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A. & J. W. Picket (firm)

  • and the Academician, 12:616, 12:617n
  • and education of women, 17:488, 17:488n, 17:514
  • identified, 12:616–12:617n
  • letter from, 17:488
  • letter from accounted for, 12:617n
  • letters to, 12:616–12:617, 17:514

Aaron (Hebrew priest; Moses’s brother), 6:616, 15:580, 15:582, 15:582, 15:583n, 15:584n, 16:620, 18:56, 18:56, 18:90, 18:94, 18:94–18:95, 18:95n, 18:306, 18:309n

Aaron (slave)

  • and H. Marks’s estate, 4:511

Abarca de Bolea, Pedro Pablo, Conde de Aranda

  • orders census in Spain, 9:440, 9:441n

Abbatt, Robert. See Robert Abbatt Jr. & Company (Richmond firm)

Abbaye Royale de Panthémont

  • and education of TJ’s daughters, 8:513, 8:513n, 12:406–12:407, 12:407n, 12:478, 12:480n

“Abbe Salemankis”

  • letters from, 2:263
  • Letters of Abbe Salemankis to a Friend in Ireland, 2:263, 2:296
  • letters to, 2:296

Abbey (Abby) (TJ’s slave; b. 1804)

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

Abbey (TJ’s slave)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382

Abbot, David

  • on Congress, 18:337–18:338
  • identified, 18:340n
  • letter from, 18:337–18:340
  • on state and federal courts, 18:338–18:340

Abbott, Mr.

  • and P. Mazzei’s Richmond property, 5:562, 5:598

Abbott & Eastwick (Philadelphia firm), 12:474n

Abbott, Josiah B.

  • introduced to TJ, 18:336, 18:336n

Abbott, Thomas Jefferson

  • letter from, 8:74
  • requests assistance from TJ, 8:74

Abby (TJ’s slave; b. 1753)

  • health of, 15:282
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308, 8:60, 8:255
  • spinner, 4:380

L’Abeille

  • and Revue Encyclopédique, ou Analyse Raisonnée, 17:266, 17:267n

L’Abeille Américaine, Journal Historique, Politique et Littéraire, 10:580

Abélard, Pierre, 19:586

Abell, Jesse

  • sells TJ a mule, 9:111, 9:111, 9:112n

Abell, John S.

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • and University of Virginia, 17:620

Abeona (brig)

  • sinking of, 10:484–10:485, 10:485n

Abercrombie, John

  • The Gardener’s Pocket Dictionary, 2:83, 11:165
  • The Propagation and Botanical Arrangements of Plants and Trees, 10:357

Aberdeen, University of. See King’s College (later part of the University of Aberdeen)

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

Abigail (Old Testament figure), 6:623

Abner, Thomas

  • and University of Virginia, 16:313

Abney, William

  • federal tax assessor, 8:257n

Aborn, Henry, 2:399n

Aborn, Joseph

  • identified, 12:652–12:653n
  • poem about, by “Laban Stringfellow,” 12:650–12:652

Aboville, François Marie, chevalier (later comte) d’

  • and opossums, 7:210, 7:211n, 11:367–11:368, 11:370n

Abraham (Old Testament patriarch), 6:466, 7:220, 8:189, 16:165, 18:59, 18:59, 18:644, 18:644

Abraham, Charles Z.

  • and University of Virginia, 19:183, 19:187n, 19:188

Abraham H. Quincy & Son (Boston firm), 5:110n

Abrahams, A. D., 2:118

Abram (W. Young’s slave), 15:95

Abram (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1740)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:386, 12:303

Abram (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1794)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:387

Abrégé de l’Histoire Universelle, ancienne et moderne, a l’Usage de la Jeunesse (L. P. de Ségur), 12:534–12:535n, 19:505

Abregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (Vitruvius; ed. C. Perrault), 11:335, 11:352, 11:396, 11:456, 13:314n, 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 15:26

Abrégé du Système de la Nature, de Linné, Histoire des Mammaires (J. E. Gilibert), 7:626

An Abridgement of Ainsworth’s Dictionary (R. Ainsworth; ed. T. Morell), 8:660, 9:274, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639, 12:439

Un Abridgment des plusieurs cases et resolutions del Common Ley (H. Rolle), 3:546, 7:126

Abridgment of the Public Permanent Laws of Virginia (E. Randolph), 8:630

Abridgment of Universal History (La Croix), 8:629, 8:632n

An Abridgment of Waldo’s Rudiments of English Grammar (J. Waldo), 7:320, 7:320n

Absalom (Old Testament figure), 16:620

The Absentee (M. Edgeworth), 11:627, 11:628n

Abstracts of Calculations, to ascertain the Longitude of the Capitol, in the City of Washington (W. Lambert), 12:86, 13:314, 13:314n, 18:505

acacia (tree)

  • and Freemasonry, 17:239, 17:240n

Acacia farnesiana. See sweet acacia

Acacia nilotica. See gum arabic tree

Academician, 12:616, 12:617n

Académie des Beaux-Arts, 11:633, 11:634n

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 11:633, 11:634n

Académie des Sciences, 11:633, 11:634n

Académie des Sciences et Beaux-Arts des États-Unis, 3:472n

Académie Française, 3:xlvi, 6:405–6:406, 6:407n, 11:633, 11:634n

Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Bruxelles, 19:159

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

  • identified, 12:505n
  • journal of, 12:505n, 13:53, 13:250n
  • meeting minutes of, 14:186–14:187n
  • members of, 16:340
  • natural history museum of, 12:505
  • TJ elected to, 12:505, 13:52–13:53

Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, 19:346n

Acconci, Francesco

  • family of, 9:673

Acconci, Giovan Battista

  • witnesses will, 9:673

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and ’20 (E. James), 19:247, 19:248n

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi (Z. M. Pike), 3:309, 3:309n, 4:354n, 4:445, 4:457n, 6:374, 6:413, 7:31, 11:574, 11:574, 11:574n, 13:100, 13:101, 13:107, 13:227, 13:228n

An Account of some German Volcanos, and their productions (R. E. Raspe), 18:288, 18:289n

An Account of the American Antiquarian Society, 7:47, 7:47n

An Account of the Bilious remitting Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 (B. Rush), 10:130–10:131, 10:146n

An Account of the Experiment made … on board the Union Hospital Ship (J. C. Smyth), 10:136, 10:147n

Account of the Jeffersonite, a New Mineral Discovered at the Franklin Iron Works, near Sparta, N. J. by Lardner Vanuxem and Wm. H. Keating (W. H. Keating), 18:511, 18:558

An Account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston (D. S. E. Buchan and W. Minto), 5:416, 7:252, 7:253n, 7:255, 9:228–9:229, 9:229n

“Account of the Origin of the Yellow Fever which prevailed in the City of New-York in the Summer of 1798” (J. McKnight), 10:134, 10:147n

An Account of the People called Shakers (T. Brown), 7:555, 7:555n, 7:633, 8:469, 8:469n

Account of the Salmo Otsego, or the Otsego Basse (D. Clinton), 19:539, 19:539n, 19:567

Achard, Joseph. See Arganil, Juan Francisco (Joseph Achard)

Acherley, Roger

  • J. Adams on, 4:474

Achilles (mythological character), 7:477, 9:432, 14:154, 14:154

achilles tendon

  • cut, 2:438

acid, marine (hydrochloric, muriatic), 4:8, 4:8n, 18:95

Acord, John

  • and University of Virginia, 19:53

acoustics

  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:208, 13:214, 13:215n
  • study of, 7:638, 7:639, 7:686

An Act appropriating part of the revenue of the Literary Fund, and for other purposes (1818), 12:437n, 12:489n, 12:539, 12:540n, 12:611n, 12:620n, 13:li, 13:160, 13:163n, 13:179–13:180, 13:182, 13:189, 13:209–13:210, 13:223n, 13:339–13:340, 13:405n, 13:484, 13:511, 13:511n, 13:516n, 13:608n, 14:12, 14:13, 14:14, 14:72n, 16:637+, 17:618–17:619, 18:514

An Act appropriating the Public Revenue (1816), 12:468n

Acta Sanctorum (J. de Bolland and others), 7:220, 8:558–8:563, 8:656–8:657, 8:682, 9:431–9:432, 11:527

An Act authorising William Waller Hening to Publish an Edition of certain Laws of this Commonwealth, and for other purposes (1808), 8:349n, 16:212, 18:388, 18:389n

An Act authorizing a Regular Force for the Defence of the Commonwealth (1815), 8:165, 8:166n

An Act authorizing a subscription for the laws of the United States, and for the distribution thereof (1814), 8:152n

An act authorizing the Auditor to renew a lost certificate in favor of the Central College (1818), 17:643, 17:644n, 19:61, 19:61n

An Act authorizing the Visitors of the University of Virginia to borrow money for finishing the buildings thereof (1820), 15:415, 15:415–15:416n, 15:416n, 15:461, 15:462n, 15:602, 16:68n, 16:298–16:299

An Act authorizing William Wood of the County of Albemarle, to open and improve the navigation of the Rivannah River, and for other purposes (1814), 8:166, 8:184

An Act, concerning appeals and proceedings in Chancery (1816), 10:189, 10:190n

An Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls (1792), 4:212–4:213n

An Act concerning Election of Members of General Assembly (1787), 5:667–5:668, 5:668n

An Act concerning Executions, and for other purposes (1814), 8:46, 8:525, 8:527n

An Act concerning Grand Juries, Petit Juries, and Venire-men (1792), 10:498, 10:499n

An act concerning jailors, and for other purposes (1823), 19:688–19:689, 19:689, 19:690n

An act concerning John Nicholas (1820), 15:195n

An Act concerning John Nugent (1812), 14:404n

An Act concerning navigation (1818), 12:592n

An Act concerning the Bank of Virginia and Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (1814), 8:35, 8:36n

An Act concerning the clearing of the North Fork of James River (1794), 10:614, 10:614, 11:103, 11:103n, 11:103n, 11:106–11:107, 11:107, 11:108, 11:109n, 12:593, 14:407, 15:211, 15:215, 15:222n, 15:227, 15:228n

An Act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France (1810), 7:41, 7:44n, 10:290, 10:291–10:292n

An Act concerning the convention to regulate the commerce between the territories of the United States and his Britannic Majesty (1816), 9:551n

An Act concerning the navigation of the United States (1817), 11:122, 11:123n, 11:410

An Act concerning the Southern Boundary of this State (1791), 15:621, 15:622–15:623n

An act concerning the University of Virginia (1821) See also A Bill, Concerning the University of Virginia, 17:20, 17:21n, 17:41, 17:84, 17:85n, 17:88n, 17:292, 17:391, 17:397, 17:398n, 17:428n, 17:613, 17:614–17:615, 17:643, 17:645, 17:645n, 18:118–18:119, 18:119n, 18:199n, 18:208, 18:208n

An act concerning the University of Virginia, and for other purposes (1823) See also A Bill, Concerning the University of Virginia (1823), 19:174, 19:340n, 19:350, 19:351n, 19:519n, 19:604

An act concerning William Tatham (1819), 13:516–13:517n

An Act declaring who shall be deemed Citizens of this Commonwealth, and pointing out the mode by which the Right of Citizenship may be acquired or relinquished (1792), 11:146–11:147, 11:147n

An Act directing the publication and distribution of the Journals of the Conventions which assembled in Virginia in the years 1775 and 1776 (1816), 9:364n

An Act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof (1804), 2:521

An Act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States (1802), 17:439n

An Act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States (1815), 8:443, 8:444n

An Act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia; and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi Territory (1798), 2:521

An Act for arranging the Counties into Districts for the election of Senators, and for equalizing the Land Tax (1817), 11:133, 11:133n, 12:489, 12:489–12:490n

An Act for clearing the great Falls of James River, the River Chickahominy, and the north Branch of James River (1764), 11:106, 11:109n, 12:592, 12:601, 14:357, 14:407

An Act for establishing a College in the county of Albemarle (1816), 10:474, 11:257, 11:258n, 12:326, 14:79, 14:141–14:142, 14:143n

An Act for establishing an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of Foreign Affairs (1789), 16:433, 16:434n

An Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States (1790), 12:424

An Act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country (1791), 3:70, 3:73n, 3:123

An Act for improving the Navigation of Slate River (1794), 12:600, 14:403

An Act for laying a Duty on Goods, Wares, and Merchandises imported into the United States (1789), 13:378, 13:380n

An Act for locating the Publick Squares, to enlarge the Town of Richmond, and for other purposes (1780), 18:201n

An Act for opening, improving and extending the Navigation of the River Rappahannock, and all its improveable Branches (1811), 11:84–11:85n, 11:93n, 14:402, 14:403, 14:412

An Act for reducing into one, the several Acts concerning the Land-Office; ascertaining the Terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated Lands; for settling the Titles and Bounds of Lands; directing the mode of Processioning, and prescribing the Duty of Surveyors (1792), 11:105, 11:109n

Act for regulating Conveyances (1792), 7:535, 7:535n

An Act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States, according to the third enumeration (1811), 8:594, 8:596n

An Act for the assessment and collection of direct taxes and internal duties (1813), 6:397, 6:398n, 6:398, 6:398, 6:399n, 6:401, 6:401, 6:411, 7:45–7:46n, 8:126, 9:511

An Act for the better organization of the general staff of the Army of the United States (1813), 6:28n

An Act for the establishment of an University (1819), 11:315, 13:402, 13:473n, 13:590–13:591n, 14:4, 14:5, 14:6n, 14:13, 14:13, 14:14, 14:22, 14:29, 14:47, 14:48, 14:49, 14:71, 14:72, 14:74, 14:75, 14:80, 14:83, 14:90, 14:112, 14:176, 15:82, 15:132, 15:434–15:435, 15:435n, 15:603, 16:295, 16:298, 16:301, 16:301, 16:545n, 16:560–16:561, 17:614, 17:618–17:619, 17:619n, 18:192, 18:193n, 19:44n, 19:325n, 19:430

An Act for the more perfect organization of the Army of the United States (1812), 5:255, 5:257n

An Act for the relief of Oliver Evans (1808), 6:353, 6:354n, 6:379, 6:385, 6:455, 6:455, 6:455, 6:457n, 7:108, 7:109n, 7:171, 7:171, 7:173n, 13:128–13:129, 13:131

An act for the relief of James Leander Cathcart (1820), 17:456, 17:460n

An Act for the removal of the Seat of Government (1779), 18:192, 18:193n, 18:193n, 18:200

An Act further providing for the government of the territory of Orleans (1805), 2:521

An Act Imposing Taxes for the support of Government (1814), 8:169, 8:393–8:394n

An Act Incorporating a Company for improving the Navigation of Rivanna River (1811), 11:108, 11:109n, 14:402, 14:403, 14:412, 14:413

An act incorporating a company to erect a toll-bridge across James river, at the town of Cartersville (1819), 14:547, 14:548n

An Act Incorporating a Company to open and improve the Navigation of the Rivanna river, from Milton to Moore’s ford, opposite the town of Charlottesville, in the county of Albemarle (1806), 11:75, 11:78, 11:98n, 11:103–11:104, 11:106, 11:107–11:108, 11:108, 11:108, 11:109n, 11:554n, 12:593, 14:402, 14:403, 14:406, 14:407, 14:408, 14:412, 14:413, 15:211, 15:212, 15:215, 15:222n, 15:227, 15:228n

An Act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States (1813), 7:70n, 8:532–8:533, 8:533–8:534n

An Act making an appropriation to defray the expenses of missions to the independent nations of the American continent (1822), 19:336, 19:338n

An Act making appropriations for repairing or rebuilding the public buildings within the city of Washington (1815), 8:313, 8:314–8:315n, 8:591, 8:592, 8:596n

An Act making further provision for filling the ranks of the army of the United States (1814), 8:575n

An Act making provision for the claim of M. Poirey (1819), 14:108, 14:110–14:111, 14:198–14:199, 16:494

An Act making provision for the Debt of the United States (1790), 12:422

An Act more effectually to preserve the neutral relations of the United States (1817), 11:410, 11:412n

An Act more effectually to prevent the circulation of notes emitted by unchartered banks (1816), 9:286, 9:287n

Acton, Thomas Harman

  • Reports of Cases Argued and Determined, 3:514n

An Act providing for the distribution of the printed edition of the Journals of the Conventions of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six (1817), 9:364–9:365n

An act, reducing into one, the several acts, declaring what shall be treason; for punishing certain offences injurious to the tranquillity of the Commonwealth; concerning felonies and offences, committed out of the jurisdiction of the same; and taking from the Executive the power of granting pardon to traitors (1819), 14:457n

An Act, releasing the Commonwealth’s right to lands, in certain cases, and vesting in the Commonwealth, in certain cases, the title to the undisposed of residuum of personal estates (1813), 9:495, 9:498n

An Act respecting claims to land in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana (1807), 9:585–9:586n

Acts passed at a Congress of the United States of America, begun … in the Year 1789, 3:546

An Act to adjust and regulate the pay and accounts of the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental establishment; and also of the Officers, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the service of this State; and for other purposes (1781), 15:621, 15:622n

An Act to amend an Act, entitled, “An Act, concerning the Clearing of the North Fork of James River” (1805), 11:103n, 11:106, 11:107, 11:108, 11:109n, 12:593, 12:601–12:602, 14:402, 14:403, 14:407, 14:412, 14:413, 15:211, 15:214, 15:222n, 15:227, 15:228n

An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to reduce into one act the several acts, and parts of acts, for establishing a penitentiary-house, and for the punishment of crimes” (1821), 19:106n

An Act to amend and explain the Act, entitled ‘An act concerning Taxes on Lands’ (1814), 10:464, 10:465n

An Act to amend and explain the act concerning Public Roads (1802), 11:173n

An Act to amend and reduce into one Act the several Acts for opening and extending the Navigation of Appomatox River (1795), 12:600

An act to amend the act, entitled ‘an act for clearing and improving the navigation of James river,’ and for uniting the eastern and western waters, by the James and Kanawha rivers (1820), 15:400, 15:400–15:401n

An Act to amend the Act, entitled, “an Act incorporating a Company to open and improve the navigation of the Rivanna River from Milton to Moore’s Ford, opposite the town of Charlottesville, in the county of Albemarle, and for other purposes” (1814), 11:75, 11:78–11:79, 11:108, 11:108, 11:109n, 11:109n, 11:552, 11:554n, 11:557–11:558, 11:558n, 12:597, 12:599, 12:604, 14:402, 14:403, 14:406, 14:412, 14:413, 15:221, 15:222n

An act to amend the act, entitled, “an act to amend the act for clearing and improving the navigation of James River, and for uniting the Eastern and Western Waters, by the James and Kanawha Rivers” (1821), 16:625, 16:625–16:626n

An act to amend the act, entitled, ‘an act to reduce into one act, the several acts concerning the Literary Fund’ (1822), 18:248, 18:261, 18:262–18:263, 18:264, 18:265n, 18:285

Act to amend the Act, intituled an Act to amend the Act for the better government of Servants and Slaves (1769), 17:327–17:328, 17:376n

An Act to amend the act, intituled, ‘an act to establish an academy in the county of Albemarle, and for other purposes’ (1804), 8:93, 8:93n

An Act to amend the judicial system of the United States (1802), 3:127, 3:129n

An Act to amend the several acts imposing duties on imports (1824), 19:536n

An Act to authorize a loan for a sum not exceeding three millions of dollars (1814), 8:111n

An act to authorize a loan for a sum not exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars (1814), 8:194, 8:195n

An Act to authorize the Delegates of this State in Congress, to convey to the United States in Congress assembled, the right of this Commonwealth to the territory north westward of the river Ohio (1783), 19:492, 19:493n

An act to authorize the issuing of treasury notes for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen (1814), 8:302, 8:302n

An Act to authorize the President of the United States to accept the services of state troops and of volunteers (1815), 8:575n

An Act to authorize the purchase of the library of Thomas Jefferson (1815), 7:679–7:680, 8:214, 8:270, 8:279–8:280, 8:302n, 8:426

An Act To authorize the several Courts of Equity in this State to grant remedies … and for affording temporary relief to the Soldiers whilst in the service of this state or of the United States, and for other purposes (1814), 8:524–8:525, 8:527n

An Act to change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the delegates from territories (1816), 10:379, 10:380n, 11:410

An Act to confirm an act entitled, an act to incorporate certain Persons in every Christian church or congregation in this state (1810), 2:124–2:125, 2:125n

An Act to create a Fund for Internal Improvement (1816), 9:395, 9:396n, 10:563n

An Act to empower John James Dufour, and his associates, to purchase certain lands (1802), 12:21n

An Act to enable the people of the Territory of Orleans to form a constitution and state government (1811), 3:328, 3:328n

An Act to encourage Vaccination (1813), 18:566

An Act to establish an academy in the county of Albemarle, and for other purposes (1803), 8:92, 8:93, 8:183

An Act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject (1802), 9:259, 9:261n, 11:147, 11:147n

An Act to establish post roads (1810), 3:147–3:148

An Act to establish Public Schools (1796), 7:637, 7:641–7:642n, 8:92–8:93, 9:394, 9:396n

An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States (1789), 19:531, 19:532n

An Act to establish two new banks within this Commonwealth (1817), 10:659, 10:660n, 11:67

An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the general land office (1821), 18:8, 18:8n

An Act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels (1820), 16:221, 16:425, 16:426n

An Act to Incorporate the Union Canal Company, of Pennsylvania, 4:315–4:316

An Act to incorporate The American Geological Society (1819), 14:648, 15:460, 15:461n

An Act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States (1798), 6:443, 6:443n

An Act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States (1813), 6:398, 6:398–6:399n, 6:411, 9:511

An Act to limit the term of office of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes (1820), 16:407, 16:408n, 16:433, 16:446, 16:525

An Act to prevent obstructions in the navigable water courses within the Commonwealth (1816), 9:366, 9:395, 9:396n, 9:396n, 9:435, 9:469, 9:497, 11:83–11:84, 11:104–11:106, 11:108–11:109n, 14:413–14:414, 15:215–15:216, 15:222n

An Act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law (1807)

  • and batture controversy, 2:435–2:436, 2:441n, 2:450n, 2:455, 2:462, 2:516, 2:518, 2:520, 2:522, 2:528, 2:659n, 3:72, 3:176n

An Act to prevent the destruction of Sheep in this Commonwealth (1814), 4:349n

An Act to promote the progress of useful Arts (1793), 7:171–7:172, 7:173n, 7:510n, 10:534

An Act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the United States, and to provide for assessing and collecting the same (1815), 8:486n, 9:217, 9:218n

An Act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on household furniture, and on gold and silver watches (1815), 8:255, 8:256n, 8:486n

An Act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on various goods, wares, and merchandise, manufactured within the United States (1815), 9:217, 9:218n

An Act to provide a library room, and for transporting the library lately purchased (1815), 8:333, 8:333n, 8:445n

An Act to provide an accurate chart of each county and a general map of the territory of this Commonwealth (1816), 9:400–9:401, 9:401n, 9:440–9:441, 9:566, 9:567n, 9:590–9:591, 9:592n, 9:621–9:622, 9:623, 9:642–9:643, 9:680–9:681, 9:684–9:692, 10:55, 10:56n, 10:196, 10:196n, 10:293, 16:99, 16:99–16:100, 16:100

An Act to provide a Naval Armament (1794), 19:73, 19:74n

An Act to provide for furnishing the house of the President of the United States (1817), 12:466n

An Act To provide for the Public Instruction of Youth throughout this State, and to promote the important interests of Husbandry and Agriculture, 19:349, 19:349–19:350n, 19:372–19:373

An Act to provide for the removal of the library of Congress to the north wing of the Capitol (1818), 13:520, 13:521n

An Act to reduce into one, the several Acts concerning Mills, Mill-Dams, and other Obstructions of Water-Courses (1792), 15:211, 15:212–15:213, 15:222n, 15:227, 15:228n

An Act to reduce into one the several Acts directing the course of Descents (1792), 11:146–11:147, 11:147n

An Act to regulate the sales of Property under Execution (1820), 16:59, 16:59n

An Act to regulate the duties on certain wines (1819), 13:439n

An Act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage (1816), 17:291, 17:291n, 18:171, 18:173n

An act to require all annual reports to be made to the legislature on the first day of the session, and for other purposes (1823), 19:416n, 19:446, 19:446n, 19:455

An Act to secure to the Publick certain Lands heretofore held as a Common (1780), 11:105–11:106, 11:109n

An Act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands, for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive (1817), 10:636–10:637n, 12:19, 12:21n

An Act vesting in Joseph Miller the Commonwealth’s right to the real and personal estate of which Thomas Reed died seised and possessed (1816), 9:261n, 9:360, 9:365, 9:366, 9:394–9:395, 9:401, 9:439–9:440, 9:469, 9:487, 9:495, 9:523

Adair, James

  • The History of the American Indians, 5:122–5:124, 5:125n, 5:182
  • on Indians, 6:137, 6:138
  • TJ on, 5:122–5:124

Adair, John, 6:189, 6:190n, 18:226

Adam (Old Testament figure), 10:424, 10:505, 16:16, 18:56, 18:91, 18:629, 18:645

Adam, Alexander

  • Roman Antiquities, 7:662, 14:258, 16:5
  • Roman Antiquities (ed. P. Wilson), 17:218, 17:250, 17:250n

Adam, Lambert Sigisbert

  • Recueil de Sculptures antiques Greques et Romaines, 14:444

Adams, Abigail (John Adams’s granddaughter)

  • as J. Adams’s amanuensis, 6:627n
  • family of, 4:475

Adams, Abigail Smith (John Adams’s wife)

  • and E. Coles’s visit, 4:314n
  • and E. W. R. Coolidge, 10:583, 10:655
  • correspondence with J. Q. Adams, 10:583, 10:584n, 10:655
  • correspondence with T. B. Hollis, 6:228, 9:176n
  • correspondence with TJ, 3:305, 3:307, 3:356, 4:xlvi, 4:312, 4:313, 4:389, 6:437–6:438, 6:516–6:517, 6:548, 6:551, 17:353
  • and daughter’s death, 6:388, 6:516–6:517
  • death of, 13:49n, 13:392, 13:392n, 13:469, 13:479, 14:277
  • desires to see TJ, 10:583, 10:656
  • family of, 5:24n, 6:438, 6:438
  • friendship with F. A. Van der Kemp, 13:479, 13:482n
  • health of, 6:437, 7:26, 9:596, 9:596n, 10:583, 10:656, 13:324
  • house of, 6:xlv, 6:386 (illus.)
  • as housekeeper, 19:206
  • identified, 6:298n
  • letters from, 6:516–6:517, 10:583–10:584, 11:294
  • and letters of introduction for T. Lyman, 11:294, 11:357
  • letters to, 6:437–6:438, 10:655–10:657, 11:357
  • reading habits of, 7:217
  • relationship with J. Adams, 13:70
  • sends greetings to TJ, 4:475, 5:13, 6:297, 6:466, 8:552, 8:553, 9:434n
  • TJ introduces W. C. Rives to, 7:369
  • TJ sends greetings to, 4:628, 6:437, 7:455, 8:523, 8:658, 9:347, 9:434, 9:434n, 9:649, 9:652, 10:461, 10:553, 11:313, 12:10, 13:49, 13:309
  • TJ’s friendship with, 10:285, 10:583
  • and TJ’s syllabus on Jesus’s doctrines, 6:440, 11:138, 11:139n, 11:231, 11:232n

Adams, George

  • Astronomical and Geographical Essays … and also An Introduction to Practical Astronomy, 8:670, 8:685, 8:686
  • An Essay on Electricity … with corrections and additions, by William Jones, 8:685
  • Geometrical and Graphical Essays, 1:581, 8:670, 8:685
  • Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 1:581, 14:375, 14:378n, 19:505

Adams, George Washington (John Adams’s grandson)

  • correspondence with J. Adams, 19:366–19:367n
  • education of, 6:279, 6:438, 6:438n

Adams, Jacob

  • Baltimore merchant, 15:8n

Adams, John

  • on Acta Sanctorum (J. de Bolland and others), 8:558–8:563, 8:682, 11:527
  • and J. Q. Adams’s presidential prospects, 19:105, 19:105n, 19:330
  • on J. Q. Adams’s public image, 19:366–19:367n
  • and J. Q. Adams’s “Publicola” essays, 19:330
  • J. Q. Adams to inherit papers of, 19:428, 19:530
  • and addresses of Continental Congress, 6:440, 6:612, 6:612–6:613, 8:625–8:626
  • on aging, 14:311, 14:311n, 16:590, 18:454, 19:320, 19:322n
  • and Alien and Sedition Acts, 6:191, 6:192n
  • and American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres, 15:421, 15:423n, 15:423n, 16:532
  • and American Society for promoting the civilization and general improvement of the Indian Tribes within the United States, 18:237n
  • and American Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures, 11:442n
  • and antislavery movement, 14:379n
  • on aristocracy, 6:278–6:279, 6:286–6:288, 6:387, 6:388n, 6:466, 6:466–6:467, 6:504, 6:563, 6:621–6:623, 6:624, 6:624–6:625, 6:626, 7:64–7:67, 7:477, 7:479, 8:683
  • on art, 10:589
  • on atheistic philosophers, 9:527–9:529, 9:650, 10:306
  • and attacks on TJ, 18:454
  • on banks, 3:357, 6:626, 10:360, 10:360, 10:360, 13:615
  • and T. Belsham’s Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, 6:145, 6:146, 6:146, 6:180, 6:192, 6:193, 6:226, 6:227, 6:228, 6:277–6:278, 6:367
  • biographical materials requested from, 14:42n
  • on books, 11:46, 11:163n
  • and C. G. G. Botta’s History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America (trans. G. A. Otis), 16:441, 16:442n, 16:472–16:473
  • on N. Bowditch’s astronomical writings, 14:45
  • on British constitution, 12:425
  • and broadside from B. Rush, 4:17n
  • on A. Burr, 5:4, 5:13, 6:192, 6:623
  • bust of A. Jackson sent to, 15:363n
  • busts of, 13:49, 13:49n, 13:69, 13:70n, 13:578
  • and J. Calvin, 19:438–19:439, 19:524–19:527
  • on L. Carnot, 8:553
  • and Central College, 12:8–12:9
  • on J. Chandler, 6:284–6:285, 6:625
  • on Christianity, 10:361, 10:507, 13:69, 15:298
  • circular sent to, 11:595, 11:595n, 17:301, 17:301n
  • and T. Clark’s naval history, 6:146
  • and Cleanthes, 6:520, 6:520–6:521, 6:521–6:522, 6:540–6:541, 6:542
  • on coining of new words, 4:534n
  • and E. Coles’s visit, 4:312–4:313, 4:314n, 4:389
  • A Collection of State-Papers, 11:49n, 11:201
  • and Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 11:144n
  • compared to Nestor, 9:374, 9:375n
  • on Condorcet, 5:184, 5:595, 6:287, 7:23–7:24, 7:477, 7:481n, 8:551, 8:552, 10:7, 11:45, 11:527, 11:527n
  • congressional journals of, 3:39
  • on conquerors, 19:439
  • on T. Cooper, 6:318, 6:318, 6:318
  • and copper mines, 12:454n
  • on correspondence, 11:46
  • correspondence of, 17:460n, 17:488n, 18:545, 18:546, 19:331, 19:332n
  • correspondence of published, 6:233, 6:234n, 6:283–6:284, 13:575, 13:576n, 14:450n, 18:502, 19:277, 19:278n, 19:281, 19:281n, 19:320, 19:322n, 19:342, 19:343n, 19:358, 19:643, 19:644n
  • correspondence with G. W. Adams, 19:366–19:367n
  • correspondence with R. H. Lee and T. L. Lee, 8:642
  • and correspondence with TJ, 5:670, 6:437, 8:152, 8:550, 8:683, 9:627, 10:359, 16:94, 17:278, 17:300, 18:454, 19:233, 19:322, 19:646
  • criticized by W. Morgan, 9:175
  • criticized by J. Randolph, 5:4
  • criticized by D. Sheffey, 5:4
  • criticizes An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (J. Taylor), 10:211–10:212, 10:212n
  • critics of, 6:255, 6:255
  • on currency depreciation, 14:61
  • on daughter’s death, 6:387–6:388
  • on death and dying, 10:5–10:7, 10:306, 10:306–10:307, 12:81, 13:70, 13:324, 13:471–13:472, 17:439, 17:439n, 18:454
  • and death of A. S. Adams, 13:392
  • on deaths of Revolutionary colleagues, 8:135, 8:148, 17:506
  • and Declaration of Independence, 5:643, 11:202–11:203, 11:252, 14:290–14:291, 18:274
  • and The Declaration of Independence (J. Trumbull), 12:283, 12:283–12:284n, 13:472, 13:472n
  • Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 5:185n, 6:238–6:239, 6:278, 6:287, 6:288, 6:296, 6:388n, 6:504, 6:564, 12:426, 19:328n, 19:330, 19:331
  • and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 9:405, 9:460–9:461, 10:38, 10:39n, 11:203
  • depicted in T. Gimbrede engraving, 4:540 (illus.)
  • on destruction of historical records, 6:278, 6:542, 6:616, 6:618
  • and Destutt de Tracy’s writings, 10:586–10:587, 11:45, 13:529, 13:589, 14:60–14:61, 14:82–14:83, 14:155, 14:190, 14:190, 14:224, 14:224, 14:298, 15:280n
  • and Dickinson Library Company, 19:327, 19:328n
  • diplomatic expenses of paid, 2:46n
  • diplomatic service of, 10:115, 10:116, 10:117n, 13:466–13:467, 17:329, 17:337, 17:337, 17:338, 17:339, 17:352, 17:353–17:354, 17:377n
  • Discourses on Davila, 6:287, 6:288, 6:296, 12:426, 19:330, 19:331
  • “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” 11:48, 11:49n, 11:201
  • on the divine right of kings, 8:552
  • on domestic manufacturing, 4:473–4:474, 4:483
  • on druids, 5:70
  • W. Duane on, 5:353
  • and education, 7:480–7:481, 8:550–8:551, 9:529, 18:480n
  • and effects of war on economy, 19:622, 19:624–19:625n
  • on the eighteenth century, 9:174–9:175, 9:432–9:433, 9:527–9:529
  • and election of 1800, 6:192, 6:625, 19:580–19:581, 19:602
  • on elections, 6:625
  • and European affairs, 17:191–17:192, 17:489, 17:506, 19:439
  • on European intellectual conflicts, 9:431–9:434
  • family of, 6:146, 6:300, 6:438, 6:438, 11:46, 12:81, 12:89, 13:324
  • and Federalist party, 19:329, 19:530
  • on France, 8:682, 8:684, 9:432, 9:434, 12:81–12:82
  • and B. Franklin, 6:284, 6:285n, 6:287, 6:622, 8:23, 12:426, 16:590
  • D. Fraser’s biographical sketch of, 15:122n, 15:368n, 16:324
  • on French Revolution, 6:286, 6:297, 6:505, 7:479, 10:508
  • friendship with schoolmates, 11:217, 11:218n
  • friendship with TJ, 1:185–1:186n, 8:209, 13:309, 13:469, 16:225, 18:546
  • friendship with F. A. Van der Kemp, 10:120–10:121, 10:241, 10:242n, 10:285, 10:305, 10:305, 10:305, 10:307n, 10:382, 10:382n, 10:503n, 11:48, 11:230, 11:231, 11:232n, 12:334, 13:41n, 13:479, 14:277, 16:54–16:55, 16:94, 16:225–16:226, 17:37, 17:38n, 18:32, 19:620, 19:620, 19:620, 19:621n
  • friendship with B. Waterhouse, 6:38–6:39, 6:99, 6:100–6:101n, 9:5, 12:496, 19:362, 19:363n
  • on Genghis Khan, 5:184, 5:185n, 5:584–5:585, 5:585n, 7:477, 19:439
  • on God, 5:183, 13:471–13:472, 15:338, 19:439
  • on governmental systems, 6:296, 8:552, 10:86, 12:82, 16:590, 16:590
  • on Great Britain, 7:477, 9:432, 10:508, 10:587–10:588, 12:82
  • and Greece, 17:489, 17:505–17:506
  • Greek handwriting of, 6:xlv, 6:386 (illus.)
  • and Greek pronunciation, 14:153–14:155, 14:190, 14:536
  • on grief, 10:12–10:13, 10:359–10:361, 10:458
  • and A. Hamilton, 2:176, 2:177n, 6:254, 6:284, 19:73, 19:366, 19:367n
  • health of, 4:475, 6:183, 6:501, 6:522, 7:220, 7:451, 9:596, 9:596n, 12:496, 12:518, 13:48, 13:472, 13:480, 13:529, 14:190, 14:311, 15:235, 15:271, 16:54, 16:225, 16:562, 17:37, 17:402, 17:431, 18:32, 18:423, 18:453, 18:454, 18:501, 18:502, 18:546, 19:205–19:206, 19:206n, 19:362
  • on P. Henry, 6:612, 6:612
  • and J. Henry’s mission, 4:627–4:628
  • on E. Hersey, 6:501–6:502, 6:503, 6:504
  • on historians of the American Revolution, 6:258, 8:625–8:626, 8:682–8:683
  • The History of the Administration of John Adams (J. Wood), 19:332n
  • house of, 6:xlv, 6:386 (illus.), 16:94
  • on human progress, 6:238–6:239, 6:296–6:297, 6:297, 7:23–7:26, 7:476–7:477, 8:551, 8:552–8:553, 8:683–8:684, 11:45
  • on D. Hume’s History of England, 10:588–10:589
  • identified, 4:390–4:391n
  • on Indians, 4:475–4:476, 5:70, 5:182–5:184, 5:184–5:185, 5:389–5:390, 5:584–5:585, 5:595, 6:183
  • introduces E. Everett, 8:49, 8:49, 8:148
  • introduces J. Freeman, 10:359
  • introduces F. C. Gray, 8:135, 8:148, 8:232
  • introduces F. W. P. Greenwood, 14:310, 14:523
  • introduces H. Holley, 12:404–12:405, 13:48, 13:69
  • introduces G. Ticknor, 8:148, 8:193, 8:232, 8:260, 8:267
  • on Jesuits, 10:14, 10:306, 10:508, 10:587, 11:269
  • and Juvenile Library Company of Richmond, 19:560, 19:561n
  • W. Kerr, Earl of Ancram, introduced to, 15:410, 15:410–15:411n
  • on Ky., 12:404–12:405
  • on Lafayette, 6:287
  • Latin verse provided by, 9:264–9:266, 9:266–9:267n, 9:374
  • on J. de Lespinasse, 14:30–14:31
  • letter from to T. McKean, 8:626n
  • letter from, to J. Morse, 9:256, 9:257n
  • letter returned to, 7:150
  • letters from, 4:390–4:391, 4:473–4:476, 4:483–4:485, 5:3–5:4, 5:11–5:14, 5:70–5:71, 5:182–5:186, 5:386–5:390, 5:583–5:585, 5:595–5:596, 6:145–6:147, 6:180–6:181, 6:183–6:184, 6:191–6:193, 6:226–6:229, 6:236–6:239, 6:253–6:256, 6:258–6:259, 6:277–6:280, 6:283–6:285, 6:286–6:288, 6:296–6:298, 6:298–6:300, 6:301–6:303, 6:317–6:319, 6:367–6:368, 6:386–6:388, 6:465–6:467, 6:499–6:502, 6:503–6:505, 6:520–6:522, 6:540–6:543, 6:612–6:614, 6:616–6:619, 6:621–6:627, 7:23–7:27, 7:64–7:68, 7:73–7:78, 7:216–7:221, 7:476–7:482, 8:49–8:50, 8:135, 8:148–8:149, 8:550–8:551, 8:552–8:554, 8:558–8:563, 8:625–8:626, 8:682–8:684, 9:174–9:176, 9:431–9:434, 9:526–9:529, 10:5–10:8, 10:12–10:15, 10:305–10:307, 10:359–10:361, 10:424–10:425, 10:507–10:509, 10:573, 10:586–10:590, 11:45–11:47, 11:267–11:270, 11:362–11:364, 11:382–11:385, 11:527, 12:81–12:83, 12:404–12:405, 13:69–13:71, 13:138–13:139, 13:324–13:325, 13:471–13:472, 13:529, 13:615, 14:30–14:31, 14:45, 14:60–14:61, 14:82–14:83, 14:190–14:191, 14:310–14:311, 14:339–14:340, 14:447–14:448, 14:545–14:546, 14:563, 15:235–15:236, 15:298–15:299, 15:337–15:338, 15:410–15:411, 15:587–15:589, 16:589–16:591, 17:191–17:192, 17:438–17:439, 17:505–17:506, 18:453–18:455, 18:545–18:546, 19:73–19:74, 19:205–19:206, 19:366–19:367, 19:438–19:440
  • and letters of J. Q. Adams, 10:583
  • and letters of introduction for T. Lyman, 11:46, 11:294, 11:294n, 11:355, 11:356, 11:357, 11:360, 11:362–11:363
  • letters to, 4:428–4:430, 4:435, 4:626–4:628, 5:122–5:125, 5:508–5:513, 6:137–6:139, 6:193–6:195, 6:231–6:235, 6:438–6:441, 6:548–6:552, 6:562–6:568, 7:146–7:151, 7:368–7:369, 7:451–7:455, 8:522–8:523, 8:656–8:659, 9:345–9:347, 9:649–9:652, 10:284–10:286, 10:458–10:461, 10:549–10:553, 10:657–10:658, 11:311–11:313, 12:8–12:10, 13:48–13:49, 13:309, 13:392, 13:588–13:589, 14:153–14:156, 14:298, 14:523–14:525, 15:180–15:181, 15:271–15:273, 15:469–15:470, 16:193–16:197, 16:562–16:564, 17:489–17:491, 18:423–18:425, 18:501–18:502, 19:124–19:126, 19:410–19:412, 19:524–19:528
  • letter to, from E. W. R. Coolidge, 19:231–19:232
  • letter to, from G. W. Jeffreys, 11:130n
  • on libel, 19:366, 19:366–19:367n, 19:410–19:411
  • on liberty and necessity, 14:60
  • library of, 8:49
  • on E. Livingston, 5:3
  • and J. Lomax, 6:440, 6:441n
  • on J. Madison’s administration, 5:3–5:4
  • and S. Malcom’s appointment, 5:42, 5:42–5:43, 5:70, 5:95, 5:122
  • on M. Manilius, 5:184, 8:683–8:684
  • and Mass. constitutional convention, 16:549, 16:550n, 16:562–16:563, 16:590, 17:192, 17:192n
  • and Mecklenburg Co., N.C., “Declaration of Independence,” 14:447–14:448, 14:523–14:525, 14:545–14:546, 14:563
  • meeting with R. Howe, 8:20, 8:20n
  • as member of Continental Congress, 13:619, 14:447, 14:524, 16:472–16:473, 17:317, 17:438, 17:439n
  • and memoir on D. Rittenhouse, 5:372n, 7:216–7:217
  • mentioned, 2:604, 3:381n, 5:127n, 5:165n, 5:525, 6:38, 6:89n, 7:471, 8:183, 8:391, 9:250n, 10:258, 12:427, 12:497
  • and midnight appointments, 3:306–3:307, 19:664
  • on military glory, 8:683
  • and miniature portrait of G. Washington, 19:419n
  • as minister to Great Britain, 5:504, 13:331, 15:446
  • and Missouri question, 15:235, 15:298, 15:410, 16:563
  • and J. Monroe, 12:496, 13:239, 13:240n
  • on Montesquieu, 5:184, 5:185–5:186n, 11:527, 11:527n
  • on P. Morton, 5:583
  • on Napoleon, 5:13, 7:477–7:478, 8:551, 8:552, 8:683, 8:683–8:684, 10:508, 11:383, 13:69, 17:506, 19:439
  • and naval school, 17:438–17:439, 17:490
  • nepotism practiced by, 2:183, 2:184n
  • on the Netherlands, 13:615, 13:615n
  • on Nile River, 19:439
  • and offer to publish correspondence with TJ, 8:623, 8:658, 8:659n, 8:683
  • opinion of sought, 9:680, 9:681–9:682n, 13:575, 13:576n, 14:29n
  • opinion on batture case, 5:3
  • and origin of American Revolution, 12:494–12:495, 12:496, 12:496–12:497, 12:530–12:531, 12:531n, 13:48, 13:69, 17:490, 17:506
  • on T. Paine, 5:184, 6:297, 14:447–14:448
  • on Peter the Hermit, 5:12, 5:13n
  • on the philosophes, 8:552, 8:562
  • and philosophy, 15:337–15:338, 15:410, 15:469–15:470, 15:587–15:589
  • physical habits of, 14:158n
  • on physical pain, 10:306, 10:359, 19:438–19:439
  • on Plato, 5:183, 5:184, 6:503, 6:504, 6:505, 7:74–7:75, 7:75, 7:75, 7:76–7:77, 7:478–7:480, 10:360, 12:82
  • political creed of, 9:174
  • political influence of, 17:212
  • political rivalry with TJ, 18:572n, 18:572n
  • and political terminology, 14:146n
  • portraits of, 4:xlvi, 4:370 (illus.), 10:38, 10:39n, 10:39n, 10:398, 11:203, 11:252, 13:331
  • possible autobiography of, 19:530, 19:532n
  • praised, 13:482, 19:231–19:232
  • presidency of, 2:273–2:274n, 2:385, 5:24n, 5:445–5:446n, 7:530, 7:576, 8:600n, 11:46, 11:267–11:268, 11:269, 11:570n, 12:466, 17:213, 18:33, 19:282
  • and presidential addresses, 6:180, 6:180–6:181, 6:195n, 6:237–6:238, 6:253–6:254
  • presidential election of, 11:412
  • on J. Priestley, 6:145–6:146, 6:146, 6:236–6:237, 6:302, 6:318, 6:318, 6:319, 7:25, 7:26, 8:551, 8:552
  • and J. Priestley’s writings, 6:302, 6:317–6:318, 6:318, 6:367–6:368, 6:439, 6:441, 6:471, 6:499, 6:499–6:500, 6:510, 6:520, 7:74–7:77, 7:218–7:220, 7:220, 7:221, 7:221n, 8:682
  • print of, 2:127
  • on progress toward republicanism, 17:191–17:192
  • on prophecy, 4:483–4:485, 4:626–4:628
  • proposed biography of, 13:496n, 19:427
  • and proposed biography of S. Adams, 14:298, 14:339–14:340
  • on Psalms of David, 6:616, 6:616
  • on publication of correspondence, 6:226–6:227, 6:228, 6:258, 6:259, 9:175–9:176, 9:176n, 9:433
  • and publication of TJ’s letters, 18:453, 18:501, 18:502, 18:545, 19:390, 19:390n, 19:463
  • and Quakers, 6:284, 8:552
  • reading habits of, 3:356, 3:357n, 6:277, 6:302–6:303, 10:424, 10:459, 10:507, 10:508, 10:509, 10:573, 10:589, 10:657, 11:268, 13:69, 13:69, 15:337, 18:454
  • reflects on his life, 9:526–9:527, 9:649–9:650, 11:267–11:269, 13:138
  • relationship with T. Pickering, 11:267–11:268, 11:312, 18:218, 19:530
  • on religion, 6:145, 6:145–6:146, 6:227–6:228, 6:228, 6:236–6:237, 6:238, 6:277–6:278, 6:278, 6:297, 6:298, 6:298–6:299, 6:300, 6:301–6:303, 6:368, 6:499–6:502, 6:503–6:504, 6:522, 6:541, 6:541, 6:542, 6:550, 6:616–6:618, 6:623, 6:624, 7:23–7:26, 7:73–7:77, 7:217–7:220, 7:476–7:477, 8:551, 8:552, 8:558–8:563, 8:682, 9:256, 9:431–9:432, 9:433, 9:527–9:529, 9:649–9:652, 10:7, 10:361, 10:424–10:425, 10:508, 10:573, 10:587, 10:658, 11:45, 11:268–11:269, 11:312, 11:363, 11:382–11:383, 12:405, 14:31, 15:298, 16:589–16:590, 17:505, 18:454, 18:532
  • on republicanism, 19:331, 19:332n
  • resumes correspondence with TJ, 4:xlv, 4:312–4:314, 4:338–4:339, 4:340n, 4:389, 4:431, 4:473, 4:486, 4:533–4:534, 4:642, 4:673, 6:160, 10:211–10:212
  • on retirement, 1:513, 6:192, 18:545–18:546
  • review of J. Hillhouse’s pamphlet, 5:12–5:13, 5:13–5:14n
  • revolutionary leader, 17:315, 17:375n
  • on Revolutionary generation, 4:475, 8:682–8:683
  • on R.I., 6:625
  • on riots and insurrections, 6:254, 8:551
  • W. C. Rives proposes to visit, 7:451, 7:476
  • and B. Rush, 3:278, 3:279, 3:304–3:308, 6:15, 6:16n, 6:95, 6:146, 6:183, 6:298
  • on Russia, 4:474
  • on sale of TJ’s library to Congress, 8:49
  • on sedition in northern states, 6:259
  • A Selection of the Patriotic Addresses, to the President of the United States. together with The President’s Answers (ed. W. Austin), 12:514, 13:33, 13:47, 19:331, 19:332n
  • sends works of J. Q. Adams, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483
  • sends works to TJ, 11:527, 11:527n, 13:138, 13:529, 13:588, 14:31, 14:45, 14:153, 14:447, 14:563, 15:55
  • W. Short forwards pamphlet to, 3:198, 3:274
  • signer of Declaration of Independence, 16:252n, 19:146
  • on slavery, 16:590
  • and M. B. Smith’s description of visit to Monticello, 19:366, 19:366–19:367n, 19:410–19:411
  • and J. Smith’s proposed National Vaccine Institution, 12:565n
  • and South America, 12:405, 16:563–16:564
  • and speeches of the American Revolution, 10:602, 10:602n, 10:646–10:647, 16:441, 16:472–16:473
  • on state of politics, 13:529, 15:235
  • D. Stewart introduced to, 15:410, 15:410–15:411n
  • and subscriptions, 17:509n
  • and surviving signers of Declaration of Independence, 6:137, 6:183, 17:439, 18:12, 18:14n
  • on J. Taylor of Caroline, 6:567, 6:613, 7:217, 7:217, 7:221n, 7:221n, 7:478–7:479, 7:481n
  • and Ten Commandments, 6:616–6:618, 10:508
  • on Theognis’s writings, 6:279, 6:386–6:387, 6:465–6:466, 6:623
  • TJ introduces W. C. Rives to, 7:368–7:369, 8:148, 8:149n
  • TJ on, 3:304–3:308, 4:312, 4:313, 5:670, 6:194–6:195, 8:358, 10:86, 10:609, 12:426, 12:518, 13:27, 13:28, 14:293
  • TJ reads letter of, 8:423
  • on TJ’s administration, 5:3–5:4, 6:258–6:259
  • on TJ’s appeal to younger generation, 11:46
  • and TJ’s batture pamphlet, 4:624, 4:626, 5:11–5:12
  • TJ sends works to, 10:459, 12:9, 13:529
  • and TJ’s health, 13:442, 13:442n, 13:529, 14:190, 15:180, 15:235, 19:205, 19:206, 19:231, 19:366, 19:411, 19:438
  • and TJ’s syllabus on Jesus’s doctrines, 6:440, 6:499–6:500, 6:520, 6:548, 6:616, 6:618, 9:595, 9:596n, 9:703, 11:139n, 15:538, 15:541n
  • toasts honoring, 17:289
  • on Turgot, 5:185n, 6:287, 6:287, 6:288n
  • on ubiquity of conflict, 18:454
  • and uninhabited islands, 8:175, 8:176n, 8:229
  • on Union, 4:474–4:475, 10:588
  • and University of Virginia, 14:525
  • on U.S. Constitution, 6:567
  • and U.S. Military Academy, 17:438, 17:439n
  • and U.S. Navy, 6:138, 6:183, 6:184, 6:192, 19:73–19:74, 19:124–19:125, 19:126n
  • on U.S. Senate, 6:624
  • F. A. Van der Kemp’s life sketched by, 10:305–10:306
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503
  • as vice president, 3:305, 12:425, 17:352–17:353, 17:377n
  • on virtue and political liberty, 15:271, 15:298–15:299
  • voyage to France (1778), 4:474, 4:476n
  • on G. Washington, 5:3, 6:254, 6:284
  • on S. A. Wells, 14:339–14:340
  • in D. Williams’s work, 15:338n
  • on wisdom of ancestors, 6:180, 6:180, 6:181, 6:194, 6:195n, 6:237, 6:237–6:239
  • works sent to, 10:573, 10:657, 10:658, 11:31, 11:363, 11:364, 11:382, 11:384n, 13:72n, 13:520, 13:564n, 13:589, 14:391n, 14:459n, 14:582n, 15:280n, 15:402n, 15:409n, 15:460n, 15:496n, 16:43n, 16:256n, 16:414n, 16:435n, 16:442n, 16:532n, 16:549n, 16:616n, 17:141n, 17:182n, 17:188n, 17:449n, 17:594n, 18:66n, 18:76n, 18:126n, 18:223n, 18:237n, 18:287n, 18:464n, 18:490n, 18:572n, 18:629n, 19:350n, 19:403n, 19:461n, 19:631n
  • on writing, 13:69
  • writings of, 16:94
  • and Wyandot Indians, 14:297n

Adams, John (of Richmond)

  • as character reference, 13:419, 13:419
  • recommends carpenters, 14:652

Adams, John Quincy

  • and accusations against L. Harris, 1:379n, 16:31–16:32, 16:32n, 16:63, 18:9
  • administration of, 11:xlvi
  • and American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres, 15:421, 15:422, 15:423n, 15:423n, 16:531
  • and American Journal of Science, 12:627n
  • American Principles, 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435n
  • as Amsterdam resident, 12:22
  • An Answer to Pain’s Rights of Man, 19:330, 19:332n
  • and appointments, 12:22, 12:34, 12:47, 12:93–12:94, 12:151, 12:226, 12:276–12:277, 12:473, 12:473, 12:473, 13:125, 14:150, 14:239, 14:625, 16:51–16:52, 16:157n, 19:128, 19:129, 19:130n, 19:313, 19:314n
  • books for, 17:42
  • and P. Cardelli, 14:246, 14:279, 14:315–14:316, 14:523n, 15:28, 15:28n
  • and charges against B. Waterhouse, 1:296
  • circulars and speeches sent to, 14:112n
  • correspondence of, 19:614n
  • correspondence with A. S. Adams, 10:583, 10:584n, 10:655
  • correspondence with A. A. Smith, 19:206n
  • on D. D. de Pradt, 12:89–12:90, 12:154
  • and Destutt de Tracy’s family, 10:583, 10:584n
  • and J. Dougherty, 14:543–14:544
  • The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi, 19:69, 19:70n, 19:88, 19:138, 19:138n
  • J. W. Eppes on, 6:313
  • family of, 19:366–19:367n
  • and Federalist party, 18:307, 19:563
  • and fire at Monticello, 14:246, 14:279
  • on France, 9:256–9:257, 12:89–12:90
  • in France with J. Adams, 15:411n
  • and Franklin Gazette, 12:310n
  • friendship with B. Waterhouse, 19:362, 19:363n
  • and J. Henry’s mission, 4:627–4:628
  • identified, 12:91–12:92n
  • to inherit papers of J. Adams, 19:428, 19:530
  • Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483, 12:576
  • letter from, to P. de Polética, 18:67, 18:67–18:68
  • letters from, 12:89–12:92, 12:226, 14:246, 14:315–14:316, 16:22, 18:524, 19:69–19:70, 19:135
  • letters to, 12:154–12:157, 12:276–12:277, 14:279, 16:45, 17:182, 18:624, 19:88, 19:128–19:129
  • letters to sons on religion, 6:300
  • A Letter to Harrison G. Otis, Esquire, 4:435n
  • on H. Meigs’s colonization proposal, 15:512n
  • mentioned, 3:205n, 3:333n, 6:287, 7:480, 8:209, 8:371, 10:508–10:509, 10:550, 11:452, 12:57
  • as minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain, 8:590n, 10:283n, 11:138, 11:139n, 12:81
  • minister plenipotentiary to Russia, 1:38, 1:328, 1:328n, 1:360, 1:537, 3:115, 3:116n, 6:175, 7:434, 8:135, 8:378
  • negotiates convention with Great Britain, 8:588, 8:589n, 8:598, 8:654, 8:655n, 9:45–9:46, 9:46n
  • nominated as Supreme Court justice, 3:246
  • as peace negotiator, 6:105n, 6:175, 6:313, 7:201, 7:202n, 7:433, 7:434, 7:473–7:474, 8:569, 9:485, 19:70n, 19:88, 19:138, 19:138n
  • and P. S. Physick’s prescription for TJ, 14:242
  • and political terminology, 14:146n
  • portraits of, 13:540
  • presidential prospects of, 7:560, 17:212, 17:212, 17:213, 17:213, 17:214–17:215, 17:216, 17:216n, 18:306, 18:369, 18:460, 18:460, 18:460, 19:70n, 19:101–19:102, 19:102n, 19:104, 19:105, 19:105n, 19:105n, 19:112–19:113, 19:114n, 19:329–19:331, 19:334, 19:362, 19:535, 19:563, 19:580–19:581, 19:589–19:590, 19:623–19:624, 19:625n
  • professor at Harvard, 4:473
  • “Publicola” essays by, 19:330–19:331, 19:331, 19:331–19:332n, 19:332n
  • recommends T. Munroe (ca. 1798–1834), 18:66, 18:67, 18:103
  • as reference, 16:426
  • relationship with J. Adams, 13:69
  • Report to Congress on James Leander Cathcart, 17:464–17:465
  • Report upon Weights and Measures, 17:182, 17:182n
  • and Republican party, 19:530, 19:537
  • rumored as secretary of state, 1:118
  • as secretary of state, 11:145–11:146, 11:512, 11:513, 11:532, 11:533, 12:10, 12:81, 12:149, 12:156, 12:320, 12:373, 12:373–12:374, 12:459–12:460n, 12:460n, 13:liii, 13:119, 13:119n, 13:155, 13:155n, 13:236n, 13:246, 13:280, 13:282n, 13:445, 13:445, 13:504, 13:587, 13:587, 13:587–13:588n, 13:588n, 13:588n, 13:609, 13:610–13:612, 13:612n, 14:558, 15:liii, 15:253–15:254, 15:254, 15:569n, 15:599, 16:411–16:412, 16:412n, 17:142, 17:143n, 17:199n, 17:464–17:465, 18:100n, 18:547, 19:135, 19:194n, 19:313, 19:314n, 19:338, 19:589, 19:623–19:624
  • sends goods to TJ, 17:295
  • sends works to University of Virginia and TJ, 16:22, 16:45, 18:524, 18:624, 19:135
  • and subscriptions, 13:22n, 17:509n
  • TJ forwards letters through, 8:589, 10:283n
  • TJ on, 10:609, 10:655, 12:10
  • TJ requests state papers from, 14:279
  • and TJ’s health, 19:233
  • and weights and measures, 12:90–12:91, 12:92n, 12:154–12:156
  • works sent to, 12:147n, 13:31n, 14:572n, 16:43n, 16:442n, 17:594n, 18:153n, 18:237n, 19:139n

Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson (John Quincy Adams’s wife)

  • popularity of, 18:37

Adams, Richard (1726–1800)

  • as Richmond Common Council member, 12:243

Adams, Richard (1760–1817)

  • and Richmond property dispute, 12:243–12:244

Adams, Samuel (1722–1803)

  • and American invasion of Canada, 14:227, 14:293
  • and Articles of Confederation, 14:227
  • correspondence with J. Adams, 19:331, 19:332n
  • death of, 10:360
  • and Declaration of Independence, 13:332, 14:226, 14:227
  • and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 12:527, 12:574
  • family of, 12:527, 14:298, 14:339–14:340, 14:340n
  • and Mass. Committee of Correspondence, 9:369n, 14:226, 14:288–14:289, 14:373–14:374
  • as member of Continental Congress, 13:578–13:579n, 13:619, 13:620n, 18:660
  • mentioned, 6:623, 7:476, 8:358, 8:642, 14:311, 14:311n, 15:122n, 19:333, 19:335n
  • orations of, 14:227, 14:228n, 14:293
  • and origin of American Revolution, 12:495, 12:531n, 13:69, 13:577–13:578, 14:373–14:375
  • proposed biography of, 12:493, 12:497, 14:225–14:227, 14:293, 14:298, 14:339–14:340
  • revises J. Otis’s writings, 14:190, 14:191n
  • revolutionary leader, 17:315, 17:375n
  • TJ on, 12:574, 14:293

Adams, Samuel (1751–88)

  • family of, 14:339

Adams, Samuel G.

  • merchant, 4:487, 4:522, 7:189

Adams, Sarah Smith (John Adams’s daughter-in-law)

  • as J. Adams’s amanuensis, 6:627n

Adams, Susanna (John Adams’s granddaughter)

  • as J. Adams’s amanuensis, 6:627n
  • family of, 4:475

Adams, Susanna Boylston (John Adams’s mother)

  • family of, 4:473

Adams, Thomas

  • Henrico Co. clerk, 8:170

Adams, Thomas Boylston

  • on publishing TJ’s letters, 18:453

Adams, USS (frigate), 13:533, 13:533n, 17:454

Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)

  • and claims commission, 14:340
  • and land claims, 18:100n
  • ratification of, 14:466, 14:467n, 14:503, 15:235, 15:254, 15:271, 15:568, 15:568n, 15:569n, 15:572n, 15:594–15:595, 15:615, 16:493, 16:616, 18:98–18:99, 18:100n
  • and slavery, 19:623–19:624, 19:625n
  • and U.S. officials for Florida, 15:330
  • and U.S. relations with Spain, 14:581n, 15:572–15:573n, 16:250, 16:493, 17:41n, 18:309n, 19:589

Adancourt, Francis

  • as printer, 18:16n

Addington. See Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount

Addison, Joseph

  • Cato: A Tragedy, 7:312n+, 9:247, 9:249n
  • as editor of The Spectator, 15:506, 15:508n
  • as translator of Horace, 6:616
  • works of, 18:251, 19:506

Additional Facts, Observations, and Conjectures relative to the … Opossum of North-America (B. S. Barton), 8:422, 8:422–8:423n

Additional Facts, Remarks, and Arguments. Illustrative of the Advantage to the People of the United States, of a National Circulating Medium (T. Law), 19:202, 19:202n, 19:225

An Addition, of December 1818, to the Memoir, of February and August 1817, on the subject of the cotton culture, the cotton commerce, and the cotton manufacture of the United States (T. Coxe), 14:29–14:30, 14:47

Additions to the Fourth and Former Editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population (T. R. Malthus), 13:586n

Addoms, Jonas Smith

  • An Inaugural Dissertation on the Malignant Fever, which prevailed in the city of New-York … in the year 1791, 10:133–10:134, 10:147n

Address at the Opening of the Botanic Garden of Liverpool (W. Roscoe), 1:164n

An Address delivered in Havre-de-Grace, June 4, 1812 (J. J. Wilmer), 5:226, 5:227n, 5:288

An Address, delivered at the meeting at the Agricultural Society of Jefferson County, December 29, 1817 (J. Le Ray de Chaumont), 13:71, 13:72n, 13:172n

“An Address delivered at the opening of the Law Academy of Philadelphia” (P. S. Du Ponceau), 17:141, 17:141n

Address, delivered at the organization of the faculty of Dickinson College, January, 15th, 1822 (J. M. Mason), 18:235, 18:236n

An Address, delivered at the request of the Republican Committee of Arrangements, at Pittsfield, on the anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1822 (S. M. McKay), 18:626, 18:627n

An Address, delivered at the request of the Republican Committee of Arrangements, on the Anniversary of Independence, Fourth July, A.D. 1822. Charlestown, Mass. (N. H. Loring), 18:547, 18:548n, 18:584

An Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Susquehanna County, At its Organization, December 6, 1820 (R. H. Rose), 16:561–16:562, 16:562n, 16:605

An Address, delivered before the Columbian Institute, for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, at the City of Washington, on the 11th January, 1817 (E. Cutbush), 11:143–11:144n

An Address delivered before the Medical Board of S. Carolina, at Columbia, December, 1821 (T. Cooper), 18:229n, 18:275

An Address delivered before the Oneida Society for the Promotion of American Manufactures (I. Briggs), 12:194

An Address delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture; at its anniversary meeting, January 18, 1820 (W. Tilghman), 15:442, 15:442–15:443n, 15:464

Address delivered before the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture, at its annual meeting, on the Fifteenth of January, 1822 (N. Biddle), 18:216–18:217, 18:217n, 18:241, 18:242

An Address delivered before the Rockingham Agricultural Society, October 18th, 1821 (W. Plumer [1789–1854]), 18:97, 18:156–18:157, 18:179

Address delivered before the Worcester Agricultural Society, September 27, 1821, being their Anniversary Cattle Show and Exhibition of Manufactures (J. Russell), 18:87, 18:125

Address, delivered by appointment, in the Episcopal Church, at the opening of the Apprentices’ Library, in the City of Albany, January 1, 1821 (S. Southwick), 17:161–17:162, 17:162n, 17:183

Address delivered by Charles W. Peale, to the Corporation and Citizens of Philadelphia, on The 18th Day of July, 1816 (C. W. Peale), 10:308, 10:308, 10:311n, 11:372, 11:374n

An Address delivered on the Fourth of July, 1820, by appointment of the ’76 Association (D. Ramsay), 17:448, 17:449n, 17:449n, 17:479

An Address delivered to the Citizens of Bristol, R. I., July Fourth, 1821 (J. D’Wolf), 17:570, 17:571n, 18:130

Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the promotion of National Industry (M. Carey), 15:356, 15:356n, 19:591, 19:591–19:592n

An Address in behalf of the Juvenile Library Company of the City of Richmond, 19:323n

Address of Jonathan Allen, Esq. President of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, delivered before the Berkshire Association for the promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures, at Pittsfield, October 4, 1821 (J. Allen), 18:121, 18:121–18:122n

Address of the American Society for the encouragement of Domestic Manufactures (W. Sampson), 10:645–10:646, 10:652–10:653, 10:653n, 11:23–11:24, 11:24–11:25n, 11:136, 11:136n

Address of the Connecticut Society for the Encouragement of American Manufactures, 11:169, 11:169–11:170n

Address of the General Committee of the Board of Agriculture of the State of New-York, to the County Agricultural Societies, For 1820. with accompanying documents, 15:437, 15:437n, 15:438n

Address of the Managers of the Bible Society of Virginia, to the Public, 6:607, 6:608, 6:608n

Address of the Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order, to Its Absent Members, and the Members of its Several Branches throughout the United States (J. Woodward), 15:250, 15:250n, 15:273

An Address, pronounced at the laying of the Corner Stone of St. Matthew’s Church, New-York, October 22, 1821 (F. C. Schaeffer), 17:593, 17:593–17:594n, 17:612

An Address to the Clergy of Massachusetts (W. Cobbett), 9:4–9:5, 9:6n, 9:6n, 9:78, 9:79n

Address to the Clergy of New-England, on Their Opposition to the Rulers of the United States (W. Plumer), 8:175, 8:229

Address to the Farmers of the United States, on the Ruinous consequences to their vital Interests, of the existing Policy of this Country (M. Carey), 17:188, 17:188n, 19:591, 19:592n

Address to the Graduates of the South-Carolina College, December, 1821 (T. Cooper), 18:229–18:230n

Address to the People of the United States (R. Smith), 1:340n, 3:110n, 3:595, 3:608n, 4:21, 4:31, 4:109

Address to the People of the United States, on the measures pursued by the Executive with respect to the Batture at New-Orleans (E. Livingston), 2:455, 2:456n, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 2:658n, 3:30, 3:133, 3:173n, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:271, 3:483, 5:45, 5:47n, 5:143–5:144

An Address to the People of the United States, drawn up by order of the National Institution for the Promotion of Industry, established in June, 1820, 16:565n

An Address to the Public; particularly to the members of the Legislature of New-York, proposing a Plan for improving Female Education (E. H. Willard), 15:294, 15:294n

Adele et Théodore, ou lettres sur l’éducation (S. F. Genlis), 12:534

Adeline (brig), 8:689, 9:114, 9:116, 9:118n

Adeline (schooner), 8:632, 8:633n, 14:256, 14:628

Adelung, Friedrich

  • Catherinens der Grossen Verdienste um die Vergleichende Sprachenkunde, 11:562, 11:562n, 12:249–12:250, 12:251n, 12:294, 12:331, 18:40
  • director of Oriental Institute, 4:99n
  • and P. S. Du Ponceau, 18:9
  • forwards packet through L. Harris, 3:150
  • introduced to TJ, 2:467
  • offers to assist American Philosophical Society, 2:468n
  • as philologist, 18:9
  • Rapports entre la langue sanscrit et la langue Russe, 4:99, 4:99n
  • sends work to TJ, 18:9
  • Uebersicht aller bekannten Sprachen und ihrer Dialekte, 18:9, 18:10n, 18:198, 18:225
  • works of, 13:569–13:570

Adelung, Johann Christoph

  • family of, 12:250, 12:251n
  • Mithridates: Oder Allgemeine Sprachenkunde, 1:265, 1:267n, 1:652n, 12:250

Adet, Pierre Auguste

  • correspondence with G. Washington, 19:331, 19:332n

Adkins, T.

  • buys TJ’s tobacco, 18:436

Adkinson, Mr. See Atkinson, Michael

Adlum, John

  • Adlum on Making Wine, 1:587n
  • and grape cuttings, 9:348, 9:348–9:349, 9:514–9:515, 9:609, 18:437, 19:456, 19:479
  • identified, 1:587n
  • letters from, 2:220–2:223, 2:292–2:293, 2:330, 9:514–9:515, 18:436–18:437, 19:455–19:456, 19:479
  • letters to, 1:586–1:587, 2:338–2:339, 9:348, 18:465–18:466, 19:528
  • A Memoir on the Cultivation of the Vine in America, and the Best Mode of Making Wine, 1:587n, 19:455, 19:456n, 19:479, 19:528
  • moves to Georgetown, D.C., 9:514
  • and publication of TJ’s correspondence, 13:351n, 18:437, 18:465
  • travels of, 18:437
  • and wine, 2:220–2:223, 2:292, 2:293, 2:330, 2:338–2:339, 9:288, 9:288n, 9:311, 9:348, 9:348–9:349, 10:20–10:21, 18:436–18:437, 18:465, 19:455, 19:479, 19:479n, 19:528

Adlum on Making Wine (J. Adlum), 1:587n

Adrain, Robert

  • experiments of, 9:204
  • as mathematician, 17:237, 17:238n
  • and pendulums, 6:82
  • and perteual-motion machine, 5:558–5:559, 5:559n
  • recommends O. Reynolds, 17:408

Adresse au Conseil Legislatif du Territoire d’Orleans (J. L. Poydras), 2:682, 4:466

Adriano in Siria (P. Metastasio), 7:452, 7:455n

The Adventurer, 7:665, 19:508

The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses (Fénelon), 13:521, 13:522n

Adversus nationes (Arnobius the Elder), 16:258

Advice to Shepherds (Daubenton; trans. J. Bowdoin), 3:96n, 3:343, 3:343n, 5:165, 5:165n, 11:164

adzes, 14:541

Ælfredi Magni Anglorum Regis (J. Spelman; trans. O. Walker), 16:364, 17:196, 17:197

Ælfredi Regis res gestæ (Asser), 16:364

Ælfric of Eynsham

  • An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory (trans. E. Elstob), 16:364, 17:196

Aeneid (Virgil), 7:661, 9:59, 9:59n, 10:6, 10:8n, 13:206–13:207n, 14:257, 14:258, 14:551, 15:149, 15:150n, 16:92n, 16:381, 17:434n, 18:xlix

Aeolus (British ship), 5:370

Aeschines

  • Œuvres complettes de Dêmosthene et d’Eschine (trans. A. Auger), 7:259, 17:138, 17:138–17:139n, 17:447
  • TJ recommends, 7:447
  • works of, 14:551

Aeschines Socraticus

  • Æschinis Socratici Dialogi Tres Græce et Latine, ad quos accessit quarti Latinum Fragmentum (ed. J. Leclerc), 10:233

Æschinis Socratici Dialogi Tres Græce et Latine, ad quos accessit quarti Latinum Fragmentum (Aeschines Socraticus; ed. J. Leclerc), 10:233

Aeschyli Dramata Quae Supersunt et Deperditorum Fragmenta Graece et Latine (Aeschylus; ed. F. H. Bothe), 17:106

Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt ac Deperditarum Fragmenta (Aeschylus; ed. C. G. Schütz), 9:196, 9:455, 10:212, 10:531, 11:414, 14:510, 15:491n

Aeschylus

  • Aeschyli Dramata Quae Supersunt et Deperditorum Fragmenta Graece et Latine (ed. F. H. Bothe), 17:106
  • Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt ac Deperditarum Fragmenta (ed. C. G. Schütz), 9:196, 9:455, 10:212, 10:531, 11:414, 14:510, 15:491n
  • authenticity of works of, 9:87
  • mentioned, 9:456
  • Théatre d’Æschyle (trans. La Porte Du Theil), 15:26, 15:490, 15:491n
  • TJ interleaves editions of, 15:490, 15:491n
  • The Tragedies of Æschylus (trans. R. Potter), 15:490, 15:491n, 15:503, 15:594, 17:444, 19:506
  • works of, 13:314n, 13:394, 13:395n, 13:596, 13:608, 14:552, 15:504, 15:594, 15:607, 16:25, 16:275, 17:444

Aesculapius (Greek deity), 2:187, 2:188n

Aesculus hippocastanea (Aesculus hippocastanum). See chestnut: horse

Aesop

  • fables of advocated for Indians, 1:110
  • Fables of Æsop and others (trans. S. Croxall), 13:477
  • Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque (Phaedrus; ed. N. Bailey), 19:669, 19:696
  • Μύθων Αἰσωπείων Συναγωγή. Fabularum Æsopicarum Collectio, quotquot Græce Reperiuntur, 14:510
  • referenced by J. Adams, 6:621
  • referenced by T. Ewell, 16:246
  • referenced by N. Macon, 17:554, 17:555n
  • referenced by W. Short, 7:224, 7:225n, 17:585, 17:586–17:587n
  • referenced by TJ, 8:580, 8:581n, 9:90, 9:91n, 11:23, 11:25n, 11:558, 11:558n, 15:132, 15:133n, 16:235, 18:424
  • referenced by T. G. Watkins, 18:663
  • study of, 11:396
  • TJ orders works of, 19:478
  • works of bound for TJ, 8:630, 8:661, 8:678

Æthelberht I, king of Kent

  • laws of, 7:125, 7:147

Ætna (steamboat), 13:254

Africa

  • and colonization, 3:267–3:269, 3:318–3:320, 11:7–11:8, 11:8–11:12, 11:60–11:61, 11:61n, 11:501, 14:264, 14:265n, 15:512n, 17:423, 17:423n, 18:609n
  • corn from, 9:672
  • crops from, 17:423
  • and French colonial and scientific expeditions, 8:244
  • Jews in, 13:30
  • peoples of, 7:533
  • and river navigation, 19:439
  • seeds from, 13:75
  • toasts honoring, 17:290
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

African Americans See also slavery; slaves

  • accused of murder, 17:154
  • colonization of, 14:11, 14:264, 14:265n, 17:423, 17:423n, 18:609n
  • commemorate abolition of slave trade, 17:289, 17:289–17:290
  • and Cuba, 19:709
  • doctors, 14:494, 14:596
  • education of, 14:264, 17:499–17:500, 17:501n
  • living at Milton, 9:444
  • in Mass., 17:290–17:291n, 17:291n
  • military service by proposed, 7:532–7:534
  • and music, 16:36
  • in New York City, 16:525n
  • in Pa., 16:525–16:526n
  • population of in Va., 13:188n, 13:401, 13:584, 13:584n
  • portraits of, 13:426, 13:426n
  • and religion, 16:36, 16:267
  • and suffrage, 18:149, 18:152n
  • as TJ’s tenants, 11:397, 11:428, 11:589
  • and University of Virginia, 16:304, 16:304, 16:304, 16:307, 16:308, 16:309, 16:315, 17:620, 17:625, 17:626, 17:627, 17:632, 17:632, 17:633, 17:633, 17:634, 17:634, 17:634, 17:636, 17:639, 18:549, 18:570, 18:576, 19:62, 19:62, 19:189, 19:239, 19:396n, 19:404

African Free School (Boston), 17:290

Agamemnon, king of Mycenae (mythological character), 18:426

agate, 6:373, 7:261

Agenda Général; ou livret pratique d’emploi du tems (M. A. Jullien), 12:229

Agenoria (brig), 9:569–9:570, 11:531

Agent (brig), 12:381n, 12:386n, 12:566, 13:9

The Age of Louis XIV (Voltaire), 7:664, 12:534, 19:506

The Age of Louis XV (Voltaire), 7:664, 12:534, 19:506

The Age of Reason (T. Paine), 12:554

Agesilaus II, king of Sparta, 16:615

Aggregate amount of each description of Persons within the United States of America … in the year 1810, 6:226, 6:226n

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

Aggy (TJ’s slave)

  • directions for, 8:616n
  • medical care of, 7:387, 10:106

Aggy (TJ’s slave; b. 1789). See Hern, Aggy (TJ’s slave; b. 1789)

Aggy (TJ’s slave; b. 1789; daughter of Dinah)

  • family of, 5:463n, 9:40, 9:40n, 9:215–9:216, 11:546, 11:546n
  • house of, 8:173
  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308, 6:309, 8:61, 8:62, 8:255, 8:255, 13:387
  • pot for, 8:70–8:71
  • weaver, 4:380, 4:380, 5:663

Aggy (TJ’s slave; b. 1798). See Gillette, Aggy (TJ’s slave; b. 1798)

aging

  • J. Adams on, 14:311, 14:311n, 16:590, 18:454
  • J. Barnes on, 5:393
  • books on, 3:137, 3:137n
  • W. Canby on, 19:281
  • W. Carver on, 19:320–19:321
  • and dementia, 8:690, 8:690–8:691, 10:285, 18:12
  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 8:502, 8:504–8:505, 9:613, 9:616n
  • effect of alcohol on, 14:420, 14:420
  • B. Galloway on, 8:517
  • C. W. Peale on, 8:82, 8:465, 16:518–16:519
  • R. Peters on, 9:598–9:599, 9:600, 9:600–9:601n, 11:483
  • C. Pinckney on, 16:251–16:252
  • G. E. Stack on, 15:230–15:231
  • C. Thomson on, 10:59–10:60
  • TJ on his own, 5:164, 5:366, 5:607, 5:662, 8:109, 8:133, 8:354, 8:377, 8:441, 8:456, 8:539, 8:541, 8:651, 9:341, 10:11, 10:284–10:285, 10:363, 10:442, 10:447, 10:477, 10:654, 10:656, 11:13, 11:160, 11:215, 11:436, 12:370, 12:441, 12:461, 12:481, 12:517, 12:519, 12:524, 12:524, 12:577, 12:616, 12:626, 13:48, 13:57, 13:74, 13:94, 13:94, 13:100, 13:154, 13:178–13:179, 13:311, 13:418, 13:427, 13:440, 13:526, 13:532, 14:54, 14:111, 14:199, 14:201, 14:279, 14:283, 14:284, 14:284, 14:302, 14:481, 14:595, 14:596, 14:646, 15:71, 15:73, 15:205, 15:231–15:232, 15:248–15:249, 15:333, 16:46, 16:49, 16:116, 16:252, 16:290–16:291, 16:498, 16:519, 16:573, 17:44–17:45, 17:431, 18:25, 18:36, 18:73, 18:82, 18:126, 18:156, 18:165, 18:191, 18:216, 18:246, 18:319, 18:327, 18:327, 18:357, 18:358–18:359, 18:359, 18:378, 18:385, 18:390, 18:423, 18:501, 18:503, 18:514, 18:514, 18:515, 18:515, 18:558, 18:560, 18:563, 18:613, 19:307–19:308
  • TJ on youth, 2:187, 8:101, 8:103, 8:247, 11:338, 12:370, 14:629–14:630

Agiorgitiko (St. George) (wine), 3:505, 9:513n

Agnes (brig), 16:24, 16:24–16:25n

Agoult, Louis Annibal, comte d’

  • and French Constitution of 1791, 17:370, 17:378n

Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (T. Paine), 4:168n

L’Agricoltore Sperimentato (C. Trinci), 2:82, 11:164

Agricultural Enquiries on Plaister of Paris (R. Peters), 11:165

Agricultural Museum, 2:543, 2:544n

Agricultural Society of Albemarle

  • and agriculture professorship at University of Virginia, 19:359–19:360, 19:362n, 19:416, 19:416n
  • and contour plowing, 6:70n
  • dues, 15:263, 15:263n
  • and foreign correspondents, 15:157n
  • formation of, 11:319, 12:571
  • meetings of, 12:75, 12:99, 13:313
  • members of, 4:22n, 4:59n, 4:538–4:539n, 5:140n, 5:528n, 5:567n, 11:319, 13:71, 16:411
  • and newspapers, 19:334
  • officers of, 1:53–1:54n, 3:136n, 3:146n, 4:416n, 13:313n, 15:263, 15:263n, 19:64, 19:64n, 19:479
  • reports sent to, 16:394–16:395
  • TJ forwards letter to, 17:27, 17:30
  • TJ forwards works to, 19:64
  • TJ’s involvement with, 3:351n, 11:319, 13:71, 13:172
  • TJ’s proposed constitution for, 3:347–3:352

Agricultural Society of Bavaria

  • diploma from received by TJ, 5:273 (illus.), 7:505
  • membership conferred on TJ, 5:270–5:271, 5:273, 7:505

Agricultural Society of South Carolina, 15:601, 15:602n, 19:129

Agricultural Society of Susquehanna, 16:561–16:562, 16:605

Agricultural Society of the Valley (Winchester)

  • described, 18:316n
  • and J. Madison, 18:316n
  • TJ elected a member of, 18:316, 18:317, 18:327

agriculture See also Agricultural Society of Albemarle; crops; dynamometers; Hessian fly; Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture; plows; Société d’agriculture du département de la Seine

  • Agricultural Society of South Carolina, 15:601, 15:602n, 19:129
  • Agricultural Society of Susquehanna, 16:561–16:562, 16:605
  • Agricultural Society of the Valley, 18:316, 18:316n, 18:317, 18:327
  • along the lower James River, 2:167
  • American Board of Agriculture, 1:133, 1:134n, 3:33, 3:35n, 11:338, 11:339n, 13:172
  • and ancient superstitions, 18:242
  • annual income from, 10:574, 17:304, 18:526–18:527
  • beekeeping, 11:165, 11:503–11:504, 11:504n
  • and Belfast Literary Society, 4:159, 4:175, 4:187–4:188n
  • Berkshire Agricultural Society, 10:661, 11:277, 11:279n, 11:279n, 11:279n, 11:338, 15:573, 18:121, 18:121–18:122n
  • Board of Agriculture of the State of New-York, 12:647, 13:249, 15:437, 15:438n
  • books on, 1:35, 1:35, 1:35, 1:35, 1:35, 1:36, 1:36, 1:37, 1:37, 1:508, 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, 10:234, 10:237n, 10:501, 10:501–10:502n, 10:532, 11:162, 11:245–11:246, 11:398, 12:99, 12:103, 12:112, 14:29–14:30, 14:47, 14:219, 14:222, 14:240, 14:445, 16:151, 16:151, 16:169, 16:187, 16:364, 16:406, 16:546–16:547, 16:576, 17:138, 17:139n, 17:188, 17:188n, 17:197, 17:251, 17:411, 17:445, 17:447, 18:18, 18:97, 18:156–18:157, 18:179, 18:241, 18:242, 19:352, 19:353n, 19:591
  • British Board of Agriculture, 1:252, 1:252n, 16:151n
  • and cast-iron presses, 2:302
  • cleaning and sowing of clover seed, 8:367, 8:459–8:460, 8:520, 8:535
  • clearing and belting of land, 2:85, 2:86–2:87n
  • and coating seeds with tar and plaster, 2:334
  • collegiate education in, 13:209, 13:215n, 13:402
  • Columbian Agricultural Society, 1:23n, 1:40n
  • contour plowing, 2:254, 6:69–6:70, 6:70n, 7:79–7:80, 8:278, 9:538–9:539, 9:540n, 9:599, 11:129, 12:570
  • corn brake, 8:460
  • corn-shelling machines, 7:83–7:84, 8:367, 8:458–8:459, 8:463, 8:535, 14:96–14:97, 14:118, 14:472, 19:678–19:679, 19:708–19:709
  • crop rotation, 6:132–6:133, 6:134, 18:97n, 18:217n
  • Domestic encyclopædia, 1:18, 1:19n, 1:252, 1:252n
  • education in, 11:263–11:264, 11:266n, 13:574, 13:597, 19:350n
  • effect of war on, 8:301, 8:536
  • “Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat” (R. Rennie), 8:678, 8:679n, 9:75–9:76
  • European methods of, 9:599, 9:599–9:600, 12:254–12:255
  • fences, 7:80–7:81, 8:70, 8:81, 8:305, 9:282, 12:483, 18:318
  • and fertilization, 4:179, 4:180, 4:531, 6:486–6:487, 7:83, 8:78, 8:305, 8:366, 10:532–10:535, 13:582, 14:180, 14:249–14:250, 16:562n, 16:607, 19:607n
  • field cultivation of vegetables, 11:271–11:273, 11:308–11:309
  • and fodder, 2:271, 2:371, 8:32, 8:71, 8:71, 8:71, 8:109, 8:126, 8:129, 8:158, 10:449, 12:302, 12:302, 12:302, 14:180–14:181, 14:250, 14:585, 19:606
  • in France, 12:39, 12:103
  • government subsidies to, 2:613–2:614, 9:616–9:617, 18:121n
  • gypsum used in, 2:197–2:198, 2:205, 2:226, 2:304, 2:305, 2:329, 2:334, 2:341, 3:313, 3:341, 3:349, 8:520, 8:535, 9:66, 9:493–9:494, 9:538, 9:541, 9:583, 12:301, 12:349, 15:306, 19:416–19:417
  • happiness of agricultural workers, 2:296
  • harvesting of fruit, 8:548–8:549, 10:32
  • and hawthorn hedges, 2:132n, 2:167, 10:194–10:195, 10:196n, 10:238–10:239, 10:292–10:293, 11:228
  • hemp brake, 6:442, 6:452, 9:303–9:304, 9:461–9:462, 9:463, 10:32–10:33
  • impact of taxation on, 2:573–2:574, 2:577, 2:580, 2:584, 2:585–2:586, 2:589, 2:590
  • Imperiale e Reale Accademia Economico-Agraria dei Georgofili di Firenze, 15:328–15:330
  • implements of, 3:171, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251, 3:349, 3:456, 3:461, 6:347, 6:347, 8:534–8:535, 8:535–8:536, 9:539, 9:540n, 9:583–9:584, 10:32–10:33, 14:179, 14:537, 14:539–14:540, 16:562n, 16:607–16:608, 18:121n, 19:115, 19:207, 19:226, 19:279
  • importation of grains, 19:624
  • improved method of planting, 8:42–8:43, 8:43n, 8:104, 8:210, 12:19, 12:254–12:255
  • and insects, 2:222, 2:496, 7:194, 7:194, 9:545, 10:526, 14:180, 14:250
  • Jefferson County Agricultural Society (New York), 13:71, 13:72n, 13:172n, 14:274–14:275, 14:275n, 14:441
  • Kentucky Society for Promoting Agriculture, 10:593, 10:593n, 11:4, 12:254
  • law on, 4:168
  • and manufacturing interests, 9:334–9:336, 9:534–9:537, 9:616–9:617, 9:618n, 9:620n, 11:23, 11:287, 11:345–11:346, 16:562n
  • and manure, 16:325n, 18:97n, 19:606–19:607, 19:607n
  • Maryland Agricultural Society, 18:436–18:437, 19:479
  • Massachusetts Agricultural Journal, 8:678, 8:679n, 11:270, 11:271–11:272, 11:308
  • Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, 8:678, 8:679n, 10:661
  • national board of proposed, 11:277–11:278, 11:279n, 11:279n, 11:338
  • as national occupation, 13:529
  • and overuse of land, 19:398
  • pamphlets on bound for TJ, 8:629, 8:630, 13:456
  • C. W. Peale on farming, 4:136–4:142, 4:179–4:181, 5:324–5:325, 11:157–11:158
  • Pennsylvania moldboard, 1:111, 1:252
  • Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1:133, 1:477, 1:479–1:480n, 2:220, 2:223n, 4:161, 4:161n, 11:172
  • promotion of in U.S., 17:406–17:407
  • and T. M. Randolph, 17:304, 18:560
  • Red House Agricultural Society, 11:129, 11:162, 11:245–11:246, 11:347, 12:571, 13:356
  • regional, 11:130n, 11:270–11:271
  • Richmond Society for Promoting Agriculture, 3:348, 3:351n
  • Société Royale d’Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, 19:159, 19:161n
  • soil amendments, 17:405–17:406
  • straw-cutting machine, 7:84, 8:367, 8:459
  • study of, 7:639, 7:639, 7:640, 7:667, 7:686, 9:600, 12:123, 12:254, 16:159
  • surplus products of, 9:476n
  • taxes on exported products of, 8:608
  • threshing machines, 2:5n, 2:36, 2:675, 3:293, 3:349, 3:371, 5:324, 5:325–5:326, 5:360, 5:444–5:445, 7:81–7:82, 8:185, 8:368–8:369, 8:369n, 8:464, 8:520, 8:535–8:536, 10:32–10:33, 11:200, 14:588, 15:61, 15:110, 15:111n, 15:112, 15:114, 15:115, 15:117, 15:130, 15:290, 15:591n, 15:607, 19:394n, 19:398
  • TJ buys fruit trees, 1:40
  • TJ lists works on, 1:581–1:582, 2:81–2:83, 2:195, 7:626, 11:129, 11:164–11:165, 11:165n
  • TJ on, 1:110, 1:252, 1:559, 7:249, 9:515, 11:168n, 11:344–11:345, 14:224, 14:630, 15:382–15:383, 19:635
  • TJ on farming, 4:93, 17:382
  • TJ’s farm book, 4:xliv, 4:370 (illus.)
  • tree cultivation, 9:542
  • in utopian societies, 19:378, 19:379–19:380, 19:382
  • and U.S. economy, 17:41n, 18:394n
  • in Va., 14:562
  • and weather, 7:194, 8:304, 8:366, 8:457, 8:697, 10:65, 10:74, 10:355, 10:449, 10:526, 12:352, 12:353, 12:354, 12:556, 18:601n
  • Worcester Agricultural Society, 18:87, 18:125

Agrippa II, king of Judea, 7:575–7:576, 7:590n

Agrostis stolonifera. See fiorin grass

ague and fever. See malaria (ague and fever)

Aguirre, Manuel Hermenejildo de

  • as diplomat, 12:271, 12:272n

Ahab (Old Testament figure), 19:360, 19:362n

Aikin, John

  • Evenings at Home, 12:534
  • Letters to A Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry, 7:664
  • works of, 19:505

Aikin, Lucy

  • Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, 19:508
  • Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, 19:508

Ainsworth, Robert

  • An Abridgement of Ainsworth’s Dictionary (ed. T. Morell), 8:660, 9:274, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639, 12:439
  • Latin and English Dictionary abridged, 1:35, 17:211, 17:221

Αἰθιοπικῶν βιβλία δέκα (Heliodorus), 11:452

Aird, John

  • vouches for J. Melish, 4:423

Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of (1818), 16:42, 16:93

Ajax (mythological character)

  • J. Adams compared to, 13:28

Akbar, emperor of India

  • Ayeen Akbery: or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, 10:486

Akerly, Samuel

  • as editor of Medical Repository, 14:420
  • An Essay on the Geology of the Hudson River, and the adjacent regions: illustrated by A Geological Section of the Country, 15:601n

Akers, John, 1:415

Akropolites, Georgios

  • Historiæ Byzantinæ Scriptores Tres Graeco-Latini, 11:452

Alabama (state)

  • and census of 1820, 19:135, 19:135n
  • cotton crop in, 17:96, 18:257
  • French settlement in, 18:257, 18:605
  • governor of, 18:469
  • grapes grown in, 18:257
  • legislature of, 17:451–17:452, 18:469, 18:469, 18:470n
  • as slave state, 15:531, 15:535n
  • and presidential election of 1824, 18:307, 19:535
  • university for, 17:451–17:452, 17:452n

Alabama Territory

  • French settlement in, 11:404n, 11:542–11:543, 11:545, 12:19, 12:56, 14:17–14:18, 14:48, 14:49, 14:89
  • maps of, 11:615–11:616, 11:616–11:617n, 13:41, 13:42n, 13:64

Alabama, University of

  • land grant for, 17:452n, 18:469, 18:470n

Alagón, Francisco Fernández de Córdova y Glimes de Bravante, duque de

  • and land grants, 18:98, 18:99, 18:100n, 18:100–18:101n

Aland, John Fortescue

  • and Anglo-Saxon language, 13:197, 13:217, 13:223n
  • Reports of Select Cases In all the Courts of Westminster-Hall, 13:223n

Alard, Marie Joseph Louis Jean François Antoine

  • Éloge historique de François Péron, 5:463, 5:464n, 6:489, 6:509, 7:50, 7:50n

Albaflor (wine), 1:345, 1:346n, 1:365–1:366, 1:366, 1:366, 4:4, 4:529–4:530, 4:530n, 6:163

Albany Congress (1754)

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

Albany Argus, 11:279n

Albany Register (newspaper), 5:318, 5:319n, 5:354n

Albemarle, William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of, 14:346

Albemarle Academy See also Central College; Virginia, University of

  • Board of Trustees, members of, 5:567n, 7:265, 7:266–7:267, 7:282, 7:283, 7:293, 7:335, 7:427, 7:535–7:536, 7:570, 7:571, 8:90, 8:92, 8:93n, 8:93n, 11:314, 11:318n
  • Board of Trustees, Minutes of, 7:266–7:268, 7:282–7:283, 7:293–7:294, 7:335–7:340, 7:426–7:427, 7:570–7:571
  • Board of Trustees, officers of, 3:540n, 7:283, 7:293, 7:339, 7:426, 8:183
  • Board of Trustees, rules and regulations of, 7:283, 7:335–7:337
  • creation of, 5:102, 5:171–5:172, 7:127–7:128, 7:264–7:266, 8:92, 8:93, 8:646, 8:646–8:647, 11:316
  • location of, 7:427, 7:535–7:536, 7:570–7:571
  • lottery for, 7:265, 7:337–7:338, 7:339, 7:426–7:427, 8:92, 8:183, 9:93n, 9:361, 9:361n, 9:498n, 11:316–11:317, 11:317, 11:318n
  • mentioned, 12:18
  • petition of, 8:183, 8:316–8:317, 9:47, 9:47–9:48n, 9:92, 9:92–9:93n, 9:329, 9:331
  • requests Literary Fund dividend, 8:92, 8:93n, 8:183, 8:317, 9:360, 11:319
  • and sale of glebe lands, 7:265, 7:337, 7:338–7:339, 7:339, 7:339–7:340, 7:571, 7:714, 7:714n, 8:92, 8:183, 8:317, 9:496, 15:93
  • subscription for, 7:265, 7:337, 7:338, 7:339
  • TJ considers selling library to, 7:128
  • TJ’s Estimate and Plans for Albemarle Academy/Central College, 8:86–8:90, 9:626–9:627, 11:317, 11:318n, 11:586, 11:588n, 12:134, 12:134n
  • TJ solicits advice on, 7:606, 7:607–7:608, 7:636, 7:649, 7:678, 7:684, 7:688n, 12:8
  • TJ’s proposed curriculum for, 7:636–7:641, 7:684, 7:714, 7:716n, 9:396, 12:8–12:9

Albemarle Baptist Church of Christ. See Buckmountain Baptist Church (Albemarle Co.)

Albemarle County, Va. See also Agricultural Society of Albemarle; Central College; Nicholas, John: as Albemarle Co. clerk; Virginia, University of

  • Agricultural Society of, 1:53–1:54n, 3:136n, 3:146n, 3:347–3:352, 4:22n, 4:59n, 4:416n, 4:538–4:539n
  • Barringer Creek, 3:432
  • Buckmountain Baptist Church, 1:63–1:64, 1:126
  • climate of, 8:304–8:305
  • cloth factory in, 4:143, 4:143n, 4:169, 4:209, 4:667, 5:14–5:15, 5:17, 5:639–5:640, 6:45n
  • Convention Army in, 8:359, 8:359–8:360n
  • courthouse in, 18:523
  • culture of inhabitants of, 8:305
  • delegation to General Assembly, 5:526–5:528, 5:528n, 5:556n, 5:638–5:639
  • doctors in, 15:548
  • and dogs, 4:161, 4:161n, 4:170, 4:346–4:349
  • early settlers of, 17:309
  • elections in, 7:310–7:311, 17:70
  • grape cultivation in, 4:177
  • Hardware River, 4:146, 4:387, 8:392, 8:485, 9:99n, 12:81n
  • health of inhabitants, 8:304, 16:543
  • inhabitants of address TJ, 1:46–1:47, 1:74
  • inhabitants of meet with TJ, 1:79
  • jail and jailer, 8:92, 19:559, 19:559n
  • land prices in, 3:622, 3:644, 8:167, 8:306–8:307, 8:320
  • libraries in, 14:194
  • mail service in, 8:172, 9:317, 16:524, 19:325, 19:335
  • map of, 1:xliii (illus.), 2:xxxvii (illus.), 3:xli (illus.), 4:xxxix (illus.), 5:xliii (illus.), 6:xxxix (illus.), 7:xxxix (illus.), 8:xli (illus.), 9:xxxix (illus.), 10:xli (illus.), 11:xli (illus.), 12:xlv (illus.), 13:xlvii (illus.), 14:xlvii (illus.), 15:xlvii (illus.), 16:xlv (illus.), 17:xlvii (illus.), 18:xlv (illus.), 19:xlix (illus.)
  • peaches in, 8:697
  • petitions to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254, 4:346–4:349, 9:287, 9:287n, 9:328–9:329, 9:498n, 10:581–10:582, 10:582–10:583, 10:629, 10:664, 11:59, 11:59, 11:59n, 11:59n, 11:119
  • population of, 8:305
  • prices in, 8:167, 8:307
  • rain devastates, 2:254
  • requires military draft, 5:107
  • and road orders, 3:527, 3:527n, 11:243–11:244, 12:48, 12:51, 12:57–12:58, 13:275–13:276
  • roads in, 10:581–10:582, 10:582–10:583, 10:629, 10:659, 10:664, 10:666–10:667, 11:59, 11:59, 11:59n, 11:59n, 11:66, 11:119, 11:132, 11:133, 11:139, 11:172–11:173, 11:200, 11:243, 11:244–11:245, 12:168, 12:562, 13:24, 13:275–13:276, 13:276n, 16:644–16:645, 18:215, 18:224
  • sawmills in, 18:574–18:575
  • school commissioners of, 15:383n
  • schools in, 1:82n, 4:493, 6:73, 6:130, 6:131, 6:426, 6:426, 8:353, 8:624, 8:646, 9:396–9:397, 9:713, 12:435, 12:436, 16:391
  • sheriff of, 10:464, 10:466, 10:467n, 14:9, 16:481, 16:481, 17:620, 17:638, 19:57, 19:57, 19:59n, 19:65, 19:65n, 19:69, 19:85, 19:338n
  • Statement of TJ’s Taxable Property in Albemarle County, 9:430–9:431, 11:44–11:45, 12:415
  • Statement of TJ’s County Taxes and Court Fees, 7:708–7:709
  • surveyor of, 8:567–8:568, 8:568n, 9:362, 9:363n, 9:488, 9:519, 9:519n, 9:519, 9:519n, 9:519–9:520, 9:520n, 9:648, 9:649n, 9:662, 10:239, 10:239n, 10:666, 10:667, 12:81
  • taxation of property in, 9:99, 9:99n, 9:133, 9:133, 10:464, 10:465n, 10:466, 10:467n, 10:467n, 12:29, 12:139, 19:38, 19:65, 19:65n, 19:69, 19:85, 19:338, 19:394–19:395n
  • TJ addresses inhabitants of, 1:102–1:103
  • TJ on, 8:167–8:168, 8:304–8:307, 11:413, 11:548–11:549, 12:85, 13:340–13:341, 16:508
  • TJ represents in House of Burgesses, 17:310, 17:311, 17:311–17:312, 17:313–17:315, 17:317
  • as TJ’s birthplace, 12:146, 12:146n
  • volunteer troops, 5:344–5:345
  • wages in, 8:307
  • weddings in, 18:184, 18:184n
  • wheat harvest in, 2:495, 4:95
  • Woods, Micajah (deputy sheriff), 1:590, 1:595

Albemarle County Circuit Court, Va., 12:81, 14:130, 14:130n, 14:131, 14:261, 14:261n, 14:264, 14:268, 14:427, 14:429, 14:482, 15:180, 15:210, 15:210–15:211, 18:373, 19:63–19:64, 19:559n

Albemarle County Court, Va., 1:415n, 2:227, 3:225, 6:36n, 6:36–6:37n, 6:115, 6:186, 6:196–6:200, 6:294, 6:472–6:481, 6:482n, 6:488, 6:576, 6:596, 6:596, 8:92, 8:258, 8:258n, 8:390, 8:391n, 8:396–8:397n, 8:399n, 8:692, 8:693n, 9:3, 10:464, 10:666, 10:667, 11:73–11:75, 11:101, 11:172, 11:172–11:173, 11:220, 11:243–11:244, 11:244–11:245, 11:257, 11:258, 11:258, 11:262, 11:262, 11:275, 11:301, 11:336, 11:337, 11:549, 12:41, 12:48, 12:51, 12:53, 12:55, 12:55, 12:57–12:58, 12:59, 12:68, 12:81, 12:99, 12:168, 12:561n, 12:562n, 12:604, 13:liv, 13:275–13:276, 14:9, 14:10n, 14:16, 14:19, 14:19, 14:20, 14:60n, 14:141, 14:211–14:212, 14:267, 15:33n, 15:85, 15:86, 15:211–15:221, 16:223, 16:244, 16:315, 16:624, 17:258, 17:627, 18:366, 18:435, 18:440, 18:500, 18:523, 18:549, 18:574, 18:621, 19:550, 19:551, 19:559, 19:561, 19:570

Albemarle County Superior Court of Law, Va., 6:153, 6:153n, 6:182, 6:554, 6:555, 6:573, 6:573, 6:630, 8:93, 11:275, 12:41, 12:55, 12:55, 12:59, 12:60, 12:68, 12:323

Albemarle Library Society

  • Catalogue of Books, 19:505–19:509, 19:607
  • constitution of, 19:551–19:552, 19:554
  • establishment of, 19:453, 19:453–19:454, 19:554, 19:607, 19:634
  • identified, 19:509n

Albemarle pippin. See Newtown pippin (Albemarle pippin)

Alberoni, Giulio

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

Albigensian heresy, 7:65–7:66

albinism, 9:12

Albion (packet), 16:410, 16:434

Albizia julibrissin. See silk tree

Albuquerque, Don José Miguel de la Cuerva, duque de, 2:247

Alcaeus

  • mentioned, 6:403

alchemy

  • and cosmology, 13:257, 13:267n

Alcidamas (Greek rhetorician)

  • TJ on, 9:456

Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues (G. Berkeley), 18:658

Alcocke, Elliott, 2:452

alcohol See also drunkenness; wine

  • abstinence from, 11:293, 12:8, 14:84, 14:324n, 14:382
  • abuse of, 2:87, 2:191–2:192, 9:131–9:132, 10:461–10:462, 10:537, 13:514n, 14:26, 14:81, 14:84, 14:121, 14:158, 14:160, 14:322–14:323, 14:594, 15:203, 15:203n, 15:233, 16:75, 17:412, 18:27, 18:443, 18:499, 18:557–18:558, 19:573–19:574, 19:652n, 19:674
  • ale, 3:241–3:242, 8:12, 14:81, 14:167, 14:246, 17:159, 17:178
  • beer, 1:299, 2:116, 5:31, 8:185, 8:186, 8:235, 8:410–8:411, 8:412n, 8:413, 8:438–8:439, 9:4, 9:29, 9:30n, 9:329, 9:371, 9:542, 10:340, 10:462, 13:616–13:617, 14:84, 14:420
  • books on distilling of, 8:388
  • bottles and jugs for, 8:11–8:12, 8:12, 9:371, 9:512, 13:15, 13:15, 14:543, 18:561
  • brandy, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:211, 4:419, 6:487, 7:78, 8:xlvii–8:xlviii, 8:30–8:31, 11:293+, 11:293+, 11:293+, 11:296, 11:300, 11:345, 14:420, 15:312, 16:11, 16:12, 16:542, 17:142, 17:189, 17:199, 18:42, 18:457, 18:465, 18:547, 18:561, 18:600, 19:13, 19:455, 19:528, 19:640–19:641, 19:641–19:642, 19:642n
  • brandy made from porter, 9:3
  • cider, 1:582, 1:657, 2:223, 4:140–4:141, 4:210, 5:464, 7:381, 7:381, 7:444–7:445, 7:445n, 8:12, 8:196, 8:235, 8:253, 8:402–8:403, 8:404–8:405, 9:124, 9:151, 9:262, 9:262n, 9:267, 9:269, 9:270n, 9:371, 9:512, 9:542, 10:553–10:554, 10:577, 10:577n, 12:192, 12:192n, 12:503, 14:81, 14:84, 14:156, 14:167, 14:420, 14:549n, 15:297, 15:297n, 15:311
  • consumption by students, 13:396
  • eggnog, 17:25–17:26
  • excise tax on, 3:80, 3:82n
  • gin, 1:465, 14:420
  • grog, 12:652
  • licenses for sale of, 8:233
  • Bishop J. Madison on, 4:17
  • malt liquor, 12:8, 14:44, 14:156, 14:419, 14:420
  • medicinal uses of, 1:483
  • porter, 3:241–3:242, 3:252, 4:630, 11:293
  • production of, 3:241–3:242
  • rum, 1:299, 6:345, 12:554, 14:420, 15:312
  • B. Rush on, 4:17
  • sent to Poplar Forest, 11:207
  • shared purchase of, 9:20, 9:21n
  • spirits, 6:347, 6:501, 7:180, 11:293, 11:293+, 11:293+, 12:8, 13:32+, 14:44, 14:156, 14:419, 14:420, 15:313, 16:337n, 16:337n, 17:406, 17:522, 18:27, 18:378, 18:443, 19:574, 19:640, 19:646
  • stills, 3:171, 3:359, 3:521, 6:311
  • taxation of, 9:642n, 18:27, 19:573–19:574
  • temperance, 9:598, 14:419–14:420, 14:421, 15:203, 15:203n, 15:233, 18:27, 18:121–18:122n, 18:292n
  • toddies, 8:235, 10:554
  • in utopian societies, 19:378
  • whiskey, 1:31, 1:465, 3:359, 4:210, 4:483, 6:344, 6:346, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 7:491n, 8:xlvii–8:xlviii, 8:30–8:31, 8:70, 8:109, 9:329, 9:483, 9:512, 10:41, 10:462, 10:537, 11:272–11:273, 12:651, 13:378–13:379, 13:379, 13:379–13:380, 15:141, 15:312, 16:13, 18:41, 18:42, 19:10, 19:466, 19:562

Aldini, Giovanni

  • recommends G. W. Blaettermann, 14:252–14:253n, 14:345

ale, 3:241–3:242, 8:12, 14:81, 14:167, 14:246, 17:159, 17:178

Aleck (TJ’s slave; b. 1806)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:309, 6:310, 8:62, 8:255

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’

  • J. Adams on, 9:527, 9:528, 10:6, 15:298
  • and classification of knowledge, 16:194
  • criticized, 7:587, 10:13
  • Encyclopédie, 6:381, 6:408, 8:580–8:581, 8:581n, 14:82–14:83, 15:589n
  • and J. de Lespinasse, 14:31
  • mentioned, 10:306
  • philosophy of, 9:650
  • and religion, 8:682, 9:527, 10:6, 10:8n
  • TJ on, 7:413
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502
  • on Voltaire, 9:709

Alert, USS (sloop), 11:662, 11:662

Aleshire (Alishire), John Conrad

  • and University of Virginia, 19:57

Aleutian Islands, 1:447

Alexander (“the Great”), king of Macedon, 2:274, 6:541–6:542, 6:543n, 7:24, 7:477, 8:683, 10:398, 16:330, 17:368, 18:579, 19:111, 19:439

Alexander I, emperor of Russia

  • and abolition of slave trade, 10:265, 10:265–10:266n
  • and R. de Bécourt’s book, 5:467n
  • J. Bentham on, 18:372n, 18:377
  • bust of, at Monticello, 3:563+
  • and Congress of Troppau, 16:384, 18:40
  • criticized, 7:104, 9:217–9:218
  • diplomatic appointments, 1:537, 13:118, 13:145
  • education of, 8:671
  • on Ferdinand VII of Spain, 16:213, 16:213n
  • and France, 11:458, 12:9, 19:542, 19:639
  • and Greece, 17:253, 17:474, 17:489, 17:490n, 18:427
  • and L. Harris, 16:62–16:63
  • and Holy Alliance, 10:265, 10:266n, 18:426
  • and N. Kosloff affair, 10:483
  • and letters of credence, 1:328, 1:343–1:344, 1:359, 1:484, 1:485n
  • and Massachusetts Peace Society, 12:109n
  • mentioned, 6:522, 7:298, 7:405, 7:433, 7:506, 8:569, 9:347, 14:343, 16:16
  • and military appointments, 18:67, 18:103
  • and Napoleon, 7:410n, 7:423, 7:452, 7:537, 12:90, 12:92n
  • and Napoleon’s defeat in Russia, 6:293
  • opinion of sought, 19:67
  • as peace mediator, 6:131n, 6:144, 6:175, 6:538–6:539, 7:198, 7:198n, 7:424, 7:528, 7:541, 7:542, 7:543, 7:544n, 13:151, 13:151n
  • and Polish territories, 9:714–9:715, 9:716n, 15:52
  • political views of, 8:671, 9:110–9:111, 10:54n, 10:54n
  • policies of praised, 11:6
  • and revolution in Spain, 16:212–16:213, 16:213n
  • and J. S. Smith, 2:466
  • TJ on, 2:277, 2:512, 3:208, 7:97, 7:213, 7:452, 9:90, 10:265, 10:608, 11:585–11:586, 14:427–14:428, 18:40, 18:377, 19:489
  • TJ’s relationship with, 1:38, 1:433, 1:659n, 2:467, 2:487–2:488, 2:512, 2:513, 3:563+, 7:434, 7:541, 11:562, 18:66
  • and U.S., 1:115–1:116, 1:233, 1:328, 1:659n, 5:685, 5:685n, 7:478, 9:9, 11:122, 16:31
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507
  • work dedicated to, 7:416–7:417, 7:421n

Alexander, Dr.

  • and elderly in S.C., 19:647

Alexander, Mr.

  • posts bail for C. L. Bankhead, 14:9

Alexander, Abraham, 14:449

Alexander, Adam, 14:448

Alexander, Andrew

  • and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:224n, 13:401, 13:473n, 13:491n, 13:584n
  • identified, 11:589–11:590n
  • letter from, 11:589–11:590
  • and Natural Bridge, 11:589

Alexander, Eli

  • and corn for TJ, 6:181–6:182
  • forwards mail to TJ, 5:455
  • grinds wheat, 1:109, 1:353
  • and Henderson lands, 11:42, 11:42–11:43n, 12:559–12:561, 12:563n, 12:614n
  • identified, 1:137–1:138n
  • lands of, 10:621, 13:276, 17:272, 19:394n
  • letters from, 1:353, 2:198–2:199, 2:213, 5:455
  • letters to, 1:137–1:138, 1:353, 2:85–2:87, 2:150–2:151, 2:200, 2:212–2:213, 2:239–2:240, 2:421–2:422, 3:328, 6:181–6:182
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254, 4:346–4:349
  • and proposed Albemarle Co. road, 13:276n
  • and rent, 1:353, 1:353, 2:421–2:422, 2:422n, 3:328
  • TJ pays, 12:613, 12:633
  • TJ’s dispute with, 2:85–2:86, 2:150–2:151, 2:199, 2:200, 2:212–2:213, 2:239–2:240, 2:240, 2:277–2:280, 2:281, 2:282, 2:286, 2:286–2:287, 2:294, 5:409
  • and University of Virginia, 17:626

Alexander, James, 2:221, 2:223n, 3:247n, 9:348, 9:348n

Alexander, John McKnitt, 14:449, 14:450, 14:451n, 14:524

Alexander, Joseph McKnitt, 14:450, 14:451n, 14:524–14:525

Alexander, Robert

  • and American Revolution, 17:506n

Alexander, Samuel

  • as silversmith, 17:lii

Alexander, William

  • claims title of Lord Stirling, 7:67, 7:68n
  • and J. Monroe, 18:136–18:137

Alexander Spiers, John Bowman, & Company (Glasgow firm). See Wilson, Thomas

Alexander Spinks (Sprinks) & Company

  • and quarrying for University of Virginia, 17:650

Alexandria, Egypt

  • library at, 6:278, 6:542, 6:542

Alexandria, Va.

  • banks in, 8:19, 8:19
  • British raid on, 7:623–7:624, 7:642, 7:648
  • commerce at, 4:26, 7:141
  • merino sheep shipped to, 2:166, 2:233, 2:313, 2:360–2:361, 2:362, 2:366, 2:379, 2:481
  • port of, 4:27, 7:623–7:624, 7:642
  • as site for cotton manufactory, 8:179
  • and state university for Va., 13:189
  • surrender of, 7:618, 7:642, 7:643–7:644, 7:644n, 7:648, 8:153
  • threatened by British forces, 8:153, 8:154
  • TJ on, 7:648
  • yellow fever in, 10:35

Alexandria Gazette, 5:173, 12:627, 12:628n, 12:631n, 15:106n

Alexeievna, Elizabeth, empress of Russia

  • and L. Harris, 13:118, 13:119n

alfalfa, 11:308–11:309

Alfonso X, king of Castile and León

  • Las Siete Partidas, 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:546

Alfred (“the Great”), king of Wessex

  • The Anglo-Saxon Version, From the Historian Orosius. By Ælfred the Great, 8:236, 8:237n
  • Annales rerum gestarum Ælfredi Magni (Asser), 12:372, 12:372, 12:389, 12:389, 12:514
  • and land tax, 2:571
  • laws of, 7:125, 7:147
  • mentioned, 16:194, 19:303

Algiers

  • American captives at, 6:164, 17:453, 17:459n, 17:464–17:465
  • conflict with Great Britain, 10:216–10:217, 10:218n
  • dey of, 10:216, 10:218n, 10:286, 10:286n, 11:9, 11:122, 11:123n
  • 1815 U.S. treaty with, 9:17, 9:18n, 10:216–10:217, 10:218n
  • 1816 U.S. treaty with, 11:123n
  • D. Humphreys’s mission to, 10:676–10:677, 11:60
  • mentioned, 10:483, 17:336
  • relations with U.S., 19:73, 19:124–19:125, 19:427
  • 1795 U.S. treaty with, 6:159–6:160n, 17:453, 17:459n
  • and TJ’s Proposed Convention against the Barbary States, 17:340–17:341
  • U.S. consulate at, 6:158, 6:159–6:160n, 6:164, 6:164–6:165, 10:217, 10:218n, 11:534n, 17:455

Algonquian Indians, 12:236, 12:385, 16:109n, 16:261, 16:261, 16:262

Ali, Hadji, dey of Algiers, 6:159–6:160n, 6:208, 6:208, 7:224

Ali Bey (ruler of Egypt), 11:613

alidades

  • for U.S. Coast Survey, 9:222

Alien and Sedition Acts, 1:278, 3:452n, 3:473, 6:191, 6:192n, 6:537–6:538n, 15:17, 18:33, 18:34, 18:467, 18:468n

Ali Hassan, dey of Algiers

  • and diplomatic negotiations, 17:453, 17:453, 17:453–17:454, 17:459n, 17:459n

Alisma plantago-aquatica. See water plantain

Alison, Archibald

  • Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, 19:505
  • Sermons, chiefly on particular occasions, 12:534

Allegany County, Md.

  • letter to citizens of, 1:94

Allegheny lily, 1:660, 2:36, 4:523

Allegheny Mountains

  • altitude of, 9:10, 9:10n, 9:172n, 9:193, 13:348
  • formation of, 12:629–12:630
  • and map of Va., 9:687
  • mentioned, 12:492, 12:630, 12:631

Allegheny River

  • navigation on, 15:493

Allegre, Mr.

  • J. R. Jefferson’s debt to, 17:102, 17:103, 17:146

Allen, Mr. (judge), 10:498

Allen, Daniel, 14:457n

Allen, Ethan

  • views on women, 19:320

Allen, Hancock, 2:168, 2:169n

Allen, Herman

  • as U.S. minister plenipotentiary to Chile, 19:338n

Allen, James Skelton, 18:653

Allen, Jedediah, 18:653

Allen, Jonathan

  • Address of Jonathan Allen, Esq. President of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, delivered before the Berkshire Association for the promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures, at Pittsfield, October 4, 1821, 18:121, 18:121–18:122n
  • identified, 18:121n
  • letter to, 18:121–18:122

Allen, Paul

  • and N. Biddle’s history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 6:357, 6:417, 6:417, 6:418–6:424, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:430, 6:531, 6:531–6:532, 7:63–7:64, 7:64n, 7:289, 9:704, 9:706–9:707n, 10:60, 12:171, 17:307
  • A History of the American Revolution, 6:231, 6:231n, 6:373
  • identified, 6:357n
  • letters from, 6:427, 7:63–7:64
  • letters from accounted for, 6:357n
  • letters to, 6:357, 6:418–6:426, 6:429
  • and memoir of C. B. Brown, 3:632, 3:633n
  • proposed work by, 13:478n

Allen, Samuel C. See also Allen & Bryant (N.J. firm)

  • as bookseller, 15:403n

Allen, S. & M., & Company (Richmond firm). See S. & M. Allen & Company (Richmond firm)

Allen, Solomon

  • seeks postmastership, 7:313

Allen, William (1784–1868)

  • and American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres, 16:532n

Allen, William (of R.I.), 2:319

Allen, William O.

  • identified, 2:204n
  • letters from, 2:204–2:205
  • letters to, 2:339–2:340
  • and Logan’s speech, 2:204, 2:339–2:340

Allen & Bryant (N.J. firm)

  • identified, 15:403n
  • letter from, 15:402–15:403
  • as publishers, 15:402–15:403, 15:403n

Allender, Sidney

  • signs petition, 18:146

Allen’s Academy (Hyde Park, N.Y.), 19:596

Alligewi Indians, 16:153–16:156, 16:171–16:176, 16:177–16:181, 16:355, 16:396

Allison, Mr.

  • and Niagara Campaign, 5:540

Allison, Burgess

  • and American Philosophical Society, 4:167n
  • as chaplain, 13:425
  • and J. I. Hawkins, 6:559, 6:574
  • identified, 6:559–6:560n
  • and W. Lambert’s astronomical calculations, 4:637n
  • letters from, 6:574–6:575, 13:425
  • letters to, 6:559–6:560, 13:440
  • sends pamphlet to TJ, 13:425, 13:425n, 13:440
  • spinning machine of, 6:559, 7:406, 8:535, 8:547, 10:32, 10:33n

Allison, John

  • endorses note, 15:350

Allison, Mary D., 2:87, 2:88n

Allison, Thomas, 2:87

Allone, William B. W.

  • letters from, 1:101–1:102, 2:241
  • requests money from TJ, 1:101–1:102, 2:241

Alloway, Mr.

  • and University of Virginia, 17:625

allspice, 1:45, 6:348, 16:10, 16:191, 16:191n

All the Orations of Demosthenes (Demosthenes; trans. T. Leland), 19:505

almanacs, 16:12, 18:42, 19:591

almanacs, nautical See also Blunt, Edmund March; Garnett, John

  • offered for sale, 15:440
  • TJ on, 4:55
  • TJ purchases, 4:289, 8:118, 8:142, 9:60, 10:580, 10:630, 10:642, 11:13, 11:13n, 11:31, 15:465, 17:64, 17:232, 19:669, 19:696
  • used to calculate longitude, 18:540, 19:199, 19:208–19:209, 19:210–19:211

Almeida, Portugal

  • French forces besiege, 2:667

Almon, John

  • and A Collection of Tracts, on the subjects of Taxing the British Colonies in America, and Regulating Their Trade, 19:470

almonds

  • cultivation of, 16:546
  • at Monticello, 3:455, 11:39
  • and Moses, 18:95
  • sent to TJ, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487, 4:522, 4:530, 6:163

Alpha (sloop), 10:342

Alpine strawberry, 2:481, 2:482n, 2:543, 3:353, 4:34, 4:561, 4:562

Alrichs, Jacob

  • identified, 5:312–5:313n
  • letters to, 5:312–5:313
  • mentioned, 5:268, 10:4, 10:4
  • C. A. Rodney on, 16:294
  • and TJ’s wool-carding machine, 16:294

Alrichs & Dixon (Wilmington, Del., firm)

  • account with TJ, 5:670, 5:671, 5:672n, 5:683, 6:3
  • and carding machine, 5:312, 5:321–5:322, 5:335, 5:356, 5:477, 5:515, 5:560, 5:566–5:567, 5:655, 5:656, 5:683–5:684, 6:3, 6:24, 6:24
  • identified, 5:322–5:323n
  • on large factories, 6:24
  • letters from, 5:321–5:323, 5:477–5:478, 5:515, 5:683–5:684, 6:24
  • letters to, 5:335, 5:356, 5:566–5:567, 5:655, 6:3
  • TJ pays, 6:20

Alsop, John

  • friendship with J. Barnes, 14:3
  • as member of Continental Congress, 13:333n

Alston, Jacob Motte

  • death of, 13:372, 13:373n

Alston, Joseph

  • death of, 10:443, 10:443n, 13:372, 13:373n
  • education of, 10:443n
  • family of, 13:243

Alston, Lemuel James

  • identified, 2:218n
  • letters from, 2:218
  • letters to, 2:252–2:253
  • and merino sheep, 2:218, 2:252

Alston, Theodosia Burr (Joseph Alston’s wife)

  • family of, 13:243

Alston, William

  • family of, 13:303, 13:372, 13:373n, 13:557
  • flour for, 15:487
  • health of, 13:302
  • identified, 13:244n
  • letters from, 13:372–13:373, 13:557
  • letter to, 13:302–13:303
  • sends rice to TJ, 13:373, 13:530, 13:557, 14:37, 14:267, 15:487
  • TJ invites to Monticello, 13:302, 13:373
  • and TJ’s health, 16:249
  • visits Warm Springs, 13:243, 13:243n
  • wine for, 13:243, 13:302, 13:314, 13:325, 13:349, 13:372, 13:530, 13:557

Alston, Willis, 3:330, 4:39, 5:206, 5:207n

Altezera (sloop), 13:530, 13:557

althaea (rose of Sharon), 3:354, 9:533

altitude

  • of Allegheny Mountains, 13:348
  • barometers used to calculate, 9:9–9:10, 9:10n, 9:11, 9:12n, 9:71–9:72, 9:187, 9:188–9:192, 9:193, 9:241, 9:313–9:315, 9:316–9:317n, 9:642, 11:51, 11:51–11:52, 12:341–12:342, 12:343–12:344, 12:491–12:492, 13:348
  • calculations for Peaks of Otter, 9:18, 9:18, 9:27, 9:71, 9:72, 9:131, 9:144, 9:145, 9:148, 9:153, 9:154–9:156, 9:156–9:172, 9:173, 9:183, 9:187, 9:315–9:316, 13:348, 13:385, 13:385n
  • mathematical source for calculating, 9:69–9:70, 9:80–9:82
  • of Monticello, 9:71, 9:314–9:315, 9:317n
  • and navigation, 12:342–12:343
  • of Peter’s Mountain, 9:316
  • thermometers used to calculate, 12:343–12:344, 12:491–12:492
  • tools for calculating, 9:205–9:206

Altorf, a Tragedy (F. Wright), 15:612, 15:613n

alum

  • manufacture of, 13:147
  • medicinal use of, 15:46
  • TJ purchases, 16:10, 18:50

Alvares, Manuel

  • Prosodia: sive Institutionum Linguæ Latina, 14:276, 14:351

Alvensleben, Philip Charles, von

  • as diplomat, 17:348

Ama, Italy. See Casanuova di Ama, Italy

Amadas, Philip, 11:293+, 11:293n+

Amanda (TJ’s slave; b. 1815)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 12:303
  • on smallpox vaccination list, 9:717

amaryllis, 3:545

Amaryllis atamasco (Zephyranthes atamasco). See Atamasco lily

Amaryllis belladonna. See belladonna lily

Ambler, Edward, 14:587n

Ambler, John

  • house of, 9:502n
  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:587n
  • and TJ’s Richmond lot, 4:154

Ambrister, Robert, 13:286n, 13:587, 14:92, 14:111–14:112n, 14:466, 14:467n

Ambrose (TJ’s slave; 17991819)

  • death of, 13:567, 13:605
  • medical care of, 7:387, 7:387
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:386, 5:462, 6:308, 6:309, 8:61, 8:255

Amedie (ship), 3:514n

Amelia County, Va.

  • TJ visits, 2:76, 2:77n, 2:183

Amelia Island

  • illegal outpost on, 12:271, 12:272n
  • and ports in E. Fla., 4:593, 4:594n, 4:623, 4:665n

Amendments and Notes to Statement on the Batture Case (Thomas Jefferson), 3:226–3:227, 3:316, 3:424–3:425

Americae Pars Quinta, part five of The Great or American Voyages, Parts I to XI, in Latin (T. de Bry), 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

“An American” (pseudonym)

  • The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: containing historical sketches, and anecdotes illustrative of his public and private character, 15:402–15:403, 15:403n

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • agricultural committee of, 11:273n
  • collaboration with, 4:228, 4:229n
  • fellows of, 18:354
  • Memoirs, 4:196, 4:197n, 13:247, 16:380, 18:354, 18:355–18:356

American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres

  • circular of, 16:533–16:539
  • constitution of, 16:538, 16:539–16:541
  • founding of, 15:419–15:422, 16:531–16:532, 16:533–16:539, 16:571
  • identified, 15:423n
  • members of, 16:531–16:532, 16:532n, 16:536–16:537, 16:540
  • mentioned, 18:259
  • premiums awarded by, 16:532
  • TJ proposed as president of, 15:422, 15:423n, 15:455

American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore newspaper)

  • mentioned, 2:173, 2:174n
  • prints TJ’s correspondence, 1:178n, 1:221n

American Annals; or, a Chronological History of America, from its discovery in 1492 to 1806 (A. Holmes), 18:656, 19:461–19:463, 19:463–19:464n, 19:510

American Antiquarian Society

  • An Account of the American Antiquarian Society, 7:47, 7:47n
  • Archæologia Americana: Transactions and Collections, 16:351, 16:352n, 18:322–18:323, 18:326
  • building for, 18:325
  • S. Burnside as recording secretary of, 7:47, 7:115, 7:520, 7:521n, 7:595–7:596, 8:207–8:208
  • collections of, 11:454, 18:323, 18:323, 18:325, 18:325
  • donations to, 18:325, 18:325, 18:326n
  • incorporation of, 8:208, 8:208n, 18:xlix
  • and Indian antiquities, 16:155, 16:180
  • letter from, 18:322–18:324
  • meetings of, 18:322, 18:325–18:326
  • members of, 16:182n, 17:88, 18:325–18:326
  • R. Newton as recording secretary of, 18:xlix–18:l, 18:25, 18:323
  • report of, 18:322, 18:325–18:326
  • I. Thomas as president of, 18:xlix–18:l, 18:322, 18:325, 18:326n
  • TJ elected a member of, 7:47, 7:115, 7:520, 7:521n, 7:596, 8:207, 18:xlix, 18:25, 18:25n
  • TJ sends historical manuscript to, 7:520, 7:520–7:521n, 7:521n, 7:595–7:596, 8:207
  • and TJ’s membership diploma, 18:xlix–18:l, 18:25, 18:25n, 18:196 (illus.)

American Artillerist’s Companion, or Elements of Artillery (Tousard), 1:412, 1:412n, 2:332n

The American Artist’s Manual (J. Cutbush), 5:633n, 5:634n, 5:661, 6:571, 6:571n, 8:43, 8:195, 8:196n, 15:307

American Bible Society, 10:507, 10:509n, 19:703n

American Biography: or, An Historical Account Of those Persons who have been distinguished in America (Belknap), 5:387

American Board of Agriculture

  • founding of, 11:279n, 11:338, 11:339n
  • and L. P. G. de Lormerie, 1:133, 1:134n, 3:33, 3:35n

American Citizen (New York newspaper), 10:332–10:333, 10:333, 10:334–10:335n, 17:216n

The American Coast Pilot (E. M. Blunt), 12:342, 12:343n, 13:36

American Colonization Society, 1:30n, 1:39n, 2:196n, 11:61, 11:61n, 14:264, 14:265n, 14:577–14:578, 15:57, 18:294n

The American Distiller (M. Krafft), 8:410, 8:412n

American Edition of the British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (W. Nicholson), 10:192–10:193, 10:193n

The American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopedia (Parker and Delaplaine), 3:51n, 3:589, 3:609

American Farmer

  • establishment of, 15:359–15:360
  • prints TJ’s catalogue of books on agriculture, 11:165n
  • prints TJ’s writings, 11:163–11:164n, 15:361n, 15:418n, 15:418n, 15:602n, 18:437, 18:465, 19:528n
  • and scuppernong, 11:293n+, 11:293n+
  • sent to TJ, 15:360, 15:361n, 15:578, 15:578–15:579n
  • and wheat fans, 14:537, 14:539–14:540n

American Fur Company, 4:551, 4:552, 4:553, 5:74–5:75

The American Gardener (J. Gardiner and D. Hepburn), 4:289n, 6:118, 6:167, 6:214, 6:214, 6:215, 8:388, 8:672, 11:165, 12:438, 12:480, 13:350, 13:351n, 13:408, 13:408n, 13:441, 14:93, 14:215n

The American Gardener’s Calendar (B. McMahon), 1:35, 1:582, 2:83, 3:327, 4:289n, 5:412, 9:60, 11:165, 11:352, 13:33, 13:47, 13:47, 13:100, 13:107, 13:126

The American Gazetteer (J. Morse), 17:127, 17:128n

American Geological Society

  • An Act to incorporate The American Geological Society (1819), 14:648, 15:461n
  • constitution of, 15:461n, 15:489
  • TJ’s membership in, 15:56, 15:460

The American Instructor: or, Young Man’s Best Companion (G. Fisher), 15:182–15:183, 15:183n

American Journal of Science, 12:626, 12:627n, 13:310, 13:327, 15:357, 17:65

American Jurisprudence (R. Rush), 9:107, 9:107n, 9:129

American Law Journal (J. E. Hall), 5:176, 5:219–5:220, 5:222, 5:245, 5:254, 5:294, 6:627–6:628, 7:95–7:96, 7:96n, 7:241–7:242, 11:541, 11:599–11:600, 11:600n, 12:552, 12:577, 13:368, 13:369n, 14:165, 15:340

American Magazine (Albany)

  • bound for TJ, 13:456
  • edited by H. G. Spafford, 1:106n, 8:470, 8:470, 8:470–8:471n, 8:488, 9:183, 9:184n, 9:297–9:298, 9:298n, 9:339, 9:340n, 9:344, 9:344n, 9:378, 10:544, 10:545, 10:545n, 10:586, 10:586n, 10:595, 11:5–11:6, 11:6n, 11:278, 11:279n, 11:659n
  • TJ subscribes to, 8:488, 11:659, 12:51

American Magazine (New York)

  • B. Franklin as contributor to, 15:418

American Medical and Philosophical Register: or, Annals of Medicine, Natural History, Agriculture, and the Arts, 11:4, 11:4n, 15:128

American Mineralogical Journal, 5:554n

American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 17:88n

American Museum: or Repository of ancient and modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. prose and poetical

  • B. Franklin as contributor to, 15:418
  • and parmesan cheese, 15:418n
  • prints observations on American Indian languages, 19:349n

American Ornithology (A. Wilson), 2:483n, 3:623n, 4:289, 7:626, 8:22, 8:22–8:23n, 8:671, 8:672n, 9:59–9:60, 9:130, 13:105–13:106, 13:106n, 13:306–13:307, 13:344–13:345, 19:547, 19:569

American Philosophical Society

  • Adelung offers to assist, 2:468n
  • astronomical committee of, 12:636, 13:291, 13:291n, 13:308
  • B. S. Barton as vice president of, 8:193, 8:194n, 8:318, 8:319, 8:321, 8:321, 8:323, 8:324, 8:327
  • B. S. Barton to present paper to, 2:509
  • and S. Brown’s work, 5:553–5:554, 5:554n
  • collections of, 9:178, 9:179n, 9:453–9:454, 11:21–11:22, 11:125–11:126, 11:206, 11:426, 11:477, 12:172, 12:236, 12:331, 15:149, 15:150n
  • and compensating thermometer, 5:558
  • and corn-shelling machine, 7:83, 8:459
  • and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:351, 8:167, 8:193
  • and Destutt de Tracy, 6:458, 6:459–6:460n, 9:441–9:442, 9:485, 9:485, 9:630, 16:487–16:488n
  • and G. Du Jareau, 2:372, 2:375n, 2:663, 2:664, 2:665n, 3:41–3:42
  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours sends works to, 4:24n
  • and election of officers, 12:322, 12:390, 12:390n, 12:469
  • expresses its thanks to and regard for TJ, 8:202, 8:206, 8:246
  • and fish, 5:601–5:602, 5:604n
  • forwards publications to TJ, 1:452, 1:453n, 4:167, 4:167n, 4:325, 15:477
  • B. Franklin as president of, 12:322
  • and S. Godon, 2:404n
  • T. T. Hewson acknowledges gift to, 2:536, 2:536–2:537n
  • and J. A. Houdon’s bust of TJ, 8:40, 8:41n
  • and B. de La Harpe manuscript, 9:446, 9:658, 9:658–9:659n, 12:156, 12:331–12:332, 12:371
  • and W. Lambert, 2:54–2:55, 2:68n, 2:337–2:338, 2:541, 2:566, 4:637n, 4:651, 4:660n, 5:251, 5:311, 7:436–7:437, 7:437n, 7:486
  • C. P. De Lasteyrie sends work to, 3:461–3:462
  • letter from, 8:202–8:203
  • librarian of, 1:452–1:453, 1:455, 1:482
  • and mammoth bones, 12:348
  • and mastodon bones, 1:510–1:511, 5:572–5:573, 5:573n
  • membership diplomas, 6:xliv–6:xlv, 6:75, 6:84, 6:115–6:116, 6:386 (illus.), 6:458, 6:460n
  • members of, 1:101n, 1:152n, 1:172n, 1:194n, 1:453n, 1:482, 1:521n, 1:571–1:572, 1:609n, 1:663n, 2:75n, 2:236n, 2:377n, 2:404n, 3:40n, 3:94n, 4:431n, 4:501n, 4:617n, 4:638n, 5:19n, 5:25n, 5:79n, 5:101n, 5:372n, 5:459n, 6:459n, 7:437n, 8:42, 8:43, 8:101–8:102, 8:242n, 8:363n, 9:xlv, 9:179n, 9:342n, 9:366n+, 10:76n, 10:364n, 10:486, 10:616n, 12:250, 12:251n, 12:460, 13:123n, 13:148n, 13:176n, 13:367n, 13:575n, 14:140n, 14:180n, 14:186n, 14:569n, 14:570n, 15:438n, 16:43n, 16:205, 16:210n, 16:214n, 16:341n, 16:348n, 16:352n, 16:601n, 17:20n, 17:204n, 18:65n, 18:266n, 18:512n, 19:224n, 19:463n, 19:472n
  • members of, foreign, 1:72n, 1:146n, 1:452, 1:453n, 1:471n, 2:510n, 3:63n, 3:115n, 3:461–3:462, 3:472n, 4:538–4:539n, 5:514n, 5:604n, 8:362, 8:363n, 9:135n, 13:512n, 14:342n
  • F. A. Michaux sends works to, 3:320–3:321, 8:362
  • and A. Michaux’s western exploration, 6:420–6:421
  • and natural history exploration, 13:249, 13:253, 13:280
  • and Noël de la Morinière’s works, 5:601–5:602, 5:604n
  • observatory proposed by, 15:319, 15:320n
  • orations delivered to, 17:141n
  • and papers of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 10:377, 11:454, 11:486–11:487, 11:574, 12:171–12:172, 12:235–12:236, 12:463n, 12:636, 12:636–12:638
  • R. Patterson as president of, 13:67n, 14:133, 14:133n
  • R. Patterson as vice president of, 8:193, 8:194n
  • R. M. Patterson as secretary of, 7:113, 7:142, 8:102, 8:122, 8:202, 8:206, 8:246–8:247, 12:390, 12:469
  • and Philadelphia Museum, 1:46n, 10:204
  • D. Rittenhouse as president of, 12:322
  • and B. Rush portrait, 4:xlvi
  • and sale of TJ’s library to Congress, 8:40–8:41, 8:41n
  • and Saturday evening meetings, 12:455, 12:482
  • and H. G. Spafford’s works, 9:340n
  • and tariffs on books, 17:656, 17:656
  • TJ as counsellor of, 12:322, 12:390, 12:469, 12:469n
  • TJ as president of, 1:540, 4:411–4:412, 4:462, 4:637n, 5:601–5:602, 5:603n, 6:59–6:60, 6:83, 7:407, 7:436–7:437, 12:249, 12:322, 12:627, 12:628
  • TJ donates fossils to, 8:447, 8:449n, 12:150
  • TJ forwards material to, 1:97n, 1:98n, 1:100–1:101, 1:140, 1:152n, 1:482, 1:535, 1:571–1:572, 1:608–1:609, 1:609n, 4:147, 4:149n, 5:92, 6:516, 6:518, 7:243, 7:281, 7:281n, 7:281n, 7:288–7:289, 7:446, 7:486, 7:621, 7:621n, 12:322, 13:67, 13:312
  • TJ proposes to donate minerals to, 6:84
  • TJ reelected president of, 2:128, 2:170, 3:284–3:285, 3:312, 6:60n, 6:83, 7:113, 7:142, 8:102, 8:102, 8:102–8:103n
  • TJ resigns from presidency of, 8:41n, 8:101–8:102, 8:102, 8:103, 8:122, 8:123n, 8:167, 8:193, 8:194n, 8:202, 8:206, 8:246, 8:247, 8:445, 13:67
  • TJ’s purported offer to give books to, 8:41, 8:41n
  • Transactions, 1:36, 2:71, 2:222, 2:404n, 4:651, 6:206, 7:621, 7:621n, 8:643, 8:645n, 9:10, 9:10n, 9:12n, 9:26n, 9:193, 9:194n, 11:376, 11:398, 11:398, 11:398n, 11:398n, 11:427, 11:454, 11:486, 12:172, 12:322, 12:335, 12:385, 12:441, 12:462–12:463, 15:144, 15:144n, 19:197n
  • and J. B. Treat, 2:46–2:47, 2:135, 2:226
  • trunks and cases for, 6:45
  • W. Vaughan sends works to, 5:513–5:514, 5:514–5:515n
  • and D. B. Warden, 2:536, 2:536–2:537n
  • and weights, measures, and coins, 4:167, 4:167n, 4:222, 4:228, 4:409
  • and C. Wistar, 1:100, 1:677, 8:103, 8:193, 8:194n, 8:202, 8:246, 8:247n, 8:247, 8:445, 8:449n, 12:386, 12:387, 12:390, 12:469, 12:556, 12:608, 12:609, 13:67, 13:67n
  • works given to, 6:84, 6:84n, 6:458, 6:459n, 8:40, 11:501, 11:574, 11:574n, 12:249, 12:627–12:628, 12:628–12:631, 13:377, 13:377n, 16:487–16:488n
  • works offered to, 10:500–10:501, 13:377, 17:58n

American Philosophical Society, Historical and Literary Committee

  • activities of, 12:249–12:251, 12:331–12:332, 12:385–12:386, 12:636
  • and W. Byrd manuscripts, 11:21–11:22, 11:125–11:126, 11:206, 11:206n, 11:487, 12:168–12:169, 12:236, 12:331, 12:371, 12:371–12:372, 12:390–12:392, 12:486, 12:504–12:505
  • formation of, 9:177–9:178, 9:178–9:179n, 9:383–9:384, 9:453–9:454
  • identified, 9:179n
  • members of, 9:177, 9:178–9:179n, 9:180n
  • Prospectuses for Transactions of, 13:88, 13:89–13:90
  • reports of, 12:322, 12:462–12:463
  • resolution by, 9:180
  • TJ sends works to, 9:383–9:384, 9:453, 11:21–11:22, 12:156, 12:169, 12:172–12:173, 12:235, 12:236, 12:249, 12:294, 12:322, 12:331, 12:371, 12:371, 12:385–12:386, 12:390–12:391, 12:392, 12:462–12:463, 12:486, 12:504–12:505, 12:556, 13:68, 14:132n, 16:107–16:108, 16:108
  • Transactions, 14:81, 14:132, 14:166, 14:183, 19:117, 19:117n
  • works given to, 12:636–12:638

The American Practical Brewer and Tanner (J. Coppinger), 6:510, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647, 7:259, 7:285, 7:292, 8:410–8:411, 8:412n, 8:439, 9:29, 9:30n, 9:50n

American Principles (J. Q. Adams), 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435n

American Register, or General Repository of History, Politics and Science (ed. R. Walsh), 11:178n

American Register; or Summary Review of History, Politics, and Literature (ed. R. Walsh), 11:178, 11:178n, 11:215, 11:635, 11:635–11:636n, 12:35, 12:100, 12:101, 12:345, 12:403, 12:488, 12:514, 12:529, 12:656, 13:100, 13:106, 13:144, 16:486, 16:488n

The American Remembrancer (J. Hardie), 9:60

American Revolution See also Revolutionary War

  • J. Adams on, 8:682–8:683, 12:530–12:531, 12:531n, 13:69, 14:447–14:448, 16:441, 16:590
  • advice of participants sought, 17:442
  • books on, 3:41, 3:41n, 3:98, 6:55, 6:122, 6:231, 6:231n, 6:258, 6:373, 8:178, 8:179n, 8:266, 10:276–10:277, 10:646–10:647, 11:313, 11:364, 12:534, 13:523, 13:523n, 14:49, 14:120, 14:120–14:121n, 14:137–14:138, 14:156, 14:225–14:226, 14:373–14:375, 16:27, 16:42, 16:91, 16:93–16:94, 16:127, 16:204, 16:209, 16:218, 16:286, 16:440–16:442, 16:472–16:473, 16:496–16:497, 16:516, 16:517n, 16:524, 16:578, 16:580–16:584, 16:615, 16:635, 17:58n, 18:666, 19:462, 19:669, 19:694
  • and boycotts, 18:144–18:145
  • and Bunker Hill Association, 2:504–2:505
  • and S. Chew’s speech, 4:152, 4:153n
  • and committees of correspondence, 8:200, 8:200–8:201n, 9:219–9:220, 9:220n, 9:289, 9:289n, 9:367–9:369, 9:369n, 14:226, 14:288–14:289, 14:373–14:374, 14:376–14:377
  • disputes over origin of, 12:493–12:497, 12:517–12:518, 12:530–12:531, 12:531n, 12:548–12:549, 13:29n, 13:48, 13:69, 13:578, 14:225, 14:288–14:290, 16:581–16:582, 16:615, 17:312–17:313, 17:420n, 17:490, 17:506, 19:216
  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 10:41
  • and fugitive slaves, 3:319
  • historiography of, 1:288–1:289, 1:334, 1:634n, 14:225–14:227, 15:128
  • and Lafayette, 2:10–2:11, 3:314, 3:315n, 8:266, 11:283, 12:247, 12:299, 12:300n, 12:355n, 13:140, 13:141n, 19:101
  • and martial law, 10:422–10:423, 10:423n
  • materials for study of, 6:373, 8:200, 8:266, 8:625–8:626, 8:657, 8:682–8:683, 16:286, 19:391
  • and Mecklenburg Co., N.C., “Declaration of Independence,” 14:447–14:448, 14:448–14:451, 14:523–14:525, 14:546, 14:563
  • and meeting with R. Howe, 8:20, 8:20n
  • mentioned, 2:604, 6:358n, 7:465–7:466, 15:48n, 18:599
  • and Missouri question, 15:550–15:551
  • and N.Y. loyalists, 2:289
  • R. Peters on, 11:483–11:484
  • reflections on, 13:254, 13:577–13:578, 13:578–13:579n, 13:619, 17:276n, 17:278, 19:321, 19:384, 19:384
  • relics of, 11:167, 11:168, 11:344
  • role of divine providence in, 14:27
  • Seventy-Six Association, 4:105–4:107, 4:175+, 13:158n
  • speeches delivered during, 10:601–10:602, 10:602n, 10:646–10:647, 11:5, 14:49, 14:120, 14:120–14:121n, 14:137–14:138, 14:156, 14:227, 14:228n, 14:293
  • J. S. Stake’s service in, 4:623, 4:624n
  • TJ on, 2:421, 2:505, 2:529, 2:541, 4:470–4:471, 8:231, 8:481, 8:533, 8:575, 10:548, 12:441, 12:517–12:518, 12:548–12:549, 12:549n, 13:24, 13:26–13:27, 13:27–13:28, 13:48, 14:288–14:293, 14:293, 14:463–14:464, 15:16, 17:310–17:311, 17:349
  • toasts honoring, 1:608+, 1:615+
  • J. Tyler on, 2:384, 2:385, 2:386
  • U.S. financing of, 6:223, 6:490–6:491, 6:588, 6:593n+, 6:601, 12:421, 12:422
  • and U.S. Navy, 6:15, 6:183, 6:184n
  • and U.S. territorial boundaries, 9:690, 9:692n
  • and Va. land warrants, 2:74, 2:94, 4:134–4:135, 4:135n, 4:176, 4:566–4:567, 4:568–4:569n, 4:585, 13:513, 13:580, 16:41, 16:86, 18:7–18:8
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504, 4:507
  • and writs of assistance, 12:494–12:496

The American Senator. or a copious and impartial report of the Debates in the Congress of the United States (T. Carpenter), 17:609, 17:610n, 18:166, 18:181

American Sentinel (Philadelphia newspaper), 19:330, 19:330, 19:332n, 19:334

American Society for promoting the civilization and general improvement of the Indian Tribes within the United States

  • E. Caldwell as recording secretary of, 18:249, 18:250n
  • constitution of, 18:236–18:237, 18:250n, 18:260n, 18:267–18:268
  • criticism of, 18:267–18:270, 18:277, 18:293–18:294
  • dissolution of, 18:294n
  • J. Madison on, 18:258–18:260
  • mentioned, 18:644
  • TJ declines membership in, 18:249–18:250, 18:267, 18:270

American Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures

  • addresses of, 10:645–10:646, 10:652–10:653, 10:653n, 11:136, 11:136n
  • identified, 11:442n
  • members of, 11:442n
  • memorials to Congress of, 10:653, 10:653n
  • TJ’s membership, 11:441, 11:442n, 11:478

The American Speaker (A. Small), 7:331–7:332, 7:332n, 7:373–7:374, 7:374n, 7:378n, 7:630

American State Papers and Public Documents, 1:36

American Statesman & City Register (Boston newspaper), 19:334

American Unitarianism or a Brief History of “The Progress and Present State of the Unitarian Churches in America” … Extracted from his “Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend Theophilus Lindsey,” printed in London, 1812 (T. Belsham), 8:553, 8:553–8:554n, 8:658, 13:29n, 13:132, 13:160

American Watchman and Delaware Advertiser (Wilmington, Del., newspaper), 18:538

American Weekly Messenger; or, Register of state papers, history and politics (Philadelphia newspaper), 6:599, 6:599n

Ames, Fisher

  • J. Adams on, 9:432
  • criticized by J. Q. Adams, 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435, 4:435n
  • death of, 10:360
  • and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 7:498, 9:352n, 10:536n

Ames, Horace, 10:193, 10:193n

Amherst, Sir Jeffery, 1:290, 12:494

Amicus. See Cerus

Amiens

  • treaty of (1802), 6:205, 7:298, 7:298–7:299, 7:300n

Amiot, Madame, 1:450

Ammaestramenti degli Antichi (B. da San Concordio), 13:39, 13:41n

Ammiani Marcellini rerum gestarum libri qui supersunt (Ammianus Marcellinus; ed. A. W. Ernesti), 17:138, 17:138n, 17:447

Ammianus Marcellinus

  • Ammiani Marcellini rerum gestarum libri qui supersunt (ed. A. W. Ernesti), 17:138, 17:138n, 17:447
  • quoted, 11:424n, 11:425n

ammonia (spirit of hartshorn), 4:102

ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac)

  • for copper utensils, 1:467, 1:467, 3:183, 3:200
  • medicinal use of, 13:73, 13:73n, 13:73n

Amonett, Thomas

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • and University of Virginia, 16:315

amphibians

  • study of, 11:191

Ampthill (R. Harrison’s Cumberland Co. estate), 9:49n

Amsterdam

  • exchange rate in, 9:181–9:182
  • U.S. consulate at, 11:659–11:660, 11:660n, 11:660, 12:22
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Amy (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Amy (TJ’s slave; b. 1756)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:386

Amy (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

  • and child rearing, 13:605
  • children of, 13:567, 13:567n
  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:309, 8:61, 8:255

Anabaptists

  • mentioned, 11:363

Anabasis (Xenophon), 7:662, 16:330

The Anabasis (Xenophon; trans. E. Spelman), 1:580, 19:505

Anacreon (Greek poet), 7:448, 10:357, 11:126, 14:510, 15:24

Anacreon Teius, poeta lyricus (Anacreon; ed. J. Barnes), 10:357, 14:510, 15:24

Anahuac Indians, 16:154

The Analectic Magazine, 8:626, 8:626n, 13:127, 13:127n, 13:127n, 13:143–13:144, 13:174, 13:174n, 13:310, 13:327, 13:368, 13:517, 13:518n, 13:602–13:603, 13:603n, 14:166, 14:446, 15:29, 15:29n, 15:340, 15:357, 15:429, 15:430n, 15:481, 16:217, 16:293, 16:294, 16:627, 16:639, 18:190, 18:197

Ἀνάλεκτα Ἑλληνικὰ Ἥσσονα. sive Collectanea Græca Minora (A. Dalzel), 16:381, 19:478

Ἀνάλεκτα Ἑλληνικὰ Μείζονα sive Collectanea Græca Majora (A. Dalzel), 16:381, 16:443

The Analogy of Religion (J. Butler), 3:590, 3:590n, 16:381, 16:458

Analostan Island. See Mason’s Island

Analyse des Infiniment Petits, Pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes (L’Hospital), 15:588, 15:589n

Analyse du Traite de Mécanique Céleste de P. S. Laplace (J. B. Biot), 13:314n

Analyse Raisonnée de l’Origine de Tous les Cultes, ou Religion Universelle (Destutt de Tracy), 10:459, 10:507, 10:550, 10:573, 10:573, 10:584n, 10:586–10:587, 10:604, 11:359

Analysis of Green Tobacco (N. L. Vauquelin), 1:142–1:146, 1:482

Analysis of Prepared Tobacco (N. L. Vauquelin), 1:147–1:152, 1:482

An Analysis of the Experiment in Education, made at Egmore, near Madras (A. Bell), 7:342, 7:342n

An Analytical Digested Index of the Reported Cases in the Several Courts of Equity, and the high Court of Parliament (R. W. Bridgman), 12:291, 12:337, 12:364, 13:33, 13:47, 13:47, 13:100, 13:107, 16:642n, 18:334, 18:335

“Anas” (Thomas Jefferson), 2:92, 2:93n, 12:416–12:429, 12:431

anatomy

  • books on, 1:35, 1:307, 7:626, 8:429, 8:429n, 19:76, 19:76n
  • chair of, at University of Pennsylvania, 13:429, 13:430n, 14:4
  • collegiate education in, 12:4, 12:33, 12:33, 12:76, 12:84, 12:123, 12:490, 12:647, 12:648, 13:195, 13:197, 13:214, 13:217, 13:403, 14:323–14:324, 14:453–14:454, 14:488, 14:614, 15:123, 15:124n, 16:296n, 16:628, 16:629n, 17:236, 17:328, 17:493
  • study of, 1:101n, 6:253, 7:638, 7:640, 7:641, 7:663, 7:667, 7:687, 8:13, 11:191, 17:494
  • TJ on study of, 19:249

Anatomy of the Human Body (John Bell), 1:35, 1:307, 7:626

Ancell, Edward

  • and Barboursville plantation, 11:227
  • identified, 11:227n
  • visits Monticello, 11:227

anchovies, 1:366, 1:366, 9:371, 9:371–9:372, 9:418, 11:407, 11:653, 12:374, 12:580, 13:447, 13:565, 13:585, 13:606, 13:607, 14:329, 15:120, 15:262, 15:300, 16:118, 16:419, 17:140, 17:530, 17:530n, 17:612, 18:457, 19:103, 19:641–19:642

Anciennes loix des François (Hoüard, Littleton, and Pothier), 3:130–3:131, 3:175n, 3:546

Ancram, William Kerr, Earl of

  • introduced to J. Adams, 15:410, 15:410–15:411n

Andalusia, Spain

  • yellow fever in, 10:128

Anderson (TJ’s slave; b. 1806)

  • death of, 4:388n

Anderson (TJ’s slave; b. 1810; Nanny’s son)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:386, 5:461, 8:62, 8:255

Anderson (TJ’s slave; b. 1810; Sarah [Sally] Hubbard’s son)

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

Anderson, Mr.

  • and transport of book, 8:121

Anderson, Mr.

  • and dispute of C. L. Lewis and C. Peyton, 11:514, 11:517

Anderson, Mr. (of Richmond), 5:489, 16:122

Anderson, Adam, 17:166, 17:167n

Anderson, Alexander

  • as engraver, 11:115n

Anderson, Benjamin

  • and Central College subscription, 11:332

Anderson, Daniel (ship captain), 13:443, 13:446, 13:447, 13:448, 13:564, 13:585, 13:606, 14:327

Anderson, David, 5:371, 5:651n

Anderson, Edmund

  • and Albemarle Academy, 7:267, 7:282, 7:293, 7:335, 7:339
  • buys TJ’s flour, 17:287
  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:326, 11:334, 16:303, 17:630
  • G. Milleway’s draft on, 16:124n
  • and package for TJ, 8:641
  • and University of Virginia, 16:478, 19:183, 19:188

Anderson, Edmund, & Company (Richmond firm). See Edmund Anderson & Company (Richmond firm)

Anderson, George Washington

  • and Calliopean Society of Transylvania University, 14:282, 14:283n, 14:437–14:438, 14:553n
  • identified, 14:283n
  • letter from, 14:282–14:283
  • letter to, 14:437–14:438

Anderson, H. S.

  • letter from accounted for, 15:625

Anderson, James

  • and sainfoin, 15:578, 15:578–15:579n

Anderson, Jasper

  • and E. Rosson case, 10:463

Anderson, John

  • accused of bribery, 12:398–12:399, 12:400–12:401n

Anderson, John (of Botetourt Co.)

  • property of, 18:103n

Anderson, Joseph

  • as comptroller of the treasury, 9:495n, 10:665, 10:665n, 12:347, 14:301, 16:530, 16:531n, 18:17, 18:400, 18:433n, 19:297
  • letters to, 4:164
  • as U.S. senator, 1:119, 1:473, 4:163, 4:164n, 6:241

Anderson, L.

  • letter from accounted for, 15:625

Anderson, Nathaniel

  • and Central College subscription, 11:326, 11:328

Anderson, Richard

  • and account with J. H. Craven, 2:116, 2:371
  • endorses note for W. C. Nicholas, 14:587n
  • and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459, 1:460, 5:423, 5:424n
  • as president of Richmond branch of the Second Bank of U.S., 15:62n, 15:143, 15:143n
  • and Shoemakers, 3:318

Anderson, Mrs. Robert

  • signs petition, 18:146

Anderson, Robert (1741–1813)

  • as character reference, 19:648

Anderson, Robert (1781–1859)

  • as executor of M. Stith, 14:314, 14:428–14:429
  • identified, 14:314–14:315n
  • letter from, 14:314–14:315
  • letter to, 14:428–14:430

Anderson, Thomas Dixon

  • consul at Tunis, 12:473

Anderson, William

  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:587n

Anderson, William (of Richmond)

  • merchant, 4:510, 5:428

Anderson, William C., 1:444, 1:445n, 2:241, 2:242n

Anderson, William H.

  • identified, 17:238n
  • letter from accounted for, 17:238n
  • letter to, 17:238
  • sends prospectus, 17:238, 17:238n

Anderson, William Preston

  • letters from accounted for, 5:327n
  • and N. B. Pryor’s military appointment, 5:300, 5:327, 5:328

Anderson & Meehan (Washington firm), 18:498

Andes Mountains, 12:630, 19:305

L’An Deux Mille Quatre Cent Quarante (L. S. Mercier), 10:656

Andocides

  • Discours de Lycurgue, d’Andocide, d’Isée, de Dinarque, avec un Fragment sous le Nom de Démade (trans. A. Auger), 7:259, 17:138, 17:447

Andover Theological Seminary, 9:255, 9:257n, 9:379, 9:379, 9:382, 9:382, 18:445, 18:445n, 18:564, 18:656, 18:657

André, Antoine Balthazar Joseph d’

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

André, John

  • medal commemorating capture of, 9:54, 9:91, 9:92n, 15:464, 15:464n

Andrei, Giovanni

  • and carving for TJ, 1:473–1:474, 1:595, 4:66, 4:459, 5:206
  • identified, 14:598–14:599n
  • letter from, 14:598–14:599
  • recommends J. Sullivan, 14:598, 14:617
  • sculptor for U.S. Capitol, 1:78n, 5:206, 5:238, 9:350, 9:351n, 9:670–9:671, 10:413–10:414, 11:571, 14:597

Andrew (ship), 8:632, 8:633n, 11:283

Andrews, Henry

  • letters from, 4:479–4:480
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 4:479–4:480

Andrews, Mary Blair

  • and J. Blair’s will, 9:27–9:28, 9:28–9:29n, 9:29n, 9:93–9:94, 9:94n
  • identified, 9:28n
  • letter from, 9:93–9:94
  • letter to, 9:27–9:29
  • seeks TJ’s legal advice, 9:27–9:28, 9:28–9:29n, 9:93–9:94

Andrews, Robert

  • and C. Bellini estate, 3:376, 9:490
  • family of, 9:29n
  • surveys of, 6:217
  • TJ purchases theodolite from, 9:xliii

Andrews, Thomas Francis

  • Dissertatio Medica inauguralis, de Vasis Absorptioni Servientibus, 17:241, 17:242n
  • identified, 17:194n
  • introduced to TJ, 17:194
  • letter from, 17:236–17:237
  • letter to, 17:264
  • seeks professorship, 17:201, 17:236–17:237, 17:241, 17:264

Andrieux, François Guillaume Jean Stanislas

  • lectures of, 11:634

anemone, 3:545

anemone, double, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n

Angelucci, Jean Baptiste

  • sculptor, 11:267

L’Angleterre Vue a Londres et dans ses Provinces, pendant un séjour de dix années, dont six comme prisonnier de guerre (R. M. Pillet), 10:219–10:220, 10:220n, 10:247, 10:259

Anglo-Saxon (Old English) language

  • books on, 10:358, 10:358, 10:465, 16:363–16:364, 17:196–17:197, 17:411, 17:419, 17:563
  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:214, 13:402
  • instruction in at University of Virginia, 15:302, 16:193, 18:276
  • study of, 14:251, 18:276
  • TJ on study of, 13:196–13:197, 13:216–13:217, 16:193–16:194
  • TJ’s essay on, 8:236, 8:237n
  • TJ’s study of, 8:236, 11:252

Anglo-Saxon laws, 1:383, 7:147

The Anglo-Saxon Version, From the Historian Orosius. By Ælfred the Great (P. Orosius), 8:236, 8:237n

Angoulême, Louis Antoine, duc d’

  • as military leader, 19:465, 19:466, 19:468n

Angus, Samuel

  • recommends J. L. Cathcart, 17:461
  • War of 1812 service of, 5:535–5:542

Animal Magnetism (E. Inchbald), 16:xlix

Ankrim, Josiah

  • letter from accounted for, 11:671

Ann (brig), 19:76n

Ann (ship), 2:672

M. Annaei Senecae Rhetoris Opera (Seneca the elder), 10:233

Annales de Chimie, 2:406n

Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle

  • and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:319–4:320
  • TJ asked to contribute to, 6:17

Annales du Musée et de l’école moderne des beaux-arts (ed. C. P. Landon), 12:107

Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques, 16:568

Annales of England. Containing the Reignes of Henry the Eighth. Edward the Sixt. Queene Mary (F. Godwin; trans. and rev. M. Godwin), 7:629, 7:631n

Annales rerum gestarum Ælfredi Magni (Asser), 12:372, 12:372, 12:389, 12:389, 12:514

Annals (Tacitus), 14:551, 17:73n, 17:105

Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts (A. Young), 11:165, 12:99

The Annals of America, from the discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to the Year 1826 (A. Holmes), 19:464n

Annals of Nature (C. S. Rafinesque), 16:355, 16:396

Annapolis, Md.

  • Maryland Gazette, 18:248n, 18:311, 18:311n, 19:304, 19:351, 19:545
  • Maryland Republican, 12:409
  • naval depot at, 12:519
  • Saint John’s College, 13:451, 13:454n

Annapolis Convention (1786), 19:330

Anne (TJ’s slave; b. 1807). See Hughes, Anne (TJ’s slave; b. 1807)

Anne, queen of Great Britain

  • health of, 15:235
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Annesley, William

  • Description of William Annesley’s New System of Boat and Ship Building; Patented in the United States, 9:558n, 9:559n
  • A Description of William Annesley’s New System of Naval Architecture, 13:425, 13:425n, 13:440
  • identified, 9:558n
  • letters from, 9:555–9:559, 19:142–19:143
  • letters to, 9:601, 19:157
  • as naval architect, 9:555–9:558, 9:601, 13:425, 19:142–19:143, 19:143n, 19:157
  • A New System of Naval Architecture, 19:142, 19:143n, 19:143n, 19:157

An Anniversary Discourse, delivered before The New-York Historical Society, December 7, 1818 (G. C. Verplanck), 13:563, 13:563–13:564n, 13:600

Anniversary Oration (B. H. Latrobe), 3:624, 3:625n

An Anniversary Discourse, delivered before The New-York Historical Society, on Thursday, December 28, 1820 (H. Wheaton), 16:615–16:616

Ann Smith Academy (Lexington), 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201, 11:134n, 19:274n

Annuaire de La Librairie (G. Fleischer), 9:354, 9:355n, 9:420

Annual Register

  • and E. Aram’s defense, 7:373

Annual Report of the Canal Commissioners, communicated to the legislature, Feb. 18, 1820, 18:290–18:291n

Annual Report of the Canal Commissioners of the State of New-York, Presented to the Legislature, 12th March, 1821, 17:58, 17:59n

The Annual Report of the Canal Commissioners of the State of New-York, Presented to the Legislature, the 27th February, 1822, 18:271

The Annual Report of the Canal Commissioners of the State of New-York, Presented to the Legislature, the 24th February, 1823, 19:469, 19:469n

anonymous authors

  • broadsides from, 15:316, 15:317–15:318n, 17:289–17:291
  • letters from, 1:69–1:70, 1:291–1:292, 1:654, 1:655n, 1:671–1:673, 2:263, 3:225–3:226, 3:577–3:578, 3:585, 3:590, 4:109, 4:606–4:607, 4:611–4:612, 5:97–5:98, 5:326–5:327, 5:644, 6:503, 8:3–8:7, 8:94–8:95, 9:533–9:537, 10:76–10:80, 13:318–13:319, 13:499–13:500, 13:501–13:503, 13:503, 13:568–13:569, 13:609–13:610, 14:10–14:12, 15:374–15:375, 15:504–15:508, 16:339–16:340, 17:212–17:216, 17:289, 17:300–17:301, 17:442, 18:88–18:89, 18:147–18:148, 18:170, 18:183, 18:341, 18:342, 18:441–18:442, 18:575–18:576, 18:620, 18:629–18:630, 19:207n
  • letters from accounted for, 3:655, 11:671, 16:651, 18:669
  • letters to, 2:296
  • in newspapers, 4:36–4:37, 4:37n, 6:98, 6:99, 6:100n, 8:3–8:7, 9:550–9:551n, 18:398, 18:438
  • TJ writes anonymously for newspapers, 9:378, 9:380–9:381, 9:381–9:383, 9:548–9:552, 11:664–11:666

Anquetil, Louis Pierre

  • L’Esprit de la Ligue, 7:664
  • Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Régent, 7:664
  • works attributed to, 7:664, 7:666n

An Answer to Mr. Jefferson’s Justification of His Conduct in the Case of the New Orleans Batture (E. Livingston), 4:292, 6:627–6:628, 7:96, 7:96n, 7:175

An Answer to Pain’s Rights of Man (J. Q. Adams), 19:330, 19:332n

An Answer to the Question, Why are you not a Trinitarian? (R. Wright), 10:382n

anteater, 7:210

anteater, giant, 6:470

Antelope (sloop), 11:204, 12:346

Antes, Henry

  • family of, 11:613

Antes, John

  • relationship with J. Bruce, 11:613, 11:614n

Antholiza aethiopica (Chasmanthe aethiopica). See flag lily

Anthony, Benjamin, 1:257n

Anthony, Christopher

  • and Campbell Co. land, 4:680, 5:34, 5:40, 5:48, 5:49, 5:230
  • identified, 14:557n
  • letter from, 14:557–14:558
  • recommends J. Gorman, 14:557
  • as Va. legislator, 11:8

Anthony, Mark (Marcus Antonius)

  • J. Adams on, 10:360, 11:269
  • and J. Caesar’s papers, 19:661

Anthony of Egypt, Saint, 7:26

anthropology

  • study of human migration, 11:192–11:193

Antichrist

  • Napoleon as, 4:484

Antient Plymouth Society (New London), 1:58, 1:59, 1:102

antimony

  • antimony sulfide (stibnite), 6:230
  • ore, 8:166–8:167
  • rumored source of, 1:189, 3:39, 3:88–3:89
  • sought in Europe, 1:18, 1:283, 1:314, 4:360
  • used in casting type, 1:19n, 1:315–1:316, 18:520

Antiquarian Society of Charleston, 6:179, 6:180n, 6:251, 6:376–6:377, 6:378n, 6:483, 6:561

The Antiquary (W. Scott), 11:630, 11:630n

L’Antiquité Expliquée et Representée en Figures (B. de Montfaucon), 14:444

Les Antiquités Romaines (Dionysius of Halicarnassus; trans. F. Bellanger), 13:342, 13:391, 13:394, 13:413, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 13:562n, 14:215

antiquities

  • and government, 1:254n
  • Indian burial mounds, enclosures, and fortifications, 6:322–6:329, 6:516, 6:518, 13:81–13:82, 13:82, 13:82–13:83, 13:83n, 13:83n, 13:83n, 14:236, 15:580, 15:583n, 15:619, 15:620–15:621n, 16:15, 16:155, 16:156, 16:171–16:176, 16:177, 16:178, 16:178, 16:179, 16:179, 16:180
  • A Memoir on the Antiquities of the Western Parts of the State of New-York. Read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (D. Clinton), 13:288, 13:288n, 13:312
  • paintings of, 1:522, 1:523–1:524n, 8:xlvii
  • Roman coins, 15:619–15:620, 15:621n
  • TJ’s fondness for, 8:239
  • and vases, 1:452, 1:453n, 1:482, 16:155
  • Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (Castell), 1:390, 1:397n

Antiquities from Asia, brought to New-York in Jan. 1817, by Capt. Henry Austin, and now at Dr. Mitchill’s, 11:114–11:115, 11:136

antiquity

  • financial systems of Egypt, Israel, and China, 2:582–2:586
  • Husbandry of the Ancients (Dickson), 1:581, 2:82
  • Punic wars, 2:606

antislavery

  • in N.J., 15:176
  • and Saint Domingue, 17:166n
  • support for, 17:11–17:14
  • Quaker memorial on, 15:238, 15:238n
  • Resolutions of a Meeting on Slavery in Trenton, New Jersey, 15:177n, 15:177–15:179
  • in Va., 3:267–3:269, 3:318, 3:319
  • and W. Wilberforce, 3:319, 3:320, 3:513–3:514, 3:514n

Antisthenes (Greek historian)

  • TJ on, 9:456

ant lion, 6:409, 6:411n

Antommarchi, Francesco

  • and P. Mascagni’s anatomical plates, 19:76, 19:76n
  • as Napoleon’s physician, 19:76n

Antoninus Pius (Roman emperor)

  • column of, 16:34

Antraigues, Emmanuel Henri Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d’

  • on British politics, 4:270–4:271
  • Mémoire sur les Etats-généraux, leurs droits, et la maniere de les convoquer, 4:270, 4:274n

Antrim, Joseph

  • and brickwork for University of Virginia, 19:237n
  • identified, 12:262n
  • letters from, 19:28, 19:403–19:404
  • letter from accounted for, 13:621
  • letter to, 14:595–14:596
  • letter to accounted for, 19:28n
  • meeting with TJ, 19:28
  • and plastering at Central College–University of Virginia, 11:669, 12:262, 14:195, 16:307, 16:309, 16:311, 16:313, 16:315, 16:316, 16:317, 16:319, 17:510–17:511, 17:511n, 17:622, 17:624, 17:627, 17:629n, 17:631, 17:633, 17:635, 17:635, 17:637, 17:650, 17:654, 19:49, 19:49, 19:50, 19:50, 19:50, 19:54, 19:56, 19:56, 19:56, 19:57, 19:57, 19:58, 19:63, 19:186, 19:190, 19:191, 19:238, 19:396n, 19:403–19:404
  • and plastering at Poplar Forest, 14:595
  • TJ pays, 11:669n, 15:22n
  • TJ’s debt to, 19:494

Antwerp

  • fortification of, 10:392

Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’

  • Compendium of Ancient Geography, 4:311–4:312
  • Géographie Ancienne Abrégée, 4:312n
  • works of, 3:296n

Aperçu des Résultats obtenus de la fabrication des Sirops et des Conserves de Raisins (A. A. Parmentier), 7:54, 7:54n

Aperçu présenté au Comité des monnoies de l’Assemblée Nationale (A. M. Rochon), 5:303n, 5:500

apes, 16:181

Apicii Coelii de Opsoniis et Condimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria (ed. M. Lister), 15:26

Apis (Egyptian deity), 7:33, 7:35–7:36n

The Apocryphal New Testament, being all the Gospels, Epistles and other pieces now extant (ed. W. Hone), 16:364, 17:197, 17:411, 18:18

Apocynum cannabinum. See Indian hemp

Apodaca, Juan Ruiz de

  • viceroy of New Spain, 10:374

Apollo (Greek deity)

  • oracle of at Delphi, 19:489, 19:490, 19:490–19:491n

Apollo (ship)

  • seizure of, 18:177n

Apollonii Rhodii Argonauticorum libri quatuor (Apollonius Rhodius; ed. J. Shaw), 10:234

Apollonius of Tyana

  • The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (L. F. Philostratus; trans. E. Berwick), 17:535

Apollonius Rhodius

  • Apollonii Rhodii Argonauticorum libri quatuor (ed. J. Shaw), 10:234

Apologeticus et ad Scapulam Liber (Q. S. F. Tertullianus), 7:458, 7:458n, 8:481–8:482, 8:482n

An Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq (R. Watson), 16:598, 16:602n

An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (R. Barclay), 12:554

“The Apology of the Bishops, in Answer to ‘Bonner’s Ghost’” (A. L. Barbauld), 15:553, 15:553–15:554n

apoplexy, 1:526, 16:75, 19:345n

Apostolios, Arsenios

  • edits Σχόλια τῶν πάνυ δοκίμων εἰς ἑπτὰ τραγῳδίας τοῦ Εὐριπίδου, συλλεγέντα ἐκ διαφόρων παλαιῶν βίβλων καὶ συναρμολογηθέντα παρὰ Ἀρσενίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου μονεμβασίας. Scholia In Septem Evripidis Tragœdias ex antiquis exemplaribus ab Arsenio archiepo monebasie collecta, & nunc primu in lucem edita (Euripides), 14:193, 14:265, 14:286

An Appeal to the Nations of Europe against the Continental System (Staël Holstein), 6:513, 6:514n

An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain respecting the United States of America (R. Walsh), 13:603, 13:603–13:604n, 15:379, 15:380n, 16:286

Appeal of Joseph Wheaton, late deputy quarter master general and major of cavalry, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America (J. Wheaton), 16:413–16:414

An Appeal to Common Sense and Common Justice (M. Carey), 19:591, 19:591n, 19:622

An Appeal to the serious and candid Professors of Christianity (J. Priestley), 12:313, 12:356

An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan’s Family (Thomas Jefferson), 10:115, 10:117n, 13:40

Appian

  • Ἀππιανοῦ Ἀλεξανδρέως Ῥωμαϊκῶν Ἱστοριῶν τὰ Σωζόμενα Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum quæ supersunt (ed. J. Schweighaeuser), 12:583, 13:295, 14:510
  • Histoire des Guerres Civiles de la République Romaine (trans. J. I. Combes-Dounous), 13:342, 13:359, 13:359n, 13:394, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 17:535
  • The History of Appian (trans. J. Davies), 17:535

Ἀππιανοῦ Ἀλεξανδρέως Ῥωμαϊκῶν Ἱστοριῶν τὰ Σωζόμενα Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum quæ supersunt (Appian; ed. J. Schweighaeuser), 12:583, 13:295, 14:510

apples

  • Calvite, 3:455, 3:456n
  • for cider, 12:192, 12:192n, 15:297
  • crab, 8:12
  • as crop, 4:141, 8:258
  • Detroit, 3:448, 3:448n
  • dried, 15:206, 15:208, 15:229, 15:230
  • and the earth’s gravity, 12:445
  • as gift, 14:632
  • Hewes Crab, 7:381, 7:382, 7:382n, 7:444, 7:445n, 12:192
  • from M. W. Lewis, 5:357, 7:78
  • Newtown (Albemarle) pippin, 3:448, 3:448n, 3:455
  • sent between Monticello and Poplar Forest, 13:581
  • Spitzenburg, 3:448, 3:448n, 3:455
  • Taliaferro (Robinson), 3:455, 3:455, 3:456n, 7:381, 7:444–7:445, 7:445n, 7:492, 7:492n, 9:533

Appleton, Charles H.

  • merchant, 9:128, 9:128n, 9:359, 9:386–9:387, 9:387

Appleton, Nathaniel W.

  • merchant, 9:128, 9:128n, 9:359, 9:386–9:387, 9:387

Appleton, Thomas

  • account with TJ, 10:58, 10:58n, 10:411, 10:416, 12:269n, 13:31, 13:45, 13:68n, 14:148, 14:628, 15:8, 15:10, 17:260, 19:77, 19:78
  • Agreement to Hire Giacomo Raggi and Michele Raggi, 14:62, 14:63, 14:64, 14:65–14:67, 14:255, 16:237, 16:239n, 16:254, 16:255, 16:282, 16:283, 16:331, 16:335, 16:335, 16:336, 16:336, 16:337
  • and American Philosophical Society, 13:377
  • and J. Barnes’s estate, 13:375–13:377, 13:377n, 14:256–14:257
  • and C. Bellini’s estate, 10:249, 11:580, 12:184, 12:185n, 12:267, 12:550, 12:578, 12:579, 12:586
  • birthday same as TJ’s, 19:501
  • D. Brent forwards letter to, 14:499–14:500
  • and capitals for University of Virginia, 16:4, 16:113–16:114, 16:243, 16:342–16:343, 16:343, 17:84, 17:85n, 17:108, 17:120–17:121, 17:122, 17:122, 17:128–17:129, 17:132, 17:222, 17:260–17:262, 17:294n, 17:473–17:474, 17:475n, 17:526n, 18:373, 18:455, 18:455–18:456, 18:456, 18:462, 19:76, 19:77–19:78, 19:78, 19:153–19:154, 19:259, 19:282, 19:498–19:499, 19:684, 19:702
  • consul at Leghorn, 3:375, 3:381n, 3:646, 8:598, 8:599–8:600, 8:600–8:601n, 8:606–8:607, 8:617, 8:639, 8:655, 8:673, 9:359, 9:387, 9:388, 9:394, 9:416, 9:417, 9:514, 9:552, 9:583, 9:645n, 9:649, 10:10, 11:120, 11:120n, 11:128, 11:239–11:240, 11:247, 11:667, 12:268–12:269, 12:373, 12:609, 14:645, 15:117, 17:151n, 18:457
  • desires transfer to U.S. consulate in Paris, 8:161–8:162, 8:162n
  • document to accounted for, 13:68n
  • and families of G. Raggi and M. Raggi, 16:3–16:4, 16:112, 16:114, 16:335, 16:342, 17:260–17:261, 17:532
  • forwards letters to TJ, 8:689, 9:114, 9:116, 9:119n
  • identified, 8:162n
  • on Italy, 10:92, 10:414, 16:344, 16:344n, 16:383–16:384
  • letters from, 8:161–8:162, 8:689–8:691, 9:126–9:128, 9:583, 9:669–9:673, 10:57–10:58, 10:91–10:92, 10:274–10:275, 10:411–10:415, 10:475–10:476, 11:170–11:171, 12:267–12:269, 13:11, 13:252, 13:373–13:378, 14:62–14:65, 14:255–14:257, 14:628, 15:10–15:11, 15:20–15:21, 15:326–15:327, 15:341, 15:476–15:477, 16:3–16:4, 16:342–16:345, 16:383–16:384, 17:260–17:263, 17:473–17:475, 19:75–19:76, 19:77–19:78, 19:498–19:499, 19:499–19:502
  • letters to, 8:318, 9:349–9:351, 9:416, 10:247–10:249, 11:196, 11:577–11:581, 11:642–11:643, 12:42–12:43, 12:578–12:579, 14:348–14:350, 15:7–15:8, 15:395–15:396, 16:112–16:115, 17:120–17:121, 17:122, 17:199, 18:455–18:456, 18:462–18:463
  • and marble for TJ and University of Virginia, 17:122, 17:262
  • and P. Mazzei’s estate, 9:126, 9:583, 9:645n, 9:669–9:670, 9:678n, 10:57, 10:91, 10:248, 10:251, 10:411, 10:476, 11:171, 11:577–11:579, 11:585, 11:642–11:643, 11:643–11:646, 12:74, 12:264, 12:268, 12:269n, 12:578, 12:584–12:585, 12:585n, 12:644, 13:11, 13:252, 13:373, 13:471, 13:486, 13:508–13:509, 14:63, 14:63, 14:64n, 14:255, 14:256, 14:257, 14:348–14:349, 14:352, 14:442, 14:628, 14:628n, 15:8, 15:10, 15:326, 15:341, 15:395, 15:476, 16:4, 16:112, 16:112–16:113, 16:114, 16:342, 16:344n, 16:384, 17:122, 17:260, 17:474, 17:475n, 18:462–18:463, 19:75–19:76, 19:76n
  • on P. Mazzei’s health, 8:689–8:691, 9:583
  • quarries of, 15:476
  • recommends L. Bartolini, 9:127–9:128
  • and sculptors for U.S. Capitol, 9:350, 9:351n, 9:670–9:671, 10:413–10:414
  • and sculptures of G. Washington, 8:161, 8:162n, 9:386, 9:387n, 9:671, 10:412–10:413, 10:414–10:415, 10:476, 11:171, 19:499–19:501
  • and seeds for TJ, 11:170–11:171, 11:171–11:172, 11:302, 11:336, 11:353, 14:256, 14:628, 15:326–15:327, 15:341, 15:476, 15:547, 15:554, 15:601, 16:4, 16:113
  • sends vine cuttings to TJ, 14:256
  • and stonecutters for Central College–University of Virginia, 11:579, 12:267–12:268, 12:578–12:579, 12:584, 12:615, 13:252, 13:373–13:375, 13:535n, 14:62–14:63, 14:64, 14:64–14:65n, 14:65–14:66, 14:255–14:256, 14:349, 14:464–14:465, 14:474, 14:475, 14:495, 14:497, 14:498, 14:532, 14:592, 14:628, 15:7–15:8, 15:9, 15:9, 15:10, 15:10n, 15:20–15:21, 15:175, 15:326, 15:341, 15:349n, 15:394, 15:395, 15:397, 15:442, 15:476, 16:283, 16:283, 16:377–16:378, 16:437–16:438, 19:163–19:164, 19:498–19:499
  • TJ introduces B. S. Barton to, 8:318, 8:326
  • TJ introduces W. C. Preston to, 11:196, 11:200
  • TJ on, 8:599–8:600, 8:606–8:607, 8:617
  • TJ pays, 9:359, 9:359, 9:360n, 9:416, 9:514, 9:552, 9:649, 10:58, 10:58n, 14:319, 15:555, 15:555, 16:50, 16:123, 16:177, 17:107, 17:128–17:129, 17:151–17:152, 17:199, 17:473–17:474, 18:455, 18:458, 18:462, 18:483–18:484, 18:487, 18:491, 18:504, 18:504, 18:583
  • and TJ’s European correspondence, 5:359+, 16:112, 16:123
  • on U.S. commercial competiveness, 10:91–10:92
  • and vintner and gardener for TJ, 12:267, 12:579
  • and viticulture in Tuscany, 14:256
  • and wine for TJ, 9:350–9:351, 9:351n, 9:359, 9:416, 9:671, 10:58, 10:58n, 10:91, 10:157, 10:249, 10:274–10:275, 10:299, 10:407, 10:411, 10:416, 10:440, 10:475, 10:476, 11:131, 11:131–11:132, 11:171, 11:579–11:580, 12:268, 12:269n, 12:578, 12:608–12:609, 13:11, 13:166, 14:63, 14:256, 14:257, 14:628, 15:117, 15:135
  • and wine for TJ’s friends, 12:30, 12:42–12:43, 13:243

Appomattox Company, 14:403

Appomattox River, 3:103, 3:104n, 3:140, 3:195, 4:146, 14:402, 14:403, 14:403, 14:412, 14:412, 15:378–15:379

Apprentices’ Library (Philadelphia), 18:189, 18:224

apricots

  • planted at Monticello, 3:455
  • trees, 1:40, 1:40, 2:294n, 2:294, 2:313

Apuleius, Lucius

  • Metamorphoses, 10:589

Apuntes ligeros sobre la nueva constitución (Foronda), 1:470–1:471, 1:577, 1:604, 1:606n, 4:282, 4:284n

Aquinas, Saint Thomas. See Thomas Aquinas, Saint

Arabic language

  • writings in, 8:3, 8:5

Arago, Dominique François Jean

  • and standard measures, 9:223

Aram, Eugene

  • Defense at his Trial for Murder, 7:373, 7:374, 7:374n, 7:374–7:379, 7:511, 7:569, 7:630
  • identified, 7:378n

Aranda, Conde de. See Abarca de Bolea, Pedro Pablo, Conde de

Arata, Teophane

  • and consulship at Civitavecchia, 3:645–3:646, 3:647
  • letters from, 3:647
  • recommended by A. Gerna, 4:376

Arator; being a series of Agricultural Essays, Practical & Political (J. Taylor [of Caroline]), 6:122, 6:613, 6:613, 7:146, 7:217, 7:221n, 8:383–8:384, 8:442, 8:623, 11:129, 11:165, 19:508

La Araucana (A. de Ercilla y Zúñiga), 17:138, 17:447

Arblay, Madame d’. See Burney, Fanny, Madame d’Arblay

arborvitae, 10:197

Arbuckle, William B.

  • letters from accounted for, 5:443n
  • letters to, 5:441–5:442
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 5:441–5:442, 5:443

Arbuthnot, Alexander, 13:286n, 13:587, 14:92, 14:111–14:112n, 14:466, 14:467n

Archæologia Americana: Transactions and Collections, 16:351, 16:352n, 18:322–18:323, 18:326

Archaeologiae Americanae Telluris Collectanea et Specimina (B. S. Barton), 2:510n, 8:422, 8:422n

Archæologia Græca: or the Antiquities of Greece (J. Potter), 10:358, 14:258, 15:504, 15:594, 19:508

Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, 5:513, 5:514–5:515n

archaeology

  • scholars of, 19:159

Archaionomia (W. Lambarde), 7:126, 7:127

Archbald, James, 1:238–1:240, 2:202

Archbald, Mary Ann Wodrow

  • identified, 1:240n
  • letters from, 1:238–1:240, 2:201–2:203
  • seeks TJ’s advice on sheep husbandry, 1:238–1:240, 2:202

Archer (J. C. Cabell’s slave)

  • delivers letter, 17:395, 17:396n

Archer, Branch Tanner

  • as Va. legislator, 15:416n

Archer, John, 5:524, 5:526n

Archer, Napoleon

  • identified, 17:545n
  • letter from, 17:545
  • letter to, 17:559
  • as prospective University of Virginia student, 17:545, 17:559

Archer, Peter Jefferson (TJ’s grandnephew)

  • education of, 12:440, 12:524
  • identified, 12:440n
  • letter from, 12:440
  • letter to, 12:524

Archer, Stevenson, 5:525, 5:526n

Archer, William

  • as Va. legislator, 16:625, 18:110

Archer, William Segar

  • and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:473n, 13:515, 13:516n, 14:12
  • as member of U.S. House of Representatives, 18:300–18:301, 18:302n

Archimedes

  • lever of, 8:167
  • Œuvres d’Archimède (trans. F. Peyrard), 11:127, 11:152, 11:175, 11:193, 11:295, 11:297, 11:395, 17:536
  • screw of, 6:380, 6:382, 7:108, 7:131, 7:132

architecture See also building materials; Virginia, University of: Construction and Grounds

  • architectural ornaments, 18:215, 18:470, 18:493, 18:493–18:494, 18:494, 18:529, 18:530, 18:534, 18:535, 18:549, 18:630, 18:630, 19:liii, 19:23–19:24, 19:476, 19:477, 19:478n, 19:487–19:488, 19:513, 19:514–19:516, 19:520–19:522, 19:524, 19:524n, 19:566–19:567, 19:568
  • books on, 9:500, 10:235, 10:237n, 11:335, 11:352, 11:396, 11:456, 12:107, 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 14:168, 14:446, 14:446n, 17:99, 17:137, 17:444
  • Central College buildings as models of, 11:256, 12:xlix, 13:57, 13:203n
  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:214, 13:214n
  • construction at U.S. Capitol, 3:534–3:537, 3:555–3:556, 8:313, 8:314, 8:591–8:596
  • Diocletian’s palace, 3:581–3:582
  • B. H. Latrobe’s drawings, 3:535–3:536, 3:537n, 3:581–3:582, 3:590–3:591, 12:72–12:73, 12:94, 13:57
  • J. Neilson’s drawings, 15:169, 15:170 (illus.), 15:171 (illus.)
  • in S.C., 17:227
  • study of, 7:165, 7:639, 7:639, 7:687, 16:325
  • TJ advises J. Barbour on, 11:xlvi, 11:223–11:227, 11:227
  • TJ advises J. Breckinridge, 13:303
  • TJ advises J. H. Cocke, 9:500–9:501, 13:129–13:130
  • TJ advises R. Harrison, 9:49, 9:49n
  • TJ advises J. Monroe, 16:60
  • TJ advises C. Yancey, 17:279–17:280, 17:296–17:298, 17:298n
  • TJ’s opinion of ancient, 13:96–13:97
  • TJ’s opinion on Monticello as, 1:595–1:596
  • and TJ’s plans for Va. state capitol, 17:lii, 17:325–17:326
  • in Va., 13:23

Architecture Hydraulique (B. F. de Bélidor), 6:381, 7:386

The Architecture of A. Palladio (G. Leoni), 14:480+, 17:133, 17:133–17:134, 19:552

Archives of Useful Knowledge (J. Mease), 3:51n, 3:95n, 5:364–5:365, 5:365n

Archy (TJ’s slave; b. 1808)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:388, 12:303
  • on smallpox vaccination list, 9:717

Archytas (Greek philosopher), 7:75

Arco, L. Graf von, 5:273n

Arctomys, 4:536

Arcueil, Société de, 1:264, 1:267n, 1:316

Arden, Daniel D.

  • publisher, 4:312n

Arden, Francis

  • A Translation of the First Book of Ovid’s Tristia, in Heroic English Verse; with the Original Text, 17:441, 17:442n, 17:479

Aréjula, Juan Manuel de

  • Breve Descripcion de la Fiebre Amarilla Padecida en Cadiz y Pueblos Comarcanos en 1800, 10:130, 10:146n

Argabright (Argenbright), David

  • and University of Virginia, 17:627, 17:629n

Argand lamps, 4:362–4:363

Arganil, Mr.

  • introduced to TJ, 15:448, 15:484
  • writings of, 15:448, 15:448n

Arganil, Juan Francisco (Joseph Achard)

  • identified, 15:448n

Argens, marquis d’. See Boyer, Jean Baptiste de, marquis d’Argens

Argenson, Marc René Marie de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’. See Voyer de Paulmy, Marc René Marie de, marquis d’Argenson

Argentina

  • independence movement in, 10:373, 10:373–10:374, 13:300n, 19:543
  • U.S. minister to, 19:3, 19:336, 19:338n, 19:541, 19:639
  • wheat from, 15:528n

Argentré, Bertrand d’

  • Coûtumes generales du paîs et duché de Bretagne, 3:130–3:131, 3:174n

Argus, USS (brig), 6:190

Argus, USS (sloop; second)

  • destruction of, 7:xlv

Argyll, John Campbell, 2d Duke of

  • anecdote of, 13:462

Ariadne (mythological character), 10:399, 11:624n

Arikara bean, 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166

Arikara Indians, 6:323

Ariosto, Ludovico

  • Orlando Furioso (trans. J. Hoole), 19:507

Aristides “the Just”

  • TJ addressed as, 4:469

Aristophanes

  • The Comedies of Aristophanes (trans. T. Mitchell), 18:579, 19:507
  • Comœdiæ (ed. R. F. P. Brunck), 8:581, 14:240, 14:266, 14:351, 14:510, 17:106
  • Théatre d’Aristophane, avec les fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (trans. L. Poinsinet de Sivry), 11:352, 11:397, 11:397, 11:456, 11:547, 11:592, 11:646, 12:153, 12:439
  • works of bound for TJ, 8:630, 12:153, 12:439

Ἀριστοτέλους περὶ ποιητικῆς. Aristotelis de Poetica (Aristotle; ed. T. Goulston), 10:357

Aristotle

  • J. Adams on, 4:474, 15:410, 15:411n, 17:505
  • and animal classification, 7:209, 10:208, 10:209n
  • Ἀριστοτέλους περὶ ποιητικῆς. Aristotelis de Poetica (ed. T. Goulston), 10:357
  • Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, comprising his Practical Philosophy, Translated from the Greek (trans. J. Gillies), 10:304, 10:304–10:305n, 10:349
  • commentaries on, 12:443, 19:526
  • Dissertation upon Rhetoric, translated from the Greek of Aristotle (trans. D. M. Crimmin), 18:579
  • Histoire des Animaux d’Aristote, Avec la Traduction Françoise (trans. A. G. Camus), 8:656, 8:659n, 10:233
  • Historia Animalium, 10:208, 10:209n
  • historical writings of, 6:278, 7:479
  • La Poetica de Aristoteles (trans. A. Ordoñez das Seijas y Tobar), 17:138, 17:447, 17:448n
  • Politics, 7:686
  • Les Politiqves d’Aristote (L. Leroy), 3:546
  • quoted, 7:25, 7:27n, 10:208, 10:418
  • referenced, 9:78, 9:637, 10:227, 10:228n, 11:192
  • and Scottish philosophy, 3:277–3:278
  • study of, 7:24, 7:667, 10:417
  • TJ on, 10:349
  • A Treatise on Government. Translated from the Greek of Aristotle (trans. W. Ellis), 10:349, 10:349n

Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, comprising his Practical Philosophy, Translated from the Greek (Aristotle; trans. J. Gillies), 10:304, 10:304–10:305n, 10:349

Arkansas (trading post)

  • meteorological observations at, 1:97, 1:482, 1:608–1:609, 1:609n, 2:46–2:47, 2:135, 2:198, 2:226

Arkansas District (Louisiana Territory)

  • judges in, 4:71
  • land claims in, 4:70–4:71

Arkansas River, 1:97n, 4:536, 13:105, 13:227, 13:344–13:345, 13:359–13:360, 13:611

Arkansas Territory

  • judgeship in, 13:400
  • salt deposits in, 17:38, 17:39n

Arkwright, Sir Richard

  • spinning jenny of, 1:525, 4:512, 5:202, 7:570, 8:368, 8:535, 8:605

Armand, Colonel. See La Rouërie, Armand Charles Tuffin, marquis de

Armistead (TJ’s slave; b. 1771)

  • hat for, 7:124
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:460, 5:462, 6:309, 8:60, 8:255, 13:387

Armistead, Ann (Anne) Cary Norton (wife of William Armistead [ca. 1773–1840]), 10:426, 10:426, 10:438, 10:441, 12:104

Armistead, George

  • War of 1812 service of, 10:426, 10:439, 10:441

Armistead, William (ca. 17731840)

  • family of, 10:426, 10:438–10:439, 10:439, 10:441, 12:104
  • identified, 10:427n
  • letter from, 12:103–12:104
  • seeks federal appointment, 10:426, 10:427n, 10:438–10:439, 10:441, 10:442, 10:482, 10:496, 10:524–10:525, 10:525, 11:149, 12:103–12:104
  • as Treasury Department clerk, 12:103–12:104

Armistead, William (of Amherst Co.)

  • appointment of, 6:443n, 8:126, 8:128–8:129, 8:141, 8:153, 10:476, 10:519n
  • rumored resignation of, 10:496, 10:519

armor

  • coat of mail, 10:398

Arms, William G.

  • carries letter, 6:229
  • letters of introduction for, 3:51–3:52

Armstead (Manuel) (TJ’s slave; b. 1794)

  • hat for, 7:124
  • laborer, 4:379, 15:130
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 6:308, 8:61, 8:255

Armstrong, James

  • and University of Virginia, 17:634

Armstrong, James Kosciuszko

  • and T. Kosciuszko’s estate, 12:313–12:314, 12:314–12:315, 12:369–12:370, 12:546, 14:3, 14:3, 14:79, 14:130, 14:427, 14:482, 15:180, 15:376

Armstrong, John

  • advocates war against France and Great Britain, 1:536–1:537
  • anti-administration activities of, 3:260, 3:274, 3:275n, 3:330, 3:553
  • and J. Barnes, 7:284, 7:294, 7:323
  • carries W. Short’s letters to U.S., 1:115, 1:120
  • comments on I. A. Coles, 1:260
  • criticized by Federalists, 5:352–5:353, 5:354n
  • and A. Crozat’s charter, 5:8–5:9, 5:85
  • dispatches mentioned, 1:65, 1:113, 1:117, 1:229–1:230, 1:370, 1:658, 2:35–2:36, 2:36n, 2:242, 2:256, 2:257, 2:287, 2:287, 2:410, 2:463, 2:470, 2:471n, 2:480, 2:536, 2:672
  • donates books, 6:291
  • and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 1:314
  • and E. Earle, 7:200n
  • and Embargo Act (1813), 7:299
  • An Enquiry respecting the Capture of Washington by the British, on the 24th August, 1814, 9:710, 9:710n
  • family of, 12:314, 12:314, 12:314–12:315n
  • friend of engaged to deliver letter, 13:113
  • identified, 1:20n
  • and T. Kosciuszko’s estate, 12:313–12:314, 12:369–12:370, 12:546, 14:3, 14:3–14:4, 14:68, 14:79, 14:130, 14:131, 14:427, 14:482, 15:180, 15:180n, 15:210–15:211, 15:376, 17:499
  • and Lafayette’s La. lands, 2:243
  • letter from accounted for, 12:546n
  • letters from, 1:260, 1:536–1:538, 3:228–3:229, 5:8–5:9, 12:313–12:314, 13:113, 14:79, 15:180
  • letters to, 1:19–1:21, 1:412–1:413, 3:251–3:252, 5:608–5:609, 5:645–5:646, 12:369–12:370, 12:546, 14:130, 15:210–15:211
  • mentioned, 6:525, 7:572
  • and merino sheep, 2:39, 5:8n
  • and minerals for TJ, 6:373, 7:261–7:262, 7:323
  • and R. C. Nicholas’s appointment, 5:645–5:646, 5:648
  • Notes on Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 13:114–13:116, 13:154n, 16:87
  • and D. Parker’s double plow, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
  • and profit-making scheme, 3:577, 3:578n
  • and proposed biography of T. Kosciuszko, 12:546, 13:113, 13:113n, 13:153–13:154
  • returns to U.S., 3:106, 3:251–3:252, 3:252n
  • reviews W. Johnson’s Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene, 19:530, 19:532n, 19:697
  • Revolutionary War service of, 19:530–19:531, 19:532n, 19:532n
  • rumored as secretary of war, 1:118, 1:140, 1:375
  • and sainfoin, 15:578
  • as secretary of war, 5:608–5:609, 5:609n, 5:610, 5:610n, 5:611, 6:173–6:174, 6:177n, 6:209, 6:242, 6:242n, 7:13n, 7:160n, 7:262, 7:609, 7:610n, 7:610n, 7:610n, 7:623, 7:624n, 7:648, 7:657, 8:18n, 8:153, 8:153–8:154, 8:176, 8:205–8:206, 8:206n, 8:264, 9:710, 9:710n, 13:4, 13:4n, 13:50, 13:51n
  • sends dynamometer to TJ, 1:20
  • sends Guillaume plow to TJ, 1:313
  • sends spinning wheel to TJ, 1:313
  • TJ on, 3:542, 7:648
  • TJ reimburses, 7:261, 7:261–7:262, 7:284, 7:294, 7:323, 11:523
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 5:8
  • TJ’s letters of introduction to, 1:402, 1:423
  • U.S. minister to France, 1:235n, 1:331, 1:374–1:375, 1:413, 1:528, 1:529, 1:627, 2:288, 2:295, 2:310, 2:366, 2:418, 2:419n, 3:54, 3:96n, 3:105, 3:105, 3:114, 3:177, 3:224, 3:229, 3:444, 3:524, 5:8, 5:8–5:9n
  • and D. B. Warden, 1:141n, 3:107–3:108, 3:248–3:249, 3:251, 3:279–3:280, 3:309, 3:330, 3:340, 3:463, 3:518–3:519, 3:538–3:539, 3:542, 3:557–3:558

Armstrong, Robert

  • militia service of, 7:161

Armstrong, Samuel T., 18:646

Army, U.S.

  • and African Americans, 7:532–7:534
  • arsenal at New London, 5:81, 5:104–5:105, 5:107
  • artillery and small arms for, 2:258, 2:588, 2:603, 2:606, 2:614
  • atrocities of in Canada, 8:57, 8:57n, 8:214–8:215, 8:215–8:218, 8:219, 8:221, 8:222, 8:224, 8:225–8:226
  • and bounty lands, 10:240+, 12:147, 12:174
  • chaplains for, 6:525, 6:526n
  • civil appointments for former officers of, 12:372–12:373
  • court-martial of I. A. Coles, 7:609, 7:609–7:611n
  • employment of foreigners in, 10:391–10:392, 12:299, 12:300n, 13:140, 13:141n
  • enlistment for, 7:16–7:20, 7:158, 7:159
  • expansion of, 2:130, 2:131n, 2:190, 8:66, 8:67n, 8:108, 8:168, 8:177, 8:178, 8:259, 8:575, 8:575n, 12:138
  • funding for, 2:358n, 7:669, 7:670–7:671, 17:555
  • A. Hamilton supports, 19:74
  • impressment of boats for, 7:123, 7:135, 7:156
  • and A. Jackson, 12:271–12:272n
  • light artillery, 2:304
  • medical department, 6:27, 6:28n, 6:46, 6:64, 6:169, 19:364–19:365
  • and military academy, 2:258, 2:261n, 2:387, 17:45, 17:45, 19:29
  • military stores for, 2:257
  • and militia, 2:130, 2:131n, 2:258, 2:259, 2:588, 7:16–7:20, 7:532, 7:669, 8:27, 8:31, 8:46, 8:168, 8:177, 8:178, 8:251n, 8:251n, 8:259, 8:442–8:443, 8:443–8:444n, 8:575, 8:575n
  • J. Monroe refuses a commission in, 2:45
  • morale of, 8:19–8:20
  • and Niagara Campaign, 5:531–5:532, 5:532–5:545
  • and offer of crown to G. Washington, 12:419, 12:429
  • officers’ commissions sought, 1:583, 1:583n, 4:186–4:187, 8:129, 8:198–8:199, 8:205–8:206, 8:663, 16:409
  • opinions on standing army, 7:652, 7:678, 8:251n, 10:215
  • partisan attitudes toward, 17:548
  • payment of soldiers in, 10:433
  • Peace Establishment Act (1802), 3:120, 3:122n, 3:163
  • reduction of, 8:443, 8:444n, 8:536–8:537, 12:372, 16:595, 16:595–16:596n, 16:622
  • resignations from, 2:107n, 2:539
  • size of, 18:394n
  • supplies purchased for, 10:653n
  • TJ on, 8:357, 8:360, 10:609, 17:436–17:437
  • toasts honoring, 1:615+
  • volunteer act, 5:319–5:321

Arnaud, Felix

  • and batture controversy, 8:64n

Arnauld, Antoine

  • as grammarian, 19:407, 19:409n
  • Historia et Concordia Evangelica, 10:233
  • A New Method Of learning with Facility the Latin Tongue, 17:536, 17:537n
  • A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue, 17:536, 17:537n
  • The Primitives of the Greek Tongue, 10:358, 12:313, 12:356, 17:536, 17:537n

Arnay, Jean Rodolphe d’

  • De la Vie Privée des Romains, 12:583

Arnobius the Elder

  • Adversus nationes, 16:258
  • quoted, 7:25, 7:27n

Arnold, Ann

  • signs petition, 18:146

Arnold, Benedict

  • TJ compares W. Hull to, 5:366, 5:368
  • TJ’s plan to capture, 8:423, 8:423n
  • treasonous activities of, 15:188, 15:188n, 15:240, 15:241n, 15:248–15:249
  • Va. invasion of, 4:15, 4:432, 4:434n, 8:178, 8:481, 8:482n, 10:xlvi, 10:267, 15:190–15:192, 15:198, 15:199n, 18:192, 18:193n, 18:200
  • works on, 11:436, 11:438n, 11:503, 11:635, 11:635–11:636n

A. Robertson & Company (firm) See also Robertson, Archibald

  • dissolution of, 15:417, 15:417n, 16:30
  • TJ’s debt to, 15:417, 15:417n, 16:30, 16:68–16:69, 16:134, 16:273, 16:376, 16:401, 16:409, 16:413, 16:414, 16:416, 16:436, 16:449–16:450, 16:592, 16:596, 17:16, 17:17, 17:40, 17:430, 17:439, 17:589, 18:403, 18:577, 18:585, 18:624, 18:624n, 19:31, 19:69, 19:85, 19:110, 19:110, 19:132, 19:143, 19:154, 19:155n, 19:495, 19:496n

Arrian (Flavius Arrianus)

  • Arriani Ars Tactica, Acies contra Alanos, Periplus Ponti Euxini, Periplus Maris Erythraei, Liber de Venatione, Epicteti Enchiridion, Ejusdem Apopthegmata et Fragmenta, quae in Joannis Stobaei Florilegio, et in Agellii Noctibus Atticis Supersunt (ed. N. Blanckaert), 14:510
  • Arriani Nicomedensis Expeditionis Alexandri Libri Septem et Historia Indica Græc. et Lat. cum Annotationibus (ed. G. Raphel), 10:233, 10:236n
  • Epicteti Stoici Philosophi Enchiridion: Unà cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Quibus adjiciuntur hac Editione Simplicii Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti. Item Arriani Commentariorum de Epicteti Disputationibus, Lib. IV (ed. H. Wolf), 14:510, 18:279
  • writings of, 6:317, 16:330

Arriani Nicomedensis Expeditionis Alexandri Libri Septem et Historia Indica Græc. et Lat. cum Annotationibus (Arrian; ed. G. Raphel), 10:233, 10:236n

Arriani Ars Tactica, Acies contra Alanos, Periplus Ponti Euxini, Periplus Maris Erythraei, Liber de Venatione, Epicteti Enchiridion, Ejusdem Apopthegmata et Fragmenta, quae in Joannis Stobaei Florilegio, et in Agellii Noctibus Atticis Supersunt (Arrian; ed. N. Blanckaert), 14:510

arrows, 16:38, 16:155

Arrowsmith, Aaron

  • New and Elegant General Atlas, 4:352, 4:354n, 7:31

arsenic

  • used in manufacture of shot, 8:98, 8:98n

arson

  • in Great Britain proposed by TJ, 5:186, 5:293, 7:11

Arson, Mr.

  • family of, 9:472, 9:573, 9:574n

Ars Poetica (Horace), 14:257, 14:551, 15:132, 15:133n, 16:443, 17:73, 17:73n

art. See drawing; painting; paintings; prints; sculpture

artichokes, 8:305, 11:39, 11:179, 11:308–11:309

Articles of Confederation, U.S., 12:419, 13:462, 14:227, 17:332–17:333, 17:333–17:336, 17:352–17:354, 18:489n

Articles of the Carpenters Company of the City and County of Philadelphia: and their Rules for measuring and valuing House Carpenters Work, 12:157, 12:159, 12:278, 12:397

artificial horizon

  • instructions for use of, 9:205–9:206, 9:275
  • made for TJ, 3:479–3:480, 4:167, 4:167n
  • owned by TJ, 4:369
  • sent by R. Patterson, 9:76–9:77, 9:77n, 9:125–9:126, 9:205, 9:275
  • for U.S. Coast Survey, 9:222, 9:222, 9:222

Artigas, José Gervasio, 16:412n

artillery

  • columbiads, 6:244–6:246, 6:247, 6:248, 6:249n, 6:273
  • underwater, 6:243–6:249, 6:272, 6:272, 6:272n, 6:272–6:273

Artimino (Artiminiano), Italy

  • wine from, 10:275, 10:411, 10:416

The Artist in His Museum (C. W. Peale), 19:liii–19:liv, 19:107–19:108, 19:108n, 19:424 (illus.)

The Artist in His Museum (study) (C. W. Peale), 19:liii, 19:107–19:108, 19:108n, 19:424 (illus.)

Artois, Charles Ferdinand d’, duc de Berry

  • assassination of, 15:479, 15:479n
  • Lafayette on, 7:539

Artois, Charles Philippe, comte d’ (later Charles X, king of France)

  • family of, 15:479n, 19:708
  • and Louis XVIII, 7:540, 17:361, 17:361, 17:363, 17:366, 17:366
  • and Marie Antoinette, 17:357, 17:367
  • and Napoleon, 7:423–7:424, 7:538

Artzt, Charles

  • constructs textile machinery, 1:524–1:525, 1:525n, 5:151–5:154, 5:155, 5:215
  • identified, 5:154n
  • invents self-feeding nail machine, 5:151–5:154
  • letters from, 5:151–5:154
  • letters to, 5:215–5:216
  • G. Sullivan recommends, 5:155

Aruda (wine), 3:240, 3:241n

Asa & Joseph Otis (Richmond firm)

  • buys TJ’s flour, 12:503–12:504, 12:632

Asbury College (Baltimore), 13:452, 13:455n, 14:103

Asciano, Pisa, Italy

  • fountain at, 9:674, 9:679n

Asclepias. See milkweed

Ascoli, Cecco d’. See Stabili, Francesco

Ashby v. White

  • TJ references, 8:526, 8:527n

Ashe, Thomas, 12:652

Ashford, John (ship captain), 19:76n

Ashlin, John

  • identified, 4:629n
  • letters to, 4:629
  • mill of, 1:560, 2:97, 2:98n
  • TJ procures fish from, 4:629, 4:668, 4:677

Ashmead, Chilion

  • seeks employment at University of Virginia, 14:652

Ashton (T. E. Randolph’s Albemarle Co. estate)

  • visitors to, 11:631n, 19:150n, 19:464n

Asia

  • corn from, 9:672
  • funeral customs in, 15:619
  • and Great Britain, 7:31
  • immigrants from, 1:253
  • Jews in, 13:30
  • peoples of, 7:533
  • supposed antiquities from, 13:82
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

Asia (ship), 15:25n, 15:72

Asia Minor

  • and agriculture, 11:162

Asiatick Society

  • discourses to, 11:383, 11:384n

Askew, Samuel

  • seeks employment at University of Virginia, 16:294–16:295, 16:341

askos

  • model of, 17:lii, 17:392 (illus.)

asparagus, 2:334, 2:368, 3:353, 3:394, 5:26+, 5:48, 6:93, 6:94, 7:288, 8:78, 8:305, 9:702, 11:39, 12:618, 14:246, 14:271, 16:634, 16:634n, 17:34, 17:48, 18:407

asparagus beans, 3:454, 3:454, 3:454, 3:456, 3:501–3:502

aspen trees, 1:398, 3:353, 3:354, 3:448, 5:482n, 9:533, 13:581

Aspern-Essling, Battle of (1809), 1:371–1:372, 1:377n, 1:436

Aspinwall, Thomas

  • consul at London, 17:43, 17:195–17:196, 17:196n, 17:281, 17:281n, 17:538

Aspland, Robert

  • as editor of Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, 19:620
  • identified, 10:123–10:124n
  • letter to, from F. A. Van der Kemp, 10:123–10:124
  • publishes TJ’s syllabus on Jesus’s doctrines, 10:124n, 11:138, 11:139n, 11:201, 11:202n, 11:230, 11:307, 11:308n

Asser, bishop of Sherborne

  • Ælfredi Regis res gestæ, 16:364
  • Annales rerum gestarum Ælfredi Magni, 12:372, 12:372, 12:389, 12:389, 12:514

Assiniboin Indians, 16:133

Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa

  • and J. Ledyard (1751–89), 12:188, 12:189n

Ast, William Frederick, 1:219n, 1:244n

Astley, Thomas

  • and journals of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 11:43–11:44n
  • letter from accounted for, 10:19–10:20n
  • and Port Folio, 10:19

Astor, John Jacob

  • and Astoria settlement, 6:556–6:557, 6:557–6:558, 6:603, 10:627
  • and China trade, 12:555n
  • and fur trade, 4:550–4:553, 5:74–5:75, 6:557, 6:557
  • identified, 4:554n
  • letters from, 4:550–4:554, 6:556–6:558
  • letters to, 5:74–5:75, 6:603
  • meets TJ, 4:550, 4:554n
  • mentioned, 19:589
  • and R. Stuart’s journal, 6:557, 6:603
  • subscribes to U.S. war loan, 6:602n

Astoria (trading settlement on Northwest coast), 6:556–6:557, 6:557–6:558, 6:603, 10:627

Astrea (schooner), 11:193

astrology

  • and cosmology, 13:257–13:266, 13:268n, 15:580–15:582, 16:618–16:620
  • and historical events, 13:268n
  • and human life, 13:268n

Astronomica (M. Manilius), 8:683–8:684, 8:684n

Astronomical and Geographical Essays … and also An Introduction to Practical Astronomy (G. Adams), 8:670, 8:685, 8:686

Astronomical Tables and Precepts, For calculating the true Times of New and Full Moons (J. Ferguson), 7:407, 7:408n, 7:409, 7:409, 7:409, 7:626

Astronomie (J. Lalande), 4:244, 4:244n, 7:626, 10:235

L’Astronomie, Poëme en Quatre Chants (Gudin de la Brenellerie), 4:147, 4:149n, 4:167, 4:167n, 10:235, 10:237n

astronomy

  • J. Adams references, 13:70, 13:70n, 15:588
  • age of universe, 14:235, 14:236–14:237
  • ancient Mexican, 1:521, 1:521n, 1:556
  • American Philosophical Society committee of, 12:636, 13:291, 13:308
  • applicants to teach at University of Virginia, 18:219
  • astronomical instruments, 4:237, 4:238n, 4:238n, 4:369, 4:370n, 14:229, 19:35, 19:570
  • and B. Banneker, 1:588, 1:590n
  • books on, 1:24, 1:35, 1:35, 1:576, 1:581, 2:466, 4:195–4:196, 4:213–4:214, 6:75, 6:84, 6:84n, 7:626, 8:388, 8:670, 8:685, 8:686, 10:233, 10:235, 10:237n, 10:508–10:509, 10:550, 10:580, 10:587, 10:642, 11:13, 11:31, 12:565–12:566, 12:619, 12:653–12:654, 13:59, 13:247, 13:247n, 14:45, 14:168, 16:380n, 17:138, 17:280, 17:447, 18:399
  • and calculations of Monticello’s latitude, 9:70, 9:415
  • and calculations of Monticello’s longitude, 4:235–4:236, 4:239, 4:246, 4:247–4:266, 4:276, 4:344, 4:368, 4:369, 4:402–4:406, 4:407, 8:455, 8:456n
  • and calculations of Poplar Forest’s latitude, 3:361–3:367, 3:563+, 9:245–9:246, 10:514–10:515
  • and calculations of prime meridian, 1:54–1:55n, 1:275–1:276, 1:356–1:358, 1:359n, 1:489–1:498, 1:511–1:512, 1:534, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–2:338n, 2:398–2:399, 2:541, 2:566, 4:275–4:276, 4:651–4:660, 19:628–19:629
  • and calculations of Willis’s Mountain’s latitude, 10:571–10:572, 10:572n
  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:214, 16:65, 16:65, 16:65, 16:78, 16:329, 16:458, 16:552, 17:493, 17:494, 17:590, 18:303, 19:570
  • and comets, 13:553–13:554, 15:128, 15:128, 19:205, 19:206n
  • and B. Fuller’s calculations of longitude, 15:271, 15:287–15:289, 15:293
  • Jupiter, 3:480, 4:368, 4:369, 9:687, 9:691
  • and W. King’s method of calculating latitude and longitude, 12:643–12:644, 13:84–13:85, 13:119–13:120
  • and light, 13:549–13:554, 15:588
  • and lunar calculations, 1:540–1:554, 2:54, 2:60–2:68, 4:368–4:369, 4:369, 5:245–5:251, 7:407, 7:408–7:409, 13:339, 13:341n, 18:505, 18:505–18:510, 18:528, 18:539, 18:539–18:545, 19:33, 19:35–19:36, 19:628
  • and military education, 17:490
  • national observatory proposed, 15:319–15:320, 15:320–15:321n
  • and observations of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 10:377, 10:377, 10:444, 10:444, 10:445, 12:171, 12:172, 12:295, 12:331, 12:463n, 12:636n, 12:637, 19:197–19:198
  • D. Rittenhouse’s orrery, 7:217
  • solar eclipse of 1806, 4:246, 4:263
  • and solar observations, 4:188, 4:195, 4:235, 4:237–4:239, 4:246, 4:263, 4:368, 4:369, 4:403, 4:407, 9:36, 18:505, 18:528, 18:539, 18:539–18:545, 19:36, 19:628
  • study of, 1:535, 7:480, 7:480, 7:638, 7:639, 7:663, 7:686, 9:84–9:85, 9:529, 14:153, 16:329, 18:334, 18:355, 18:355, 18:355–18:356, 18:356, 18:356, 18:356
  • TJ on, 3:480, 9:691–9:692, 12:442–12:443, 12:619
  • Uranus, 5:136, 5:137n, 14:236, 14:237n

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s principles (J. Ferguson), 1:576, 1:581, 2:466, 7:626, 18:399, 19:506

Astruc, Jean

  • Conjectures sur les Memoires Originaux Dont il paroit que Moyse s’est servi pour composer le Livre de la Genese, 10:504, 10:506–10:507n
  • A Treatise of the Venereal Disease (trans. W. Barrowby), 12:589

Asturias, Prince of. See Ferdinand VII, king of Spain

Atamasco lily, 4:523

Athanasius, Saint

  • creed of, 6:286, 6:287, 6:503, 6:508, 16:609, 18:499, 18:499–18:500, 18:563, 19:214
  • criticized, 7:220, 16:394, 19:214
  • and spiritualism, 16:190n, 16:197n

Athena (Pallas Athena) (Greek deity) See also Minerva (Roman deity), 19:303, 19:303n

Athenagoras (early Christian apologist), 16:189, 16:196

Athens

  • democracy in, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15
  • TJ on, 10:546, 16:615–16:616

Atkinson, John, 5:141n

Atkinson, Michael

  • identified, 8:612n
  • letter to, 8:612
  • and millwork for TJ, 7:461, 7:515, 8:63, 8:71, 8:612, 8:613, 9:51, 9:52n

Atkinson, Thomas

  • endorses note, 15:350

Atkinson, William K., 3:122n

Atkyns, John Tracy

  • Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, 6:477

Atlantic Ocean

  • and canal to Pacific Ocean, 19:305
  • internal navigation to, 11:280–11:281
  • and Northwest Passage, 1:443
  • passage across, 2:202, 2:289, 12:401

Atlantic (ship), 17:196n

Atlantis (mythical island), 12:589

Atlas (ship), 12:43, 12:235, 12:235n, 12:275

Atlas (mythological character), 18:517

Atlas (New York newspaper), 19:615

Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique (Las Cases), 3:552, 3:552n, 3:578

Atlas Portatif à l’usage des Colleges (Grenet and R. Bonne), 7:116, 7:116–7:117n, 12:112

attainder

  • of J. Philips, 7:495, 7:496n, 7:548–7:549, 8:334–8:337, 8:337–8:338n, 8:483–8:484, 8:620, 8:620, 8:643–8:644, 10:xlvi, 10:438

Attwater, Reuben, 3:370, 3:370n

Atwater, Caleb

  • identified, 13:83n
  • letter from, 13:81–13:83
  • letter to, 13:100
  • scientific and historical writings of, 13:81–13:82, 13:100

Auerstaedt, Duke of. See Davout, Louis Nicolas, Duc d’Auerstädt, Prince of Eckmühl

Auger, Athanese

  • edits and translates Isocratis Opera Omnia Græcè et Latinè (Isocrates), 9:456, 14:510
  • translates Discours de Lycurgue, d’Andocide, d’Isée, de Dinarque, avec un Fragment sous le Nom de Démade, 7:259, 17:138, 17:447
  • translates Œuvres complettes de Dêmosthene et d’Eschine (Demosthenes; Aeschines), 7:259, 17:138, 17:138–17:139n, 17:447
  • translates Œuvres Complettes d’Isocrate (Isocrates), 7:259, 17:138, 17:139n
  • translates works of Lysias, 7:259, 7:285, 8:630, 9:456

augers, 4:315, 6:346, 6:347, 6:347, 14:541, 17:4, 19:8, 19:8, 19:12

Aughe, Abraham

  • and University of Virginia, 17:636

Augusta Chronicle & Georgia Gazette (newspaper), 18:132, 18:132n

Augusta County, Va.

  • buckwheat flour from, 15:353
  • marble quarry in, 15:158, 15:182
  • springs at, 1:192
  • and suffrage in Va., 18:151
  • and University of Virginia, 18:252
  • Weyers Cave, 1:309, 1:309n

Auguste, Henry, 3:557–3:558n

Augusti, Johann Christian Wilhelm

  • Die katholischen Briefe: Neu übersesst und erklärt und mit Excursen und einleitenden Abhandlungen, 11:307
  • System der christlichen Dogmatik nach dem Lehrbegriffe der luterischen Kirche im Grundrisse, 11:307

Augustin, Mr.

  • as secretary to Destutt de Tracy, 9:484

Augustine (Austin) (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1775)

  • hat for, 7:124
  • health of, 15:427–15:428
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:309, 8:61, 8:255, 13:387

Augustine, Saint, 7:24, 16:189, 16:196

Augustus (Gaius Octavius; 1st Roman emperor), 8:505, 8:508n, 11:34, 11:269, 13:571, 15:298, 15:299n

Auldjo, Thomas, 10:21, 10:22n

Aurelius, Marcus. See Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)

auricula, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n, 4:523, 5:477, 5:477n, 5:553

Auriol, M., 1:536

Aurora (Philadelphia newspaper)

  • advertisements in, 6:510, 7:282
  • anti-Republican writings of, 3:574, 3:585, 3:586n, 3:591, 3:600
  • and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 10:536
  • and W. Duane, 1:48, 1:49n, 1:49n, 3:331, 4:174, 4:174n, 7:527, 7:564–7:565, 9:568n, 10:79, 10:652n
  • financial difficulties of, 3:450–3:452, 3:507, 3:515, 3:549–3:550
  • prints J. Cutbush’s works on chemistry, 15:342
  • prints P. S. Du Pont de Nemours’s obituary, 11:604
  • prints TJ’s correspondence, 15:325
  • publishes An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War (A. J. Dallas), 8:381, 8:381n
  • publishes essay by P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 9:617–9:618n, 9:619–9:620
  • on R. Smith’s dismissal, 3:622–3:623
  • TJ’s election as American Philosophical Society president announced in, 6:83, 6:83n
  • TJ’s subscription to, 1:48, 1:49n, 1:49n, 2:175n, 4:56, 7:554, 7:564–7:565, 8:435, 8:436n, 8:468, 8:469n, 8:469, 9:439, 11:13, 11:455, 11:456, 11:648, 11:648n, 12:370n, 13:475

Ausonius, Decimus Maximus

  • D. Magni Ausonii burdigalensis Opera (ed. J. Tollius), 18:279, 18:280n

Austin (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1775). See Augustine (Austin) (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1775)

Austin, Mr., 2:397

Austin, Mr. (of Charlottesville), 11:274

Austin, Archibald

  • as U.S. representative from Va., 11:292, 11:293n

Austin, Benjamin (of Boston)

  • J. Adams on, 6:255, 6:296, 6:297
  • on banks, 12:484–12:485
  • as commissioner of loans, 8:407, 8:408n
  • Constitutional Republicanism, 9:249, 9:250n
  • correspondence with TJ published, 9:249n, 9:336n, 9:403, 9:457–9:458, 9:533–9:534, 15:356n, 15:525n
  • identified, 9:249n
  • letters from, 9:247–9:250, 9:403, 12:484–12:485
  • letters to, 9:333–9:337, 9:457–9:458, 12:517
  • and manufacturing, 9:248–9:249, 9:333–9:336, 9:403, 9:457
  • Observations on the Pernicious Practice of the Law, 9:249, 9:249n, 9:333
  • on public debt, 12:485
  • and punishment of criminals, 12:484, 12:517
  • recommends book for TJ, 8:391
  • on Republican committee, 11:569–11:570n
  • on War of 1812, 9:247–9:248

Austin, Benjamin (of Charlottesville)

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:323, 11:328, 17:630
  • and University of Virginia, 16:304, 16:307, 16:479

Austin, David

  • and millenial sermons, 5:12, 5:13n

Austin, Eli

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

Austin, Gilbert, 14:550

Austin, Henry

  • and Asian antiquities, 11:115n

Austin, James, 2:397

Austin, James Trecothick

  • E. Gerry’s son-in-law, 5:318, 9:4, 9:6n, 19:93–19:94
  • identified, 4:38n
  • and the judiciary, 16:557, 16:603
  • letters from, 4:37–4:38, 8:585–8:586, 16:557
  • letters to, 4:67–4:68, 8:614, 16:603
  • An Oration, Pronounced at Lexington, Mass., 8:585–8:586, 8:614, 9:4, 9:6n, 9:78
  • Resistance to the Laws of the United States (“Leolin”), 4:38n, 4:67–4:68
  • seeks appointment, 19:297
  • sends works to TJ, 4:37, 5:318–5:319n, 16:557

Austin, John

  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:608
  • letters to, 1:608

Austin, John (British writer)

  • quoted, 7:582, 7:590n

Austin, William

  • edits A Selection of the Patriotic Addresses, to the President of the United States. together with The President’s Answers, 12:514, 13:33, 13:47, 19:331, 19:332n

Australia

  • endemic species of, 7:210

Austria See also Francis I, emperor of Austria

  • J. Adams on, 19:439
  • Charles, archduke of Austria, 1:371, 1:372
  • and Congress of Vienna, 7:528–7:529, 9:91n, 9:218n, 11:540, 11:541n, 15:52, 15:52n
  • and Declaration of Pillnitz, 4:430n
  • and France, 8:138, 9:347, 17:348
  • and French invasion of Spain (1823), 19:489, 19:587–19:588, 19:639, 19:657, 19:707
  • and Great Britain, 2:275, 17:58
  • Habsburg dynasty, 6:192
  • and Holy Alliance, 17:253, 17:255n, 17:489, 17:490n
  • and Italy, 16:344, 16:344n, 16:383–16:384, 17:253, 17:474
  • John, archduke of Austria, 1:372
  • and Ottoman Empire, 17:474, 17:475n
  • and partitions of Poland, 6:212, 6:212n, 7:298, 9:345, 9:347n, 14:50
  • and Prussia, 9:347
  • relations with U.S., 17:336
  • and revolutions in Europe, 16:361, 17:142, 17:143n
  • Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp (Austrian Ambassador), 1:117, 1:121n
  • and Spain, 9:347
  • and Treaty of Tilsit, 1:516, 1:517n+, 1:529, 1:627
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502
  • war with Napoleon, 1:140–1:141, 1:328, 1:370–1:371, 2:7, 2:9n

“Authentic Anecdote,” 3:261–3:262

Authentick Account of the Proceedings of the Congress held at New York, A. D. 1765, on the subject of the American Stamp Act, 19:470, 19:472n

An Authentic Narrative of the loss of the American Brig Commerce (J. Riley), 13:614, 13:614n

The Author Turned Critic; or The Reviewer Reviewed (J. Delaplaine), 10:493, 10:493n, 10:497, 10:520

Autobiography (Thomas Jefferson). See Jefferson, Thomas: Writings: Notes on Early Career (the so-called “Autobiography”)

Les Avantures de Telemaque (Fénelon), 7:195, 7:195n, 12:534, 13:521, 13:522n, 14:258, 19:506, 19:509n

avisos, 1:19, 1:21n, 1:117, 1:230

awls, 19:11

axes, 7:83, 8:23, 8:222, 8:313, 12:304, 12:304, 13:83, 13:408, 13:409, 15:86, 15:86, 16:155, 16:179, 16:181

Ayeen Akbery: or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber (Akbar), 10:486

Aylett, Philip, 2:535

Azaola, Gregorio González. See González Azaola, Gregorio

azedaracs (chinaberry), 3:354, 3:355n, 18:166

Aztec Indians, 16:16, 18:95–18:96

Azuni, Domenico Alberto

  • in law curriculum, 7:688
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