 17 March		81
From Robert Smith, 17 March		82
Petition of Peter Veitch, with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 17 March		82
To John Page, 18 March		84
From Alexander Wolcott, 18 March		85
To James Madison, 19 March		87
To Robert Smith, 19 March		88
To Albert Gallatin, 20 March		89
To John Brown, 21 March		90
From Thomas Cooper, 21 March		90
From Albert Gallatin, 21 March		91
From James Madison, 21 March		94
To Thomas Munroe, 21 March		95
From Volney, 21 March		96
To Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 March		98
To Elize Winn, 21 March		99
From John Brightthought, 22 March		99
From Thomas S. Cavender, 22 March		100
To James Madison, 22 March		101
From Isaac Tichenor, 22 March		101
From Anonymous, 23 March		102
From Abraham Hargis, 23 March		104
To Levi Lincoln, 23 March		105
To William Short, 23 March		106
From Benjamin Vaughan, 24 March		108
To James Walker, 25 March		110
To George Jeﬀerson, 26 March		110
To John B. Magruder, 26 March		110
To Albert Gallatin, 28 March		111
From William Bache, 29 March		112
From Joseph Clay, 29 March		115
To Robert Smith, 29 March		115
From “A Democrat,” 30 March		116
From Gideon Fitz, 31 March		118
From Lafayette, 31 March		121
From Louis Pio, March		122
From William Short, 2 April		124
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 3 April		124
From Albert Gallatin, 4 April		125
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, [4 April]		126
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, enclosing Report on the
Ground Plan of the Capitol’s New Wing, 4 April		127
From James B. Richardson, 4 April		137
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 4 April		139
From Edward Dowse, 5 April		139
From Jean Baptiste Emonnot, 5 April		141
From W. F. Harle, [on or before 5 April]		142
From Isaac Story, 5 April		143
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 6 April		144
From William Hylton, 6 April		145
From Fulwar Skipwith, 6 April		146
To Thomas Munroe, 7 April		147
From James Turner, 7 April		148
From Joseph Mathias Gérard de Rayneval, 8 April		148
To George Jeﬀerson, 8 April		149
Navy Department: Summaries of Dispatches from the Voyages of the Constellation and
the Chesapeake, [on or before 8 April]		150
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 8 April		152
To Thomas Cooper, 9 April		154
From Robert W. Cosbrough, 9 April		155
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 9 April		156
From Albert Gallatin, 9 April		156
To Joseph Priestley, 9 April		157
To Joseph T. Scott, 9 April		159
From Robert Smith, 9 April		160
From “An Observer,” [before 10] April		162
To Albert Gallatin, 10 April		162
From John Bacon, 11 April		163
From William Benson, 11 April		164
From Josiah Meigs, 11 April		164
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 11 April		165
From DeWitt Clinton, 12 April		166
From Theophilus Harris, 12 April		168
From William Short, 12 April		168
Drafting Instructions for Meriwether Lewis		169
I.	From James Madison, [before 13 April]	172
II.	From Albert Gallatin, [on or before 13 April]	173
III.	From Levi Lincoln, 17 April	175
IV.	Instructions for Meriwether Lewis, 20 June	176
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 13 April		183
From Bernard Smith, 13 April		184
From John Smith, 13 April		186
To John Walker, 13 April		187
From Henry Dearborn, 14 April		190
From John Wayles Eppes, 14 April		190
From John Foncin, 14 April		191
To Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis, 14 April		196
To Jones & Howell, 14 April		197
From Robert R. Livingston, 14 April		198
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie,
[on or before 14 April]		203
To Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 14 April		207
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 14 April		208
To S. Smith & Buchanan, 14 April		209
To William, Benjamin, and W. L. Bakewell, 15 April		210
From Seth Hunt, 15 April		210
To Edmund J. Lee, Cuthbert Powell, and
Archibald McClean, 15 April		212
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 15 April		213
From Philip Mazzei, 15 April		216
From Thomas Munroe, 15 April		217
To William Short, 15 April		218
From Edward Tiﬃn, 15 April		219
To Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 16 April		220
From Isaac Coﬃn, 17 April		220
From Anonymous, [on or before 18 April]		221
From Andrew Ellicott, enclosing Remarks on
Observations with a Sextant, 18 April		222
From George Jeﬀerson, 18 April		224
To João, Prince Regent of Portugal, 18 April		225
From John Millar, 18 April		225
Preparations to Negotiate an Alliance with Great Britain		227
I.	Commission for Minister Plenipotentiary to
	Great Britain, 18 April	230
II.	To George III, King of Great Britain, 18 April	230
III.	To Napoleon Bonaparte, 18 April	231
IV.	Commission for Minister Plenipotentiary to France,
	18 April	232
V.	To Napoleon Bonaparte, 19 April	232
VI.	To Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain, 20 April	233
From Hugh Williamson, 18 April		234
To Edward Dowse, 19 April		235
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 19 April		237
To Thomas Munroe, 19 April		237
From Charles Willson Peale, 19 April		238
Petition from Citizens of Portland, Maine, [before 20 April]		241
To Isaac Briggs, 20 April		244
From William C. C. Claiborne, 20 April		245
From Meriwether Lewis, 20 April		245
From Pierce Butler, 21 April		250
To Albert Gallatin, 21 April		250
To Benjamin Rush, enclosing
Doctrines of Jesus Compared with Others, 21 April		251
To DeWitt Clinton, 22 April		256
To Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis, 22 April		257
To Lewis Harvie, 22 April		258
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 22 April		259
To Henry Dearborn and Levi Lincoln, [23 April]		260
From John Goddard, 23 April		261
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 23 April		262
To Meriwether Lewis, 23 April		263
From John F. Mercer, 23 April		264
To Benjamin Rush, 23 April		265
To Samuel Harrison Smith and Margaret Bayard Smith,
23 April		265
To John Wayles Eppes, 24 April		265
To George Jeﬀerson, 24 April		266
From Levi Lincoln, 24 April		266
To Joseph Priestley, 24 April		268
To Samuel J. Cabell, [25 April]		269
From Henry Dearborn, 25 April		270
To Mary Jeﬀerson Eppes, 25 April		270
From John Page, 25 April		271
To Martha Jeﬀerson Randolph, 25 April		273
From Joseph Turner, 25 April		274
From James Warren, 25 April		274
Statement of Account with Thomas Carpenter, 26 April		275
To Levi Lincoln, 26 April		276
From George Jeﬀerson, 27 April		277
To Meriwether Lewis, 27 April		277
From Meriwether Lewis, 27 April		278
From Nathaniel Ingraham, 28 April		279
From Philip Norborne Nicholas, 28 April		279
From Joseph T. Scott, 28 April		281
From John Vaughan, 28 April		281
From James Ash, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, 29 April		282
From Craven Peyton, 29 April		283
From Joseph Prentis, 29 April		283
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 April		284
To John Bacon, 30 April		285
To Justus Erich Bollmann, 30 April		286
John Henderson Deed to Craven Peyton, 30 April		287
To Meriwether Lewis, 30 April		288
From John Francis Vacher, 30 April		289
To Hugh Williamson, 30 April		292
Cipher for Meriwether Lewis		293
I.	Draft Cipher Table, [April ?]	296
II.	Cipher Table, [April ?]	298
From Isaac Briggs, 2 May		299
From Henry Dearborn, 2 May		300
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 2 May		300
From Robert R. Livingston, 2 May		301
To Craven Peyton, 2 May		304
Abstracts of Warrants from Robert Smith, 2 May		305
Notes on the Consular Convention of 1788, 3 May		306
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 4 May		309
From DeWitt Clinton, 4 May		310
From Henry Dearborn, [4 May]		311
To Victor Marie du Pont, 4 May		312
To Fulwar Skipwith, 4 May		312
Statement of Interest Account with John Barnes, 4 May		315
To Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 5 May		316
To Albert Gallatin, [5 May]		317
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 May		317
From Benjamin Rush, 5 May		320
From John Wayles Eppes, 6 May		321
From Gideon Granger, 6 May		323
To Joseph Prentis, 6 May		325
To William Short, 6 May		326
From Jean Chas, 7 May		327
From Victor Marie du Pont, 7 May		328
From Andrew Gregg, 7 May		329
Report from John Lenthall, 7 May		330
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 7 May		330
From Joseph Priestley, 7 May		332
To Justus Erich Bollmann, 8 May		334
To Gideon Granger, 8 May		334
From John Langdon, 8 May		335
From William Bakewell, 9 May		336
To Christopher Ellery, 9 May		337
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [9 May]		339
From John Mitchell, 9 May		340
Notes on Nathaniel Ingraham’s Case, [ca. 9 May]		342
From Robert Smith, 9 May		343
To Isaac Cox Barnet, 10 May		343
To Victor Marie du Pont, 10 May		344
To Gabriel Duvall, [10 May]		344
To Christopher Ellery, 10 May		345
To William Jarvis, 10 May		345
Memorandum to James Madison, 10 May		346
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 10 May		347
From Volney, 10 May		348
From Hugh Williamson, 10 May		354
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 May		356
From James Burnham, 11 May		356
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 May		357
To John Wayles Eppes, 12 May		361
To George Jeﬀerson, 12 May		362
From Rufus King, 12 May		363
From John H. Barney, 13 May		364
To Henry Dearborn, 13 May		365
From Gideon Granger, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, 13 May		366
From Lacépède, 13 May		367
From James Lyon, 13 May		370
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 13 May		370
To Joseph H. Nicholson, 13 May		371
From Richard Claiborne, 14 May		373
Report from John Lenthall, 14 May		374
From Meriwether Lewis, 14 May		374
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 15 May		375
From DeWitt Clinton, 16 May		376
To Meriwether Lewis, 16 May		377
From John F. Mercer, 16 May		377
From Joseph Sansom, 16 May		379
From William Short, 16 May		381
From Robert Smith, 16 May		381
From Anonymous, [17 May]		382
From Isaac Briggs, 17 May		383
From James Fairlie, 17 May		383
From Samuel L. Holmes, 17 May		384
From John Irvin, 17 May		386
From Lafayette, 17 May		386
From Edward Lynch, 17 May		387
From “A Republican,” 17 May		388
From Henry Dearborn, 18 May		389
To James Dinsmore, enclosing Drawing of the
Fireplace for Monticello’s Parlor, 18 May		389
From John A. Houseman, 18 May		391
From James Monroe, 18 May		391
From Nicolas Gouin Duﬁef, 19 May		394
From James Wallace, 19 May		396
From Stephen R. Bradley, 20 May		403
To Isaac Briggs, 20 May		404
From Charles Burrall, 20 May		405
To Peter Freneau, 20 May		405
To Gideon Granger, 20 May		407
To Josiah Meigs, 20 May		408
To Anne Cary Randolph, 20 May		409
From Henry Dearborn, [21 May]		410
Report from John Lenthall, 21 May		410
To Jared Mansﬁeld, 21 May		410
From John Mitchell, 21 May		412
From H. B. Scudamore, enclosing
Plan for a National Registry Oﬃce, 21 May		413
To Samuel Harrison Smith, [21 May]		414
From Lafayette, 22 May		415
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 May		416
To William C. C. Claiborne, 23 May		417
From Henry Dearborn, 23 May		418
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 23 May		419
From Thomas Worthington, 23 May		419
From Daniel Carroll, Daniel Brent, and
Charles Miniﬁe, 24 May		421
To William C. C. Claiborne, 24 May		422
From Chauncy Hall, 24 May		425
From Gideon Granger, 25 May, enclosing Petition of
Samuel Huntington and Others, [before 25 April]		427
From William Lee, 25 May		430
To Joseph Sansom, 25 May		430
From Robert R. Livingston, 26 May		431
Memorandum from John Barnes, 27 May, enclosing
Statement of Interest Account with John Barnes,
31 March 1801-30 January 1802,
Statement of Interest Account with John Barnes,
30 January 1802-10 January 1803, and
Statement of Interest Account with John Barnes,
10 January-8 May 1803		434
From Robert Smith, 27 May		439
To Daniel Carroll, Daniel Brent,
and Charles Miniﬁe, 28 May		440
Memorandum from Henry Dearborn, with
Jeﬀerson’s Notes, [on or before 28 May]		441
To Lewis Harvie, 28 May		442
Report from John Lenthall, 28 May		443
From Jackson Browne, 29 May		443
From Meriwether Lewis, 29 May		444
To James Oldham, 29 May		446
From James Cheetham, 30 May		448
From William C. C. Claiborne, 30 May		448
From Samuel R. Demaree, 30 May		451
From Gideon Granger, 30 May		452
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 30 May		452
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 May		454
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 31 May		455
From George Jeﬀerson, 31 May		459
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 31 May		459
From William Bache, 1 June		461
From John Hollins, 1 June		463
To Levi Lincoln, enclosing “Fair play,” 1 June		463
From Samuel Smith, 1 June		469
From Samuel Carr, 2 June		469
From Robert R. Livingston, 2 June		470
From Charles Willson Peale, 2 June		474
From Samuel Smith, 2 June		477
From Reuben Harvey, 3 June		477
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 June		478
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 June		479
From John Armstrong, 4 June		479
From Joseph Barnes, 4 June		480
To George Jeﬀerson, 4 June		485
From Lafayette, 4 June		485
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 June		487
From Madame de Chastellux, 5 June		487
Commissioners of Bankruptcy: List of Candidates,
[on or before 5 June]		488
From Levi Lincoln, [on or before 5 June]		489
To James Monroe, 5 June		489
From François Navoni, 5 June		490
To Christian VII, King of Denmark, 6 June		493
From Thomas McKean, 6 June		494
From John P. Whitwell and Andrew Oliver, Jr., 6 June		495
To Victor Marie du Pont, 7 June		496
To Albert Gallatin, 7 June		497
From Frederick Harris, 7 June		497
From Robert Smith, 7 June		498
To Benjamin Ferris, 8 June		499
From Elijah Griﬃths, 8 June		499
From John Isaac Hawkins, 8 June		501
To George Jeﬀerson, 8 June		502
From Martin Kinsley and Others, 8 June		502
To James Oldham, 8 June		503
From Craven Peyton, 8 June		504
From Nicholas N. Quackenbush, 8 June		504
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 June		505
From Edward Thornton, [8 June]		506
Petition of James Carroll, with Jeﬀerson’s Order,
[on or before 9 June]		507
To Arnold Oelrichs in the Name of Lewis Harvie,
9 June		508
From Charles Pougens, enclosing Invoice for
Encyclopédie Méthodique, with Jeﬀerson’s
Notes, 9 June		509
From John Vaughan, 9 June		515
From William Dunbar, 10 June		516
From George Logan, 10 June		522
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 June		523
From Victor Marie du Pont, 11 June		524
From Albert Gallatin, 11 June		525
Report from John Lenthall, 11 June		528
From Robert R. Livingston, 11 June		528
From Benjamin Rush, enclosing Rush’s Directions to
Meriwether Lewis for Preserving Health, 11 June		530
From “J. G. D.,” 13 June		531
To George Jeﬀerson, 13 June		533
From Bishop James Madison, 13 June		533
From Thomas Munroe, 13 June		534
From John Wayles Eppes, 14 June		536
From Albert Gallatin, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, 14 June		538
To William Lee, 14 June		539
To Craven Peyton, 14 June		540
To Robert Purviance, 14 June		540
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 June		541
From Madame de Corny, 15 June		542
To Albert Gallatin, 15 June		544
From Albert Gallatin, 16 June		544
From George Jeﬀerson, 16 June		546
Notes on the Movements of the Mediterranean Squadron,
[on or before 16 June]		547
To Robert Smith, 16 June		548
To James Cheetham, 17 June		549
From Peter Freneau, 17 June		549
To Charles Ludlow, 17 June		554
To Caesar A. Rodney, 17 June		555
To Thomas Rodney, 17 June		557
From Robert Smith, 17 June		558
From Samuel Smith, 17 June		558
To John Barnes, 18 June		561
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 18 June		562
From Joseph Forster, [on or before 18 June]		564
From David Gelston, 18 June		567
From John Hankart, 18 June		567
To Meriwether Jones, enclosing Money Transaction
with Gabriel Jones, 18 June		568
Report from John Lenthall, 18 June		572
From Robert Patterson, 18 June		573
From Robert Purviance, 18 June		574
To Robert Smith, 18 June		574
To James Taylor, Jr., 18 June		574
To John Wayles Eppes, 19 June		575
From Charles W. Goldsborough, 19 June		576
To Bishop James Madison, 19 June		577
From Thomas Newton, Jr., 19 June		580
From Benjamin Ferris, 20 June		581
To Edward Tiﬃn, 20 June		582
To Thomas Tingey, 20 June		582
From John Vinall, 20 June		583
From Albert Gallatin, 21 June		585
From Albert Gallatin, 21 June		586
From Louis Landais, with Jeﬀerson’s Note, 21 June		589
Notes on the Wabash Saline, [before 22 June]		591
To Justus Erich Bollmann, 22 June		591
To Albert Gallatin, 22 June		592
To Albert Gallatin, [22 June]		592
From Albert Gallatin, 22 June		593
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 22 June		595
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 June		595
From William C. C. Claiborne, 23 June		596
From Jean Jacques Dessalines, 23 June		597
Meriwether Lewis: Promissory Note, 23 June		599
From Cephas Carpenter, 24 June		599
From Charles Ludlow, 24 June, enclosing Statement
of Account with James Cheetham, 21 June		601
From James Lyle, 24 June		602
From Amos Ogden, 24 June		603
From Thomas Rodney, 24 June		604
To Benjamin Rush, 24 June		605
From Jonathan Williams, 24 June		605
From Rensselaer Havens, 25 June		608
Report from John Lenthall, 25 June		609
From David A. Ogden, [on or before 25 June]		609
From Joseph Priestley, 25 June		609
From John Sergeant of New Stockbridge, 25 June		610
From John Vaughan, 25 June		612
From John Strode, 26 June		614
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 27 June		616
Thomas Munroe’s Account of Public Expenditures, 27 June		618
From Jacob Rinker, 27 June		619
To Jacob Rinker, 27 June		620
To Benjamin Austin, Jr., 28 June		620
From Michael Bowyer, 28 June		621
To John Hankart, 28 June		622
Statement of Account with Henry Ingle,
with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 28 June		623
From William Kilty and John P. Van Ness, 28 June		623
To Barnabas McShane, 28 June		624
To James Mease, 28 June		625
To Daniel Trump, 28 June		626
To John Vaughan, 28 June		626
From Jacob Wagner, 28 June		626
From Joseph Barnes, 29 June		627
From Henry Dearborn, 29 June		629
From James Fleming, Sr., 29 June		629
From Madame de Chastellux, 30 June		633
From Albert Gallatin, 30 June		634
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 30 June		636
To Sir John Sinclair, 30 June		637
To William Strickland, 30 June		639
From David Campbell, 1 July		640
From Thomas Rodney, 1 July		642
From Robert W. Cosbrough, 1 July		643
To Christopher Ellery, 2 July		644
To Albert Gallatin, 2 July		644
From Albert Gallatin, 2 July		645
From William Irvin, 2 July		646
Report from John Lenthall, 2 July		646
Notes on William Eaton’s Accounts		647
I.	Draft Notes on Eaton’s Accounts, [2 July]	650
II.	Notes on Eaton’s Accounts, [on or after 2 July]	651
To Henri Peyroux de la Coudrèniere, 3 July		653
From Harry Innes, 4 July		654
From Lafayette, 4 July		655
To Meriwether Lewis, 4 July		655
From Charles Murray, 4 July		656
To Thomas Appleton, 5 July		657
To Christopher Ellery, 5 July		659
From Albert Gallatin, [5 July]		660
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 July		660
From Jonathan Williams, 5 July		662
From Albert Gallatin, 6 July		666
From Mary Heator, 6 July		666
To James Madison and Family, [6] July		667
From Robert Smith, 6 July		667
From Robert Smith, 6 July		667
To John Strode, 6 July		668
From Benjamin Austin, Jr., 7 July		669
Statement of Account with William Duane,
with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 7 July		670
From Horatio Gates, 7 July		672
From Jared Mansﬁeld, 7 July		673
From John Thomson Mason, 7 July		675
From Caesar A. Rodney, 7 July		676
From James Taylor, Jr., 7 July		679
From Joseph Bringhurst, 8 July		679
From Meriwether Lewis, 8 July		680
From Blair McClenachan, 8 July		681
Constitutional Amendment on Louisiana		681
I.	Draft Amendment, [on or before 9 July]	685
II.	Revised Amendment, [ca. 9 July]	686
To Albert Gallatin, [9 July]		688
To Albert Gallatin, [9 July]		689
From Albert Gallatin, 9 July		689
To George Jeﬀerson, 9 July		690
Report from John Lenthall, 9 July		691
To James Lyle, 9 July		691
Queries on Louisiana		692
I.	Jeﬀerson’s Draft of Queries, [on or before 9 July]	694
II.	Albert Gallatin’s Queries, with Jeﬀerson’s Revisions,
	[9-17 July]	695
III.	Jeﬀerson’s Revision of Original Draft, [12-17 July]	699
IV.	Final List of Queries, [17 July]	701
From Robert Smith, enclosing Proposed Amendment		704
to the Constitution, 9 July
To John Strode, 9 July		706
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 9 July		706
To the Earl of Buchan, 10 July		708
From Jean Dacqueny, 10 July		710
To George W. Erving, 10 July		711
Statement of Account with John March,
with Jeﬀerson’s Order, 10 July		712
From Thomas Worthington, 10 July		713

APPENDICES

Appendix I: List of Appointments, [4 April-29 June]		717
Appendix II: Letters Not Printed in Full		720
Appendix III: Letters Not Found		721
Appendix IV: Financial Documents		725
Index	727

Index

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

A

abolition, 680n

Abrahams, Mr., 273

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire ancienne des empires et des républiques (Jacques Lacombe), 510, 512

Abstract of the Premiums Offered, in 1800, by the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 613, 626

accountants, 156n

Acerbi, Giuseppe

Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, 54, 55n

Achilles, 84

Active (schooner), 362

Acton, Sir John Francis Edward, 481, 483-4n

Adams, Abigail, 673n

Adams, John

admiration of, 144

correspondence with TJ, 159n

criticism of, 144, 185-6n, 452

family of, 673

makes appointments, 126n, 194-5n, 256, 257n, 339n, 341n, 539n, 675n, 716n

as minister to Great Britain, 123n

works dedicated to, 290, 291n

Adams, Samuel, 144, 584

Adams, Fort

Choctaw treaty signed at, 293n

collector at, 10, 11n, 59, 89

military stores bound for, 596

Adams (U.S. frigate), 56, 151-2, 547, 574

Addington, Henry, 332n, 364n

Address: Pronounced at Worcester, (Mass.) March 4th, 1803 (Levi Lincoln, Jr.), 70n

Address of the Royal Jennerian Society, for the Extermination of the Small-Pox, with the Plan, Regulations, and Instructions for Vaccine Inoculation, 656-7

Adelaide (ship), 67

Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 529

Adriatic Sea, 484n, 627

Aeneid (Virgil), 565

Aertsen, Guilliam, 589

Africa

removal of condemned slaves to, 363-4

Age of Reason. Part the Second (Thomas Paine), 396-8, 402n

agriculture

agricultural societies, 336, 337n, 515-16, 613, 626, 637-8, 709n

fertilizers, 515-16, 541-2, 575, 637, 639, 640n

Hessian fly, 537, 575

soil exhaustion, 637

suitability of western lands for, 170, 174

in Va., 336, 337n

writings on, 336, 542n, 637, 638n

Aitken, Jane, 281n, 516n

Aiton, William

Hortus Kewensis, 613, 614n

Aix, France, 379

Alabama River, 365, 418n, 422

Albemarle Co., Va.

Ashton estate, 453n

Birdwood plantation, 390n

clerks, 189n

Dunlora estate, 271

elections in, 190, 191n, 284, 317

emigrants from, 386n

Federalists in, 189n

Glenmore estate, 453n

Henderson lands in, 106

land prices in, 107, 168

magistrates, 453n

militia, 285

mills, 111n

Presbyterians, 386n, 646n

alcoholism

among Indians, 420

among navy officers, 90-1, 154-5

among newspaper editors, 553

among officeholders, 588

Alden, Timothy, Jr.

letter from cited, 721

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 434n

Alexandria, D.C.

Alexandria Library Company, 212n

attorneys, 212n

banks, 285, 624n

brewers, 168n

city council, 212n

collector at, 212n

crime in, 82-4

justices of the peace, 212n

mayors, 212n

merchants, 168n, 212n, 542n

militia, 721

newspapers in, 373-4n, 571n

Sun Fire Company, 212n

Va. laws pertaining to, 212-13

Alexandria, Bank of, 285, 624

Alexandria Advertiser and Commercial Intelligencer, 571n

Alexandria Expositor, 373-4n

"Algernon Sidney" (Gideon Granger). See Granger, Gideon

Algiers

American vessels at, 150, 547

annuity payments to, 26-7, 56, 63, 64n, 78, 79, 81-2, 87, 92, 101, 116

consul at, 79, 80n, 87, 94, 197n

consul general at, 659, 718

merchants at, 63n

naval forces of, 64n

ransoming of prisoners, 205, 206

treaty with Denmark, 80n

Alien Enemies Act (1798), 467, 483

Alien Friends Act (1798), 467, 483

aliens. See immigrants

Alknomac (ship), 12-13

Allen, Hancock

letter from cited, 724

letter to cited, 721

payments to, 390n

Allibone & Wittmore, 104

Alston, Theodosia Burr, 70n

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 143-4, 613-14

American Academy of Fine Arts, 431n

American Board of Agriculture, 259, 637-8

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York)

calls for W. S. Smith's removal, 257n

and removal of Newark postmaster, 388n

and renewal of war between Britain and France, 311n

and TJ's debt to G. Jones, 571n

TJ's subscription to, 601, 602

and Walker Affair, 188, 189n

American Musical Museum, 501n

American Patriot (Baltimore), 552, 554n

American Philosophical Society

and Briggs's request for use of transit, 299, 300n

elects members, 234, 289n, 380n, 709n

exchanges publications with other societies, 515, 516n

and Hessian fly, 537n

holds public dinner for Priestley, 54, 55n

and Lewis and Clark expedition, 278

library of, 516n, 614n

and Michaux's proposed western expedition, 171, 278

presents awards, 289n

publishes Transactions, 16n, 21n, 223n, 235n, 348, 351, 353n, 515, 516n

receives communications, specimens, 380n, 381n, 613, 614n, 626

and request by Batavian Republic for plant exchange, 612-14

TJ as president of, 171, 613n

TJ as vice president of, 171

American Revolution

Boston Tea Party, 570

bounty and pension claims, 164, 486n

and British deserters, 216n

and France, 290, 291-2n, 415-16, 486n

histories of, 327, 328n, 393

inflation, currency depreciation, 570-1

influence of Whig principles on, 708

Loyalists, 334

militia in, 629

poetry inspired by, 289-92

prisoners of war, 478n, 629-30

privateers, 541n

purveyors of supplies, 503n

surgeons, 291n

in Va., 334

veterans of, 83, 164, 291n, 384n, 388-9n, 619n, 629-30

“Americus” (pseudonym), 77

Amérique délivrée (L. de Chavannes de la Giraudière), 290, 291n

Amériquiade ("R"), 291n

Amiens, Treaty of

collapse of, 36-7, 372, 422, 431

Amite River, 234-5, 292-3, 354

Anacostia River, ix, 421, 440

Anderson, Charles, 678n

Anderson, David, 288

Anderson, J. B., 726

Anderson, James (Scotland), 709n

Anderson, Joseph

letter from, 3

letter to, 4

residence of, 588, 589n

seeks appointment, 3, 4

Anderson, Richard, 288

Anderson, Richard (S.C.), 718

Andrews, George, 80, 81n, 726

Andrews, Loring, 551, 553n

Angerman, Johann Gotthilff

Anweisung, wie das Holz, 625, 626-7

Animal Biography; or, Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy, of the Animal Creation, Arranged According to the System of Linnæus (William Bingley), 671, 672n

Anna Maria (ship), 647, 649, 650

Annual Message to Congress (1802), 39, 43n, 45

Antidote to John Wood's Poison (James Cheetham), 601, 602n

Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor), 158, 253

Antwerp, 192, 194, 341n, 718, 719n

Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourgignon d', 60, 61n, 89, 445, 699n

Anweisung, wie das Holz zum Haus- und Schiffsbau so zubereitet werden könne, dass es vor Feuer, Faulniss und Wurmfrass (Johann Gotthilff Angerman), 625, 626-7

Apalachicola River, 431

Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family, 140

Appleton, Thomas

and Ceracchi claim, 657-9, 711

letter to, 657-9

and Navoni, 491, 492

and wine for TJ, 659

Apprentices Library Association (Brooklyn), 386n

architects. See Latrobe, Benjamin Henry; Lenthall, John

architecture

building materials, 22

Maison Carrée, 379-80

models of Roman, offered to TJ, 379-81, 430-1

Pont du Gard, 379

sheet iron roofs, 419

Argus (Paris), 39, 43n, 45

Argus (U.S. brig), 23n, 498n

Arkansas River, 42n, 201n, 202n, 302, 423, 683

Arkansas Territory, 185n

Arles, France, 381n

Armistead, Walker K., 5

Armstrong, John, 230

Armstrong, John (1755-1816)

and Kosciuszko's lands, 479-80, 624, 625n

letter from, 479-80

letter from cited, 480n, 722

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

Arnauld, Antoine

Historia et Concordia Evangelica, 712, 713n

Arnold, Benedict, 630

Arnold, John, 15, 16n, 222, 375

Arrianus, Flavius, 254

Arrowsmith, Aaron

maps of North America, xlii, xliii, 8n, 15, 60, 61n, 549, 602

art

busts, 657-8

engravings, xliv

exhibitions, xliv

landscaping, 507n

museums, xli, 207, 430-1

physiognotrace, 476, 501

portraitists, xli-xlii

prices for, 658

promotion of, 213, 215, 430-1

sculpture, 508

silhouettes, 380n

tapestries, 203-7, 213-16

Art du dentiste, ou manuel des opérations de chirurgie (Louis Laforgue), 713

Ash, James (Md.)

letter from, 282

letter from cited, 282n, 720

sends book proposal to TJ, 282

Astorg, Madame d', 486

"Astronomical, and Thermometrical Observations, made on the Boundary between the United States and His Catholic Majesty" (Andrew Ellicott), 353n

astronomy

astronomical instruments, 15-16, 73n, 170, 176, 222-4, 248, 288-9, 299, 300n, 374-5, 377, 445, 446, 497n

calculation of latitude, 222, 223-4, 424, 425

calculation of longitude, 15-16, 70-4, 171, 177, 182n, 222, 223-4, 288-9, 374, 424, 425

compatible with Christianity, 396-403

eclipses, 15, 16n

education, 402n

knowledge of, essential for surveyors, 424

and mathematics, 403n

movement of planets and stars, 398-9

statistical table of observations, 573

attorneys

education of, 33, 165n, 403

Federalists as, 261, 310, 407, 423

Republicans as, 505n

Atwater, Reuben, 32n

Aulnay, France, 655

Aupaumut, Hendrick, 163, 612n

Aurora (Philadelphia)

inquiries made at office of, 221

prints proceedings of Philadelphia ward meeting, 93n

reports funeral of S. T. Mason, 522-3n

TJ supplies information to, 572n

and TJ's Wayles estate debts, 572n

and Walker Affair, 188

Austin, Benjamin, Jr.

Constitutional Republicanism, 620, 621n, 669

"Examiner" essays, 669-70

identified, 621n

letter from, 669-70

letter to, 620-1

Observations on the Pernicious Practice of the Law, 621n

recommends aspirants for office, 439

as reference, 496n

thanks, expresses admiration for TJ, 669-70

TJ praises "Old South" essays of, 620-1

Austin, Jonathan L., 621n

Austin, Moses, 211n

Austria, 4n, 125, 484n

Auteuil, France, 485-6

Aux Bataves sur le Stathouderat (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau), 291-2n

Ay (Aij), France, 313

Azara, José Nicolás de

and eastern boundary of Louisiana, 433n

and Florida negotiations, 35, 39, 42-3n, 45, 48

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

21 March 1803

To Thomas Munroe

Jefferson actively participates in the landscape design of the federal city, offering suggestions on the best placement of trees along Pennsylvania Avenue.

9 April 1803

To Joseph Priestley

Jefferson intends to draw up an outline comparing the doctrines of Jesus with those of other moral philosophers.

30 May 1803

From Thomas Mann Randolph

Jefferson’s son-in-law reports that one of the enslaved teenage workers at the Monticello nailery has struck another with a hammer.

8 June 1803

To Thomas Mann Randolph

Jefferson asks that an enslaved teenage worker responsible for an attack at the nailery at Monticello be sold to a slave buyer from Georgia, thereby making “an example of him in terrorem to others.”

4 July 1803

To Meriwether Lewis

Jefferson gives Meriwether Lewis a letter of credit authorizing him to draw on the U.S. government for whatever funds or resources may be needed for a westward exploratory expedition.

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CONTENTS

A

abolition, 680n

Abrahams, Mr., 273

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire ancienne des empires et des républiques (Jacques Lacombe), 510, 512

Abstract of the Premiums Offered, in 1800, by the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 613, 626

accountants, 156n

Acerbi, Giuseppe

Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, 54, 55n

Achilles, 84

Active (schooner), 362

Acton, Sir John Francis Edward, 481, 483-4n

Adams, Abigail, 673n

Adams, John

admiration of, 144

correspondence with TJ, 159n

criticism of, 144, 185-6n, 452

family of, 673

makes appointments, 126n, 194-5n, 256, 257n, 339n, 341n, 539n, 675n, 716n

as minister to Great Britain, 123n

works dedicated to, 290, 291n

Adams, Samuel, 144, 584

Adams, Fort

Choctaw treaty signed at, 293n

collector at, 10, 11n, 59, 89

military stores bound for, 596

Adams (U.S. frigate), 56, 151-2, 547, 574

Addington, Henry, 332n, 364n

Address: Pronounced at Worcester, (Mass.) March 4th, 1803 (Levi Lincoln, Jr.), 70n

Address of the Royal Jennerian Society, for the Extermination of the Small-Pox, with the Plan, Regulations, and Instructions for Vaccine Inoculation, 656-7

Adelaide (ship), 67

Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 529

Adriatic Sea, 484n, 627

Aeneid (Virgil), 565

Aertsen, Guilliam, 589

Africa

removal of condemned slaves to, 363-4

See also Barbary states

Age of Reason. Part the Second (Thomas Paine), 396-8, 402n

agriculture

agricultural societies, 336, 337n, 515-16, 613, 626, 637-8, 709n

fertilizers, 515-16, 541-2, 575, 637, 639, 640n

Hessian fly, 537, 575

soil exhaustion, 637

suitability of western lands for, 170, 174

in Va., 336, 337n

writings on, 336, 542n, 637, 638n

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Agriculture

Aitken, Jane, 281n, 516n

Aiton, William

Hortus Kewensis, 613, 614n

Aix, France, 379

Alabama River, 365, 418n, 422

Albemarle Co., Va.

Ashton estate, 453n

Birdwood plantation, 390n

clerks, 189n

Dunlora estate, 271

elections in, 190, 191n, 284, 317

emigrants from, 386n

Federalists in, 189n

Glenmore estate, 453n

Henderson lands in, 106

land prices in, 107, 168

magistrates, 453n

militia, 285

mills, 111n

Presbyterians, 386n, 646n

alcoholism

among Indians, 420

among navy officers, 90-1, 154-5

among newspaper editors, 553

among officeholders, 588

Alden, Timothy, Jr.

letter from cited, 721

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 434n

Alexandria, D.C.