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oak

  • American, 8:245
  • cork, 2:140, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n, 5:438, 5:560
  • holm, 1:594
  • F. A. Michaux on, 5:7, 5:8n, 7:52, 8:248, 8:363

Oakley, Charles

  • secretary of British legation to U.S., 1:154, 1:156n, 1:418, 1:516

oats

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:348, 3:351n
  • from J. H. Craven, 2:371
  • as crop, 6:133, 7:461, 8:305, 8:366
  • damaged by drought, 2:417, 2:491, 2:496, 4:32, 6:210
  • as fodder, 8:268n
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:379, 8:69, 8:70, 8:542, 8:611
  • potato, 5:657, 5:658n
  • price of, 8:268n, 8:592
  • purchased by TJ, 1:3, 8:79, 8:79n
  • seed, 2:93, 5:384

O’Brien, Richard, 1:479, 1:480n

Observationes siderum habitae Pisis in specula academica (Slop von Cadenberg), 6:75, 6:84, 6:84n

Observations (Banks), 3:296

"Observations concerning the Fly-Weevil, that destroys the Wheat" (L. Carter), 8:643, 8:645n

Observations on Infidelity (Cerus), 2:124–2:125, 2:125n, 2:125n

Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations (D. Hartley), 3:277–3:278, 3:304, 7:385, 7:386n

Observations on Reversionary Payments; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in Old Age … and on The National Debt (Price), 6:497, 6:498n

Observations on Robin’s Travels in Louisiana (Warden), 3:557, 3:558n

“Observations on the annual Passage of Herrings” (Gilpin), 5:602, 5:604n

Observations on the Climate in Different Parts of America (Williamson), 2:71, 2:71–2:72n

Observations on the influence of soil and climate upon wool (Bakewell), 1:479, 1:480n, 3:263, 3:264n

Observations on the Laws Governing the Communication of Contagious Diseases (D. Hosack), 8:467, 8:468n

Observations sur la culture du coton (Rohr), 2:83

Observations sur “L’art de faire le vin” (Charpentier de Cossigny), 1:35

Observer (Baltimore newspaper), 4:336, 4:338n

The Observer (British periodical), 7:665

obsidian, 2:299, 2:299

Ocellus

  • writings of, 6:439, 6:440–6:441n, 6:562, 6:567n, 7:75, 7:148

Ocellus Lucanus en Grec et en François (J. B. Boyer), 7:75, 7:78n, 7:148, 8:553, 8:553n

O’Connor, Arthur

  • delivers letters, 4:326

Oddy, John Jepson

  • A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain, 3:274, 3:275n

“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (Gray), 2:477, 2:478–2:479n

“Ode to Thomas Jefferson” (Tucker), 1:617–1:619

Odobenus rosmarus. See walrus

Odyssea Græce et Latine (Homer), 3:546

Odyssey (Homer)

  • mentioned, 8:121
  • TJ cites, 8:617, 8:617n, 8:658, 8:659n

Oeiras. See Oeyras (Oeiras) wine

Oelsner, Konrad Engelbert

  • identified, 5:617n
  • Obituary Notice for Joel Barlow, 5:612, 5:614–5:617, 5:618–5:621, 6:515, 6:516n, 7:525

Oemler, Augustus Gottlieb

  • delivers letter, 4:146
  • introduced to TJ, 3:596

Oeuvres (Bacquet), 3:174–3:175n

Oeuvres (Choppin), 3:174n

Œuvres (Henrys), 3:174n

Œuvres (Renusson), 3:130–3:131, 3:174n, 3:546

Oeuvres (A. R. J. Turgot), 1:202n, 1:263, 1:264n, 1:584–1:585, 1:592, 1:632, 1:667, 1:668n, 2:39, 3:516, 4:22–4:23, 4:24n, 4:125, 4:126–4:127n, 7:7, 7:9n

Œuvres Complettes (C. A. Hélvetius), 7:414, 7:415–7:416n, 7:455n

Œuvres complettes de Dêmosthene et d’Eschine (trans. A. Auger), 7:259

Oeuvres Complettes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse (Frederick II), 1:580

Œuvres Complettes d’Isocrate (trans. A. Auger), 7:259

Oeyras (Oeiras) wine, 3:240, 3:241n

Offa, king of the Mercians

  • laws of, 7:125, 7:147

Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning: or the Partitions of Sciences (F. Bacon), 8:473, 8:475n

Of the Importance of Religious Opinions (J. Necker), 7:588–7:590, 7:590n

Ogden, Aaron

  • refuses military appointment, 6:528

Ogden, Samuel G., 1:578n

Ogilvie, James

  • Albemarle Co. school of, 3:632n
  • on American progress, 3:631
  • as Earl of Findlater, 7:560
  • forwards newspaper prospectus, 4:276–4:277
  • identified, 3:632–3:633n
  • introduces C. Clarke, 8:113
  • as lecturer, 4:72–4:74, 4:75, 4:113, 4:276–4:277
  • letters from, 3:630–3:633, 4:276–4:277, 7:514, 8:113–8:114, 8:352–8:354
  • letters to, 4:72–4:74
  • and memoir of C. B. Brown, 3:632
  • on neology, 7:514
  • offers assistance to TJ, 8:113–8:114
  • Philosophical Essays, 8:352–8:353, 8:354n
  • rhetoric class of, 8:352–8:353, 8:354n
  • unconventional views of, 7:258
  • visits Monticello, 7:635, 7:649–7:650, 8:113

Ogle, Capt., 5:514

Oglesby, Mary C., 6:45n

Ohio

  • maps of, 8:77n
  • migration to, 2:344, 2:345, 7:93
  • senator from, 1:643n
  • state legislature, 1:380
  • TJ on, 2:359
  • and Treaty of Ghent (1814), 8:329n
  • troops from, 5:319–5:320, 5:336

Ohio River, 3:92

  • and steamboats, 7:56, 8:591

oil

  • castor, 5:669, 6:345
  • linseed, 5:33, 5:379
  • olive, 1:84n, 1:188, 1:188, 1:257, 1:366, 1:366, 3:545, 4:210, 4:686
  • poppy, 2:270, 2:271
  • salad, 1:31, 1:161, 2:335, 2:392, 2:438, 3:434
  • sesame, 1:84n, 1:212, 3:636–3:637, 4:7, 4:39–4:40
  • spermaceti, 1:31
  • for TJ, 5:92, 7:710, 7:716–7:717
  • turpentine, 3:442, 3:453, 3:512–3:513, 3:518, 5:676, 8:81
  • used in medicine, 4:102

okra, 4:180

Old, James

  • and Jefferson v. Michie, 6:576n, 7:675, 7:678
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254

Oldham, James

  • identified, 3:520n
  • letters from, 3:575, 3:588, 8:21, 8:142–8:143
  • letters to, 3:520, 7:712
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
  • and window glass, 3:518, 3:520, 3:550, 3:575, 3:588, 7:710, 7:712, 7:717, 8:21, 8:142–8:143

The Olive Branch: or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic (M. Carey), 8:198, 8:198n, 8:248

Oliver, Andrew

  • correspondence of published, 6:258, 6:259
  • mentioned, 6:258, 7:217

Oliver, Julius, 1:312, 1:313n

olives

  • oil, 1:84n, 1:188, 1:188, 1:257, 1:366, 1:366, 3:545, 4:210, 4:686
  • seeds, 2:271, 2:271
  • sent to TJ, 1:313n, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487
  • trees, 5:560, 5:561n

Olmec Indians, 6:328

Olmstead v. the Executrices of the late David Rittenhouse, 1:213–1:214

O’Mealy, Michael, 3:96

Onandaga County, N.Y., 3:333

Oneale, Mr. (ship owner), 4:215

Onís y González, Frederica de Merkleiny (Luis de Onís y González Vara López y Gómez’s wife), 1:411, 7:328, 7:394

Onís y González Vara López y Gómez, Luis de

  • identified, 1:602n
  • letters from, 1:601–1:602, 7:291–7:292, 7:390–7:398
  • letters to, 1:651, 7:326–7:328
  • minister plenipotentiary of Spain, 1:410–1:411, 1:604, 1:632, 1:658, 2:33
  • and Spanish constitution, 7:291, 7:326–7:328, 7:390–7:394
  • Yznardy introduces, 1:410–1:411, 1:601–1:602, 1:651

On Literary Composition (Dionysius of Halicarnassus), 6:277

"On the Eclipse of the Sun of Sept. 17, 1811" (N. Bowditch), 8:455, 8:456n

On the Mammoth or Fossil Elephant, Found in the Ice, at the Mouth of the River Lena, in Siberia (Tilesius von Tilenau), 2:510n

"On the Motion of a Pendulum" (N. Bowditch), 8:455, 8:456n

On the Origin, Nature, Progress and Influence of Consular Establishments (D. B. Warden), 5:437, 5:437–5:438n, 7:350, 7:350–7:351n, 8:36

“On the Utility of Thermometrical Observations at Sea” (Masson), 3:95n

opals, wax, 2:299

Opelousas District, Orleans Territory, 1:635–1:642

Opera. Interpretatione et Notis (Virgil, Delphin edition; ed. C. de La Rue), 8:660

Opera Omnia Graece et Latine (Dionysius Halicarnassus; eds. H. Estienne, J. J. Reiske, and others), 8:581, 8:582n

Opera Omnia Graece et Latine (Dionysius Halicarnassus; trans. Spelman), 1:580

Opera Omnia Quae Extant (Suetonius), 1:580

Opie, Amelia, 7:665

The Opinion of Judge Cooper, on the Effect of a Sentence of a Foreign Court of Admiralty (Cooper), 2:376, 2:377n, 2:480, 2:489, 2:491, 2:668

Opinion on the case of the alluvion land or batture, near New-Orleans (Du Ponceau), 5:45, 5:47n

opium

  • mentioned, 6:188
  • used in medicine, 4:102
  • used to commit suicide, 6:293

opossum, 7:210, 7:211n, 8:422–8:423n

optics

  • study of, 7:638, 7:639, 7:663, 7:666, 7:686

orange (tree), 1:631–1:632

orange, wild (tree), 8:21

Orange County, Va.

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n

Orange Court House (Orange Co.)

  • and J. Madison, 1:328, 1:359
  • mentioned, 8:290
  • TJ’s merino sheep sent to, 2:366, 2:409, 2:418, 2:490, 2:492, 2:512
  • TJ stops at, 1:52n

Orange Society of Ireland, 5:641, 5:642n

An Oration delivered at Mr. Harvey’s, Spring Garden, before a Very Numerous Meeting of Democratic Citizens, July 4, 1812 (Ingersoll), 5:225–5:226

Oration delivered at Washington, July Fourth, 1809 (Barlow), 1:588, 1:590n

An Oration, Delivered before the Tammany Society (Wheaton), 3:46, 3:137, 3:157

An Oration, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order … 1815 (S. Berrian), 8:614, 8:615n

An Oration, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, of Brookhaven, (L.I.) (Thompson), 4:53, 4:54n, 4:76

An Oration, delivered in St. Michael’s Church, before the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina, on the Fourth of July, 1812 (Crafts), 5:284, 5:285n

An Oration, delivered in St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, South-Carolina; on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, 1815 (C. R. Greene), 8:586n

An Oration, delivered in St. Philip’s Church (Cheves), 3:61–3:62, 3:136–3:137

An Oration, delivered in the hall of the House of Representatives (Rush), 5:259, 5:259n, 5:286–5:287

An Oration, Delivered in the Third Episcopal Church, before the Inhabitants of Charleston, South-Carolina, On the 4th March, 1815, in commemoration of the adoption of the Federal Constitution (J. B. White), 8:315

An Oration Delivered on 4th July, 1811, in commemoration of American Independence, before the ’76 Association (Markley), 4:105, 4:106n

Oration on the Inauguration of the Federal Constitution (Elliott), 6:88–6:89, 6:89n, 6:124–6:125

An Oration, Pronounced at Alfred, on the 4th of July, 1815 (J. Holmes), 8:648–8:649, 8:649–8:650n

An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1810, before the “Bunker-Hill Association” (Lincoln), 2:504, 2:505n, 2:666

An Oration, Pronounced at Lexington, Mass. (J. T. Austin), 8:585–8:586, 8:614

Oration pronounced by Samuel H. Smith, Esquire (Smith), 6:428, 6:429n, 6:444

oratory

  • books on, 7:629–7:630
  • study of, 7:638, 7:641

Orders in Council. See Great Britain: Orders in Council

O’Reilly, Alejandro

  • proclamation of, 3:175n, 3:546

Orense, bishop of. See Quevedo y Quintana, Pedro, bishop of Orense

Original correspondence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Mad. La Tour de Franqueville and M. Du Peyrou (J. J. Rousseau), 7:389

Orleans Territory. See also Claiborne, William Charles Coles; Louisiana (Spanish and French colony); Louisiana Territory

  • banks in, 2:121, 2:192
  • clerk in, 1:635, 1:642n
  • drainage plan, 2:372, 2:484
  • elections in, 2:443n
  • and Embargo, 2:444n
  • federal bench in, 2:211, 2:212
  • French refugees in, 1:203
  • indefensibility of, 4:133
  • Lafayette’s land in, 1:270n, 1:529, 1:628
  • land claims in, 1:635–1:642
  • land commissioners in, 2:517, 2:518, 2:519, 3:27n
  • laws governing, 3:325
  • legislature of, 2:135, 2:159–2:160, 2:192, 2:355, 2:483, 2:484, 2:528, 2:657, 2:658n, 2:659n, 2:682, 3:25, 3:26–3:27n, 3:157–3:158, 3:258, 3:326, 3:344, 3:344n, 3:420, 3:498
  • militia of, 2:177, 2:178n
  • J. Monroe offered governorship of, 2:42–2:43, 2:44, 2:46n
  • slave insurrection in, 3:326, 3:326n, 3:344n
  • and statehood, 3:328, 3:328n, 3:344n
  • superior court of, 2:439, 2:440–2:444n, 2:450n
  • TJ on, 2:360
  • TJ on batture rights of, 3:153, 3:168
  • TJ’s land grant proposal for, 2:258, 2:259
  • and yellow fever, 2:135–2:136, 2:356

Ornithorhyncus anatinus. See platypus

Orosius, Paulus

  • The Anglo-Saxon Version, From the Historian Orosius. By Ælfred the Great, 8:236, 8:237n
  • works of, 8:234

Orr, John D., 7:286

Orr, Thomas Lee

  • identified, 7:286n
  • introduced to TJ, 7:286
  • as student of L. H. Girardin, 7:286

Osage Indians, 1:520, 3:501

Osage orange (bow-wood), 7:287, 7:288n, 7:321, 7:326

Osgood, David

  • A Discourse Delivered at Cambridge, 2:411, 2:412n
  • A. Hill’s opinion of, 2:411
  • mentioned, 8:343, 8:343n, 8:358, 8:359n

Osinski, Ludwik, 3:62n

Osnaburg (Oznabrig)

  • fabric, 1:315, 4:515, 5:33, 5:385, 6:347, 6:349n
  • thread, 4:358, 6:345

Ossian. See Macpherson, James

Ostenaco (Outacity; Outassetè) (Cherokee chief), 5:124, 5:125n

Oster, Martin

  • identified, 4:70n
  • letters from, 4:81–4:82, 4:166, 5:332–5:333
  • letters to, 4:70, 5:216
  • letter to from L. W. Tazewell, 5:333–5:335
  • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466, 3:467–3:468, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:70, 4:81–4:82, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–5:118, 5:216, 5:216–5:217, 5:228, 5:332–5:333, 5:333–5:335, 5:378

ostrich, 1:479

Otey, Isaac

  • as sheriff of Bedford Co., 8:73, 8:73n

Otis, Bass

  • portrait of O. Evans, 7:xliii, 7:434 (illus.)
  • portrait of TJ, 6:149n, 7:xliii

Otis, Harrison Gray

  • criticism of, 4:38n, 5:641, 6:37

Otis, Samuel Allyne

  • identified, 4:575n
  • letters from, 4:578, 4:588
  • letters to, 4:575
  • secretary of U.S. Senate, 1:535, 4:521–4:522, 4:565, 4:575, 4:578, 4:581, 4:582, 4:588

Ottawa Indians, 4:181, 4:182n, 4:537

Otway, Thomas

  • The History and Fall of Caius Marius, 4:479, 4:480n

Oudinot, Nicolas Charles, Duc de Reggio, 1:371, 1:372

Outassetè. See Ostenaco (Outacity; Outassetè) (Cherokee chief)

Outlines of An Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind (Condorcet), 6:302, 7:627, 8:552, 8:553n

Overbury, Samuel

  • letters from accounted for, 7:719

overseers. See also Bacon, Edmund; Freeman, John Holmes; Goodman, Jeremiah Augustus; Griffin, Burgess; Lilly, Gabriel; Monticello: Overseers at; Montpellier: overseers at; Poplar Forest: Overseers at; Richardson, Richard; Yancey, Joel (d. 1833)

  • accommodations for, 8:204
  • accounting practices of, 4:94
  • attempt to capture runaway slaves, 3:513, 3:612–3:613, 3:613n
  • crop share of, 2:27, 2:28, 2:230, 2:230n, 4:10–4:11, 4:342, 4:493–4:494, 4:515, 8:173, 8:186n
  • depart, 1:558, 8:610–8:611
  • hire slaves, 1:48n
  • hiring of, 4:132, 4:133n, 4:307, 8:203–8:204, 8:432–8:433, 8:493, 8:496, 8:542, 8:555
  • list slave beds and blankets, 4:382–4:383, 5:463n
  • make contracts for sale of wheat, 4:165, 4:170–4:171, 4:184, 4:212
  • and nailery, 4:464–4:465
  • pay rent to TJ, 1:137
  • plantation accounts of, 1:81n, 2:155, 3:196, 3:642, 3:643, 4:557n
  • plantation management by, 2:149–2:150, 2:279, 2:281n, 2:670, 3:180, 3:181n, 3:394, 4:386n, 4:543, 5:6n, 5:488–5:490
  • at Poplar Forest, 5:31, 5:306–5:307, 5:482, 5:482n, 5:488–5:490, 5:600, 5:663, 7:179–7:180
  • positions for, 3:29, 3:276
  • and prizing of tobacco, 3:269, 3:457, 8:70
  • report plantation activities, 1:180, 2:96–2:97
  • retrieve merino sheep for TJ, 2:666
  • and sale of tobacco to S. J. Harrison, 3:457, 3:561, 3:634, 3:639–3:640, 3:650, 4:422, 4:461, 4:515, 4:549
  • send tobacco to Richmond, 1:157n, 8:132
  • TJ entrusts documents to, 2:328, 2:330, 2:422, 4:308
  • TJ on, 8:643
  • TJ’s accounts with, 1:419–1:420, 4:12, 4:58n
  • TJ’s instructions to, 2:232, 2:233n, 4:306–4:307, 4:379–4:382, 4:515–4:516, 4:526–4:527, 5:31, 5:488–5:490, 7:179–7:180, 8:10–8:11, 8:69–8:72, 8:78, 8:132, 8:157–8:158, 8:184–8:186
  • at Tufton, 8:611, 8:611n
  • wages for, 8:204

Overton, James

  • creditor of C. L. Bankhead, 8:394

Overton, John, 3:210n

Overton, Richard

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
  • TJ purchases land from, 4:386
  • vouches for O. Norris, 3:465

Overton, Samuel

  • identified, 3:209–3:210n
  • letters from, 3:xlvii, 3:209–3:210, 3:358 (illus.)
  • regarded as insane by TJ, 3:209n

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:661, 7:685
  • Metamorphoses, 7:661, 8:670, 8:685
  • quoted, 4:340, 4:391, 4:392n, 7:582, 7:590n
  • works of bound for TJ, 8:630

Owen, Thomas

  • and C. Bassus’s Geoponica, 8:57n

Owen, W.

  • Dictionary of Arts & Sciences, 1:582

Owens, Owen

  • witnesses agreement, 4:87

oxen

  • at Belmont, 3:170–3:171
  • as food, 4:362
  • and hides used in shoemaking, 4:362
  • mentioned, 3:371n
  • sent from Poplar Forest, 4:373
  • price of, 8:307
  • TJ purchases, 6:306n
  • used in agriculture, 3:348, 3:349, 7:80, 8:10, 8:70, 8:72
  • used on batture, 2:546, 2:548

Oxford Iron Works (Campbell Co. firm), 5:485, 5:485, 5:485n, 5:505, 6:350, 6:568n

Oxford University, 2:565, 7:659, 7:666n

oysters, 2:110–2:111

Oznabrig. See Osnaburg (Oznabrig)

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