Volume 43

11 March to 30 June 1804

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Description

After the congressional session ends, Jefferson leaves Washington and goes home to Monticello, where his ailing daughter Mary dies on 17 April. Among the letters of condolence he receives is one from Abigail Adams that initiates a brief resumption of their correspondence. While in Virginia, Jefferson advances work on his mill and the house at Monticello and immerses himself in litigations involving land. Back in the capital, he finds that he must reconcile differing opinions of James Madison and Albert Gallatin to settle a claim for diplomatic expenses. He corresponds with Charles Willson Peale about modifications to the polygraph writing machine. He prepares instructions for an expedition to explore the courses of the Arkansas River and the Red River. William Clark and Meriwether Lewis send him maps and natural history specimens from St. Louis. The geographer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt visits Washington. News arrives that a daring raid led by Stephen Decatur, Jr., has burned the frigate Philadelphia to deprive Tripoli of its use. Jefferson is concerned that mediation by Russia or France to obtain the release of the ship’s crew could make the United States appear weak. Commodore Samuel Barron sails with frigates to reinforce the squadron in the Mediterranean. Jefferson appoints John Armstrong to succeed Robert R. Livingston as minister to France and attempts to persuade Lafayette to move to Louisiana. In Paris, Napoleon is proclaimed Emperor of the French. Jefferson has “brought peace to our Country and comfort to our Souls,” John Tyler writes from Virginia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Editorial Method and Apparatus	xv
Illustrations	xliii
Jefferson Chronology	2

1804

From Thomas Newton, 11 March		3
From James Ogilvie, 11 March		4
From John Wayles Eppes, 12 March		4
From Albert Gallatin, 12 March		5
From George Jefferson, 12 March		6
Statement of Account with John March, 12 March		6
To Christopher Smith, 12 March		7
From John Breckinridge, 13 March		8
To William Dunbar, 13 March		9
From Charles Willson Peale, 13 March		13
From Abram Trigg, 13 March		14
From William Findley, [14 March]		15
To Levi Lincoln, 14 March		17
From Anthony New and Robert Brown, 14 March		18
From Thomas Cooper, [before 15 March]		18
From Thomas Appleton, 15 March		19
To John Barnes, 15 March		22
To John Wayles Eppes, 15 March		22
From Albert Gallatin, 15 March		23
From Elbridge Gerry, 15 March		24
To the House of Representatives, 15 March		25
From James Monroe, 15 March		25
From Anthony New, 15 March		32
From John Smith of Ohio, [15 March]		32
From Samuel Tupper, 15 March		33
From Nathaniel Douglas, enclosing From Nathaniel Douglas, [before 16 March]		34
From Joseph Barnes, 16 March		38
From John Wayles Eppes, 16 March		39
From Lafayette, 16 March		40
To John Page, 16 March		41
To John Barnes, 17 March		42
To James Ogilvie, 17 March		42
From George Reynolds, 17 March		42
To William C. C. Claiborne, 18 March		45
From Richard Farquhar, 18 March		46
To George Jefferson, 18 March		48
From Charles Willson Peale, 18 March		49
From Gabriel Duvall, 19 March		50
From John Wayles Eppes, 19 March		50
From George Jefferson, 19 March		51
From William Kilty, 19 March		51
From Henry Moore, 19 March		52
From John Francis Renault, 19 March		53
From Robert Smith, 19 March		55
From Joseph Anderson and Others, [20 March]		55
From William Barnwell, 20 March		56
From Joseph Crockett, 20 March		56
From Henry Dearborn, 20 March		57
From Thomas T. Hewson, 20 March		58
From Petre Huerne, 20 March		58
From James Jackson, [20 March]		60
From Henri Peyroux de la Coudrèniere, 20 March		60
From Henri Peyroux de la Coudrèniere, 20 March		61
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 20 March		63
From John Sibley, 20 March		64
From John Thomson Mason, with Jefferson’s Query, 21 March		66
From John Smith of Ohio, [21 March]		67
From Henry Banks, 22 March		67
From Robert Banning, 22 March		68
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 March		69
From Henry Dearborn, 22 March		70
From Albert Gallatin, [22 March]		70
From George Jefferson, 22 March		71
To the Senate, 22 March		71
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 22 March		73
From Thomas Watkins, 22 March		73
From Caspar Wistar, 22 March		74
From Jacob Crowninshield, Ebenezer Seaver, and Richard Cutts, 23 March		75
From John Wayles Eppes, 23 March		76
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, with Jefferson’s Note, 23 March		76
From Israel B. Parshall, 23 March		77
To John Francis Vacher, 23 March		78
From Henry Dearborn, 24 March		78
From William Eaton, 24 March		80
From William Kilty and Nicholas Fitzhugh, with Jefferson’s Order, [24 March]		80
To the Senate, [24 March]		81
From Jacob Wagner, enclosing Agencies of a Diplomatic Nature, 24 March		82
To Elkanah Watson, 24 March		84
To Caspar Wistar, 24 March		84
From Thomas Worthington, with Jefferson’s Note, 24 March		85
To Thomas Worthington, 24 March		85
From Joseph Barnes, 25 March		86
To Nicholas Fitzhugh, 25 March		90
From Louis André Pichon, 25 March		91
To James Taylor, Jr., 25 March		91
From Henry Banks, enclosing Memorial on Proposed James River Tolls, 26 March		91
To William A. Burwell, 26 March		94
From William Cocke and Joseph Winston, 26 March		95
From Rufus Easton, 26 March		96
From John Wayles Eppes, 26 March		96
From Albert Gallatin, [26 March]		96
From Thomas Harris of Connecticut, 26 March		97
From James Jackson, 26 March		99
To George Jefferson, 26 March		100
From William Kennedy, 26 March		100
From Meriwether Lewis, 26 March		101
From Matthew Lyon, 26 March		103
From Henry Moore, 26 March		105
From John Smith of Ohio, 26 March		106
From John Smith of Ohio, 26 March		107
From Joseph Anderson and Others, [27 March]		107
From David Bard, 27 March		108
To John Barnes, 27 March		109
From Overton Carr, 27 March		109
From William Findley and John Smilie, [27 March]		110
From Nicholas Fitzhugh, 27 March		111
From Joseph Lewis, Jr., 27 March		112
To Benjamin Lincoln, 27 March		113
From John Rhea, 27 March		113
To the Senate, 27 March		113
From Robert Smith, 27 March		114
To Caspar Wistar, 27 March		114
From John Barnes, 28 March		115
From Henry Dearborn, [28 March]		115
To Albert Gallatin, 28 March, enclosing Memorandum on the Edward Stevens Claim, 23 March		116
From Albert Gallatin, 28 March		120
From Albert Gallatin, 28 March		123
From James Mease, 28 March		123
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 March		125
From Thomas Storm, 28 March		126
From Daniel Carroll Brent, enclosing Memorial of Alexandria Merchants, 29 March		126
From Nicholas Herbemont, 29 March		129
From George Jefferson, 29 March		130
To Jones & Howell, 29 March		130
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 29 March		131
From Craven Peyton, 29 March		137
From Ninian Pinkney, 29 March		137
To William C. C. Claiborne, 30 March		138
From Henry Dearborn, 30 March		139
To Nicholas Fitzhugh, 30 March		139
To Lafayette, 30 March		140
To Charles Willson Peale, 30 March		141
To Caesar A. Rodney, 30 March		142
From John Archer, 31 March		142
To Henry Banks, 31 March		143
Statement of Account with Thomas Carpenter, 31 March		143
Decision on the Sentence of Henry Muhlenberg, 31 March		144
To William Henry Harrison, 31 March		145
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 31 March		146
Order for Payment of Newspaper Subscriptions, 31 March		147
From John Page, 31 March		148
To Cato West, 31 March		149
To Henry Dearborn, 1 April		149
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 1 April		150
From Méry, 1 April		151
From John Condit, 2 April		152
From Edmund J. Lee, 3 April		153
From John Francis Vacher, 3 April		153
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 3 April		159
From John Dawson, 4 April		160
From Henry Dearborn, enclosing Apportionment of Expenditures for Arkansas River and Red River Expedition, 4 April		161
From Albert Gallatin, 5 April, enclosing Gallatin’s Opinion on the Edward Stevens Claim, 31 March		162
From Arthur Lee, 5 April		175
From James Madison, 5 April		176
From Thomas Munroe, 5 April		177
From William Few, 6 April		178
To George Jefferson, 6 April		179
From Samuel Emery, 7 April		180
From Albert Gallatin, 7 April		180
From Ephraim Kirby, 7 April		181
From Benjamin Lincoln, 7 April		182
To Ninian Pinkney, 7 April		182
To Henry Dearborn, 8 April		183
From Gideon Granger, 8 April		184
From John Barnes, 9 April		185
From Joseph Hinckley, 9 April		186
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 9 April		187
To James Madison, 9 April		188
To James Madison, 9 April		189
From James Madison, 9 April		190
Notes on Gallatin’s Opinion on the Edward Stevens Claim, [9 April or after]		192
From Caesar A. Rodney, 9 April		195
From William A. Barron, enclosing Memorial of William A. Barron, 10 April		196
From Jones & Howell, 10 April		198
To Ephraim Kirby, 10 April		198
To John B. Magruder, 10 April		199
To Thomas Munroe, 10 April		199
From Arthur O’Connor, 10 April		200
From Oliver Phelps, 10 April		200
From Thomas Stone, 10 April		204
To Thomas Storm, 10 April		204
From Madame de Tessé, 10 April		205
To Marten Wanscher, 10 April		208
From Herman Hendrik Damen, 11 April		208
From John Dawson, 11 April		211
From Ambrose Spencer, Thomas Tredwell, and Morgan Lewis, 11 April		211
From Elizabeth House Trist, [11 April]		212
From Henry Dearborn, 12 April		212
From Joseph Dougherty, 12 April		214
From Albert Gallatin, 12 April		214
From James Madison, 12 April		217
From James Nicholson, 12 April		218
From John Page, 12 April		218
From John Binns, 13 April		220
From Isaac Coffin, 13 April		221
To Gibson & Jefferson, 13 April		222
From Jones & Howell, [13 April]		223
To James Madison, 13 April		223
From Robert Maxwell, 13 April		224
From Paul Alliot, 14 April		224
To John Condit, 14 April		231
From Henry Dearborn, 14 April		231
To Samuel Emery, 14 April		232
Instructions for Arkansas River and Red River Expedition, 14 April		233
To George Jefferson, 14 April		238
From Sylvanus Bourne, 15 April		238
From William C. C. Claiborne, 15 April		239
To Henry Dearborn, 15 April		241
To William Dunbar, 15 April		242
To Albert Gallatin, 15 April		243
To Albert Gallatin, 15 April		245
To James Madison, 15 April		245
From James Madison, 15 April		247
To John Page, 15 April		249
From Albert Gallatin, 16 April		250
To Gideon Granger, 16 April		251
To William C. C. Claiborne, 17 April		253
To Henry Dearborn, 17 April		254
To Albert Gallatin, 17 April		255
From Levi Lincoln, 17 April		255
From Levi Lincoln, 17 April		256
To James Madison, 17 April		259
From John Freeman, [18 April]		259
From John Loder, Jr., 18 April		261
From Robert Patterson, 18 April		262
From Pierce Butler, 19 April		263
From Henry Dearborn, 19 April		263
From Albert Gallatin, 19 April		264
From James Garrard, 19 April		265
From Étienne Lemaire, 19 April		265
From James Madison, 19 April		266
From Robert Smith, 19 April		268
From John Barnes, 20 April		269
From John Brown, 20 April		269
From James Garrard, 20 April		271
From John Hollins, 20 April		272
From Ephraim Kirby, 20 April		272
James Madison’s Opinion on the Edward Stevens Claim, 20 April		274
From Richard Napier, 20 April		287
From John D’Antignac, 21 April		288
From Peter Delabigarre, 21 April		289
From George Logan, 22 April		290
Notes on Lease to Richard Gamble, 22 April		290
To Gideon Granger, 23 April		292
From John S. Hunter, 23 April		292
To James Madison, 23 April		292
To Charles Willson Peale, 23 April		293
From Thomas Rodney, 23 April		295
From Samuel Smith, [23] April		296
From the Ursuline Nuns of New Orleans, 23 April		297
From Guertin Lacoudre, 24 April		299
From Michael Krafft, 24 April		301
From James Madison, 24 April		302
From Robert Smith, 24 April		306
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 25 April		306
To James Lindsay, 25 April		308
From George Davis of Mississippi Territory, 26 April		309
From Gideon Granger, 26 April		313
From Francis Mulligan, 26 April		315
From James Scott, 26 April		316
From Thomas Worthington, 26 April		317
From George Cornell, [before 27 April]		317
To Paul Alliot, 27 April		320
From William C. C. Claiborne, 27 April, enclosing Petition of Peter Pedesclaux, April		320
To Henry Dearborn, 27 April		324
To Albert Gallatin, 27 April		324
To James Madison, 27 April		326
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 27 April		327
To Robert Smith, 27 April		328
From William Hollis, 28 April		329
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 28 April		330
To Robert Patterson, 28 April		331
From Volney, 28 April		332
To Michael Krafft, 29 April		334
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 29 April		335
From John Lithgow, 29 April		341
From Charles Willson Peale, 29 April		342
To Craven Peyton, 30 April		346
From William C. C. Claiborne, 1 May		346
From Ephraim Kirby, 1 May		348
From John Barnes, 2 May		352
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, [2 May]		352
From William A. Burwell, 3 May		353
From Philip Carrigain, Jr., 3 May		354
From William C. C. Claiborne, 3 May		356
From Albert Gallatin, 3 May		357
To George Jefferson, 3 May		358
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 3 May		359
Declaration of Trust with Craven Peyton, 4 May		360
To Albert Gallatin, 4 May		361
From Richard T. Hanson, [on or before 4 May]		362
Bill in Chancery of Craven Peyton against John Henderson and Others		363
I.	Notes on Injunction against John Henderson, [after 8 March]	366
II.	Notes on Agreement between Elizabeth Henderson and John Henderson, [after 8 March]	367
III.	Notes on Henderson Land Deeds, [after 30 April]	368
IV.	Draft Checklist of Preparations, [before 5 May]	370
V.	Checklist of Preparations, [before 5 May]	372
VI.	Draft Bill in Chancery, [on or before 5 May]	373
VII.	Bill in Chancery, 5 May	383
From William A. Burwell, 5 May		392
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 5 May		392
From Louis Pio, 6 May		394
From Paul Alliot, 7 May		396
From George Clinton, 7 May		397
From John Coles, 7 May		397
From Volney, 7 May		398
To George Jefferson, 8 May		399
From Craven Peyton, [on or before 8 May]		400
To Craven Peyton, 8 May		401
From John Vaughan, 8 May		401
To William A. Burwell, 9 May		402
From Benjamin Ragsdale, 9 May		403
To John Lithgow, 10 May		404
From Margaret Mitchell, with Jefferson’s Order, 10 May		404
From Samuel Emery, 11 May		409
From Albert Gallatin, 11 May		409
From Albert Gallatin, 11 May		411
From Michael Krafft, 11 May		412
From William Henry Harrison, 12 May		413
From Peter Kuhn, Jr., 12 May		414
From Francis Mulligan, enclosing Party Affiliation of South Carolina State Senators, 12 May		415
From François Navoni, 12 May		417
From James S. Smith, 12 May		421
From Aaron Vail, 12 May		422
From John Dawson, 13 May		423
From William Dunbar, 13 May		423
From Michael Fortune, [before 14] May		425
From Rufus Briggs, 14 May		426
From Albert Gallatin, 14 May		427
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 May		427
From Thomas Rodney, 14 May		428
From William West, 14 May		435
From Jean Louis Fernagus de Gelone, 15 May		436
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 15 May		438
To Charles Willson Peale, 15 May		439
To James Taylor, Jr., 15 May		440
Topics for Consultation with Heads of Departments, 15 May		440
To John Beckley, 16 May		443
To Jones & Howell, 16 May		443
Pardon of James Medcalfe, 16 May		444
From Robert Smith, 16 May		444
Topics for Consultation with the Secretary of War, 16 May		445
From James J. Wilson, 16 May		446
From Robert Banning, 17 May		447
From Joseph Clay, 17 May		447
From Edward Richards, 17 May		448
From William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, 18 May		450
From George Jefferson, 18 May		454
Notes on Salines in the Territory of the Osages, [18 May?]		454
From Robert Smith, 18 May		456
To John Vaughan, 18 May		457
From Dabney Carr, 19 May		457
From Charles Willson Peale, 19 May		458
From Abigail Adams, 20 May		458
From William C. C. Claiborne, 20 May		460
To John Barnes, 21 May		461
From Jean Frignet de Fermagh, 21 May		461
To Henry Fry, 21 May		462
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 21 May		463
From Thomas Newton, 21 May		464
To Charles Willson Peale, 21 May		464
Statement on the Legal Action against Richard Johnson, 21 May		465
From Thomas Storm, 21 May		469
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 22 May		470
Notes on Curing Herring, 22 May		471
From Edmund Searcy, 22 May		471
To John Barnes, 23 May		472
From John Devereux DeLacy, 23 May		473
From Robert Fulton, 23 May		474
From Benjamin Parke, 23 May		475
From Robert Smith, 23 May		476
To Dabney Carr, 24 May		476
To Lewis Deblois, 24 May		476
To James Dinsmore, 24 May		477
From James Fleming, 24 May		478
From Alexander von Humboldt, 24 May		478
From Charles Willson Peale, 24 May		482
From Thomas Rodney, 24 May		483
From Thomas Appleton, 25 May		485
From Charles Biddle, James Gamble, and John Douglass, 25 May		486
From Joseph Nourse, 25 May		487
From John Page, 25 May		488
From Gurdon F. Saltonstall, 25 [May]		489
From William Scales, 25 May		489
To John Armstrong of New York, 26 May		490
From William Lee, 26 May		492
From Peter Lenox, with Jefferson’s Notes, 26 May		492
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 26 May		494
From George Leaycraft, 27 May		494
From Levi Lincoln, 27 May		495
From Thomas Munroe, 27 May		496
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 28 May		499
From Isaac Briggs, 28 May		499
From Arthur Fenner, 28 May		499
From William Henry Harrison, 28 May		500
To Alexander von Humboldt, 28 May		501
To Thomas Munroe, 28 May		501
From Benjamin Rush, 28 May		502
From Thomas Seymour, 28 May		503
From William C. C. Claiborne, with Jefferson’s Note, 29 May		504
Memorandum on Appointments, 29 May		506
From James Patton, 29 May		507
From Robert Smith, 29 May		508
From John Vaughan, 29 May		508
From Caspar Wistar, 29 May		509
To Charles Biddle, 30 May		510
To Albert Gallatin, 30 May		510
From Albert Gallatin, 30 May		511
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 30 May		513
Proclamation Establishing the District of Mobile, 30 May		513
From Robert Smith, 30 May		514
To Samuel Barron, 31 May		514
From Gabriel Duvall, 31 May		516
From Louis André Pichon, [31 May]		516
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 May		517
From Robert Wright, 31 May		518
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [after 31 May]		518
Notes on Edward Turner, [before 1 June]		519
From Henry Dearborn, 1 June		520
From William Dunbar, 1 June		523
From Theodore Foster, 1 June		524
To Albert Gallatin, 1 June		525
From John Page, 1 June		525
From James B. Richardson, 1 June		526
From Robert Smith, 1 June		527
From John Armstrong of New York, 2 June		527
From John Forbes, 2 June		528
From Hore Browse Trist, 2 June		528
From William C. C. Claiborne, 3 June		529
To Nicholas Collin, 3 June		531
To Henry Dearborn, 3 June		531
From Charles Willson Peale, [3 June]		532
From Henry Dearborn, 4 June		533
To John Wayles Eppes, 4 June		534
From John Hill, 4 June		535
Instructions on Architectural Ornaments for George Andrews, 4 June		536
From George Jefferson, 4 June		537
From Robert Smith, 4 June		537
From Caspar Wistar, 4 June		538
To Isaac Briggs, 5 June		539
From David Gelston, 5 June		540
To John McAllister, 5 June		540
From Archibald Stuart, 5 June		541
From Charles Biddle, 6 June		541
From Nathaniel Chapman, 6 June		541
To Henry Dearborn, 6 June		542
From Albert Gallatin, 6 June		543
From Albert Gallatin, 7 June		544
From Albert Gallatin, 7 June		544
From David Gelston, 7 June		546
To Gideon Granger, 7 June		547
From Bentinck Hastings, 7 June		547
To James Taylor, Jr., 7 June		548
To Caspar Wistar, 7 June		548
From Henry Dearborn, 8 June		549
From Anthony Fothergill, 8 June		550
To Albert Gallatin, 8 June		550
To John Page, 8 June		551
From Theodorus Bailey, 9 June		551
From Henry Fry, 9 June		552
To Albert Gallatin, 9 June		554
To Alexander von Humboldt, 9 June		554
Memorandum from Alexander von Humboldt, [on or after 9 June]		555
To Mustafa Baba, Dey of Algiers, 9 June		557
From Robert Smith, 9 June		559
To Theodorus Bailey, 10 June		560
From J. F. Girod & Chol, 10 June		561
From John Tyler, 10 June		564
To Isaac Briggs, 11 June		568
To Joseph Donath, 11 June		568
From Albert Gallatin, 11 June		569
To Thomas Leiper, 11 June		571
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 June		571
To Henry Sheaff, 11 June		572
From James Wilkinson, enclosing Wilkinson’s Queries on Texas and Mexico, 11 June		573
To Nathaniel Chapman, 12 June		574
To Albert Gallatin, 12 June		574
Opinion on the Edward Stevens Claim, 12 June		575
To Abigail Adams, 13 June		578
From Anonymous, [on or before 13 June]		580
From Isaac Coffin, 13 June		581
To James Dinsmore, 13 June		581
From John Wayles Eppes, 14 June		582
To Albert Gallatin, 14 June		584
From Albert Gallatin, 14 June		585
From Albert Gallatin, 14 June		585
From William C. Jenckes, 14 June		587
To Charles Willson Peale, 14 June		588
From Caesar A. Rodney, 14 June		589
From the State Department, [on or before 14 June]		589
To Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 15 June		590
From William C. C. Claiborne, 15 June		592
From Jonathan Dayton, 15 June		593
To Albert Gallatin, 15 June		594
From John Hyndman, 15 June		594
To James Madison, 15 June		595
From Philip Mazzei, 15 June		595
From François Navoni, 15 June		600
From Charles Willson Peale, 15 June		601
To Tompson J. Skinner, 15 June		602
To Robert Smith, 15 June		602
To Archibald Thweatt, 15 June		603
From James W. Wallace, [before 16 June]		604
From Theodorus Bailey, 16 June		605
From James Belsches, 16 June		606
To Albert Gallatin, 16 June		607
From Albert Gallatin, [on or before 16 June]		607
From David Gelston, 16 June		608
To Francis Peyton, 16 June		608
From Thomas Rodney, 16 June		608
From Amos Stoddard, 16 June		609
From Theodorus Bailey, 17 June		610
To Henry Fry, 17 June		611
From Robert Smith, 17 June		612
To James W. Wallace, 17 June		613
From Thomas Worthington, 17 June		613
From John Page, 18 June		614
From Charles Willson Peale, 18 June		616
From Francis Peyton, 18 June		616
To Albert Gallatin, 19 June		617
From James Wilkinson, [on or before 19 June]		617
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 20 June		618
From Joseph Bloomfield, 20 June		618
To Richard Cutts, 20 June		619
From Joseph Donath, 20 June		619
To David Gelston, 20 June		620
To Gibson & Jefferson, 20 June		620
From John Innes, 20 June		621
From Lafayette, 20 June		622
From Levi Lincoln, 20 June		623
To Charles Willson Peale, 20 June		625
To Theodorus Bailey, 21 June		625
To the President of the Branch Bank of the United States in Washington, enclosing Demand for the Delivery of Two Fugitives, and Authorization to Take Fugitives into Custody, 21 June		626
To John Page, 21 June		627
From Christiana de Hanstein, 22 June		628
From William Keteltas, 22 June		628
From “An American Citizen,” [23 June]		632
To Henry Dearborn, 23 June		635
From Albert Gallatin, 23 June		635
To James Dinsmore, 24 June		638
To Joseph Donath, 24 June		639
From William Henry Harrison, 24 June		640
To Levi Lincoln, 24 June		642
To James Madison, 24 June		644
From Charles Willson Peale, 24 June		644
From George W. Erving, 25 June		646
From Levi Lincoln, 25 June		646
From Philip Mazzei, 25 June		650
To John Page, 25 June		652
From John Page, 25 June		653
From Theodorus Bailey, 26 June		654
From Joel Barlow, 26 June		654
From William C. C. Claiborne, 26 June		655
To Albert Gallatin, 26 June		657
To Henry Dearborn, 27 June		657
From Henry Dearborn, 27 June		658
To Albert Gallatin, 27 June		658
From Albert Gallatin, 27 June		659
From Alexander von Humboldt, 27 June		660
To Lafayette, 27 June		661
From Charles Willson Peale, 28 June		663
From Robert Smith, 28 June		664
From William Thornton, 28 June		664
To John Tyler, 28 June		666
To John Armstrong of New York, 29 June		667
From David Leonard Barnes, 29 June		667
Statement of Account with Isaac Cooper, 29 June		669
To Henry Dearborn, 29 June		669
To Christopher Ellery, 29 June		670
To Bishop James Madison, 29 June		670
To Napoleon, Emperor of the French, 29 June		671
From Jonathan Russell, 29 June, enclosing Memorial from Providence, Rhode Island, 28 June		672
To Markes Vandewall, 29 June		675
Memorandum from Thomas Munroe, 30 June		675
From James Parker, 30 June		676
From Levi Shepherd & Sons, [30 June]		676

APPENDICES

Appendix I: List of Appointments, [12 March-30 June]		679
Appendix II: List of Candidates for Office in Louisiana, [ca. March-June]		682
Appendix III: Letters Not Printed in Full		690
Appendix IV: Letters Not Found		691
Appendix V: Financial Documents		695

Index

697

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’, 190, 191n

Abington, Md., 330n

Acapulco, 479, 481

Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury, 10

“Acquisition of Louisiana” (Michael Fortune), xliii-xliv, 406 (illus.), 425-6

Acton, Sir John Francis Edward, 38

Adams (U.S. frigate), 587n

Adams, Abigail

letter from, 458-9

letter to, 578-80

relationship with Mary Jefferson, x, 458-9, 578-9, 584

sends condolences to TJ, x, 458-9, 534

TJ’s continued affection for, x-xi, 534-5, 579-80

Adams, Charles, 459n

Adams, Fort, 24n, 273

Adams, Henry, xliii

Adams, John

and arming of merchant vessels, 545, 546n

late-term appointments, 535, 579

makes appointments, 16, 17n, 128n

opens trade with Saint-Domingue, 174n

TJ’s continued affection for, x, 535, 579, 584

Adams, John Quincy, 83, 197n, 276, 605n, 673n

Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson, xliii

Adams, Thomas, 147, 148n

Addington, Henry, 27

Addison, Alexander

letter from cited, 691

Address, Pronounced at Worcester, on May 12th, 1804, in Commemoration of the Cession of Louisiana to the United States, 495-6

Adriatic Sea, 87

Agricoltore sperimentato (Cosimo Trinci), 21

Agricultural Society of South Carolina, 130n

agriculture

advice on transporting plants, 409

agricultural societies, 21, 69n, 130n, 485

distilling, 301-2, 334-5, 412

enclosure movement, 204n

in Great Britain, 124, 204

northern compared to southern, 124

olive culture, 69-70

in Pennsylvania, 124

plows, 123-5

statistical tables on, 659n

tenants, tenancy, 466

viticulture, 20-1, 22n, 130n, 485, 540

wheat weevils, 270

writings on, 21-2, 204

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Agriculture; sugar; tobacco

Aitken, Jane, 401, 402n

Aitken, Robert, 401

Alabama River, 214n, 273

Albano Laziale, Italy, 137n

Albany Register, 147, 148n

Albemarle Co., Va.

courts, 137, 363-5, 373, 468-9n

emigrants from, 287n

Enniscorthy estate, 397-8n

Albion (brig), 306-7

alcoholism

among officeholders, 446n, 463n

among office seekers, 32-3, 122, 685, 686, 688n

Aleutian Islands, 158n

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia

identified, 591n

and indemnification for king of Sardinia, 421n

intercedes on behalf of crew of the Philadelphia, ix, 267-8, 302, 326, 327, 328, 329, 590-2, 648

letter to, 590-2

and Mazzei, 305n, 597, 599

praised by TJ, 327, 328

reputation as a reformer, 305n

TJ’s admiration for, 591

Alexandria, Bank of, 128n, 507n

Alexandria, D.C.

banks, 128n, 507n

collector at, 8, 52-3, 105-6, 126-9, 507n, 587n

courts, 66

Federalists in, 128-9n

grocers, 51

insurance companies, 128n, 507n

marine hospital, 586, 587n

merchants, 126-9, 477n, 507n

newspapers, 147, 148n

notaries, 52

Republicans in, 128-9n

Republicans seek removal of collector at, 8n

roads to, from, 111-12

St. Andrew’s Society, 507n

Washington Society, 128-9n

See also District of Columbia

Alexandria Expositor, 147, 148n

Alexandria Merchants

memorial from, 128-9

oppose removal of collector, 128-9

Algiers

annuity payments to, 557-9, 651, 652n

appropriation for treaty with, 277

J. Barlow’s negotiations with, 83n, 117-18, 120n

Alicante, Spain, 290n

aliens. See immigrants

Alleghany (ship), 406, 408n

Allen, Hannibal M., 658

Allen, James (Ky.), 104

Allen, Robert, 104

Alliot, médecin . . . Aux habitans de la commune de Lorient et à tous le Francais (Paul Alliot), 225, 227, 229n, 320

Alliot, Paul

identified, 230n

letters from, 224-30, 396-7

letter to, 320

sends writings, seeks TJ’s intercession, 224-30, 320, 396-7

Allison, David, 473

Alston, Mr. (Miss. Terr.), 608

Alston, Willis, 683

Alzas, Françoise, 297

Amazon River, 479, 480, 482n, 509

Ambler, Edward, 693

American, and Baltimore Gazette, 147, 148n

“American Citizen”

identified as Derbigny, 634n

letter from, 632-4

reports Spanish payments to Wilkinson, 632-4

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York), 147, 148n, 203n

See also Cheetham, James

American Distiller (Michael Krafft), 301-2, 334-5, 412

American Medical Association, 542n

American Mercury (Hartford), 147, 148n

American Philosophical Society

and award of premiums, 508, 509n

elects members, 401-2, 457, 499n, 508, 542n, 550n

and Humboldt, 499n

and Louisiana Purchase, 58

Magellanic Fund, 508, 509n

publishes Transactions, 340, 398, 399, 401-2, 457, 508, 523, 524n

receives communications, specimens, 9, 84, 524n, 538, 539n, 568

revises by-laws, 508, 509n

and TJ’s moldboard plow, 123-4

American Revolution

black military service in, xi, 97-8

bounty and pension claims, 42-5

campaign against Iroquois, 158n

in Conn., 97-8, 503

Continental navy, 218n

depicted in art, 53-4

and France, 288, 289n

inflation, currency depreciation, 43-5

list of Continental Army officers, 70, 78, 153-4, 156-7

Loyalists, 36n, 349

Newburgh conspiracy, 491n

in N.Y., 628-9

poetry composed to commemorate, 158n

veterans of, 8, 18n, 33n, 42-5, 52, 95n, 97-8, 106, 110n, 218n, 288, 289n, 487n, 489n, 491n, 494-5, 503, 504n, 518n, 610n

American Revolution in, 349

Amherst, Sir Jeffery, 318, 319n

Amite River, 461n

Ammidon, Otis

signs memorial, 674

Amsterdam, 209, 210n

and Bowen’s anti-slavery charge to Ga. grand jury, 403

Anderson, Isaac, 684, 688n

Anderson, John (N.Y.), 551, 552n, 628

Anderson, Joseph

letters from, 55-6, 107-8

recommends aspirants for office, 55-6, 107-8, 683

Anderson, Mary Wilkinson, 628

Andes Mountains, 479, 481

Andrews, George

TJ’s instructions to, for architectural ornaments, 536

Annual Register (Great Britain), 190, 191n

anonymous letters

convey vulgar, threatening messages, viii, 580

Antiquities of Athens (James Stuart and Nicholas Revett), xliv, 134, 136-7n, 336

anti-Semitism, 610

Antwerp, 622

Apple Creek, 640

Appleton, Thomas

and Ceracchi claim, 19-20

criticism of, 86

forwards vines, plants to TJ, 20-1, 180, 232, 409, 485, 540, 546

letters from, 19-22, 485-6

letter to cited, 22n

reports misuse of U.S. passports, 485-6

and wine for TJ, 20-2, 485, 486, 540

Appomattox River, 604n

Arabic language, 48n, 154

Arcambal, Louis, 560, 610

Archer, John

letter from, 142-3

recommends aspirants for office, 142-3

Archer, John R., 159

architecture

Attic order, xliv-xlv, 134, 336, 340n

Corinthian order, xlv, 187, 336, 340n

Doric order, xliv-xlv, 134-5, 136-7n, 187, 336-7

Ionic order, 187

Monument of Lysicrates, 340-1n

Pantheon, 639

Theater of Marcellus, 134, 137n

Tower of the Winds, xliv, 134, 136-7n, 336, 340-1n

See also Capitol, U.S.; Jefferson, Thomas: Architecture; Monticello; President’s House

Argand, François Pierre Ami, 601n

Argo (French brig), 176n, 445n

Argote Villalobos, Antonio, 635-8

Argus (U.S. brig), 508n

“Aristides” (pseudonym). See Van Ness, William P.

Aristotle

Logica, 7

Arkansas Post, 237n, 413, 640, 641

Arkansas River

exploration of, ix, 11-12, 74n, 129, 149-50, 161-2, 331, 424-5, 471-2

salt deposits on, 430, 451, 454-5

TJ’s instructions for expedition on, 233-8, 241, 242-3, 263

wildlife on, 103, 451

Arkwright, Sir Richard, 547

Armesto. See López de Armesto, Andrés de

Armstrong, George

letter from cited, 692

Armstrong, John (1755-1816)

and Kosciuszko’s lands, 85n

letter to cited, 691

Armstrong, Gen. John

appointed minister to France, ix, 490-1, 527, 572, 612, 681

candidate for office in Louisiana, 682

and French interposition on behalf of Philadelphia crew, 247n

identified, 491n

instructions for, 667

invited to dine with TJ and Madison, 667

letter from, 527

letters to, 490-1, 667

recommends aspirants for office, 683

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

Arno River, 87

Arrowsmith, Aaron

“Map of the United States of North America,” xlvi-xlvii

Ars poetica (Horace), 136, 137n

art

busts, 20, 22n

patronage for, 53-4

physiognotrace, 601

silhouettes, 601

Ashley, Warren

letter from cited, 693

Asia

land bridge with America, 156

Ast, William Frederick, 436n

Astor, John Jacob, 41n

Astronomie (Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande), 568

astronomy

calculation of longitude, 479, 480, 490, 568

Atchafalaya River, 10, 12n, 138, 139n, 140-1, 460, 662

Athens

architecture of, 134, 136-7n

Tower of the Winds, 136-7n, 336, 340n

attorneys

accused of misconduct, 519-20

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Law

Augusta, Ga., 288

Aurora (Philadelphia), 174n

See also Duane, William

Aurora (schooner), 126

Austin, Moses

and lead mines in Louisiana, 453n, 609-10

Summary Description, 610n

Auvergne, France, 289n

Azara, José Nicolás de, 303, 305n

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

18 April 1804

From John Freeman

Enslaved servant John Freeman worries about the fate of his intended bride after the death of Mary Jefferson Eppes.

20 May 1804

From Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams, sharing the pain of parental loss of a child, breaks a long silence with Jefferson to offer condolences on the death of his daughter Mary Jefferson Eppes.

4 June 1804

To John Wayles Eppes

Jefferson writes his son-in-law about his intentions to honor his grandchildren’s land inheritance at Pantops, encloses a letter received from Abigail Adams, and asserts that his only disagreement with John Adams was over the “midnight appointments.”

9 June 1804

To Mustafa Baba, Dey of Algiers

Jefferson commends the Algerian ruler’s “attachment to the Treaty which binds us together,” promises to send cannons and naval stores, and reports that additional U.S. frigates will be sent to the Mediterranean Sea in a show of strength against Tripoli.

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