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

Foreword		vii
Acknowledgments		ix
Editorial Method and Apparatus		xi
Maps		xxxix
Illustrations		xliii
Jefferson Chronology		2

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To Alrichs & Dixon, 11 March		3
To Lewis Brown, 11 March		3
To Patrick Gibson, 11 March		4
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 11 March		4
To Samuel J. Harrison, 11 March		5
To John L. Thomas, 11 March		5
To William Caruthers, 12 March		6
From John H. Cocke, 12 March		7
To John H. Cocke, 12 March		7
From Margaret B. Bonneville, 13 March		8
From William A. Burwell, enclosing Instructions for the Use of a Carding Machine, 13 March		9
From Dabney Carr, 14 March		12
From Sarah Grotjan, 15 March		12
From Benjamin Rush, 15 March		13
From André Thoüin, 15 March		17
Will of Thomas Mann Randolph, 16 March		18
From Patrick Gibson, 17 March		20
From Charles Rogers, [ca. 17 March]		21
From Alrichs & Dixon, 18 March		24
From Samuel J. Harrison, 19 March		24
List of 1812 Tobacco Crop Sold to Samuel J. Harrison, with Thomas Jefferson's Notes, [after 19 March]		25
George Poindexter to James Monroe, [before 20 March]		26
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 23 March		27
From Thomas Lehré, 23 March		28
From Thomas Paine McMahon, 24 March		29
From Samuel J. Harrison, 25 March		31
From Robert Patterson, 25 March		31
From William Caruthers, 26 March		31
From John B. Colvin, 26 March		32
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 26 March		33
Will of Anne Scott Marks, 26 March		34
Conveyance of Part of Shadwell to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 26 March		35
Conveyance of Slaves to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 26 March		36
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 26 March		37
From Samuel & James Leitch, 27 March		40
From John Waldo, 27 March		40
From Edward Bolling, 29 March		42
From Alexander Garrett, 29 March		43
To Patrick Gibson, 29 March		43
From Rodolphus Dickinson, 30 March		44
To Louis H. Girardin, 31 March		44
From David Bailie Warden, 1 April		45
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 3 April		46
To Margaret B. Bonneville, 3 April		47
To Sarah Grotjan, 3 April		47
To Samuel J. Harrison, 3 April		48
To Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 3 April		49
To Thomas Paine McMahon, 3 April		49
To Craven Peyton, 3 April		50
From Isaac A. Coles, 4 April		51
To William Duane, 4 April		52
Promissory Note to Edmund Bacon, 7 April		54
To Anthony Finley, 7 April		55
From Robert Fulton, 7 April		55
To John Clarke, 8 April		57
To John B. Colvin, 8 April		58
To Robert Patterson, 8 April		59
To Benjamin Rush, 8 April		60
To Thomas Voigt, 9 April		61
To John Devereux DeLacy, 10 April		62
To William Foushee, 10 April		63
To Thomas Lehré, 10 April		63
To James Madison, 10 April		64
From John Wayles Baker, 11 April		64
From Francis Eppes, 11 April		65
To Patrick Gibson, 16 April		66
To Samuel Brown, 17 April		66
To William Cocke, 17 April		67
To Charles Willson Peale, 17 April		68
To James Walker, 17 April		70
To John Wayles Eppes, 18 April		71
From Elijah Griffiths, 19 April		73
From John Vaughan, 19 April		75
To William DuVal, 20 April		75
To David Michie, 20 April		76
From Thomas H. Palmer, 20 April		77
To Joseph Hornsby, 21 April		78
From Thomas Lehré, 22 April		80
From Valentín de Foronda, 23 April		80
From David Michie, 23 April		81
To Samuel Brown, 24 April		81
To Rodolphus Dickinson, 24 April		82
From Robert Patterson, 24 April		82
To John Vaughan, 24 April		84
To John Barnes, 25 April		84
To John Brown, 25 April		85
To Richard Fitzhugh, 25 April		86
To William Short, 25 April		86
To John Wayles Eppes, 26 April		88
From the Seventy-Six Association, 26 April		88
From Patrick Gibson, 28 April		90
From John Barnes, 29 April		91
From John Barnes, 29 April		91
From John Mason, 30 April		92
To Archibald Robertson, 30 April		92
To Charles Clay, 1 May		93
From Charles Clay, 1 May		94
From Archibald Robertson, 1 May		94
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 May		95
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, [ca. 2 May]		102
From Patrick Gibson, 4 May		106
To Charles Clay, 6 May		106
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 May		106
From William DuVal, 7 May		107
From Edmund Randolph, 8 May		108
From Richard Fitzhugh, 9 May		109
To Robert Richardson, 10 May		109
To Elizabeth Trist, 10 May		110
From John Winn, 10 May		111
From Charles Clay, 13 May		111
From William Cocke, 15 May		112
From Thomas Lehré, 15 May		113
From Patrick Gibson, 17 May		113
From Hugh Holmes, 17 May		114
To Edmund Randolph, 17 May		115
To John Vaughan, 17 May		115
From James P. Cocke, 18 May		116
To Patrick Gibson, 20 May		116
To Thomas Voigt, 20 May		117
To John Barnes, 21 May		118
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 21 May		119
To James Madison, 21 May		119
To Samuel Pleasants, 21 May		122
To James P. Cocke, 22 May		122
From John Eliason, 22 May		123
To Elijah Griffiths, 22 May		123
To Thomas H. Palmer, 22 May		124
To the Seventy-Six Association, 22 May		124
To James Walker, 22 May		125
From Joseph Delaplaine, 23 May		125
From Lucy F. Smith, 23 May		126
From Samuel Brown, 25 May		127
From John Wayles Eppes, 25 May		129
To Randolph Jefferson, 25 May		132
From Regnault de Bécourt, 26 May		133
From Randolph Jefferson, 26 May		134
To Lancelot Minor, 26 May		135
To John Adams, 27 May		137
To Richard Fitzhugh, 27 May		139
To Madame de Staël Holstein, 28 May		140
From John Adams, 29 May		145
From Patrick Gibson, 29 May		147
To John Graham, 29 May		147
From John L. Thomas, 29 May		148
To Joseph Delaplaine, 30 May		148
To John Eliason, 30 May		149
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30 May		150
To Bernard McMahon, 30 May		152
To David Michie, 30 May		152
From David Michie, 30 May		153
To James Monroe, 30 May		154
To William Short, 30 May		155
From Nicolas G. Dufief, enclosing Account for Books, 31 May		156
From Tobias Lear, 31 May		157
To Richard Rush, 31 May		160
To Lucy F. Smith, 31 May		161
Account with Reuben Perry for Work on Main House at Poplar Forest, [ca. May]		162
From John Martin Baker, 1 June		163
From Thomas Clark, 1 June		165
From John Barnes, 3 June, enclosing Account with John Barnes, 31 May		166
From Mathew Carey, 3 June		167
From John Barnes, 4 June		168
From Patrick Gibson, 5 June		168
From James Madison, 6 June		169
From John Taggart, 6 June		170
From James Monroe, 7 June		171
From John L. E. W. Shecut, 8 June		179
From John Adams, 10 June		180
To Eli Alexander, 10 June		181
From Chapman Johnson, 10 June		182
From John Adams, 11 June		183
From Elbridge Gerry, 11 June		184
To Patrick Gibson, 12 June		185
From Richard Rush, 12 June		186
From Samuel Brown, 13 June		187
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 13 June		190
From John Adams, 14 June		191
To John Adams, 15 June		193
To Bernard McMahon, 15 June		195
Bill of Complaint in Jefferson v. Michie, 16 June		196
From James Monroe, 16 June		201
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 17 June		203
To Richard Rush, 17 June		203
To William Short, 18 June		204
To Mathew Carey, 19 June		206
To Elbridge Gerry, 19 June		207
To Tobias Lear, 19 June		208
To James Monroe, 19 June		209
To John Taggart, 19 June		211
From John Barnes, 20 June		211
To Regnault de Bécourt, 20 June		213
To Joseph Hunter, 20 June		213
From Joseph Hunter, 20 June		213
To Randolph Jefferson, 20 June		214
From Randolph Jefferson, 21 June		215
From Chapman Johnson, 21 June		215
To James Madison, 21 June		216
From Benjamin Romaine, 23 June		218
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 June		219
To John Wayles Eppes, 24 June		220
To James Monroe, 24 June		226
From John Adams, 25 June		226
From John Strode, 25 June		229
From Frank Carr, 26 June		230
From John Hopkins, 26 June		231
To John Adams, 27 June		231
From Richard Rush, 27 June		235
From John Adams, 28 June		236
To John Barnes, 28 June		239
From John Graham, 28 June		240
From James Monroe, 28 June		241
From Robert Fulton, 29 June		243
From Thomas Lehré, 29 June		250
To John L. E. W. Shecut, 29 June		251
From Caspar Wistar, 29 June		252
From John Adams, 30 June		253
From James Monroe, 30 June		256
Account with Reuben Perry for Work on Barn at Monticello, 1 July		257
From Thomas Voigt, 1 July		258
From John Adams, [ca. 3-€“5] July		258
From Englehart Cruse, enclosing Drawing and Explanation of an Apparatus for Blowing Up Ships, 3 July		260
From John Barnes, 6 July		262
From Elbridge Gerry, 6 July		263
From Elizabeth Trist, 7 July		264
From Dabney Carr, 8 July		268
From John Devereux DeLacy, 8 July		268
From Peter Derieux, 8 July		269
From Robert Fulton, 8 July, enclosing Stephen Decatur's Opinion of Robert Fulton's Experiments with Underwater Artillery, 6 May		272
From William Short, 8 July		274
From John Adams, 9 July		277
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 10 July		280
To John Graham, 11 July		281
From Randolph Jefferson, 11 July		282
To Benjamin Romaine, 11 July		282
To Richard Rush, 11 July		283
From John Adams, 12 July		283
To Randolph Jefferson, 12 July		285
From John Adams, 13 July		286
To James Barbour, 13 July		288
From Mathew Carey, 13 July		289
To James Madison, 13 July		289
From Rembrandt Peale, 13 July		291
To John Strode, 13 July		292
To Samuel Brown, 14 July		292
To Patrick Gibson, 14 July		294
From Patrick Gibson, 14 July		295
From John Adams, with Postscript from Abigail Adams, 15 July		296
From John Adams, 16 July		298
From John Strode, 17 July		301
From John Adams, 18 July		301
Agreement with William Ballard, 18 July		304
From John G. Gamble, 20 July		304
To Patrick Gibson, 20 July		305
To John Barnes, 21 July		307
From William A. Burwell, 21 July		307
Clothing and Bedding Distribution List for Poplar Forest Slaves, [after 21 July]		308
From John Wayles Eppes, 21 July		311
To Robert Fulton, 21 July		313
To Hugh Holmes, 21 July		314
To Nathaniel H. Hooe, 21 July		314
From Thomas Hornsby, 21 July		315
From Thomas Lehré, 21 July		317
From John Adams, 22 July		317
To Englehart Cruse, 23 July		319
To John Devereux DeLacy, 23 July		319
To Peter Derieux, 23 July		320
From Patrick Gibson, 24 July		321
From George M. Troup, 24 July		321
From Henry M. Brackenridge, 25 July		322
From Robert Fulton, 25 July		330
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 26 July		331
To George Hay, 26 July		332
From Peter Derieux, 27 July		332
From John Tayloe, 27 July		333
From Patrick Gibson, 29 July		334
From Hugh Holmes, 29 July		335
From James Barbour, 30 July		336
To Joseph Darmsdatt, 30 July		336
To Patrick Gibson, 30 July		337
To Thomas Voigt, 30 July		338
From Tunis Wortman, 30 July		339
From Edward Hansford and John L. Clarke, 31 July		340
To Samuel & James Leitch, 31 July		341
From Ferdinand R. Hassler, 1 August		342
Account with David Higginbotham, 1 August		343
To Robert Richardson, 1 August		349
To David Ross, 1 August		350
To William Wirt, 1 August		351
Account with the Mutual Assurance Society, [ca. 2 August]		351
From Horatio G. Spafford, 2 August		352
From Isaac McPherson, 3 August		353
From John Wilson, 3 August		354
From Elbridge Gerry, 4 August		355
From Patrick Gibson, 4 August		356
To Paul Allen, 5 August		357
From Charles L. Lewis, 5 August		358
From John Rhea, 5 August		358
From Isaac A. Coles, 6 August		359
To Josef Yznardy, 6 August		359
Account with the Mutual Assurance Society, [ca. 7 August]		360
To Clifton Garland, 7 August		361
From John Graham, 7 August		362
From Randolph Jefferson, [7] August		363
From Thomas Newton, 7 August		364
From David Ross, 7 August		364
From Joseph Dougherty, 8 August		365
To David Higginbotham, 8 August		365
To Randolph Jefferson, 8 August		366
To Craven Peyton, 8 August		367
From John Adams, 9 August		367
From Regnault de Bécourt, 9 August		368
From Harry Innes, 9 August		369
To John G. Gamble, 10 August		371
To Craven Peyton, 10 August		372
From Alexander H. Stevens, 10 August		372
To John Hopkins, 11 August		373
To Rembrandt Peale, 11 August		373
To Samuel Pleasants, 11 August		374
From Richard Rush, 12 August		375
From John L. E. W. Shecut, 12 August		376
From Francis Smith, 12 August		378
To Isaac McPherson, 13 August		379
From John Adams, [ca. 14] August		386
From William C. C. Claiborne, 14 August, enclosing Decrees of the New Orleans City Council, 7 August and 9 August, and Claiborne's Address to the New Orleans City Council, 9 August		388
From Patrick Gibson, 14 August		396
To Joseph Dougherty, 15 August		396
To James Madison, 15 August		397
To Peter Minor, 15 August		398
To Samuel H. Smith, 15 August		399
To Horatio G. Spafford, 15 August		400
To Tunis Wortman, 15 August		400
From Peter Minor, 16 August		401
To John Waldo, 16 August		402
From Augustus B. Woodward, 16 August		407
To George Divers, 17 August		411
From George Divers, 17 August		412
From Samuel Pleasants, 17 August		412
To Francis Smith, 17 August		413
To John Wilson, 17 August		413
To Caspar Wistar, 17 August		415
Biography of Meriwether Lewis		417
	I. Thomas Jefferson to Paul Allen, 18 August	418
	II. Unidentified Author's Short Biography of Meriwether Lewis, [before 18 August]	426
	III. Paul Allen to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August	427
From Lucy Cooley, 18 August		428
From Samuel H. Smith, 18 August		428
To Paul Allen, 20 August		429
To Nicholas Biddle, 20 August		430
To Youen Carden, 20 August		430
From James Leitch, 20 August		431
From James Martin (of New York), 20 August		431
From William C. C. Claiborne, 21 August, enclosing François Xavier Martin's Motion for an Injunction against Edward Livingston, 14 August		433
To Abigail Adams, 22 August		437
To John Adams, 22 August		438
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 22 August		441
To Peter Derieux, 23 August		442
From James McKinney, 23 August		442
To James Madison, 23 August		442
To Richard Rush, 23 August		443
To Samuel H. Smith, 23 August		444
To Alexander H. Stevens, 23 August		445
To Augustus B. Woodward, 24 August		445
From Josiah Meigs, 25 August		445
From William Canby, 27 August		447
To Archibald Robertson, 27 August		448
From Horatio G. Spafford, 27 August		449
From Brown & Robertson, 28 August		450
To Francis Eppes, 28 August		451
To Thomas A. Holcombe, 28 August		451
James McKinney's Description of a Hemp Brake, [ca. 28 August]		452
From Isaac McPherson, 28 August, enclosing Extract of a Letter from Jonathan Ellicott to Thomas Worthington, [ca. January-€“February?]		453
From Destutt de Tracy, 29 August		458
From William P. DuVal, 29 August		460
From Samuel H. Smith, 29 August		461
Judith Lomax's Poem: "Monticello," [ca. August]		463
Deposition of Martin Dawson in Jefferson v. Michie, 1 September		464
From John Adams, 2 September		465
From Thomas Voigt, 3 September		467
From José Corrêa da Serra, 6 September, enclosing Georges Cuvier to Corrêa da Serra, [before 6 September]		468
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 6 September		471
From Nathaniel H. Hooe, 6 September		471
David Michie's Plea and Answer in Jefferson v. Michie, [by 6 September]		472
To Charles Johnston, 7 September		482
From John Sen Trescot, 7 September		483
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 8 September		484
To Henry Flood, 8 September		486
Memorandum to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 8 September		486
To Randolph Jefferson, 8 September		487
To Joseph Slaughter, 8 September		488
From Isaac Doolittle, 11 September		489
To John Wayles Eppes, 11 September		490
From John Adams, 14 September		499
From "A Man of Years & A Citizen," [received 14 September]		503
From John Adams, 15 September		503
From Gales & Seaton, enclosing Account with the National Intelligencer, 15 September		505
To William D. Meriwether, 17 September		507
To John Barnes, 18 September		507
To William Canby, 18 September		508
To Isaac Doolittle, 18 September		509
To William Duane, 18 September		509
To Nicolas G. Dufief, [18] September		510
To Harry Innes, 18 September		511
From George Logan, 18 September		512
To Isaac McPherson, 18 September		514
To Josiah Meigs, 18 September		515
To Thomas Ritchie, 19 September		515
To Caspar Wistar, 19 September		516
From Abigail Adams, 20 September		516
From Charles L. Bankhead, [20 September]		517
To Henry M. Brackenridge, 20 September		518
To James Martin (of New York), 20 September		518
From John Adams, [22] September		520
To William Champe Carter, 23 September		522
To James Monroe, 23 September		524
From James Monroe, 23 September		524
From James Monroe, [23 September]		525
From Donald Fraser, 24 September		525
From William Duane, 26 September		526
From John Wayles Eppes, 26 September		530
From Nicholas Biddle, 28 September		531
To James Monroe, 28 September		532
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 29 September		533
From Thomas Law, 1 October		534
From James Monroe, 1 October		534
From Edmund M. Blunt, 2 October		535
To Andrew Moore, 2 October		536
To George Logan, 3 October		538
From John Adams, [ca. 4 October]		540
From Charles Yancey, 4 October		543
To Patrick Gibson, 6 October		543
From Andrew Moore, 8 October		545
From John Barnes, 10 October		546
From Frederick Jordy, 11 October		546
To John Adams, 12 October		548
From Patrick Gibson, 13 October		552
Contract to Purchase Corn from Craven Peyton, 13 October, with Subsequent Receipts		553
Robert B. Sthreshly to Edmund Bacon, 13 October		554
From William F. Gordon, 15 October		554
Archibald Stuart's Decision in Jefferson v. Michie, [15 October]		555
To William McClure, 16 October		556
From John Jacob Astor, 18 October		556
From John Barnes, 19 October		558
To Edmund M. Blunt, 19 October		559
To Burgess Allison, 20 October		559
To Gales & Seaton, 20 October		560
To John Sen Trescot, 20 October		561
From Thomas Voigt, 20 October		561
To Patrick Gibson, 21 October		561
To John Adams, 28 October		562
From Horatio Turpin, 28 October		568
To Thomas Voigt, 29 October		569
From Samuel K. Jennings, 30 October		569
From James Cutbush, 31 October		571
From Joseph Graham, 1 November		572
To George Hay, 2 November		572
From Burgess Allison, [3 November]		574
From James Monroe, 3 November		575
Albemarle County Court Decision in Jefferson v. Michie, 4 November		576
From Josiah Meigs, 5 November		576
To John Barnes, 6 November		577
To John Wayles Eppes, 6 November		578
To Thomas Law, 6 November		594
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 6 November		594
To Joseph C. Cabell, enclosing Abstract of the Rivanna Company Bill, 7 November		595
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 7 November		597
To Chapman Johnson, 7 November		597
From Thomas Cooper, 8 November		598
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 8 November		600
To John Jacob Astor, 9 November		603
To William Champe Carter, 9 November		604
To William Short, 9 November		604
From John Barnes, 10 November		606
From Samuel Greenhow, 11 November		607
To Thomas Hornsby, 11 November		608
From Thomas Lehré, 11 November		611
From John Adams, 12 November		612
To Samuel Brown, 13 November		614
From Patrick Gibson, 13 November		615
From John Adams, 14 November		616
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 November		619
From John Adams, 15 November		621
From John E. Hall, 15 November		627
From Peter Minor, 15 November		628
To William F. Gordon, 16 November		629
From Chapman Johnson, 16 November		630
From Hugh Holmes, 17 November		631
From James Martin (of New York), 17 November		632
To Peter Minor, 18 November		633
From Lieutenants Fawcett and Dickonson, 19 November		636
From Thomas Lehré, 23 November		636
From James Monroe, 23 November		636
From William Cooper, enclosing Drawing of a Floating Battery, 24 November		637
From William F. Gray, 25 November		643
From Walter Jones, 25 November		643
To Elizabeth Trist, 25 November		644
To Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 26 November		646
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 26 November		647
To Francis Eppes, 26 November		648
From Gales & Seaton, 26 November		648
To Thomas A. Holcombe, 26 November		649
From Thomas Law, enclosing Petition to the Pennsylvania Legislature, 26 November		649
From Nathaniel Ellicott, 27 November		651

Appendix: Supplemental List of Documents Not Found		653

Index		655

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