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Table of Contents for Volume Seven, 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 Destutt de Tracy, 28 November		3
From Joseph C. Cabell, 29 November		5
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 29 November		6
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30 November		9
To Lafayette, 30 November		13
From Judith Lomax, 30 November		16
From John Clarke, 2 December		16
From John Adams, 3 December		23
From David Ramsay, 3 December		28
From George Hay, 6 December		29
To Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December		29
From Edward Ross, 6 December		32
From Joseph C. Cabell, 8 December		33
To Madame de Tessé, 8 December		33
From Thomas Leiper, 9 December		36
From George Logan, 9 December		38
Account with Reuben Perry, 10 December		44
From John C. Pryor, 10 December		45
From John Barnes, 12 December		46
From Samuel M. Burnside, 13 December		47
From Bela Fosgate, with Note from David Holt, 13 December		48
To Isaac Cox Barnet, 14 December		50
To Valentín de Foronda, 14 December		50
To François André Michaux, 14 December		52
To Alexis Marie Rochon, 14 December		53
To André Thoüin, 14 December		54
To Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 15 December		56
From Horatio G. Spafford, 17 December		57
From Elizabeth Trist, 17 December		59
From Paul Allen, 18 December		63
From John Adams, 19 December		64
From John Devereux DeLacy, 19 December		68
From Sir Egerton Leigh, 19 December		68
From Patrick Gibson, 21 December		69
From John Melish, 21 December		70
From William Champe Carter, 22 December		70
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 22 December		71
To Patrick Gibson, 24 December		72
From Shotwell & Kinder, 24 December		72
From John Adams, 25 December		73
To Mary Lewis, 25 December		78
To Charles Clay, 28 December		79
From Charles Willson Peale, 28 December		79
From Patrick Gibson, 29 December		86
To Philip Mazzei, 29 December		87
To David Bailie Warden, 29 December		90
From David A. Leonard, 30 December		93
Account with William & Reuben Mitchell, [ca. 31 December]		94

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To John E. Hall, 1 January		95
To Thomas Leiper, 1 January		96
To Archibald Thweatt, 1 January		99
To Walter Jones, 2 January		100
From Thomas Leiper, 2 January		104
From David A. Leonard, 2 January		105
From Isaac McPherson, 2 January		106
To John Graham, 6 January		107
From Oliver Evans, 7 January, enclosing Oliver Evans’s Petition to the United States Congress, [by 28 December 1813]		107
From Robert M. Patterson, 7 January		113
To Charles Clay, 8 January		114
From Patrick Gibson, 8 January		114
To Samuel M. Burnside, 9 January		115
From Charles Clay, 9 January		116
To Louis H. Girardin, 9 January		116
From Thomas Hornsby, 9 January, enclosing Statement by Elizabeth Henderson, 25 December 1813		117
To John Pintard, 9 January		119
From Joseph R. Darnall, 10 January		121
To Walter Jones, 10 January		122
From William Johnson, 12 January		123
To Patrick Gibson, 13 January		123
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 13 January		124
To Thomas Cooper, 16 January		124
To Oliver Evans, 16 January		131
To Joseph C. Cabell, 17 January		133
From Joseph Wheaton, 17 January		135
From William Short, 18 January		135
From Thomas Clark, 19 January		139
From Patrick Gibson, 19 January		141
To David A. Leonard, 20 January		141
To Robert M. Patterson, 20 January		142
To Sir Egerton Leigh, 21 January		143
To John Melish, 21 January		143
From Joseph C. Cabell, 23 January		144
To John Adams, 24 January		146
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 24 January		151
From John Manners, 24 January		152
To Richard Randolph, 25 January		154
To John Staples, 25 January		154
From Mathew Carey, 26 January		155
To Patrick Gibson, 26 January		155
To Joseph Wheaton, 26 January		156
To William Champe Carter, 27 January		157
To John Clarke, 27 January		158
To James Monroe, 27 January		159
From William Cocke, 28 January		160
From Elias Earle, 28 January, enclosing Henry Dearborn’s Statement Regarding Elias Earle’s Ironworks, 29 March 1812		162
From Robert Mills, 28 January		165
To William Short, 28 January		166
From Horatio G. Spafford, 28 January		169
To John Barnes, 29 January		169
From Oliver Evans, 29 January		170
To Joseph Graham, 29 January		174
To James Lyons, 29 January		174
To Archibald Thweatt, 29 January		175
To Joseph C. Cabell, 31 January		176
To Samuel Greenhow, 31 January		178
To Elizabeth Trist, 1 February		178
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 3 February		179
Notes on Account with David Higginbotham, [ca. 3 February]		180
From Jason Chamberlain, 4 February		181
From Samuel Greenhow, 4 February		182
From Joseph C. Cabell, 5 February		184
From Samuel Brown, 8 February		186
From Patrick Gibson, 8 February		188
From John Barnes, 9 February		189
To Mathew Carey, 10 February		190
To Thomas Clark, 10 February		190
To Thomas Cooper, 10 February		190
To Shotwell & Kinder, 10 February		191
From John Barnes, 11 February		192
From Samuel R. Demaree, 13 February		194
From James Madison, 13 February		196
From James Monroe, 14 February		197
From William Bentley, 16 February		198
To Elias Earle, 16 February		199
From Walter Jones, 16 February		200
To James Madison, 16 February		203
To James Madison, 17 February		203
To Robert Mills, 17 February		204
From Richard Randolph, 18 February		204
From Arabella Graham, 20 February		204
From Gideon Granger, 22 February		205
To John Manners, 22 February		207
To John Barnes, 23 February		211
To Patrick Gibson, 23 February		212
To William Short, 23 February		212
From William DuVal, 24 February		213
From Lafayette, 25 February		215
From Patrick Gibson, 26 February		215
From John Barnes, 27 February		215
From John Adams, February		216
From Patrick Gibson, 2 March		222
From John Graham, 2 March		222
From William Short, 3 March		223
From Martin Dawson & Company, 4 March		225
From Elizabeth Trist, 5 March		226
From William Wardlaw, 5 March		228
From Charles Burrall, 6 March		229
From Joseph C. Cabell, 6 March		230
From Martin Dawson & Company, 6 March		231
From Charles Burrall, [7 March]		231
From Thomas Clark, 7 March		232
From George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 7 March		232
From John Barnes, 8 March		233
To Gideon Granger, 9 March		234
To James Madison, 10 March		238
Recommendation of William McClure by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March		240
From Patrick Gibson, 13 March		241
From John E. Hall, 15 March		241
To William Bentley, 16 March		242
To Henry M. Brackenridge, 16 March		242
To Charles Burrall, 16 March		243
To Jason Chamberlain, 16 March		243
To James Madison, 16 March		244
To Henry Muhlenberg, 16 March		244
From Samuel P. Parsons, 16 March		246
To Charles J. Ingersoll, 17 March		247
To Horatio G. Spafford, 17 March		248
To William Wardlaw, 17 March		249
To Louis H. Girardin, 18 March		250
Notes on Napier’s Theorem, [ca. 18 March]		253
To James Barbour, 20 March		256
To Thomas Clark, 20 March		256
From Thomas Cooper, 20 March		257
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 20 March		259
To Samuel Pleasants, 20 March		260
From Isaac A. Coles, 21 March		260
To John Barnes, 22 March		261
To John Barnes, 22 March		261
From Charles Burrall, 22 March		262
From David Gelston, 22 March		263
To Patrick Gibson, 22 March		263
From Horatio G. Spafford, 22 March		264
The Founding of the University of Virginia: Albemarle Academy, 1803–1816		264
Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 25 March		267
From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 25 March		268
From Patrick Gibson, 26 March		269
To George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 26 March		269
To James Madison, 26 March		270
From James J. Pleasants (for Samuel Pleasants), 26 March		270
To William Short, 26 March		271
From Benjamin Galloway, 30 March		272
From Horatio G. Spafford, 30 March		273
From Benjamin Taylor, enclosing Benjamin Taylor’s Annotated Drawings of Underwater Mines, [30] March		276
From William Cook, 31 March		280
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 3 April		281
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 3 April		282
To David Gelston, 3 April		282
Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 5 April		282
From John Barnes, 5 April		283
From Nicolas G. Dufief, enclosing Account with Nicolas G. Dufief, 6 April		284
From Peter Carr, [received 7 April]		286
From José Corrêa da Serra, 10 April		287
From George Divers, 11 April		288
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 12 April		288
From Bradford & Inskeep, 12 April, enclosing Account with Bradford & Inskeep, 7 April		289
To Patrick Gibson, 12 April		290
From Luis de Onîs, 13 April		291
From William Wardlaw, 13 April		292
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 14 April		292
Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 15 April		293
From John Barnes, 16 April		294
From Joseph Delaplaine, 16 April		295
To William Shirman, 16 April		297
From Thomas Leiper, 17 April		297
To John H. Cocke, 19 April		300
From John H. Cocke, 19 April		301
To José Corrêa da Serra, 19 April		301
From Joseph Delaplaine, 19 April		302
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 19 April		303
To Benjamin Galloway, 19 April		305
To Samuel P. Parsons, 19 April		306
From Patrick Gibson, 20 April		307
From John Rhea, 20 April		307
From David Gelston, 21 April		307
From Augustus B. Woodward, 21 April		308
From Augustus B. Woodward, 22 April		308
From Hugh Holmes, 23 April		309
Joseph Jones Monroe to James Monroe, 23 April		310
From Horatio G. Spafford, 24 April		313
To John Barnes, 25 April		314
From Charles Caldwell, 25 April		317
From John Waldo, 25 April		319
To José Corrêa da Serra, 26 April		320
From David Isaacs, 26 April		321
To Horatio G. Spafford, 26 April		322
From John Barnes, 27 April		323
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 27 April		324
To Samuel Brown, 28 April		325
To Luis de Onîs, 28 April		326
From Charles Caldwell, 30 April		328
From Francis Corbin, 30 April		329
From Joseph Delaplaine, 30 April		330
From William Shirman, 30 April		331
From Abraham Small, 30 April		331
To Louis H. Girardin, 1 May		332
From David Isaacs, 1 May		332
From John Barnes, 2 May		333
From John Barnes, 2 May		334
Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 3 May		335
To Joseph Delaplaine, 3 May		340
From Thomas Law, 3 May		342
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 3 May		343
From John F. Watson, 3 May		344
From Samuel Brown, 4 May		345
From Patrick Gibson, 4 May		346
To John Staples, 4 May		346
From Joseph Wheaton, 4 May		347
From John T. Mason, 5 May		347
To William Richardson, 6 [May]		349
From David Bailie Warden, 6 May		349
From James Monroe, 7 May		351
To Craven Peyton, 7 May, enclosing John Henderson’s Deed of Milton Property to Craven Peyton, 17 November 1807		351
To John Barnes, 8 May		353
To George W. Campbell, 8 May		354
To James Monroe, 8 May		355
To Bernard Peyton, 8 May		356
To William Cook, 9 May		356
From Jason Chamberlain, 10 May		357
To Hugh Chisholm, 10 May		357
From George Creager, 10 May		358
From James Madison, 10 May		359
To Craven Peyton, 10 May		360
From Abraham Howard Quincy, 10 May		361
From John Barnes, 13 May		363
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 15 May		363
To Henry Dearborn, 17 May		364
To John Langdon, 17 May		365
To James Madison, 17 May		365
To William Short, 17 May		366
To John F. Watson, 17 May		367
To John Adams, 18 May		368
From John Barnes, 18 May		369
To Daniel D. Tompkins, 18 May		370
To Francis Corbin, 20 May		370
To Abraham Small, 20 May, enclosing Eugene Aram’s Defense at his Trial for Murder, [3 August 1759]		373
To Joseph H. Nicholson, 21 May		379
From Hugh Chisholm, 22 May		380
From John Barnes, 24 May		380
From James Mease, 24 May		381
To George Creager, 28 May		382
From John Vaughan, 28 May		383
From Henry M. Brackenridge, 30 May		383
From Thomas Cooper, 31 May		385
Account with William Steptoe, 1 June		387
From John F. Watson, 2 June		388
From Luis de Onîs, 3 June		390
From John Wilson, 3 June		398
From William Barton, 6 June		398
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 June		400
From Robert Mills, 7 June		401
To Patrick Gibson, 9 June		401
From William Short, 9 June		402
To William Thornton, 9 June		405
From Dudley Leavitt, enclosing Dudley Leavitt’s Table for Determining the Moon’s Quarters, 10 June		407
To Elizabeth Trist, 10 June		409
To Charles Caldwell, 12 June		410
From Patrick Gibson, 13 June		412
To Thomas Law, 13 June		412
From Jean Baptiste Say, 15 June		416
From John Barnes, 16 June		421
From William H. Crawford, 16 June		422
Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 17 June		426
From David Bailie Warden, 18 June		427
From Joseph Delaplaine, 19 June		429
To Christopher Clark, 21 June		430
To Archibald Robertson, 21 June		430
From John Barnes, enclosing Tadeusz Kosciuszko’s Account with John Barnes, 22 June		431
To Patrick Gibson, 22 June		433
From Levett Harris, 22 June		433
To Archibald Robertson, 22 June		434
From Archibald Robertson, 22 June		435
From Israel B. Kursheedt, 24 June		435
From William Lambert, 24 June		436
From John Barnes, 27 June		437
From William Thornton, 27 June		438
To Baring Brothers & Company, 28 June		439
To John Barnes, 28 June		440
From David Isaacs, 28 June		441
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 28 June		442
To Robert Mills, [28] June		443
To Joseph Delaplaine, 29 June		444
To James Mease, 29 June		444
To Robert Patterson, 29 June		446
To John Wilson, 29 June		446
To William Barton, 30 June		446
To Jason Chamberlain, 1 July		447
To Joseph Darmsdatt, 1 July		448
To William Shirman, 1 July		448
To John Waldo, 1 July		449
To Louis H. Girardin, 2 July		450
To William Duane, 3 July		450
To John Adams, 5 July		451
From John Barnes, 7 July		456
From Patrick Gibson, 7 July		457
To Louis H. Girardin, 7 July		458
From Thomas Lehré, 7 July		459
To Patrick Gibson, 8 July, with Note on Corn Contracts, 9 July		459
From James W. Wallace, 8 July		460
From Hugh Holmes, 10 July		460
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 11 July		461
From Thomas C. Flournoy, 12 July, enclosing Thomas C. Flournoy’s Fourth of July Speech, [4 July]		462
From Thomas Law, 12 July		467
From John Barnes, [ca. 13] July		469
From John Barnes, 13 July		470
From Patrick Gibson, 13 July		472
From Destutt de Tracy, [14] July		472
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 14 July		475
From John Adams, 16 July		476
To John Wayles Eppes, 16 July		482
From John Crookes, 20 July		484
To Joseph Miller, 21 July		484
To Andrew Moore, 21 July		485
To Robert Patterson, 23 July		486
To William Thornton, 23 July		486
From James Monroe, 25 July		487
To William Richardson, 25 July		488
From David Bailie Warden, 25 July		488
From Patrick Gibson, 27 July		491
From James Mease, 27 July		492
From William Wirt, 27 July, enclosing Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves, 30 May 1765, with Notes by William Wirt		492
From Joseph Delaplaine, 28 July		497
From John Barnes, 29 July		499
From Elizabeth Trist, 29 July		500
From Frank Carr, 31 July		502
From Edward Coles, 31 July		503
To Baron Karl von Moll, 31 July		505
From David Bailie Warden, 1 August		505
From William Thornton, 2 August, enclosing Walter Janes to William Thornton, 12 [July], and William Thornton to George Greer, 2 August		506
To Robert Gillespie, 3 August		509
To James Monroe, 3 August		510
From Augustus B. Woodward, 3 August		511
From William Barton, 4 August		511
From George Hargraves, 4 August		512
To John H. Cocke, 5 August		513
From James Ogilvie, [ca. 5 August]		514
To Reuben Perry, 5 August		514
To John Watts, 5 August		515
To Patrick Gibson, 7 August		516
To Lancelot Minor, 7 August		518
Promissory Note to Hugh Nelson, 7 August		519
To Samuel M. Burnside, 8 August		520
To John Crookes, 8 August		521
To Thomas C. Flournoy, 8 August		522
To Joseph Delaplaine, 9 August		522
From George Greer, 9 August		523
To Thomas Lehré, 9 August		524
From Thomas Ritchie, 9 August		525
To Gilbert Stuart, 9 August		525
From William Duane, enclosing William Duane’s Notes on the Expediency of Using Black Troops, 11 August		527
From John Nicholas, 12 August		534
To Craven Peyton, 13 August		535
From Peter Carr, 14 August		535
From Lafayette, 14 August, enclosing Lafayette to an Unidentified Correspondent, 22 May		536
To William Wirt, 14 August		544
To Major Clayton, 15 August		551
To Patrick Gibson, 15 August		551
To Thomas Ritchie, 15 August		552
From John Barnes, 16 August		553
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 16 August		554
To Patrick Gibson, 16 August		555
To William Barton, 17 August		555
To Bradford & Inskeep, 17 August		556
From William Caruthers, 17 August		556
From Thomas Cooper, 17 August		557
To Peter Cottom, 17 August		561
From Joseph Delaplaine, 17 August		562
To William Duane, 17 August		564
From John L. E. W. Shecut, 17 August		565
To William Thornton, 17 August		568
To John F. Watson, 17 August		568
To Augustus B. Woodward, 17 August		569
To John T. Mason, 18 August		569
Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 19 August		570
To John Barnes, 20 August		572
To Patrick Gibson, 20 August		572
From Miles King, 20 August		573
To William Short, 20 August		591
To James W. Wallace, 20 August		593
To William Wardlaw, 20 August		594
To John C. Carter, 21 August		594
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 21 August		595
From Samuel M. Burnside, 22 August		595
To Thomas Hornsby, 22 August		596
To David Michie, 22 August		597
From Jean Baptiste Say, 22 August		598
From Charles Yancey, 22 August		600
To Dabney Carr, 24 August		601
From Patrick Gibson, 24 August		602
From William Wardlaw, 24 August		602
To Edward Coles, 25 August		603
To Thomas Cooper, 25 August		606
To Caspar Wistar, 25 August		607
From John H. Cocke, 27 August		608
To Isaac A. Coles, 27 August		609
To Joseph Delaplaine, enclosing Thomas Jefferson’s Extract from Theodor de Bry’s Preface to Americae Pars Quinta, with a Drawing Depicting Christopher Columbus, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Likeness of Christopher Columbus, 28 August		611
To Louis H. Girardin, 28 August		616
From John Barnes, 29 August		617
From Daniel F. Carr, 29 August		618
To Daniel F. Carr, 29 August		619
To Samuel Carr, 29 August		619
To William Caruthers, 29 August		620
To George Hargraves, 29 August		620
From James W. Wallace, 29 August		621
To Charles Yancey, 29 August		624
To Charles Yancey, 29 August		625
To John Minor, 30 August, including an earlier letter to Bernard Moore, [ca. 1773?]		625
From Jeremiah Yancey (for Charles Yancey), 30 August		632
From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 31 August		632
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 1 September		633
From Edward Caffarena, 5 September		634
To Craven Peyton, 6 September		634
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [6 September]		635
To Peter Carr, 7 September		636
From John Wayles Eppes, 7 September		642
From James W. Wallace, 7 September		642
From John Minor, 8 September		643
From Thomas B. Wait & Sons, 8 September		644
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 September		646
To Francis Eppes, 9 September		647
To John Wayles Eppes, 9 September		648
From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 9 September		649
To Thomas Cooper, 10 September		649
From John C. Carter, 12 September		655
From James W. Wallace, 13 September		656
From Donald Fraser, 14 September		656
From Thomas Cooper, [ca. 15 September]		657
From Thomas Cooper, 15 September		657
Thomas Cooper’s Notes on University Curricula [ca. 15–22 September]		666
From Horatio G. Spafford, 15 September		668
From Joseph C. Cabell, 17 September		669
From José Corrêa da Serra, 20 September		671
Deposition of Craven Peyton in Jefferson v. Michie, 20 September		672
Deposition of Richard Price in Jefferson v. Michie, 20 September		676
From Thomas Cooper, 21 September		678
The Sale of Thomas Jefferson’s Library to Congress		679
	I. To Samuel H. Smith, 21 September	681
	II. To Samuel H. Smith, 21 September	682
From John Vaughan, [received 21 September]		685
From Thomas Cooper, 22 September		685
To Joseph C. Cabell, 23 September		689
To James Madison, 24 September		692
From Philip Mazzei, 24 September		693
From Joseph Milligan, 24 September		698
To James Monroe, 24 September		699
To John L. E. W. Shecut, 25 September		700
To Thomas B. Wait, 25 September		701
From Edward Coles, 26 September		703
To Miles King, 26 September		705
From Samuel E. Mifflin, [ca. 26 September]		706
Statement of Albemarle County Taxes and Court Fees, 27 September		708
To Dabney Carr, 27 September		709
To Patrick Gibson, 27 September		710
From Samuel E. Mifflin, [ca. 27 September]		711
To James Oldham, 27 September		712
To Richard Randolph, 27 September		713
To Thomas Ritchie, 27 September		713
To John Barnes, 30 September		713
To Joseph C. Cabell, 30 September		714
José Corrêa da Serra’s Memorandum on Religious Education, [after 30 September]		715
From Patrick Gibson, 30 September		716

Appendix : Supplemental List of Documents Not Found		719

Index		721

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