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Table of Contents to Volume 2, Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series

FOREWORD				vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS				ix
EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS				xi
MAPS				xxxvii
ILLUSTRATIONS				xli
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY				2
{1809}
From William Thornton, 16 November				3
From Aron S. Barton, 17 November				4
From Benjamin B. Ford, 17 November				5
To James Martin, enclosing Authorization to Sell Ivy Creek Lands, 17 November				5
To James Steptoe, 17 November				6
From Lafayette, 18 November, enclosing Lafayette's Description of his Finances				7
From George Jefferson, 20 November, enclosing Gibson & Jefferson's Account of Tobacco Sale, 18 November				27
From William C. Rives, 20 November				28
From Samuel Greenhow, 21 November				29
From William W. Hening, 21 November				30
To C. & A. Conrad & Company, 23 November				30
To George W. Erving, 23 November				31
To William Thornton, 23 November				32
From William Miller, 24 November				33
To James Madison, 26 November				33
From James Madison, 27 November				35
To William Fleming, 28 November				36
To Benjamin B. Ford, 28 November				36
To J. B. Moussier, 28 November				37
Notes on Winter Vegetable Needs, 28 November				37
Agreement with Youen Carden, 29 November				38
To Isaac A. Coles, 29 November				39
From James Leitch, 29 November				40
To Richard Barry, 30 November				40
To Mary Daingerfield, 30 November				41
Jefferson's Conversation with James Monroe, 30 November				42
		I. To James Madison, 30 November		42
		II. James Monroe’s Account of a Conversation with Thomas Jefferson, [30 November]		44
To John Breck Treat, 30 November				46
From Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, [ca. November]				47
To William W. Hening, 1 December				50
To William W. Hening, 1 December				50
From James Martin, 2 December				50
From William C. Rives, 3 December				51
To Charles F. Welles, 3 December				51
From Richard Barry, 5 December				52
From Joseph Dougherty, 5 December				53
From William Lambert, 5 December				54
From Randolph Jefferson, 7 December				55
To James Madison, 7 December				55
To John Wayles Eppes, 8 December				58
From Erastus Granger, 8 December				59
To Randolph Jefferson, 8 December				60
From William Lambert, 8 December				60
From John Wayles Eppes, 10 December				68
To Nathaniel Chapman, 11 December				70
To C. & A. Conrad & Company, 11 December				72
From James Madison, 11 December				72
To John Monroe, 11 December				73
From Nicholas Biddle, 12 December				74
From Elias Glover, 12 December				75
From John Garland Jefferson, 12 December				76
From James Leitch, 12 December				77
To Charles Clay, 15 December				77
To James Martin, 15 December				78
Authorization to Thomas Mann Randolph to Sell Land, 15 December				79
To James Steptoe, 15 December				79
To Richard Barry, 16 December				80
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, enclosing Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, 16 December				81
To Archibald Thweatt, 18 December				83
To Eli Alexander, 22 December				85
From Peter V. Daniel, 22 December				87
From George Richardson, 22 December				88
From Reuben Perry, 23 December				89
From Bernard McMahon, 24 December				89
To John Wayles Eppes, 25 December				91
From Archibald Stuart, 25 December				93
To Nicholas Biddle, 26 December				94
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 26 December				95
From John Wood, 26 December				95
From Burgess Griffin, 27 December				96
To William D. Meriwether, 27 December				97
From John W. Quincy, 27 December				98
From Joseph Dougherty, 28 December				101
To John Harvie, 28 December				101
To Ann C. Bankhead, 29 December				103
From William A. Burwell, 29 December				104
From Isaac A. Coles, 29 December				106
Resurvey of Lego, 29 December				107
To Gordon, Trokes & Company, 30 December				109
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 30 December				110
To Joel Barlow, 31 December				111
{1810}
Memorandum on the Expiration of John H. Craven's Lease, [ca. 1 January]				112
From Daniel Beltheshazzar Plantagenet Eccleston, 1 January				113
From John Harvie, 1 January				114
From Honoré Julien, 1 January				115
To George Jefferson, 3 January				116
To Benjamin Morgan, 3 January, enclosing Receipt for John Peyton's Effects, 11 Aug. 1809, and Administrators of John Peyton's Estate to Abner L. Duncan, 26 December 1809				116
From Jonathan & Thomas Foster, 4 January				120
From Gilbert C. Russell, 4 January, enclosing Memorandum from Meriwether Lewis to Gilbert C. Russell, [ca. 29 September 1809]				120
From Archibald Thweatt, 4 January				122
From Isaac A. Coles, 5 January				123
From William Baldwin, 7 January				124
To William A. Burwell, 7 January				125
To Martha B. Eppes, 7 January				126
To Isaac A. Coles, 8 January				127
From Thomas T. Hewson, 8 January				128
To Honoré Julien, 8 January				128
To Pierre Provenchere, 8 January				128
To Elizabeth Eppes, 9 January				129
From John Wayles Eppes, 10 January				130
From Thomas Main, 10 January				131
To Craven Peyton, 10 January				132
To Peter V. Daniel, 11 January				133
To John Wood, 11 January				134
From John Barnes, 12 January				134
From William C. C. Claiborne, 12 January				135
From John Harvie, 12 January				136
To Elias Glover, 13 January				139
To Bernard McMahon, 13 January				140
To Archibald Thweatt, 13 January				141
From William Tunnicliff, 13 January				142
From Horatio G. Spafford, 14 January				143
From Joel Barlow, 15 January				145
To Samuel Kercheval, 15 January				147
From James Martin, 15 January				148
To George Richardson, 16 January				149
From John Richardson, 16 January				149
To Eli Alexander, 17 January				150
To John Barnes, 17 January				151
To Dabney Carr, 17 January				152
To John Wayles Eppes, 17 January				153
From Gordon, Trokes & Company, 17 January				154
To George Jefferson, 17 January				155
From William Wirt, 18 January				155
Jefferson's Letter to William Baldwin, 19 January				157
I. To William Baldwin (Draft), 19 January				157
II. To William Baldwin (Final State), 19 January				157
Resolutions of the Orleans Territorial Legislature, [19 January]				159
To Thomas Ritchie, 19 January				161
From David Bailie Warden, 19 January				161
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 January				162
From William Jarvis, 20 January				165
To Thomas Main, 20 January				167
To Jesse Perry, 20 January				167
To John M. Perry, 20 January, with Notes on Agreement with Perry, 19 Apr. 1812				168
From John Wayles Eppes, 21 January				169
To Thomas T. Hewson, 21 January				170
From John Wood, 21 January				171
From Samuel Knox, 22 January				172
To Jonathan & Thomas Foster, 23 January				174
To Erastus Granger, 23 January				175
To Paul Hamilton, 23 January				175
To Joel Barlow, 24 January				176
From William C. C. Claiborne, 24 January				177
To Gideon Granger, 24 January				178
From James Lyle, 24 January				180
From John Barnes, 25 January				181
To John Garland Jefferson, 25 January				183
To John Wayles Eppes, 26 January				184
To James Pleasants, enclosing Account with William Bentley, 26 January				184
To David Campbell, 28 January				187
To John Barnes, 29 January				188
From Richard Barry, 29 January				188
From John H. Woodward, 29 January				188
From Caesar A. Rodney, 31 January				189
From Gilbert C. Russell, 31 January				191
From William C. C. Claiborne, 1 February				192
From Joseph Milligan, 3 February				193
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 4 February				193
From William G. D. Worthington, [4 February?]				196
To John Hollins, 5 February				197
From John Breck Treat, 5 February				198
From Eli Alexander, 6 February				198
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 6 February				199
To Eli Alexander, 7 February				200
From William Short, 7 February				200
From John Winn, 7 February				201
From Mary Ann Archbald, 8 February				201
From Isaac A. Coles, 8 February				203
From William O. Allen, 9 February				204
From John Hollins, 9 February				205
From Elizabeth Eppes, 10 February				206
To John Harvie, 10 February				206
From John Pernier, 10 February				206
To Caesar A. Rodney, 10 February				209
From François Xavier Martin, 11 February				211
To Eli Alexander, 12 February				212
From Eli Alexander, 12 February				213
From Joshua Gilpin, 12 February				213
To Samuel Knox, 12 February				215
To James Lyle, 12 February				216
From Lemuel J. Alston, 13 February				218
From John Barnes, 14 February				219
From E. Howard, 14 February				219
From John Adlum, 15 February				220
From William A. Burwell, 16 February				224
To Edward Coles, 16 February				225
To John Hollins, 16 February				226
To John Breck Treat, 16 February				226
Agreement with John Harvie, 17 February				227
Notes on Agreement with John Harvie, [ca. 17 February]				228
Quitclaim to John Harvie, 18 February				229
To Charles Johnston, 18 February				230
From John Langdon, 18 February				230
To James Martin, 18 February				232
From William Jarvis, 19 February				233
From George Jefferson, 19 February				234
From Walter Jones, 19 February				234
Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson Randolph's Conveyance of Bedford County Land, [before 19 February]				237
To Eli Alexander, enclosing Proposed Agreement between Thomas Jefferson and Eli Alexander, 20 February				239
From William B. W. Allone, 20 February				241
From William Dickson, 20 February				241
From Lafayette, 20 February				242
From George W. Erving, 21 February				246
From Elias Glover, 22 February				248
From Robert Fulton, 24 February				250
To William G. D. Worthington, 24 February				251
To Lemuel J. Alston, 25 February				252
To William A. Burwell, 25 February				253
From Benjamin Morgan, 25 February, enclosing Abner L. Duncan to Benjamin Morgan, 24 February				254
To Archibald Thweatt, 25 February				256
To John Barnes, 26 February				256
To John Graham, 26 February				257
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 26 February				257
From John Mitchell, 26 February				261
From "Abbe Salemankis," 27 February				263
From John B. Colvin, 28 February				264
To Joseph Milligan, 28 February				264
To Elizabeth Trist, 28 February				265
From the Trustees of the Lottery for East Tennessee College, 28 February				266
From John Graham, 1 March				268
From Gideon Granger, 1 March				269
From Jonathan Shoemaker, [ca. 1 March]				269
To Philip Grymes, 3 March				269
From James Ronaldson, 4 March				270
To Walter Jones, 5 March				272
To John Langdon, 5 March				274
Memorandum on Lease to Eli Alexander, [ca. 7 March]				277
Thomas Jefferson and Eli Alexander to William D. Meriwether and Martin Dawson, 7 March				281
From William D. Meriwether, 7 March				282
To John Mitchell, 7 March				282
From James Monroe, 7 March				283
From Elizabeth Trist, 7 March				283
From Martin Dawson and William D. Meriwether, 8 March				286
Opinion of William D. Meriwether and Martin Dawson, 8 March				286
From Lafayette, 10 March				287
From James Runciman, 10 March				288
To John B. Colvin, 11 March				290
From Mary Lewis, 11 March				291
From George Jefferson, 12 March				292
From John Adlum, 13 March				292
To William D. Meriwether, 14 March				293
From William D. Meriwether, [14 March]				294
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 14 March				295
To "Abbe Salemankis," 14 March				296
To Joshua Gilpin, 15 March				296
To Stephen W. Johnson, 15 March				297
From Leonardo de Prunner, enclosing List of Sardinian Mineral Specimens Sent to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March				297
To Thomas Ritchie, 15 March				300
From Jonathan Shoemaker, [received 15 March]				300
From George Jefferson, 16 March				300
To Robert Fulton, 17 March				301
To William Johnson, 17 March				301
From James Martin, 17 March, enclosing Thomas S. McCleland to James Martin, 13 March				303
From John Hollins, 18 March				304
From Alexander Macaulay, 18 March				304
From George Richardson, 18 March				305
From George Jefferson, 19 March				305
From Samuel H. Saunders, 20 March				306
From André Thoüin, 20 March				308
From Lydia R. Bailey, 22 March				309
From Lafayette, 24 March				310
From Madame de Tessé, 24 March				310
To James Madison, 25 March				312
Receipt to Jonathan Shoemaker, 25 March				313
To William Wirt, 25 March				314
From George Jefferson, 26 March				314
To Alexander Macaulay, 26 March				315
To John Le Tellier, 27 March				315
From Robert Fulton, enclosing Drawing and Description of Self-Acting Hydraulic Ram, 28 March				316
From Oliver Whipple, 29 March				319
From William W. Woodward, 30 March				321
To Christopher Clark, 1 April				322
From Thomas S. McCleland, 1 April				324
From John Wayles Eppes, 2 April				325
To Thomas S. McCleland, 2 April				325
From James Madison, 2 April				326
From Samuel J. Harrison, 3 April				327
To Christopher Clark, 4 April				327
From Christopher Clark, [4 April]				328
To Jones & Howell, 7 April				328
To John Hollins, 8 April				329
To Samuel J. Harrison, 9 April				330
From John Adlum, 10 April				330
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 10 April				330
From C. & A. Conrad & Company, [received 15 April]				332
To Robert Fulton, 16 April				332
To James Madison, 16 April				333
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 16 April				334
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 16 April				335
To Henry Skipwith, 17 April				335
To Lydia R. Bailey, 18 April				336
To Gilbert C. Russell, 18 April				336
To William W. Woodward, 18 April				337
From William Lambert, 19 April				337
To John Adlum, 20 April				338
To William O. Allen, 20 April				339
To William Dickson, 20 April				340
To John Wayles Eppes, 21 April				340
From John Hollins, 22 April				341
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 22 April				342
From Archibald Fisher, 23 April				346
From John Harvie, 27 April				347
From William Plumer, 27 April				347
From William W. Woodward, 27 April				349
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 29 April				349
From William Pinkney, 30 April				350
From Thomas B. Robertson, 30 April				351
From Ebenezer Stedman, 1 May				352
To Sylvanus Bourne, 2 May				352
From Jean B. Porée, 2 May				353
To Gerardus Vrolik, 2 May				354
To William C. C. Claiborne, 3 May				355
To William C. C. Claiborne, 3 May				357
From John Rhea, 3 May				358
To Archibald Fisher, 4 May				359
From James H. Hooe, 4 May				360
From Richard Barry, 5 May				362
From Joseph Dougherty, 5 May				362
To John Harvie, 5 May				362
To Joseph Scott, 5 May				363
From John Christoph Süverman, 5 May				364
To the Trustees of the Lottery for East Tennessee College, 6 May				365
From James Madison, 7 May				366
From William Thornton, 7 May				367
From Archibald Thweatt, with postscript by John Wayles Eppes, 7 May				368
From Lydia R. Bailey, 8 May				369
To Thomas Wilson, 8 May				369
Account with John H. Craven, [after 9 May]				370
From Godefroi Du Jareau, 9 May				372
From Thomas Cooper, 10 May				375
To John Wayles Eppes, 10 May				378
To James H. Hooe, 10 May				379
From William Thornton, 10 May				379
From George Churchman, 12 May				381
To Benjamin Morgan, 12 May				383
From John Strode, 12 May				383
From John Tyler, 12 May				384
To James Madison, enclosing Notes on Breeding Merino Sheep, 13 May				388
From John Martin Baker, 14 May				391
From Joseph Dougherty, 14 May				392
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 14 May				392
From Jonathan Shoemaker, 15 May				393
From Madame Reibelt, 16 May				394
From John Wickham, 16 May				395
From Archibald Thweatt, 18 May				396
To John Wickham, 18 May				398
From William Lambert, enclosing Ode for the Fourth of July, 1810, 19 May				398
To William Wirt and George Hay, 19 May				401
From Archibald Thweatt, 20 May				403
To Silvain Godon, 21 May				404
To Jean B. Porée, 21 May				405
To Charles Yancey, 21 May				405
From David Bailie Warden, 22 May				406
From John Wickham, 22 May				406
To Archibald Thweatt, 23 May				407
To Joseph Dougherty, 24 May				409
From John Graham, 24 May				410
From Aaron Hill, 24 May				411
To William Thornton, 24 May				412
From William Wirt, 24 May				414
From George Hay, 25 May				414
To James Madison, 25 May				416
From James Madison, 25 May				418
From John Ledyard, 26 May				419
To John Tyler, 26 May				420
To Eli Alexander, 27 May				421
To Joseph Darmsdatt, 27 May				422
From John Ledyard, 28 May				423
From Archibald Thweatt, 28 May				424
To Archibald Thweatt, 29 May				424
To William Eustis, 30 May				426
To Albert Gallatin, 30 May				426
To James Madison, 30 May				427
To Patrick Magruder, 30 May				427
To Caesar A. Rodney, 30 May				428
To Robert Smith, 30 May				429
From Henry Dearborn, 31 May				429
From Joseph Darmsdatt, 1 June				430
From Joseph Dougherty, 1 June				431
From George Hay, 1 June				432
To Archibald Thweatt, 1 June				433
From William C. C. Claiborne, 4 June				434
From William Eustis, 4 June				435
From James Madison, 4 June				435
From Robert Mills, 4 June				437
From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 4 June				438
From Robert Smith, enclosing List of Batture-Related Documents Sent to Thomas Jefferson, 4 June				439
From Archibald Thweatt, 4 June				446
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 5 June				448
From Robert Smith, enclosing List of Batture-Related Documents Sent to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June				449
From Gideon Gooch, 7 June				451
To John Graham, 7 June				452
From John Kelly, 7 June				452
From Randolph Jefferson, 8 June				453
From James Madison, 8 June				453
From Caesar A. Rodney, 8 June				454
From William Thornton, 8 June				456
From John Tyler, 9 June				457
From Gideon Fitz, enclosing Drawing of Windmill, 10 June				458
To William C. C. Claiborne, 11 June				462
From John Graham, 11 June				462
From George Jefferson, 11 June				463
To Randolph Jefferson, 11 June				464
To Thomas Ladd, enclosing Statement of Account with the Estate of Bathurst Skelton, 11 June				464
From Levett Harris, 13 June				466
To James Madison, 14 June				468
To Archibald Thweatt, 14 June				468
Dabney Carr to William Wirt, 15 June				469
From James Madison, 15 June				470
From William C. C. Claiborne, 18 June				471
From Silvain Godon, 18 June				472
To George Hay, 18 June				473
From John Le Tellier, 18 June				474
To William Wirt, 18 June				474
From William Short, 19 June				475
From Gideon Fitz, 20 June				479
From James Madison, 22 June, enclosing Receipt from Joseph Dougherty to James Madison, 7 May				480
To John Mason, 22 June				481
From Benjamin Morgan, 22 June				482
From William F. Gray, 23 June				482
From Godefroi Du Jareau, 25 June				483
From Count Théodore Pahlen, 25 June				487
To Joseph C. Cabell, 27 June				489
To Joseph Dougherty, 27 June				490
To James Madison, 27 June				491
To William Thornton, 27 [June]				492
From William Wirt, 27 June				493
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 28 June				494
To William Wirt, 28 June				494
From Benjamin Morgan, 29 June				495
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 July				495
From James Madison, 2 July				496
From Littleton W. Tazewell, enclosing Tazewell's Statement of Balance Due from Thomas Jefferson to Wakelin Welch, 3 July				497
From Thomas Newell, 4 July				500
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 5 July				501
From Joseph Darmsdatt, 6 July				502
From James Madison, 7 July				502
To Joseph Darmsdatt, 9 July				503
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 10 July				503
From the Bunker Hill Association, 12 July				504
To William Plumer, 12 July				505
From John Steele, 12 July				506
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 13 July				507
To James Madison, 13 July				511
To Count Théodore Pahlen, 13 July				512
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 13 July, enclosing Jefferson's Statement of Balance Due to Wakelin Welch, [ca. 13 July], and Jefferson's Bond to Welch, 20 July				513
From Albert Gallatin, enclosing Memorandum on Edward Livingston's Suit against Thomas Jefferson in the Batture Case, 14 July				516
To Carlo Botta, 15 July				529
To John Graham, 15 July				530
From George Hay, 15 July				530
To Marc Antoine Jullien, 15 July				532
To William Pinkney, 15 July				533
From John Roane, 15 July				534
To David Bailie Warden, 15 July				536
To Henry Dearborn, 16 July				537
From William Duane, 16 July				538
To John Wayles Eppes, 16 July				540
To William Lambert, 16 July				541
From James Madison, 17 July				542
From John Mason, 18 July				542
From John Graham, 19 July				544
From George Hay, enclosing Edward Livingston's Bill of Complaint against Thomas Jefferson, 20 July				545
From Joseph C. Cabell, 23 July				550
From Godefroi Du Jareau, enclosing Drawing and Description of his Water-Raising Machine, 23 July				552
From John Wood, 23 July				564
From William Lambert, 24 July				566
From Joseph Charless, 26 July				567
From James Madison, [received 26 July]				567
To James Madison, 26 July				568
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, [ca. 28 July]				569
Statement on the Batture Case, 31 July				657
List of Batture-Related Papers Requested from William C. C. Claiborne, [ca. 1 August]				657
To George Hay, 1 August				659
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 1 August				660
To John Daingerfield, 2 August				661
To James Mather, 2 August				662
From Godefroi Du Jareau, 3 August				663
To Gideon Gooch, 3 August				666
To the Bunker Hill Association, 4 August				666
From William Jarvis, 4 August				667
To Thomas Cooper, 6 August				667
From James Gibbon, 6 August				669
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 6 August				670
To Samuel H. Smith, 6 August				670
To John Roane, 7 August				671
From William Lee, 8 August				672
From John Christoph Süverman, 8 August				672
From Thomas D. Williams, 8 August				673
From Thomas Ladd, 9 August				674
To James Madison, 9 August				675
From William Wirt, 9 August				675
James Madison's Notes on Thomas Jefferson's Statement on the Batture Case, [ca. 10-13 August]				678
From François André Michaux, 10 August				679
From William C. C. Claiborne, 11 August				681
Appendix: Supplemental List of Documents Not Found				683
INDEX				685

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