Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series - Comprehensive Cumulative Index (Vols. 1-6)

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Aaron (Hebrew priest; Moses’s brother), 6:616

Aaron (slave)

and H. Marks’s estate, 4:511

“Abbe Salemankis”

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

Abbey (Abby) (TJ’s slave; b. 1804)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308

Abbey (TJ’s slave)

on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:382

Abbott, Mr.

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

Abby (TJ’s slave; b. 1753)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308
spinner, 4:380

Abell, John S.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Abercrombie, John

The Gardener’s Pocket Dictionary, 2:83

Abies balsamea (balsam fir; balm of Gilead fir), 4:497, 4:498

Abigail (Old Testament figure), 6:623

Aborn, Henry, 2:399n

Abraham (Old Testament patriarch), 6:466

Abrahams, A. D., 2:118

Abram (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1740)

on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Abram (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1794)

on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Un Abridgment des plusieurs cases et resolutions del Common Ley (Rolle), 3:547

Acacia farnesiana (sweet acacia), 1:555, 1:631–632, 2:301, 2:302

Acacia nilotica (gum arabic tree), 2:302

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

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

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi (Pike), 3:309, 4:354n, 4:445, 4:457n, 6:374, 6:413

An Account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston (Buchan and Minto), 5:416

Acherley, Roger

J. Adams on, 4:474

achilles tendon

cut, 2:438

acid, marine (hydrochloric, muriatic), 4:8

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

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

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

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

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

An Act for the assessment and collection of direct taxes and internal duties (1813), 6:397, 6:398n, 6:398, 6:398, 6:399n, 6:401, 6:401, 6:411

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

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

An Act for the relief of Oliver Evans (1808), 6:353, 6:354n, 6:379, 6:385, 6:455, 6:455, 6:455, 6:457n

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

Acton, Thomas Harman

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined, 3:514n

Acts passed at a Congress of the United States of America, begun ... in the Year 1789, 3:547

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and batture controversy, 2:435–436, 2:441n, 2:450n, 2:455, 2:462, 2:516, 2:518–519, 2:520, 2:522, 2:528, 2:659n, 3:72, 3:176n

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

Adair, James

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

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

Adams, Abigail (John Adams’s granddaughter), 4:475

as J. Adams’s amanuensis, 6:627n

Adams, Abigail Smith (John Adams’s wife)

and E. Coles’s visit, 4:314n
correspondence with T. B. Hollis, 6:228
correspondence with TJ, 3:305, 3:307, 3:356, 4:xlvi, 4:312, 4:313, 4:389n, 6:437–438, 6:516–517, 6:548, 6:551
and daughter’s death, 6:388, 6:516–517
family of, 5:24n, 6:438, 6:438
health of, 6:437
house of, 6:xlv, 6:386 (illus.)
identified, 6:298n
letter from, 6:516–517
letter to, 6:437–438
sends greetings to TJ, 4:475, 5:13, 6:297, 6:466
TJ sends greetings to, 4:628, 6:437
and TJ’s syllabus on Jesus’s doctrines, 6:440

Adams, George

Geometrical and Graphical Essays, 1:581
Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 1:581

Adams, George Washington (John Adams’s grandson), 6:279, 6:438, 6:438n

Adams, John

and addresses of Continental Congress, 6:440, 6:612, 6:612–613
administration of, 3:94n
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 6:191, 6:192n
on aristocracy, 6:278–279, 6:286–288, 6:387, 6:388n, 6:466, 6:466–467, 6:504, 6:563, 6:621–623, 6:624, 6:624–625, 6:626
on banks, 3:357, 6:626
and T. Belsham’s Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, 6:145, 6:146, 6:146, 6:180, 6:192, 6:193, 6:226, 6:227, 6:228, 6:277–278, 6:367
and broadside from B. Rush, 4:17n
on A. Burr, 5:4, 5:13, 6:192, 6:623
on J. Chandler, 6:284–285, 6:625
and T. Clark’s naval history, 6:146
and Cleanthes, 6:520, 6:520–521, 6:521–522, 6:540–541, 6:542
on coining of new words, 4:534n
and E. Coles’s visit, 4:312–313, 4:314n, 4:389n
on Condorcet, 5:184, 5:595, 6:287
congressional journals of, 3:39
on T. Cooper, 6:318, 6:318, 6:318
and correspondence with TJ, 5:670, 6:437
criticized by J. Randolph, 5:4
criticized by D. Sheffey, 5:4
critics of, 6:255, 6:255
on daughter’s death, 6:387–388
and Declaration of Independence, 5:643
Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 5:185n, 6:238–239, 6:278, 6:287, 6:288, 6:296, 6:388n, 6:504, 6:564
defends B. Waterhouse, 6:38–39, 6:99, 6:100–101n
depicted in T. Gimbrede engraving, 4:540 (illus.)
on destruction of historical records, 6:278, 6:542, 6:616, 6:618
diplomatic expenses of paid, 2:46n
Discourses on Davila, 6:287, 6:288, 6:296
on domestic manufacturing, 4:473–474, 4:483
on druids, 5:70
W. Duane on, 5:353
on election of 1800, 6:192, 6:625
on elections, 6:625
family of, 6:146, 6:300, 6:438, 6:438
on B. Franklin, 6:284, 6:285n, 6:287, 6:622
on French Revolution, 6:286, 6:297, 6:505
friendship with TJ, 1:185–186n
on Ghengis Kahn, 5:184, 5:185n, 5:584–585, 5:585n
on God, 5:183
on government, 6:296
Greek handwriting of, 6:xlv, 6:386 (illus.)
and A. Hamilton, 2:176, 2:177n, 6:254, 6:284
health of, 4:475, 6:183, 6:501, 6:522
on P. Henry, 6:612, 6:612
and J. Henry’s mission, 4:628
on E. Hersey, 6:501–502, 6:503, 6:504
on historians of the American Revolution, 6:258
house of, 6:xlv, 6:386 (illus.)
on human progress, 6:238–239, 6:296–297, 6:297
identified, 4:390–391n
on Indians, 4:475–476, 5:70, 5:182–184, 5:184–185, 5:389–390, 5:584–585, 5:595, 6:183
on Lafayette, 6:287
letter of intercepted and published, 6:233, 6:234n, 6:283–284
letters from, 4:390–391, 4:473–476, 4:483–485, 5:3–4, 5:11–14, 5:70–71, 5:182–186, 5:386–390, 5:583–585, 5:595–596, 6:145–147, 6:180–181, 6:183–184, 6:191–193, 6:226–229, 6:236–239, 6:253–256, 6:258–259, 6:277–280, 6:283–285, 6:286–288, 6:296–298, 6:298–300, 6:301–303, 6:317–319, 6:367–368, 6:386–388, 6:465–467, 6:499–502, 6:503–505, 6:520–522, 6:540–543, 6:612–614, 6:616–619, 6:621–627
letters to, 4:428–430, 4:435, 4:626–628, 5:122–125, 5:508–513, 6:137–139, 6:193–195, 6:231–235, 6:438–441, 6:548–552, 6:562–568
on E. Livingston, 5:3
and J. Lomax, 6:440, 6:441n
on J. Madison’s administration, 5:3–4
and S. Malcom’s appointment, 5:42, 5:42–43, 5:70, 5:95, 5:122
on M. Manilius, 5:184
and memoir on D. Rittenhouse, 5:372n
mentioned, 2:604, 3:381n, 5:127n, 5:165n, 5:525, 6:38, 6:89n
and Midnight Appointments, 3:306–307
as minister to Great Britain, 5:504
on P. Morton, 5:583
on Napoleon, 5:13
nepotism practiced by, 2:183, 2:184n
opinion on batture case, 5:3
on T. Paine, 5:184, 6:297
on Peter the Hermit, 5:12, 5:13n
on Plato, 5:183, 5:184, 6:503, 6:504, 6:505
portrait of, 4:xlvi, 4:370 (illus.)
presidency of, 2:273–274n, 2:385, 5:24n, 5:445–446n
and presidential addresses, 6:180, 6:180–181, 6:195n, 6:237–238, 6:253–254
on J. Priestley, 6:145–146, 6:146, 6:236–237, 6:302, 6:318, 6:318, 6:319
and J. Priestley’s writings, 6:302, 6:317–318, 6:318, 6:367–368, 6:439, 6:441, 6:471, 6:499, 6:499–500, 6:510, 6:520
print of, 2:127
on prophecy, 4:483–485, 4:626–628
on Psalms of David, 6:616, 6:616
on publication of correspondence, 6:226–227, 6:228, 6:258, 6:259
and Quakers, 6:284
quotes Montesquieu, 5:184, 5:185–186n
reading habits of, 3:356, 3:357n, 6:277, 6:302–303
on religion, 6:145, 6:145–146, 6:227–228, 6:228, 6:236–237, 6:238, 6:277–278, 6:278, 6:297, 6:298, 6:298–299, 6:300, 6:301–303, 6:368, 6:499–502, 6:503–504, 6:522, 6:541, 6:541, 6:542, 6:550, 6:616–618, 6:623, 6:624
resumes correspondence with TJ, 4:xlv, 4:312–314, 4:338–339, 4:340n, 4:389n, 4:431, 4:473, 4:486, 4:533–534, 4:642, 4:673, 6:160
on retirement, 1:513, 6:192
review of J. Hillhouse’s pamphlet, 5:12–13, 5:13–14n
on Revolutionary generation, 4:475
on Rhode Island, 6:625
on riots and insurrections, 6:254
and B. Rush, 3:278–279n, 3:304–308, 6:15, 6:16n, 6:95, 6:146, 6:183, 6:298
on Russia, 4:474
on sedition in northern states, 6:259
sends works of J. Q. Adams, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483
W. Short forwards pamphlet to, 3:198, 3:274
and surviving signers of Declaration of Independence, 6:137, 6:183
and Ten Commandments, 6:616–618
on Theognis’s writings, 6:279, 6:386–387, 6:465–466, 6:623
TJ on, 3:304–308, 4:312, 4:313, 5:670, 6:194–195
on TJ’s administration, 5:3–4, 6:258–259
on TJ’s batture pamphlet, 5:11–12
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:626
and TJ’s syllabus on Jesus’s doctrines, 6:440, 6:499–500, 6:520, 6:548, 6:616, 6:618
on Turgot, 5:185n, 6:287, 6:287, 6:288n
on Union, 4:474–475
on U.S. Constitution, 6:567
and U.S. Navy, 6:138, 6:183, 6:184, 6:192
on U.S. Senate, 6:624
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503
as vice president, 3:305
voyage to France (1778), 4:474, 4:476n
on G. Washington, 5:3, 6:254, 6:284
on wisdom of ancestors, 6:180, 6:180, 6:181, 6:194, 6:195n, 6:237, 6:237–239
and writings of J. Taylor of Caroline, 6:567, 6:613

Adams, John Quincy

American Principles, 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435n
and charges against B. Waterhouse, 1:296
J. W. Eppes on, 6:313
and J. Henry’s mission, 4:628
Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483
letters to sons on religion, 6:300
A Letter to Harrison G. Otis, Esquire, 4:435n
mentioned, 3:205n, 3:333n, 6:287
minister to Russia, 1:38, 1:328, 1:360, 1:537, 3:115, 3:116n, 6:175
nominated as Supreme Court justice, 3:246
as peace negotiator, 6:105n, 6:175, 6:313
professor at Harvard, 4:473
rumored as secretary of state, 1:118

Adams, Samuel

mentioned, 6:623

Adams, Samuel G.

Richmond merchant, 4:487, 4:522

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

as J. Adams’s amanuensis, 6:627n

Adams, Susanna (John Adams’s granddaughter)

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

Adams, Susanna Boylston (John Adams’s mother)

family of, 4:473

Adam’s needle (bear grass; silk grass; Yucca filamentosa), 3:353

Addington. See Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount

Addison, Joseph

as translator of Horace, 6:616

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

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

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

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

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

Adelung, Friedrich

director of Oriental Institute, 4:99n
forwards packet through L. Harris, 3:150
introduced to TJ, 2:467
offers to assist American Philosophical Society, 2:468n
Rapports entre la langue sanscrit et la langue Russe, 4:99

Adelung, Johann Christoph

Mithridates: Oder Allgemeine Sprachenkunde, 1:265, 1:267n, 1:652n

Adlum, John

Adlum on Making Wine, 1:587n
identified, 1:587n
letters from, 2:220–223, 2:292–293, 2:330
letters to, 1:586–587, 2:338–339
A Memoir on the Cultivation of the Vine in America, and the Best Mode of Making Wine, 1:587n
and wine, 2:220–222, 2:292, 2:293, 2:330, 2:338–339

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

Adrain, Robert, 5:448n, 5:558–559, 5:559n, 6:82

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

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

Aeolus (British ship), 5:370

Aesculapius (god of medicine), 2:187, 2:188n

Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut; marrons d’Inde), 1:593, 1:594n, 2:310, 3:503, 3:504n

Aesop’s Fables

advocated for Indians, 1:110
quoted by J. Adams, 6:621

Africa

colonization of blacks to, 3:267–269, 3:318–320
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

agate, 6:373

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

Aggy (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

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

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

family of, 5:463n
laborer, 4:379
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308, 6:309
weaver, 4:380, 5:663

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

aging

J. Barnes on, 5:393
books on, 3:137
TJ on his own, 5:164, 5:366, 5:607, 5:662
TJ on youth, 2:187

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

L’Agricoltore Sperimentato (Trinci), 2:82

Agricultural Museum, 2:543, 2:544n

Agricultural Society of Albemarle

and horizontal plowing, 6:70n
members of, 4:22n, 4:58–58n, 4:538–539n, 5:140n, 5:528n, 5:567n
officers of, 1:53–54n, 3:136n, 3:146n, 4:415–416n
TJ’s involvement with, 3:351n
TJ’s proposed constitution for, 3:347–352

Agricultural Society of Bavaria

diploma, 5:273 (illus.)
membership conferred on TJ, 5:270–271, 5:273

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

Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, 1:133
along the lower James River, 2:167
and Belfast Literary Society, 4:159, 4:175, 4:188n
books on, 1:35, 1:36, 1:37, 1:508, 1:581–582, 3:321, 3:322n, 4:110n, 6:17, 6:122, 6:219, 6:280, 6:280, 6:380, 6:613, 6:613
British Board of Agriculture, 1:252
and cast-iron presses, 2:302
clearing and belting of land, 2:85, 2:86–87n
and coating seeds with tar and plaster, 2:334
Columbian Agricultural Society, 1:23n, 1:40n, 1:133, 1:134n
Columbian Society for the Promotion of Rural and Domestic Economy, 3:33, 3:35n
contour plowing, 2:254, 6:69–70, 6:70n
crop rotation, 6:132–133, 6:134
Domestic encyclopædia, 1:18, 1:19n, 1:252
government subsidies to, 2:613–614
happiness of agricultural workers, 2:296
and hawthorn hedges, 2:132n, 2:167
hemp brake, 6:442, 6:452
impact of taxation on, 2:573–574, 2:577, 2:580, 2:584, 2:585–586, 2:589, 2:590
implements of, 3:171, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251, 3:349, 3:456, 3:461, 6:347, 6:347
and insects, 2:222, 2:496
law on, 4:168
manure as fertilizer, 4:179, 4:180, 4:531, 6:486–487
C.W. Peale on farming, 4:136–142, 4:179–181, 5:324–325
Pennsylvania moldboard, 1:111, 1:252
Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1:477, 1:479–480n, 2:220, 2:223n, 4:161
and provision of fodder, 2:271, 2:371
Richmond Society for Promoting Agriculture, 3:348, 3:351n
and threshing machines, 2:5, 2:36, 2:675, 3:293, 3:349, 3:371, 5:324, 5:325–326, 5:360, 5:444–445
TJ buys fruit trees, 1:40
TJ lists works on, 1:581–582, 2:81–83, 2:195
TJ on, 1:110, 1:252, 1:559
TJ on farming, 4:93
TJ’s farm book, 4:xliv, 4:370 (illus.)
use of gypsum (plaster of paris) in, 2:197–198, 2:205, 2:226, 2:304, 2:305, 2:329, 2:334, 2:341, 3:313, 3:341, 3:349

Agrostis stolonifera (fiorin grass)

sent to TJ, 3:339–340, 4:159, 4:187, 4:192–193, 4:201, 4:363, 5:476, 5:553, 5:574
TJ on, 3:294–295, 4:175, 4:364, 4:561, 4:562, 4:638, 5:384, 5:660–661
writings on, 3:280n, 3:294–295

Ainsworth, Robert

Latin and English Dictionary abridged, 1:35

Aird, John

vouches for J. Melish, 4:423

Akers, John, 1:415

Alabama River, 1:351

Alard, Marie Joseph Louis Jean François Antoine

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

Albaflor wine, 1:345, 1:346n, 1:366, 4:4, 4:530, 6:163

Albany Congress (1754)

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

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

Albemarle Academy. See also Central College (Charlottesville), Virginia, University of (Charlottesville), 3:540n, 5:102, 5:171–172, 5:567n

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

Albemarle County, Va. See also Agricultural Society of Albemarle; Nicholas, John, clerk of

Agricultural Society of, 1:53–54n, 3:136n, 3:146n, 3:347–352, 4:22n, 4:58–59n, 4:415–416n, 4:538–539n
Barringer Creek, 3:432
Buckmountain Baptist Church, 1:63–64, 1:126
cloth factory in, 4:143, 4:169, 4:209, 4:667, 5:14–15, 5:17, 5:639–640, 6:45n
delegation to General Assembly, 5:526–528, 5:528n, 5:556n, 5:638–639
and dogs, 4:161, 4:170, 4:346–349
grape cultivation in, 4:177
Hardware River, 4:146, 4:387
inhabitants of address TJ, 1:46–47, 1:74
inhabitants of meet with TJ, 1:79
land prices in, 3:622, 3:644
map of, 1:xliii (illus.), 2:xxxvii (illus.), 3:xli (illus.), 4:xxxix (illus.), 5:xliii (illus.), 6:xxxix (illus.)
petitions to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
rain devastates, 2:254
requires military draft, 5:107
and road orders, 3:527
schools in, 1:82n, 4:493, 6:73, 6:130, 6:131, 6:426, 6:426
TJ addresses inhabitants of, 1:102–103
volunteer troops, 5:344–345
wheat harvest in, 2:495, 4:95
Woods, Micajah (deputy sheriff), 1:590, 1:595

Albemarle County Court, Va., 1:415n, 2:227, 3:225, 6:36n, 6:36–37n, 6:115, 6:186, 6:196–200, 6:294, 6:472–481, 6:482n, 6:488, 6:576, 6:596, 6:596

Albemarle County Superior Court of Law, Va., 6:153, 6:153n, 6:182, 6:554, 6:555, 6:573, 6:573, 6:630

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

Alberoni, Giulio

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

Albizia julibrissin (mimosa tree; silk tree), 1:631, 2:103, 2:104n

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

Alcaeus

mentioned, 6:403

Alcocke, Elliott, 2:452

alcohol. See also drunkenness; wine

ale, 3:241–242
beer, 1:299, 2:116, 5:31
brandy, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211, 4:419, 6:487
cider, 1:581, 1:657, 2:223, 4:140–141, 4:210, 5:464
claret, 1:387, 1:397n
excise tax on, 3:81, 3:82n
French brandy, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223
gin distilling, 1:465
Madeira, 1:387, 1:397n
Bishop J. Madison on, 4:17
medicinal uses of, 1:483
porter, 3:241–242, 3:252, 4:630
production of, 3:241–242
rum, 1:299, 6:345
B. Rush on, 4:17
spirits, 6:347, 6:501
stills, 3:171, 3:359, 3:521, 6:311
whiskey, 1:31, 1:465, 3:359, 4:210, 4:483, 6:344, 6:346, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347

alcoholism, 2:87, 2:191

ale, 3:241–242

Aleck (TJ’s slave; b. 1806)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:309, 6:310

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’

Encyclopédie, 6:381, 6:408
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Aleutian Islands, 1:447

Alexander, Eli

and corn for TJ, 6:181–182
forwards mail to TJ, 5:455
grinds wheat, 1:109, 1:353
identified, 1:137–138n
letters from, 1:353, 2:198–199, 2:213, 5:455
letters to, 1:137–138, 1:353, 2:85–87, 2:150–151, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:421–422, 3:328, 6:181–182
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
and rent, 1:353, 2:421–422, 3:328
TJ’s dispute with, 2:85–86, 2:150–151, 2:199, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:240, 2:277–280, 2:281, 2:282, 2:286, 2:286–287, 2:294, 5:409

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

Alexander I, emperor of Russia

and R. de Bécourt’s book, 5:467n
diplomatic appointments, 1:537
and letters of credence, 1:328, 1:343–344, 1:359, 1:484, 1:485n
mentioned, 6:522
and Napoleon’s defeat in Russia, 6:293
as peace mediator, 6:131n, 6:144, 6:175, 6:538–539
and J. S. Smith, 2:466
TJ on, 2:277, 2:512, 3:208
TJ’s relationship with, 1:38, 1:433, 1:659n, 2:467, 2:487–488, 2:512, 2:513
and U.S., 1:115–116, 1:233, 1:328, 1:659n, 5:685, 5:685n
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507n

Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, 2:274, 6:541–542, 6:543n

Alexandria, Egypt

library at, 6:278, 6:542, 6:542

Alexandria, Va.

commerce at, 4:26
merino sheep shipped to, 2:166, 2:233, 2:313, 2:360–361, 2:362, 2:366, 2:379, 2:481
port of, 4:27

Alexandria Gazette, 5:173

Alfonso X, king of Castile and León

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

Alfred, king of England, 2:571

Algiers

American captives at, 6:164
1795 U.S. treaty with, 6:159–160n
U.S. consulate at, 6:158, 6:159–160n, 6:164, 6:164–165

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

Alien and Sedition Acts, 1:278, 3:452, 3:473, 6:191, 6:192n, 6:537–538n

Alisma plantago-aquatica (water plantain), 1:57–58n

Allegany County, Md.

letter to citizens of, 1:94

Allegheny lily (Lilium superbum; Turk’s-cap lily), 1:660, 2:36, 4:523

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

Allen, Paul, 3:632, 3:633n

and N. Biddle’s history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 6:357, 6:417, 6:417, 6:418–424, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:430, 6:531, 6:531–532
A History of the American Revolution, 6:231, 6:231n, 6:373
identified, 6:357n
letter from, 6:427
letter from accounted for, 6:357n
letters to, 6:357, 6:418–426, 6:429

Allen, William, 2:319

Allen, William O.

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

Allison, Mr.

and Niagara Campaign, 5:540

Allison, Burgess

and American Philosophical Society, 4:167n
and J. I. Hawkins, 6:559, 6:574
identified, 6:559–560n
and W. Lambert’s astronomical calculations, 4:637n
letter from, 6:574–575
letter to, 6:559–560
spinning machine of, 6:559

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

Allison, Thomas, 2:87

Allone, William B. W.

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

allspice, 1:45, 6:348

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

TJ on, 4:55
TJ purchases, 4:289

Almeida, Portugal

French forces besiege, 2:667

almonds, 6:163

planted at Monticello, 3:455
sent to TJ, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487, 4:522, 4:530

Alpine strawberries (Fragaria vesca), 2:481, 2:482n, 2:543, 3:353, 4:34, 4:561, 4:562

Alrichs, Jacob

identified, 5:312–313n
letter to, 5:312–313
mentioned, 5:268

Alrichs & Dixon (Wilmington, Del., firm)

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

Alston, Lemuel James

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

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

althaea (Hibiscus syriacus; rose of Sharon), 3:354

amaryllis, 3:545

Amaryllis Atamasco (Zephyranthes atamasco), 4:523

Amaryllis belladonna (belladonna lily), 4:523, 5:412

Ambler, Mr.

and TJ’s Richmond lot, 4:154

Ambrose (TJ’s slave; b. 1799)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:386, 5:462, 6:308, 6:309

Amedie (ship), 3:514n

Amelia County, Va.

TJ visits, 2:76, 2:77n, 2:183

Amelia Island

and ports in E. Fla., 4:593, 4:594n, 4:623, 4:665n

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

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 4:196, 4:197n, 4:228, 4:229n

American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore newspaper)

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

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

The American Artist’s Manual (Cutbush), 5:633n, 5:634n, 5:661, 6:571, 6:571n

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

American Colonization Society, 1:30n, 1:39n, 2:196n

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

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

The American Gardener (Gardiner and Hepburn), 4:289n, 6:118, 6:167, 6:214, 6:214, 6:215

The American Gardener’s Calendar (McMahon), 1:35, 1:582, 2:83, 3:327, 4:289n, 5:412

American Law Journal (Hall), 5:176, 5:219–220, 5:222, 5:245, 5:254, 5:294, 6:627–628

American Magazine, 1:106n

American Mineralogical Journal, 5:554n

American Ornithology (Wilson), 2:483n, 3:623n, 4:289

American Philosophical Society

Adelung offers to assist, 2:468n
B. S. Barton to present paper to, 2:509
and S. Brown’s work, 5:553–554, 5:554n
and compensating thermometer, 5:558
and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:351
and Destutt de Tracy, 6:458, 6:459–460n
and G. Du Jareau, 2:372, 2:375n, 2:663, 2:664, 2:665n, 3:41–42
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours sends works to, 4:24n
and fish, 5:601–602, 5:604n
forwards publications to TJ, 1:452, 1:453n, 4:167, 4:325
and S. Godon, 2:404n
T. T. Hewson acknowledges gift to, 2:536–537
and W. Lambert, 2:54–55, 2:68n, 2:337–338, 2:541, 2:566, 4:637n, 4:651, 4:660n, 5:251, 5:311
C. P. De Lasteyrie sends work to, 3:461–462
librarian of, 1:452–453, 1:455, 1:482
and mastodon bones, 1:510–511, 5:572–573, 5:573n
membership diplomas, 6:xliv–xlv, 6:75, 6:84, 6:115–116, 6:386 (illus.), 6:458, 6:460n
members of, 1:101n, 1:152n, 1:172n, 1:194n, 1:453n, 1:482, 1:521n, 1:571–572, 1:609n, 1:663n, 2:75n, 2:236n, 2:377n, 2:404n, 3:40n, 3:94n, 4:431n, 4:501n, 4:617n, 4:638n, 5:19n, 5:25n, 5:79n, 5:101n, 5:372n, 5:459n, 6:459n
members of, foreign, 1:72n, 1:146n, 1:452, 1:453n, 1:471n, 2:510n, 3:63n, 3:115n, 3:461–462, 3:472n, 4:538–539n, 5:514n, 5:604n
F. A. Michaux sends works to, 3:320–322
and A. Michaux’s western exploration, 6:420–421
and Noël de la Morinière’s works, 5:601–602, 5:604n
and Philadelphia Museum, 1:46n
and B. Rush portrait, 4:xlvi
TJ as president of, 1:540, 4:411–412, 4:462, 4:637n, 5:601–602, 5:603n, 6:59–60, 6:83
TJ forwards material to, 1:97–98, 1:100–101, 1:140, 1:152n, 1:482, 1:535, 1:571–572, 1:608–609, 4:147, 4:149n, 5:92, 6:516, 6:518
TJ proposes to donate minerals to, 6:84
TJ reelected president of, 2:128, 2:170, 3:284–285, 3:312, 6:60n, 6:83
Transactions, 1:36, 2:71, 2:222, 2:404n, 4:651, 6:206
and J. B. Treat, 2:46–47, 2:135, 2:226
trunks and cases for, 6:45
W. Vaughan sends works to, 5:513–514, 5:514–515n
and D. B. Warden, 2:536–537
and weights, measures, and coins, 4:167, 4:222, 4:228, 4:409
and C. Wistar, 1:100, 1:677
works given to, 6:84, 6:84n, 6:458, 6:459n

The American Practical Brewer and Tanner (Coppinger), 6:510, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647

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

American Revolution

books on, 3:41, 3:98, 6:55, 6:122, 6:231, 6:231n, 6:258, 6:373
and Bunker Hill Association, 2:504–505
and S. Chew’s speech, 4:152, 4:153n
and fugitive slaves, 3:319
historiography of, 1:288–289, 1:334, 1:634n
and Lafayette, 2:10–11, 3:314, 3:315n
materials for history of, 6:373
mentioned, 2:604, 6:358n
and N.Y. loyalists, 2:289
Seventy-Six Association, 4:105–107
J. S. Stake’s service in, 4:623, 4:624n
TJ on, 2:421, 2:505, 2:529, 2:541, 4:470–471
J. Tyler on, 2:384, 2:385, 2:386
U.S. financing of, 6:223, 6:490–491, 6:588, 6:593n, 6:601
and U.S. Navy, 6:15, 6:183, 6:184n
and Va. land warrants, 2:74, 2:94, 4:134–135, 4:176, 4:566–567, 4:568–569n, 4:585
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504, 4:507n

American State Papers and Public Documents, 1:36

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

Ames, Fisher

criticized by J. Q. Adams, 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435

Amherst, Sir Jeffery, 1:290

Amicus. See Cerus

Amiens

treaty of (1802), 6:205

Amiot, Mme, 1:450

ammonia (spirit of hartshorn), 4:102

ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac)

for copper utensils, 1:467, 3:183, 3:200

Amonett, Thomas

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Amsterdam

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

Amy (TJ’s slave; b. 1756)

on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Amy (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

laborer, 4:379
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:309

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

The Analogy of Religion (Butler), 3:590

Analostan Island. See Mason’s Island

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

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

“Anas” (Thomas Jefferson), 2:92, 2:93n

anatomy

books on, 1:35, 1:307
study of, 1:101n, 6:253

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

anchovies, 1:366

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

Anderson (TJ’s slave; b. 1806)

death of, 4:388n

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

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:386, 5:461

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

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:460, 6:309, 6:310

Anderson, Mr., 5:489

Anderson, David, 5:371, 5:409–410n, 5:651n

Anderson, Joseph

letter to, 4:164
as U.S. senator, 1:119, 1:473, 4:163, 4:164n, 6:241

Anderson, Richard

and account with J. H. Craven, 2:116, 2:371
and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459, 1:460, 5:423, 5:424n
and Shoemakers, 3:318

Anderson, William

Richmond merchant, 4:510, 5:428

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

Anderson, William Preston

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

Andrei, Giovanni

and carving for TJ, 1:473–474, 1:595, 4:66, 4:459, 5:206
sculptor for U.S. Capitol, 1:78n, 5:206, 5:238

Andrews, Mr., 3:376

Andrews, Henry

letter from, 4:479–480
seeks aid from TJ, 4:479–480

Andrews, Robert

surveys of, 6:217

anemone, double (Anemone coronaria), 4:497, 4:498

Anemone coronaria (double anemone), 4:497, 4:498

anemone flower (Anemone pulsatilla), 3:545

Anemone pulsatilla (anemone flower), 3:545

Anglo-Saxon laws, 1:383

Angus, Samuel, 5:535–542

Ann (ship), 2:672

Annales de Chimie, 2:406n

Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle

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

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

Anne, queen of Great Britain

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

Anniversary Oration (Latrobe), 3:624, 3:625n

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

anonymous correspondents

letter from accounted for, 3:655
letters from, 1:69–70, 1:291–292, 1:654, 1:655n, 1:671–673, 2:263, 3:225–226, 3:578, 3:585, 3:590, 4:109, 4:606–607, 4:611–612, 5:97–98, 5:326–327, 5:644, 6:503
letter to, 2:296
in newspapers, 4:36–37, 6:98, 6:99, 6:100n

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

anteater, giant (Myrmecophaga jubata), 6:470

Antholyza aethiopica (Chasmanthe aethiopica), 5:358

Anthony, Benjamin, 1:257n

Anthony, Christopher

and Campbell Co. land, 4:680, 5:34, 5:40, 5:48, 5:49, 5:230

Antichrist

Napoleon as, 4:484

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

antimony

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

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

antiquities

and government, 1:254n
Indian burial mounds and fortifications, 6:322–329, 6:516, 6:518
paintings of, 1:522, 1:523–524n
and vases, 1:452, 1:453n, 1:482
Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (Castell), 1:390, 1:397n

antiquity

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

antislavery

in Va., 3:267–269, 3:318, 3:319
and W. Wilberforce, 3:319, 3:320n, 3:513–514

ant lion (Myrmeleon formicarius), 6:409, 6:411n

Antoninus. See Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180), Roman emperor

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

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

Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’

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

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

Apocynum cannabinum (Indian hemp), 4:667, 5:22

apoplexy, 1:526

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

apples

Calvite, 3:455–456
as crop, 4:141
Detroit, 3:448
from M. Lewis, 5:357
Newtown (Albemarle) pippin, 3:448, 3:455
Spitzenberg, 3:448, 3:455
Taliaferro (Robinson), 3:455–456

Appleton, Thomas

consul at Leghorn, 3:375, 3:381n, 3:646

Appomattox River, 3:103, 3:104, 3:140, 3:195, 4:146

apricots

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

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

Arata, Teophane

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

Arator; being a series of Agricultural Essays, Practical & Political (Taylor), 6:122, 6:613, 6:613

Arbuckle, William B.

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

Archaeologiae americanae telluris collectanea et specimina (Barton), 2:510n

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

Archbald, James, 1:238–240, 2:202

Archbald, Mary Ann Wodrow

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

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

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

Archimedes

screw of, 6:380, 6:382

architecture. See also building materials

construction at U.S. Capitol, 3:534–537, 3:555–556
Diocletian’s palace, 3:581–582
B. H. Latrobe’s drawings, 3:535–536, 3:537n, 3:581–582, 3:590–591
TJ’s opinion on Monticello as, 1:595–596

Architecture Hydraulique (Bélidor), 6:381

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

Archy (TJ’s slave; b. 1808)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Arco, L. Graf von, 5:273n

Arctomys (marmot), 4:536

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

Arden, Daniel D.

publisher, 4:312n

Argand lamps, 4:363

Argentré, Bertrand d’

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

Argus, USS (brig), 6:190

Arikara (Phaseolus vulgaris; yellow bean), 3:150, 3:166

Arikara Indians, 6:323

Aristides “the Just”

TJ addressed as, 4:469

Aristotle

historical writings of, 6:278
Les Politiqves d’Aristote (Leroy), 3:547
read by J. Adams, 4:474
and Scottish philosophy, 3:277–278

Arkansas (trading post)

meteorological observations at, 1:97–98, 1:482, 1:608–609, 2:46–47, 2:135, 2:198, 2:226

Arkansas District (Louisiana Territory)

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

Arkansas River, 1:97n, 4:536

Arkwright, Sir Richard

spinning jenny of, 1:525, 4:512, 5:202

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

Armistead (TJ’s slave; b. 1771)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:460, 5:462, 6:309

Armistead, William

appointment of, 6:443n

Arms, William G.

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

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

laborer, 4:379
on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385, 6:308

Armstrong, John

advocates war against France and Great Britain, 1:536–537
anti-administration activities of, 3:260, 3:274, 3:275n, 3:330, 3:553
carries W. Short’s letters to U.S., 1:115, 1:120
comments on I. A. Coles, 1:260
criticized by Federalists, 5:352–353, 5:354n
and A. Crozat’s charter, 5:8–9, 5:85
dispatches mentioned, 1:65, 1:113, 1:117, 1:229–230, 1:370, 1:658, 2:36, 2:242, 2:256, 2:257, 2:287, 2:410, 2:463, 2:470, 2:471n, 2:480, 2:536, 2:672
donates books, 6:291
and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 1:314
identified, 1:20n
and Lafayette’s La. lands, 2:243
letters from, 1:260, 1:536–538, 3:228–229, 5:8–9
letters to, 1:19–21, 1:412–413, 3:251–252, 5:608–609, 5:645–646
mentioned, 6:525
and merino sheep, 2:39, 5:8n
and minerals for TJ, 6:373
and R. C. Nicholas’s appointment, 5:645–646, 5:648
and D. Parker’s double plow, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
and profit-making scheme, 3:577, 3:578n
returns to U.S., 3:106, 3:251–252
rumored as secretary of war, 1:118, 1:140, 1:375
as secretary of war, 5:608–609, 5:609n, 5:610, 5:610n, 5:611, 6:173–174, 6:177n, 6:209, 6:242, 6:242n
sends dynamometer to TJ, 1:20
sends Guillaume plow to TJ, 1:313
sends spinning wheel to TJ, 1:313
TJ on, 3:542
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 5:8
TJ’s letters of introduction to, 1:402, 1:423
U.S. minister to France, 1:235n, 1:331, 1:374–375, 1:413, 1:528, 1:529, 1:627, 2:288, 2:295, 2:310, 2:366, 2:418, 2:419n, 3:54, 3:96n, 3:105, 3:114, 3:177, 3:224, 3:229, 3:444, 3:524, 5:8, 5:8–9n
and D. B. Warden, 1:141n, 3:107–108, 3:248, 3:251, 3:279–280, 3:309, 3:330, 3:340, 3:463, 3:518–519, 3:538–539, 3:542, 3:557–558

Army, U.S.

arsenal at New London, 5:81, 5:104–105, 5:107
artillery and small arms for, 2:258, 2:588, 2:603, 2:606, 2:614
chaplains for, 6:525, 6:526n
expansion of, 2:130, 2:131n, 2:190
funding for, 2:358n
light artillery, 2:304
medical department, 6:27, 6:28n, 6:46, 6:64, 6:169
military academy, 2:258, 2:261n, 2:387
military stores for, 2:257
and militia, 2:130, 2:131n, 2:258, 2:259, 2:588
J. Monroe refuses a commission in, 2:45
and Niagara Campaign, 5:531–532, 5:532–545
officers’ commissions sought, 1:583, 4:186–187
Peace Establishment Act (1802), 3:120, 3:122n, 3:163
resignations from, 2:107, 2:539
volunteer act, 5:319–321

Arnold, Benedict

TJ compares W. Hull to, 5:366, 5:368
Va. invasion of, 4:15, 4:432, 4:434n

Arrian (Flavius Arrianus)

writings of, 6:317

Arrowsmith, Aaron

New and Elegant General Atlas, 4:352, 4:354n

artificial horizon

made for TJ, 3:479–480, 4:167
owned by TJ, 4:369

artillery

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

Artzt, Charles

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

Aruda wine, 3:240, 3:241n

Ashlin, John

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

Asia

immigrants from, 1:253
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

Asiatic mammoth (Chemung mammoth; Mammuthus primigenius), 2:507–508, 2:509

asparagus, 2:334, 2:368, 3:353, 3:394, 5:48, 6:93, 6:94

asparagus beans (Vigna unguiculata), 3:454, 3:456, 3:501–502

aspen trees, 3:353, 3:354, 3:448, 5:482n

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

and Astoria settlement, 6:556–557, 6:557–558, 6:603
and fur trade, 4:550–553, 5:74–75, 6:557, 6:557
identified, 4:554n
letter from, 4:550–554, 6:556–558
letter to, 5:74–75, 6:603
meets TJ, 4:550, 4:554n
and R. Stuart’s journal, 6:557, 6:603
subscribes to U.S. war loan, 6:602n

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

Astronomie (Lalande), 4:244

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

astronomy

ancient Mexican, 1:521, 1:556
astronomical instruments, 4:237, 4:238n, 4:369, 4:370n
and B. Banneker, 1:588, 1:590n
books on, 1:24, 1:35, 1:576n, 1:581, 2:466, 4:195–196, 4:213–214, 6:75, 6:84, 6:84n
and calculations of Monticello’s longitude, 4:235–236, 4:239n, 4:246, 4:247–266, 4:276, 4:344, 4:368, 4:369, 4:402–406, 4:407–408
and calculations of Poplar Forest’s latitude, 3:361–367
and calculations of prime meridian, 1:54–55n, 1:275–276, 1:356–358, 1:359n, 1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–338n, 2:398–399, 2:541, 2:566, 4:275–276, 4:651–660
Jupiter, 3:480, 4:368, 4:369
and lunar calculations, 1:540–554, 2:54, 2:60–68, 4:368–369, 4:369, 5:245–251
solar eclipse of 1806, 4:246, 4:263
and solar observations, 4:188, 4:195, 4:235, 4:237–239, 4:246, 4:263, 4:368, 4:369, 4:403, 4:407
study of, 1:535
TJ on, 3:480

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s principles (Ferguson), 1:576n, 1:581, 2:466

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

Athanasius, Saint

creed of, 6:286, 6:287, 6:503, 6:508

Athens

democracy in, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15

Atkinson, John, 5:141n

Atkinson, William K., 3:122n

Atkyns, John Tracy

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

Atlantic Ocean

and northwest passage, 1:443
passage across, 2:202, 2:289

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

Attwater, Reuben, 3:370

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

augers

TJ orders, 4:315

Augusta County, Va.

springs at, 1:191–192
Weyers Cave, 1:309

Auguste, Henry, 3:557n

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

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:309

auricula (Primula auricula), 4:497, 4:498, 4:523, 5:477, 5:553

auriculas, 3:545

Auriol, M., 1:536

Aurora (Philadelphia newspaper)

advertisements in, 6:510
anti-Republican writings of, 3:574, 3:585, 3:586n, 3:591, 3:600
and W. Duane, 1:48, 1:49n, 3:331, 4:174
financial difficulties of, 3:450–452, 3:507, 3:515, 3:550
on R. Smith’s dismissal, 3:622–623
TJ’s election as American Philosophical Society president announced in, 6:83, 6:83n
TJ’s subscription to, 1:48, 1:49n, 2:175n, 4:56

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

Austin, Mr., 2:397

Austin, Benjamin, 6:255, 6:296, 6:297

Austin, David

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

Austin, Eli

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Austin, James, 2:397

Austin, James Trecothick

E. Gerry’s son-in-law, 5:318
identified, 4:38n
letter from, 4:37–38
letter to, 4:67–68
Resistance to the Laws of the United States (“Leolin”), 4:38n, 4:67–68
sends pamphlet to TJ, 4:37, 5:318–319n

Austin, John

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:608
letter to, 1:608

Austria. See also Francis I, emperor of Austria

Charles, archduke of Austria, 1:371, 1:372
and Declaration of Pillnitz, 4:430n
Habsburg dynasty, 6:192
John, archduke of Austria, 1:372
and partitions of Poland, 6:212, 6:212n
relations with Great Britain, 2:275
Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp (Austrian Ambassador), 1:117, 1:121n
and Treaty of Tilsit, 1:516, 1:517n, 1:529, 1:627
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502
war with Napoleon, 1:140–141, 1:328, 1:370–371, 2:7, 2:9n

“Authentic Anecdote,” 3:261–262

autobiography

TJ on his, 1:383

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

Aylett, Philip, 2:535

azedaracs (chinaberry; Melia azedarach), 3:354, 3:355n

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