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Waddell, Mr. (of Philadelphia), 1:376, 1:457

wafers (for sealing letters)

  • TJ orders, 4:647

Wafford's Settlement (Tellico Garrison)

  • treaty of, 1:6–7

Wager, Sir Charles

  • refuses medicine, 4:102

Wagner, Jacob

  • editor of Federal Republican, 3:261–263, 3:298
  • hostility to TJ, 3:261–263, 3:298
  • identified, 3:262n
  • letter from Law, 3:261–262
  • letter to Barry, 3:262–263

wagons

  • repair of, 1:3

Waite, G. & R. (Baltimore firm)

  • lottery office of, 4:391, 4:392n

waiters (trays), 4:231n

Wakely, Andrew

  • The Mariner's Compass Rectified, 4:244

Walcheren Island

  • British invasion of, 1:529, 1:530n, 1:592, 1:593n, 2:7, 2:9n, 2:246n

Walker, Dr.

  • R. Jefferson's physician, 4:416, 4:607

Walker, Elizabeth Moore (John Walker's wife)

  • death of, 4:35
  • health of, 1:500
  • overseer for, 3:36
  • relations with TJ, 1:279n, 1:499n

Walker, James

  • identified, 3:293n
  • letters from, 3:359, 3:520–521, 4:50, 4:144, 4:200–201, 4:661–662
  • letter to, 3:293
  • and mill construction, 3:293, 3:359, 3:520–521, 4:50, 4:51, 4:144–146, 4:200–201, 4:661–662

Walker, John

  • death of, 4:35
  • illness of, 1:498–499, 1:500
  • relations with TJ, 1:279n, 1:499n, 1:500

Walker, Thomas, 1:157n

Wallace, James Westwood

  • identified, 1:57n
  • letters from, 1:56–58, 3:368
  • letter to, 1:466
  • seeks sesame seeds, 3:368
  • sends geese to TJ, 1:56, 1:466
  • sends plants to TJ, 1:56–57
  • TJ sends cigars to, 1:466

Wallcut, Thomas, 1:673n

Waller, Benjamin Carter

  • agent for Robert Cary & Company, 2:349–350, 2:497

walnut (Juglandaceae)

  • cataloged by Michaux, 4:524, 4:525n

Walnut Street prison (Philadelphia), 1:383, 1:384n

Walpole, Sir Robert, 1:512, 3:238

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Walsh, Peter

  • identified, 3:505n
  • letter from, 4:189–190
  • letter from forwarded, 4:325, 4:326n
  • letter to, 3:505
  • letter to I. Coles, 4:529–530
  • mentioned, 3:538, 3:539
  • TJ on, 3:512
  • TJ orders wine from, 3:505, 3:512, 4:189, 4:528, 4:529–530, 4:592, 4:666

Walsh, Robert

  • A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government, 3:190n, 3:199, 3:200n

wampompeke (Indian currency), 1:334, 1:369

Wanostrocht, Nicolas

  • A Grammar of the French Language, with Practical Exercises, 2:27n

Ward, Mrs. (Lynchburg)

  • tavern of, 1:671

Ward, Seth: Lynchburg postmaster, 3:103, 3:104n

Warden, David Bailie

  • accused of selling French licenses, 3:539, 3:540n
  • admired by Europeans, 3:107–108, 3:114
  • and Armstrong, 1:141n, 3:107–108, 3:248, 3:251, 3:279–280, 3:309, 3:330, 3:340, 3:463, 3:538–539, 3:542, 3:557–558
  • assists Vauquelin in tobacco experiments, 1:142
  • carries seeds from Thoüin, 3:419n
  • carries TJ's letters to France, 3:443, 3:444n, 3:512, 3:538, 3:554, 3:564, 3:566, 3:616, 3:619, 3:627, 4:35, 4:36, 4:56, 4:189, 4:202, 4:325–326
  • A Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia, 4:19, 4:20n
  • and consular nomination, 1:26, 1:207, 1:208n, 1:317, 1:536, 3:250–251, 3:260, 3:292, 3:312–313, 3:340, 3:427, 3:459, 3:463, 3:503, 3:512, 3:521, 3:538–539, 3:599, 4:30, 4:33
  • departure for France delayed, 4:26, 4:28–29, 4:35, 4:36
  • and Destutt de Tracy letter, 3:443, 3:444n, 3:538
  • and Destutt de Tracy's work on Montesquieu, 4:54, 4:202, 4:436, 4:446, 4:609
  • and fiorin grass, 3:280n, 3:294–295, 3:339–340, 4:159, 4:175, 4:187
  • on foreign relations, 3:274
  • forwards chest to TJ, 1:627
  • and Humboldt, 3:557–558n
  • identified, 1:141n
  • letters from, 1:140–141, 1:207–209, 1:316–317, 1:535–536, 1:629–630, 2:161–162, 2:406, 3:250–251, 3:260, 3:279–280, 3:308–310, 3:312–313, 3:339–341, 3:427, 3:464, 3:538–540, 3:557–558, 4:19–20, 4:54–55, 4:325–326
  • letters from mentioned, 1:344, 1:359
  • letters to, 2:536–537, 3:292, 3:294–295, 3:443–444, 3:512, 3:619, 4:33, 4:35–36, 4:36
  • letters to mentioned, 2:333, 2:544
  • mentioned, 2:530, 3:316, 3:505–506
  • Observations on Robin's Travels, 3:557, 3:558n
  • and remittances to Kosciuszko, 4:418, 4:576
  • sends books, 1:613n, 1:629–630
  • sends books to American Philosophical Society, 1:452
  • sends dynamometer to TJ, 2:333
  • sends publications to TJ, 2:161–162, 2:406, 3:41n, 3:220, 3:221n, 3:260, 3:279, 3:280n, 3:308–309, 3:393, 3:464, 3:512, 3:562, 4:19, 4:325–326, 4:574–575
  • sends seeds to TJ, 1:141, 2:162, 2:536
  • "Sulphate of lime of Onondago, State of New-York," 3:333n
  • TJ on, 3:248–249
  • translates Callet's work, 1:316–317, 1:629–630, 4:148
  • translates Eulogium on Marcus Aurelius, 3:309, 3:310n
  • translates Vauquelin's tobacco experiments, 1:142–152, 1:482, 1:608–609
  • U.S. consul at Paris, 4:529
  • visits Monticello, 3:273
  • writes about magnolia bark and upas tree, 3:280n

Warden, John, 2:84, 2:85n

War Department, U.S.

  • and batture controversy, 2:426, 2:427, 2:435
  • chief clerk (See Smith, John (chief clerk of War Department))
  • clerks at, 2:142
  • Dearborn, Henry
  • Eustis, William
  • fire at, 3:68, 3:69n, 3:73
  • forwards publication to TJ, 1:571
  • letters of recommendation sent to, 2:304, 2:315, 4:376, 4:483, 4:516
  • offer to supply duck cloth to, 2:99
  • and Spring Hill School (Mich. Territory), 2:55–57, 2:58n

Wardlaw, William

  • and apothecary supplies, 3:183, 3:200
  • identified, 3:183n
  • letter from, 3:200
  • letter to, 3:183
  • as surety for G. Jefferson, 4:277n, 4:278n, 4:325

Waring, Mr., 2:543

Warminster, Va., 3:103

Warm Springs (Bath Co.)

  • proposed visit to, 4:90, 4:132

Warner (M. Daingerfield's slave), 3:112

Warrell, James, 2:93, 2:94n

Warren, Mercy Otis

  • History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, 1:37, 1:581

Warren, Va.

  • decline of, 3:104
  • grocery at, 2:453
  • industrial complex at, 1:223n
  • TJ visits, 2:329

Warwick, Corbin

  • witnesses document, 4:278n

Warwick, Daniel, 3:550

Warwick, William S.

  • witnesses document, 4:278n

Wash, Robert

  • identified, 3:418n
  • introduces Crafts, 3:418
  • introduces J. T. Mason, 4:53
  • letter from, 3:418, 4:7–8, 4:53
  • letter to, 3:616
  • sends map, 3:418, 3:616
  • sends newspaper to TJ, 4:7–8

Washington, Bushrod, 1:195n

Washington, D.C.

  • bank of, 1:30n, 1:481, 1:535
  • Blodget's Hotel, 4:577
  • calculation of prime meridian for, 1:275–276, 1:356–359, 1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534, 1:551
  • Capitol (See Capitol, U.S.)
  • Capitol Hill, 3:289–290
  • citizens of, address TJ, 1:11–12
  • Colvin on politics in, 3:359–360
  • digest of city code, 1:632, 1:633n
  • fever in, 3:63, 3:64n, 4:200
  • groceries available in, 4:630, 4:685
  • Lindsey's Hotel, 1:359n
  • longitude of, 4:236, 4:275–276, 4:651–660
  • Long's Hotel, 1:10n, 2:250, 2:251n
  • newspaper (See National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C. newspaper))
  • population increase, 4:27
  • proposed botanical garden in, 4:426–428, 4:535, 4:563–564n
  • proposed national bank at, 3:391
  • Rhodes' Hotel, 1:357, 4:275
  • snowfall in, 2:71
  • and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:228
  • and supplies for TJ, 4:26–28, 4:630, 4:685
  • Tammany Society of, 2:399, 2:541, 2:566
  • TJ addresses citizens of, 1:13–14
  • weather in, 4:26, 4:32
  • wool from TJ's flock analyzed at, 2:492

Washington, George

  • appointments of, 1:43n
  • assists Chamberlain, 4:15
  • cabinet of, 2:70, 2:272, 2:273–274n, 4:389n
  • and Continental Congress, 4:601
  • depicted in Gimbrede engraving, 4:540 (illus.)
  • and donation to Liberty Hall Academy, 1:367–368n
  • Duane's pamphlet on, 1:49n
  • gives chicory seed to TJ, 4:33
  • judicial appointments of, 2:386
  • lauded as hero of Revolution, 1:12
  • and Lee's medal, 2:126
  • medallion of, 2:113, 2:114n
  • mentioned, 2:400, 2:412n, 2:604, 3:381n
  • A Message of the President of the United States to Congress Relative to France and Great-Britain, 1:487, 1:569–570
  • and P. Henry, 4:604, 4:605n
  • portraits of, by Peale, 1:45n
  • praised, 4:106n, 4:393n
  • as president, 3:305, 3:308n, 3:336, 3:339n
  • print of, 2:127
  • and raising of sheep, 1:286
  • and Seven Years' War, 1:290
  • TJ on, 3:99
  • TJ's Revolutionary War correspondence with, 4:468
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:507n
  • and Whiskey Rebellion, 2:385, 2:387n

Washington, Henry A., 3:xliv

Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis (George Washington's wife), 3:209n

Washington, or Liberty Restored: A Poem, in Ten Books (Northmore), 4:392, 4:393n

Washington Academy (later Washington and Lee University), 1:367, 1:368n

Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.), 1:6n

Washington and Lee University (Lexington), 1:368n

Washington City Library, 1:30n

Washington County, Md.

  • Republicans of, address TJ, 1:26–29
  • TJ addresses Republicans of, 1:98–99

Washington County, Pa.

  • Jefferson College students address TJ, 1:4–6
  • TJ addresses Democratic Republicans of, 1:99–100

Washington Federalist, 3:534, 3:537n

Washington Female Orphan Asylum, 1:10n

Washington National Monument Society, 1:30n

Washington (TJ's slave; b. 1805)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Wasp (brig)

  • carries letters to and from Europe, 1:629, 1:658, 2:36, 2:200, 2:410, 3:54
  • transports letters, 4:649, 4:650n

watches

  • gold, 3:83–84
  • R. Jefferson's, 4:416, 4:481, 4:607

water crowfoots (buttercup; lesser celandine; ranunculus; spearworts), 3:545

Waterhouse, Benjamin

  • and Dearborn, 1:295
  • and Federalist party, 1:298
  • and Gallatin, 1:295, 1:298
  • and Gerry, 1:296–297, 1:299
  • identified, 1:300n
  • letter from, 1:295–300
  • and Madison, 1:297–298, 1:299

Waterhouse, Elizabeth Oliver (Benjamin Waterhouse's wife), 1:297

water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica), 1:57–58n

Watkins, Elisha, 2:167, 2:168, 2:371

Watson, Dr., 1:190

Watson, George, 3:60

Watson, John

  • agreement to buy land, 2:237–238
  • and Belmont appraisal, 3:169, 3:170–171, 3:172
  • identified, 2:238n
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
  • Rivanna River Company commissioner, 3:254n
  • vouches for Norris, 3:465

Watson, William

  • identified, 4:543n
  • letter from, 4:543
  • and plating of saddle trees, 4:543

Watson & Vest (Milton firm)

  • TJ orders groceries from, 4:211
  • TJ pays, 4:233

Watts, Isaac, 1:468, 1:469n

Watts, John

  • Bedford Co. landholder, 4:317
  • land owned by, 2:237, 2:238n
  • and settlement of TJ's accounts, 4:342

Watt (slave), 4:231n

wax opal, 2:299

waxwork (American bittersweet; Celastrus scandens), 1:57, 1:58n

Wayles, John (TJ's father-in-law)

  • and Campbell Co. land, 1:671n, 4:680, 4:682
  • and Farell & Jones, 2:141, 2:142, 2:396, 2:424, 2:433, 2:466, 2:513, 3:211
  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:305n, 1:362, 1:365, 1:608, 2:84, 2:85, 2:130n, 2:141, 2:256, 2:369, 2:370, 2:397, 2:407, 2:425, 2:433, 2:434, 2:447, 2:448, 2:464, 2:465, 2:540, 3:44, 3:45, 3:84–86
  • as P. Randolph's executor, 4:647, 4:679
  • and Poplar Forest, 2:xliii, 4:318n
  • slaves of, 3:610n
  • as surety for J. Randolph, 4:616, 4:679
  • and TJ's account with Welch, 2:514, 2:515n, 4:194–195

Wayne, Anthony, 3:325n

Wayt, Twyman

  • letter from accounted for, 3:655
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

The Wealth of Nations (A. Smith), 2:592, 4:448

weather. See also meteorological observations

  • Arkansas journals of Treat, 1:97, 1:98n, 1:482, 1:608–609, 2:46–47, 2:135, 2:198, 2:226
  • Chapman seeks journals of, 1:663
  • and climate change, 2:70–72, 4:189
  • cold, 2:177, 2:302, 2:313, 4:85
  • drought, 1:213, 1:600, 1:657, 2:302, 2:313, 2:413, 2:417, 2:427, 2:436, 2:481, 2:491, 2:496, 2:661, 3:607, 3:630, 4:32, 4:38
  • effect on crops, 2:3, 2:302, 2:313, 2:491, 3:474, 3:630, 3:634, 4:32, 4:38, 4:623
    • tobacco, 1:285
    • wheat, 1:170, 1:285
  • heat, 2:195, 4:26, 4:32
  • ice, 4:480
  • journal of Madison, 1:518, 1:519n
  • in northern states, 4:85
  • rain, 2:254, 2:325, 2:436, 2:491, 2:495, 2:496, 3:204–205
  • snow, 2:32, 2:35, 2:70–71, 2:184, 3:392, 3:394, 3:437
  • in Va., 4:85
  • in Washington, 4:26, 4:32

weaving, 3:238–239

Webster, Captain, 1:294

Webster, Daniel

  • visits Monticello, 4:596n

Wedderburne, Mr. See Wilberforce, William

Wedgwood, Ralph, 2:xlii

Weekly Register (Baltimore newspaper), 4:177–178n

Weightman, Roger Chew

  • and fiorin grass, 4:159, 4:175, 4:192–193, 4:201
  • identified, 4:193n
  • letter from, 4:192–193
  • letters to, 4:201–202, 4:561
  • and newspaper account, 1:48
  • prints Senate proceedings, 1:49n
  • TJ orders books from, 4:201–202, 4:561
  • TJ pays, 4:555, 4:576, 4:634n

weights, measures, and coinage

  • TJ on, 4:147–149, 4:222–229
  • TJ's report on, 1:487
  • universal standard of, 4:147–149, 4:167, 4:222–229, 4:409–411

Welch, Wakelin

  • identified, 2:515n
  • TJ's account with, 2:349–350, 2:497–499, 2:513–515, 4:149–150, 4:194–195
  • TJ's bond to, 2:515, 3:55–56, 3:135

Welles, Charles Fisher

  • identified, 1:428n
  • letter from, 1:428
  • letter to, 2:51–52
  • "Poem on Thomas Jefferson," 1:431–433
  • praises TJ, 1:428, 1:431–433, 2:51–52

Wellesley, Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess

  • British foreign minister, 2:130, 2:131n, 2:325, 2:345, 2:366, 2:418, 2:419n, 2:480, 3:519, 3:577, 4:234, 4:271, 4:587

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Viscount (later Duke of)

  • Peninsular campaigns of, 1:593n, 2:166n
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:508n

Wells, Thomas

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • TJ purchases land from, 4:386

Werner, Abraham Gottlob

  • mineralogical theories of, 2:376, 2:377n, 2:551, 2:552n, 3:264n

Wertmüller, Adolf Ulrich

  • Danäe and the Shower of Gold, 4:181, 4:182n

West, Benjamin

  • copies Titian painting, 4:181
  • students of, 1:45n
  • Sully copies painting of, 3:625

West, Robert

  • surety for bond, 4:231–232n

West, Thomas

  • surety for bond, 4:231–232n

Western Road.See Cumberland Road

West Florida

  • annexation of, 3:256–257, 3:264–265, 3:281–282, 3:325–326, 4:284n
  • landholders in, 4:15

Westham, Va.

  • plank delivered to, 2:424, 2:434
  • TJ's lots in, 4:63, 4:155

West India Company, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:484

West Indies

  • dependent on American supplies, 4:664
  • and non-importation, 3:639
  • slaves from, 3:319
  • TJ's reputation in, 3:521

Weston, Conn.

  • meteor falls on, 2:406

Westphalia, Treaty of (1648)

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506n

Westwardmill Library Society (Brunswick Co.)

  • books for, 1:66–67, 1:205–206, 1:508

Weyers Cave, Va., 1:309

Whann, William

  • buys stove, 4:192

Wharton, Joseph

  • and J. Adams, 4:484

wheat

  • amount grown by TJ, 2:151
  • at Belmont estate, 3:171
  • as cash crop, 3:348
  • Caspian, 4:49
  • effect of Embargo on, 4:622, 4:664
  • effect of weather on, 1:93, 1:285, 2:417, 3:474, 3:630, 3:634, 4:32, 4:376, 4:623
  • ground at Shadwell Mill, 3:156–157, 3:640–643, 3:644
  • at Lego, 2:239, 2:240, 3:191
  • from lost trunk, 1:347
  • at Monticello, 4:93, 4:95, 4:376, 4:623
  • at Poplar Forest, 2:96, 2:217, 2:495, 3:341, 3:371, 3:392, 3:394, 4:86–87, 4:94, 4:95, 4:165–166, 4:170–171, 4:184, 4:307–308, 4:341–342, 4:373, 4:379
  • price of, 3:328, 3:371, 3:413
  • price of in France, 1:373
  • price of in Great Britain, 1:82
  • price of in Richmond, 4:86–87, 4:91, 4:94, 4:95, 4:104–105, 4:165–166, 4:184
  • prospects for coming harvest, 2:313, 2:367, 2:495, 2:496
  • R. Jefferson's crop, 4:183
  • Remarks on the Smut and Mildew of Wheat (Fothergill), 1:72
  • at Shadwell, 2:213, 2:239, 2:240
  • at Shadwell Mill, 1:108–109, 1:282, 1:421
  • TJ's income from, 4:86–87, 4:94, 4:95, 4:165–166, 4:170–171, 4:184, 4:307–308, 4:341–342
  • at Tufton, 2:112, 2:116, 2:371

Wheaton, Henry

  • identified, 3:46–47n
  • letters from, 3:46–47, 4:422–423
  • letters to, 3:137–138, 3:157, 4:494–495
  • An Oration, Delivered before the Tammany Society, 3:46, 3:137, 3:157
  • sends address to TJ, 4:422–423, 4:494–495

Wheaton, Joseph

  • identified, 1:352n
  • letter from, 1:350–352

wheelbarrows, 2:546, 2:547

Wheeler, Micajah

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Whipple, Oliver

  • identified, 2:320–321n
  • letter from, 2:319–321
  • letter to accounted for, 2:321n
  • pro-Republican writings of, 2:320
  • seeks an appointment, 2:319–320

whiskey

  • accidents involving manufacture of, 1:465, 3:359
  • price of, 3:550
  • taxes on, 4:483
  • Tennessee, 1:31

Whiskey Rebellion, 2:385, 2:387n, 2:617, 3:80, 3:82n

Whitby, Henry, 1:228n

White, Mr. (of Tuckabatchee), 1:351

White, Hugh

  • identified, 4:620–621n
  • letter from, 4:620–621
  • letter to, 4:673
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • sends work to Madison, 4:621n
  • sends work to TJ, 4:620, 4:673

White, Hugh Lawson

  • and East Tennessee College, 2:266–267, 2:365–366
  • identified, 2:267n
  • letter from, 2:266–268
  • letter to, 2:365–366

White, John Blake

  • identified, 4:106n
  • letter from, 4:105–107
  • letter to accounted for, 4:107n
  • and Seventy-Six Association, 4:105, 4:106n

White, Patrick, 3:211

White, Solomon, 1:256

White House. See President's House

Whitehurst, John, 2:319n

white jessamine (Jasminum officinale; poet's jessamine), 3:354, 3:355n

white lead, 1:55n, 1:77

whites, free

  • number at Monticello, 3:202

Whiteside, Jenkin

  • resigns from U.S. senate, 4:200
  • takes trunks to Washington, 2:72

Whiting, John, 3:63

Whitlock, Mrs.

  • mentioned, 4:291n

Whitlow, Charles

  • botanical collection of, 4:427
  • identified, 4:427–428n
  • patents substitute for flax and hemp, 4:427, 4:667
  • and proposed Washington botanical garden, 4:426–427, 4:563–564n
  • and Urtica Whitlowi (wood nettle), 4:427–428n

Whitner, Benjamin Franklin

  • identified, 1:112n
  • letter from, 1:112

Whittle, Robert, 1:16

The Whole Works of the late Rev. James Hervey (Hervey), 2:322n

Wickham, John

  • and batture controversy, 2:395, 2:398, 2:401, 2:406, 2:414–415, 2:416–417, 2:427, 2:432, 2:549, 3:331
  • counsel for A. Randolph's executor, 4:647
  • and Hanbury's executors, 3:195
  • identified, 2:395–396n
  • letters from, 2:395–396, 2:406–407
  • letter to, 2:398
  • and Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:304n
  • and Short's land, 4:268
  • and TJ's debt to Welch, 2:350n, 2:497, 2:513
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Wilberforce, William

  • and antislavery, 3:319, 3:320n, 3:513–514

wild indigo (Indigofera tinctoria; indigotier), 3:461–462

The Wild Irish Boy (Maturin), 1:391, 1:397n

wild salsify (Missouri salsify; Tragopogon porrifolius), 3:150, 3:166

Wiley, David, 2:543, 2:544n

Wilkerson, John. See Wilkinson (Wilkerson), John

Wilkin, James Whitney

  • identified, 1:80n
  • letter from, 1:79–80
  • letter from accounted for, 1:80n
  • letter to accounted for, 1:125n
  • and N.Y. state legislature, 1:78–80, 1:125n

Wilkinson, Benjamin, 2:122n

Wilkinson, James

  • aide to, 2:244
  • and Bacon, 3:358, 3:428–431
  • and batture controversy, 2:435, 2:444n, 3:25
  • as brigadier general, 3:544
  • and Burr trial, 1:426, 1:427–428n, 3:344n, 4:413
  • Cassidy's accusation of corruption, 4:70–71
  • Congress investigates, 3:324, 3:325n, 3:358, 3:428–431
  • correspondence with TJ, 3:358, 3:428–431, 3:519, 3:543
  • court-martial of, 4:398, 4:412–413, 4:480, 4:481n, 4:542
  • identified, 3:325n
  • letter from, 3:323–325
  • letter to, 3:440–441
  • Memoirs of General Wilkinson, 3:78–79, 3:100–102, 3:323–324, 3:325n, 3:359, 3:440–441, 3:543
  • Monroe on, 2:43
  • as New Orleans commissioner, 1:179n
  • and public sentiment toward, 3:323–325, 3:359–360
  • rumored removal of, 2:45, 2:46n
  • TJ on, 4:412–413

Wilkinson, James, Jr.

  • and conflicts of interest, 4:71n

Wilkinson, John, 2:324n

Wilkinson (Wilkerson), John

  • Campbell Co. landholder, 4:309n, 4:680, 4:683n

Will (William) (TJ's slave; b. 1753)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:384, 4:385
  • tasks for, 4:380

Willard (slave), 4:231n

Willcox, Joseph

  • federal marshal, 1:278, 1:279n

William III, king of England, 2:571

William III, king of Great Britain

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

William IV, stadtholder of the Netherlands

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:507n

William V, stadtholder of the Netherlands

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504

William and Mary, College of, 2:384

  • expulsion from, 1:251
  • faculty of, 1:251n, 1:634n, 3:xlvii, 3:381n
  • longitude of, 4:246, 4:344
  • minerals lent to, 2:551
  • president of, 4:235, 4:236n
  • professors at, 4:108, 4:246, 4:369
  • proposed sale of land by, 2:534–535, 2:671
  • TJ attends, 4:598
  • TJ on, 4:162
  • W. C. Rives returns to, 4:107–108, 4:161–163
  • Wythe's lectures at, 3:205–206, 3:228

Williams, Benjamin & George (Baltimore firm)

  • Morton's agents, 4:629, 4:631n, 4:666, 4:684

Williams, David

  • Claims of Literature, 3:207, 3:208n
  • Lectures on Political Principles, 3:38, 3:40n, 3:87, 3:189, 3:334
  • Letters on Political Liberty, 3:189, 3:190n, 3:207

Williams, E. (N.Y. firm), 4:662

Williams, Henry, 3:143

Williams, Indiana Fletcher, 3:610n

Williams, John

  • and coffee for TJ, 4:662, 4:687
  • letter from, 4:662
  • letter to, 4:687

Williams, Jonathan

  • gun for, 1:294
  • identified, 3:94–95n
  • letter from, 3:93–96
  • and recommendation for Despinville, 4:374
  • Thermometrical Navigation, 3:95n
  • on U.S. Military Academy, 3:93–94
  • on water temperature and navigation, 3:93, 3:95n

Williams, Robert, 1:25

Williams, Samuel

  • accused of conspiracy, 4:83, 4:628
  • The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, 1:581, 2:71

Williams, Thomas D.

  • letter from, 2:673–674
  • proposed canal, 2:673–674

Williams, William Clayton, 3:45

Williamsburg, Va.

  • latitude of, 4:95
  • longitude of, 4:246
  • newspapers in, 1:370n
  • TJ meets P. Henry in, 4:598–600

Williamson, George

  • identified, 1:597n
  • letter from, 1:597
  • The Principles of Health: Elements of hygiene, 1:597n
  • sends prospectus to TJ, 1:597

Williamson, Hugh

  • Observations on the Climate in Different Parts of America, 2:71–72

William (TJ's slave), 3:392

William (TJ's slave; b. 1801). See Hern, William (TJ's slave)

Willich, Anthony F. M.

  • Domestic encyclopædia (ed. Mease), 1:18, 1:19n, 1:252

Willie, William, 3:191

Willis, Francis (1744–91)

  • TJ's college friend, 4:516, 4:517

Willis, Francis (b. 1768)

  • identified, 4:517n
  • letter from accounted for, 4:516n
  • letter to, 4:516–517
  • seeks military appointment, 4:516–517

Willis, John, 2:105, 2:106n

Willis, Nelly Conway Madison (John Willis's wife), 2:106n

Willis Creek tract (Cumberland Co.)

  • title to lands at, 4:519–520

Willis Creek tract (Cumberland Co., Va.), 2:170n, 2:184, 2:186n

Willis's Mountain

  • J. W. Eppes views, 3:195
  • TJ plans to visit, 4:132
  • TJ takes latitude of, 4:344–346, 4:369

Willis (TJ's slave; b. 1806)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

willow

  • golden, 3:353, 3:354
  • weeping, 1:61, 3:353, 3:354

Wills, Matthew

  • boats of, transfer goods, 4:548–549
  • and fish for TJ, 4:668, 4:677
  • identified, 4:549n
  • letter from, 4:668
  • letters to, 4:548–549, 4:677

Wilmington, Del.

  • wool from TJ's flock analyzed at, 2:252, 2:492

Wilson, Mr. (Maryland clothier), 1:16

Wilson, Alexander

  • American Ornithology, 2:483n, 3:623n, 4:289

Wilson, Henry, 1:515, 1:517n

Wilson, Thomas

  • identified, 2:370n
  • letter from accounted for, 2:370n
  • letter to, 2:369–370
  • and Wayles estate, 2:369–370, 2:540–541, 3:45, 3:86

Wiltz, Françoise, 3:476, 3:477n, 3:478n, 3:485

Winchester, Va.

  • Republican Constellation, 2:120, 2:174

windmills, 1:647–648, 2:458–461, 2:479

wine

  • Albaflor, 1:345, 1:366, 4:4, 4:530
  • Arruda, 3:240, 3:241n
  • Banyalbufar, 1:366
  • books on, 2:82, 2:83n
  • brandy added to, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223, 2:339, 3:240
  • burgundy, 1:257, 1:586, 2:339, 4:177
  • Carrasqueira, 3:240, 3:241n
  • claret, 2:191
  • cognac, 1:32
  • currant, 2:221–222
  • as dysentery remedy, 1:483
  • French, 1:313n, 1:387, 2:339
  • Italian, 1:387
  • Madeira, 1:155, 1:387, 1:397n, 2:221
  • Moscadello de Montalcino, 3:377
  • Noyau, 1:155, 1:156n
  • Oeiras, 3:240, 3:241n
  • port, 1:483
  • Portuguese, 2:165, 2:166n
  • recipe for, 2:222
  • sent to TJ, 1:281–282, 2:221, 2:292, 2:330, 2:338–339, 4:34, 4:215, 4:219, 4:220, 4:487, 4:522, 4:530
  • St. George, 3:505
  • sugar added to, 2:220–221, 2:223, 2:330, 2:338, 2:339
  • Termo, 3:240, 3:241n
  • TJ orders from Walsh, 3:505, 3:512, 4:189, 4:528, 4:529–530, 4:592, 4:666
  • TJ purchases, 2:466
  • TJ's biblical allusion to, 3:606
  • at U.S. Marine Hospital, 1:299
  • viticulture, 1:586–587, 4:84–85, 4:176–177, 4:419–420
  • white, 2:191

Wingate, Edmund

  • ed. Britton, 1:383, 3:547

Wingfield, Charles

  • conducts funeral, 4:135–136, 4:155–156
  • identified, 4:136n
  • letters from, 4:136, 4:155–156
  • letter to, 4:135–136
  • letter to accounted for, 4:156n

Wingfield, Christopher

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Winn, John

  • Charlottesville postmaster, 4:48
  • identified, 2:201n
  • letter from, 2:201
  • seeks lime, 2:201
  • vouches for Norris, 3:465

Winston, Isaac

  • and H. Marks's estate, 4:511

Winston, William B.

  • and H. Marks's estate, 4:511

Winston & Lyons (firm), 2:397

A Winter in Washington: or, Memoirs of the Seymour Family (Margaret Bayard Smith), 1:10n, 1:397n

winter melon

  • TJ on, 2:302

Winters, Elisha

  • Ark. landholder, 4:70

Winters, Gabriel

  • Ark. landholder, 4:70

Wirt, Elizabeth Washington Gamble (William Wirt's wife), 2:470

Wirt, William

  • and batture controversy, 3:331, 3:332, 3:475–476, 3:481–488
  • consults with TJ on batture case, 2:414, 2:416–417, 2:427, 2:428, 2:473, 2:474–475, 2:511, 3:45–46, 3:227
  • discusses batture case with D. Carr, 2:469–470, 2:493, 2:494
  • drafts address to TJ, 1:611n
  • drafts batture pleadings, 3:397–411
  • and Duane, 3:507, 3:509n, 3:515, 3:540, 3:549–550, 3:563–564, 3:573–574, 3:585, 3:586, 3:591–592, 3:593–594n, 3:601–603, 3:626–627, 3:634
  • endorses silk-manufacturing project, 1:341–342, 1:355, 1:424
  • identified, 1:341–342n
  • letter from accounted for, 2:494n
  • letters from, 1:341–342, 2:155–156, 2:414, 2:493, 2:675–677, 3:549–550, 3:573–575, 3:626–627, 4:615–617
  • The Letters of the British Spy, 4:471, 4:472n, 4:560
  • letters to, 2:314, 2:401–402, 2:474–475, 2:494, 3:47, 3:481–483, 3:515, 3:545–546, 3:563–564, 3:601–604, 4:596–598
  • and Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:596–597, 4:679
  • recommended as attorney general, 1:626
  • Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, 2:155–156, 2:314, 4:596n, 4:604n, 4:605n
  • and suit of A. Randolph's executors, 4:597
  • TJ hires as counsel, 2:398, 2:401–402, 2:406
  • TJ pays, 4:594, 4:596, 4:597n, 4:615, 4:618
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
  • and TJ's List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case, 3:545–547
  • and TJ's recollections of P. Henry, 4:595–596n, 4:597, 4:598–605, 4:616
  • and TJ's Statement of Facts in the Batture Case, 3:481–483, 3:499
  • and TJ's statement on the batture case, 2:545, 2:568, 2:657, 2:660, 2:675–677, 3:41–42, 3:47–49, 3:152, 3:203, 3:226

Wiseham, William

  • and Ronald's estate, 2:185

Wistar, Caspar

  • and American Philosophical Society, 1:100, 1:677
  • family of, 4:141
  • Humboldt sends greetings to, 1:453n
  • identified, 1:101n
  • letters to, 1:100–101, 4:190–191
  • and mastodon bones, 1:100, 1:510–511
  • medical advice of, 4:416
  • mentioned, 3:472n
  • and T. J. Randolph, 1:309, 2:285
  • TJ introduces D. Burwell to, 4:190–191

Wistar, Elizabeth Mifflin (Caspar Wistar's wife), 1:309

Wistar, Richard

  • and protecting trees from worms, 4:141

Withe, Mr., 2:455

woad, blue (Isatis tinctoria), 2:271

woad (Isatis), 2:271, 3:461–462

Wolcott, John

  • "A Simile," 1:538n

Wolf Creek (Bedford Co.), 3:187, 3:188n

Wolff, Christian von

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Wollaston, Frederick H.

  • consul at Genoa, 3:377
  • dines with TJ, 4:34
  • introduced by Mazzei, 4:35n

women

  • documents by
    • Peyton, 1:459–463
    • Randolph, Martha Jefferson, 2:237–239
    • Smith, Margaret Bayard, 1:8–10, 1:386–401
  • free white, number at Monticello, 3:202
  • letters from
    • Archbald, 1:238–240, 2:201–203
    • Bailey, 2:309, 2:369
    • Corny, 1:173–175
    • Deshay, 1:450–451
    • Eppes, Elizabeth, 2:206
    • Lewis sisters, 3:90–91
    • M. Lewis, 2:291–292
    • Page, 3:276
    • Reibelt, 2:394–395
    • Stith, 3:458
    • Tessé, 1:271–274, 1:593–594, 2:310–312, 4:322–324
    • Trist, 1:98, 2:283–285
  • letters to
    • Bailey, 2:336, 3:241
    • Bankhead, 2:103–104, 3:633–634
    • Daingerfield, 1:47–48, 2:41
    • Eppes, Elizabeth, 2:129–130
    • Eppes, Martha B., 2:126–127
    • Lewis, 4:38
    • M. Lewis, 2:38n
    • Page, 3:423–424
    • Randolph, Cornelia Jefferson, 3:635
    • Randolph, Martha Jefferson, 3:392, 3:394
    • Smith, Margaret Bayard, 1:29
    • Stith, 3:432–433
    • Tessé, 3:503–504
    • Trist, 1:80–81, 2:265–266
  • schools for, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201

wood. See also building materials

  • firewood, 4:210

Wood, David

  • Mary W. Lewis's son-in-law, 4:186–187
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Wood, Harrison

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Wood, James (1741–1813)

  • draws plan of Richmond, 4:288n
  • frees slaves, 3:269n
  • governor of Va., 4:309n

Wood, James (1755–1836)

  • identified, 1:503n
  • letter from, 1:501–503
  • praises TJ, 1:501–502
  • Revolutionary War claim of, 1:502–503

Wood, John

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • seeks military appointment, 4:186–187

Wood, John (ca. 1775–1822)

  • and education of T. J. Randolph, 1:520, 2:95, 2:134, 2:171, 2:564–565
  • identified, 2:96n
  • letters from, 2:95–96, 2:171–172, 2:564–565
  • letter to, 2:134
  • A New Theory of the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth, 2:95, 2:134, 2:161, 2:171, 2:536, 3:251
  • sends letters to France through TJ, 2:295, 2:536
  • TJ on, 2:536

Wood, John H.

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Wood, William. See Woods, William

woodchuck (groundhog; Marmota monax), 2:509

Woodford, John

  • recommended for military appointment, 4:529

Woodhouse, James, 1:307, 1:452, 1:453n

Woodlands (Hamilton's Pa. estate), 1:191, 1:192, 1:479

wood nettle (Urtica Whitlowi), 4:427–428n

Woods, George M.

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Woods, Micajah

  • deputy sheriff, 1:590, 1:595
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349

Woods, William

  • dam of, 2:97, 2:98n
  • Fluvanna Co. mill of, 3:218, 3:219n
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349

Woodson, Tucker, 1:440, 1:460

wood stone, 2:299

Woodward, Augustus Elias Brevoort

  • Considerations on the Executive Government of the United States of America, 1:164–165, 1:236, 1:253–254
  • on foreign government, 1:254n
  • identified, 1:165n
  • letter from accounted for, 1:165n
  • letters from, 1:164–165, 1:253–254
  • letter to, 1:236
  • visits Monticello, 1:165n

Woodward, John H.

  • identified, 2:189n
  • letter from, 2:188–189
  • proposed national biography, 2:188–189

Woodward, William Wallis

  • identified, 2:321n
  • letters from, 2:321–322, 2:349
  • letter to, 2:337
  • TJ purchases books from, 2:321–322, 2:337, 2:349

woodworking

  • tools of, 1:135–136, 3:119–120

wool

  • barbary sheep, 2:379, 4:637, 4:638n
  • books on, 3:263, 3:264n
  • cards, 4:362, 4:417, 4:612
  • cloth, 4:27, 4:40, 4:102, 4:343
  • dyeing of, 4:686
  • merino, 1:320, 2:31, 2:451, 2:666, 4:62, 4:426
  • price of, 4:426
  • production of, 1:15–18, 1:478–479, 1:573–574
  • samples of, 1:16, 1:17, 1:19n, 1:320, 1:667, 2:39, 2:252, 2:492, 3:342–343, 3:637
  • from S.C., 4:40
  • and scab, 4:61, 4:62
  • spinning of, 1:525, 1:591, 4:380, 4:417n, 4:426, 4:513n, 4:571, 4:686
  • used for clothing, 4:40, 4:343, 4:361, 4:362, 4:428, 4:627, 4:637

Worcester National Aegis (Mass. newspaper), 1:50n

The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals (ed. Duane), 3:449, 3:451, 4:56

The Works of Tacitus (trans. Gordon), 1:580

Wormley. See Hughes, Wormley (TJ's slave)

worms

  • damage trees, 4:141, 4:532

Worsley, William W.

  • identified, 4:285n
  • letter of introduction for from Fowler, 4:285

Worthington, Thomas

  • letter to, 4:164
  • as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n

Worthington, William Grafton Dulany

  • identified, 2:196–197n
  • letter from, 2:196–197
  • letter to, 2:251–252
  • Speech of W. G. D. Worthington, Esq. a Member of the General Assembly of Maryland . . . on Brent's Resolutions, 2:196, 2:251

Wright, Joseph, 2:106n, 2:126

Wright, Robert

  • as governor of Md., 1:361–362n
  • identified, 1:107n
  • issues pardons, 2:412n
  • letter to, 1:106–107
  • praises TJ, 1:106–107

Wright, Thomas (Chickasaw agent), 1:26

Wright, Thomas (Queen Annes Co., Md.)

  • identified, 1:63n
  • letter from, 1:62–63
  • letter from accounted for, 1:63n
  • letter to, 1:127–128
  • and meeting of Queen Annes Co. Republicans, 1:62–63, 1:127–128

Wyche, James, 1:66

Wyche, John

  • books recommended to, by TJ, 1:205–206, 1:579–582
  • identified, 1:67n
  • letters from, 1:66–67, 1:508
  • letters to, 1:205–206, 1:579
  • and Westwardmill Library Society, 1:66–67, 1:205–206, 1:508, 1:579–582

Wythe, George

  • death of, 4:35
  • and Jefferson Cups, 2:xlii, 2:315–316
  • monument to, at Monticello, 1:391
  • and P. Henry, 4:598
  • and revision of Virginia laws, 1:381–383, 3:570
  • and Stamp Act resolutions, 4:599
  • students of, 3:540n
  • and William and Mary lectures, 3:205–206, 3:228

Wythe County, Va.

  • mammoth bones found in, 2:507

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