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

Nace (TJ’s slave; b. 1773)

  • delivers letter, 17:39
  • as gardener, 11:179, 13:545, 13:581, 15:172, 17:612–17:613
  • hat for, 7:124
  • as headman, 4:379
  • health of, 11:497
  • identified, 17:40n
  • letter of credit for, 17:40
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308, 8:60, 8:255
  • tasks for, 4:379–4:380
  • transports livestock, 17:39, 17:48

Nace (TJ’s slave; b. 1796)

  • as cooper, 10:74n, 10:355, 10:388
  • delivers letter, 8:158n
  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:388
  • at Poplar Forest, 10:74n, 10:355, 11:475, 11:475n
  • TJ’s debt to, 15:425
  • transports livestock, 8:158

Nack, James Madison, 3:345

Nack, Matthias

  • identified, 3:346n
  • letters from, 3:345–3:346
  • seeks loan from TJ, 3:346

Nack, Rinier, 3:345

Nack, Sarah, 3:345

Nader Shah, king of Persia, 7:477, 7:481n

naileries

  • at Monticello, 1:39n, 1:282, 1:422, 1:423n, 1:503, 2:328, 3:412n, 8:313, 18:557
  • R. Morgan proposes establishing, 1:209
  • nail-rod and iron stock, 1:246, 1:282, 1:319, 1:422, 1:423n, 1:435, 1:503, 2:328–2:329, 2:463, 3:214, 3:290, 3:526, 3:597, 4:57, 4:315, 4:522, 4:548, 5:133, 7:155, 7:188, 7:189, 7:189, 7:189, 7:472, 7:602, 8:313, 8:380, 14:307, 16:594, 16:597, 17:143–17:144, 17:152, 17:221, 18:487, 18:491, 18:512, 18:522, 18:522, 18:530, 18:531, 18:612, 18:621, 19:496, 19:584, 19:594

nail files, 19:603n

nails See also naileries

  • and batture controversy, 2:545, 2:546, 2:547
  • as building material, 12:262, 13:381, 13:399, 15:101, 15:101, 16:319, 18:522, 18:569
  • brads, 17:6, 19:9
  • and 1810 census, 3:202
  • mill to manufacture, 7:32
  • as payment for J. B. Magruder, 4:420–4:421, 4:464–4:465
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:380
  • price of, 16:594, 16:597, 17:143
  • purchased by TJ, 2:89, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 9:51, 9:52, 12:362, 12:362, 15:312, 15:449, 15:450, 15:450, 15:451, 15:452, 15:452, 16:7, 16:7, 16:8, 16:8, 16:8, 16:8, 16:8, 16:9, 16:9, 16:10, 16:10, 16:11, 16:11, 16:12, 16:13, 16:14, 16:14, 17:4, 17:6, 17:7, 17:8, 17:8, 17:9, 17:9, 17:9, 17:9, 17:10, 17:10, 17:11, 18:41, 18:41, 18:42, 18:42, 18:43, 18:44, 18:45, 18:45, 18:46, 18:46, 18:47, 18:47, 18:50, 18:50, 18:280, 18:319, 19:11, 19:14, 19:14, 19:102, 19:102–19:103n
  • sold by TJ, 2:370, 3:302, 3:526–3:527
  • sprigs, 17:5, 17:7, 18:41, 18:43, 19:10, 19:277
  • supplied to J. Leitch, 1:64, 1:303, 1:458, 3:242, 4:400
  • for University of Virginia, 17:650, 17:654, 18:211, 19:62, 19:185, 19:189, 19:239, 19:310, 19:404

Nalson, John

  • translates The History of the Crusade; or, the Expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land (L. Maimbourg), 11:274, 11:274n, 11:447

Nance (TJ’s slave; b. 1761). See Hemings, Nance (TJ’s slave; b. 1761)

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

Nancy (Shackelford estate’s slave), 3:36, 3:37n, 3:529

Nancy (TJ’s slave; b. 1791)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:387, 12:303

Nancy (TJ’s slave; 181218)

  • death of, 13:567, 13:567n
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:386n, 5:462, 6:308, 8:62, 8:255, 13:387

N. & J. & R. van Staphorst (Amsterdam firm)

  • and bills of exchange, 10:451
  • identified, 9:581n
  • TJ’s Account with, 9:580–9:581
  • TJ’s debt to, 9:579–9:580, 9:580–9:581, 9:644, 9:662–9:663, 9:679–9:680, 10:302–10:303, 10:319, 11:290–11:291, 11:293, 11:304, 11:362, 11:366, 11:379, 11:380n, 11:380, 11:381n, 11:381, 11:395, 11:419, 11:419n, 12:555–12:556, 12:613, 12:613, 12:644, 13:42–13:43, 13:43–13:44, 13:88, 13:88n, 13:141, 14:53–14:54, 14:73, 14:316, 14:354, 14:354, 14:415, 14:432, 14:473, 14:474, 14:483–14:484, 15:426, 15:471–15:472, 15:481+, 15:518, 15:538, 15:541, 15:590, 16:640n, 16:648, 16:649, 17:16, 17:21, 17:36, 17:46, 17:47, 17:117, 18:458, 18:458, 18:484, 18:494–18:495, 18:526–18:527, 18:537, 19:494

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

Nanny (TJ’s slave; b. 1778)

  • desires to move from Bear Creek to Tomahawk plantation, 8:185, 8:185–8:186
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:308, 6:309, 6:309, 6:310, 6:310, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:62, 8:62, 8:62, 8:62, 8:62, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 13:387, 13:387, 13:387
  • suffers stillbirth, 13:567

Nanny (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1799)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:387, 12:303

Nanticoke Indians, 12:385, 12:386n

Napier, John (of Merchiston)

  • A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes, 7:255n
  • identified, 7:255n
  • mathematical theorem of, 7:250–7:253, 7:253–7:255, 9:79, 9:80n, 9:107, 9:227–9:229, 9:229n, 13:382, 13:383n, 14:103
  • Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis descriptio, 7:255n

Napier, Thomas, 5:15

Naples, kingdom of (later Kingdom of the Two Sicilies)

  • and Algiers, 17:340
  • American property seized in, 2:162, 2:162n
  • and Carbonari, 18:60n
  • relations with U.S., 17:336
  • revolution in, 9:134, 9:135n, 16:135, 16:344, 16:344n, 16:383–16:384, 16:408, 17:44, 17:58, 17:115, 17:122, 17:142, 17:143n, 17:179, 17:180, 17:187, 17:191, 17:253, 17:489, 19:334
  • Royal Institute of Naples, 17:88
  • U.S. minister to, 11:122, 11:123n

Napoleon (steamboat), 13:255

Napoleon I, emperor of France

  • abdicates, 7:227, 7:345, 7:350, 7:351n, 7:380, 7:410n, 7:422–7:423, 7:428n, 7:451–7:452, 7:466, 7:490, 7:500, 7:536–7:537, 7:537–7:538, 7:592, 7:608, 8:53, 8:110, 8:261, 8:489n, 8:549, 8:658, 9:45, 9:89, 9:90–9:91, 9:210, 9:304–9:305, 11:282, 14:415–14:416, 15:75
  • J. Adams on, 5:13, 7:477–7:478, 8:551, 8:552, 8:683, 8:683–8:684, 9:432, 10:508, 13:69, 19:439
  • J. Q. Adams on, 12:89–12:90
  • Additional Act to the Constitutions of the Empire, 9:346
  • appointments of, 4:35, 4:36n, 9:576, 13:445, 13:445–13:446n
  • armies of, 4:17, 5:68, 5:212, 7:92, 10:214–10:215, 12:57n, 14:415–14:416, 14:416n, 19:667n
  • and Austria, 1:140–1:141, 1:328, 1:370–1:371, 2:7, 2:9n, 6:540n, 7:410n, 7:423–7:424, 7:537
  • Battle of Aspern-Essling, 1:371–1:372, 1:377n, 1:436
  • S. Bernard’s service under, 10:392
  • bust of, 3:624
  • campaigns of, 11:402, 11:404n, 19:27
  • code of, 3:71, 3:546, 5:576, 5:576–5:577n, 11:369, 14:240
  • coins word, 6:286
  • compared to Augustus, 13:571
  • compared to Robin Hood, 7:325
  • and Congress of Chatillon, 7:422–7:424, 7:426n
  • and Congress of Vienna, 8:533, 8:534n, 8:684, 8:684n
  • and conscription, 9:74–9:75, 9:75n
  • Continental System of, 1:331–1:332, 1:373, 1:442, 1:517n+, 2:162, 2:162n, 2:345, 2:406, 2:418, 4:37n, 4:54–4:55, 4:78n, 4:234, 8:107
  • and Corps Législatif, 17:335, 17:376–17:377n
  • criticized, 6:376n, 7:259, 7:694–7:695, 8:151n, 9:45, 9:114, 9:201–9:202, 9:232, 9:235n, 9:403, 9:528–9:529, 9:605, 10:214–10:215, 10:216, 11:117, 12:204
  • H. Dearborn on, 3:553
  • death of, 17:480, 17:481n, 17:506, 17:506n, 18:536
  • defeated at Battle of Waterloo, 8:652, 8:652n, 8:659–8:660, 8:670, 9:68, 9:257, 9:257n, 9:376, 9:388, 9:457–9:458, 10:64, 11:282, 11:282, 17:234–17:235, 19:542
  • defeated in Russia, 6:212, 6:293, 6:539, 6:540n, 8:531, 14:252
  • defended, 7:37, 7:61, 7:228, 7:298, 7:298, 7:298, 7:299, 17:164, 17:165, 17:166n
  • described as Antichrist, 4:484
  • diplomatic appointments, 1:537
  • and droit d’aubaine, 3:472n, 3:652–3:653
  • educational system of, 11:633–11:634, 11:634n, 12:204
  • 1813 campaign of, 6:619, 6:637n, 7:158, 7:158n, 7:159
  • exiled to Saint Helena, 10:655, 11:498, 11:500n, 13:158n, 15:574–15:575n, 17:393
  • fails to conquer Syria, 2:274, 2:277n
  • family of, 1:250n, 5:214, 5:215n, 7:426n, 7:491n, 9:391, 9:393n, 12:90, 12:92n, 12:95
  • and Ferdinand III of Tuscany, 9:115
  • at Fontainebleau, 1:627, 1:629
  • in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 15:368n
  • and freedom of the seas, 18:156
  • and French emigrants, 10:489–10:490, 10:490
  • “Funeral Eulogy Pronounced at St. Helena over the Tomb of Napoleon” (H. G. Bertrand), 19:591, 19:592n
  • and Great Britain, 1:528, 2:242, 2:476, 7:38, 7:39–7:40, 7:40, 7:44n, 8:371–8:372, 8:531–8:532, 8:543, 19:657
  • health of, 1:529
  • Hundred Days, 16:136, 16:137n
  • hypothetical invasion of Italy by, 8:138
  • on ideology, 6:52, 10:459, 10:586
  • intentions unclear, 1:160, 1:169, 1:224, 1:251
  • and Jews, 16:74
  • Lafayette on, 1:528, 7:536–7:537, 7:538, 7:538–7:539, 12:245, 12:247
  • J. Madison on, 3:463, 5:587, 7:537–7:538
  • marriage of, 2:242, 2:246n, 2:287, 2:466, 3:198, 7:426n
  • mentioned, 2:276, 2:311, 3:226, 6:87, 6:466, 6:522, 6:539, 7:21, 7:23n, 7:187, 7:684n, 8:6, 8:220, 8:292, 8:420, 10:44, 10:147n, 10:265, 10:332–10:333, 10:333, 10:353, 10:460, 10:469, 11:384, 11:384, 12:10, 12:46, 13:388, 15:141, 16:136, 16:188, 19:465
  • and merino sheep, 5:8n
  • as messenger from God, 8:666, 8:667n, 10:9
  • J. Monroe on, 9:45
  • Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St. Helena (ed. B. E. O’Meara), 19:411, 19:412n
  • and the Netherlands, 12:95
  • newspaper attacks on, 3:50n
  • opposition to published, 7:373, 7:374n
  • physician of, 19:76, 19:76n
  • plot to assassinate, 8:162n
  • and Poland, 13:115
  • and Pope Pius VII, 2:7, 2:9n, 2:242, 8:490
  • portraits of, 3:624–3:625, 19:623, 19:625n, 19:636
  • practices religious toleration, 6:541–6:542, 6:543n
  • praised, 9:216–9:217, 9:217
  • print of, 3:310n, 9:217, 9:218n
  • proposed removal from Elba, 8:138
  • and Prussia, 7:410n
  • and publication on ancient vases, 1:453n
  • purported autobiography of, 11:383, 11:384n, 12:90
  • quoted, 19:601
  • receives J. Barlow, 4:358, 4:540n
  • on republican government, 6:286
  • restricts freedom of expression, 14:120n
  • restricts freedom of the press, 6:401, 7:422, 7:422
  • returns to power, 8:449, 8:452, 8:453, 8:476, 8:476–8:477, 8:480, 8:480n, 8:480–8:481, 8:481n, 8:489, 8:490, 8:497–8:498, 8:504, 8:505, 8:516, 8:517–8:518, 8:519, 8:522, 8:523n, 8:524, 8:531–8:532, 8:534n, 8:557, 8:569, 8:570, 8:577, 8:580, 8:581n, 8:597, 8:598, 8:599n, 8:600, 8:607, 8:617, 8:655, 8:659, 8:688, 9:15, 9:15n, 9:16, 9:67–9:68, 9:137–9:138, 9:210, 9:211, 9:304–9:305, 9:376, 9:393n, 9:471, 9:471n, 10:216, 10:218n, 10:583, 10:584n, 10:655, 11:256n, 11:281–11:282, 13:273n, 13:273
  • rumored death of, 8:659
  • rumor of intended visit to Poplar Forest, 8:697
  • and Russia, 7:410n, 13:273
  • sculpture of, 9:127, 9:128n
  • W. Short on, 3:197, 3:199, 7:224, 7:403, 8:51, 8:689
  • and Spain, 1:160, 1:344, 2:247, 7:23n, 7:451n, 19:704n
  • Spain resists, 4:56–4:57, 4:271
  • speech to the French Corps Législatif, 7:198, 7:198, 7:198n, 7:213, 7:213n
  • Madame de Staël Holstein on, 5:449–5:451, 9:326, 9:326, 13:511, 13:511n
  • sympathizers of, 9:218, 9:218n
  • TJ compared to, 4:117, 4:306
  • TJ on, 1:20, 1:154–1:155, 1:169, 1:442, 2:210, 2:341, 2:491, 3:208, 3:238, 3:313, 3:437, 3:554, 3:578–3:579, 4:52, 4:83, 4:84n, 4:148, 4:149n, 4:670, 4:672, 5:311, 5:385, 5:502, 5:546, 5:561, 5:600–5:601, 6:53, 6:57–6:58, 6:140–6:141, 6:144, 6:293–6:294, 6:539, 6:644–6:645, 7:92, 7:97, 7:97–7:98, 7:98, 7:158, 7:167–7:168, 7:213, 7:302, 7:312, 7:312n, 7:325, 7:409–7:410, 7:451–7:452, 7:455n, 7:455n, 7:592, 7:608, 7:653, 7:709, 8:110, 8:176, 8:258–8:259, 8:261, 8:262–8:263, 8:293, 8:293, 8:355, 8:356n, 8:476, 8:476–8:477, 8:489, 8:490, 8:516, 8:519, 8:522, 8:531–8:532, 8:533, 8:537, 8:569, 8:570, 8:577, 8:580, 8:614, 8:617, 8:655, 8:658, 8:670, 9:96, 9:122, 9:122n, 9:299–9:300, 9:334, 9:353, 9:403, 9:421–9:422, 9:437, 9:457–9:458, 9:711, 10:63–10:64, 10:125, 10:459, 10:469, 10:608, 10:608, 10:645, 10:655, 11:160, 11:435–11:436, 11:436–11:437, 12:102, 12:204, 12:461, 13:50, 13:55–13:56, 13:96, 13:97n, 13:489, 15:232, 17:361–17:362, 17:368, 17:368, 17:378n, 19:411, 19:412n
  • and trade agreement with U.S., 5:577n
  • in S. G. Tucker’s poem, 1:617, 1:619
  • and U.S., 1:154–1:155, 8:131, 8:531–8:532, 9:571, 18:468n, 19:710
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506, 4:507
  • D. B. Warden on, 3:274
  • and weights and measures, 4:410
  • works on, 15:402–15:403, 15:403n, 15:574–15:575n, 19:517, 19:546, 19:569

Napoleon François Charles Joseph Bonaparte, king of Rome (son of Napoleon I; later styled Napoleon II)

  • birth of, 5:214, 5:215n
  • given military appointment, 9:391, 9:393n
  • and line of succession, 7:423, 8:489, 8:489n, 8:684, 8:684n, 8:688, 19:639, 19:640n
  • sculpture of, 9:127, 9:128n

Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St. Helena (Napoleon I; ed. B. E. O’Meara), 19:411, 19:412n

Napp, John, 7:358

Narbonne, Madame de, 2:11, 2:12, 2:14

narcissus, 10:517

Narrationes excerptæ ex Latinis scriptoribus servato temporum ordine dispositæ (J. B. Dumouchel and F. J. Goffaux), 8:482, 8:482n

A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar, under the command of his Excellence Ismael Pasha (G. B. English), 19:439, 19:440n

A Narrative of the Persecution of Hippolyto Joseph da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça (da Costa), 17:537

A Narrative of the Two Aerial Voyages (J. Jeffries), 8:388

Nash, Melatiah

  • The Columbian Ephemeris and Astronomical Diary, for the year 1812, 4:213–4:214, 4:243–4:245
  • identified, 4:214n
  • letters from, 4:213–4:214
  • letters to, 4:243–4:245

Nash, Thomas

  • and J. Robbins affair, 5:4n

Nashville, Tenn.

  • Cumberland College, 13:451
  • economic conditions in, 18:622
  • Nashville Whig, 6:112
  • and viticulture, 18:622

Nashville Whig, 6:112

Natchez Indians, 16:154, 16:176

Natchez, Miss.

  • collector at, 2:356
  • economy of, 7:186–7:187, 17:26
  • military camp near, 3:149
  • Mississippi State Gazette, 17:166n

Nathan (Hebrew prophet), 16:620

National Advocate (New York newspaper)

  • letter to, from “Detector,” 13:328–13:330
  • and party politics, 10:110–10:112, 10:112n, 10:185–10:186, 11:490–11:491
  • prints TJ’s correspondence, 13:502n, 16:519
  • reprints news from France, 8:452n
  • and J. Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence, 13:331–13:334

National Aegis (Worcester, Mass. newspaper), 1:50n

National and State Rights (G. McDuffie), 18:367, 18:367n

The National Calendar, and Annals of the United States; for MDCCCXXII (P. Force), 18:303, 18:304n

National Gazette (Philadelphia newspaper), 1:113n

National Gazette and Literary Register (Philadelphia newspaper)

  • and Missouri question, 15:566n
  • prints TJ’s correspondence, 13:465n, 13:467n

National Institute of France. See Institut de France

National Institution for the Promotion of Industry, 16:565n

National Intelligencer (Washington newspaper) See also Smith, Samuel Harrison

  • advertisements in, 4:201, 4:201–4:202n, 8:201, 8:202n, 9:274, 9:275n, 9:503–9:504, 9:504n, 14:600, 19:652n
  • and allegations against A. Gallatin, 3:70n
  • and W. Brown, 2:265, 2:266n
  • compared to other newspapers, 6:340n
  • on Conn. libel prosecutions, 1:349–1:350, 2:179
  • criticism of, 18:305
  • and Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, 11:109–11:110, 11:110n, 13:408, 13:408n
  • editors of, 9:641, 9:641, 13:5, 13:6n, 14:524, 14:525n
  • and J. W. Eppes’s library, 18:181
  • and G. W. Erving, 4:31
  • and Gallatin-Smith feud, 2:225n
  • and T. Kosciuszko’s estate, 17:443
  • mentioned, 6:259, 8:5, 8:475, 12:153n, 19:332n
  • offices of, 12:398, 12:398
  • as party newspaper, 1:30n, 1:65, 18:305, 18:305
  • prints antislavery writings, 14:378, 14:379n, 15:75
  • prints British political reports, 11:302, 11:303n
  • prints congressional proceedings, 15:409, 15:409n, 17:549, 19:338n
  • prints correspondence to TJ, 2:510n, 3:625n
  • prints diplomatic correspondence, 2:418, 2:419n, 2:470, 2:471n, 7:701, 7:702
  • prints P. S. Du Pont de Nemours’s obituary, 11:604, 11:604n
  • prints essay by “Greene” (T. Coxe), 16:407, 16:408n
  • prints essays by T. Paine, 19:367n
  • prints government reports, 7:701, 7:701–7:702, 7:702
  • prints B. H. Latrobe’s article on marble for U.S. Capitol, 11:480–11:481, 11:481, 11:481n, 11:563
  • prints H. S. B. Latrobe’s obituary, 12:72
  • prints letter from “A” (Thomas Jefferson), 9:548–9:552
  • prints J. Madison’s annual messages, 3:260n, 4:541n
  • prints P. Mazzei’s obituary, 10:272, 10:273n
  • prints Petition of University of Virginia Board of Visitors to United States Congress, 17:659n
  • prints political results, 9:563n
  • prints H. Steel’s “Sketches of Louisiana,” 12:627, 12:628n
  • prints TJ’s correspondence, 1:12n, 1:14n, 1:23n, 1:34n, 1:569n, 3:320n, 5:644n, 9:411n, 11:24n, 11:111, 13:487, 13:557, 13:557n, 17:250n, 17:398, 17:399n, 17:399–17:400n, 17:434, 17:591–17:592, 17:592n, 19:528n
  • prints D. B. Warden’s review of C. C. Robin, 3:557, 3:558n
  • prints work by J. Wallace, 18:649
  • and publication of state papers, 8:156, 8:252
  • reports on bankruptcy legislation, 15:514, 15:515n
  • reports W. Hampton’s death, 2:44n
  • reports on manufacturing, 11:413, 11:413n
  • reports on TJ’s health, 19:168, 19:168–19:169n, 19:563
  • summarizes Treaty of Ghent (1814), 8:269
  • and Tammany Society, 2:399
  • TJ forwards letter for publication in, 2:670
  • TJ’s account with, 2:670, 2:671n, 6:461–6:462, 6:505, 6:506, 6:544, 6:560, 6:648, 11:425, 11:523, 11:523n, 11:648, 13:486, 13:487n, 13:506, 13:542
  • TJ sends, 8:309
  • TJ subscribes to, 2:175n, 4:633, 6:399, 6:560, 10:124, 11:456, 12:370n, 13:469, 13:470, 13:470n, 16:251
  • and War of 1812, 5:173

National Recorder (Philadelphia newspaper), 15:373, 15:374n, 15:375n

National Register (Washington newspaper), 14:563

National Utility, in opposition to Political Controversy: Addressed to the Friends of American Manufactures, 9:249n, 9:336n

Native American (Norwich, Conn., newspaper)

  • and N. G. M. Senter’s writings, 5:407n

“A Native Born Virginian” (pseudonym)

  • letter from, 18:147–18:148
  • and revision of Va. constitution, 18:147–18:148, 18:150–18:151
  • on suffrage in Va., 18:148–18:151
  • urges TJ to resume political activity, 18:147–18:148

“A Native of Virginia” (pseudonym)

  • accuses TJ of misuse of public funds, 1:43n, 18:383, 18:385, 18:385–18:386n, 18:394, 18:395, 18:400, 18:401, 18:412, 18:432, 18:447, 18:448, 18:449, 18:450–18:451, 18:452, 18:454, 18:492, 18:537–18:538, 18:573, 19:3, 19:91–19:92, 19:256, 19:256n
  • identity of, 18:383, 18:386n, 18:398, 18:400, 18:400n, 18:438, 18:438n, 18:452–18:453
  • opposition to in U.S. newspapers, 18:538, 18:538, 19:32, 19:32–19:33n
  • TJ’s replies to, 18:383–18:386, 18:394–18:395, 18:397, 18:400, 18:401, 18:412, 18:424, 18:432, 18:447–18:448, 18:448–18:452, 18:452–18:453, 18:453, 18:480, 19:32, 19:32–19:33n

The Natural and Chemical Elements of Agriculture (G. A. Gyllenborg; trans. J. Mills), 11:164

A Natural and Civil History of California (M. Venegas), 17:536

The Natural and Civil History of Vermont (S. Williams), 1:581, 2:71, 8:282–8:283, 8:350, 8:413–8:414, 18:254, 18:254n, 19:507

Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country (D. Drake), 9:526, 9:526n, 9:647

Natural Bridge, Va.

  • calculations of latitude, 9:26n, 9:36, 9:36n
  • dam at, 17:558
  • drawing of, by J. P. DuVal, 17:222
  • drawing of, by Baron de Turpin, 1:197, 1:198–1:199n
  • E. Graham on, 12:311
  • lease of, 8:96, 8:96n, 8:97–8:98, 8:113+, 8:119–8:120, 8:120–8:121, 8:123, 8:257, 8:281, 8:281–8:282, 8:308–8:309, 8:347, 9:402, 9:402n, 9:449, 9:450, 10:520, 11:237, 11:238n, 11:397, 11:428, 11:589, 11:642, 12:340, 12:525, 12:525–12:526, 12:544
  • logging at, 16:163, 16:163
  • pictures of, 8:xlvii, 10:453
  • print of, 11:xlvii–11:xlviii, 11:232 (illus.)
  • and proposed road, 16:279–16:280, 16:327
  • proposed sale of TJ’s lands at, 1:318, 1:319–1:320, 1:367, 1:506–1:507, 3:155–3:156, 7:556–7:557, 7:620, 8:282, 8:309, 10:453–10:455, 10:457n, 10:516, 10:520, 19:131–19:132, 19:141
  • route to from Poplar Forest, 8:696, 8:697, 8:697n, 9:35, 9:450
  • saltpeter cave near, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 3:155, 11:625, 11:630, 16:399n
  • and shot manufactory, 1:319–1:320n, 1:367n, 7:556, 8:96, 8:96n, 8:113+, 8:119–8:120, 8:120–8:121, 8:257, 8:281–8:282, 8:308–8:309, 8:347, 10:454, 10:520, 10:555, 11:629, 11:629, 11:642, 12:340, 12:525, 12:525–12:526, 12:544
  • survey of, 12:38, 12:98, 12:174–12:175, 12:310–12:311, 12:337–12:338, 12:394, 12:525, 12:525, 14:248, 16:163, 16:507, 17:555–17:556, 17:556n, 17:558, 17:581, 17:587, 18:102, 18:102–18:103, 18:103n, 18:104, 18:104–18:105n, 18:181–18:182
  • tavern at, 16:280
  • taxes on, 8:123, 8:123n, 8:257, 11:237, 11:238n, 11:428, 11:589, 11:590n, 12:38, 12:38n, 12:98
  • TJ on, 8:347, 10:453, 10:455, 10:457n, 10:520, 10:520, 10:555, 10:555n, 10:648n, 12:334
  • TJ’s grandchildren visit, 11:xlvii–11:xlviii, 11:596, 11:617, 11:618n, 11:622–11:624, 11:625, 11:628–11:630, 11:631, 11:641
  • TJ’s patent for, 12:311, 12:311n, 12:337, 16:163, 16:163n
  • TJ visits, 9:21–9:22, 9:26, 9:108, 9:122, 9:308, 9:309, 10:257, 10:648n, 11:xlvii–11:xlviii, 11:428, 11:439, 11:596, 11:617, 11:618n, 11:620, 11:621–11:622, 11:622–11:624, 11:625, 11:628–11:630, 11:631, 11:641, 11:669, 12:98, 12:311, 12:337, 12:338, 12:394, 12:525, 13:303, 17:555–17:556, 17:558, 17:571, 17:579, 17:587, 17:587n, 17:602–17:603, 18:102, 18:104, 18:168, 18:182
  • visitors to, 4:675, 7:379, 9:18, 9:26, 9:26–9:27, 9:108, 9:122, 9:308, 10:453, 10:520, 10:554–10:555, 10:570, 10:648n, 11:xlvii–11:xlviii, 11:621–11:622, 15:498, 16:399n

natural history

  • artistic depictions of, 19:107–19:108
  • books on, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:213, 6:368–6:369, 7:389, 8:5, 8:6, 8:22, 8:22–8:23n, 8:388, 8:422, 8:422–8:423n, 8:581, 8:672, 10:234, 11:192, 12:335, 12:534, 12:534, 12:588, 12:589, 12:590, 14:168, 14:232, 14:276, 14:351, 14:387, 14:388n, 14:460, 16:125, 16:568, 17:4, 17:87–17:88n, 17:88n, 17:116, 17:151, 18:399, 18:466
  • bound pamphlets on, 13:455
  • classification of animals, 7:152–7:153, 7:207–7:211, 11:367–11:368
  • of Lake Champlain, 7:357
  • collections, 15:284–15:285, 15:314, 15:560–15:561, 19:18
  • collegiate education in, 15:40, 15:40, 15:41, 16:65, 16:65, 16:65, 16:78, 16:329, 16:374, 16:458, 17:101, 17:101, 17:104, 17:329
  • museums of, 12:505, 16:177, 16:180, 16:182n, 18:206, 19:liii–19:liv, 19:108, 19:358
  • and New-York Historical Society, 11:190–11:193
  • observations on, 11:39, 11:367–11:368, 11:370n, 13:249, 13:249–13:250n, 13:253, 13:280, 19:563–19:564
  • of South America, 16:529–16:530
  • study of, 2:308, 2:507–2:510, 2:551, 7:480, 7:638, 7:639, 7:667, 9:529, 9:644, 12:335, 12:368, 12:588–12:589, 16:329, 18:278, 18:278, 19:358
  • TJ receives books on, 1:36
  • TJ recommends books on, 1:581, 14:460

The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (M. Catesby), 8:581, 9:108

Naturalis Historiæ (Pliny the Elder), 3:546

naturalization

  • An Act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject (1802), 9:259, 9:261n, 11:147n
  • S. Cathalan desires, 9:576
  • J. F. Dumoulin on, 9:665–9:666, 10:20, 10:101–10:102
  • TJ on, 9:666n, 10:20, 11:146–11:147

natural law

  • books on, 7:627, 8:285, 8:328, 10:46, 10:557–10:558, 10:594
  • bound pamphlets on, 8:630
  • study of, 7:638, 7:640, 7:686, 7:687, 7:688, 16:296n
  • and TJ’s mill, 3:138–3:139, 3:142, 3:144
  • TJ on, 11:147

natural philosophy

  • books on, 1:37, 1:38n, 12:153, 12:439, 12:534, 15:275, 17:494, 18:399
  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:214, 13:402, 14:459, 15:40, 15:275, 15:275, 16:65, 16:65, 16:65, 16:78, 16:329, 16:329, 16:458, 16:552, 16:629n, 17:101, 17:101, 17:104, 17:329, 17:493, 17:590, 18:303, 19:565, 19:570
  • study of, 2:110, 2:134, 7:638, 7:663, 7:686, 8:341, 9:529, 10:486, 12:123, 14:313, 18:334
  • TJ on, 4:162, 7:625–7:626, 18:625
  • TJ recommends books on, 1:508, 1:581, 7:626

natural rights

  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 10:46
  • F. W. Gilmer on, 10:205–10:209
  • F. Quesnay on, 10:46, 10:154, 10:205
  • TJ on, 10:154–10:155, 11:432–11:433, 11:434n

natural theology

  • books on, 12:7, 12:474–12:475

Natural Theology (W. Paley), 3:590, 3:590n

Nature Displayed (N. G. Dufief), 1:581, 3:98n, 5:467n, 5:557, 10:370–10:372, 10:390–10:391, 10:481, 10:482n, 12:534, 13:513

Naucaze, Mr. de, 2:12, 2:13

Naudowessie Indians, 16:85n, 16:133

The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (E. M. Blunt)

  • sent to TJ, 4:13, 4:13n, 4:55, 4:202, 4:202n, 6:535, 6:559, 8:142, 10:642, 11:13, 11:13n, 11:31, 13:513, 13:513n
  • TJ orders, 8:118, 9:60, 10:580, 10:630, 15:173
  • use of by U.S. Navy, 8:181

The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (J. Garnett)

  • bound by J. Milligan, 1:35, 1:225, 1:286, 12:439
  • errors in, 4:13, 4:55, 4:202, 4:222, 4:230
  • and W. Lambert, 1:492, 1:498n, 2:62, 2:64, 2:338n
  • and R. Patterson, 3:431–3:432, 3:447, 3:479, 8:144
  • publication of, 8:144
  • sent to TJ, 4:167, 4:167n, 4:289, 8:142
  • TJ orders, 8:118, 8:181, 9:60, 9:274
  • use of by U.S. Navy, 8:144, 8:145n, 8:181

Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (London edition)

  • and W. Lambert’s calculations, 4:651, 4:652, 4:652, 4:652, 4:653, 4:653, 4:654, 4:659
  • mentioned, 6:559

Nautilus (boat), 9:558

The Naval Gazetteer; or, Seaman’s Complete Guide (J. Malham), 13:36

Naval History of the United States (T. Clark), 7:139, 7:140n, 7:140–7:141n, 7:155, 7:155n, 7:190, 7:190, 7:256, 19:508

Navarro, Mr., 3:491

Navesink Highlands

  • altitude readings of, 12:342–12:343

navigation See also Rivanna River

  • and altitude calculations, 12:342–12:343
  • bound pamphlets on, 13:455, 13:457n
  • and due east and west lines, 18:648, 18:651–18:652, 19:22–19:23, 19:66–19:67, 19:67, 19:68n
  • elementary education in, 13:196, 13:215
  • study of, 7:638, 7:639, 12:120, 12:201, 12:467, 13:368, 13:369, 13:449, 14:200, 15:340n, 17:125–17:126, 17:490

navigational instruments, 3:448

Navy Department, U.S. See also Crowninshield, Benjamin Williams; Hamilton, Paul (1762–1816); Jones, William (ca. 1761–1831); Thompson, Smith

  • accusations against employees of, 14:183n
  • and W. Annesley’s shipbuilding techniques, 19:142, 19:157
  • applications to, 4:91, 4:171–4:172, 4:178, 6:126, 6:161–6:162, 6:170–6:171, 6:211, 6:211, 8:9–8:10, 8:205–8:206, 9:408, 9:412, 9:412–9:413n, 9:415, 9:482, 10:439, 10:447, 10:566, 16:407, 17:424, 17:435, 17:437, 17:460–17:461, 17:462, 18:627, 19:71–19:72, 19:196
  • appointments to, 4:185, 9:458, 9:498, 10:162, 10:181, 10:183, 14:486, 16:407, 16:408n, 16:409, 19:116–19:117, 19:141–19:142, 19:163
  • building superintendent for, 13:289, 13:307
  • and S. Cathalan’s claims, 14:599, 15:66, 16:116
  • clerks at, 1:445n, 1:601, 14:182, 14:183n
  • clerical salaries at, 8:115
  • congressional committee investigates, 1:361, 1:362n
  • and copper mines, 12:454
  • and dry docks, 19:125, 19:126n
  • establishment of, 6:183, 19:73–19:74, 19:124–19:125, 19:126n
  • and floating batteries, 2:606, 9:623, 19:125
  • and foreign commerce, 16:412n
  • gunboats of, 1:203, 1:510, 2:177–2:178, 2:258, 2:259, 2:412n, 2:606, 5:524, 5:526n, 6:216, 6:320, 8:5, 8:5, 9:623, 13:568, 13:569n
  • gunpowder for, 16:246
  • Marine Barracks, 1:601, 1:649
  • and national observatory, 15:319, 15:320
  • offer to supply duck cloth to, 2:99
  • ordnance for, 12:453–12:454, 13:7n
  • and partisanship, 17:548, 17:555
  • and D. Porter’s voyage of discovery, 1:443, 1:445n
  • proposed school for, 17:438–17:439, 17:490
  • proposed work on, 13:22n
  • supplies purchased for, 10:653n
  • and timber agents, 17:463, 17:464n, 17:464, 17:464n
  • TJ on, 5:606, 7:91, 8:357, 8:490, 10:609, 12:97, 12:138, 17:436–17:437, 17:560, 19:124–19:125
  • toasts honoring navy, 1:615+
  • use of J. Garnett’s Nautical Almanac by, 8:144, 8:145n, 8:181
  • and War of 1812, 6:14–6:15, 7:8, 7:16, 7:91, 8:490, 10:100n
  • war vessels of, 9:555, 9:557, 9:557, 9:623, 9:628–9:629n, 9:629n, 10:93, 10:94n, 19:142, 19:142
  • Washington Navy Yard, 4:64, 5:206, 6:307, 7:623, 8:5, 8:591, 8:592

Neagle, James

  • engraver, 10:xlv–10:xlvi, 10:199n, 10:493, 10:493n, 10:497, 15:liii

Neagle, John

  • engraver, 10:xlv–10:xlvi, 10:199n, 10:493, 10:493n, 10:497, 15:liii

Neal, Daniel

  • History of New-England, 5:387, 5:390n

Neal, John

  • and P. Allen’s History of the American Revolution, 6:231n

Neale, Leonard

  • as archbishop of Baltimore, 11:28, 11:28n, 11:28n, 11:63–11:64n, 15:317n

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon

  • J. Adams on, 19:439
  • mentioned, 15:582, 16:619, 18:546
  • referenced by TJ, 5:135–5:136, 5:137n

Necker, Jacques

  • on bank in Paris, 6:650
  • bust of, 9:326, 9:328n
  • criticism of, 10:13
  • family of, 5:452n, 6:140, 6:144–6:145, 6:145n, 9:327, 10:375
  • as French minister of finance, 17:356–17:357, 17:358–17:359, 17:360–17:361, 17:362, 17:364, 17:364, 17:366, 17:368, 17:378n
  • Of the Importance of Religious Opinions, 7:588–7:590, 7:590n
  • and political economy, 15:279, 15:280n
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Necker, Suzanne Curchod de Nasse, 5:452n, 16:604, 16:604n

nectarines

  • harvesting of, 8:548
  • planted at Monticello, 3:455

Ned (J. B. Couch’s slave)

  • and lost trunk, 1:186, 1:204, 1:257, 1:268
  • trial of, 1:311, 1:346–1:348, 1:483

Ned (TJ’s slave; b. 1760). See Gillette, Ned (TJ’s slave; b. 1760)

Ned (TJ’s slave; b. 1786). See Gillette, Ned (TJ’s slave; b. 1786)

Ned (African American)

  • and University of Virginia, 19:46, 19:50

Needham (Nedham), Marchamont

  • read by J. Adams, 4:474

Needham, Peter

  • edits Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum, Sive De Re Rustica Libri XX (C. Bassus; 1704), 2:81–2:82
  • translates Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus; 1781), 2:81–2:82, 10:233, 11:164

needle bush, 10:xlvi

Neef, Joseph

  • Sketch of a Plan and Method of Education, 3:40n, 3:88, 4:661
  • and translation of Destutt de Tracy manuscript, 6:526

Neelly, James

  • identified, 1:607n
  • letters from, 1:606–1:608
  • and M. Lewis’s death, 1:602, 1:603, 1:606–1:607, 2:191–2:192, 6:423–6:424
  • and M. Lewis’s effects, 2:30–2:31, 2:34, 2:73n, 2:121, 2:191–2:192

Négrin, John J., 3:49

Negrin, Paul

  • and books for TJ, 16:224, 16:224
  • and University of Virginia, 19:47, 19:49, 19:50, 19:52n
  • as witness, 18:271n

Neilson, Hall

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:334, 16:303, 17:620

Neilson (Nelson), John

  • Arthur S. Brockenbrough’s Agreement with James Dinsmore and John Neilson for Carpentry and Joining for the University of Virginia Rotunda, 19:446, 19:447, 19:447–19:448, 19:450, 19:452
  • as builder for Central College–University of Virginia, 11:256, 11:256n, 11:273, 11:274n, 11:471, 14:194, 14:195, 15:103, 15:125, 15:129, 15:200–15:201, 15:201n, 15:209, 15:396, 16:308, 16:310, 16:319, 17:77, 17:620, 17:622, 17:626, 17:630, 17:634, 17:649, 17:653, 19:46, 19:50, 19:54, 19:62, 19:186, 19:188, 19:237, 19:238, 19:310, 19:395, 19:395–19:396n, 19:446, 19:447–19:448, 19:544n, 19:552, 19:582
  • correspondence with J. H. Cocke, 19:395–19:396n
  • delivers letter, 12:626n
  • Floor Plan of Poplar Forest, 15:169, 15:171 (illus.)
  • identified, 5:299–5:300n
  • letter from, to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 14:194
  • letters from, 15:396–15:397, 15:618–15:619, 19:582
  • letters to, 13:369–13:370, 15:623
  • and lost box, 1:77, 1:84
  • J. Madison recommends, 8:592
  • mentioned, 18:194
  • Promissory Note from Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to John Neilson, 16:18
  • and reconstruction of the U.S. Capitol, 8:591, 8:592
  • sends greetings to TJ, 11:274
  • Southern Elevation of Poplar Forest, 15:169, 15:170 (illus.)
  • TJ forwards letters to, 13:369
  • TJ pays, 15:450
  • TJ recommends, 5:299, 8:313–8:314, 8:479, 8:592
  • TJ’s debt to, 12:644, 13:370, 13:370n, 15:618, 15:619n, 15:623, 15:623n, 16:649, 19:495
  • TJ’s promissory notes to, 9:665, 16:18
  • and work at Bremo (J. H. Cocke’s Fluvanna Co. estate), 3:136n, 11:274n, 13:129–13:130, 13:130n, 15:205
  • and work at Monticello, 15:619n
  • and work at Montpellier (Madison family estate), 1:136n, 1:155, 8:314, 8:479

Neilson, William

  • Greek Exercises, in Syntax, Ellipsis, Dialects, Prosody, and Metaphrasis, 14:200, 14:257, 16:10

Nekervis, William

  • as cashier of Farmers’ Bank of Virginia, 18:298–18:299, 18:389, 19:611n
  • identified, 17:274n
  • letter from, to B. Peyton, 18:298–18:299
  • TJ deeds Milton land to, 17:16, 17:17n, 17:47n, 17:67–17:68, 17:68n, 17:82–17:83, 17:258, 17:271–17:273, 17:274n, 17:281–17:282, 17:284

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

Nelson (G. Divers’s slave), 15:159

Nelson (African American)

  • and University of Virginia, 16:304, 17:634

Nelson, Mr. See Neilson (Nelson), John

Nelson, Mr. (judge), 10:384, 10:384n

Nelson, Elizabeth. See Page, Elizabeth Nelson (Thomas Nelson’s daughter; Mann Page’s wife)

Nelson, Horatio, Viscount

  • Battle of Trafalgar, 2:317
  • biographies of, 8:22, 8:23n, 8:671
  • compared to American commodore, 4:109
  • as naval commander, 18:60n, 18:660
  • quoted, 18:57

Nelson, Hugh

  • aide to J. Barbour, 7:632, 7:633n
  • as candidate for Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, 16:158, 16:159n, 16:184, 16:186
  • as circuit court judge, 3:532–3:533
  • conveys packages to TJ, 10:156, 11:159
  • family of, 4:493, 4:499
  • and figs for J. Walker, 1:500
  • forwards letter, 11:32, 11:111
  • gubernatorial prospects of, 8:47
  • identified, 1:500n
  • introduces C. Kingsbury, 10:158
  • introduction to requested, 15:502
  • and legislation concerning military preparations, 4:393, 4:394n, 4:568
  • letters from, 1:500, 4:393–4:394, 4:492–4:493, 4:566–4:569, 8:282, 10:156, 10:158–10:159, 11:32, 15:363–15:364, 15:433–15:434, 15:443–15:444, 18:30, 18:337
  • letters to, 4:367–4:368, 4:482, 4:585–4:586, 11:111, 15:382–15:383, 15:463–15:464, 18:11
  • and W. McClure’s debts, 5:174–5:175, 5:328–5:329, 5:639–5:640
  • Madisons visit, 19:519n
  • and Missouri question, 15:364, 15:382, 15:433–15:434, 15:434n, 15:443–15:444, 15:444, 15:463, 15:492
  • and J. J. Monroe, 7:310
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
  • potential governor of Va., 3:303
  • reference for F. Willis, 4:516, 4:516
  • sends peace treaty to TJ, 8:282
  • and tariffs on books, 17:655–17:656, 18:30
  • TJ’s family opposes election of, 16:184, 16:186
  • TJ purchases cattle from, 7:519–7:520
  • TJ’s promissory note to, 7:519–7:520
  • and TJ’s statement on the batture case, 4:367–4:368, 4:393–4:394, 4:482, 4:492–4:493, 4:499, 4:567–4:568
  • and University of Virginia faculty applicants, 15:363–15:364
  • as U.S. representative from Va., 15:382–15:383, 15:433–15:434, 15:443–15:444, 15:444, 17:655–17:656, 17:659n, 18:30, 19:337
  • and Va. land warrants, 4:566–4:567, 4:568–4:569n, 4:585
  • and valuation of J. Monroe’s Highland estate, 19:394, 19:394, 19:394n
  • and vine cuttings for TJ, 18:320–18:321, 18:337
  • visits Monticello, 8:376
  • visits Washington, D.C., 13:77

Nelson, Judith, 1:670

Nelson, Lucy Grymes (Thomas Nelson’s wife)

  • and compensation for husband’s service, 17:610–17:611, 17:611n, 18:26

Nelson, Matthew

  • and Jefferson v. Michie, 9:52
  • and Milton lands, 10:103, 10:103n, 10:104

Nelson, Nancy Crawford Henderson (Bennett Henderson’s daughter; Matthew Nelson’s wife)

  • and Milton lands, 1:440, 1:459, 1:460–1:461, 1:463, 5:422, 5:423, 6:50–6:51, 6:51n, 6:367, 6:367n, 6:472, 7:118–7:119, 7:119n, 7:352, 7:352n, 7:352n, 7:352, 10:103–10:104, 10:104–10:105, 10:471, 10:499–10:500, 10:590–10:591, 10:591, 10:619–10:622, 10:623–10:624, 10:624, 11:18, 11:19, 11:20, 11:20, 11:20, 11:42, 11:42–11:43n, 11:56–11:57, 12:559–12:560

Nelson, Roger

  • assaulted by I. A. Coles, 2:107n, 2:127

Nelson, Thomas

  • as agent to Va. penitentiary store, 19:106n
  • appointed loan officer, 1:25
  • bonds of, 3:426, 3:458
  • as loan commissioner, 8:440, 8:441n, 8:451, 8:451n, 8:466, 8:483, 8:483n

Nelson, Thomas (1716–82)

  • as president of Va. Council of State, 10:421

Nelson, Thomas (1738–89)

  • compensation for heirs of, 17:610–17:611, 17:611n, 18:26
  • death of, 18:26
  • as governor of Va., 3:99, 3:101n, 4:432–4:433, 4:434n, 17:329, 18:26
  • Revolutionary War service of, 15:240, 18:25–18:26, 18:26, 18:26
  • signer of Declaration of Independence, 13:329

Nelson, William

  • and bounty for W. Byrd, 1:290–1:291, 1:334–1:335
  • identified, 1:291n
  • letters from, 1:290–1:291
  • letters to, 1:334–1:335

Nelson, William (1711–72)

  • as president of Va. Council of State, 10:421

Nelson County, Va.

  • jail, 19:688–19:690
  • maps of, 10:196
  • Proceedings of the Board of School Commissioners, in the County of Nelson, 19:315, 19:316n
  • state senator for, 10:196, 10:294, 10:295n

Nelson County Court, Va., 19:688–19:689

Neponset Indians, 5:184–5:185, 5:186n

Nepos, Cornelius

  • study of works of, 7:447, 7:661
  • TJ references, 9:703
  • works of, 9:274, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639, 10:257, 10:257n, 10:523, 14:511, 17:190, 19:505
  • works of bound for TJ, 9:274, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639
  • Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum, 1:580, 12:439

“Neptune” (pseudonym). See “The Ghost of Franklin” (“Franklin’s Ghost”; “Neptune”) (pseudonym)

Neptune (Roman deity), 10:216

Neptune (ship), 6:103

Neptunism

  • German geological school, 3:263–3:264, 3:264n

Nero (Roman emperor)

  • TJ references, 15:272, 16:92

Néron, Pierre

  • Recueil d’edits et d’ordonnances royaux, 3:235, 3:236–3:237n, 3:484

Nesselrode, Karl Robert von, 7:542, 15:572n, 15:572n, 18:66, 18:103

Nesti, Filippo

  • identified, 15:330n
  • and Imperiale e Reale Accademia Economico-Agraria dei Georgofili di Firenze, 15:328

Nestor (mythological character)

  • J. Adams compared to, 9:374, 9:375n
  • TJ compared to, 13:384n

Nestor (ship), 17:196n

The Netherlands

  • J. Adams on, 13:615
  • agriculture in, 12:254
  • American property seized in, 2:162n, 2:342
  • annexed to France, 2:242, 2:245, 2:246n, 2:325
  • Battle at Flushing, 1:529, 1:530n, 1:593n
  • Bonaparte, Louis (king), 1:194, 2:49n, 2:354, 12:95, 13:147
  • book prices in, 9:196, 9:559
  • and British trade, 1:464
  • canal transportation in, 10:561
  • and Congress of Vienna, 15:52
  • emigration from, 2:608, 10:305
  • W. Eustis as U.S. minister to, 8:378, 8:378n, 8:378, 10:160
  • government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16, 9:516, 11:48, 15:571, 17:346–17:347, 19:334
  • history of, 7:527–7:528
  • invasion of, 10:305, 19:466
  • learned societies in, 10:364, 10:364n, 10:394
  • and madder cultivation, 3:289
  • relations with France, 17:345, 19:245, 19:489
  • relations with Great Britian, 17:345, 17:345–17:349
  • relations with U.S., 17:336, 19:406, 19:408n
  • religious conflict in, 10:120
  • Royal Institute of Sciences, Belles Lettres, and Fine Arts of the Low Countries, 10:230
  • scholarship in, 9:83, 9:697–9:698, 19:559
  • and Spanish colonies, 11:354
  • TJ’s travels in, 17:353–17:354, 17:354
  • tobacco shipped to, 2:262
  • and U.S. finances, 2:73, 17:352–17:354
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:503, 4:504, 4:505, 4:506, 4:506

nettle, wood, 4:427–4:428n, 5:22, 11:135–11:136

Nettleton, Thomas

  • and barometric calculation of altitude, 9:314, 9:314, 9:317n

Neue Erdbeschreibung (A. F. Büsching), 9:137, 9:138n

Neuhof, Theodor von, king of Corsica, 7:477, 7:481n

Nevil, Zachariah

  • and Central College—University of Virginia subscription, 11:333, 13:161

Neville, Henry

  • Plato Redivivus, 4:474, 4:476n

Neville, Morgan

  • identified, 15:277–15:278n
  • letter from, 15:276–15:278
  • letter to, 15:292
  • and medals commemorating Revolutionary War, 15:276–15:277, 15:292, 15:325

Neville, Presley

  • family of, 15:277

A New Abridgment of the Law (M. Bacon), 3:546, 3:546, 7:125, 7:126, 7:127, 7:127, 7:627, 7:628, 7:628, 7:628, 13:53, 16:640, 16:640–16:641, 18:334, 18:381, 18:446, 18:463

A New American Biographical Dictionary (T. J. Rogers), 19:341–19:342, 19:342n

The New American Practical Navigator (N. Bowditch), 13:36, 13:53, 13:368, 13:368n, 13:369, 13:449, 14:200, 15:339, 15:340n

A new and candid investigation of the question, is revelation true? (J. Fishback), 1:254–1:255, 1:563–1:564, 1:565–1:566

The New and Complete American Encyclopædia: or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 4:281, 4:336, 4:365, 4:371, 4:408, 4:409, 4:530–4:531, 4:557, 4:558–4:559

A New and Complete System of Arithmetic (N. Pike), 1:576, 4:244, 4:245n, 8:660, 12:534

New and Elegant General Atlas (A. Arrowsmith), 4:352, 4:354n, 7:31

A New and Impartial History of England (J. Baxter) See also The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 (D. Hume), 1:580, 3:5, 3:7n, 3:37–3:38, 3:38, 3:86, 7:629, 8:235, 12:534, 13:410, 13:412, 13:413n, 13:585, 15:375–15:376, 15:465, 16:150, 16:151, 16:169, 16:187, 17:64, 17:232, 17:251, 17:419, 18:399, 19:506, 19:509n

The New and Universal Gazetteer: or, Modern Geographical Dictionary (J. T. Scott), 1:581

New Annual Register: General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, 2:455, 2:456n

Newark, Upper Canada

  • burned by U.S. forces, 8:216, 8:217, 8:217, 8:226n

Newbern (brig), 15:442, 16:112

Newbold, William

  • and antislavery, 15:178

New Brunswick, N.J.

  • Democratic Corresponding Society, 3:510–3:511

Newburyport, Mass.

  • collector at, 1:25
  • revenue inspector at, 8:407, 8:408n, 8:667, 8:667n, 9:653–9:654

Newby, William

  • death of, 8:433, 8:433n

Newby, William P.

  • carries letter to TJ, 5:394
  • death of father, 8:433, 8:433n
  • identified, 4:414n
  • lawsuits against, 8:433, 8:433n
  • letters from, 4:414, 5:260, 8:432–8:433
  • letters to, 8:203–8:204, 8:555
  • letter to B. Shackelford, 8:357, 8:357n
  • mentioned, 6:344
  • plans visit to Monticello, 8:357n
  • slave of, 8:357n
  • TJ offers employment to, 8:203–8:204, 8:432–8:433, 8:555
  • Tufton overseer, 4:101, 4:414, 5:260, 8:203, 8:204n

New Caledonia, 5:202–5:203

New Canton, Va.

  • postal service to, 3:103, 3:104n, 3:148, 3:164
  • travel to, 3:474

Newcomb, John H.

  • and University of Virginia, 19:57

Newcome, William

  • A Harmony in Greek of the Gospels, 12:291, 12:337, 12:364, 12:439

Newcomen, Thomas

  • steam engine of, 9:302, 12:518

The New Cyclopædia (A. Rees), 1:252, 1:252n, 1:456, 1:457n

Newell, Thomas

  • identified, 2:500–2:501n
  • letters from, 2:500–2:501
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 2:500

New England

  • and candidates for Supreme Court, 3:126–3:127
  • clergy of, 8:175, 9:4–9:6, 9:6n, 9:78–9:79, 9:255–9:256, 9:378, 9:378–9:379, 9:380–9:381, 9:381–9:383, 18:443–18:445
  • colleges in, 9:331, 10:449
  • cotton manufacturing in, 8:146–8:147
  • and criticism of TJ’s administration, 1:138n
  • Federalists in, 1:301, 1:583–1:584, 3:113, 3:120–3:121, 3:122n, 3:229–3:232, 3:257, 5:13, 5:14n, 5:640–5:641, 8:134–8:135n, 8:286, 9:90–9:91, 10:65, 10:259
  • and federal judiciary, 17:601
  • history of, 5:386–5:390, 5:390n, 5:508–5:513, 5:513n, 5:583–5:584, 5:585n
  • low opinion of European immigrants in, 10:490
  • and madder cultivation, 3:288
  • and J. Monroe’s presidential tour, 11:568–11:569
  • opposition to War of 1812 in, 10:96–10:97
  • physical habits in, 14:419, 14:420, 18:291
  • politics in, 3:28, 3:75, 3:553, 8:84, 8:135, 8:146–8:147, 8:518, 8:614, 9:4–9:6, 9:41, 19:563
  • religious divisions in, 10:259
  • Republicans in, 3:121, 3:128, 3:246
  • Revolutionary War volunteers from, 6:577
  • rights of citizenship in, 10:368
  • and sectionalism, 15:615–15:616, 17:305
  • settlers from, 15:445, 15:447, 15:448
  • TJ on law in, 3:117–3:119, 3:124–3:125, 3:165
  • TJ’s essay on religious intolerance in, 9:378, 9:378–9:379, 9:380–9:381, 9:381–9:383
  • trade of, with West Indies, 18:32
  • yellow fever in, 10:128, 10:137

New England Bank

  • withdraws specie from other banks, 7:212n

The New-England farmer, or, Georgical dictionary (S. Deane), 1:582

New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 15:501, 15:502n

New England Mississippi Land Company, 3:129n

New-England’s Memorial (N. Morton), 5:509–5:513, 5:513n, 5:583

New-England’s Prospect (W. Wood), 5:386, 5:390n

New English Canaan or New Canaan (T. Morton), 5:386–5:390, 5:390n, 5:390n, 5:512–5:513, 5:513n, 5:583–5:584, 5:585n, 5:595, 5:596n

The New English Drama (ed. W. Oxberry), 19:507

The Newest Young Man’s Companion (T. Wise), 8:388

A New Family Herbal (R. J. Thornton), 7:458, 7:458n

A New Grammar of the Latin Tongue (J. Clarke), 7:458, 7:458n

New Granada (Spanish viceroyalty), 8:503, 8:508n, 9:271, 9:272n

Newhall, James

  • identified, 12:31n
  • letter to, 12:31
  • TJ buys shoes from, 12:31, 12:31n

New Hampshire

  • agriculture in, 13:149
  • banks in, 12:179
  • and canals, 2:674
  • elections in, 2:348, 2:429, 2:430n, 2:506, 2:533, 2:537, 5:396–5:397, 5:453, 5:453n, 10:556, 10:556n
  • electoral reforms in, 10:205n
  • and government finance, 10:556n
  • and Hartford Convention, 8:111n, 8:163, 8:164n
  • judicial reform in, 13:87n, 13:87n
  • legislature of, 10:205, 10:556, 10:556n, 13:87, 13:87n, 13:101, 14:391
  • militia of, 10:205n, 13:87n
  • mountains in, 9:9–9:10, 9:11, 9:12n, 9:71, 9:187, 12:343, 12:343–12:344, 12:491
  • newspapers, 8:175
  • politics in, 13:25, 14:391
  • praise for, 13:23, 13:25, 13:25
  • prison reform in, 13:87n, 13:87n
  • Republicans in, 3:27–3:28, 3:127, 8:110, 10:556, 10:556n
  • taverns in, 12:343
  • TJ visits, 17:337
  • and War of 1812, 10:556n, 13:87n

New-Hampshire Patriot (Concord, N.H. newspaper), 8:175

New Holland. See Australia

A New Introduction to the English Grammar (J. Ware), 9:525n

New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago), 5:202–5:203

New Israelites

  • and Christian primitivism, 13:267n

New Jersey

  • antislavery in, 15:176, 15:177–15:178
  • canals in, 11:415
  • and Continental Congress, 17:317
  • crops in, 11:482–11:483
  • education in, 18:244n
  • elections in, 5:396–5:397, 19:563
  • governor of, 8:444n, 10:543
  • maps of, 10:543
  • mountains in, 9:12n
  • G. Washington’s retreat through, 18:136

New Jersey, College of (later Princeton University)

  • and southern students, 16:587, 16:588n, 16:609
  • students transfer to, 13:450–13:451, 13:454n
  • and taverns, 13:396
  • TJ on, 10:545, 10:546n
  • E. Trist on, 10:449

New Jersey (ship), 1:36

A New Juvenile Atlas, and familiar introduction to the use of maps (R. Laurie and J. Whittle), 8:76, 8:77n, 8:78n

New Kent County, Va.

  • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466–3:469, 3:472n, 3:651, 3:652–3:653, 4:42, 4:81–4:82, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–5:118, 5:216, 5:334

A New Law Dictionary (G. Jacob; eds. O. Ruffhead and J. Morgan), 18:335, 18:580

Newlin, Cyrus, 10:4

New London, Conn.

  • British blockade of, 6:190

New London, Va.

  • academy at, 9:608, 9:712–9:713, 9:714n, 10:59n, 10:72–10:73, 10:183, 10:184n, 10:356n, 11:280, 11:335, 12:435, 12:436, 12:465, 12:529, 12:591, 12:612, 13:17, 13:18, 13:175, 13:292, 13:321, 13:457, 13:483, 16:468, 16:469, 17:218, 17:232
  • latitude calculations of, 4:98, 4:369
  • mentioned, 5:338, 5:339, 5:339n
  • military arsenal at, 5:81, 5:104–5:105, 5:107
  • road from, 7:430, 12:213, 12:214, 12:214–12:215, 12:218, 12:221

Newman, Jeremiah Whitaker

  • The Lounger’s Common-Place Book, 6:220, 6:280

A New Method Of learning with Facility the Latin Tongue (A. Arnauld, C. Lancelot, and P. Nicole; trans. T. Nugent), 17:537n

A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue (A. Arnauld, C. Lancelot, P. Nicole; trans. T. Nugent), 17:537n

Newnan, Daniel

  • E. Fla. campaign of, 6:113n

The New Olive Branch: or, an attempt to establish an identity of interest between Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce (M. Carey), 15:524, 15:525n, 19:591, 19:592n

New Orleans See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over; Brown, William; D’orgenoy, Francis Joseph Le Breton: marshal at New Orleans; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de: land of, in La.

  • in American Revolution, 4:377, 19:341
  • banks in, 3:344n, 12:179
  • canals at, 2:244, 2:246n, 2:485, 6:435–6:436
  • city council of, 6:388, 6:390–6:391, 6:392–6:393, 6:394–6:395, 8:64, 8:64n
  • climate, 2:44
  • collector at, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:122, 2:284, 2:285n, 2:356, 2:357n
  • commissioner, 1:179n
  • defenses, 2:258, 2:375n, 5:383
  • descriptions of, 13:255, 17:26
  • and G. Du Jareau, 2:372–2:373, 2:375n, 2:483, 2:484, 2:487n, 2:552, 2:663, 2:665n
  • economic conditions in, 10:644–10:645, 17:26
  • fire at, 2:663
  • flooding in, 10:449, 10:450n
  • and France, 13:611
  • and French refugees, 1:203
  • goods shipped to, for TJ, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n, 1:510
  • gunboats at, 1:203, 1:510
  • height of Mississippi River at, 2:445–2:446n, 2:522
  • immigrants to, 2:211, 2:269, 12:383–12:384, 12:395
  • judges in, 3:31, 8:64n
  • and land claims in Orleans Territory, 9:584
  • E. Livingston arrives at, 3:157
  • and Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:294, 4:296
  • Louisiana Advertiser, 17:166n
  • mail service to, 2:178–2:179, 7:347
  • maps of, 2:351, 2:446n, 2:463, 2:517–2:518n, 3:83, 3:83n, 3:487n, 3:488n, 3:500n
  • and nearby slave insurrection, 3:326, 3:326n, 3:344n
  • need for fire pumps in, 2:484
  • Orleans Parish court, 6:433–6:434, 6:434–6:436, 6:437n, 16:54
  • outlet for western produce, 2:359, 2:360
  • petitions from inhabitants, 3:25, 3:26–3:27n, 3:475, 3:475n, 3:484
  • pictures of, 8:xlvii
  • port of, 6:388–6:389, 6:390, 6:390, 6:395, 6:395, 6:434, 6:435, 6:435, 6:435, 6:435–6:436, 6:436, 6:436, 7:159, 13:95–13:96, 13:524, 16:250
  • and N. G. M. Senter’s charitable organization, 5:65, 5:68n, 5:218
  • slave market in, 19:494, 19:496n
  • S. H. Smith on, 8:270
  • steamboats at, 13:254
  • Telegraphe et le General Advertiser, 2:657, 3:233, 3:234n
  • travelers to, 14:271
  • wardens at, 3:486
  • and War of 1812, 7:384, 8:38–8:39, 8:84, 8:85n, 8:270, 8:295–8:296, 8:296n
  • and yellow fever, 2:135–2:136, 2:356, 10:35

New Orleans (ship), 19:149n

New Orleans, Battle of (1815)

  • British casualties at, 8:264, 8:267n, 8:286n, 8:300, 8:301n
  • H. Dearborn on, 8:286
  • J. Madison on, 8:339
  • J. Monroe on, 8:269
  • news of reaches TJ, 8:241
  • J. Rhea on, 8:329n, 18:394n
  • TJ on, 8:253, 8:254, 8:259, 8:260, 8:264, 8:264, 8:267, 8:267n, 8:279, 8:284, 8:300, 8:351, 8:357, 8:360, 8:372, 8:382, 8:383n, 8:432, 8:515–8:516, 12:468, 19:99, 19:101, 19:104, 19:113
  • and Treaty of Ghent, 19:100n
  • E. Trist on, 8:295

New-Packet (ship), 8:370, 8:371n, 8:684

A New Physical System of Astronomy … to which is annexed, A Physiological Treatise (J. Young), 8:388

Newport, Ky.

  • arsenal at, 6:577

Newport, R.I.

  • British depredations in, 18:659, 18:660
  • collector at, 15:412–15:413
  • description of, 18:656–18:658, 18:658, 18:660–18:661
  • history of, 18:658–18:659

A New Society, for the Benefit of Indians, organized at the City of Washington, February, 1822, 18:236–18:237

newspapers See also National Intelligencer (Washington newspaper); Richmond Enquirer (newspaper)

  • advertisements in, 14:98, 14:120, 14:124, 14:125, 14:139, 14:163, 14:216, 14:382, 14:385, 14:494, 15:97, 15:100, 15:225, 16:xlix–16:l, 16:291, 16:348 (illus.), 17:8, 18:498, 18:515
  • Albany Argus, 11:279n
  • Albany Register, 5:318, 5:319n, 5:354n
  • Alexandria Gazette, 5:173, 12:627, 12:628n, 12:631n, 15:106n
  • and the American Revolution, 8:683
  • Annapolis Maryland Gazette, 18:248n, 18:311, 18:311n, 19:304, 19:351, 19:545
  • Annapolis Maryland Republican, 1:303–1:304, 12:409
  • Augusta Chronicle & Georgia Gazette, 18:132, 18:132n
  • Baltimore American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 2:173, 2:174n
  • Baltimore Federal Republican & Commercial Gazette, 3:414n, 4:234, 5:682n, 17:164, 17:164n
  • Baltimore Niles’ Weekly Register, 4:177–178, 8:260, 8:566, 8:569–8:570, 10:385, 10:385n, 10:537, 10:601, 11:5, 11:277, 11:279n, 11:594, 11:594–11:596, 11:604, 11:604n, 11:648, 11:649, 12:6, 12:8, 12:160–12:164, 12:370n, 12:530, 12:531n, 13:456, 13:477, 13:497, 13:497n, 14:145, 15:481n, 16:251, 17:46, 17:46n, 17:80–17:81, 17:150, 17:411, 18:18, 18:214, 19:470, 19:472n
  • Baltimore North American and Mercantile Daily Advertiser, 3:262n
  • Baltimore Observer, 4:336, 4:338n
  • Baltimore Patriot & Evening Advertiser, 8:598, 8:599n, 8:660n, 9:607n, 10:536, 10:536n
  • Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser, 12:293, 19:693n
  • Bardstown Republican (Ky.), 4:277n
  • Boston American Statesman & City Register, 19:334
  • Boston Columbian Centinel, 19:332n
  • Boston Columbian Detector, 5:110n
  • Boston Daily Advertiser, 8:57, 8:57n, 13:578–13:579n
  • Boston Democrat, 1:50n
  • Boston Independent Chronicle, 1:50n, 1:671, 1:673n, 9:403
  • Boston Patriot, 1:533n, 1:569n, 4:92
  • bound for TJ, 1:37, 8:630, 13:456
  • British, 1:82, 8:176, 8:260, 8:261, 8:265
  • Chambersburg, Pa., Franklin Republican, 11:597–11:598n, 11:647, 12:31–12:32
  • Charleston City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 6:251n, 6:611, 6:611n, 6:636, 6:636n, 13:130n, 19:215, 19:222n
  • Charleston Courier (S.C.), 16:255, 16:255n
  • Charlottesville Central Gazette, 18:503, 18:503n, 18:515n, 19:70, 19:70–19:71
  • Charlottesville Virginia Advocate, 19:615
  • City of Washington Gazette, 8:5, 16:564, 16:565n
  • collection of Va., owned by TJ, 1:289n, 1:369, 1:370n, 1:381, 1:457, 1:469, 1:472–1:473, 3:190–3:191, 3:569–3:570, 18:389n, 18:468
  • Columbia Telescope (S.C.), 16:255n
  • Concord New-Hampshire Patriot, 8:175
  • criticisms of TJ in, 10:76, 17:393, 17:394, 17:395n, 17:417, 18:73, 18:398, 18:438
  • Daily Compiler and Richmond Commercial Register, 7:450, 8:676n, 10:24n, 13:471
  • in Detroit, 14:100
  • Eastport, Me., Northern Light, 5:110n
  • Federalist, 6:632–6:633, 10:332–10:333, 10:333, 12:309, 17:434
  • Federal Republican and Baltimore Telegraph, 17:393, 17:394, 17:395n, 17:417, 18:383, 18:400, 18:400, 18:401, 18:448, 18:450, 19:32, 19:32–19:33n
  • Frankfort, Ky., Commentator, 11:157n
  • Frankfort Kentucky Palladium, 8:486, 8:487n
  • in Frederick, Md., 1:107n
  • and freedom of the press, 19:252
  • French, 8:449, 8:452, 8:452n, 9:390–9:391, 10:161, 12:247, 12:293, 13:42, 13:459–13:460, 13:461n, 17:58, 17:255n
  • Georgetown, D.C., Federal Republican, 7:xlv–7:xlvi, 7:434 (illus.), 8:201, 8:202n, 19:365
  • Georgetown, D.C., Messenger, 11:217, 11:217n, 11:218n
  • Hagers-Town Gazette (Md.), 4:37n
  • Hope’s Philadelphia Price-Current and Commercial Record, 5:133, 5:133n, 8:307, 8:629, 8:632n
  • Hudson, N.Y., Bee, 3:185n
  • Lancaster, Pa., Washingtoniana prospectus, 19:425–19:426, 19:426–19:428
  • Leesburg Genius of Liberty, 12:653, 12:654n, 14:578
  • Lexington Kentucky Gazette, 18:205, 18:207n
  • Lexington, Ky., Reporter, 4:285, 4:285n, 16:355, 19:122–19:123, 19:123–19:124n
  • loaned to TJ, 18:166, 18:181
  • London Courier, 18:401
  • London Lloyd’s Evening Post, 15:418n
  • London Times, 9:218, 9:218n, 19:335n
  • London Weekly Political Register, 5:370n, 5:384
  • Louisiana Gazette and New-Orleans Daily Advertiser, 3:234–3:235n, 3:418, 3:616
  • Lynchburg Press, 9:173, 9:174n, 11:238n
  • Maryland Herald, and Hagers-Town Weekly Advertiser, 4:37n
  • Manufacturers’ & Farmers’ Journal, and Providence and Pawtucket Advertiser, 15:278–15:279, 15:279n, 15:280n, 19:624–19:625n
  • Montreal Herald, 8:57n
  • Natchez Mississippi State Gazette, 17:166n
  • Nashville Whig, 6:112
  • New Haven Columbian Register, 19:633–19:634
  • New London Bee, 3:185n, 3:227
  • New Orleans Louisiana Advertiser, 17:166n
  • New Orleans Telegraphe et le General Advertiser, 2:657, 3:233, 3:234n
  • New York American Citizen, 10:332–10:333, 10:333, 10:334–10:335n, 17:216n
  • New York Atlas, 19:615
  • New York Columbian, 5:621n, 17:119n, 17:148–17:149
  • New York Commercial Advertiser, 11:242n, 16:60
  • New-York Courier, 8:598, 8:599n
  • New York Daily Columbian, 3:185, 3:510–3:511n
  • New-York Evening Post, 3:414, 3:414n, 3:539, 3:540n, 3:557, 6:313, 6:314n, 8:187, 8:191n, 8:598, 8:599n, 10:111–10:112, 10:112n, 10:185–10:186, 11:490
  • New York Mercantile Advertiser, 1:96n, 5:684–5:685, 5:685n
  • New York National Advocate, 8:452n, 10:110–10:112, 10:112n, 10:185–10:186, 11:490–11:491, 13:328–13:330, 13:331–13:334, 13:502n, 16:519
  • New York Public Advertiser, 1:226–1:229, 10:333–10:334, 10:335n
  • New York Republican Sentinel, 17:252, 17:252n, 17:269
  • New-York Public Sale Report, 10:600, 10:600n, 11:648, 12:370n, 13:479
  • New York Standard of Union, 6:339, 6:340n, 6:340n, 6:340n, 6:400, 6:401n
  • Norwich, Conn., Native American, 5:407n
  • Petersburg Daily Courier, 18:649, 18:650
  • Petersburg Intelligencer, 18:132n, 18:133n, 18:133, 18:133n, 19:693n
  • Petersburg Republican, 12:41–12:42
  • Philadelphia American Sentinel, 19:330, 19:330, 19:332n, 19:334
  • Philadelphia American Weekly Messenger; or, Register of state papers, history and politics, 6:599, 6:599n
  • Philadelphia Aurora, 1:48, 1:49n, 1:49n, 2:175n, 4:56, 4:174, 4:174n, 6:83, 6:83n, 6:510, 7:282, 7:527, 7:554, 7:564–7:565, 8:381, 8:381n, 8:435, 8:436n, 8:468, 8:469n, 8:469, 9:439, 9:617–9:618n, 9:619–9:620, 10:79, 10:536, 10:652n, 11:13, 11:455, 11:456, 11:604, 11:648, 11:648n, 12:370n, 13:475, 15:307, 15:325, 15:342
  • Philadelphia Democratic Press, 8:5, 9:478, 9:480n, 13:383–13:384n, 14:125, 14:218, 15:301, 16:526n, 19:330, 19:330, 19:332n, 19:334
  • Philadelphia Franklin Gazette, 12:307–12:308, 12:309–12:310, 12:370
  • Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 3:50n
  • Philadelphia Gazette of the United States, 2:92, 2:93n, 7:701, 7:701, 7:702, 7:702, 7:702n, 19:330
  • Philadelphia National Gazette, 1:113n
  • Philadelphia National Gazette and Literary Register, 13:465n, 13:467n, 15:566n
  • Philadelphia National Recorder, 15:373, 15:374n, 15:375n
  • Philadelphia Pennsylvania Gazette, 8:621, 8:622n
  • Philadelphia Political and Commercial Register, 2:284, 2:285n
  • Philadelphia Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 3:95n, 3:577, 3:578n, 7:36, 7:37n, 7:104, 7:104, 7:105n, 9:709n, 14:125, 14:218
  • Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 1:30n, 1:30n
  • Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n
  • politics of, 3:584, 3:595, 7:104, 9:202, 9:203, 10:110–10:112, 10:185–10:186, 10:332–10:333, 10:333–10:334, 12:497, 13:436, 13:475, 19:333–19:334
  • Providence Gazette, 8:622n
  • Providence Literary Subaltern, 19:615
  • and public debt, 17:554–17:555
  • publish false TJ quotes, 11:597, 11:597–11:598n, 11:647, 12:31–12:32
  • Raleigh Register, 11:456–11:457, 11:457n, 11:476, 14:447, 14:450–14:451n, 14:523–14:524, 14:525n
  • Raleigh Star, 1:125n, 1:677, 11:293+, 11:293+, 11:293+, 11:293n+
  • Relf’s Philadelphia Gazette, 7:299, 7:299n, 7:311, 8:532, 8:533n
  • Republican, 10:333–10:334, 12:309
  • Richmond Commercial Compiler, 16:516, 16:596, 18:110–18:112
  • Richmond Spirit of ’Seventy-Six, 1:93
  • Richmond Virginia Argus, 1:290, 1:291n, 2:224, 2:225n, 4:472n, 9:480n, 9:487, 9:487–9:488n, 9:516, 9:518, 10:24n, 10:511, 10:512n, 10:538, 10:538n
  • Richmond Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser, 15:240, 15:240–15:241n
  • Richmond Virginia Patriot, 9:710–9:711, 9:711–9:712n, 16:453n
  • Richmond Virginia Times, 19:249, 19:250–19:252, 19:271, 19:424, 19:424n
  • Saint Louis Louisiana Gazette, 4:7–4:8, 4:53
  • Salem, Mass., Essex Register, 14:447, 14:450n, 14:523–14:524, 14:545–14:546, 14:546n, 14:563
  • Salem Gazette (Mass.), 18:198n
  • Salem Mercury (Mass.), 11:273n
  • Salem Register (Mass.), 1:50n
  • Savannah Georgia Republican, 4:92, 4:127–4:128, 4:130–4:131
  • W. Short on, 8:52, 9:321, 10:254
  • Springfield, Mass., Federal Spy, 11:607
  • subscriptions to, by TJ, 1:48, 1:49, 1:50n, 1:85, 1:96, 1:107, 1:214, 3:185n, 4:56, 4:92, 4:127–4:128, 4:130–4:131, 4:177–178, 6:461–6:462, 6:505, 6:505n, 6:506, 6:560, 6:648, 7:450, 8:435, 8:436n, 8:469, 8:566, 8:569–8:570, 8:676n, 9:108, 9:439, 9:568n, 10:385, 10:385n, 10:511, 10:512n, 10:538, 10:538n, 10:600, 10:600n, 10:652n, 11:13, 11:455, 11:456–11:457, 11:457n, 11:476, 11:523, 11:523n, 12:6, 12:370, 14:34, 16:251, 18:214, 18:503n, 18:515n, 18:583, 19:424n, 19:635, 19:656, 19:672, 19:681, 19:687
  • TJ on, 1:49, 3:257, 3:440–3:441, 3:584, 3:592, 3:595, 3:607, 3:616, 4:429, 4:471, 4:472, 4:637, 6:154, 6:400–6:401, 6:524, 7:56, 7:100, 7:553, 8:176–8:177, 8:260, 8:533, 8:538, 8:541, 9:41, 9:381, 9:444, 9:457, 10:72, 12:467, 12:518, 13:94, 13:106, 13:311, 13:586, 13:587, 13:587, 14:421, 16:291, 16:361, 16:472, 16:577, 16:622, 17:148, 17:269, 19:23, 19:101, 19:104, 19:111, 19:112, 19:656
  • Trenton Federalist, 15:178
  • Trenton True American, 1:226–1:229, 3:510–3:511n, 15:178
  • Unpartheyische York Gazette (Pa.), 18:16, 18:17n
  • and University of Virginia, 19:368
  • Virginia, 1:288–1:289, 1:369, 4:467, 7:190, 10:549, 15:225
  • Washington Gazette, 17:119n, 17:148–17:149
  • Washington Monitor, 1:107
  • Washington National Register, 14:563
  • Washington Republican and Congressional Examiner, 18:495, 18:496–18:499, 18:515
  • J. Wilkinson on, 19:27
  • in Williamsburg, 1:370n
  • Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, 3:190–3:191, 7:545, 16:647n
  • Wilmington American Watchman and Delaware Advertiser, 18:538
  • Wilmington Delaware Gazette, 10:56, 10:57n, 18:538
  • Winchester Gazette, 11:503, 11:504n, 12:54, 14:163n
  • Winchester Republican Constellation, 2:120, 2:120n, 2:174, 11:238n, 14:163n
  • Winchester Virginia Centinel, 14:163n
  • Worcester, Mass., National Aegis, 1:50n
  • Zanesville, Ohio, Muskingum Messenger, 11:177, 11:177n, 17:398, 17:399–17:400n

A New System of Banking (P. S. Chazotte), 9:61, 9:61n, 9:90

A New System of Cultivation, without Lime, or Dung, or Summer Fallows (A. Beatson), 19:591, 19:592n, 19:606, 19:607n

A New System of Modern Geography, or a View of the Present State of the World (S. E. Morse), 19:388, 19:389n, 19:389n, 19:437–19:438, 19:438n

A New System of Naval Architecture (W. Annesley), 19:142, 19:143n, 19:143n, 19:157

The New Testament, in an Improved Version, upon the basis of Archbishop Newcome’s New Translation: with A Corrected Text, and Notes Critical and Explanatory, 13:305, 13:305n, 13:439, 13:469, 14:215, 14:215

A New Theory of the Diurnal Rotation of The Earth (J. Wood), 2:95, 2:134, 2:161, 2:171, 2:536, 3:251, 3:251n

Newton, E. I.

  • business partnership of, 13:375–13:377, 13:377n, 14:256–14:257

Newton, Sir Isaac

  • acquaintances, 3:356
  • J. Adams on, 9:434, 14:311n
  • and barometric calculation of altitude, 9:314, 9:317n
  • The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, 17:536
  • in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 5:545, 15:368n
  • genius of, 2:171, 3:305, 8:668
  • and geodesy, 1:357
  • gravitational theory of, 13:257, 13:267n, 18:32
  • The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (ed. W. Davis; trans. A. Motte), 7:282, 7:286n, 7:292, 7:293n, 7:305, 7:324, 8:469, 9:317n
  • mental decline of, 15:410
  • mentioned, 6:238, 10:194–10:195, 10:548, 11:383, 11:390, 13:102, 13:573, 15:122n, 18:588, 18:593
  • Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 7:282, 14:168
  • portrait of, 10:398
  • praised, 7:101, 7:304
  • religious beliefs of, 13:591, 16:601
  • TJ on, 3:305, 7:150, 12:518, 14:631
  • TJ reads, 4:429, 4:474, 6:302
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502
  • and weights and measures, 16:234n

Newton, John

  • and committee of Republican mechanics, 1:90n

Newton, John (1725–1807)

  • Olney Hymns, in Three Books, 10:651n

Newton, Rejoice

  • identified, 18:25n
  • letter to, 18:25
  • as recording secretary of American Antiquarian Society, 18:xlix–18:l, 18:25, 18:323, 18:326

Newton, Thomas (17421807)

  • and W. Short’s Green Sea lands, 13:37–13:38, 13:38n, 13:73–13:74, 13:74n

Newton, Thomas (1768–1847)

  • and acquisition of cider, 10:577, 10:577n
  • and Central College subscription, 11:327n, 11:590–11:591
  • forwards ram to TJ, 1:596
  • identified, 3:611n
  • introduces E. Hall, 16:269–16:270
  • introduces R. E. Lee, 6:364
  • introduces J. F. Oliveira Fernandes, 18:410
  • introduces W. R. Nimmo, 3:611
  • letters from, 3:611, 6:364, 16:269–16:270
  • letter to, 11:590–11:592
  • as U.S. representative from Va., 7:573, 16:252n

Newtown, Va. See Stephens City, Va.

Newtown pippin (Albemarle pippin), 3:448, 3:448n, 3:455

New Translation of the Morals of Seneca (trans. G. Bennet), 1:576

A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes (T. Keith), 16:5

A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages (N. G. Dufief), 3:97, 3:98n, 3:137, 3:393, 4:71, 4:79, 5:557, 6:220, 6:280, 6:441, 6:471, 6:533, 7:286, 7:286n, 7:293n, 7:555, 7:633, 7:646, 8:469, 8:514, 8:628, 8:672, 9:60, 10:62, 10:81, 10:172, 10:391, 11:67, 11:161, 11:161, 11:233, 11:233n, 11:247, 11:248n, 12:534

A New Version of the First Three Chapters of Genesis (“Essenus” [J. Jones]), 14:346, 14:347n

New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (B. S. Barton), 1:520–1:521, 12:385, 12:386n, 16:85n, 16:85n, 16:120n

The New Virginia Justice (W. W. Hening), 16:260, 17:568, 18:329, 18:330n, 18:374

New Voyages to North-America (Lahontan), 10:486

New York (city) See also Bailey, Theodorus: postmaster in New York City; Gelston, David: as collector at New York; Thompson, Jonathan: as collector at New York

  • Academy of Fine Arts, 13:328n
  • advancement of science in, 10:546
  • African Americans in, 16:525n
  • American Citizen, 10:332–10:333, 10:333, 10:334–10:335n
  • banks in, 8:413, 12:179, 19:491, 19:522
  • cement in, 13:343–13:344, 15:20, 15:45
  • collector at, 3:604, 3:637–3:638, 4:365, 4:589, 4:591, 17:243, 17:277
  • College of Physicians and Surgeons (later part of Columbia University), 15:370–15:371, 15:371n
  • commerce at, 4:26, 14:107, 14:277, 16:182
  • Commercial Advertiser, 11:242n, 16:60
  • Daily Columbian, 3:185n, 3:227, 3:510–3:511n
  • defenses of, 2:258, 6:120–6:121, 6:122n, 10:186–10:187, 10:188n, 11:493
  • dinner for J. Armstrong, 3:251–3:252, 3:252n
  • dinner for D. B. Warden, 3:340
  • Elgin Botanic Garden, 9:369–9:370, 10:239–10:240, 10:240n, 10:287, 12:477, 12:481
  • Federalists in, 3:345, 10:332–10:334
  • fine arts in, 17:573
  • First Congregational Church, 16:55, 16:56n, 16:170, 16:599, 16:600, 16:602n
  • flour sales at, 6:48, 17:598
  • French consul at, 14:608
  • French immigrants in, 10:490
  • French merchants in, 8:430
  • Gazette, 3:95n
  • General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 18:368, 18:370, 18:371
  • harbor, 12:342
  • and imprisonment for debt, 4:489–4:492
  • influenza in, 1:257, 1:257n, 1:294–1:295
  • Mechanics Hall, 1:171
  • and medical education, 18:20
  • Medical Repository, 3:333, 3:333n, 14:420
  • Mercantile Advertiser, 1:96n
  • merchants in, 8:19, 8:430
  • National Advocate, 10:110–10:112, 10:112n, 11:490–11:491, 13:502n
  • newspapers, 5:621n, 5:684–5:685, 5:685n, 8:452n, 10:185–10:186, 10:600, 10:600n, 11:648
  • New-York Courier, 8:598, 8:599n
  • New-York Evening Post, 3:414, 3:414n, 3:539, 3:540n, 3:557, 8:187, 8:191n, 8:598, 10:111–10:112, 10:112n, 10:185–10:186, 11:490
  • New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 9:656n, 13:328n, 14:312, 15:600
  • New-York Public Sale Report, 12:370n, 13:479
  • port of, 15:394, 15:394n
  • Public Advertiser, 1:226–1:229, 10:333–10:334, 10:335n
  • religious zeal in, 10:262
  • Republican Sentinel, 17:252, 17:252n, 17:269
  • Republicans in, 3:345–3:346, 10:332–10:334
  • Republicans in address TJ, 1:530–1:534
  • Saint Matthew’s Church, 17:593–17:594n
  • Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 15:310, 15:310n, 15:322, 17:593
  • Society of Teachers of the City of New-York for Benevolent and Literary Purposes, 14:27
  • Spanish consul at, 1:578, 1:578n, 1:604
  • TJ addresses Republicans in, 1:568–1:569
  • TJ desires to visit, 18:246
  • tobacco inspectors at, 14:277
  • town meeting in, 9:217
  • J. Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence exhibited in, 13:328, 13:328n
  • yellow fever in, 10:133–10:134, 10:150, 10:151n, 18:595, 18:630, 19:24

New York (state) See also War of 1812: Niagara Campaign

  • advancement of science in, 8:347–8:348, 10:546
  • agriculture in, 13:71, 13:72n, 13:172, 19:416
  • banks in, 12:402n
  • board of agriculture, 12:647, 13:249, 15:437, 15:438n
  • and canals, 2:674, 11:218–11:219, 11:219n, 11:259, 11:280–11:281, 11:339, 11:357–11:358, 11:358n, 11:360, 11:364–11:365, 11:376–11:377, 11:415, 11:448, 12:402n, 13:245, 13:245n, 13:312–13:313, 15:605, 17:58, 17:59n, 17:95, 17:529, 17:529n, 17:550, 17:569–17:570, 17:585–17:586, 17:587n, 17:599, 18:271, 18:290–18:291n, 18:293, 19:171, 19:171n, 19:224–19:225, 19:469
  • census of, 15:107
  • commerce of, 14:277, 16:55, 18:32
  • constitutional convention of 1821, 17:192, 17:192n, 17:591, 18:57, 18:60n, 18:152
  • constitution of, 10:418, 10:661, 10:661, 18:149, 18:152n, 18:152, 18:153n
  • crops in, 11:482–11:483
  • currency, 16:233, 19:521, 19:521, 19:523
  • debts of, 12:402n
  • Dutch inhabitants of, 2:202, 13:39–13:40
  • education in, 12:402n, 16:417, 16:417n, 16:428–16:429
  • elections in, 1:183, 2:367, 2:430n, 3:306, 7:359–7:360, 7:360n, 17:118, 17:119n, 17:148–17:149, 17:277, 17:277n, 19:105, 19:533–19:535, 19:556–19:557, 19:563
  • foundries in, 10:370
  • geology of, 15:600, 15:601n
  • governor of, 10:663, 15:235
  • Indians in, 12:402n
  • insolvency laws of, 4:490
  • judicial system in, 4:491
  • and land speculation, 19:602
  • Laws of the State of New-York, respecting Navigable Communications between The Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, 11:281n
  • lawyers from, 2:432
  • legislature of, 6:122n, 7:112, 7:113n, 10:663, 11:411, 11:412n, 11:415–11:416, 12:401, 12:402n, 15:370–15:371, 15:371n, 16:417n, 17:277n, 19:556
  • legislature of, addresses TJ, 1:79–1:80
  • Letters on the Natural History and Internal Resources of the State of New-York (“Hibernicus” [D. Clinton]), 19:171, 19:171n, 19:224–19:225
  • Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, 17:88
  • longitude of Kinderhook, 4:263, 4:654
  • Lyceum of Natural History of New-York, 17:88, 17:89, 17:89
  • maps of, 3:459–3:460, 3:521, 3:597–3:598
  • Medical Society of the State of New-York, 12:573n, 16:531
  • 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
  • Memorial of the Citizens of New-York, in favour of a Canal Navigation between the Great Western Lakes and the Tide-Waters of the Hudson, 11:219n, 11:259
  • and merino sheep, 2:456
  • meteorological observations in, 9:239–9:240, 9:242–9:243, 12:350–12:351, 12:352–12:354, 12:574
  • militia of, 10:97, 10:100n, 10:661, 10:662, 10:663, 12:402n
  • minerals, ores, and fossils in, 8:209, 8:209n
  • and Missouri question, 15:530
  • and J. Monroe’s presidential tour, 11:568
  • mortgages in, 16:373, 18:13–18:14
  • mountains in, 9:11, 9:11, 9:12n, 9:12n
  • newspapers, 3:185n, 5:318, 5:319n, 5:354n, 8:187, 8:191n, 8:452n, 8:598, 17:119n, 17:148–17:149
  • Niagara Falls, 8:xlvii, 8:209n
  • plants in, 15:600, 15:601n
  • poor of, 12:402n
  • prisons in, 12:402n
  • and public finance, 10:662
  • public records of, 12:587–12:588, 13:39–13:40, 13:480–13:481, 14:277, 16:55, 17:38, 18:31–18:32, 19:244, 19:619–19:620
  • religion in, 19:80
  • Remarks on the Proposed Canal, from Lake Erie to the Hudson River (D. Clinton), 11:219n, 11:259
  • Report of the Commissioners, 3:459–3:460, 3:597
  • Report of the Commissioners of the State of New-York, on the Canals from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, and from Lake Champlain to the Same. Presented to the Legislature, 17th February, 1817, 11:219n, 11:259
  • Report of the Joint Committee of the Legislature of New-York, on the Subject of the Canals, from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, and from Lake Champlain to the Same. In Assembly, March 19, 1817, 11:219n, 11:259
  • Report of the Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly, In relation to the Message of the Governor of the 18th of January last, implicating the conduct of sundry individuals holding offices under the General Government, 17:118, 17:119n, 17:148–17:149
  • Republicans in, 4:53–4:54, 4:543, 19:537, 19:556–19:557
  • Resolutions of the Republican Members of the New York State Legislature, 19:556–19:558
  • roads in, 12:402n
  • and sectionalism, 15:615–15:616
  • Speech of Gideon Granger, Esq. delivered before a Convention of the People of Ontario County, N.Y. Jan. 8, 1817, on the subject of a Canal from Lake Erie to Hudson’s River (G. Granger), 11:219n, 11:259
  • steamboats in, 4:199, 4:199–4:200, 4:235
  • suffrage in, 18:149, 18:152n
  • and superannuation of judges, 18:546, 18:546n
  • Tammany societies of, 4:53–4:54, 6:218, 6:218–6:219n, 6:219n, 6:526n, 15:250, 15:250n, 15:273
  • taxes in, 12:402n
  • TJ addresses legislature of, 1:125
  • tobacco grown in, 14:277
  • Transactions of the Society, instituted in the State of New-York, for the promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures, 11:165
  • U.S. Military Academy (West Point), 1:23n, 2:258, 2:261n, 3:93–3:94, 4:375n, 4:376, 4:434
  • utopian schemes for, 18:58, 18:60n
  • weather in, 17:573
  • wheat harvest in, 2:496
  • works on, 6:352, 6:352, 6:352–6:353n, 6:400, 6:400n, 6:449, 6:450, 6:450, 6:450n, 6:450n, 7:169, 7:169n, 7:248, 7:264, 8:209n, 10:544, 10:544, 15:106–15:107, 18:254, 18:254n

New-York Columbian (newspaper), 17:119n, 17:148–17:149

New-York Courier (newspaper), 8:598, 8:599n

New-York Evening Post (newspaper), 3:414, 3:414n, 3:539, 3:540n, 3:557, 6:313, 6:314n, 8:187, 8:191n, 8:598, 8:599n, 10:111–10:112, 10:112n, 10:185–10:186, 11:490

New-York Historical Society

  • addresses to, 13:563, 13:563–13:564n, 13:600, 15:127–15:128
  • circulars of, 11:188–11:189, 11:190–11:193, 11:234–11:235
  • collections of, 9:177
  • identified, 7:120n
  • manuscript and scarce book committee of, 11:234–11:235
  • mineralogical committee of, 11:187, 11:188–11:189
  • publications of, 2:503n, 9:55, 9:55n, 15:454n
  • and C. S. Rafinesque, 17:88
  • TJ elected an honorary member, 7:119–7:120, 7:120n
  • zoological committee of, 11:190, 11:190–11:193

New-York Public Sale Report (newspaper), 10:600, 10:600n, 11:648, 12:370n, 13:479

New-York Society for Promoting Communities

  • sends work to TJ, 19:36–19:37, 19:37n, 19:86–19:87

Nexsen, William

  • identified, 4:492n
  • letters from, 4:489–4:492
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 4:489–4:492

Ney, Michel

  • trial of, 9:45, 9:391–9:392, 9:393n, 9:393n

Niagara, Upper Canada See Newark, Upper Canada

Niagara Campaign. See War of 1812: Niagara Campaign

Niagara Falls

  • pictures of, 8:xlvii, 8:209n
  • praised, 17:546

Nicaea

  • ecumenical council at, 7:25, 7:27n, 8:683, 16:190n, 16:197n

Niccolai, Niccolò

  • witnesses will, 9:673

Niccolai, Vincenzo

  • family of, 9:673

Nice

  • foreign consuls at, 12:277, 14:134
  • J. V. A. Sasserno on, 14:134
  • senate of, 14:134
  • TJ on, 12:276–12:277
  • TJ visits, 12:502
  • U.S. consul at, 8:572, 8:572n, 11:246–11:247, 11:406, 11:406–11:407, 11:655, 11:657n, 11:657–11:658, 12:104, 12:104n, 12:226, 12:276–12:277, 12:373–12:374, 12:459, 12:459n, 12:500, 12:502–12:503, 12:580, 12:586, 13:9, 13:245–13:246, 13:308, 13:316–13:317, 13:444, 14:134, 14:150, 14:388
  • wine from, 8:571, 8:571, 8:572, 9:210, 9:323, 9:421, 9:421, 9:470, 9:569, 9:570, 9:573n, 10:112, 11:246, 11:246, 11:404, 11:404, 11:405, 11:407, 11:531, 12:277, 12:374, 12:406, 12:566, 12:579–12:580, 12:580, 12:580, 12:586–12:587, 13:9, 13:240, 13:241, 13:246, 13:316, 13:445n, 13:445n, 13:447, 13:468, 13:507, 14:118, 14:327, 14:327, 14:328, 14:338, 14:338, 15:76–15:77, 16:116

Nicephorus, Gregoras

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

Nichol, George

  • possessions of destroyed by U.S. forces, 8:225–8:226

Nicholas (TJ’s slave; b. 1818)

  • traded to T. J. Randolph, 13:437n

Nicholas, Mr.

  • and S. Roane, 18:54

Nicholas, Cary Ann. See Smith, Cary Ann Nicholas (John Spear Smith’s wife; Wilson Cary Nicholas’s daughter)

Nicholas, George

  • Charlottesville property of, 12:45n
  • debts of, 18:414
  • estate of, 18:414–18:415, 18:415, 18:415, 18:415, 18:416, 18:418–18:419, 18:419–18:420, 18:420, 18:421
  • family of, 18:415, 18:416, 18:416, 18:420, 18:421, 18:422
  • and proposed dictator for Va., 13:274
  • quoted, 3:208
  • on TJ, 8:423, 8:423n, 10:264

Nicholas, George W.

  • and Fourth of July celebration, 19:690, 19:693
  • identified, 19:692n
  • letter from, 19:690–19:692
  • letter to, 19:693

Nicholas, Jane Hollins. See Randolph, Jane Hollins Nicholas (Thomas Jefferson Randolph’s wife; Wilson Cary Nicholas’s daughter)

Nicholas, John (ca. 1758–1836)

  • and Albemarle Academy, 7:266, 7:267, 7:282, 7:283, 7:293, 7:335, 7:427, 7:535, 7:535, 7:536n, 7:571
  • as Albemarle Co. clerk, 1:462–1:463n, 2:229n, 5:141n, 5:570n, 5:623–5:624n, 5:651, 5:658, 6:115+, 11:419n
  • forwards news to TJ, 7:534
  • identified, 7:267n
  • letters from, 7:534, 15:187–15:188, 15:240–15:241
  • letters to, 15:197–15:199, 15:248–15:249
  • Memorial to Virginia General Assembly, 15:187, 15:188n, 15:188–15:195, 15:197–15:199, 15:240
  • and Mutual Assurance Society, 1:318
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254, 4:346–4:349
  • Revolutionary War service of, 15:187, 15:188–15:194, 15:197–15:199, 15:240, 15:248–15:249
  • and Rivanna Company, 3:146, 3:272, 3:286
  • The Statement and Substance of a Memorial, &c. of John Nicholas; presented to the Virginia Legislature, 1819–20, 15:195n
  • and G. Washington, 12:427

Nicholas, John (of Dinwiddie)

  • Revolutionary War service of, 15:193

Nicholas, John Smith, 16:609

Nicholas, Lewis

  • endorses notes for W. C. Nicholas, 14:587n
  • as E. Randolph’s trustee, 4:231–4:232n

Nicholas, Margaret Smith (Wilson Cary Nicholas’s wife)

  • W. J. Coffee’s terra-cotta bust of, 12:572
  • family of, 2:198n
  • health of, 2:329
  • mentioned, 3:526n, 18:416, 18:422
  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:587n, 14:588n, 15:33n, 15:48n, 16:609, 17:177
  • TJ plans visit to, 14:635
  • TJ sends greetings to, 8:391

Nicholas, Mary Mansfield Smith

  • birth of, 11:627n

Nicholas, Mary Smith (George Nicholas’s wife), 18:415, 18:415, 18:420

Nicholas, Nelson

  • identified, 19:137n
  • letter from, 19:136–19:137
  • sends political commentaries to TJ, 19:136

Nicholas, Philip Norborne

  • aide to J. Barbour, 7:633n
  • drafts address, 1:611n
  • and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:559, 13:560n, 17:416
  • identified, 17:273–17:274n
  • letter from, 19:459–19:461
  • letter to, 17:416
  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:587n
  • as president of Farmers’ Bank of Virginia, 14:281, 14:282n, 17:3, 17:3n, 17:284, 17:416
  • and E. Randolph’s estate, 15:556, 15:557n, 18:482, 18:482–18:483
  • as E. Randolph’s trustee, 4:231–4:232n, 4:366
  • recommends J. Tate and B. Tate, 19:459–19:460
  • and R. Smith’s dismissal, 5:648n
  • sued by A. Randolph’s executors, 4:595, 4:597
  • TJ deeds Milton land to, 17:16, 17:17n, 17:47n, 17:67–17:68, 17:68n, 17:82–17:83, 17:258, 17:271–17:273, 17:274n, 17:281–17:282, 17:284
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
  • Va. attorney general, 2:470
  • and Va. Literary Fund, 12:287, 12:457, 12:502n

Nicholas, Robert Carter (1729–80)

  • as director of public buildings in Richmond, 18:201n
  • and P. Henry, 4:598
  • and Stamp Act Resolutions, 4:599, 10:269, 16:230
  • and TJ’s Richmond lot, 4:154, 4:287, 12:279
  • and Va. Committee of Correspondence, 9:369n
  • as Va. legislator, 7:548, 8:620, 8:621n, 8:644–8:645, 17:313, 17:314, 17:315, 17:320

Nicholas, Robert Carter (ca. 17881856)

  • as administrator of W. C. Nicholas’s estate, 14:588n, 15:33n, 18:414n, 18:416
  • finances of, 11:606
  • identified, 5:646n
  • in La., 16:608–16:609
  • and missionaries to Indians, 18:644
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • seeks appointment as naval agent, 14:486, 14:498, 14:619, 14:620, 15:105, 15:106n, 15:330–15:331
  • seeks consular appointment, 8:597, 8:598, 8:599, 8:600–8:601n, 8:606, 8:617, 8:639, 8:655–8:656, 11:239–11:240, 11:240n
  • seeks military appointment, 5:645–5:646, 5:647–5:648, 5:684, 5:685n
  • and S. Smith (of Maryland), 8:597, 8:597n, 8:598, 8:617
  • and S. Smith & Buchanan (Baltimore firm), 14:619, 15:330
  • TJ recommends, 8:606–8:607, 8:617, 8:655–8:656, 14:619, 15:105, 15:106n, 15:330–15:331

Nicholas, Sarah E.

  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 17:177, 17:177n, 17:229

Nicholas, Wilson Cary (17611820)

  • and acquisition of Fla., 14:77
  • advises J. C. Cabell, 12:285, 12:287, 12:449, 12:449, 13:497
  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:347, 3:351n
  • and Albemarle Academy, 7:265, 7:335
  • on T. Appleton, 11:239–11:240
  • and appointment for W. Armistead, 10:426, 10:427n, 10:439, 10:441, 10:442, 10:496, 10:524–10:525, 10:525, 11:149, 12:103
  • and appointment of principal assessor, 6:443
  • J. Armstrong on, 5:645–5:646, 5:646n
  • on banks, 6:600
  • biographical essay on J. Breckinridge, 8:487n
  • bond with TJ and T. J. Randolph, 14:634, 14:635, 14:645–14:646, 15:6, 15:7, 15:30–15:31, 15:32–15:33, 15:34–15:35, 15:36, 15:37, 15:46–15:47, 15:47–15:48, 15:49, 15:50, 15:62, 15:78–15:79, 15:79n, 15:79, 15:143n, 15:173, 15:204, 18:165–18:166, 18:413, 19:300, 19:311–19:312, 19:312n, 19:313n
  • and A. S. Brockenbrough, 14:76–14:77, 14:124, 14:128–14:129, 14:172
  • and W. Byrd manuscripts, 10:470, 11:206, 11:239, 11:426, 11:450–11:451, 11:477, 12:256–12:257, 12:257, 12:371
  • and Central College, 10:473, 10:473n, 10:474, 10:660, 11:181, 11:314, 11:590, 11:664, 11:664, 12:287, 12:288n, 12:317, 12:326
  • and Central College subscription, 11:324, 11:330
  • Circular to the County Courts, 10:55–10:56
  • and W. J. Coffee, 12:522, 12:541–12:542, 12:571–12:572, 12:572, 12:586
  • as collector at Norfolk, 14:619
  • death of, 16:338n, 16:608, 18:413
  • and education in Va., 14:101, 14:104n
  • estate of, 15:33n, 17:177, 17:229, 18:280–18:281, 18:413–18:414, 18:414–18:417, 18:418–18:422, 18:442–18:443, 18:531–18:532, 18:559, 18:607–18:608, 18:609n, 18:653–18:654, 18:654, 18:655, 19:92–19:93, 19:283, 19:300, 19:311–19:312, 19:653
  • family of, 9:591, 10:438, 10:439, 10:441, 10:482, 14:297, 14:369, 15:33n, 16:400–16:401n, 16:591, 16:608–16:609, 16:610n, 16:637+, 17:44, 17:57, 17:177, 17:229, 17:299, 17:390, 17:390–17:391
  • and fight between C. L. Bankhead and T. J. Randolph, 14:77, 14:110
  • finances of, 12:572, 12:649, 13:14, 14:586–14:588, 14:594, 14:602–14:603, 14:616–14:617, 14:619, 14:620, 14:621, 14:631–14:632, 14:633–14:634n, 14:639–14:640, 15:19–15:20, 15:33n, 15:105, 15:330, 17:299, 17:390–17:391, 18:413, 19:285–19:286
  • foreign policy views, 1:223, 1:224, 2:194–2:195
  • forwards letter from TJ, 4:527
  • on France, 8:597
  • and franking privilege for TJ, 1:278, 1:349
  • friendship with J. Hollins, 8:432
  • gubernatorial nomination of, 7:671, 8:47
  • and gypsum for TJ, 8:600, 8:639
  • health of, 16:338
  • identified, 1:223n
  • illness of, 1:223, 2:194, 2:195, 2:197, 2:226, 2:329, 2:341
  • and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 14:514, 14:540
  • and Kentucky Resolutions, 18:34, 18:34, 18:34, 18:35n
  • letter from to J. Madison, 8:597n
  • letters from, 1:223, 1:349–1:350, 2:193–2:196, 2:495, 6:600–6:602, 8:597, 8:639–8:640, 8:648, 9:480–9:481, 9:590–9:592, 10:426–10:427, 10:473, 11:149–11:150, 11:239–11:240, 11:450–11:451, 12:522–12:523, 12:571–12:572, 12:572, 12:649, 13:123–13:124, 13:283–13:284, 13:391, 13:602, 14:76–14:77, 14:128–14:129, 14:172, 14:281–14:282, 14:309–14:310, 14:369, 14:486, 14:586–14:588, 14:621–14:622, 15:49, 15:556–15:557
  • letters to, 1:224, 1:276–1:279, 2:81, 2:334, 3:347, 6:594–6:595, 8:599–8:601, 8:655–8:656, 9:523–9:524, 9:524, 9:623–9:629, 9:684–9:692, 10:442, 10:470, 10:524–10:525, 11:206, 11:426, 12:541–12:542, 12:555–12:556, 12:585–12:586, 13:14, 13:126, 13:613, 14:110, 14:189–14:190, 14:297–14:298, 14:354–14:355, 14:497–14:498, 14:573, 14:604, 14:620, 14:635, 15:47–15:49
  • letter to from J. Madison, 8:600–8:601n
  • and J. Madison’s presidency, 7:311, 11:149–11:150
  • mentioned, 3:526n, 8:598, 12:458
  • and merino sheep, 2:495
  • and J. Monroe, 10:441, 10:441–10:442n, 10:482, 10:525, 11:149–11:150
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • portrait of, 14:liv, 14:250 (illus.)
  • and E. Randolph’s estate, 15:556–15:557
  • recommends C. Jouett, 8:537
  • reports illness of R. Jefferson, 8:648
  • requests letter of recommendation for R. C. Nicholas, 8:597, 8:599, 8:606, 8:617, 8:639, 8:655–8:656, 11:239–11:240, 11:240n, 14:486, 14:498, 14:620
  • resigns congressional seat, 2:46n, 2:81, 2:193–2:195
  • and safety of Bankhead family, 14:77
  • and Second Bank of U.S., 11:304, 11:304n, 11:426, 11:426n, 11:451, 11:464, 12:50, 12:364n, 12:411–12:413, 12:555–12:556, 12:572, 12:585, 12:613, 12:632, 12:654, 12:656, 14:369n, 14:495, 14:497, 14:497–14:498, 14:498, 14:586, 14:602, 14:617, 14:619, 14:621, 14:623, 14:624, 15:62n, 19:288–19:289
  • sends circular to TJ, 10:55–10:56
  • slaves of, 14:587n, 14:639
  • and R. Smith’s dismissal, 5:646–5:648, 5:648n, 5:684
  • and survey of Va., 10:55–10:56, 10:289, 10:293
  • TJ endorses notes for, 12:649, 13:14, 13:123–13:124, 13:126, 13:283–13:284, 13:391, 13:602, 13:602n, 14:172, 14:189, 14:369, 14:369n, 14:586–14:587, 14:588n, 14:602–14:603, 14:604, 14:616–14:617, 14:619, 14:621, 14:623, 14:624, 14:631–14:632, 14:633–14:634n, 14:634, 14:635, 14:639–14:640, 14:645–14:646, 15:7, 15:19–15:20, 15:22, 15:30–15:31, 15:34–15:35, 15:36–15:38, 15:38n, 15:44, 15:45, 15:46–15:47, 15:47–15:48, 15:48n, 15:49, 15:50, 15:56, 15:78–15:79, 15:107, 15:143, 15:143n, 15:143n, 15:148, 15:173, 15:173n, 15:196–15:197, 15:204, 15:225, 15:226n, 15:245, 15:246, 15:260, 15:261, 15:282, 15:291, 15:350, 16:23, 16:24n, 16:66, 16:114, 17:382–17:383, 18:413, 18:442, 18:572–18:573, 18:584, 18:607, 18:607–18:608, 18:654, 19:203, 19:285–19:286, 19:397, 19:497, 19:497, 19:636, 19:653
  • TJ plans visit to, 8:656, 14:635
  • TJ recommends, 14:619
  • TJ recommends agricultural publications to, 2:81, 2:81–2:83, 2:195
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
  • and TJ’s appointment as director of public works, 9:480–9:481, 9:523–9:524, 9:524
  • and TJ’s bank loans, 14:42, 14:57, 14:245, 14:275–14:276, 14:281, 14:287, 14:287, 14:294–14:295, 14:296, 14:297, 14:308–14:309, 14:309, 14:309–14:310, 14:316, 14:319, 14:353, 14:354–14:355, 14:415, 14:473, 14:474, 14:486, 14:498, 14:548, 14:570, 14:573, 14:586–14:587, 14:603, 14:617, 14:640, 15:45, 15:49
  • and TJ’s letters on finance, 6:594, 6:600–6:602
  • and TJ’s libel prosecutions, 1:276–1:278, 1:349–1:350
  • and University of Virginia, 13:559, 13:560n, 13:602, 13:613, 14:13, 14:13, 14:76–14:77, 14:110, 14:189–14:190, 14:605, 15:9
  • as Va. governor, 8:47n, 9:395, 9:396n, 9:422, 9:480–9:481, 9:496, 9:523–9:524, 9:524, 9:590–9:591, 9:621, 9:622, 9:623–9:628, 9:642–9:643, 9:643, 9:680, 9:684–9:692, 10:289, 10:293, 10:295n, 10:543, 10:659, 12:73–12:74n, 13:113
  • on wartime finance, 6:600–6:602
  • will of, 12:649, 15:33n

Nicholas, Wilson Cary (ca. 1796–1828)

  • as administrator of W. C. Nicholas’s estate, 14:588n, 15:33n, 18:414n, 18:416
  • family of, 16:609, 16:637+
  • visits R. Jefferson, 8:400

Nicholas Bassett & Company (firm). See Bassett & Company (firm)

Nicholson, Dr. (of Middlesex Co.), 14:13

Nicholson, Frances Witter

  • family of, 19:706

Nicholson, John

  • and A. Burr conspiracy, 7:236, 7:238n

Nicholson, Joseph Hopper

  • identified, 7:343n
  • introduces J. H. McCulloh, 7:343
  • letters from, 7:343–7:344
  • letters to, 7:379
  • TJ praises, 7:379

Nicholson, Peter, 16:19, 18:493

Nicholson, Samuel

  • as American naval commander, 19:74n
  • as shipyard superintendent, 5:641–5:642, 5:642n

Nicholson, William

  • American Edition of the British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 10:192–10:193, 10:193n
  • An Introduction to Natural Philosophy, 1:581, 18:399

Nicklin, Philip H.

  • bookseller, 7:293n

Niclas, Johann Nicolaus

  • edits Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus; 1781), 2:81, 10:233, 11:164

Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich, 7:587, 7:590n

Nicole, Pierre

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

Nicolson, William

  • The English Historical Library, 16:364

Nicotiana latifolia. See tobacco

nicotine, 1:149–1:150

Nicy (Nisy) (TJ’s slave; b. 1799)

  • mentioned, 5:34
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:460, 6:308, 6:308, 8:61, 8:255
  • spinner, 4:380

Niemcewicz, Julian Ursin

  • identified, 3:62–3:63n
  • letters from, 3:62–3:63
  • letters to, 7:56–7:57
  • mentioned, 12:166
  • and TJ’s membership in Royal Society of the Friends of Science in Warsaw, 3:62, 7:56
  • transmits letter for TJ, 7:505

Nieuport, Charles François Le Preudhomme d’Hailly, Commandeur de, 10:230

Nieuwentijt (Nieuwentyt), Bernard, 7:480

Nieuwe wereldt, ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien (Laet), 2:503n, 2:503n, 2:511

“Night the Second. on Time, Death, Friendship” (E. Young), 8:382, 8:383n

Nijmegen, Treaty of (1678–79)

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

Nile, Battle of the (1798), 6:623

Nile River

  • J. Adams on, 19:439
  • and batture case, 3:45–3:46, 3:132–3:134, 3:135n, 3:226

Niles, Hezekiah

  • and Baltimore Tammany Society, 1:176–1:178
  • and clarification of liquids, 10:606, 10:606n, 11:5
  • and education, 12:160–12:163
  • identified, 4:178n
  • letter from, to J. Madison, 12:160–12:164
  • letters from, 8:569–8:570, 10:385, 10:601–10:602, 10:606, 11:594, 11:594–11:596, 12:6, 12:160–12:164, 13:497
  • letters from accounted for, 4:177–178, 15:481n, 17:150, 18:214
  • letters to, 8:566, 11:5, 11:649, 13:477, 17:150
  • letters to accounted for, 4:177–178, 10:385n, 15:481n, 18:214
  • and Niles’ Weekly Register, 4:177–178, 8:260, 8:566, 8:569–8:570, 10:385, 10:385n, 11:594, 11:594–11:596, 11:649, 12:6, 12:530, 12:531n, 13:477, 13:497, 13:497n, 14:145, 15:481n, 17:150, 18:214
  • and speeches of the American Revolution, 10:601–10:602, 10:602n, 10:646–10:647, 11:5
  • TJ pays, 15:481n

Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore newspaper), 4:177–178, 8:260, 8:566, 8:569–8:570, 10:385, 10:385n, 10:537, 10:601, 11:5, 11:277, 11:279n, 11:594, 11:594–11:596, 11:604, 11:604n, 11:648, 11:649, 12:6, 12:8, 12:160–12:164, 12:370n, 12:530, 12:531n, 13:456, 13:477, 13:497, 13:497n, 14:145, 15:481n, 16:251, 16:434, 16:639, 17:46, 17:46n, 17:80, 17:150, 17:411, 18:18, 18:214, 19:470, 19:472n

Nimmo, Mr.

  • and University of Virginia, 17:627

Nimmo, Matthew

  • and A. Burr conspiracy, 1:643, 1:643n, 2:75, 2:139, 2:249

Nimmo, William Robinson

  • identified, 3:611n
  • letters of introduction for, 3:611
  • My Companion; or, A Familiar Elucidation of the Most Interesting Problems on the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, 3:611n

The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides (Euripides; trans. M. Wodhull), 15:504, 15:594, 15:607

niter, 7:387, 7:388n, 15:46

Nivellement barométrique (Humboldt), 1:452, 1:453n, 1:455, 1:455n, 1:482

Nivernais (Nivernois), Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de

  • appointed to French Council of State, 17:344

N. K. Thomas & Company (Richmond firm), 4:52n

N. L. & G. Griswold (New York firm)

  • and remittances to T. Kosciuszko, 10:639, 10:641

Noah (Old Testament patriarch), 6:137, 6:183, 7:617n, 16:620, 19:305, 19:306n

Noah, Mordecai Manuel

  • Discourse, delivered at the Consecration of the Synagogue of ק“ק שארית ישראל in the City of New-York, on Friday, the 10th of Nisan, 5578, corresponding with the 17th of April 1818, 13:30, 13:30n, 13:65–13:66
  • as editor of New York National Advocate, 13:330n
  • identified, 13:30–13:31n
  • letter from, 13:30–13:31
  • letters to, 13:65–13:66, 14:222
  • Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States, in the years 1813–14 and 15, 14:222

Noailles, Anne Jeanne Baptiste, vicomtesse de, 2:10, 2:26n

Noailles, Henriette Daguesseau, duchesse de

  • inheritance from, 2:15, 2:16, 2:17

Noailles, Louis Marie, vicomte de

  • member of Estates General, 17:369
  • and money from Lafayette, 2:10, 2:26n

Noailles family

  • acquaintances of, 11:402

Noble, Mark

  • Memoirs of the Protectorate-House of Cromwell, 7:389, 10:486

Noel, Mr., 5:663

Noël, François Joseph Michel

  • Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum. Dictionnaire Latin-Français, 15:26
  • Dictionnaire de la fable, 12:535n, 15:26

Noël de la Morinière, Simon Barthélemy Joseph

  • and American fish, 5:601–5:602, 5:604n, 5:604–5:605
  • Histoire Naturelle Économique et Politique des Poissons Utiles, 5:601, 5:603–5:604n, 12:455
  • identified, 5:604n
  • letters from, 5:601–5:604
  • Questionnaire on River Fishes, 5:604–5:606
  • and C. S. Rafinesque, 17:88

Noeli, Luis

  • secretary of Spanish legation to U.S., 13:467

“John Nokes”

  • mentioned, 6:590, 6:593n

Nolti, Mr.

  • introduced to TJ, 17:284

Non-Intercourse Act (1809)

  • effect on commerce, 1:421
  • enacted, 1:21n, 1:314
  • G. Gilpin’s comments on, 1:418
  • impact of, 3:274, 3:275n, 5:285n, 6:556, 10:290
  • lifted against France, 4:30, 4:31n
  • J. Madison on, 1:409, 1:437–1:438, 1:518
  • mentioned, 6:376n, 18:620
  • and J. B. Moussier, 2:37
  • W. C. Nicholas’s opinion of, 2:194
  • N.Y. Republicans support, 1:532
  • and parlementaires, 1:128, 1:522
  • reimposed on Great Britain, 1:421, 1:439n, 3:105, 3:120–3:121, 3:122n, 3:273, 3:275, 3:425n, 3:553, 3:600, 4:32, 5:319–5:320
  • support for, 1:532
  • suspended, 1:170n, 2:69
  • TJ on, 1:154, 1:442, 3:647+, 7:12, 11:284

nonius

  • and surveying, 9:168, 9:171n, 9:171n, 9:686, 9:689, 9:689, 19:6, 19:7n

Nonnotte, Claude Adrien

  • and attacks on Voltaire, 7:26, 7:27n, 7:66

Nonsuch (sloop), 9:557–9:558

Noodt, Gerard

  • Noviomagi, Jurisconsulti et Antescessoris, Opera omni, recognita, aucta, emdnata, multis in locis, 3:546
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

Noot, Henri van der

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Nootka, 1:446

Norfolk (packet), 13:175

Norfolk, Bank of, 1:626

Norfolk, Va.

  • canal at, 6:119, 6:121, 14:402, 14:403, 14:412–14:413
  • Catholic church in, 15:315–15:316, 15:317n, 15:335
  • collector at, 10:118–10:119, 10:119n, 10:356, 10:356n, 10:358–10:359, 14:619
  • economy of, 9:523, 10:571, 14:37
  • medical curriculum proposed for, 15:122–15:123, 15:124n
  • and medical education, 18:20
  • mentioned, 3:505
  • Revolutionary War skirmish at, 10:264, 10:264n
  • and state university for Va., 13:189
  • summers in, 8:565
  • and War of 1812, 6:20, 6:536, 6:536, 6:536, 7:484–7:485, 7:485, 7:513–7:514, 7:515, 7:515, 7:517, 7:697–7:698, 8:84–8:85, 8:233
  • and yellow fever, 10:35

Norfolk County Circuit Court, Va., 17:440, 17:441n

Norman’s Ford (Fauquier Co.), 6:651, 6:651n

Norris, Joseph Parker

  • family of, 18:12
  • visits C. Thomson, 18:12, 18:423

Norris, Opie

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:324, 11:330, 13:162, 16:476, 17:621
  • and Charlottesville Female Academy, 16:25
  • conveys package to TJ, 8:613, 8:627, 8:641
  • identified, 3:465n
  • letters from, 3:464–3:465, 16:25–16:26
  • letters from accounted for, 3:465n
  • letter to accounted for, 16:26n
  • as merchant, 15:91
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
  • and Shadwell Mill, 3:464–3:465, 5:575
  • TJ pays, 16:124, 16:129
  • and University of Virginia, 16:305, 16:313, 16:315, 16:481

Norris, Thaddeus

  • identified, 9:34n
  • letter from accounted for, 9:34n
  • letter to, 9:34
  • and references for R. and W. J. Miller, 9:34

North, Abram R.

  • identified, 8:68n
  • letter from, 8:68
  • as proxy for A. Jamieson, 8:68

North, Lord Frederick (later 2d Earl of Guilford)

  • as British prime minister, 18:145
  • conciliatory propositions of, 4:601, 8:644–8:645, 8:645–8:646n, 10:270, 10:271n, 13:40, 17:315, 17:317
  • education of, 7:660
  • and peace negotiations, 3:40n, 17:374

North, William

  • biography of F. W. von Steuben by, 9:183, 9:298, 12:589
  • and party politics, 9:183, 9:183, 9:183–9:184
  • and rheumatism treatment, 15:46

North American and Mercantile Daily Advertiser (Baltimore newspaper), 3:262n

North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 12:188, 13:529, 13:530n, 13:588, 14:536–14:537, 15:51n, 15:73n, 15:137, 15:137n, 16:193, 16:194, 16:194, 16:194, 19:215–19:216, 19:216, 19:216, 19:222n, 19:363, 19:363–19:364n, 19:428

The North American Sylva (F. A. Michaux), 2:681n, 12:393, 12:393

North Carolina

  • agriculture in, 11:129, 11:245–11:246, 16:339, 19:416–19:417
  • and American Revolution, 14:447–14:448, 14:448–14:451, 14:524, 19:118–19:123, 19:130
  • banks in, 12:179
  • boundary with Va., 9:178, 9:384, 9:689–9:690, 10:470, 10:470n, 11:21–11:22, 11:125–11:126, 11:206, 11:477, 11:487, 11:524, 11:524n, 12:168, 12:390–12:392, 12:486, 12:504–12:505, 15:621, 15:622n, 15:622–15:623n, 17:309
  • climate of, 2:360, 7:142
  • and Confederation Congress, 17:335
  • earthquake in, 4:573
  • education in, 9:608
  • elections in, 5:396–5:397, 19:563
  • fictitious volcanic eruption in, 14:523, 14:525n
  • and land warrants, 3:548, 3:549n
  • legislature of, 16:339, 19:122, 19:502n
  • and Mecklenburg Co., N.C., “Declaration of Independence,” 14:447–14:448, 14:448–14:451, 14:523–14:525
  • militia in, 14:448
  • newspapers in, 11:456–11:457, 11:457n, 11:476
  • plants of, 13:248
  • religion in, 19:80
  • Roanoke River navigation, 5:458, 5:458n
  • statue for capitol of, 9:332–9:333, 9:333n, 9:384–9:387, 9:387n+, 10:412–10:413, 10:414–10:415, 10:415n, 10:476, 11:171, 19:499–19:501, 19:502n
  • surveying of, 5:100–5:101
  • University of, at Chapel Hill, 9:714n
  • wine from, 11:156, 11:218, 11:237, 11:238, 11:293+, 11:293n+, 11:295–11:296, 11:345, 14:561, 17:3, 18:378, 19:115–19:116, 19:572

North Carolina, University of

  • establishment of, 16:339, 16:339, 16:339–16:340n
  • mentioned, 17:590
  • and tariffs on books, 17:520–17:521, 17:523, 17:544, 17:580, 17:581n, 17:600, 17:655, 18:11, 18:78

Northcut, Daniel

  • and lost trunk, 1:311, 1:347

Northern Light (Eastport, Me., newspaper), 5:110n

Northmore, Emmeline Eden (Thomas Northmore’s second wife), 4:393n

Northmore, Penelope Welby (Thomas Northmore’s first wife)

  • death of, 4:393n
  • marriage of, 4:392

Northmore, Thomas

  • copy of TJ letter sent to, 10:322n
  • Washington, or Liberty Restored, 4:392, 4:393n, 4:470–4:471

North River (Clermont) (steamboat), 4:199

Northwest Coast

  • exploration of, 1:443–1:445, 1:445–1:449
  • fur trade, 1:445–1:446, 1:447, 5:74–5:75
  • Indians of, described, 1:446

North West Company (Canadian firm), 4:553, 6:557

Northwestern Bank of Virginia (Wheeling), 10:660n

Northwest Ordinance (1787), 2:521, 16:526n

Northwest Territory

  • act establishing, 3:70, 3:73n
  • ceded by Va. legislature, 4:566, 4:567, 4:568n, 4:585, 19:492, 19:492–19:493n
  • U.S. conquest of, 4:267, 4:267n, 4:377–4:378

Norton, John Hatley

  • family of, 10:426
  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:587n

Norton, Sarah Nicholas

  • family of, 10:426, 10:442

Norvell, Mr., 2:27, 3:512–3:513

Norvell, John

  • identified, 1:15n
  • letters from, 1:14–15
  • seeks TJ’s recommendation, 1:14–1:15

Norvell, Joshua

  • identified, 9:356–9:357n
  • letter from, 9:356–9:357
  • and trade with Indians, 9:356

Norvell, William

  • and TJ’s mortgage to S. J. Harrison, 5:61

Norway

  • and Congress of Vienna, 15:52

Norwich, Conn.

  • newspapers in, 5:407n

nosology, 11:367, 17:236

Notes of an American Lyre (J. Lomax), 6:464n, 7:260, 7:270

Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress (Thomas Jefferson), 14:290–14:292, 17:317

Notes on a Journey through France (M. Birkbeck), 9:122, 9:122n, 9:679, 10:559, 10:560, 10:560, 10:592, 11:124, 11:124n, 11:300–11:301, 12:20

Notes on Lord Coke’s First Institute, or Commentary upon Littleton (F. Hargrave and C. Butler), 18:580

Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography (Thomas Jefferson), 3:xlv–3:xlvi, 3:352–3:355, 3:358 (illus.)

Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage for the United States (Thomas Jefferson), 10:548

Notes on the State of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson)

  • 1st edition, privately printed (Paris, 1785), 1:587–1:588, 1:600, 3:555n, 9:336n, 13:309, 17:337
  • 2d edition (Paris, 1787), 17:337–17:338
  • 3d edition (London, 1787), 1:588, 9:336n, 13:309, 17:338
  • and altitude of Monticello, 9:314, 9:317n
  • bound for TJ, 8:630
  • and H. M. Brackenridge, 6:322
  • and G. L. L. Buffon, 19:564
  • M. Carey edition, 4:431n
  • and climate change, 2:71, 13:82
  • D. Clinton’s use of, 8:348n
  • consulted, 8:400, 8:696
  • criticism of, 8:383, 8:384n
  • description of Harper’s Ferry in, 1:197, 5:407n
  • description of Natural Bridge in, 9:26n, 10:453, 10:455, 10:457n, 10:555, 10:555n, 10:648n, 11:621–11:622, 12:334
  • and education, 11:415, 11:416n
  • first American edition, 3:243n, 19:621
  • and J. S. Gaines, 4:117n
  • and geology, 11:536n
  • H. Grégoire on, 1:588–1:589
  • G. F. Hopkins on, 18:611
  • A. von Humboldt obtains copy of, 1:265, 3:108, 4:352, 4:354n
  • and immigration, 10:254, 10:255n
  • and Indians, 2:60n, 2:204, 2:204–2:205n, 2:340, 10:115, 10:117n, 17:605–17:606, 19:341–19:342, 19:343n
  • and mammoths, 5:460, 5:460n
  • and manufacturing, 9:248, 9:249–9:250n, 9:335–9:336, 9:336n, 9:533–9:534
  • and J. Melish’s work, 3:386n, 5:627–5:628, 5:629n
  • mentioned, 10:503, 10:548, 14:145, 18:550–18:551, 18:648
  • J. Morse copies from, 9:137
  • and T. H. Palmer’s work, 5:650
  • and Peaks of Otter, 13:348
  • W. Pechin’s edition, 2:173, 2:174n, 2:215–2:216
  • phenomenon of looming discussed in, 8:299n, 10:xlvii, 10:644, 18:611n
  • phrase adapted from, 10:454, 10:457n
  • praise for, 13:40–13:41, 13:41n, 13:75, 13:82, 17:605–17:606
  • quoted, 18:517
  • recommended to Albemarle Library Society, 19:508
  • R. T. Rawle’s edition, 11:503
  • references to, 10:329, 10:331n, 11:625, 11:626n, 13:83n, 17:13, 17:14n
  • and religion, 12:335, 16:600, 16:602n, 18:212
  • reprinting of proposed, 16:427
  • requests for copies of, 16:126, 17:239, 17:240, 17:250, 17:264–17:265
  • revised edition proposed, 1:385, 1:486, 1:567, 1:587–1:588, 1:600–1:601, 1:654, 3:38, 3:40n, 3:87, 8:76–8:77, 8:133–8:134, 12:552, 12:577, 13:176, 13:309, 14:562n
  • and slavery, 2:382n, 8:454, 10:76, 10:79n, 14:378, 15:460n, 18:609n
  • and springs, 13:228
  • J. Stockdale edition, 1:588, 9:336n
  • TJ as author of, 7:93, 7:127, 9:429, 12:474n, 14:283, 14:285, 16:42, 17:337–17:338, 17:377n, 19:371, 19:621
  • TJ on, 18:23
  • TJ on posthumous revised edition, 1:587, 12:577
  • TJ’s draft Va. constitution in, 10:222
  • TJ’s revisions to, 9:12n, 9:36–9:37n, 9:171–9:172n, 10:315, 10:315n, 11:621–11:622, 12:577, 12:577n
  • translated into French, 12:146, 12:146n
  • V. Utley on, 14:43
  • and weather, 10:380n, 15:585, 16:102n, 18:611n
  • and wooden buildings, 5:170, 5:171n

Note Sur la culture et les usages du Chêne à glands doux ou Ballota. (Quercus Ballota) (A. Thoüin), 19:353n

Note Sur la culture et les usages du Pin Laricio de Corse (A. Thoüin), 19:353n

Note Sur la Soude d’Alicante ou Barille (Salsola Sativa), L. (A. Thoüin), 19:353n

Notice des travaux de la Classe des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut Royal de France, 7:350, 7:350n

Notice Biographique sur M. Dupont (Pierre-Samuel) (A. F. Silvestre), 15:146n

Notice Biographique sur M. Moreau de Saint-Méry (A. F. Silvestre), 15:146n

Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris), 4:474

Nott, Eliphalet

  • as president of Union College, 17:545

Nottingham, England

  • petition from, 10:574, 10:575n

Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of

  • mentioned, 18:334–18:335, 18:475

Nottoway Indians, 16:79, 16:79–16:85, 16:107–16:108, 16:109–16:110, 16:118, 16:118–16:120, 16:131–16:132, 16:133, 16:261, 16:262

Nottoway River, 14:402, 14:403, 14:412, 14:413

Nourse, Charles J.

  • as U.S. Army officer, 10:433

Nourse, Joseph

  • advises J. Barnes, 2:219, 7:421, 9:587
  • conveys letters for J. Barnes, 7:421, 7:431
  • and meeting of Georgetown, D.C., Republicans, 1:23n
  • as register of U.S. Treasury, 8:145, 8:145n, 9:495n, 10:312, 18:557
  • sends oat seed to TJ, 1:585–1:586
  • and W. Short’s certificates, 2:478, 3:29

Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, 9:325, 9:326n

Nouveau Commentaire sur l’Ordonnance de la Marine (R. J. Valin), 2:657, 2:658n, 3:546

Nouveau cours complet d’agriculture théorique et pratique (F. Rozier), 3:321, 3:322n

Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique (L. M. Chaudon), 8:561

Nouveau Dictionnaire Espagnol-François et Latin (N. de Séjournant), 12:535n

“Nouveau Moyen De purifier absolument & en très-peu de temps une masse d’air infectée” (L. B. Guyton de Morveau), 10:136, 10:147n

Nouveaux Contes Moraux (J. F. Marmontel), 12:534

Nouvel Abregé Chronologique de l’Histoire de France (C. J. F. Hénault), 10:235, 10:237n, 19:510

Nouvelle Architecture Hydraulique (Prony), 6:381–6:382, 7:386

Nouvelle méthode non encore publiée pour planter et cultiver la vigne (Maupin), 2:82, 11:164

Noviomagi, Jurisconsulti et Antescessoris, Opera omnia, recognita, aucta, emendata, multis in locis (G. Noodt), 3:546

Novum Lexicon Universale Quatuor Linguarum, Latinae, Germanicae, Graecae, et Gallicae (N. Gürtler), 5:14, 5:14n, 5:36

Novum Testamentum Græce et Latine (D. Erasmus), 8:235

Nugæ Georgicæ; An Essay, delivered to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Charleston, South-Carolina, October 14, 1815 (W. Johnson), 11:168, 11:168n, 11:168n, 11:344–11:345

Nugent, H. P., 3:236n, 3:237n

Nugent, Thomas

  • as translator, 10:358, 17:537n

Les Nuits de Ste Marie-Magdelaine pénitente (Gazzera), 1:522, 1:523n

Nulty, Eugenius

  • as mathematician, 12:134–12:135, 12:136n, 12:199, 14:126, 14:323, 14:454, 14:614, 16:148, 16:374, 17:237
  • and South Carolina College, 16:106, 16:148, 16:148, 16:187, 16:215–16:216, 16:222

“Numa”

  • A Letter to the Honorable John Randolph, 2:264, 2:290

Numa Pompilius (legendary king of ancient Rome), 6:298, 10:53n, 10:54n

numerology

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

Nunn, John

  • hires out slaves to Central College–University of Virginia, 15:86, 16:479
  • and University of Virginia, 17:630, 19:53, 19:189, 19:191n

Nureddin, sultan of Syria and Egypt, 7:66, 7:67n

nutmeg, 1:44, 1:368, 2:109, 6:343, 6:348, 15:71, 15:451, 16:10, 16:191, 16:191n, 18:49, 19:14

nutmeg melon. See cantaloupe (muskmelon; nutmeg melon)

nuts

  • almond, 3:455, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487, 4:522
  • chestnut, 1:593, 1:594n, 2:310, 3:503, 4:322–4:323, 12:152, 12:202, 12:391, 12:612
  • filbert, 1:631
  • hickory, 1:111, 1:252, 1:657, 3:544, 9:348n
  • pecan, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n, 1:631, 1:657, 2:103, 2:294n
  • sent to TJ, 14:120

Nuttall, Thomas

  • proposed University of Virginia professorship for, 14:445, 14:517, 14:519–14:520, 14:529, 14:568
  • as scientist, 13:249, 13:249–13:250n, 13:253, 13:253, 13:280

Nymeguen, Treaty of. See Nijmegen, Treaty of (1678–79)

Nysten, Pierre Hubert

  • Dictionnaire de Médecine, 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 13:394, 13:494, 13:525
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