11 July to 15 November 1803

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Description

The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a needed respite after the busy three and a half months he has just spent in the nation’s capital. Shortly before leaving Washington, he has a last meeting with his cabinet, after which he issues a proclamation to reconvene Congress on 17 October, three weeks early. It is the “great and weighty” business of the French government’s stunning offer to transfer all of the Louisiana Territory to the United States that necessitates this important gathering. The event brings Jefferson enthusiastic congratulations from his friends and fellow Republicans. With Jefferson’s great success, however, comes the reality of getting the agreement with France approved and implemented. The boundaries of the territory ceded are not even clear. In private letters to his trusted advisers, Jefferson discusses the proper course of action. Should both houses of Congress be called to consider the French offer? Is it prudent to make the substance of a treaty public? And perhaps most vexing, does this executive action require an amendment to the Constitution? Some Federalists criticize the plan, but an expansion of the nation’s territory, proponents argue, will raise America’s stature in the eyes of the world. With the widening of the country’s borders, Jefferson’s project to send an exploratory party westward seems even timelier. William Clark accepts Meriwether Lewis’s invitation to join the expedition, and on the last day of August Lewis begins his journey down the Ohio River, the building of his boat finally complete.

Table of Contents

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

1803

From Albert Gallatin, [11 July]		3
From Albert Gallatin, 11 July		4
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with
Jefferson’s Note, [ca. 11 July]		5
To Horatio Gates, 11 July		6
From Benjamin Hawkins, 11 July		8
To Meriwether Lewis, 11 July		11
Party Affiliation of Federal Officeholders		12
I.	Memorandum from Henry Dearborn, [ca. May]	14
II.	Table on Party Affiliation of Federal
	Officeholders in the States, [before 11 July]	16
III.	Table of Federal Officeholders in the States,
	[ca. 11 July]	18
IV.	Table of Officeholders in the General Government,
	[ca. 11 July]	20
V.	Notes on Republican Appointments, [ca. 11 July]	21
VI.	Albert Gallatin’s Comments, [ca. 11 July]	23
To William Thornton and Family, 11 July		27
To James Wallace, 11 July		27
From Caleb Bickham, 12 July		28
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 12 July		31
To Henry Dearborn, 12 July		33
To Albert Gallatin, 12 July		34
From Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, [12 July]		36
From Albert Gallatin, 12 July		37
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [on or after 12 July]		38
From Reuben Harvey, 12 July		39
Memorandum to James Madison, 12 July		41
To John Armstrong, 13 July		41
To Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 13 July		42
From William C. C. Claiborne, 13 July		44
To Caesar A. Rodney, 13 July		48
To James Taylor, Jr., 13 July		49
From George Divers, 14 July		49
To Tobias Lear, 14 July		50
From Robert Smith, 14 July		51
From Joseph Croswell, 15 July		51
To Jones & Howell, 15 July		55
To Ephraim Kirby, enclosing
Queries on Pearl River Settlements, 15 July		55
To Meriwether Lewis, 15 July		57
From Meriwether Lewis, 15 July		57
From John Minor, 15 July		58
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 15 July		59
From Thomas F. Riddick, 15 July		59
To John Strode, 15 July		60
From Joshua Danforth, 16 July		60
From Henry Dearborn, 16 July		61
To Mustafa Baba, Dey of Algiers, 16 July		62
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 16 July		63
Proclamation to Convene Congress, 16 July		67
Address from the Philadelphia Ward Committees,
[before 17 July]		68
To William C. C. Claiborne, 17 July		71
To Daniel Clark, 17 July		72
To William Dunbar, 17 July		73
To William Falconer, 17 July		74
Gallatin’s Comments on Address from
Philadelphia Ward Committees, [17-18 July]		75
To James Madison, 17 July		76
From Charles Willson Peale, 17 July		78
Petition of Ambrose Vasse and Others, 17 July		80
From Caspar Wistar, 17 July		83
To Benjamin Austin, Jr., 18 July		83
To William C. C. Claiborne, 18 July		84
From Robert Crew, 18 July		84
From Henry Dearborn, 18 July		85
From Henry Dearborn, 18 July		86
From Gabriel Duvall, 18 July		86
From Horatio Gates, 18 July		87
To Jared Mansfield, 18 July		88
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 18 July		89
From Charles Willson Peale, 18 July		89
From Caspar Wistar, 18 July		91
From Henry Dearborn, 19 July		92
From Benjamin Galloway, 19 July		92
To Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis, 19 July		95
From Thomas Waterman, 19 July		96
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 July		96
From Peter Carr, 20 July		97
From Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, 20 July		98
From Henry Dearborn, 21 July		101
From Mann Page, 21 July		102
From Meriwether Lewis, 22 July		102
Notes on Shipment, 23 July		104
From John Vaughan, 23 July		104
From William Clark, 24 July, enclosing
William Clark to Meriwether Lewis, 18 July		104
To William Duane, 24 July		107
Petition of William Johnson and Others, 24 July		110
From William Roberts, 24 July		111
From Thomas Bridges, 25 July		112
From Daniel D’Oyley, 25 July		114
To Albert Gallatin, 25 July		114
From Lacépède, 25 July		115
From Meriwether Lewis, 26 July		116
To William Maddox, 26 July		117
From James Madison, 26 July		118
To John Page, 26 July		119
From James Currie, 27 July		120
From Albert Gallatin, 27 July		120
To Benjamin Galloway, 28 July		121
Petition of Samuel Miller, with Recommendation of
William Kilty and William Cranch, 28 July		122
To Caesar A. Rodney, 28 July		124
To Joshua Danforth, 29 July		124
To Henry Dearborn, 29 July		125
From William Thomas, 29 July		126
To James Madison, 31 July		128
From “A Patriot of Our Glorious Revolution,” July		129
From John Dickinson, 1 August		132
From Lorcus Gibbs, 1 August		133
From Gideon Granger, 1 August		135
From John Vaughan, 1 August		136
From George Hunter, 2 August		136
From John Page, 2 August		137
From Thomas Paine, 2 August		138
From Henry Dearborn, 3 August		140
From George Jefferson, 3 August		140
From Tobias Lear, 3 August		142
From Thomas Blount, 4 August		142
From Samuel Broome, 4 August		143
From John Milledge, 5 August		143
From Joseph Prentis, 5 August		145
From Benjamin Rush, 5 August		145
From David Jackson, Jr., 6 August		149
From Étienne Lemaire, 6 August		149
From Richard W. Meade, 6 August		151
From John F. Mercer, 6 August		152
From Francis W. Thomas, 6 August		153
From John A. Hanna, 7 August		154
From Andrew Jackson, 7 August		155
From Fulwar Skipwith, 7 August		158
To Henry Dearborn, 8 August		160
To Albert Gallatin, 8 August		162
From Ephraim Kirby, 8 August		163
From William Lee, 8 August		163
To James Madison, 8 August		164
To Robert Smith, 8 August		165
From Samuel Broome, 9 August		166
From J. P. P. Derieux, 9 August		167
To John Dickinson, 9 August		169
From James Mease, 9 August		171
From John Smith, 9 August		173
From George Jefferson, 10 August		174
From Thomas Newton, 10 August		174
To Thomas Paine, 10 August		175
To Isaac Briggs, 11 August		178
From Albert Gallatin, 11 August		178
From Albert Gallatin, 11 August		182
To David Jackson, Jr., 11 August		183
To Étienne Lemaire, 11 August		183
To Jacob Wagner, 11 August		184
To John Breckinridge, 12 August		184
From William C. C. Claiborne, 12 August		187
From Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, 12 August		187
From Joseph Fay, 12 August		189
From Joseph Fay, 12 August		190
From David Gelston, 12 August		192
To George Jefferson, 12 August		192
To Henry Dearborn, 13 August		193
From Albert Gallatin, 13 August		194
To Aaron Goff, 13 August		195
To James Madison, 13 August		195
From James Madison, 13 August		196
To Daniel D’Oyley, 14 August		199
To Edmund J. Lee, Cuthbert Powell, and
Archibald McClean, 14 August		200
To John Page, 14 August		201
To John Vaughan, 14 August		201
From James Bankhead, 15 August		202
From Madame de Corny, 15 August		203
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 15 August		205
From Albert Gallatin, 15 August		206
From Abraham Bishop, 16 August		206
To James Madison, 16 August		208
To Robert Smith, 16 August		209
To John Breckinridge, 18 August		209
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 18 August		210
From Daniel Clark, 18 August		211
To Albert Gallatin, 18 August		213
From Albert Gallatin, 18 August		214
From Samuel Henley, 18 August		218
To James Madison, 18 August		219
From James Madison, 18 August		220
From François Navoni, 18 August		220
To Thomas Paine, 18 August		221
From Felix Pascalis, 18 August		221
From Robert Smith, 18 August		224
From Jean Baptiste Ternant, 18 August		225
From Alexander Wolcott, 18 August		226
From William C. C. Claiborne, 19 August		227
From William Dunbar, 19 August		227
To David Gelston, 19 August		228
To Benjamin Lincoln, 19 August		229
To James Mease, 19 August		230
From David Austin, 20 August		231
From Albert Gallatin, 20 August		232
From James Madison, 20 August		233
To Jacob Wagner, 20 August		237
From James Madison, 21 August		238
From Richard Willson, enclosing Proposal for
a National Coffee House, 21 August		238
From Samuel Broome, 22 August		240
From Nicholas Fitzhugh, 22 August		242
From Albert Gallatin, 22 August		243
To Albert Gallatin, 23 August		243
To Robert Smith, 23 August		245
From Samuel Smith, 23 August		246
From Benjamin Austin, Jr., 24 August		246
From William C. C. Claiborne, 24 August		248
To James Madison, 24 August		259
To John F. Mercer, 24 August		261
From John Page, 24 August		262
From Craven Peyton, 24 August		262
To Craven Peyton, 24 August		263
From Joseph Fay, 25 August		263
From Benjamin Lincoln, 25 August		263
From William D. S. Taylor, with Jefferson’s Note, 25 August		264
From Stephen Thacher, 25 August		265
From Jacob Wagner, 25 August		266
From Augustus B. Woodward, 25 August		267
To Abraham Bradley, Jr., 26 August		267
To Henry Dearborn, 26 August		268
From Thomas Kennedy, 26 August		269
From Joseph Jones Monroe, 26 August		271
From Alexander White, 27 August		271
From John Wilson, 27 August		272
From Henry Dearborn, 28 August		275
From Henry Dearborn, 28 August		276
From Gideon Granger, 28 August		276
From Ephraim Kirby, 28 August		278
From James Madison, 28 August		279
From Robert Smith, 28 August		280
From Thomas Appleton, 29 August		283
From Abraham Bradley, Jr., 29 August		284
From J. P. P. Derieux, 29 August		285
To James Madison, 29 August		286
To Richard Morris, 29 August		287
Amendment for Annexation of Louisiana and Florida,
[30 August-7 September]		288
To Albert Gallatin, 30 August		288
To Levi Lincoln, 30 August		289
From John Smith, 30 August		291
From John Vaughan, 30 August		292
From Samuel Broome, 31 August		293
From Henry Dearborn, 31 August		294
From Henry Dearborn, 31 August		294
From Albert Gallatin, 31 August		296
From Thomas Munroe, enclosing Account of
Public Expenditures, 31 August		302
From George Wythe, 31 August		304
Resolution for Introduction of Constitutional Amendment,
[August?]		305
From William Bache, 1 September		305
From Henry Dearborn, 1 September		306
To J. P. P. Derieux, 1 September		306
From Mary Hazard and Anna Void, 1 September		307
From Lafayette, 1 September		308
From William Branch Giles, 2 September		310
From Charles Willson Peale, 2 September		310
From Nathaniel Macon, 3 September		311
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 3 September		312
From Philippe Reibelt, 3 September		314
From Robert Smith, 4 September		315
To Henry Dearborn, 5 September		316
From Albert Gallatin, 5 September		317
To Thomas Munroe, 5 September		319
To Robert Smith, 5 September		320
The Boundaries of Louisiana		321
I.	Chronology of Territorial Claims in Louisiana,
	[on or before 31 August]	323
II.	Examination of the Boundaries of Louisiana,
	7 September	329
From DeWitt Clinton, 7 September		340
From Benjamin Brown Cooper, 7 September		342
To Henry Dearborn, 7 September		343
From J. P. P. Derieux, 7 September		344
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 7 September		346
To Craven Peyton, 7 September		348
From Craven Peyton, 7 September		349
From Isaac Briggs, 8 September		349
From Meriwether Lewis, 8 September		351
To Craven Peyton, 8 September		353
From James Iddings, 9 September		353
From Jacob Wagner, 4 [i.e. 9] September		355
From John Breckinridge, 10 September		357
From Levi Lincoln, 10 September		359
From Philippe Reibelt, 10 September		361
From Robert Smith, 10 September		362
From Philip R. Thompson, 10 September		363
From La Valette, 11 September		364
From Levi Lincoln, 11 September, enclosing Poem
by Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 31 August		365
From James Madison, 11 September		369
From John Monroe, 11 September		370
To Abraham Bradley, Jr., 12 September		371
From Samuel Broome, 12 September		371
From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 12 September		371
From James Madison, 12 September		374
From Frank Nash, 12 September		375
From John Page, 12 September		377
From Thomas Rodney, 12 September		378
From Juste Chanlatte, 13 September		379
From Meriwether Lewis, 13 September		380
From Benjamin Lincoln, 13 September		381
From George Jefferson, 14 September		381
To James Madison, 14 September		382
To Jacob Wagner, 14 September		382
From Edwin B. Smith, 15 September		383
From James Jones Wilmer, 15 September		383
From John A. Chevallié, 16 September		384
From Albert Gallatin, 16 September		385
From George III, King of Great Britain, 16 September		387
From Thomas Martin, 16 September		388
From Thomas Munroe, enclosing Account of
Public Expenditures, 16 September		389
From James Wilson, [on or before 16 September]		391
To James Lyle, 17 September		391
From James Brown, 18 September		393
To David Campbell, 19 September		394
To Andrew Jackson, 19 September		395
To Stephen Thacher, 19 September		396
Agreement with John H. Craven, 20 September		396
From Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, 20 September		397
From James Monroe, 20 September		398
From Craven Peyton, 20 September		400
To Craven Peyton, 20 September		401
Petition of Puckshunubbee and Others, 20 September		401
To James Walker, 20 September		403
To William Dunbar, 21 September		404
From David Gelston, 21 September		404
To George Jefferson, 21 September		405
From George Jefferson, 21 September		405
To Robert R. Livingston, 21 September		406
To James Monroe, 21 September		407
From Gurdon Bachus, 22 September		407
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 22 September		409
From William Kirkpatrick, 23 September		409
From Thomas Paine, 23 September		410
From William Buckner, Jr., 24 September		414
From M. A. F. P. Engrand, [before 25 September]		415
From “A Frien to Jefferson,” [before 25 September]		417
From Nicholas King, 25 September		418
From Calvin Chaddock, 26 September		421
Report from George Blagden, 27 September		423
From William Jarvis, 27 September		423
From John Bird, 28 September		425
From James Monroe, 28 September		426
From Hore Browse Trist, 28 September		426
From William C. C. Claiborne, 29 September		427
To Samuel Snowden, 29 September		429
From John Wheatcroft, Sr., 29 September		430
From William Dunbar, 30 September		432
From John Mandeville, 30 September		434
From Philippe Reibelt, 30 September		434
To Robert Smith, 30 September		435
From James Wilson, [on or before 30 September]		436
From Henry Dearborn, [September]		437
Drafting the Annual Message to Congress		438
I.	Notes for a Draft, [before 1 October]	440
II.	James Madison’s Remarks on the Draft, [1 October]	442
III.	Referral of the Draft to Albert Gallatin, 3 October	445
IV.	Gallatin’s Notes on the Draft, [3-4 October]	445
V.	Gallatin’s Remarks on the Draft, [4 October]	446
VI.	Henry Dearborn’s Remarks on the Draft, [6 October]	453
VII.	Levi Lincoln’s Remarks on the Draft, 10 October	454
VIII.	Gallatin’s Remarks on the Financial Section, [11 October]	455
To John Condit, 1 October		456
From David Gelston, 1 October		457
From John Langdon, 1 October		458
From Zalegman Phillips, 1 October		459
From James Walker, 1 October		460
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 2 October		460
From J. D. Rittener, 2 October		462
From Meriwether Lewis, 3 October		463
From Méry, 3 October		469
From John Page, 3 October		470
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 4 October		470
To Benjamin Rush, 4 October		471
From Robert Smith, 4 October		472
From Thomas T. Davis, 5 October		472
To David Gelston, 5 October		473
From George Logan, 5 October		474
From John Thomson Mason, 5 October		475
From Thomas Munroe, 5 October		476
To Robert Smith, 5 October		476
From Albert Gallatin, [6 October]		477
To Méry, 6 October		478
To Thomas Munroe, 6 October		478
From Thomas Munroe, 6 October		479
From Caspar Wistar, 6 October		479
From Thomas Dill, 7 October		481
From Gabriel Duvall, 7 October		482
From Richard O’Brien, 8 October		483
To Samuel Harrison Smith, [8 October]		484
From William J. Stone, 8 October		484
From Joshua Fry, 9 October		484
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 October		485
To Paul Verdier, 9 October		486
To Robert Bailey, 10 October		486
From Joseph Barnes, 10 October		487
From Elijah Clarke, 10 October		492
From James Dickinson, 10 October		493
To Levi Lincoln, 10 October		495
From Blair McClenachan, 10 October		495
Notes on Reducing Navy Expenses, [ca. 10 October]		496
Notes on Treasury Estimates for 1804, [ca. 10 October]		497
From William Pryce, 10 October		500
From Philippe Reibelt, 10 October		501
To Robert Smith, 10 October		502
From Robert Young, 10 October		503
From Pierce Butler, 11 October		505
From Benjamin Galloway, 11 October		505
From George Jefferson, 11 October		507
From Mawlay Sulayman, Sultan of Morocco, 11 October		508
From Samuel Broome, 12 October		510
From David Gelston, 12 October		511
From John Langdon, with Jefferson’s Note, 12 October		511
From John S. Lillie, 12 October		512
Notes on the Plan of the City of Washington, 12 October		514
From Benjamin Stoddert, 12 October		523
From Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, with Jefferson’s Note,
12 October		524
To Archibald McCall, 13 October		525
From John A. Chevallié, 14 October		526
To Benjamin Galloway, 14 October		527
From Mary Hazard and Anna Void, 14 October		527
From Mustafa Baba, Dey of Algiers, 14 October		529
To George Jefferson, 15 October		531
To James Lyle, 15 October		531
To William Pryce, 15 October		532
From William Goforth, Jr., 16 October		532
Annual Message to Congress, 17 October		534
From Simon Didama, 17 October		540
From Albert Gallatin, 17 October		541
To Albert Gallatin, 17 October		542
From Albert Gallatin, 17 October		542
From Albert Gallatin, 17 October		543
From Andrew Jackson, 17 October		543
List of Members of the Eighth Congress, [ca. 17 October]		545
To the Senate, 17 October		551
From Hore Browse Trist, 17 October		554
To John Barnes, 18 October		555
From John Crawford, 18 October		555
From James L. Henderson, 18 October		563
From George Jefferson, 18 October		564
From Robert Leslie, 18 October		565
From Oliver Pollock, 18 October		567
From Elkanah Watson, 18 October		568
To Robert Bailey, 19 October		569
From Thomas Claxton, [19 October]		569
From Joseph Clay, 19 October		570
From David Stone, Willis Alston, and Thomas Wynns, 19 October		570
To Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Note, 20 October		571
From John Thomson Mason, 20 October		572
From Robert Ware Peacock, 20 October		573
From Stephen Sayre, 20 October		575
To Benjamin Stoddert, 20 October		576
From Augustus B. Woodward, 20 October		577
To John Barnes, with Barnes’s Note, 21 October		578
From William Dunbar, 21 October		578
From Gibson & Jefferson, 21 October		581
From “Horatio,” [on or before 21 October]		581
Proclamation on Ratification of the Louisiana
Purchase Treaty and Conventions, [21 October]		582
To the Senate and the House of Representatives,
21 October		583
From Elizabeth House Trist, 21 October		584
To Caleb Bickham, 22 October		585
To John Crawford, 22 October		586
From Jonathan Faw, 22 October		586
From David Gelston, enclosing Statement of
Account with David Gelston, 22 October		595
To Robert Ware Peacock, 22 October		596
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 22 October		596
From Horatio Gates, 23 October		597
From DeWitt Clinton, [24 October]		598
From John Dickinson, 24 October		599
From Samuel D. Purviance, 24 October		599
To the Senate, 24 October		600
From George Taylor, Jr., 24 October		602
From Jerome Bonaparte, 25 October		603
From B. Delaferre, 25 October		604
To Jonathan Faw, 25 October		605
From James Gamble, 25 October		605
From Philip Mazzei, [25 October]		607
To John Randolph, enclosing Memorandum on the
Cession of Louisiana from Spain to France,
25 October		609
From John Randolph, 25 October		611
From William Short, 25 October		612
From Fulwar Skipwith, 25 October		612
From William Jarvis, 26 October		613
To John Barnes, 27 October		613
From John Barnes, 27 October		613
From David Campbell, 27 October		614
From Elbridge Gerry, 27 October		616
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 October		617
From John Shee, [before 28 October]		617
From William C. C. Claiborne, 28 October		618
From Thomas Digges, 28 October		620
From Albert Gallatin, 28 October		620
To Henry Dearborn, 22 [i.e. 29] October		623
To Albert Gallatin, 29 October		625
From William Henry Harrison, 29 October		625
From John Langdon, 29 October		627
To Levi Lincoln, 29 October		628
From William Marshall, 29 October		628
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 29 October		629
From Mary Hazard, 30 October		629
Notes on Preparations to Occupy Louisiana, [ca. 30 October]		632
From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 30 October		636
From Horatio G. Spafford, 30 October		636
From Thomas Tew, 30 October		638
Draft of a Proclamation for the Temporary
Government of Louisiana,
[on or before 31 October]		639
From Philippe Reibelt, 31 October		641
To the Senate, 31 October		642
To Madame de Tessé, 31 October		644
To Madame de Corny, 1 November		645
From James Doughty, Jr., 1 November		646
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 1 November		647
From Christopher Ellery, 1 November		648
From Albert Gallatin, [1 November]		649
From Jesse Hawley, 2 November		649
From Jean Baptiste Say, [before 3 November]		651
To John Barnes, 3 November		653
From Isaac Darneille, 3 November		653
To Albert Gallatin, 3 November		658
From “The Unfortunate Debtors in Washington
County Goal,” 3 November		659
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 3 November		659
From Albert Gallatin, [4 November]		664
From James Garrard, 4 November		664
To Lafayette, 4 November		665
To Robert R. Livingston, 4 November		666
From Thomas Munroe, [4 November]		670
From Simon Nathan, 4 November		670
From Beriah Palmer, Thomas Sammons, and David Thomas,
with Jefferson’s Query, 4 November		671
To the Senate and the House of Representatives,
4 November		672
To Aaron Vail, 4 November		674
To Albert Gallatin, 5 November		675
From James Madison, [5 November]		675
From Jared Mansfield, 5 November		676
To Jones & Howell, 6 November		677
To William Short, 6 November		678
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 7 November		679
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 7 November		680
From James Jones Wilmer, 7 November		681
From John Alexander, 8 November		681
From Albert Gallatin, 8 November		683
Notes on Governing Louisiana, [on or after 8 November]		685
Notes on Spanish Expenditures for Louisiana,
[on or after 8 November]		686
From the Tennessee General Assembly, 8 November		687
To James Jones Wilmer, 8 November		688
From Henry Dearborn, 9 November		688
To Albert Gallatin, 9 November		689
To Robert R. Livingston, 9 November		690
From James Low, 9 November		691
To James Madison, 9 November		692
From James Stevens, 9 November		693
From Joseph Anderson and William Cocke, 10 November		694
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 10 November		694
From William Short, 10 November		695
From Albert Gallatin, 11 November		695
List of Interim Appointments from the State Department,
with Jefferson’s Queries, [on or before 11 November]		696
From George Maxwell, [11] November		700
To the Senate, 11 November		701
From Samuel Carr, 12 November		704
From Edmund Custis, 12 November		704
From Nicoll Fosdick, 12 November		705
From Albert Gallatin, [12 November]		707
Petition of Jacob Hoffman and Others,
with Jefferson’s Order, 12 November		708
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 12 November		710
From the Portsmouth, Virginia, Baptist Society,
12 November		710
From Caspar Wistar, 12 November		711
From George Wythe, 12 November		712
From Joseph Bloomfield, 14 November		712
From William P. Gardner, 14 November		714
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 14 November		717
From William Prentis, 14 November		717
From Benjamin Rawlings, 14 November		719
To the Senate and the House of Representatives,
14 November		721
From Abel Spencer, 14 November, enclosing
From Vermont General Assembly, [11 November]		721
From Lawrence Wartmann, 14 November		723
Jefferson’s Letters to David Williams		725
I.	To David Williams, 14 November	725
II.	To David Williams, 14 November	726
From Joseph Crockett, 15 November		728
From William Polk, 15 November		729
From John Tarver, 15 November		730

APPENDICES

Appendix I: List of Appointments, [11 July-15 November]		733
Appendix II: Letters Not Printed in Full		735
Appendix III: Letters Not Found		736
Appendix IV: Financial Documents		740
Index	743

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

Abbadie, Jean Jacques Blaise d', 326

Abd Allah ibn Ismail, Sultan of Morocco, 508

abolition, 308, 309n, 501n, 555-63, 586

Abu Bakr (caliph), 508

Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury

preparation of, 649, 675-6

presented to Congress, viii, 259n, 721

Account of the Contagious Epidemic Yellow Fever, which Prevailed in Philadelphia in the Summer and Autumn of 1797 (Felix Pascalis), 223n

Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (Samuel Johnson), 590, 594n

Accurate Chart of the Coast of West Florida, and the Coast of Louisiana (George Gauld), 248, 257-8n, 629n

Acton, Sir John Francis Edward, 219, 488

Adaes (Adais). See Los Adaes (Adais; Spanish presidio)

Adams (U.S. frigate), 284n

Adams, Fort

Choctaw treaty signed at, 402n

collector at, 426-7, 554-5, 584-5, 696, 703

officers ordered to, 295, 395

suggested as capital of Louisiana, 87-8

troops from, to take possession of Louisiana, New Orleans, x, 63, 65n, 84, 187, 318, 470, 620-1, 625, 634n

Adams, John

addresses to, 53, 54-5n

admiration of, 53

and arrest of D. Campbell, 157n

and D. Austin, 231

and District of Columbia, 420-1n, 517-19, 522-3n

late-term appointments, 160n, 701n, 709n

makes appointments, 19n, 20-1n, 23n, 25n, 271, 343n, 573n

relationship with Washington, 471

and use of U.S. ports by Britain, 259

Adams, John Quincy

attends horse races, xlv

and boundary convention with Great Britain, 602n, 703n

invited to dine with TJ, 550n

and Louisiana Purchase, 553-4n

as member of Eighth Congress, 547

Adams, Knowles, 457

Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson, 550n

Adams, Samuel

death of, 2, 513

health of, 414

as reference, 51, 240

Addington, Henry, 129n, 215, 217-18, 301

"Address of the Federal Republican Committee of Kent County, To the Electors of the same," 425-6n

Adventure (schooner), 3n, 37n

Africa

former glory of, 560

Age of Reason. Part the Second (Thomas Paine), 368, 369n, 705-6

Agricultural Museum, 243n

agriculture

agricultural societies, 231n, 243n, 364n

erosion, 678

Hessian fly, 486

need for agricultural education, 727

plows, 171-3, 230-1

promotion of, 727

soil exhaustion, 262, 263

tenants, 262, 263, 678-9

writings on, 243n

Aix, France, 211n

Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of (1748), 326

Akerly, Samuel, 223n

Alaska, 417n

Alatala Houma (Choctaw Indian), 643n

Albemarle Co., Va.

attorneys, 574n

courts, 346, 347, 349, 405n

merchants, 393n

midwives, 681n

postal service in, 680

alcoholism

among artisans, 352

among attorneys, 506, 507n

among Indians, 624n, 626

among officeholders, 342

among office seekers, 533n

among tenants, 679

Alert (schooner), 381

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 217, 607-9

Alexander, Andrew, 683n

Alexander, Charles

letter from, 708-9

and pardon for W. Galloway, 708-9

Alexander, Charles, Jr.

letter from, 708-9

and pardon for W. Galloway, 708-9

Alexander, John

identified, 683n

letter from, 681-3

sends proposal on mathematics book, 681-3

Alexander, Nathaniel, 546

Alexandria, D.C.

agricultural societies, 243n

collector at, 26n, 573n

Committee of Health, 430n, 434

cost of living in, 273-4

crime in, 80-2

education in, 242, 243n

jail, 591-3, 594n

justices of the peace, 594n, 709n

mayors, 709n

merchants, 80-2

as port for Washington, D.C., 644

shoemakers, 81

surveyor at, 26n

Va. laws pertaining to, 200

yellow fever in, 363, 429-30, 434, 460, 485, 592-3

Alexandria, Egypt, 480

Alexandria Academy, 243n

Alexandria Advertiser and Commercial Intelligencer, 430n

Algiers

animals, curiosities from, 483

annuity payments to, 50n, 530-1n

and Britain, 491

consul general at, 50, 62, 95, 698, 701

dey requests cannons, 529-31

and Portugal, 287n

ransoming of prisoners, 32, 33n, 447, 453n, 491

Ali (caliph), 508

aliens. See immigrants

Allen, Nathaniel, 570-1, 734

Allen, Phinehas, 60, 61n

Alston, Willis

identified, 571n

letter from, 570-1

as member of Eighth Congress, 546

recommends aspirants for office, 570-1

American Board of Agriculture, 364n

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York). See Cheetham, James

American Crisis (Thomas Paine), 705

American Magazine, 638n

American Medical and Philosophical Register (New York), 223n

American Patriot (Baltimore), 327, 328n

American Philosophical Society

elects members, 258n

and Louisiana boundaries, 322

officers, xli

receives communications, specimens, 293n, 430-1

secretary of, 172n

and TJ's moldboard plow, 171-2

American Revolution

apothecaries, 137n

and Beaumarchais claim, 384-5

in Boston, 51-2

British support for, 726n

commissaries, 287n

divinely inspired, 147-8n

and France, 365n, 478n, 604

inflation, currency depreciation, 671n

Kaskaskia campaign, 479, 480n

loans, financing of, 190, 241, 293

Loyalists, 719n, 721n

prisoners of war, 40n

privateers, 706n

in S.C., 199-200, 670

surgeons, 137n

in Va., 670, 671n, 719n

veterans of, 61n, 111n, 126, 142n, 231, 265n, 273, 287n, 365n, 493n, 639n, 671n, 680, 721n

in Vt., 721n

Amiens, Treaty of, 129n, 409n, 716n

Amite River, 177n

Amsterdam, 198n, 301

Anacostia River, 418-19, 420n, 519, 522n

Anderson, Isaac, 495n, 546, 550n

Anderson, Joseph

and arrest of D. Campbell, 157n

election to Senate, 358, 359n

letter from, 694

as member of Eighth Congress, 548

recommends aspirants for office, 694

Anderson, Nathaniel, 720

Anderson, Richard, 392, 393n, 698

Anderson, Robert, 437n

Andrews, Asa, 23

Andrews, George, 50n

Angelina River, 619n

Angerman, Johann Gotthilff

Anweisung, wie das Holz, 171

Anne (French ship), 198-9n, 235

Annual Message to Congress (1801), 438, 440

Annual Message to Congress (1802), 438

Annual Message to Congress (1803)

consideration of, by Congress, 539n

delivered in writing, 539n

drafting of, ix, 438-56

praise for, 597, 599, 616, 627

text of, 534-40

anteaters, 189n

antelopes, 483

Antwerp, 160n, 301, 699, 700n

Anweisung, wie das Holz zum Haus- und Schiffsbau so zubereitet werden könne, dass es vor Feuer, Faulniss und Wurmfrass (Johann Gotthilff Angerman), 171

Apalachicola River, 257n, 327, 335

Apology for the Bible (Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff), 368, 369n

Appleton, Thomas

dispatches to Madison, 234n, 236n, 259

and French import restrictions, 490

letter from, 283-4

letter to cited, 736

seeks appointment as commercial agent at Paris, 283-4

seeks to become navy agent, 236n

Aquia Creek, 423

Arab (British frigate), 153, 154n

Arabic, 509n, 530n

Aranjuez, Treaty of, 609-11

Arcambal, Louis, 598

Archer, John, 546

Archer, Thomas, 26n

architects. See Latrobe, Benjamin Henry; Lenthall, John

architecture

architectural ornaments, 49

Argus (Boston), 207n

Argus (U.S. brig), 224

Arkansas Post, 177n, 326

Arkansas River

exploration of, 137n, 323, 326, 329

included in Louisiana Purchase, 321

as Louisiana boundary, 244, 261, 288, 290

and Louisiana negotiations, 65n

salt deposits on, 326, 473

settlements on, 324, 326, 330

Arkansas Territory, 615n

armadillos, 189n

Armistead, Francis, 26n

Armstrong, John (1755-1816)

and Kosciuszko's lands, 41-2

letter to, 41-2

Armstrong, Gen. John, 87, 88n, 549n, 597

Armstrong, Thomas, 69

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

Arnold, Benedict, 241, 293, 510

art

exhibitions, xliv-xlv

landscape painting, 112n

panoramas, xliv-xlv

physiognotrace, 78, 79-80n, 311

portraitists, 311, 383n

Ashash, Abd al-Rahman, 283n, 673n

Astorg, Elisbeth Marie de Grassin d', 470n, 478

Astorg, Jacques Pierre Prothade Hippolyte d', 478

astronomy

meteors, 430-2

Atalanta (ship), 85

Atchafalaya River, 433n

Athabasca River, 92n

attar of roses, 483

attorneys

alcoholism among, 506, 507n, 590

education of, 394n, 575n

in Ky., 394n

in Louisiana, 253

TJ as, 503, 504-5n

Atwater, Jesse

letter from cited, 226n, 289n, 737

Aulnay, France, 309

Aupaumut, Hendrick, 643n

Aurora (Philadelphia), 148n, 218n

Austin, Benjamin, Jr.

letter from, 246-8

letter to, 83

recommends aspirants for office, 246-8

TJ sends summary of Louisiana treaty and conventions to, 83

Austin, David

letter from, 231-2

seeks appointment, 231-2

Austin, David, Sr. (1732-1801), 231

Austin, John P., 231

Australia, 417n

Austwick, Lancelot, 310, 311n

Auteuil, France, 42

Ax. See Dax (Ax), France

Ayers, Elisha, 265n

Azara, José Nicolás de, 327, 355, 356, 357n

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

17 July 1803

Petition of Ambrose Vasse and Others

A merchant whose store was broken into (but nothing stolen) and 51 other residents of Alexandria petition the president for clemency for Samuel Miller, a journeyman shoemaker who has been sentenced to death for the burglary.

3 September 1803

From Wilson Cary Nicholas

After conversing with Jefferson and considering Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, Nicholas argues that no amendment is necessary for the acquisition of Louisiana. He advises the president against issuing a public opinion that an amendment is needed.

7 September 1803

To Wilson Cary Nicholas

Although Jefferson maintains that a “safe & precise” interpretation would require amending the Constitution before adding new territory to the union, he gives up his insistence on an amendment for Louisiana.

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A

Abbadie, Jean Jacques Blaise d', 326

Abd Allah ibn Ismail, Sultan of Morocco, 508

abolition, 308, 309n, 501n, 555-63, 586

Abu Bakr (caliph), 508

Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury

preparation of, 649, 675-6

presented to Congress, viii, 259n, 721

Account of the Contagious Epidemic Yellow Fever, which Prevailed in Philadelphia in the Summer and Autumn of 1797 (Felix Pascalis), 223n

Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (Samuel Johnson), 590, 594n

Accurate Chart of the Coast of West Florida, and the Coast of Louisiana (George Gauld), 248, 257-8n, 629n

Acton, Sir John Francis Edward, 219, 488

Adaes (Adais). See Los Adaes (Adais; Spanish presidio)

Adams (U.S. frigate), 284n

Adams, Fort

Choctaw treaty signed at, 402n

collector at, 426-7, 554-5, 584-5, 696, 703

officers ordered to, 295, 395

suggested as capital of Louisiana, 87-8

troops from, to take possession of Louisiana, New Orleans, x, 63, 65n, 84, 187, 318, 470, 620-1, 625, 634n

Adams, John

addresses to, 53, 54-5n

admiration of, 53

and arrest of D. Campbell, 157n

and D. Austin, 231

and District of Columbia, 420-1n, 517-19, 522-3n

late-term appointments, 160n, 701n, 709n

makes appointments, 19n, 20-1n, 23n, 25n, 271, 343n, 573n

relationship with Washington, 471

and use of U.S. ports by Britain, 259

Adams, John Quincy

attends horse races, xlv

and boundary convention with Great Britain, 602n, 703n

invited to dine with TJ, 550n

and Louisiana Purchase, 553-4n

as member of Eighth Congress, 547

Adams, Knowles, 457

Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson, 550n

Adams, Samuel

death of, 2, 513

health of, 414

as reference, 51, 240

Addington, Henry, 129n, 215, 217-18, 301

"Address of the Federal Republican Committee of Kent County, To the Electors of the same," 425-6n

Adventure (schooner), 3n, 37n

Africa

former glory of, 560

See also Barbary states; Egypt

Age of Reason. Part the Second (Thomas Paine), 368, 369n, 705-6

Agricultural Museum, 243n

agriculture

agricultural societies, 231n, 243n, 364n

erosion, 678

Hessian fly, 486

need for agricultural education, 727

plows, 171-3, 230-1

promotion of, 727

soil exhaustion, 262, 263

tenants, 262, 263, 678-9

writings on, 243n

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Agriculture; tobacco

Aix, France, 211n

Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of (1748), 326

Akerly, Samuel, 223n

Alaska, 417n

Alatala Houma (Choctaw Indian), 643n

Albemarle Co., Va.

attorneys, 574n

courts, 346, 347, 349, 405n

merchants, 393n

midwives, 681n

postal service in, 680

alcoholism

among artisans, 352

among attorneys, 506, 507n

among Indians, 624n, 626