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The Babler, 7:665

Bac. abr. See Bacon, Matthew, A New Abridgment of the Law

Bache, Benjamin, 3:39, 3:40n

Bache, Benjamin Franklin (1769–1798), 1:49n, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:331n, 3:451, 3:452n

Bache, Benjamin Franklin (1801–1881)

mentioned, 7:62

Bache, Catharine Wistar, 2:285, 3:163n

family of, 7:62, 8:449n
and T. M. Randolph, 8:448

Bache, Emma Mary

death of, 7:62

Bache, Franklin, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:88

Bache, Hartman, 3:39, 3:40n

Bache, Margaret Hartman Markoe. See Duane, Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache (William Duane’s wife)

Bache, Richard, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:88, 3:452n

Bache, Sarah Franklin, 3:451, 3:452n

Bache, William

appointment, 1:615–1:616
health of, 7:62, 7:63n

Backer, T. H. (Amsterdam agent), 1:50n

Backus, Azel, 1:277, 1:278n, 1:350n

criticizes TJ, 7:206, 7:207n

bacon, 2:371, 5:489, 6:343, 7:45, 8:184

Bacon, Ann Simmons (Edmund Bacon’s wife)

and wool spinning, 4:380

Bacon, Edmund

and agreement with R. Durrett, 5:418
attends court, 2:670
buys corn for TJ, 6:181, 6:181–6:182, 6:553, 6:554, 7:72n
buys plow horse for TJ, 2:155n
delivers nails, 1:64
describes travels with TJ, 1:51–1:52
and 1810 census, 3:202
identified, 1:52n
letters to, 4:306–4:307
letters to accounted for, 5:418n
letters to from R. B. Sthreshly, 6:554
mentioned, 3:215, 7:520n, 7:619n
and merino sheep, 2:666
Monticello overseer, 1:52n, 1:81n, 3:394, 3:513, 3:612, 3:643, 4:306–4:307, 4:464–4:465, 4:543, 4:557n, 5:418, 5:576n, 5:608n, 6:136n
orders goods for TJ, 6:343, 6:344, 6:344, 6:344, 6:345, 6:345, 6:345, 6:346, 6:346, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 6:348, 6:348
pays I. Chisholm, 5:5
pays insurance premium, 3:329n
pays TJ’s expenses, 5:6, 5:6n
pays Wayt & Winn, 6:111n
and rent collection, 2:422
seeks cottonseed for TJ, 1:81, 1:159
TJ pays, 1:41, 1:81n, 2:155, 5:298
TJ’s promissory note to, 6:54, 7:231, 7:231n
witnesses documents, 2:229, 5:607–5:608, 6:34, 6:36, 6:36n, 6:36, 6:36n, 8:396, 8:396, 8:396n, 8:398

Bacon, Ezekiel

and federal revenue, 4:520n
identified, 3:358n
letters from, 3:358
letters to, 3:428
reference for J. L. Edwards, 4:92
and repeal of Embargo Act, 2:533, 2:534n, 2:537
and Supreme Court appointment, 3:126, 3:166, 3:178
and J. Wilkinson, 3:358, 3:428, 3:428–3:431

Bacon, Francis

classification of knowledge, 6:408, 6:409, 7:606, 7:607n, 8:240, 8:473, 8:475n
in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 5:545
The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry The Seventh, 7:629, 7:631n
mentioned, 7:101
Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning: or the Partitions of Sciences, 8:473, 8:475n
portrait of, 3:305
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Bacon, John, 6:54, 6:54n, 6:54n

promissory note assigned to, 7:231

Bacon, Mathew

A New Abridgment of the Law, 3:546, 3:546, 7:125, 7:126, 7:127, 7:127, 7:627, 7:628, 7:628, 7:628

Bacon, Nathaniel (1593–1660)

read by J. Adams, 4:474

Bacquet, Jean

Oeuvres, 3:174–3:175n

Badajoz, Spain, 2:233, 2:247, 6:515, 6:515n

Badillo, Francisco de Sales, 3:478n

Bagot, Mr., 2:83

Bagwell (TJ’s slave)

farm laborer, 2:426n
on Monticello slave lists, 4:386, 8:62n
purchased by TJ, 2:425, 2:425, 2:464

Bahamas

Spanish expedition against, 4:286, 4:286n

Bailey, Lydia R.

and P. Freneau’s poems, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
identified, 2:309n
letters from, 2:309, 2:369
letters to, 2:336, 3:241

Bailey, Theodorus

and dispatches to France, 2:410
identified, 3:459n
letters from, 3:459, 3:459–3:460, 3:503, 3:521, 3:597–3:598, 4:588–4:589, 4:673, 5:263, 5:581–5:582
letters to, 3:505–3:506, 4:589, 5:305–5:306, 5:606
letters to accounted for, 3:444n, 4:580n
and map of N.Y., 3:459–3:460, 3:521, 3:597–3:598
postmaster in New York City, 3:459, 3:464, 3:503, 3:505–3:506, 3:521, 3:538
Report of the Commissioners, 3:459–3:460, 3:597
sends TJ maps, 5:263, 5:305–5:306, 5:581, 5:582, 5:582n, 5:606
and spinning machines, 4:588, 4:589, 4:673
on War of 1812, 5:581–5:582

Baily, Jeremiah

receives patent, 6:456, 6:458n

Bainbridge, William, 6:206, 6:207n

Baird, Sir David

killed by French forces, 1:108

baize, 5:394

Baker, Harriet Weissenfels (John Martin Baker’s wife)

requests landscape view of Monticello, 1:346, 1:366, 1:434
sends greetings to TJ, 2:391, 3:524, 4:5, 6:165

Baker, Henry

The Microscope made easy, 1:581

Baker, Jerman (ca. 1734–1792), 1:363, 1:378, 2:397

Baker, John Martin

family of, 6:164, 6:165
identified, 1:346n
letters from, 1:345–1:346, 1:434, 2:391, 3:523–3:524, 4:4–4:5, 6:163–6:165
letters from accounted for, 2:391n
letters to, 1:365–1:366
and L. de Prunner, 2:297, 2:391, 4:4
seeks appointment, 2:391, 3:523–3:524, 4:5, 4:5, 6:163, 6:164–6:165
sends goods to TJ, 4:215, 4:220, 4:529, 6:163
and TJ’s order for goods from Majorca, 1:345, 1:365–1:366, 1:434, 3:524
as U.S. consul, 6:163–6:164, 6:165, 7:634, 7:693, 7:697n

Baker, John Wayles (TJ’s grandnephew)

on T. Holcombe, 6:64
identified, 6:65n
letters from, 6:64–6:65
at Poplar Forest, 7:400
and study of French, 7:647, 7:647n
TJ’s relationship with, 6:64–6:65, 6:65, 6:225, 6:451, 6:451, 6:648, 6:649

Baker, Martin, 6:19

Baker, William, 1:156n

Bakewell, Robert

identified, 3:264n
letters from, 3:263–3:264
Mineralogical and Statistical Survey of Estates, 3:263–3:264
Observations on the influence of soil and climate upon wool, 1:479, 1:480n, 3:263, 3:264n

Baldwin, Abraham, 5:372, 5:373–5:374

Baldwin, Cyrus B.

cloth manufacturer, 6:335, 6:335, 6:631, 6:631, 6:631–6:632n, 7:309–7:310, 7:310n, 7:460, 7:461n

Baldwin, William

identified, 2:125n
letters from, 2:124–2:125
letters to, 2:157–2:159, 2:159
and Quakers, 2:124–2:125, 2:125n, 2:157–2:158, 2:159

Baldwin I, emperor of Constantinople, 7:66

Baldwin II, emperor of Constantinople, 7:66

Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem, 7:66

Balearic Islands, 1:345, 1:346n, 1:365

Ballard, Bartlet, 2:237, 2:238–2:239n

Ballard, William

agreement with TJ, 6:304
identified, 6:304n
as juror, 5:278, 5:279
as Tufton overseer, 6:304, 8:203, 8:204n, 8:611, 8:611n, 8:676n
witnesses documents, 8:396, 8:396n, 8:398

Ballendenies. See A free translation of the Preface to Bellendenus, containing animated strictures on the great political characters of the present time (Parr)

balloons, 8:388

Ballowe, Thomas, 7:600, 7:601n

balm of Gilead fir. See balsam fir (balm of Gilead fir)

balsam copaiba trees, 1:56, 1:56, 1:58n

balsam fir (balm of Gilead fir), 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n

Baltic Sea

and American commerce, 4:612, 4:612n
and Napoleon’s Continental System, 5:385, 5:561, 7:92

Baltimore, Md.

American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 1:178n, 1:221n, 2:173, 2:174n
banks in, 2:117
Church of St. Mary, 1:450, 1:450–1:451n
commerce at, 4:26
currency, 3:525–3:526
defense of, 8:153, 8:154
dinner for D. B. Warden, 3:340
1812 riot in, 7:229, 7:230n, 7:231, 7:231–7:232n, 8:689, 8:689n
glass manufactured at, 8:21, 8:142
lottery office, 4:391, 4:392n
merchants in, 1:50, 2:205, 7:72
militia of, 7:656, 7:656n
millers in, 7:386, 7:386n
museums in, 6:291, 6:291–6:292n, 6:374, 8:462
newspapers, 3:414n, 4:177–178, 4:234, 4:336, 4:338n, 8:260, 8:566, 8:569–8:570, 8:598, 8:599n, 8:660n
prices in, 3:437, 6:561
Republican support for W. Duane, 3:585
St. Mary’s Academy, 1:450, 1:450–1:451n
Smith family of, 3:542, 3:550, 3:550n, 3:553
tarring and feathering in, 2:411, 2:412n
TJ orders gypsum from, 2:197, 3:453

Baltimore Patriot & Evening Advertiser (newspaper), 8:598, 8:599n, 8:660n

Baltimore Tammany Society

letters from, 1:176–1:179
letters to, 1:221

Bandini, Angelo Maria

and portrait of A. Vespucci, 7:613

Banister, John, Jr., 3:183, 3:210–3:211

Bankhead, Ann (Anne) Cary Randolph (TJ’s granddaughter; Charles Lewis Bankhead’s wife)

and Bedford Co. land, 3:187, 4:316, 4:318n
and birth of son, 3:315n, 4:429, 4:430n
book for, 3:633
Carlton estate of, 7:401n, 8:308n
Carlton estate of conveyed to trustees, 8:394–8:397
children of, 8:395, 8:397n, 8:398, 8:636, 8:636n
Christmas visitors of, 2:110, 2:111n
compared to flowers by TJ, 3:633
gold watch for, 6:339n
greetings to, 7:16, 7:460, 7:623, 7:643, 7:643n, 7:656, 7:698
identified, 2:104n
infant of, 1:387, 1:396n
letters from accounted for, 2:104n
letters to, 2:103–2:104, 3:633–3:634
and letter writing, 1:245
swans for, 7:621
TJ conveys land to, 8:278, 8:397–8:398
TJ misses, 3:394, 3:644
and TJ’s plants, 2:103
visits Monticello, 7:635

Bankhead, Charles Lewis (Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead’s husband)

and Albemarle Co. land, 3:621–3:622, 3:644
and Albemarle Volunteer Company subscription, 5:344, 5:345n
and appointment of principal assessor, 6:442
and Bedford Co. land, 3:64, 3:162, 3:163n, 3:186–3:188, 4:5–4:6, 4:59, 4:279, 4:316, 4:317, 4:318n, 4:319
beer for, 8:565
and birth of son, 3:315n
buys land, 2:239n
Carlton estate of, 7:401n, 8:277, 8:308n
Carlton estate of conveyed to trustees, 8:394–8:397
children of, 8:395, 8:397n, 8:398
debts of, 8:277, 8:394
and 1810 census, 3:202
at family dinner, 1:387
greetings to, 7:460, 7:623, 7:656
health of, 8:565
identified, 3:188n
letters from, 4:5–4:6, 6:517–6:518
letters from accounted for, 7:636n
letters to, 3:644
marries A. Randolph, 1:396n
mentioned, 5:600
military service of, 7:624, 7:635
purchases horses, 3:180
requests charcoal from TJ, 6:517
and W. Short’s land, 4:5–4:6, 4:59
slaves owned by, 8:395
studies law under TJ, 1:245, 1:389, 1:416, 2:103
TJ conveys land to, 8:277–8:278, 8:397–8:398
TJ on, 8:277, 8:278
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
TJ sends greetings to, 3:633
tobacco crop of, 5:34, 5:51, 5:56–5:57, 5:63, 5:64n, 5:489
visits J. Bankhead, 8:123, 8:565
witnesses document, 2:229, 4:277–4:278n

Bankhead, Ellen Monroe (TJ’s great-granddaughter), 6:438n, 8:397n, 8:636, 8:636n

Bankhead, James, 5:533–5:540, 5:542–5:543n, 5:543n

Bankhead, John

family of, 8:123
health of, 8:123
identified, 8:278n
letter from accounted for, 8:279n
letters to, 8:277–8:279
and T. J. Randolph, 1:590–1:591
relationship with C. L. Bankhead, 8:277–8:278, 8:565
and W. Short’s land, 3:621–3:622, 4:6, 4:59
TJ sends greetings to, 2:103, 3:633, 3:644
as trustee of A. C. and C. L. Bankhead, 8:394–8:397, 8:397–8:398
witnesses document, 3:188

Bankhead, John Warner (TJ’s great-grandson), 3:315n, 3:633, 4:429, 4:430n, 8:397n, 8:636, 8:636n

Bankhead, Mary Warner Lewis (John Bankhead’s wife)

relationship with C. L. Bankhead, 8:277–8:278
and W. Short’s land, 3:622, 4:6
TJ sends greetings to, 2:103, 2:103, 3:633, 3:644, 8:278

Bankhead, Thomas Mann Randolph (TJ’s great-grandson), 8:397n, 8:636, 8:636n

Bankhead, William, 3:188

Bankhead, William Stuart (TJ’s great-grandson), 8:397n

Bank of Alexandria

notes issued by, 8:19, 8:511

Bank of Columbia, 2:181, 2:182, 4:192, 4:576, 6:168, 7:380, 7:381n, 7:421, 7:617, 8:125, 8:499, 8:511

Bank of England

crisis management by, 7:193, 8:525, 8:527n

Bank of Fredericksburg, 2:661, 3:112, 3:302, 3:373, 4:81, 4:217, 4:556, 4:557, 4:558, 5:225, 6:306, 6:314, 6:471

Bank of New York, 8:413

Bank of Norfolk, 1:626, 5:494n

Bank of Orleans, 2:121, 2:192

Bank of Pennsylvania

drafts on, 1:407, 1:421, 1:455, 6:156, 6:258
stock owned by T. Kosciuszko, 1:32n, 1:166, 1:217, 1:218n, 1:408, 2:135, 2:181, 3:89, 3:90n, 3:284, 3:289, 3:524, 3:528, 3:613, 3:617, 3:619, 4:17, 4:18n, 4:26, 4:418, 4:463, 4:487–4:488, 4:591–4:592, 4:665–4:666, 5:59–5:60, 5:374, 5:380, 5:381n, 5:393, 6:168, 6:307, 6:546, 7:170, 7:189, 7:192, 7:193–7:194, 7:211–7:212, 7:215–7:216, 7:233–7:234, 7:261, 7:283–7:284, 7:294, 7:294, 7:314–7:316, 7:333–7:334, 7:334, 7:353, 7:354, 7:355, 7:369, 7:380–7:381, 7:421, 7:432n, 7:432, 7:432, 7:432, 7:432, 7:440–7:441, 7:442–7:443, 7:456–7:457, 8:20, 8:300, 8:499, 8:499, 8:500, 8:573

Bank of Richmond. See Bank of Virginia (Richmond)

Bank of the Manhattan Company

distressed situation of, 7:211, 7:212n, 7:216

Bank of the United States

deposits in, 2:121
drafts on, by TJ, 1:41n, 1:45, 1:49, 1:455, 1:458
and W. Duane, 3:450–3:451, 4:174, 5:254–5:255, 5:257n
and A. Gallatin, 3:602–3:603, 6:535
and A. Hamilton, 6:534
loan through J. Barnes and J. Madison, 1:212–1:213, 1:217–1:218, 1:246, 1:281, 1:285, 1:408
mentioned, 6:225, 7:654
opposition to, 2:70, 2:70n, 2:92, 2:93n, 3:317, 3:388–3:389, 3:449, 3:450–3:451, 4:113, 4:113n, 4:128–4:130, 5:254–5:255, 5:257n, 5:586n, 6:581, 6:594, 8:556–8:557
and renewal of charter, 3:259, 3:274–3:275, 3:317, 3:331, 3:386, 3:388, 8:155n
and state charter for, 4:371–4:372, 4:373n

Bank of the United States, Second, 1:30n, 1:223n

Bank of Virginia (Richmond)

and Albemarle Academy, 7:339
bills from, 7:96, 8:35, 8:36n, 8:511
calls in debts, 7:515, 7:515, 7:517
charter for, 7:144, 7:145n
deposits in, 7:617
and S. J. Harrison, 3:374–3:375
and W. McClure’s debt, 5:15, 5:17, 5:174, 5:574, 5:587
and J. Shoemaker, 2:95
and W. Short’s land sale, 5:400
TJ’s loan from, 1:302, 1:318, 1:344, 2:199n, 2:216, 2:217n, 2:234, 2:314, 2:329n, 2:463, 3:280, 3:528, 3:561, 3:561n, 4:6, 4:17, 4:169, 4:185, 4:194, 4:463, 4:528, 4:555, 4:619, 5:102, 5:132, 6:20, 6:91, 6:113, 6:113, 6:116, 6:295, 6:306, 6:337, 6:356, 6:396, 6:396n, 6:544, 6:544, 6:552, 6:561, 7:69, 7:515, 7:551–7:552, 7:552, 7:555, 7:710, 7:716, 8:47, 8:49, 8:63, 8:63n, 8:180, 8:187n, 8:284, 8:323, 8:323n, 8:491, 8:491n, 8:491–8:492n, 8:582, 8:624–8:625, 8:676, 8:694
and wartime loan to Va., 8:165

Bank of Washington (D.C.), 1:30n, 1:481, 1:481n, 1:535

Bank of Winchester, 6:306, 6:314

banks

J. Adams on, 3:357, 6:626
J. Barnes on, 7:192–7:194, 8:19, 8:472
J. C. Cabell on, 7:144, 7:669–7:671, 8:35
T. Cooper on, 7:678
currency issued by, 6:533n, 7:128, 7:134, 7:149–7:150, 7:203, 7:315–7:316, 7:716, 8:6, 8:19, 8:32, 8:35, 8:36n, 8:165, 8:167, 8:177, 8:182, 8:259–8:260, 8:306–8:307, 8:332, 8:382, 8:509, 8:510, 8:511, 8:511, 8:511–8:512, 8:556–8:557, 8:654–8:655
distressed situation of, 7:128, 7:168, 7:169–7:170, 7:192–7:194, 7:211–7:212, 7:212n, 7:216, 7:384, 7:491, 7:553–7:554, 7:602, 7:653–7:655, 7:669–7:671, 7:678, 7:678, 7:689–7:691, 7:692, 7:699, 7:714, 8:18, 8:19, 8:300, 8:301, 8:472, 8:653–8:654, 8:654–8:655
European, 6:224–6:225, 6:588–6:589, 6:592, 6:649, 6:649n, 6:650
T. Law on, 6:578, 6:594, 6:649, 6:649, 7:468, 8:475
J. Melish on, 3:384, 3:388–3:391
W. C. Nicholas on, 6:600
petitions for incorporation of, 6:649, 6:650, 7:145n
W. Short on, 7:223, 8:556–8:557
stock issued by, 7:363, 8:18, 8:413, 8:472
TJ on, 7:128, 7:133–7:134, 7:149–7:150, 7:168, 7:169–7:170, 7:211–7:212, 7:314–7:316, 7:442–7:443, 7:653–7:655, 7:689–7:691, 7:692, 7:699, 7:710, 7:713, 7:714, 8:31, 8:108, 8:109, 8:109, 8:163, 8:177, 8:182, 8:259–8:260, 8:265, 8:300, 8:301, 8:306–8:307, 8:355–8:356, 8:360, 8:653–8:654, 8:654–8:655
in Va., 7:134, 7:144, 7:145n, 7:185, 7:203, 7:669–7:671, 7:689–7:691, 7:710, 7:713, 7:714, 7:716, 8:19, 8:35, 8:36n, 8:306, 8:511, 8:676, 8:694
in Washington, 8:499
works on, 3:296, 8:6

Banks, Henry

attacked by A. McRae, 1:616n
A Compendious View of the Establishment & Operations of Manufactory of Arms, 1:614–1:615
identified, 1:615n
letters from, 1:614–1:615
mentioned, 1:615
Observations, 3:296
Sketches & Propositions, 3:296

Banks, Sir Joseph, 6:252

Bankson, John

identified, 1:179n
letters from, 1:176–1:179

Banneker, Benjamin, 1:588–1:589, 1:590n

Banyalbufar wine, 1:366, 1:366

Baranov, Aleksandr A.

manager of Russian-American Company, 4:550, 4:551, 4:554n

Barataria (fictional island), 2:44–2:45, 2:46n

Barataria Island, La.

pirates on, 8:84, 8:85n

Barbary sheep, 3:190, 3:637

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

The Female Speaker, 7:665

barbecues, political, 1:515, 1:517n

Barbé Marbois, François de, marquis de, 5:436, 5:576

Barber, Mr. See Barbour, James; Barbour, Philip Pendleton

Barbeyrac, Jean

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

Barbour, James

and access to records, 7:256, 7:256
and appointments, 6:288–6:289, 6:292, 6:301, 6:336
and approach of war, 4:566
family of, 5:391–5:392n
as governor of Va., 7:33, 7:61, 7:62n, 7:190, 7:232, 7:669, 7:670, 7:671n, 8:47
identified, 4:415–4:416n
issues proclamation, 7:669, 7:671n
and W. F. Jones, 6:126, 6:127n
letters from, 4:415–4:416, 4:485–4:486, 4:559, 6:336
letters to, 4:432–4:434, 4:565–4:566, 6:288–6:289, 7:256
and W. McClure’s debts, 5:174–5:175, 5:328–5:329, 5:639–5:640
TJ advises, 4:415, 4:432–4:434, 4:485–4:486
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
transmits seeds to TJ, 4:534, 4:559, 4:565–4:566
as U.S. senator, 8:47n
and War of 1812, 5:191–5:192, 7:623, 7:632
wool cloth manufactured for, 6:631–6:632n

Barbour, Mordecai, 1:25

Barbour, Philip Pendleton

identified, 5:391–5:392n
and Jefferson v. Michie, 6:554, 6:630
letters from accounted for, 6:555n
letters to, 5:391–5:392, 5:516–5:522
letters to accounted for, 5:392n, 6:289n
and Rivanna Company, 5:391, 5:516–5:522, 5:526–5:528, 5:529, 5:529, 5:556, 5:639

Barbour, Thomas, 3:636

Barcelona, 4:222–4:223

Barclay, Robert

Quaker theologian, 4:152–4:153

“The Bard: A Pindaric Ode” (Gray), 3:633n

Bardstown Repository (Ky. newspaper), 4:277n

barilla, 2:283n

Baring, Alexander, first Baron Ashburton

An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council, 1:35
and British debt, 3:199
and Lafayette, 3:212, 3:445

Baring, Francis

and Lafayette, 2:16, 2:245, 3:54, 3:55n, 4:30, 4:359, 4:649, 4:650, 5:213

Baring Brothers & Company

identified, 7:440n
and Lafayette’s debts, 3:212
letter from, 8:484
letter from to John Barnes, 8:125
letters to, 7:439–7:440
letter to from J. Barnes, 8:484, 8:484n
and remittances to T. Kosciuszko, 2:219, 3:525n, 4:418, 7:421, 7:431n, 7:432, 7:437, 7:441, 7:442, 7:456, 7:499, 8:125, 8:430, 8:484, 8:497, 8:498–8:499n, 8:573
and W. Short’s certificates, 2:479n

Barker, Jacob

writings of, 8:6

Barker, John, 5:623n

Barksdale, Jonathan

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Barksdale, Nelson

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Barksdale, Samuel

as juror, 5:278, 5:279
witnesses warrant, 5:280

barley

as farm produce, 3:348, 8:439
Persian, 4:49
seed, 2:272, 4:562, 5:384
sent to TJ, 1:44
TJ orders, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109

Barlow, Joel

carries TJ’s letters to France, 3:553–3:554, 3:564, 3:565n, 3:598–3:599, 3:613, 3:617, 3:619, 3:627, 4:49, 4:62–4:63, 4:327, 4:462
The Columbiad, 1:35, 5:614, 5:617, 5:618, 5:621
and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:547
death of, 5:612, 5:665, 5:667n, 5:674, 6:45, 6:57, 6:485n, 7:428n, 7:490, 8:37, 8:38n, 8:45
departure for France delayed, 4:26, 4:28–4:29
and dynamometer, 2:111, 2:145, 2:176, 2:317
An Elegy on the late honorable Titus Hosmer, 5:614, 5:617n, 5:618
forwards book manuscript to TJ, 6:45
forwards letters to TJ, 4:350
historical writings of, 2:145, 2:176–2:177, 3:564, 3:565n, 3:598
J. A. Houdon bust of, 5:l, 5:358 (illus.)
identified, 1:589–1:590n
Joel Barlow to his Fellow Citizens, of the United States of America. Letter I, 5:615, 5:617n, 5:619
Joel Barlow to his Fellow Citizens of the United States. Letter II, 5:615, 5:617n, 5:619
and T. Kosciuszko, 4:29
and Lafayette, 4:358–4:359, 4:359
letters from, 2:145–2:147, 3:598–3:599, 3:619, 4:49
letters from mentioned, 2:178
letters to, 1:588–1:590, 2:111–2:112, 2:176–2:177, 3:564–3:565, 3:613–3:614, 4:51–4:52, 4:62–4:63
Letter to Henri Gregoire, 1:588, 1:590n
and T. Main, 2:146, 2:177
mentioned, 3:280, 5:276, 5:580n, 6:429n
and merino sheep, 2:3
Obituary by P. S. Du Pont de Nemours and K. E. Oelsner, 5:612, 5:614–5:617, 5:618–5:621, 6:515–6:516, 6:516n, 7:525
opinion of W. Lambert’s ode, 2:401n
Oration delivered at Washington, July Fourth, 1809, 1:588, 1:590n
on T. Paine, 6:297
and profit-making scheme, 3:578n
Prospectus of a National Institution, 4:24n, 5:615–5:616, 5:617n, 5:620
A Review of Robert Smith’s Address to the People of the United States, 4:21n
sends grain samples to TJ, 4:49
and TJ’s belongings in Washington, 4:49, 4:51–4:52, 4:193, 4:215
and treaty negotiations in Paris, 4:649, 4:650n, 4:665, 4:665n, 5:68, 5:82, 5:107, 5:212, 5:436–5:437, 5:576, 5:577n
U.S. minister to France, 3:427, 3:443, 3:444n, 3:521, 3:539, 3:564–3:565, 3:598–3:599, 4:17, 4:22, 4:30, 4:34, 4:54, 4:155, 4:358, 4:418, 4:446, 4:529, 4:540n, 5:296, 5:436, 5:616, 5:617n, 5:620, 7:428n
The Vision of Columbus, 5:615, 5:619
and J. Wilson, 6:415n

Barlow, Ruth Baldwin (Joel Barlow’s wife)

conveys letter, 6:459
dispute with D. B. Warden, 6:484, 6:485n, 8:45
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 5:612, 6:484
family of, 5:614, 5:617n, 5:619
health of, 1:589, 5:674
sends greetings to TJ, 3:599
superintends husband’s business, 5:617n
TJ sends greetings to, 2:177, 3:564–3:565, 3:613–3:614

Barlow, Thomas, 6:484, 6:485n, 8:37

Barnaby (TJ’s slave; b. 1783). See Gillette, Barnaby (TJ’s slave; b. 1783)

Barnes, David L., 3:231, 3:232n

Barnes, John

account with T. Kosciuszko, 7:432, 7:456–7:457, 7:499, 8:430, 8:484, 8:499, 8:500, 8:500–8:501
and M. P. Beckley, 2:135, 2:151, 2:182, 3:528, 3:558–3:559, 3:587–3:588, 4:3
cosigns loan to TJ with J. Madison, 1:212–1:213, 1:217–1:218, 1:246, 1:281, 1:285, 1:408
as customs collector, 4:488–4:489, 4:685
on defense of Washington, 7:554, 7:617–7:618
on European affairs, 6:212
handles financial transactions, 1:458, 1:467, 7:261, 7:261–7:262, 7:284, 7:294, 7:323, 7:456–7:457, 7:553–7:554, 7:572, 7:713, 8:430, 8:573
health of, 6:558, 7:284, 7:294, 8:473
identified, 1:32n
injures arm, 1:166, 1:206, 1:218
introduced to G. W. Campbell by TJ, 7:354
and T. Kosciuszko’s American investments, 2:134–2:135, 2:151–2:152, 2:181–2:182, 2:188, 2:219, 2:256, 2:260, 3:89, 3:90n, 3:284, 3:289, 3:524, 3:528, 3:531, 3:558, 3:567, 3:587, 3:613, 3:617, 4:3, 4:17, 4:26, 4:29, 4:418, 4:462–4:463, 4:469, 4:487–4:488, 4:521, 4:576, 4:591–4:592, 4:621, 4:629, 4:666, 4:684–4:685, 5:27–5:28, 5:59–5:60, 5:188, 5:192, 5:295, 5:374, 5:380, 5:381n, 5:393, 5:484, 5:531, 5:571, 6:85, 6:91–6:92, 6:118, 6:166, 6:167, 6:168, 6:211–6:212, 6:212, 6:239–6:240, 6:262–6:263, 6:307, 6:507, 6:546, 6:558, 6:577–6:578, 6:606–6:607, 6:607n, 7:9–7:10, 7:46, 7:169–7:170, 7:189, 7:192–7:194, 7:211–7:212, 7:215–7:216, 7:233–7:234, 7:261, 7:283–7:284, 7:294, 7:294, 7:314–7:316, 7:333–7:334, 7:334, 7:334, 7:353, 7:354, 7:355, 7:363, 7:369, 7:380–7:381, 7:421, 7:431–7:432, 7:432, 7:437, 7:440, 7:440–7:441, 7:442–7:443, 7:456–7:457, 7:475, 7:499, 7:553–7:554, 7:572, 7:617, 7:713, 8:20, 8:125, 8:125, 8:145, 8:172, 8:172, 8:194–8:195, 8:300–8:301, 8:425–8:426, 8:437–8:438, 8:472–8:473, 8:480–8:481, 8:497, 8:498–8:499n, 8:499, 8:500, 8:500–8:501, 8:573
letter from, to Baring Brothers & Company, 8:484, 8:484n
letter from, to T. Kosciuszko, 8:498–8:499n
letters from, 2:134–2:135, 2:181–2:182, 2:219, 3:284, 3:524–3:525, 3:558–3:559, 3:587, 4:3, 4:26–4:28, 4:418, 4:487–4:489, 4:521, 4:576, 4:629–4:631, 5:27–5:28, 5:59–5:60, 5:177, 5:374, 5:393, 5:483–5:484, 5:530–5:531, 6:91, 6:91–6:92, 6:166, 6:168, 6:211–6:212, 6:262–6:263, 6:546, 6:558, 6:606–6:607, 7:46, 7:189, 7:192–7:194, 7:215–7:216, 7:233–7:234, 7:283–7:284, 7:294–7:295, 7:323, 7:333–7:334, 7:334–7:335, 7:363, 7:369, 7:380–7:381, 7:421–7:422, 7:431–7:432, 7:437–7:438, 7:456–7:457, 7:469–7:470, 7:470–7:472, 7:499–7:500, 7:553–7:554, 7:617–7:618, 8:19–8:20, 8:125, 8:145, 8:194–8:195, 8:430, 8:437–8:438, 8:497–8:499
letters from, to M. P. Beckley, 3:587–3:588
letters from accounted for, 1:166n, 1:281n, 1:408n, 1:455n, 1:509n, 3:90n
letters to, 1:165–1:166, 1:217–1:218, 1:281, 1:408, 1:455, 1:467, 2:151–2:152, 2:188, 2:256, 3:29–3:30, 3:89–3:90, 3:289–3:290, 3:528, 4:17–4:18, 4:462–4:463, 4:554–4:555, 4:589–4:590, 4:621, 4:684–4:685, 5:145, 5:380–5:381, 5:499, 5:570–5:571, 6:84–6:85, 6:118, 6:239–6:240, 6:307, 6:507, 6:577–6:578, 7:169–7:170, 7:211–7:212, 7:261, 7:261–7:262, 7:314–7:317, 7:353–7:354, 7:440–7:441, 7:572, 7:713, 8:172, 8:425–8:426, 8:472–8:473, 8:480–8:481
letters to mentioned, 2:155, 2:260, 2:261n
letter to from Baring Brothers & Company, 8:125
mentioned, 4:193
on Napoleon’s return to power, 8:497–8:498
on prospects for peace, 7:437, 7:499–7:500, 8:20, 8:125
recommends J. Eliason, 5:483–5:484, 5:499, 5:530, 5:570–5:571, 6:91, 6:166
reports on visit with W. Short, 7:469–7:470, 7:471–7:472, 7:472n
sends greetings to TJ, 4:471–4:472, 5:177
ships goods to TJ, 1:44–1:45, 1:509
and W. Short’s certificates, 2:478, 3:29–3:30, 3:89, 3:106, 3:197
on stability of banks, 7:192–7:194, 8:19, 8:472
and supplies for TJ, 4:26–4:28, 4:630, 4:685
TJ pays, 1:41, 3:528, 3:531, 3:550, 3:551, 3:559, 4:557, 6:117, 7:441, 7:517, 7:552, 7:572, 7:572, 7:602, 7:617, 8:19, 8:425–8:426, 8:426, 8:427, 8:434, 8:437, 8:451, 8:483, 8:501
TJ’s account with, 1:31–1:32, 1:166, 1:217, 4:3, 4:17–4:18, 4:463, 6:118, 6:166, 6:167, 7:422, 7:441, 7:617, 7:713
as TJ’s agent, 4:554–4:555, 4:560, 4:560, 4:561, 4:576, 4:577, 4:589–4:590, 4:685, 4:686, 5:28, 5:129, 5:130–5:131, 5:145, 5:177, 5:454, 6:506, 6:506, 6:506n, 7:333, 7:353, 7:713, 8:472–8:473
TJ’s power of attorney to, 8:145, 8:172, 8:172, 8:194
travels to Philadelphia, 7:363, 7:381, 7:456, 7:457, 7:469–7:470, 7:470–7:472
on wartime finance, 8:19–8:20, 8:125

Barnet, Isaac Cox

identified, 5:463–5:464n
letters from, 5:463–5:464
letters to, 7:50
sends books to TJ, 5:463, 5:580n, 6:489, 6:509, 7:50
as U.S. consul, 8:161
and D. B. Warden’s removal as consul, 7:428n, 7:428n, 7:428–7:429n
witnesses document, 8:346n

Barnett’s Tavern (Fauquier Co.), 1:52n

Barney, Joshua

and contested congressional election, 7:177n
and row galleys, 6:169–6:170, 6:170n, 6:216
and trade with Saint-Domingue, 1:515, 1:517n

barometers

TJ purchases, 5:xlviii

The Baronage of England (W. Dugdale), 8:581

Baronio (Baronius), Cesare

quoted, 7:24

Barralet, John James

and publication of Declaration of Independence, 5:631, 5:633n, 5:643

Barraud, John Taylor

forwards books for D. B. Warden, 5:436, 5:499–5:500, 7:90
identified, 5:500n
letters from accounted for, 5:500n
letters to, 5:499–5:500

Barrett, Oliver

identified, 4:512–4:513n
letters from, 4:592–4:593
letters to, 4:512–4:513, 4:579–4:580
spinning machine of, 4:424–4:425, 4:426, 4:512–4:513, 4:579–4:580, 4:588, 4:589, 4:592, 4:637, 4:666–4:667, 4:673, 5:21–5:22, 5:23, 5:24, 5:80, 5:134, 5:181, 5:182n, 5:182n, 5:208, 5:209, 5:241–5:242

Barringer Creek (Albemarle Co.), 3:432

Barrow, David

identified, 8:365n
Involuntary, Unmerited, Perpetual, Absolute, Hereditary Slavery, Examined, 8:365n
letter from, 8:364–8:365
letter to, 8:454–8:455
Minutes of the Kentucky Abolition Society, 8:365n

Barrow, William

An Essay on Education, 7:658, 7:666n

Barry, Mr.

letter from J. Wagner to, 3:262–3:263
and newspaper anecdote, 3:261

Barry, Jeanne du

mentioned, 6:622
quoted by J. Adams, 6:466–6:467

Barry, Richard

and Blodget’s Hotel, 4:577
identified, 2:41n
letters from, 2:52–2:53, 2:188, 2:362, 3:342, 3:441, 4:326, 4:422, 4:577
letters to, 2:40–2:41, 2:80–2:81, 2:346, 3:460, 3:525, 4:463
letters to accounted for, 4:577n
order on TJ of, 2:40, 2:40, 2:52–2:53, 2:77, 2:80
painter at President’s House, 1:200
and W. Thornton’s shepherd dogs, 2:456, 2:490, 2:511, 2:666, 3:63, 3:241
TJ makes payments to, 4:555, 4:576, 4:576, 4:576n, 4:577, 4:590
TJ’s debt to, 3:342, 3:441, 3:460, 3:525, 3:528, 3:531, 3:550, 3:551, 3:587, 4:3, 4:17–4:18, 4:326, 4:422, 4:463
and window glass for TJ, 2:80, 2:188, 2:346, 2:362, 3:556, 3:557n

Barthe, Dominick

forwards J. Potocki book, 3:434, 3:456
identified, 3:434n
letters from, 3:434
letters to, 3:456

Barthélemy, Jean Jacques

Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, 1:580, 1:582n, 7:662, 7:666n, 7:666n

Bartlet (TJ’s slave; b. 1786)

delivers letter, 8:158n
on Monticello slave list, 4:387
transports hogs, 8:158

Barton, Aron S.

letters from, 2:4
seeks TJ’s aid, 2:4

Barton, Benjamin Smith

Additional Facts, Observations, and Conjectures relative to the … Opossum of North-America, 8:422, 8:422–8:423n
and American Philosophical Society, 6:516n, 7:281n, 7:281n, 8:193, 8:194n, 8:318, 8:319, 8:321, 8:321, 8:323, 8:324, 8:327
and appointment to U.S. Army medical department, 6:27, 6:28n, 6:46, 6:64
Archaeologiae Americanae Telluris Collectanea et Specimina, 2:510n, 8:422, 8:422n
and books borrowed from TJ, 8:284, 8:319, 8:422
botany lectures, 1:45, 1:46n, 1:191, 1:245, 1:308
botany work, 3:167, 3:181, 3:596
and classification of animals, 7:152
correspondence with TJ published, 3:76, 3:76n
and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 7:295, 7:302, 7:562
and Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589
Elements of Botany, 1:35, 1:581, 7:626
and S. Godon’s mulberry paper, 2:404n
and history of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:332, 3:166–3:167, 3:181–3:182, 3:309, 3:582, 3:649–3:650, 6:46, 6:46, 6:531
A. von Humboldt sends greetings to, 1:453n
identified, 1:521n
illness of, 8:274, 8:325, 8:422
on Indians, 6:137, 6:138, 7:289
on insects, 8:423n
and instruction of M. Lewis, 6:424n
introduced by TJ, 8:274, 8:274, 8:318, 8:319, 8:321, 8:321, 8:323–8:324, 8:324, 8:325–8:327, 8:327
introduces A. B. Woodward, 7:288
on language, 6:137
letter from forwarded to National Intelligencer, 2:670
letters from, 1:520–1:522, 2:507–2:510, 3:166–3:167, 3:596–3:597, 6:27–6:28, 7:288–7:289, 8:274–8:275, 8:319, 8:422–8:423
letters to, 1:555–1:557, 3:150, 3:181–3:182, 4:146–4:147, 6:46, 7:281, 8:284–8:285, 8:325–8:327
and mammoths, 2:507–2:509
medical instruction by, 1:193
A Memoir concerning … Various Species of Serpents, 8:422, 8:422–8:423n
memoir on the extinction of species, 2:509, 2:510
mentioned, 3:374, 7:399
names plant after TJ, 1:57n
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1:520–1:521
and Noël de la Morinière’s work, 5:604n
offers to assist TJ, 8:274
on J. Priestley, 8:423n
as F. Pursh’s mentor, 2:90, 2:91n
seeks to be treasurer of U.S. Mint, 6:28n
sends packages to TJ, 7:308, 8:422–8:423
and N. G. M. Senter’s works, 5:64, 5:66, 5:66, 5:67–5:68n
TJ introduces J. Bradbury to, 4:146–4:147
TJ recommends as correspondent, 3:618
trip to Europe of, 8:274, 8:318, 8:319, 8:321, 8:321, 8:323–8:324, 8:324, 8:325–8:327, 8:327
as university professor, 8:318, 8:319, 8:321, 8:321, 8:323, 8:324, 8:327
J. S. Vater criticizes work of, 2:467n, 2:468n
and J. S. Vater’s work, 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166, 3:615–3:616
and work on Indians, 3:596, 3:596–3:597, 3:616, 4:146

Barton, William

identified, 5:371–5:372n
letters from, 7:398–7:400, 7:511–7:512
letters from accounted for, 5:372n
letters to, 5:371–5:372, 7:446–7:447, 7:555–7:556
Memoirs of the Life of David Rittenhouse, 5:371, 5:372n, 7:150, 7:151n, 7:216–7:217, 7:398, 7:512, 7:554, 8:469
Select American Biography, 7:398–7:400, 7:446–7:447, 7:511
TJ pays, 7:555–7:556
on war and U.S. society, 7:511–7:512

Bartram, William, 2:221, 5:433

Barziza, Antonio, Count

and L. L. Paradise’s estate, 7:372
TJ as agent for, 7:372

basins, 6:348

bass. See chub, Roanoke

Bassano, Hugues Bernard Maret, duc de, 5:616, 5:617n, 5:620, 6:575, 6:575n, 7:490, 7:491n, 8:452

Bassett, Burwell

identified, 3:652n
letters from, 4:42–4:43
letters to, 3:651–3:652, 4:68
and mammoth bones, 4:43
and Palisot de Beauvois’s claim, 3:651, 3:652–3:653, 4:42, 4:68
reference for Willis, 4:516, 4:516

Bassette, John

and Dutch accounts of Va., 2:502–2:503, 2:511, 2:567
translates work, 2:503n, 2:503n

Bassus, Cassianus

Geoponica, 2:81–2:82, 2:83n, 8:56, 8:57n

basswood (American linden)

used in polygraph manufacture, 8:545, 8:549n

The Bastard (Ottawa chief)

views painting, 4:181, 4:182n

Bates, Andrew

captain of the Charles, 5:220

bath

portable, 6:570, 6:615, 7:187–7:188, 7:325, 7:326n, 7:345

Bathurst, Henry, bishop of Norwich

and treaty of commerce and friendship, 8:381

Bathurst, Henry, 3d Earl Bathurst

political views of, 8:542, 8:543, 8:544n

Baton Rouge, W. Fla., 1:442, 3:264–3:265, 3:282, 3:325, 3:344

Batteux, Charles

Histoire des Causes Premières, 6:439, 7:75, 7:148

Batture Sainte Marie

TJ receives books on, 1:37, 1:37, 1:38n, 1:287, 1:287n

Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over. See also Livingston, Edward; Livingston v. Jefferson; Moreau Lislet, Louis; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi (Thomas Jefferson); statement on the batture case (Thomas Jefferson)

acts cited in case of, 3:72, 3:176n
books on, 3:545–3:546, 3:546–3:547
W. C. C. Claiborne on, 2:434, 2:471–2:472, 2:659n, 2:681–2:682, 3:157–3:158, 6:388–6:389, 6:394–6:395, 6:433–6:434, 6:434n, 8:64
communications between TJ and his counsel concerning, 2:414, 2:414–2:415, 2:432, 2:473–2:474, 2:474–2:475, 2:494, 2:494, 2:501–2:502, 2:545, 2:659–2:660, 2:675–2:677, 3:42–3:43, 3:152–3:153, 3:203, 3:226–3:227, 3:331–3:332, 3:481–3:483, 3:483–3:488, 3:489–3:499, 3:499–3:500, 3:546–3:547, 4:110–4:111, 4:195, 4:594–4:595, 4:596–4:597, 4:605–4:606, 4:615, 4:646, 4:678–4:679, 5:43–5:47, 5:143–5:145
and Congress, 2:357, 2:358n, 2:427–2:428, 2:440n, 2:441n, 2:442n, 2:450n, 2:450n, 2:451n, 2:455, 2:455, 2:494, 2:519, 2:659, 2:660, 2:662, 2:682, 3:203–3:204, 3:244, 3:254–3:255, 3:256–3:257
deeds related to, 3:478n
and Federalist party, 2:398, 2:408, 2:414
A. Gallatin on, 2:516–2:518, 2:518–2:529
and injunction from Orleans Parish court, 6:433–6:434, 6:434–6:436, 6:437n
lawsuit brought against TJ, 2:395, 2:396n
J. Madison on, 2:435–2:436, 2:678–2:679
map of, 4:xliii–4:xliv, 4:370 (illus.), 4:521, 4:522n
F. X. Martin on, 6:434–6:436
and New Orleans city council, 6:388, 6:390–6:391, 6:392–6:393, 6:394–6:395, 8:64, 8:64n
pleadings in, 3:43, 3:109, 3:118, 3:119, 3:123–3:124, 3:134, 3:147, 3:152–3:153, 3:203, 3:226–3:227, 3:316, 3:331–3:332, 3:397, 3:397–3:400, 3:400–3:401, 3:401–3:404, 3:404–3:407, 3:407–3:410, 3:410–3:411, 3:420, 3:425
resolutions of Orleans territorial legislature concerning, 2:159–2:161, 2:192–2:193, 2:355, 2:357–2:358, 3:25, 3:26–3:27n
C. A. Rodney on, 2:454–2:456, 3:117, 3:151
L. W. Tazewell on, 5:43–5:47
TJ assembles counsel, 2:398, 2:401–2:402, 2:406, 2:416–2:417, 2:470, 2:474–2:475, 2:493, 2:494, 2:501
TJ receives documents, 2:435, 2:435–2:436, 2:439, 2:439–2:446, 2:449, 2:449–2:451, 2:516–2:518, 2:682, 3:30–3:31, 3:109, 3:233–3:235, 3:235–3:237, 4:465, 4:466, 4:595, 4:646, 4:679, 5:16, 5:17n
TJ requests documents, 2:426, 2:426–2:427, 2:427, 2:427–2:428, 2:428, 2:429, 2:452, 2:657–2:659, 2:662
TJ returns documents, 3:475–3:476, 3:476–3:478, 5:84–5:85, 5:85–5:87n
and U.S. Constitution, 2:436

Baudoin. See Baldwin

Baudoin, Capt.

and French expedition to Africa, 8:244

Baudoin, Francis, 7:66

Baudoin, Jean, 7:66

Baudouin, Pierre, 6:626

Baudouin de Toulouse, 7:66

Bauduy, Peter, 1:199, 1:200n, 1:667–1:668, 3:63

Bauluy, Mr., 2:13

Baxter, Capt. (schooner Greyhound), 2:667

Baxter, John

A New and Impartial History of England, 1:580, 3:5, 3:7n, 3:37–3:38, 3:38, 3:86, 7:629, 8:235

Baxter, John George

identified, 8:605–8:606n
letter from, 8:634–8:635
letter from accounted for, 8:606n
letter to, 8:605–8:606
recommended by J. C. Breckinridge, 8:554–8:555
textile machinery of, 5:207–5:208, 5:268, 8:554–8:555, 8:605–8:606, 8:634–8:635

Bayard, James Ashton

and election of 1800, 6:192, 6:193n
J. W. Eppes on, 6:313
as peace negotiator, 6:74, 6:103, 6:105n, 6:313, 7:198, 7:198n, 7:201, 7:202n, 7:429n, 7:433
and speech on war with Great Britain, 5:577n
as U.S. congressman, 8:276, 8:276–8:277n

Bayle, Pierre

Dictionaire Historique et Critique, 3:546
mentioned, 3:329
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

Bayly, Mr. (of Germantown, Pa.)

and hydrostatic engine, 7:232, 7:233n

Bayly, Mountjoy

wins Senate doorkeeper election, 4:164n

Bayreuth. See Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine, margravine de Bayreuth

Baytop, James

recommended for military appointment, 4:529

beans

Arikara, 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166
asparagus, 3:454, 3:454, 3:454, 3:456, 3:501–3:502
black-eyed pea, 1:157
chickpea, 6:188, 6:293, 7:326
crowder, 1:157
as farm produce, 3:348
frijole, 6:188
haricots, 5:489–5:490, 5:658, 6:44, 6:45
lima, 1:631, 1:657, 3:502, 5:658
and Pythagoras, 7:218, 7:221n
snap, 3:501–3:502, 5:658, 6:44–6:45, 6:487

bear, grizzly

skin sent to TJ, 1:668n, 2:39, 2:106

Bear Creek plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate)

blankets and beds for slaves at, 4:382–4:383, 5:463n, 6:310
clothing for slaves at, 6:309
clover cultivation at, 8:78
hogs at, 8:72
land conveyance at, 4:316–4:319
overseer at, 8:493n
roads through, 7:71, 7:430, 8:70
slaves at, 4:384–4:386
Survey of Bear Creek Lands, 4:279–4:280
TJ’s instructions for, 4:381–4:382, 5:489

bear grass, 3:353

Bear Meat (Cherokee Indian)

militia service of, 7:161

Béarn family

and Albigensian heresy, 7:65

Beasley, Frederick

professorship of, 8:446, 8:449n

Beasley, Reuben Gaunt

as agent in London, 5:454, 7:198, 7:198n

Beauclerk, Amelius

British admiral, 6:57, 6:58n

Beauharnais, Hortense de, 1:250n

Beaujour, Louis Auguste Félix, baron de

French consul general to U.S., 2:353
and L. P. G. de Lormerie’s passage, 5:432

Beaulieu, Va., 3:392

Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 2:13

Beaumont, Albanis

Travels from France To Italy, through The Lepontine Alps, 7:389

Beaumont, Francis, 7:664

Beautemps-Beaupré, Charles François

maps of, 5:203–5:204n

Beaver (ship), 4:550, 4:554n

Beaverdam lands. See Willis Creek tract (Cumberland Co.)

Beaver Dams, Battle of

American defeat at, 8:259, 8:261n

Bec (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

given to T. J. Randolph, 6:36
on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, marchese di

An Essay on Crimes & Punishments, 8:388, 8:672, 8:673n
quoted by W. Duane, 4:25, 4:26n

Beckley, John

debt to TJ, 2:135n, 3:588n

Beckley, John James

as Henrico Co. deputy clerk, 8:170
work of bound for TJ, 8:630

Beckley, Maria Prince

identified, 3:588n
letter from to J. Barnes, 3:587–3:588
loan from TJ, 2:135, 2:151, 2:182, 3:528, 3:558–3:559, 3:587–3:588, 4:3, 4:17

Becks, Thomas, 3:612

Bécourt, Regnault de

La Création du Monde, 5:466, 5:467n, 5:467n, 5:607, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:213, 6:368, 6:368, 7:284–7:285, 7:303–7:305, 7:324, 7:324
health of, 6:368
identified, 5:467–5:468n
letters from, 5:466–5:468, 5:554–5:556, 6:133–6:134, 6:368–6:369
letters to, 5:607, 6:213
proposed book by, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:368–6:369
seeks funds from TJ, 5:466, 5:554–5:555, 5:607

Bedford County, Va. See also Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate)

C. L. Bankhead to buy land in, 3:64, 3:162, 3:163n, 3:186–3:188, 4:5–4:6, 4:59, 4:316, 4:317, 4:318n, 4:319
and dog tax, 4:349n
Randolphs sell land in, 3:186–3:188
roads in, 3:195
surveyor in, 5:465, 5:465n
taxation on property in, 8:73, 8:73n, 8:73, 8:255–8:256, 8:256
temperature readings at, 3:396–3:397
TJ’s lands in, 4:387, 5:465, 5:465n, 5:470, 5:475–5:476, 5:476n, 5:479–5:481, 5:486, 5:486–5:488
and TJ’s land transfer with J. W. Eppes, 5:348–5:349
Wolf Creek, 2:237, 3:187, 3:188n, 4:317, 4:318n

Bedford County Court, Va., 8:73, 8:73

beds, 4:231–4:232n, 4:383, 7:71, 8:71, 8:132, 8:158, 8:186, 8:186n, 8:235, 8:255

beech trees, 7:52, 8:248

beef

mentioned, 6:187
for militia, 7:649
at Monticello, 8:xlvii–8:xlviii, 8:280
price of, 8:307
purchased for Monticello, 1:81n
received as pay, 1:419, 1:421
sent to TJ, 2:291
in soup, 4:180
TJ purchases, 4:12n, 4:209
at Tufton, 5:260

beer. See also Coppinger, Joseph

books on, 8:410, 8:411, 8:412n, 8:439
bottled, 5:31, 8:185, 8:186
brewed at Monticello, 6:507, 6:507n, 7:712, 8:185, 8:186, 8:438–8:439, 8:565
brewing of during American Revolution, 8:439
brewing process, 8:410–8:411
jugs for, 7:154, 7:155, 7:204, 7:710, 7:712, 7:716, 8:11, 8:11, 8:12
profits from brewing of, 8:413
served at Monticello, 8:235
TJ orders, 2:116
B. Waterhouse on, 1:299

bees

works on, 8:388

beets, 1:56, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38, 7:54, 7:54n, 7:55, 7:55n

Beggs, Charles

and Indiana Territory Legislative Council, 1:96

Beleurgey, Claudius

editor of Telegraphe, 3:233, 3:234n

Belfast Agricultural Society. See Belfast Literary Society

Belfast Literary Society, 3:279, 3:280n, 3:294–3:295, 3:309, 3:309n, 4:159, 4:175, 4:187–4:188n

Belfield (Charles Willson Peale’s Pa. estate), 5:323

Bélidor, Bernard Forest de

Architecture Hydraulique, 6:381, 7:386

Belknap, Jeremy

American Biography: or, An Historical Account Of those Persons who have been distinguished in America, 5:387
The History of New-Hampshire, 1:581

Bell, Andrew

An Analysis of the Experiment in Education, made at Egmore, near Madras, 7:342, 7:342n

Bell, George, 5:276

Bell, James. See Bell, John (surgeon)

Bell, John (editor)

Bell’s British Theatre, 7:665

Bell, John (surgeon)

Anatomy of the Human Body, 1:35, 1:307, 7:626

Bell, R.

delivers R. Jefferson’s letter, 4:607n

Bell, Robert

letters from accounted for, 4:689

Bell, William

letters from accounted for, 2:683

belladonna lily, 3:633, 4:523, 5:412

Bellavista, Va., 3:392

Bellechasse, Joseph Deville Degoutin

and batture controversy, 2:159–2:160, 2:440–2:441n, 2:442n, 2:442n, 3:26n, 3:484
identified, 2:161n

Bellenden, William (Bellendenus)

A Free Translation of the Preface to Bellendenus (ed. S. Parr), 1:35
work of bound for TJ, 8:630

Belleplaine, Va., 3:392

belles lettres

books on, 7:629
study of, 7:638, 7:638, 7:641, 7:664

Bellinger, Joseph

identified, 6:317n
introduced to TJ, 6:317

Bellini, Aurora (Maria Aurora Gaspera)

and C. Bellini estate, 3:375–3:377, 3:381n, 4:68–4:69, 4:69n, 4:80, 4:185, 4:214, 7:694

Bellini, Charles (Carlo Maria Marchionne)

estate of, 3:375, 3:381n, 4:34, 4:68–4:69, 4:69n, 4:185, 4:214, 7:694

Bellini, Luisa (Louisa; Maria Luisa Eleonora)

and C. Bellini estate, 3:375–3:377, 3:381n, 4:68–4:69, 4:69n, 4:80, 4:185, 4:214, 7:694

Bellona (schooner), 6:45, 6:152, 7:90, 7:349

Bell Rock (North Sea)

lighthouse on, 4:362–4:363, 4:364n

Bell’s British Theatre, 7:665

Belmont tract

sale of, 2:101, 2:102, 2:114, 2:137, 2:138, 2:139, 2:206–2:207, 2:227, 2:228, 2:347, 3:169–3:170, 3:170–3:171, 3:172, 3:210, 3:425–3:426, 5:671, 6:20, 8:96–8:97, 8:142

Beloe, William, trans.

The History of Herodotus, 8:22, 8:23n, 8:671, 8:672n

Belsham, Thomas

American Unitarianism, 8:553, 8:553–8:554n, 8:658
in collegiate curriculum, 7:662, 7:667
Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M.A., 6:145, 6:146, 6:146, 6:180, 6:192, 6:193, 6:204, 6:219, 6:226, 6:227, 6:228, 6:277, 6:278, 6:280, 6:367
mentioned, 6:227, 6:317–6:318, 6:500
TJ on, 6:233

Belsham, William

History of Great Britain, 1:580, 3:122–3:123
Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-Lunenburg, 3:122–3:123, 7:664
Memoirs of the Reign of George III, 3:122–3:123
mentioned, 6:227, 6:500
TJ recommends, 7:629

Belshazzar, king of Babylon, 7:582, 7:590n

Belvidera, HMS (frigate), 4:133, 5:207

Belvoir (Hugh Nelson’s Albemarle Co. estate), 1:500n

Ben (TJ’s slave; b. 1785)

and corn mill, 4:12
on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Benade, Abraham, 5:423, 5:424n

Benedict XIV, pope

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Bénévent, Prince de. See Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de

benne. See sesame (benne; benni)

Benner, Jacob, 3:377

Bennet, George

New Translation of the Morals of Seneca, 1:576

Bennett, Thomas

identified, 6:89–6:90n
letters from, 6:88–6:90
letters to, 6:124–6:125
and Seventy-Six Association, 6:88–6:90, 6:124–6:125

Benneville, George de

farm of, 4:179–4:180

benni. See sesame (benne; benni)

Benson, Egbert

TJ misdirects letter to, 1:14n, 4:581n

Benson, Jane

Philadelphia boardinghouse keeper, 7:469

Benson, John

Fredericksburg postmaster, 1:592, 1:667, 4:193, 4:581, 4:582, 5:83, 5:114
identified, 1:14n
letters from accounted for, 4:581n
letters to, 1:14, 4:581–4:582
TJ declines invitation by, 1:14

Benson, Thomas

Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum, 6:406, 6:407n

Bent Creek (Buckingham Co.)

mail service to, 3:103, 3:104n, 3:148

Bentley, William (of Massachusetts)

A Funeral Discourse [for] John Fiske, 7:198–7:199, 7:199n, 7:242
identified, 4:617n
introduces O. Rich, 4:617, 8:601
letters from, 4:617, 7:198–7:199
letters to, 7:242

Bentley, William (of Virginia)

account with TJ, 2:185–2:186
and Beaverdam lands, 2:169, 2:170n, 3:155, 4:519–4:520
identified, 2:186n
letters to, 3:155
sends botanical specimens, 1:191n

Bentzon, Adrian Benjamin

and trade agreement with Russia, 4:551, 4:554n

Bérenger, Laurent

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Beresford, William

A Voyage Round The World, 1:445–1:446, 1:449n

Berington, Joseph

The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa, 7:664

Berkeley, George

in collegiate curriculum, 7:480

Berkeley, Sir William

on printing presses, 7:140, 7:141n
seed from Greenspring estate of, 7:16n

Berlin, University of, 4:354n

Berlin and Milan decrees

application of, 1:313–1:314, 2:345–2:346
criticized, 2:8
described, 1:21n
partial repeal of, 5:293, 5:294n
provoked by Great Britain, 2:231, 7:39
revocation of, 1:183, 1:658, 3:54, 3:77, 3:105, 3:165, 3:255, 3:600, 5:82, 5:294n, 6:142, 6:538, 6:540n, 7:87, 7:463–7:464, 8:107
TJ on, 1:19–1:20, 4:429, 5:293, 7:87, 8:572
unchanged, 2:162, 2:162n, 2:195, 2:470, 4:611–4:612

Bern, Switzerland

aristocracy of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15

Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules, crown prince of Sweden

book sanctioned by, 6:513
in 1813 campaign against Napoleon, 6:619, 6:621n
Lafayette on, 3:105
as peace broker, 6:241
and TJ, 3:105, 3:106n
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Bernard, Benjamin B.

threshing machine invented by, 2:5n, 2:36

Bernard, Sir Francis

correspondence of published, 6:258

Berrian, Samuel

identified, 8:614–8:615n
letter to, 8:614–8:615
An Oration, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, 8:614, 8:615n

berries, 3:190

Berry, duc de. See Artois, Charles Ferdinand d’, duc de Berry

Berth, Mr., 8:592

Berthier, Louis Alexandre, Prince de Neuchâtel, 8:452

Berthod, Anselme, 8:560

Berthollet, Claude Louis, 1:267n

Berwick, Duke of

and portrait of C. Columbus, 7:563, 7:611, 7:612, 7:616

Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant (Donck), 2:503n, 2:503n

Bess (TJ’s slave; b. 1747). See Betty (Bess) (TJ’s slave; b. 1747)

Besson, Alexandre Charles, 3:65, 3:66n

Betty (Bess) (TJ’s slave; b. 1747)

hempen bed for, 8:71
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:380, 4:383, 4:384, 4:386, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308, 6:309, 8:60, 8:60, 8:61, 8:61, 8:255

Betty (Island Betty; Old Betty) (TJ’s slave; b. 1749)

makes butter, 4:379
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:383, 4:383, 4:384, 4:386, 5:461, 5:462, 6:308, 6:309, 6:309, 8:60, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:62, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255

Betty (TJ’s slave; b. 1801)

mentioned, 5:34
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 8:61, 8:255

Betula. See birch trees

Beugnot, Jacques Claude

as head of the French police, 8:138, 8:139n

Beverley, Robert

Histoire de la Virginie, 5:509, 8:388

Beverley Town. See Westham, Va.

Beverly (Henrico Co.)

TJ’s lots in, 4:63, 4:154

Beverly (TJ’s slave; b. 1798). See Hemings, Beverly (TJ’s slave and probable son; b. 1798)

Béziers (Besiers) family

and Albigensian heresy, 7:65

Bezout, Étienne

Cours De Mathématiques, 7:458, 7:458n, 7:481, 7:626, 8:309–8:310

Bibb, George Minos

as U.S. senator, 4:114n

Bibb, William A., 5:528n

Bibb, William Wyatt

U.S. representative from Ga., 4:612n

Bible

Acts referenced, 6:541, 7:25, 7:26, 7:27n, 7:575, 7:589, 7:590n, 7:590n
Acts referenced by TJ, 4:73, 4:74n, 5:123, 5:125n
J. Adams on, 7:25–7:26, 7:76
Amos referenced, 4:606, 4:607n
apocrypha, 7:25, 7:26, 7:27n, 7:77, 7:78n, 7:218, 7:219
authenticity of, 7:25–7:26, 8:196–8:197
1 Corinthians referenced, 3:94, 3:95n, 7:581, 8:364, 8:365n
2 Corinthians referenced, 5:326–5:327, 6:284, 6:285n, 8:614, 8:614n
Daniel referenced, 6:236, 6:302, 7:36–7:37, 7:98, 7:99n, 7:582, 7:590n, 8:7, 8:7n
Daniel referenced by TJ, 5:135–5:136, 5:137n
Deuteronomy referenced, 6:98, 6:100n, 6:618
dictionary of, 1:36
Ecclesiastes referenced, 6:192, 6:192–6:193n
Ephesians referenced, 8:191
Esdras referenced, 8:665, 8:666, 8:667n, 8:667n
Exodus referenced, 6:616–6:618, 6:619n, 6:643, 6:644n, 8:665, 8:666, 8:667n
Exodus referenced by TJ, 5:591, 5:591n, 7:125, 7:147, 8:126, 8:127n
Ezekiel referenced, 7:195, 7:195n
Galatians referenced by TJ, 7:605, 7:605n
Genesis referenced, 6:21, 6:23n, 6:541, 7:219–7:220, 8:7, 8:7n
Genesis referenced by TJ, 4:56, 4:57n, 6:564, 6:567n, 7:616, 7:617n
Habakkuk referenced, 7:386, 7:386n
Hebrews referenced, 8:190
Isaiah referenced, 7:195, 7:195n, 7:579, 7:579, 7:586, 7:589, 7:590n
Isaiah referenced by TJ, 4:395, 4:395n
Jeremiah referenced, 7:579
Jeremiah referenced by TJ, 4:627, 4:628n, 5:12
Job referenced, 5:58, 5:59n
John referenced, 6:302, 6:447, 6:521, 6:643, 6:644n, 7:25, 7:25, 7:217, 7:221n, 7:362, 7:363n, 7:585, 8:189–8:190, 8:190, 8:275, 8:276n
Jonah referenced, 4:606, 4:607n
Joshua referenced by TJ, 3:579, 3:579n
Jude referenced, 7:219
Judges referenced, 7:23, 7:27n
Judith referenced, 6:623, 6:627n
1 Kings referenced, 5:495, 5:496–5:497n
Leviticus referenced, 6:98, 6:100n
Luke referenced, 2:458, 5:126–5:127, 5:127n, 6:183, 6:184n, 6:287, 6:288n, 7:25, 8:552, 8:553n, 8:665, 8:667n
Luke referenced by TJ, 1:154, 1:156n, 1:564, 1:565n, 2:421, 2:421n, 3:145, 3:146n, 3:555, 3:555n, 3:606, 3:607n, 7:148, 7:151n, 7:414, 7:415n, 8:168
Malachi referenced, 8:190
Mark referenced, 7:25, 7:575, 7:589–7:590n
Matthew referenced, 1:291, 1:292n, 2:203, 2:203n, 2:386, 2:387–2:388n, 3:74, 3:75n, 3:206, 3:207n, 3:262, 3:262n, 5:70, 5:71n, 5:590, 5:590n, 6:237, 6:239n, 6:447, 6:447, 7:25, 7:25, 7:584, 7:588, 7:588, 7:588, 7:590n, 8:406, 8:406, 8:407, 8:408n, 8:450, 8:451n, 8:665, 8:667n
Matthew referenced by TJ, 5:305, 5:645–5:646, 5:646n, 7:243, 7:243n, 7:705, 7:706n
mentioned, 8:5
miracles in, 6:236
new edition proposed, 5:654, 5:654–5:655n, 5:662
Numbers referenced, 7:58, 7:58n
Peter referenced, 7:219
1 Peter referenced by TJ, 2:274, 2:277n
Proverbs referenced, 5:98, 5:98n, 6:623, 7:579
Proverbs referenced by TJ, 8:341, 8:343n
Psalms referenced, 5:127n, 5:612, 5:614n, 6:22, 6:23n, 6:447, 6:616, 6:616
Psalms referenced by TJ, 6:67, 6:68n, 6:402, 6:407n, 6:550–6:551
Revelation referenced, 5:627, 5:629n, 6:521, 7:36–7:37, 7:98, 7:99n, 7:195, 7:195n, 8:7, 8:7n, 8:364, 8:365n
Romans referenced, 6:447, 7:582–7:583, 7:589, 7:590n
1 Samuel referenced, 6:37, 6:39–6:40n
1 Samuel referenced by TJ, 1:103, 1:103n, 5:123, 5:125n
2 Samuel referenced, 5:641, 5:642n, 6:37, 6:39–6:40n
2 Samuel referenced by TJ, 7:103, 7:104n
sermon based on, 2:411, 2:412n
societies for distribution of, 6:607–6:608, 6:608n, 7:178, 7:182–7:183, 7:183n, 7:586
A. O. Stansbury on, 8:188–8:189, 8:190
study of, 7:182, 7:715
swearing on, 2:594
Ten Commandments, 6:616–6:618, 7:125, 7:146–7:147, 7:147
theological works about, 2:321–2:322n
Thessalonians referenced by TJ, 1:596, 1:597n, 3:304, 3:308n, 7:605, 7:605n
2 Timothy referenced by TJ, 5:123, 5:125n
TJ orders copy of, 2:321–2:322n, 2:337, 2:349
works on, 3:356–3:357, 8:235, 8:472, 8:472n, 8:672, 8:673n

Bible Society of Virginia, 6:607–6:608, 6:608n, 7:178, 7:182–7:183, 7:183n

Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia (Kennett), 5:513, 5:513n

Bibliothecae Historicae Libri Quindecim de quadraginta (Diodorus Siculus), 1:580, 6:382

Bibliotheca Historica (B. G. Struve, C. G. Buder, and J. G. Meusel), 8:559, 8:562n

Biddle, Jane Margaret Craig (Nicholas Biddle’s wife)

identified, 7:383n
introduced by J. Vaughan, 7:383

Biddle, Nicholas

American Philosophical Society membership diploma for, 6:xliv–6:xlv, 6:115n, 6:116n, 6:386 (illus.)
and J. Corrêa da Serra, 6:532
and history of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:332, 6:357, 6:417, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:531–6:532
History of the Expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, 6:417, 7:63–7:64, 7:64n, 7:289, 7:289n, 7:290, 7:517–7:518, 7:555, 7:555n, 7:556
identified, 2:74–2:75n
introduced by J. Vaughan, 7:383
and J. B. Lefevre’s claim, 2:74, 2:94
letters from, 2:74–2:75, 6:531–6:532
letters to, 2:94, 6:430
and naval position for F. B. Taggart, 5:502, 5:503
and Philadelphia Museum, 8:461, 8:465n

Bidwell, Barnabas, 3:28, 3:28n, 3:75, 3:118, 3:124

Big Bone Lick, Ky.

fossils acquired from, 8:449n

Bigordi, Domenico di Tommaso (Domenico Ghirlandajo)

and portrait of A. Vespucci, 7:613

bile, 2:542

Bill for the improvement of the United States, by public roads and canals, 2:213–2:214

A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, 7:637, 7:641n

Bill of Mortality for Portsmouth (Spalding), 3:373–3:374

Billy (Big Billy) (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Billy (Little Billy) (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Billy (C. Clay’s slave), 6:94

Billy (J. B. Couch’s slave)

and lost trunk, 1:346, 1:347, 1:348

Billy (N. H. Hooe’s slave), 3:112

Billy (C. Peyton’s slave)

transports clover seed, 4:548

Billy (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231–4:232n

Billy (TJ’s slave; b. 1799)

delivers letter, 5:342, 8:133n
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 4:388, 5:461, 8:61
as wagoner, 5:489

Billy (TJ’s slave; b. 1808; Flora’s son)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:309, 8:62, 8:255

Billy (TJ’s slave; b. 1808; Sarah [Sally] Hubbard’s son)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:460, 6:309, 6:310, 8:62, 8:255

Bingham, William, 1:56n

Binns, John

and Philadelphia Democratic Press, 8:5
publishes Declaration of Independence, 5:632–5:633n

Binns, John Alexander

and R. Rush’s cabinet proposal, 5:78
A Treatise on Practical Farming, 2:198n

Binny, Archibald. See also Binny & Ronaldson (Philadelphia firm)

and perpetual-motion machine, 5:559n
printing partnership, 1:17, 1:18–1:19n

Binny & Ronaldson (Philadelphia firm)

W. Duane on, 3:329–3:330
letters from, 1:283
letters to, 1:314–1:315
and raising of sheep, 1:17
as typefounders, 1:18–1:19n, 5:654–5:655n

biography

books of, 1:288–1:289, 1:580, 7:50
of J. Breckinridge proposed, 8:486–8:487, 8:529
and clues to character, 7:63–7:64
A Description of a System of Biography (J. Priestley), 8:472, 8:672
of A. Hamilton proposed, 2:145–2:146, 2:147n, 2:176
of Lafayette proposed, 8:478–8:479
Port Folio to publish, 7:317–7:318
proposed national, 2:188–2:189, 7:295–7:296, 7:302–7:303, 7:330, 7:411–7:412
of TJ, 7:330

Biot, Jean Baptiste, 1:267n

Birch, Thomas, 5:221n

The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain … With Their Lives and Characters, 7:399, 7:400n

Birch, Thomas Erskine

identified, 4:286n
letters from, 4:286–4:287, 4:391–4:392, 4:518–4:519
letters to, 4:396, 4:562–4:563
The Virginian Orator, 4:286, 4:287n, 4:391, 4:396, 4:518–4:519, 4:562–4:563

Birch, William Russell

bust of TJ, 3:625n
drawing of TJ by, 5:221n
and D. Edwin’s engraving of TJ, 5:221
identified, 5:221–5:222n
letters from, 5:221–5:222
letters to, 5:288

Birch, William Young, 3:296–3:297n

Birch, W. Y., & A. Small (Philadelphia publisher), 1:18, 1:19n, 1:172n

birch trees

F. A. Michaux on, 5:7, 5:8n, 7:52, 8:248

bird pepper, 5:364–5:365, 6:xliii, 6:66–6:67, 6:67, 6:81, 6:127–6:128, 6:187–6:188, 6:195–6:196, 6:252, 6:292, 6:377, 6:386 (illus.), 6:615, 7:326, 7:567, 7:568n

birds

books on, 8:6, 8:22, 8:22–8:23n, 8:671, 8:672n
cranes, 8:6
hawks, 8:6
mockingbirds, 1:162
nightingale, 1:599
skylark, 1:599
whip-poor-wills, 8:6

A Bird’s Eye Sketch of the Military Concerns of the United States (Duane), 5:257n

Birdwood (Gilmer family’s Henry Co. estate)

E. Trist at, 5:27n, 7:501–7:502

Birth, Mr. See Berth, Mr.

Bishop, Joseph

and Albemarle Volunteer Company subscription, 5:344
petition to General Assembly, 5:378–5:380
TJ pays, 2:116, 7:459, 7:460n, 7:460

bison, American (buffalo), 6:470, 7:302, 8:238

Bisset, Robert, 7:664

bittersweet, American. See waxwork (American bittersweet)

Bixby, Luke, 5:39n

Bizarre Scandal, 8:296n

Bizet, Charles

letters from accounted for, 4:689

Blackbeard (Edward Teach), 2:668, 5:600–5:601, 6:53

Blackburn, George

professor at College of William and Mary, 4:108, 4:246, 8:609
professor at South Carolina College, 8:353, 8:609–8:610, 8:646
seeks professorship at Central College, 8:353

Blackden, Samuel

and Ky. land, 1:131n, 5:433

black-eyed peas, 1:157

Blackledge, William

recommendation of, 2:211, 2:212n, 2:333

Blacklock, Thomas

as translator of Horace, 6:551, 6:552n, 6:616

blackmail letters, 1:425–1:428

Blackmeadow (farm at Montpellier), 3:190

Black Rock, N.Y.

burnt by British forces, 8:217

blacksmiths

charges from, 1:3
at Monticello, 1:419n, 1:464n

Blackstone, William

Blackstone’s Commentaries (ed. S. G. Tucker), 7:616, 7:617n, 7:628, 8:336
cited in Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:299, 4:302n
Commentaries on the Laws of England, 2:420, 3:546, 4:302n, 5:136, 5:136, 5:137n, 7:125, 7:126–7:127, 7:127, 7:148, 7:148, 7:249, 7:628
on legislators’ responsibility to constituents, 4:129, 4:130n
and Magna Carta, 7:67
mentioned, 4:162, 7:129, 7:223
Reports of Cases Determined in the Several Courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779, 3:134, 3:135n, 3:152
and royal rights, 3:174n, 3:176n
J. Tyler on, 3:206
writings of bound for TJ, 8:630

Blackstone’s Commentaries (S. G. Tucker), 7:616, 7:617n, 7:628, 8:336

Blackwater (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate)

beds and blankets distributed to slaves at, 4:382–4:383

Blackwater Mills (Bedford Co.), 4:87

Blackwater tobacco warehouse (Lynchburg), 6:25, 6:26n

Bladen, Martin, trans.

Caius Julius Cæsar’s Commentaries of his wars in Gaul, and civil war with Pompey, 1:580

Bladensburg, Battle of, 7:621–7:623, 7:624n, 7:656n, 8:19n, 8:153, 8:155

Blagden, George

and reconstruction of the U.S. Capitol, 8:592, 8:592

Blagrove, Charles

identified, 5:87n
letters from, 5:103, 5:159
letters from accounted for, 5:222n
letters to, 5:87, 5:128, 5:222
and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:87, 5:103, 5:103n, 5:128, 5:159, 5:222, 5:222n

Blagrove, William

and Bunker Hill Association, 2:504–2:505, 2:666
identified, 2:505n
letters from, 2:504–2:505
letters to, 2:666

Blair, Archibald, 3:605, 3:605n

Blair, Beverley

identified, 2:154n
letter prepared by, 2:154

Blair, Hugh

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1:576, 7:629, 7:662
TJ references, 7:630

Blair, John, 3:383n

and P. Mazzei’s Richmond property, 5:598

Blake, George, 3:126, 3:127, 3:165–3:166, 3:178

Blake, Mrs. George (née Moredock), 3:127

Blake, James Heighe

letters from accounted for, 1:12n
mayor of Washington, 7:669n

Blake, Joaquín, 2:247, 2:248n

Bland, Richard

executors of, 1:403
An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies, 8:643, 8:645n
and protection of slaves, 7:603, 7:605n
and Stamp Act Resolutions, 4:599, 8:642
TJ on, 7:411, 7:548, 7:603, 8:643
and Two-Penny Act (1758), 7:546

Blankenship, Mr., 5:128

blankets

Dutch, 6:344, 6:344
Indian, 1:510
E. Randolph’s, 4:231–4:232n
for slaves, 4:99, 4:382–4:383, 5:33, 5:34, 5:460–5:463, 5:470, 8:68, 8:132, 8:158, 8:186

Blanque, Jean

La. legislator, 7:227

Blanque, Jean Paul, 3:52, 3:496–3:497

Blatchford, Samuel

Elements of the Greek Language … Being a Translation of Dr. Moor’s Celebrated Greek Grammar, 8:660

Bleakley, David

letters from accounted for, 3:655

Bledsoe, Jesse

as U.S. senator, 6:241

Blenheim (slave), 4:231–4:232n

Blenheim Mountain (Albemarle Co.), 8:568

Bloch, Marcus Elieser, 5:601

Blocquerst, Andrew J., 5:467n

Blodget’s Hotel (Washington), 4:577, 4:577n, 7:680, 7:698, 7:699n, 8:445n

Bloodgood, Abraham

chairs meeting of N.Y. Republicans, 1:530–1:534, 1:568–1:569
identified, 1:534n
letters from, 1:530–1:534
letters from accounted for, 1:533n
letters to, 1:568–1:569

Bloody Buoy (Cobbett), 3:305, 3:308n

Bloomfield, Joseph

military experience of, 6:527–6:528

Bloomfield, Samuel F.

and post road, 1:350, 1:351–1:352

Blount, William

conspiracy, 4:174, 4:174–4:175n, 5:4

Blount, Willie

letters from accounted for, 3:655

Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 6:619, 6:621n

Blue Ridge Mountains, 1:197–1:198, 2:218, 3:102, 3:355, 4:177, 4:526, 8:298

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich

career of described, 2:510n
and classification of animals, 7:152, 7:208–7:209, 7:210, 7:210
corresponds with TJ, 1:207, 1:208n
on mammoths, 2:508, 2:509
Manuel D’Histoire Naturelle, 7:626

Blunt, Edmund March

Blunt’s Edition of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the year 1814, 6:535, 6:559
Blunt’s Edition of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the year 1816, 8:118, 8:142, 8:181
identified, 4:13n
letters from, 4:13, 4:202, 6:535
letters to, 4:55–4:56, 6:559
Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1812, 4:13, 4:13n, 4:55
Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1813, 4:202, 4:202n

boats. See also gunboats

barges, 6:170n
design of, 5:491, 5:492n, 5:508n, 5:548–5:549
diving (submarine), 6:206, 6:313, 6:314n
floating batteries, 6:637–6:641, 6:642
impressment of, 7:123, 7:135, 7:156
rowboats, 6:169–6:170
steamboats, 4:199, 4:199–4:200, 4:235, 4:273, 6:56–6:57, 6:62, 6:63, 6:247–6:249, 6:272, 6:637–6:641, 8:591
transfer goods to and from Richmond, 1:44n, 1:81, 1:114–1:115, 1:153, 1:176, 1:246, 1:257, 1:319, 1:368, 1:457, 1:488n, 2:96, 2:109, 2:110–2:111, 2:116, 2:154, 2:305, 2:335, 2:392, 2:423, 2:430, 2:438, 3:67, 3:310n, 3:334, 3:442, 3:479, 3:518, 3:520, 4:57, 4:219, 4:233, 4:234n, 4:381, 4:422, 4:526, 4:530, 4:548–4:549, 4:557, 4:580, 5:599, 5:622, 5:656, 7:94–7:95, 8:97, 8:100, 8:305, 8:492, 8:536, 8:571, 8:582, 8:609, 8:609n

Bob (Charles Clay’s servant), 3:65

Bochart, Samuel

Hierozoicon, 7:715, 7:716n

Boehmeria nivea. See silk plant

Boerstler, Charles, 5:533–5:539, 6:645, 7:525, 8:261n, 8:263

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus

Consolationis Philosophiæ Libri V. Anglo-Saxonice Redditi ab Alfredo, 8:236

Böhmer, Justus Henning

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Boileau, Nathaniel Britton

secretary of commonwealth of Pa., 4:372, 4:373n

Boileau, Nicolas, 7:665

Boissieu, Denis Salvaing de

Traité de l’usage des fiefs et autres droits seigneuriaux, 3:175n

Bolama (Guinea-Bissau), 3:269–3:270n

Bolaños, Juan de Hevia

Curia philipica: donde breve y comprehendioso se trata de los juyzios, mayormente forenses, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:546

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount

J. Adams on, 7:74, 7:78n, 7:480
correspondence with J. Swift, 6:267, 6:267n
mentioned, 6:228, 6:238, 6:302, 6:302, 6:521
Philosophical Works, 2:51
read by J. Adams, 4:474
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507
works of, 8:49

Bolland, Jean de

Acta Sanctorum, 7:220, 8:558–8:563, 8:656–8:657, 8:682

Bollandists

and Acta Sanctorum (J. de Bolland and others), 8:558–8:563, 8:656–8:657

Bolling, Edward

debt to TJ, 3:488, 4:11
identified, 6:42n
letters from, 6:42
recommends T. Roberts to TJ, 6:42

Bolling, John (d. 1757)

and Westham land, 8:171n, 8:171n

Bolling, John (TJ’s nephew)

family of, 5:568n

Bolling, Mary Jefferson (TJ’s sister), 8:612n

Bollman, Justus Erich, 2:14, 3:324, 3:325n, 6:599, 7:128

Bologna, University of, 2:565

Bolton, Capt., 5:665

bolts, iron, 2:545, 2:546, 2:547

Bonamy, Alexis Cesar, 5:86n, 5:86n

Bonaparte, Caroline, 1:250n

Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 2:288n

identified, 8:378–8:379n
letter from, 8:378–8:379
letter to, 8:434–8:435
seeks letter of introduction from TJ, 8:378
TJ’s letter of introduction for, 8:437
visits Europe, 8:378–8:379, 8:432, 8:434–8:435, 8:437

Bonaparte, Jerome, king of Westphalia, 2:287, 2:288n

Bonaparte, Joseph, king of Spain, 1:96, 1:108, 2:35n

and Napoleon’s abdication, 7:537

Bonaparte, Josephine, 1:417n

Bonaparte, Louis, king of Holland

abdication of, 2:49n
appoints TJ to Royal Institute of Science, Literature and the Arts, 1:194
interest in mineralogy of, 2:49n
TJ on, 2:354

Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon I, emperor of France

Bond, Achsah, 5:525, 5:526n

Bond, Edward Fell

identified, 5:526n
letters from, 5:524–5:526
seeks appointment, 5:524–5:526

Bond, Shadrach, 5:525, 5:526n

Bond Street (London), 4:109n

“A Bond Street Lounger”

criticizes U.S., 4:109
letters from, 4:109

Bonne, Rigobert

Atlas Portatif à l’usage des Colleges, 7:116, 7:116–7:117n

Bonnel, Mrs., 1:667

Bonneville, Margaret B.

identified, 6:8n
letters from, 6:8
letters to, 6:47
and TJ’s letters to T. Paine, 6:8, 6:8, 6:47

Bonpland, Aimé Goujaud

Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland, 1:24–1:25n, 1:455, 1:455n
and D. B. Warden, 3:557–3:558n

Bonsal, Conrad & Company (Norfolk firm), 4:56n

“The Book!” or, The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (S. Perceval; included in Book of Kings compiled by TJ). See also Book of Kings, 6:374, 6:374n, 6:413, 7:34, 7:36n, 7:270, 7:410, 7:410n, 7:500, 8:33, 8:240

bookcases

at Monticello, 8:xlv–8:xlvi, 8:55, 8:289, 8:346 (illus.), 8:393, 8:485, 8:486
at Poplar Forest, 8:256
used in transportation of TJ’s library, 8:xlv–8:xlvi, 8:290

The Book of Common Prayer, 8:388, 8:672

Book of Kings (compiled by TJ)

“The Book!” or, The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (S. Perceval), 8:33
bound for TJ, 8:33, 8:240, 8:671, 8:672–8:673n
A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings upon the Charges preferred against His Royal Highness the Duke of York (G. L. Wardle), 8:33, 8:240, 8:242n
favored by TJ, 8:240
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Bareith (Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine, margravine de Bayreuth), 8:33
Vie de Jeanne de St. Remy de Valois, ci-devant Comtesse de La Motte (J. La Motte), 8:33, 8:34n

books. See also Jefferson, Thomas: Books & Library

on aging, 3:137, 3:137n
on agriculture, 1:581–1:582, 3:321, 3:322n, 4:110n, 6:17, 6:122, 6:219, 6:280, 6:280, 6:380, 6:613, 6:613, 7:626, 8:56, 8:57n, 8:388, 8:388, 8:442, 8:672
on American Revolution, 3:41, 3:41n, 3:98, 6:55, 6:122, 6:231, 6:258, 6:373, 8:178, 8:179n, 8:266
on anatomy, 8:429, 8:429n
on art, 6:571, 6:571n, 8:4, 8:43, 8:195, 8:196n
on astronomy, 6:75, 6:84, 6:84n, 7:626, 8:388, 8:670, 8:685, 8:686
autobiographical, 6:113n
on balloons, 8:388
on banks and currency, 8:6
and batture case, 3:545–3:546, 3:546–3:547
to be dedicated to TJ, 2:172
on beer, 8:410, 8:411, 8:412n, 8:439
on bees, 8:388
on belles lettres, 7:629
biographical, 6:489, 6:509, 7:50, 7:295–7:296, 7:302–7:303, 7:330
on birds, 8:6, 8:22, 8:22–8:23n, 8:671, 8:672n
Book of Kings (compiled by TJ), 8:33, 8:34n, 8:240, 8:671, 8:672–8:673n
on botany, 3:167, 3:181, 3:596, 5:640, 5:642n, 5:682, 7:245n, 7:626, 8:194, 8:248, 8:248n, 8:284, 8:285n, 8:319, 8:363, 8:363n, 8:422, 8:429, 8:429, 8:429, 8:429, 8:430n, 8:430n, 8:601, 8:601–8:602n, 8:616
bound for TJ, 1:35–1:38, 1:225, 1:286, 2:321, 2:349, 2:482n, 4:289, 8:33, 8:566, 8:628, 8:629–8:632, 8:671, 8:672, 8:672–8:673n, 8:674, 8:678
on brewing, 4:562, 6:507, 6:510, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647, 7:259, 7:285, 7:292, 8:410, 8:411, 8:412n
on canals, 8:388
carried by B. Hemmings, 1:321
on chemistry, 5:175–5:176, 5:223, 6:408, 6:408, 6:411n, 7:626, 8:429, 8:430n
for children, 2:101, 2:193, 2:306–2:307, 2:308n, 2:309n, 3:122, 8:22, 8:633–8:634
classical, 7:259
of correspondence, 6:532, 6:532n, 8:236, 8:237n, 8:382, 8:383n, 8:435, 8:671, 8:672n
on criticism (literary), 7:629
dictionaries, 6:220, 6:387, 6:441, 6:471, 6:533, 7:286, 7:286n, 7:458, 7:633, 7:646, 8:210, 8:236, 8:237n, 8:435, 8:469, 8:472, 8:481–8:482, 8:482n, 8:514, 8:581, 8:628, 8:660, 8:672, 8:672
on distilling, 8:388
on economics, 6:596, 7:5–7:6, 7:598, 7:628, 8:361
on education, 8:382, 8:383n, 8:550–8:551, 8:551n
on electricity, 8:685
encyclopedias, 6:408, 7:683, 7:683, 8:244, 8:580–8:581, 8:581n, 8:581, 8:630
on ethics, 7:627, 8:630, 8:630
on finding latitude and longitude, 8:660, 8:674n
on fish, 5:601–5:602, 5:603–5:604n, 5:604–5:605
forwarded by W. F. Gray, 2:482, 2:483n, 8:674
on French Revolution, 8:291–8:292, 8:388, 8:672, 8:673n
on gardening, 6:118, 6:167, 6:214, 6:214, 8:388, 8:672
on geography, 4:311–4:312, 4:325–4:326, 4:326n, 6:352, 6:374, 6:413, 7:389, 7:626, 8:301, 8:301
on geology, 8:429, 8:429, 8:429–8:430n
given to TJ, 2:95–2:96, 2:161
on government, 7:628
on grammar, 6:40–6:41, 6:41–6:42n, 6:402, 7:320, 7:320n, 7:458, 7:458n
on history, 1:580–1:581, 3:122–3:123, 3:635–3:636, 6:32, 6:45–6:46, 6:55, 6:58, 6:58–6:59, 6:93, 6:94, 6:146, 6:157, 6:165, 6:167, 6:206–6:207, 6:231, 6:231n, 6:289, 6:342–6:343n, 6:352, 6:373, 7:139, 7:155, 7:190, 7:286, 7:389, 7:629, 8:xlvi, 8:22, 8:23n, 8:40, 8:121–8:122, 8:122n, 8:140–8:141, 8:143, 8:150–8:151, 8:151n, 8:152, 8:174–8:175, 8:176n, 8:200, 8:203, 8:235–8:236, 8:236, 8:237n, 8:237n, 8:266, 8:282–8:283, 8:291–8:292, 8:301, 8:309, 8:326, 8:334–8:337, 8:338n, 8:350, 8:388, 8:388, 8:581, 8:581, 8:582n, 8:628, 8:629n, 8:629, 8:632n, 8:671, 8:672n
on horses, 5:447, 5:448n, 5:455, 8:388, 8:672
on hydraulics, 6:381–6:382, 6:468, 6:469n, 7:302, 7:386
on insanity, 3:277, 3:279n, 6:60–6:61
on law, 5:176, 5:245, 6:45, 6:122, 6:372, 6:374, 6:412–6:413, 6:445, 6:477, 6:479, 6:598, 7:125–7:127, 7:146–7:148, 7:228, 7:249, 7:249–7:250, 7:257–7:258, 7:292, 7:292n, 7:627–7:628, 7:683, 8:40, 8:151, 8:152n, 8:175, 8:179, 8:231, 8:235, 8:244, 8:285, 8:301, 8:328, 8:348–8:349, 8:388, 8:398, 8:630, 8:630, 8:630, 8:672, 8:672, 8:673n
lent by TJ, 2:28, 2:51
on Lewis and Clark Expedition, 6:122, 6:417, 6:418–6:424
on Massachusetts, 6:44, 6:82
on mathematics, 1:37, 1:576, 5:14, 5:416–5:417, 5:442, 5:443n, 5:447, 5:448n, 5:455, 5:493, 5:501, 5:523, 6:157, 6:381, 6:381, 7:250–7:253, 7:286, 7:458, 7:458, 7:458n, 7:458n, 7:626, 7:683, 8:56, 8:301, 8:309–8:310, 8:469, 8:481–8:482, 8:482n, 8:640, 8:660, 8:670, 8:670, 8:674n, 8:685, 8:685, 8:686
on medicine, 8:388, 8:472, 8:472n, 8:672, 8:673n
on merino sheep, 3:321, 3:322n
on metaphysics, 5:223, 5:276
military, 8:388, 8:672
on milling, 6:456, 6:456
on mineralogy, 3:263–3:264, 8:429, 8:429, 8:429–8:430n
on moral philosophy, 8:4, 8:118, 8:242, 8:472, 8:630, 8:630, 8:672, 8:673n
on morals, 6:510–6:511, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647, 7:286, 7:458, 7:458n
on music, 8:4
on natural history, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:213, 6:368–6:369, 7:389, 8:5, 8:6, 8:22, 8:22–8:23n, 8:388, 8:422, 8:422–8:423n, 8:581, 8:672
on natural law, 7:627, 8:285, 8:328
on natural philosophy, 1:581, 7:626
on neutral rights, 8:387, 8:387–8:388n
on New York, 6:352, 6:352, 6:352–6:353n, 6:400, 6:400n, 6:449, 6:450, 6:450, 6:450n, 6:450n, 7:169, 7:169n, 7:248, 7:264
novels, 3:122, 3:633, 3:633n, 6:70n, 6:464n, 8:4, 8:238, 8:242n, 8:243n, 8:294
on oratory, 7:629–7:630, 8:630
on orthography, 6:355n
packing and shipping of, 8:579–8:580, 8:603, 8:628, 8:629
on physics, 7:282, 7:292, 8:429, 8:429
on plants, 3:167, 3:181, 7:458, 7:458n
poetry, 6:464n
on political economy, 8:15–8:16, 8:33, 8:38, 8:40, 8:83, 8:105, 8:106, 8:164, 8:169n, 8:182–8:183, 8:253, 8:266, 8:293–8:294, 8:294n, 8:303, 8:308, 8:317, 8:564, 8:564n, 8:566, 8:630, 8:632n
on politics, 5:223–5:224, 6:374, 6:374, 6:413, 6:413, 6:504, 6:505n, 6:613, 6:613, 7:628, 7:682, 8:xlvi, 8:4, 8:5–8:6, 8:22, 8:175, 8:175, 8:198, 8:198n, 8:229, 8:231, 8:236, 8:240, 8:242, 8:242n, 8:248, 8:291, 8:294, 8:301, 8:317, 8:326, 8:328, 8:328–8:329n, 8:391–8:392
published by J. Milligan, 2:101, 2:193, 3:623n
published by W. W. Woodward, 2:321, 2:321–2:322n
publishing of, 3:238–3:239
purchased from J. Milligan, 1:35, 2:193, 8:118, 8:660–8:661
on religion, 6:61, 6:219, 6:280, 6:302, 6:367–6:368, 6:441, 6:471, 6:510, 7:74–7:77, 7:148, 7:218–7:221, 7:286, 7:595, 7:627, 7:633, 7:646, 7:683, 8:xlvi, 8:4, 8:5, 8:196, 8:235, 8:236, 8:388, 8:435, 8:468, 8:469, 8:469, 8:469n, 8:469n, 8:472, 8:472n, 8:481–8:482, 8:482n, 8:558–8:562, 8:630, 8:632n, 8:672, 8:672, 8:673n, 8:682
returned to W. Prichard, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
on rhetoric, 7:629
satires, 7:60, 7:62n
school textbooks, 1:455–1:456, 8:294, 8:482, 8:482n, 8:640, 8:670
on scientific nomenclature, 6:408, 6:408, 6:409, 6:411n, 6:411n
on self-improvement, 8:388
on sensation in vegetables, 5:276, 5:277n
sent by Bradford & Inskeep, 7:289
sent by I. A. Coles, 2:106
sent by N. G. Dufief, 3:137, 3:393, 5:36, 5:442, 5:443n, 5:523, 5:594–5:595n, 6:119, 6:157, 6:368, 6:471, 6:510, 6:647, 7:286, 7:292, 7:633, 7:646, 8:468, 8:674, 8:685, 8:686
sent by J. R. Fenwick, 3:41, 3:41n, 3:98
sent by H. Gazzera, 2:37
sent by L. Harris, 2:467, 2:468n, 2:468n
sent by J. Milligan, 1:332–1:333, 1:384, 2:193, 2:264, 2:482, 2:483n, 3:122–3:123, 3:623, 6:643, 8:22, 8:33, 8:48, 8:54, 8:106, 8:471, 8:472, 8:628, 8:629n, 8:660, 8:661, 8:678
sent by D. B. Warden, 1:613n, 1:629–1:630, 1:630n
on slavery, 8:442, 8:450, 8:451n
sold by A. Koenig, 8:361, 8:362, 8:362n, 8:579
of speeches, 7:331–7:332, 7:332n, 7:373–7:374, 7:374n, 8:585–8:586, 8:614, 8:614, 8:615n, 8:630, 8:648–8:649, 8:649–8:650n
on spelling, 7:320, 7:320n
of State Department, U.S., 3:638
of state papers and public documents, 8:156, 8:157n, 8:235, 8:252, 8:330, 8:379, 8:418–8:419, 8:424–8:425, 8:439–8:440, 8:474, 8:475n, 8:628, 8:631–8:632, 8:661
TJ recommends on agriculture, 1:581–1:582, 2:81–2:83
TJ recommends on history, 1:580–1:581, 3:5–3:6, 3:7n
TJ recommends to S. R. Demaree, 1:576–1:577, 5:478, 5:479n, 5:557
TJ recommends to Bishop J. Madison, 5:577
TJ recommends to J. Minor, 7:625–7:631
TJ recommends to B. Moore, 7:625–7:631
TJ recommends to J. Wyche, 1:205–1:206, 1:508, 1:579, 1:580–1:582
on War of 1812, 8:94–8:95, 8:228, 8:228, 8:338–8:339, 8:340n, 8:340–8:341, 8:344, 8:344, 8:371–8:372, 8:381, 8:450–8:451, 8:471, 8:471n, 8:576–8:577, 8:577n, 8:672
Westover library, 8:331, 8:332n
on wine, 8:411
on wool, 3:263, 3:264n
on zoology, 7:626, 8:481–8:482, 8:482n

Boothroyd, Benjamin

The History of the Ancient Borough of Pontefract, 7:389

boots, 6:346

Boqueta de Wosieri, John L.

A Plan of New Orleans & its Environs, 3:499, 3:500n

Borda, Jean Charles

and surveying instruments, 3:480, 4:369, 4:370n
and trigonometrical tables, 4:148
and weights and measures, 4:224, 4:227

Borda’s circle (surveying instrument), 3:480, 4:369, 4:370n

Bordeaux

U.S. consul at, 4:189, 4:529–4:530, 4:530n, 8:37, 8:571

Bordeaux, Decree of, 3:71, 3:73n, 3:132

Bordes, Jean Marie de

Economie de la Vie Humaine, 3:50n
identified, 3:50n
letters from, 3:49–3:50
sends TJ pamphlet, 3:49

Bordley, John Beale

Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs, 1:581
Sketches on Rotations of Crops, and other Rural Matters, 2:82

Bosanquet, John Bernard, 2:455

Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe

on law of forces, 7:557, 7:560n

Bosio, Secondo, 5:555, 5:556n

bos moschatus (Ovibos moschatus). See musk ox, Canadian

Bossut, Charles

Essai sur l’Histoire Génerale des Mathématiques, 6:381, 7:626

Boston (TJ’s slave; b. 1811)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 4:386n, 5:461, 6:309, 8:62, 8:255

Boston, Mass.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 4:196, 4:197n, 4:228, 4:229n
Brattle Street Church, 8:49, 8:50n
British evacuation of during Revolutionary War, 7:101, 7:103n
commerce at, 4:26
duck cloth manufactured in, 2:98–2:100
glass from, 8:143, 8:235
impact of British blockade on, 6:48
W. Lambert criticized in, 3:285
merino sheep sold in, 2:456
newspapers, 1:50n, 1:533n, 1:569n, 1:671, 1:673n, 5:6, 5:7n, 5:110n, 8:57, 8:57n
pharmacopoeia of, 1:35
representation of, in state legislature, 2:367
support for Great Britain in, 8:134

Boston Daily Advertiser (newspaper), 8:57, 8:57n

Boston Female Asylum, 5:165n

Boston Patriot (newspaper)

prints TJ’s correspondence, 1:533n, 1:569n

The Botanist (Waterhouse), 5:640, 5:642n, 5:682

botany

and Belfast Literary Society, 4:159, 4:175
books on, 1:436–1:437n, 2:81, 2:82, 2:83, 2:680, 2:681n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:320–3:321, 3:322n, 3:561–3:562, 3:596, 5:640, 5:642n, 5:682, 7:244–7:245, 7:245n, 7:626, 8:194, 8:248, 8:248n, 8:284, 8:285n, 8:319, 8:363, 8:363n, 8:422, 8:429, 8:429, 8:429, 8:429, 8:430n, 8:430n, 8:601, 8:601–8:602n, 8:616
J. Bradbury’s expedition, 1:435–1:437, 2:533, 2:534n, 4:8, 4:146–4:147, 4:535–4:536, 4:563
and Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:90–2:91, 2:140, 4:523–4:524
Liverpool Botanic Garden, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:164n, 1:435, 4:146
and proposed Washington botanical garden, 4:426–4:427, 4:535, 4:563–4:564n
T. J. Randolph’s enthusiasm for, 1:191
and T. M. Randolph, 1:436–1:437
scholars of, 1:24–1:25n, 2:91n, 2:125n, 2:681n, 4:189, 8:480
study of, 7:638, 7:639, 7:640, 7:641, 7:667, 7:687, 8:13
TJ on, 3:181, 8:13, 8:616

Botany Boards. See Elements of Botany (B. S. Barton)

Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, baron de

colonial governor of Va., 4:600, 8:644, 8:645n

Botidoux, Marie Jacinthe de

correspondence with M. J. Randolph, 1:377, 1:659n

Botta, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo

identified, 2:529–2:530n
letters from accounted for, 2:200n
letters to, 2:529–2:530
sent geophysical work, 2:536
Storia della guerra dell’Independenza degli Stati Uniti d’America, 2:161–2:162, 2:529, 2:536, 3:41, 3:41n, 3:98, 7:616, 7:617n, 8:626, 8:626n, 8:657
D. B. Warden’s opinion of, 2:162

bottles, 8:11, 8:12

Boucher, Pierre B.

Institution au droit maritime, 3:72, 3:73n, 3:546
Institutions Commerciales, 3:629–3:630, 3:638

Boudet, Jean, comte, 1:371

Bougainville (Solomon Islands), 5:202–5:203

Bougainville, Jean Pierre

as translator of Cleanthes, 6:521, 6:540–6:541, 6:541
as translator of Theognis, 6:280n

bougies, 4:416

Bouginé, Carl Joseph

Handbuch der allgemeinen Litterargeschichte nach Heumanns Grundriß, 8:559, 8:562n

Bouquet, Henri, 1:290

Bourdaloue, Louis

sermon of referenced, 6:21, 6:23n
Sermons, 7:627

Bourgeois, Maurice, 3:475n

Bourguignon, Louis. See Cartouche (Louis Bourguignon)

Bourjon, François

Le droit commun de la France, 3:174n

Bourne, Sylvanus

identified, 2:352n
letters from, 3:76–3:77, 4:274–4:275
letters to, 2:352
letters to mentioned, 2:544
and London consulship, 4:274–4:275
mentioned, 6:469
and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2:352, 3:76

Bousquet, Augustine, 8:640

Boutté, Hilaire, 2:445n, 5:86n

Bowditch, Nathaniel

The Comet: Elements of the Orbit of the Comet, now visible, 4:195–4:196, 4:196–4:197n, 4:237
identified, 8:456n
letter to, 8:455–8:456
"On the Eclipse of the Sun of Sept. 17, 1811", 8:455, 8:456n
"On the Motion of a Pendulum", 8:455, 8:456n
praised, 7:217
and solar eclipse, 4:195–4:196, 4:237, 4:238, 4:239

Bowdoin, James (1726–1790)

governor of Mass., 7:65, 7:67n

Bowdoin, James (1752–1811)

Advice to Shepherds, 3:96n, 3:343, 3:343n, 5:165, 5:165n
eulogy for, 5:597, 5:597n
identified, 3:96n
mentioned, 7:65
nephews of adopt surname, 7:66, 7:67–7:68n
TJ on, 5:165, 5:165n
U.S. minister to Spain, 1:524, 3:96, 5:165n, 5:597n

Bowdoin, James Temple

adopts uncle’s surname, 7:67n

Bowdoin (Winthrop), James

adopts uncle’s surname, 7:67–7:68n

Bowdoin, Sarah. See Dearborn, Sarah Bowdoin (James Bowdoin’s widow; Henry Dearborn’s third wife)

Bowdoin College, 7:65

Bowdoin family

and Albigensian heresy, 7:64–7:67

Bowen, William Daniel

Canadian militia officer, 8:225

Bowie, Washington

and merino sheep, 2:3–2:4, 2:31, 2:32n

Bowie & Kurtz (Georgetown firm), 2:219, 3:525n, 3:558, 4:18n, 4:418, 7:431n, 7:432, 7:437, 7:439–7:440, 7:442, 7:443n, 8:497, 8:497, 8:499n, 8:500, 8:573

Bowles, John, 5:419, 5:426

bow-wood. See Osage orange (bow-wood)

Boxer, HMS (brig), 6:509, 6:510n, 6:526

Boyd (Boid), Mr.

militia service of, 7:161

Boyd, John Parker, 6:525, 8:216

Boyer, Abel

Grammaire angloise-françoise, 5:557

Boyer, Jean Baptiste de, marquis d’Argens

Defense du Paganisme par L’Empereur Julien, en Grec et en François, 8:553, 8:553n
mentioned, 8:558
Ocellus Lucanus en Grec et en François, 7:75, 7:78n, 7:148, 8:553, 8:553n
Timée de Locres en Grec et en François, 8:553, 8:553n

Boyle, Caleb, 6:291n

Boyle, John J., 1:14–1:15, 1:25

Boyle, T. (of New York City)

publisher, 8:450n

Boylston, Nicholas

bequest to Harvard University, 4:473

Bracken, Miss (John Bracken’s daughter)

health of, 4:81

Bracken, Henry

The Traveller’s Pocket-Farrier, 8:388, 8:672

Bracken, John

and C. Bellini estate, 3:375–3:376, 3:381n, 4:34, 4:68–4:69, 4:69n, 4:80, 4:185, 4:214, 7:694
and College of William and Mary, 5:469, 5:469n, 5:579n, 6:606
identified, 4:69n
letters from, 4:80–4:81, 4:214
letters to, 4:68–4:69, 4:185

Brackenridge, Henry Marie

identified, 6:329n
on Indian antiquities, 6:322–6:329, 6:516, 6:518
letters from, 6:322–6:330, 7:383–7:385
letters to, 6:518, 7:242–7:243
proposes to visit Monticello, 7:384–7:385
TJ forwards letter of to American Philosophical Society, 6:516, 6:518
Views of Louisiana, 4:7–4:8, 4:8n, 7:242, 7:383–7:384, 7:385n

Bracton, Henry de

in law curriculum, 7:688
Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ, 1:383, 3:546, 7:125–7:127, 7:257, 7:627
TJ advocates translation of work of, 7:125, 7:127

Bradbury, John

botanical expedition of, 1:163, 1:435–1:437, 2:533, 2:534n, 4:8, 4:146–4:147, 4:535–4:536, 4:563, 5:252, 5:253n
identified, 4:536n
letter of introduction from W. Roscoe, 1:163
letters from, 4:535–4:536
letters to, 4:563–4:564
proposes garden at Saint Louis, 1:436–1:437n
TJ on, 2:533
visits Monticello, 1:164n, 1:435–1:436
and Washington botanical garden, 4:535, 4:563, 4:564n

Bradbury, John Leigh, 1:164n

Bradford, Hiram

militia service of, 7:161

Bradford, Samuel Fisher, 2:680, 2:681n, 3:321, 3:322n, 6:427n

and Bradford & Inskeep, 7:289–7:290n
identified, 7:289–7:290n

Bradford & Anderson (New Orleans firm)

letters from accounted for, 2:683

Bradford & Inskeep (Philadelphia firm)

account with TJ, 7:290
and R. de Bécourt’s book, 5:467n
and history of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 6:417, 7:289, 7:289n, 7:290, 7:517–7:518, 7:555, 7:555n, 7:556
identified, 7:289–7:290n
letters from, 7:289–7:290
letters to, 7:556
and J. Pinkerton’s atlas, 3:296n
and Port Folio, 7:318
TJ pays, 7:554, 7:556, 7:646, 8:469

Bradley, Abraham

identified, 1:480n
letters from, 1:480, 1:514
letters to, 1:505–1:506
and Milton post office, 1:480, 1:505–1:506, 1:514

Bradley, Absalom

and Bedford Co. land, 5:475, 5:476n

Bradley, John W.

and Bedford Co. land, 5:476, 5:480–5:481n
survey, 5:475

Bradley, Judith (Julia) Webb

family of, 6:47–6:48, 6:48n
poverty of, 6:12–6:13
TJ declines to aid, 6:47–6:48

Bradley, Mary (Absalom Bradley’s wife)

and Bedford Co. land, 5:475–5:476, 5:480–5:481n
survey, 5:475

Bradley, Richard

The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener, 2:82
A General Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening, 2:82
The Gentleman and Farmer’s Guide for the Increase and Improvement of Cattle, 2:82, 2:83n
Ten practical discourses concerning Earth and Water, Fire and Air, 2:82

Bradley, Zenas, 6:47, 6:48, 6:48n

Bradwardine, Thomas, 7:667

Brady, Nicholas

as translator of Psalms, 6:550, 6:551, 6:552n

Bragg, Joseph, 3:472n

Brahan, John

identified, 1:603–604n
letters from, 1:602–1:604
and M. Lewis’s death, 1:602–1:603

Bramble (schooner), 7:115n

Bramham, James W.

and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:460

Bramham, Nimrod

account with TJ, 5:5, 5:6n
and Albemarle Academy, 7:335
and W. Duane, 3:507, 3:509n, 3:540
identified, 5:528n
letters to, 5:526–5:528
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
and Rivanna Company, 5:522, 5:526–5:528, 5:556, 5:638–5:639, 6:595, 6:597–6:598, 6:634
Rivanna River Company commissioner, 3:254n
vouches for O. Norris, 3:465
welcomes TJ, 1:47n

Bramham & Bibb (Albemarle Co. firm), 5:528n, 6:54n

bran, 3:541

Branagan, Thomas

identified, 8:451n
letter from, 8:450–8:451
opposition to slavery by, 8:450, 8:451n
The Penitential Tyrant, 8:450, 8:451n
A Preliminary Essay, on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa, 8:450, 8:451n
The Pride of Britannia Humbled, 8:450–8:451

Brand, Mr.

letter to, 8:528–8:529
TJ buys lime from, 8:528, 8:528n

Brand, Fanny (Frances) Whitlock (Joseph Brand’s wife)

TJ buys cider from, 8:12, 8:12n

Brand, Joseph

and Henderson lands, 1:459, 5:424n, 5:427, 8:528–8:529
letters from accounted for, 6:653
TJ pays, 2:116, 5:425
TJ purchases lime from, 8:528n
TJ’s debt to, 8:528–8:529

Brand, William, 2:118, 2:255

brandy

French, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223, 2:339, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:211
at Monticello, 8:xlvii–8:xlviii, 8:30–8:31
offered to TJ, 7:78
production of in Va., 4:419, 6:487

Brandywine, Battle of, 8:494

Brantz, Lewis. See also Mayer & Brantz (Philadelphia firm)

identified, 1:50n

Brassica napus napobrassica. See rutabaga (Swedish turnip)

Brassica sempervirens. See kale: sprout

Brattle Street Church (Boston)

J. Adams on, 8:49
ministers of, 8:49, 8:50n

Braxton, Carter

buys lots in Westham, 8:171n

Brazer, John, 6:97, 6:100n

Brazil

and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:351
monarchy in, 8:503, 8:508n
U.S. consul at, 1:26, 1:155
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

bread

for militia, 7:649

Breck, Samuel, 2:200, 2:200n, 2:475

Breckinridge (Breckenridge), James, 2:93

Breckinridge, John

proposed biography of, 8:486–8:487, 8:487n, 8:529
TJ on, 8:529

Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell

identified, 8:487n
letters from, 8:486–8:487, 8:554–8:555
letters to, 8:529, 8:606
and proposed biography of John Breckinridge, 8:486–8:487
recommends J. G. Baxter’s textile machines, 8:554–8:555
TJ forwards letter through, 8:606

Bremo (Cocke’s Fluvanna Co. estate), 1:136n

Bremo (TJ’s horse)

purchased from J. H. Cocke, 7:300, 7:300n, 7:301, 7:513–7:514, 7:608, 8:41, 8:42n, 8:47, 8:66

Brent, Daniel

identified, 8:495–8:496n
letter from, 8:495–8:496
as State Department clerk, 1:15n, 3:260, 8:495–8:496
TJ sends letters through, 8:495–8:496

Brent, Richard

letters to, 4:164
and J. Monroe’s conversation with TJ, 2:42, 2:44–2:46
as U.S. senator, 4:163, 8:47

Brent, Robert

chairs meeting of Washington Republicans, 1:11–1:12
identified, 1:12n
introduces W. P. Rathbone to TJ, 8:675–8:676
letters from, 1:11–1:12, 8:675–8:676
letters from accounted for, 1:12n
as mayor of Washington, 1:657
and merino sheep, 1:481
as paymaster general, 3:450

Brent, William Leigh

identified, 1:29n
letters from, 1:26–1:29
and Md. legislature, 2:196n
and meeting of Washington Co. Republicans, 1:26–1:28

Brerewood, Edward

on Indians, 6:137, 6:138

Breuil, Mr., 6:45, 6:152, 6:152, 7:349

brewing

books on, 4:562, 6:507, 6:510, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647, 7:259, 7:285, 7:292, 8:410, 8:411, 8:412n, 8:439
as a business enterprise, 8:412–8:413
at Monticello, 6:507, 6:507n, 8:12, 8:185, 8:186, 8:438–8:439, 8:565
process of, 8:410–8:411
TJ on, 8:438–8:439
use of corn in, 8:410, 8:439, 8:565
use of hops in, 8:565
use of malt in, 6:517–6:518, 8:12, 8:35, 8:410, 8:565
use of wheat in, 8:439

Brézillac, Jean François de, trans.

Cours de Mathématique (Wolff), 7:250, 7:253n

Bridgen, Edward, 6:227

A Brief History of the Influenza, Which prevailed in New-York in 1807 (Ricketson), 1:257, 1:257n, 1:294–1:295

Brief Remarks on the Present and Former War with France (Caines), 3:522n

A Brief View of the Policy and Resources of the United States (Hare), 3:198–3:199, 3:200n

brier, sun, 1:56

Briggs, Isaac

surveyor of federal lands, 1:215n, 1:650, 4:476, 4:477n, 5:449

Bright, Michael, 1:213–1:214n

Briley (TJ’s slave; b. 1805). See Bryley (Briley) (TJ’s slave; b. 1805)

briquet phosphorique, 1:376–1:377, 1:377n

briquet pneumatique, 1:376–1:377, 1:377n, 2:145, 2:147n

Brisson, Mathurin Jacques

and scientific classification, 7:208

Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre, 6:228

Bristol County, R.I.

convention of, letter to, 1:88–1:89

Britain Independent of Commerce; or, Proofs, Deducted from an Investigation into the True Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Spence), 1:35

Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain (J. Horsley), 8:581

British Board of Agriculture, 1:252, 1:252n, 2:83

The British Theatre (E. Inchbald), 7:665

Britton (Wingate, ed.), 1:383, 3:546

Britton, Anderson

operates ferry, 8:170

broadcloth, 4:40

Broadhead, Achilles. See Brodhead (Broadhead), Achilles

Broadhead, William

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Brochant de Villiers, André Jean François Marie

Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie suivant les Principes du Professeur Werner, 2:551, 2:552n

Brock, Isaac, 5:355, 5:396, 5:445, 5:446n, 8:215, 8:219

Brockenborough, William

and W. F. Jones, 6:126

Brockenbrough, John

as J. Harvie’s agent, 4:499, 4:532–4:533, 4:555, 4:557, 4:594, 5:671, 6:20, 8:96, 8:100, 8:127–8:128
identified, 4:533n
letters from, 4:532–4:533
letters to, 4:555
and TJ’s Bank of Virginia loan, 4:555

Brocklesby, Richard

physician, 7:74

Brodeau, Ann, 1:466, 1:479, 5:80, 5:80n, 5:148, 5:148n

Brodhead (Broadhead), Achilles

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Brodie, Francis, 1:75, 1:75n

Brodnax, William E., 1:66

Bronaugh, James C.

and charges against I. A. Coles, 7:609–7:610n, 7:610n, 7:610–7:611n
and Niagara Campaign, 5:539

Brooke, George, 1:503

Brooke, Sir Robert

La Graunde Abridgement, 7:126

Broome, John

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

brooms

household, 6:345
stable, 1:3

Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron Brougham and Vaux

The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. before the House of Commons, 1:35

Brown, Mr.

paid for cutting stone, 5:576n

Brown, Mr. (legal author)

writings of, 7:688

Brown, Mr. (manufacturer)

and shot manufactory, 8:309

Brown, Abraham, 5:12

Brown, Andrew, 6:255

Brown, Benjamin

and Henderson case, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:480, 8:692
identified, 1:320n
letters from, 1:320, 3:294, 5:315–5:316
letters to, 1:333, 3:328–3:329
petition to General Assembly, 5:378–5:380
TJ purchases land from, 4:386, 8:398
and TJ’s insurance, 1:320, 1:333, 3:294, 3:328–3:329, 4:114–4:115, 5:298, 5:315–5:316, 5:316n, 6:351, 6:361
vouches for O. Norris, 3:465

Brown, Betty (TJ’s slave; b. 1759)

on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Brown, Catherine Percy (Samuel Brown’s wife), 6:128

Brown, Charles

delivers insurance bill to TJ, 3:294n, 3:328–3:329

Brown, Charles Brockden, 3:632, 3:633n

Brown, Daniel

and Niagara Campaign, 5:543n

Brown, Harriot

described, 1:74n
money for, 1:73
at Monticello, 1:210, 1:509

Brown, Jacob Jennings

at Battle of Chippewa, 7:524–7:525, 7:525n, 8:263–8:264
as major general, 8:217, 8:264, 8:267n, 8:443
Niagara campaign of, 7:502n, 8:44, 8:45n, 8:263–8:264

Brown, James

and batture controversy, 2:440n, 2:441n, 2:443n, 2:528, 2:528n, 2:681–2:682, 3:476, 3:485
as U.S. senator, 6:241, 6:242n

Brown, James, Jr. (of Richmond)

and gunpowder, 5:599n, 7:189

Brown, John

Dictionary of the Holy Bible, 1:36, 1:630n

Brown, John (1757–1837)

TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625

Brown, John (1762–1826)

Va. superior court judge, 8:93n

Brown, John (millwright)

identified, 6:85n
letters to, 6:85
and sawmill construction, 6:70–6:71, 6:85, 6:125

Brown, John (physician)

medical theories of, 7:565, 7:567n, 8:669

Brown, Josiah

Reports of Cases upon Appeals and Writs of Error (ed. Tomlins), 3:151, 3:151n, 3:316, 3:546, 3:546, 3:546

Brown, Lewis

letters from, 5:653
letters to, 6:3–6:4
sells horse to TJ, 5:653, 5:653n, 5:663, 6:3–6:4, 8:174, 8:174n, 8:515n

Brown, Margaretta Mason (Samuel Brown’s sister-in-law)

educator, 7:188, 7:188n

Brown, Richard

militia service of, 7:161

Brown, Samuel

and American filibustering expeditions, 6:188–6:189, 6:293
and daughter’s death, 7:186, 7:325
and Embargo Act (1813), 7:345
family of, 6:128, 6:129n, 7:186, 7:188, 7:188n
and fraud, 6:189
and Henderson case, 6:81, 6:128, 6:189, 6:614, 7:186, 7:186, 7:325, 7:345
identified, 5:365n
and S. K. Jennings’s medical invention, 6:615, 7:187–7:188, 7:325, 7:326n, 7:345
letters from, 5:364–5:365, 6:127–6:129, 6:187–6:190, 7:186–7:188, 7:345–7:346
letters from accounted for, 7:269, 7:269n, 7:346n
letters to, 6:66–6:67, 6:81–6:82, 6:292–6:294, 6:614–6:615, 7:325–7:326
and memoir on saltpeter, 5:553–5:554, 5:554n
on Napoleon, 7:187, 7:345
and Osage orange, 7:321, 7:321n, 7:326
proposed visit of, 7:188, 7:326
proposes to move to Ky., 7:188, 7:326
and seeds for TJ, 5:364–5:365, 6:26, 6:66–6:67, 6:81, 6:127, 6:128, 6:187, 6:188, 6:292–6:293, 6:615, 7:326
TJ recommends J. Corrêa da Serra to, 7:326
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Brown, Thomas

An Account of the People called Shakers, 7:555, 7:555n, 7:633, 8:469, 8:469n

Brown, William

absconds with public funds, 1:210n, 1:509n, 2:136, 2:177–2:178, 2:265, 2:266n, 2:284, 2:356–2:357, 3:158
appointment of, 2:284, 2:285n, 2:356, 2:357n
assists E. Trist, 1:73, 1:74n, 1:85
collector at New Orleans, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:510, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:122
described, 1:74n
identified, 1:210–1:211n
letters to, 1:210–1:211, 1:509
letters to mentioned, 1:408n
TJ on, 2:356

Brown, William (of Lynchburg). See also Brown & Robertson (Lynchburg firm)

death of, 4:514
identified, 4:94n

Brown, William (ship captain), 6:163

Brown, William (of Warren)

and fish for TJ, 6:134, 6:134, 6:215

Brown, William Burnet

family of, 7:520, 7:595–7:596, 7:596n
gives historical manuscript to TJ, 7:520, 7:521n, 7:595

Brown & Hollins (Baltimore firm), 5:314, 5:345n, 5:350, 5:356–5:357, 5:383

Brown & Robertson (Lynchburg firm). See also Brown, William (of Lynchburg) ; Robertson, Archibald

fish for TJ sent to, 2:423, 5:164, 6:336
identified, 4:94–4:95n
letters from, 4:101, 6:450–6:451
letters from accounted for, 4:514n
letters to, 4:94–4:95
TJ’s account with, 4:94, 4:101, 4:549, 5:51, 5:470–5:471, 5:475, 6:450–6:451, 6:543

Browning, Jonathan

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Brown, Rives & Company (Richmond firm), 3:629, 3:635–3:636

Bruce, Dr., 5:514

Bruce, Mr.

tobacco crop of, 4:522

Bruce, James

An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, esq. into Abyssinia, to discover the Source of the Nile, 6:127, 6:129n
on pepper, 6:127

Bruce, Richard

and corn for TJ, 7:72n

Bruce, William

on political revolutions, 3:280n

Brucker, Johann Jakob

Historia Critica Philosophiæ, 6:548, 6:548, 6:551n, 7:148

Bruen, Mr.

delivers letter to TJ, 8:653n

Bruff, James, 3:324

Bruff, Thomas

as dentist, 5:108n
identified, 5:108n
letters from accounted for, 5:107n
letters to, 5:108
patent of for improved shot manufacture, 8:97–8:98, 8:98n
Pressed Shot Factory, 5:107–5:108n
proposal for shot factory, 5:107, 5:108

Bruin, Peter Bryan, 1:25

Brunck, Richard François Philippe

Aristophanis Comœdiæ, 8:581
Ηθικη Ποιησις: Sive Gnomici Poetæ Græci, 6:279, 6:280n

Brunswick, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of

1792 manifesto of, 7:298, 7:299n

Brunswick County

Westwardmill Library Society, 1:66–1:67, 1:205–1:206, 1:508

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Louis Ernest, duke of

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Brunt, Jonathan

identified, 1:403n
letters from, 1:402–1:403, 4:168
The Little Medly: containing short remarks on the … New Testament, 1:403, 1:403n
seeks aid from TJ, 4:168
visits Monticello, 1:402

Brutus, Marcus Junius, 7:495, 7:551n, 8:122n

Bry, Jean de

engraving of C. Columbus by, 7:xliii–7:xliv, 7:434 (illus.), 8:8

Bry, Theodor de

Americae Pars Quinta, part five of The Great or American Voyages, Parts I to XI, in Latin, 7:xliii–7:xliv, 7:522–7:523, 7:562, 7:563–7:564, 7:564, 7:612, 7:612, 7:612–7:613, 7:614–7:615, 7:615n, 7:616, 8:8, 8:236, 8:237n
Indiam Occidentalem, 2:511, 2:512n, 5:123–5:124, 5:125n, 5:182
TJ on, 2:511, 5:123–5:124, 7:616

Bryant, Lewis

identified, 5:28–5:29n
letters from, 5:28–5:29
seeks plastering work, 5:28

Brydone, Patrick

A Tour through Sicily and Malta, 7:567–7:568n

Bryley (Briley) (TJ’s slave; b. 1805)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 8:61, 8:255

Buccarella, Antonio Maria

voyage to Northwest Coast, 1:446

Buccarella, Port of, 1:448

Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of

An account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston, 5:416, 7:252, 7:253n, 7:255
Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the poet Thomson: Biographical, Critical, and Political, 2:172, 2:174n
and model of Swedish stove, 1:122n, 3:609
quotes TJ, 4:150, 4:153n

Buchanan, Claudius

“Goodwill” recommends his works, 5:98n
Two Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge, 4:230, 4:231n

Buchanan, George

De Jure Regni Apud Scotos, 2:172, 2:174n, 2:215
Rerum Scoticarum Historia, 1:580
as translator of Psalms, 6:551, 6:552n

Buchanan, James

and TJ’s Richmond lot, 6:366, 6:371

Buchanan, James A.

and letter of introduction for son, 8:421, 8:422n, 8:436

Buchanan, Joseph

proposes biographical work, 8:486, 8:487n
publishes Kentucky Palladium, 8:486, 8:487n

Buchanan, William B.

plans trip to Europe, 8:421
recommended to TJ by J. Hollins, 8:421
TJ’s letter of introduction for, 8:432, 8:436

Buck, Mr.

and H. Marks’s estate, 7:518

Buck (John Peyton’s shoemaker), 2:132, 2:132, 2:133n

Buck, Tom (slave), 3:36–3:37, 3:37n, 3:196, 3:250, 3:283–3:284, 3:367–3:368, 3:529, 4:9, 4:9n, 4:9, 4:9n

buckhorn plantain, 5:550

Buckingham County, Va.

Flood’s ordinary, 4:90, 6:76, 6:76, 6:88, 6:129, 6:486, 6:486n, 6:487, 6:530
Gibson’s ordinary, 6:487, 6:487–6:488n, 6:595, 6:595n
jail, 6:331
mills in, 3:371n, 6:621, 7:32
post road through, 3:104n, 3:148
TJ travels through, 4:346n, 4:515

Buckingham County Superior Court of Law, Va., 8:664, 8:664, 8:676–8:677, 8:697, 8:697n

Buckingham Court House, Va., 3:148

Buckingham Road (Va.), 3:103, 3:104n

Buckminster, Joseph Stevens

minister of Brattle Street Church, 8:49, 8:50n

Buckmountain Baptist Church (Albemarle Co.)

letters from, 1:63–1:64
letters to, 1:126

Buckner, Colin

and Bear Creek land, 4:318n, 5:62
identified, 4:413n
and inventory of military stores, 5:81, 5:104–5:105
letter of introduction for, from TJ, 4:460–4:461
letters from, 4:413–4:414, 5:81
letters to, 4:460
seeks letter of introduction, 4:413–4:414, 4:460

Bucks County, Pa., 1:68–1:69n

buckwheat, 3:348, 3:351n, 4:179

Budaeus (Budeus). See Budé, Guillaume

Budé, Guillaume, 7:23, 7:147

Buder, Christian Gottlieb

Bibliotheca Historica, 8:559, 8:562n

buffalo. See bison, American (buffalo)

Buffalo, N.Y.

burnt by British forces, 8:217
encampment near, 5:544n
and Niagara Campaign, 5:532–5:545

Buffalo tract (Bedford Co.), 5:348–5:349, 8:255

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

J. Adams on, 8:552
and classification of animals, 7:152, 7:152, 7:209, 7:210
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 1:581
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, 6:225n, 7:626
mentioned, 1:250n, 5:452n, 7:34, 7:480
and mortality tables, 6:221–6:222, 6:225n
and natural history, 4:500
and F. A. Van der Kemp, 4:614, 5:459–5:460

Buffum, Arnold

identified, 5:496n
letters from, 5:495–5:497
and merino sheep, 5:495–5:496

Buford, Abraham

in Revolutionary War, 8:494, 8:495n

bugle lily, 5:412

building materials

beech, 8:239
bricks, 5:468, 8:86–8:87, 8:90n, 8:90, 8:252
carpentry tools, 1:135–1:136, 3:119–3:120, 3:171
cement, 8:130, 8:166, 8:168n, 8:252, 8:402
cherry, 8:239
cordwood, 8:595
dogwood, 4:145, 4:145
door and window frames, 3:119–3:120, 3:613, 6:162
ironmongery, 8:86–8:87
lime (mineral), 8:253n, 8:402
locust, 4:50, 4:145
lumber, 8:613
mahogany, 4:229, 8:239
marble, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487
molasses, 8:253n, 8:402
oak, 4:51, 4:137, 4:144, 4:144–4:145, 4:145, 4:230
paint, 1:55n, 1:97
pine, 4:50, 4:51, 4:144, 4:144–4:145, 4:145, 4:145, 8:xlv–8:xlvi, 8:55
plank, 1:192, 2:168–2:169, 2:424, 2:434, 4:50, 4:145, 4:420–4:421, 4:465, 4:498, 5:485, 5:488, 5:663, 6:257, 6:257, 7:461
plaster, 8:252
poplar, 4:144, 4:144
sand, 8:253n, 8:402
stone, 1:626, 1:626, 1:626, 1:626
stucco, 1:195–1:196
timber, 4:51, 4:144, 4:144–4:145, 4:145–4:146, 6:162, 6:257, 8:86–8:87, 8:305
window glass, 3:67, 3:135, 3:518, 3:520, 3:556, 3:557n, 3:575, 3:588, 3:612, 6:343, 6:344, 7:710, 7:712, 7:717, 8:21, 8:142–8:143, 8:234–8:235

Bulfinch, B. S.

letters from accounted for, 1:677

Buller, Francis

and Doulson v. Matthews, 4:302n

Bulletin de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, 3:114, 3:115n, 8:421

Bullington, Mr.

and T. M. Randolph’s will, 6:19

Bullock, Mr., 3:215

Bullock, Eliza Henderson (Bennett Henderson’s daughter; John H. Bullock’s wife), 1:440, 1:459, 1:460–1:461, 5:422, 5:423, 6:472, 6:609

Bullock, J.

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254, 4:346–4:349

Bullock, James

witnesses a deed, 7:353

Bullock, John H.

and Henderson lands, 1:461

Bullus, John, 1:535, 3:427, 3:557–3:558n, 5:457n

The Bulwark of Truth (Fraser), 5:160, 5:160n

Buncombe County, N.C.

earthquake in, 4:573

Bunker Hill Association

letters from, 2:504–2:505
letters to, 2:666
sends oration to TJ, 2:504–2:505, 2:666

Bunker’s Hill (Albemarle Co.), 2:132, 2:133n, 3:522, 6:343, 6:348

Bunyan, John, 6:623

The Pilgrim’s Progress, 7:26

Burch, Samuel

and batture controversy, 3:26n

Burdett, Francis, 3:32

Bureaux de Pusy, Françoise Julienne Isle de France Poivre

family of, 5:163–5:164
forwards book to TJ, 5:402, 5:441
identified, 5:71–5:72n
letter of introduction for, from P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 4:124–4:125, 4:457n, 5:71
letter of introduction for, from Lafayette, 4:155, 5:71, 5:72n
letters from, 5:71–5:72, 5:402–5:403
letters to, 5:163–5:164, 5:441

Bureaux de Pusy, Jean Xavier

and Lafayette, 4:155
on national defense, 4:445–4:446, 4:457n

Bureaux de Pusy, Maurice

and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 4:124–4:125, 5:71
and Lafayette, 4:155, 5:71

Bureaux de Pusy, Sara

and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 4:124–4:125, 5:71
and Lafayette, 4:155, 5:71

Burgh, James

Political Disquisitions, 7:628
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503

Burk, John Daly

The History of Virginia, 1:288–1:289, 1:331, 1:457, 1:581, 1:619, 1:620n, 1:634n, 3:569, 7:547, 7:550n, 7:629, 8:121–8:122, 8:122n, 8:140–8:141, 8:200, 8:203, 8:266, 8:309, 8:334–8:337, 8:338n, 8:359–8:360, 8:384–8:385, 8:385–8:386n, 8:423, 8:431, 8:478, 8:478, 8:481, 8:482n, 8:482n
and TJ’s laws of Va., 1:370n, 1:381
and TJ’s newspaper collection, 1:381, 1:457, 1:469, 1:472–1:473, 3:190–3:191, 3:569–3:570, 4:467

Burke, Edmund

British politician, 4:339, 6:433n
criticized, 7:74, 8:552
education of, 7:660
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 7:74, 7:78n

Burke, John, 5:427

Burke, Martha Jefferson Trist, 3:635n

Burkhard, Johann Gottlieb

Elementary or Fundamental Principles of The Philosophy of Natural History, 8:388, 8:672

Burks, John

witnesses land conveyance, 4:288

Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

burnet, 4:379, 4:379, 4:487, 4:515, 4:515, 4:522, 4:526, 4:530, 8:71

Burnet, William

family of, 7:520, 7:595–7:596, 7:596n
royal governor, 7:520, 7:521n, 7:596, 7:596n

Burney, Fanny, Madame d’Arblay

Cecilia, 7:65
in collegiate curriculum, 7:665

Burnley, Mr.

orders goods for TJ, 6:345, 6:346, 6:347

Burnley, Nathaniel

J. Fossett plates saddle trees for, 4:245
letters from accounted for, 1:506n
TJ on, 1:505, 1:506

Burnley, Zacariah

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254

Burns, Robert

Scottish poet, 6:228n, 6:403

Burns, William

and certificate for A. Quarrier, 5:76–5:77, 5:108–5:109
letters to, 5:108–5:109

Burnside, Samuel McGregore

identified, 7:47–7:48n
letters from, 7:47–7:48, 7:595–7:596, 8:207–8:208
letters from accounted for, 7:521n
letters to, 7:115–7:116, 7:520–7:521
as recording secretary of American Antiquarian Society, 7:47, 7:115, 7:520, 7:521n, 7:595–7:596, 8:207–8:208

Burot, Mme, 1:622

Burot, Alexander

identified, 1:624n
letters from, 1:622–1:624

Burr, Aaron (1716–57), 6:623

Burr, Aaron (1756–1836)

J. Adams on, 4:474–4:475, 5:4, 5:13, 6:192, 6:623
alleged conspiracy of, 1:350, 1:643, 1:643n, 2:75, 2:139, 2:249, 3:128, 3:129n, 3:429, 3:430, 3:441, 3:519, 3:543, 5:4n, 7:206, 7:207n, 7:235–7:236, 7:238–7:239
and election of 1800, 3:306, 3:308n, 6:192, 6:193n, 6:625
and J. S. McLean, 1:209n
mentioned, 6:189, 8:154
TJ on, 7:648
treason trial of, 1:161n, 1:341n, 1:355n, 1:426, 1:427–1:428n, 2:417, 2:473, 3:78–3:79, 3:100–3:101, 3:325n, 3:325n, 3:344n, 3:430, 5:93n, 5:135, 5:143–5:144, 5:145n, 5:525, 7:148, 7:151n
Trial of Col. Aaron Burr, 1:35
western expeditions of, 1:62, 1:63n, 7:206, 7:236, 7:239
and J. Wilkinson, 4:412–4:413

Burr, David Judson

explosion at gunpowder mill of, 6:169, 6:186
gunpowder of, 5:599, 5:599n, 6:117, 6:147, 6:186, 6:186

Burrall, Charles

as Baltimore postmaster, 7:229, 7:230n, 7:231, 7:231–7:232n
criticized, 7:231
Federalist sympathies of, 7:244
identified, 7:230n
letters from, 7:229–7:230, 7:231–7:232, 7:262
letters to, 7:243
lives with TJ in Philadelphia, 7:230n, 7:244
thanks TJ, 7:262
TJ recommends to J. Madison, 7:243, 7:244, 7:262

Burrill, James, 3:230, 3:232n

Burroughs, Mr., 2:283

Burton, Mr., 2:237, 2:239n

Burton, John

petition to General Assembly, 5:378–5:380

Burwell (TJ’s slave; b. 1783). See Colbert, Burwell (TJ’s slave; b. 1783)

Burwell (TJ’s slave; b. 1809)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Burwell, Mr.

rooms with T. J. Randolph, 1:669, 1:670n

Burwell, Dudley

identified, 4:190n
letter of introduction for, from TJ, 4:190–4:191
letters to, 4:190

Burwell, Letitia McCreery (William Armistead Burwell’s wife)

asked to send horses, 6:307
enjoys book, 6:264
health of, 2:105, 3:162, 6:9, 6:264
misplaces ring, 4:90
sends letter for her husband to TJ, 3:163n
TJ sends greetings to, 2:254, 3:64, 3:64, 4:91

Burwell, N.

witnesses document, 5:570n

Burwell, William Armistead

and batture controversy, 3:244, 3:255
and D. Burwell, 4:190, 4:190–4:191
and carding machine, 6:3, 6:9, 6:9–6:12
carriage of, 6:264
carries Destutt de Tracy letter, 3:443
convoy resolution of, 2:253, 2:254n
and defense of Washington, 6:307
and feuds among Republicans, 2:224–2:225
identified, 2:105–2:106n
and W. Lambert’s astronomical calculations, 2:54, 2:55n
and H. Lee’s medal, 2:104–2:105, 2:125–2:126, 2:224, 2:253
letters from, 2:104–2:106, 2:224–2:225, 3:162–3:163, 5:642–5:643, 6:9, 6:307
letters from accounted for, 4:191n
letters to, 2:125–2:126, 2:253–2:254, 3:64, 4:90–4:91
mentioned, 1:199, 1:670n, 3:251, 4:471
plans to visit TJ, 6:307
and quarries in Franklin Co., 3:64, 3:162
and spinning machine, 6:9
and TJ’s dispute with J. Harvie, 2:101–2:102, 2:103n
trunk of, 1:186, 1:204
in U.S. House of Representatives, 5:22–5:23, 6:264, 6:264
visits Monticello, 2:105, 5:663
on War of 1812, 5:642–5:643

Bushnell, David

submarine inventor, 6:206, 6:207n, 6:314n, 7:513n, 7:621, 7:621n
torpedoes of, 7:512, 7:620–7:621

Butler, Mr., 2:475

Butler, Anthony

patents auger, 4:315n

Butler, John W.

identified, 1:304n
letters from, 1:303–1:304
TJ buys plow horse from, 2:155

Butler, Joseph

The Analogy of Religion, 3:590, 3:590n

Butler, Pierce

and okra soup, 4:180

Butler, Stephen

witnesses agreement, 5:487–5:488

butter

churning, 4:138, 7:82
and J. H. Craven, 2:371
ordered from M. Lewis, 4:210
at Poplar Forest, 4:380, 4:381
price of, 8:307
procured for TJ, 6:40
sent to TJ, 4:194, 4:236, 8:132, 8:174, 8:184
J. Shoemaker sends, 2:269
TJ orders, 3:541

Butterworth, John, 2:322n

Bynkershoek, Cornelis van

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Byrd, Mary Willing (William Byrd’s (1728–77) second wife)

and bounty land, 1:290, 1:335

Byrd, William (1674–1744)

and founding of Richmond, 4:288n
library of, 5:594–5:595n, 8:332n
and Westham land, 8:169

Byrd, William (1728–77)

and bounty land, 1:290
supposed land sale to J. Lyle, 6:304
TJ purchases lot from, 4:154, 5:75–5:76, 5:76n, 6:304–6:305, 6:366
and Westham land, 8:169, 8:171n

Byrne, Patrick

letters from accounted for, 1:214n
prints work, 2:377n
Report of the Whole Trial of Gen. Michael Bright and Others, 1:214n

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