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

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Bac. abr. See Bacon, Matthew, A New Abridgment of the Law

Bache, Benjamin, 3:39, 3:40n

Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1:49n, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:331n, 3:451, 3:452n

Bache, Catharine Wistar, 2:285, 3:163n

Bache, Franklin, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:88

Bache, Hartman, 3:39, 3:40n

Bache, Margaret Hartman Markoe. See Duane, Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache (William Duane’s wife)

Bache, Richard, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:88, 3:452n

Bache, Sarah Franklin, 3:451, 3:452n

Bache, William

appointment, 1:615–616

Backer, T. H. (Amsterdam agent), 1:50n

Backus, Azel, 1:277, 1:278n, 1:350n

bacon, 2:371, 5:489, 6:343

Bacon, Ann Simmons (Edmund Bacon’s wife)

and wool spinning, 4:380

Bacon, Edmund

and agreement with R. Durrett, 5:418
attends court, 2:670
buys corn for TJ, 6:181, 6:181–182, 6:553, 6:554
buys plow horse for TJ, 2:155n
delivers nails, 1:64
describes travels with TJ, 1:51–52
and 1810 census, 3:202
identified, 1:52n
letter to, 4:306–307
letter to accounted for, 5:418n
letter to from R. B. Sthreshly, 6:554
mentioned, 3:215
and merino sheep, 2:666
Monticello overseer, 1:52n, 1:81n, 3:394, 3:513, 3:612, 3:643, 4:306–307, 4:464, 4:465, 4:543, 4:557n, 5:418, 5:576n, 5:608n, 6:136n
orders goods for TJ, 6:343, 6:344, 6:344, 6:344, 6:345, 6:345, 6:345, 6:346, 6:346, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 6:348, 6:348
paid by TJ, 1:41n, 1:81n, 2:155
pays I. Chisholm, 5:5
pays insurance premium, 3:329n
pays TJ’s expenses, 5:6, 5:6n
pays Wayt & Winn, 6:111n
and rent collection, 2:422
seeks cottonseed for TJ, 1:81, 1:159
TJ pays, 5:298
TJ’s promissory note to, 6:54
witnesses documents, 2:229, 5:607–608, 6:34, 6:36, 6:36n, 6:36, 6:36n

Bacon, Ezekiel

and federal revenue, 4:520n
identified, 3:358n
letter from, 3:358
letter to, 3:428
reference for J. L. Edwards, 4:92
and repeal of Embargo Act, 2:533, 2:534n, 2:537
and Supreme Court appointment, 3:126, 3:166, 3:178
and J. Wilkinson, 3:358, 3:428–431

Bacon, Francis

classification system of, 6:408, 6:409
in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 5:545
portrait of, 3:305
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Bacon, John, 6:54, 6:54n, 6:54n

Bacon, Matthew

A New Abridgment of the Law, 3:546, 3:547

Bacon, Nathaniel (1593–1660)

read by J. Adams, 4:474

Bacquet, Jean

Oeuvres, 3:174–175n

Badajoz, Spain, 2:233, 2:247, 6:515, 6:515n

Badillo, Francisco de Sales, 3:478n

Bagot, Mr., 2:83

Bagwell (TJ’s slave)

farm laborer, 2:426n
on Monticello slave list, 4:386
purchased by TJ, 2:425, 2:464

Bahamas

Spanish expedition against, 4:286

Bailey, Lydia R.

and P. Freneau’s poems, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
identified, 2:309n
letters from, 2:309, 2:369
letters to, 2:336, 3:241

Bailey, Theodorus

and dispatches to France, 2:410
identified, 3:459n
letters from, 3:459–460, 3:503, 3:521, 3:597–598, 4:588–589, 4:673, 5:263, 5:581–582
letters to, 3:505–506, 4:589, 5:305–306, 5:606
letters to accounted for, 3:444n, 4:580n
and map of N.Y., 3:459–460, 3:521, 3:597–598
postmaster in New York City, 3:459, 3:464, 3:503, 3:505–506, 3:521, 3:538
Report of the Commissioners, 3:459–460, 3:597
sends TJ maps, 5:263, 5:305–306, 5:581, 5:582, 5:582n, 5:606
and spinning machines, 4:588–589, 4:589, 4:673
on War of 1812, 5:581–582

Baily, Jeremiah

receives patent, 6:456, 6:458n

Bainbridge, William, 6:206, 6:207n

Baird, Sir David

killed by French forces, 1:108

baize, 5:394

Baker, Harriet Weissenfels (John Martin Baker’s wife)

requests landscape view of Monticello, 1:346, 1:366, 1:434
sends greetings to TJ, 2:391, 3:524, 4:5, 6:165

Baker, Henry

The Microscope made easy, 1:581

Baker, Jerman, 1:363, 1:378, 2:397

Baker, John Martin

family of, 6:164, 6:165
identified, 1:346n
letter from accounted for, 2:391n
letters from, 1:345–346, 1:434, 2:391, 3:523–524, 4:4–5, 6:163–165
letter to, 1:365–366
and L. de Prunner, 2:297, 2:391, 4:4
seeks appointment, 2:391, 3:523–524, 4:5, 6:163, 6:164–165
sends goods to TJ, 4:215, 4:220, 4:529, 6:163
and TJ’s order for goods from Majorca, 1:345, 1:365–366, 1:434, 3:524
as U.S. consul, 6:163–164, 6:165

Baker, John Wayles (TJ’s grandnephew)

on T. Holcombe, 6:64
identified, 6:65n
letter from, 6:64–65
TJ’s relationship with, 6:64–65, 6:65, 6:225, 6:451, 6:451, 6:648, 6:649

Baker, Martin, 6:19

Baker, William, 1:156n

Bakewell, Robert

identified, 3:264n
letter from, 3:263–264
Mineralogical and Statistical Survey of Estates, 3:263–264
Observations on the influence of soil and climate upon wool, 1:479, 1:480n, 3:263, 3:264n

Baldwin, Abraham, 5:372, 5:373–374

Baldwin, Cyrus B.

cloth manufacturer, 6:335, 6:335, 6:631, 6:631, 6:631–632n

Baldwin, William

identified, 2:125n
letter from, 2:124–125
letter to, 2:157–159, 2:159
and Quakers, 2:124–125, 2:157–159, 2:159

Balearic Islands, 1:345, 1:346n, 1:365

Ballard, Bartlet, 2:237, 2:238–239n

Ballard, William

agreement with TJ, 6:304
identified, 6:304n
as juror, 5:278, 5:279
as Tufton overseer, 6:304

Ballendenies. See A free translation of the Preface to Bellendenus, containing animated strictures on the great political characters of the present time (Parr)

balm of Gilead fir. See balsam fir (Abies balsamea; balm of Gilead fir)

Balsam copaiba (Copaiba brasiliensis), 1:56, 1:58n

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

Baltic Sea

and American commerce, 4:612
and Napoleon’s forces, 5:385, 5:561

Baltimore, Md.

American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 1:178n, 1:221n, 2:173, 2:174n
banks in, 2:117
Church of St. Mary, 1:450–451
commerce at, 4:26
currency, 3:525–526
dinner for D. B. Warden, 3:340
gypsum from, 3:453
lottery office, 4:391, 4:392n
merchants in, 1:50, 2:205
museums in, 6:291, 6:291–292n, 6:374
newspapers, 3:261–263, 3:414n, 4:177–178, 4:234, 4:336, 4:338n
prices in, 3:437, 6:561
Republican support for W. Duane, 3:585
St. Mary’s Academy, 1:450–451
Smith family of, 3:542, 3:550, 3:553
tarring and feathering in, 2:411, 2:412n
TJ orders gypsum (plaster of paris) from, 2:197

Baltimore Tammany Society

letter from, 1:176–179
letter to, 1:221

Banister, John, Jr., 3:183, 3:210–211

Bankhead, Ann (Anne) Cary Randolph (TJ’s granddaughter; Charles Lewis Bankhead’s wife)

and Bedford Co. land, 3:187, 4:316, 4:318n
and birth of son, 3:315n, 4:429, 4:430n
book for, 3:633
Christmas visitors of, 2:110, 2:111n
compared to flowers by TJ, 3:633
gold watch for, 6:339n
identified, 2:104n
infant of, 1:387, 1:396n
letter from accounted for, 2:104n
letter to, 2:103–104, 3:633–634
and letter writing, 1:245
TJ misses, 3:394, 3:644
and TJ’s plants, 2:103

Bankhead, Charles Lewis (Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead’s husband)

and Albemarle Co. land, 3:621–622, 3:644
and Albemarle Volunteer Company subscription, 5:344, 5:345n
and appointment of principal assessor, 6:442
and Bedford Co. land, 3:64, 3:162, 3:163n, 3:186–188, 4:5–6, 4:59, 4:279, 4:316, 4:317, 4:318n, 4:319n
and birth of son, 3:315n
buys land, 2:239n
and 1810 census, 3:202
at family dinner, 1:387
identified, 3:188n
letter from, 4:5–6, 6:517–518
letter to, 3:644
marries A. Randolph, 1:396n
mentioned, 5:600
purchases horses, 3:180
requests charcoal from TJ, 6:517
and W. Short’s land, 4:5–6, 4:59
studies law under TJ, 1:245, 1:389, 1:416, 2:103
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
TJ sends greetings to, 3:633
tobacco crop of, 5:34, 5:51, 5:56–57, 5:63, 5:64n, 5:489
witnesses document, 2:229, 4:278n

Bankhead, Ellen Monroe (TJ’s great-granddaughter), 6:438n

Bankhead, James, 5:533–540, 5:542–543n, 5:543n

Bankhead, John

and T. J. Randolph, 1:590–591
and W. Short’s land, 3:621, 3:622, 4:6, 4:59
TJ sends greetings to, 2:103, 3:633, 3:644
witnesses document, 3:188

Bankhead, John Warner (TJ’s great-grandson), 3:315, 3:633, 4:429, 4:430n

Bankhead, Mary Warner Lewis (John Bankhead’s wife)

and W. Short’s land, 3:633, 3:644, 4:6
TJ sends greetings to, 2:103, 3:622

Bankhead, William, 3:188

Bank of Columbia, 2:181, 2:182, 4:192, 4:576, 6:168

Bank of Fredericksburg, 2:661, 3:112, 3:302–303, 3:373, 4:81, 4:217, 4:556, 4:557, 4:558, 5:225, 6:306, 6:314, 6:471

Bank of Norfolk, 1:626, 5:494n

Bank of Orleans, 2:121, 2:192

Bank of Pennsylvania

drafts on, 1:407, 1:421, 1:455, 6:156, 6:258
stock owned by T. Kosciuszko, 1:32n, 1:166, 1:217, 1:218n, 1:408, 2:135, 2:181, 3:89, 3:90n, 3:284, 3:289, 3:524, 3:528, 3:613, 3:617, 3:619, 4:17, 4:18n, 4:26, 4:418, 4:463, 4:487–488, 4:591–592, 4:665–666, 5:59–60, 5:374, 5:380, 5:381n, 5:393, 6:168, 6:307, 6:546

Bank of Richmond. See Bank of Virginia (Richmond)

Bank of the United States

deposits in, 2:121
drafts on, by TJ, 1:41n, 1:45, 1:49, 1:455, 1:458
and W. Duane, 3:450–451, 4:174, 5:254–255, 5:257n
and A. Gallatin, 3:602–603, 6:535
and A. Hamilton, 6:534
loan through J. Barnes and J. Madison, 1:212–213, 1:217–218, 1:246, 1:281, 1:285, 1:408
mentioned, 6:225
opposition to, 2:70, 2:92, 2:93n, 3:317, 3:388–389, 3:449, 3:450–451, 4:113, 4:128–130, 5:254–255, 5:257n, 5:586n, 6:581, 6:594
and renewal of charter, 3:259, 3:274–275, 3:317, 3:331, 3:386, 3:388
and state charter for, 4:371–372, 4:373n

Bank of the United States, Second, 1:30n, 1:223n

Bank of Virginia (Richmond)

and S. J. Harrison, 3:374–375
and W. McClure’s debt, 5:15, 5:17, 5:174, 5:574, 5:587
and J. Shoemaker, 2:95
and W. Short’s land sale, 5:400
TJ’s loan from, 1:302, 1:318, 1:344, 2:199n, 2:216, 2:217n, 2:234, 2:314, 2:329n, 2:463, 3:280, 3:528, 3:561, 4:6, 4:17, 4:169, 4:185, 4:194–195, 4:463, 4:528, 4:555, 4:619, 5:102, 5:132, 6:20, 6:91, 6:113, 6:113, 6:116, 6:295, 6:306, 6:337, 6:356, 6:396, 6:396n, 6:544, 6:544, 6:552, 6:561

Bank of Washington (D.C.), 1:30n, 1:481, 1:535

Bank of Winchester, 6:306, 6:314

banks

J. Adams on, 3:357, 6:626
currency issued by, 6:533n
European, 6:224–225, 6:588–589, 6:592, 6:649, 6:649n, 6:650
T. Law on, 6:578, 6:594, 6:649, 6:649
J. Melish on, 3:384–385, 3:388–391
W. C. Nicholas on, 6:600
petitions for incorporation of, 6:649, 6:650
works on, 3:296

Banks, Henry

attacked by A. McRae, 1:616n
A Compendious View of the Establishment & Operations of Manufactory of Arms, 1:614–615
identified, 1:615n
letter from, 1:614–615
mentioned, 1:615
Observations, 3:296
Sketches & Propositions, 3:296

Banks, Sir Joseph, 6:252

Bankson, John

identified, 1:179n
letter from, 1:176–179

Banneker, Benjamin, 1:588–589, 1:590n

Banyalbufar wine, 1:366

Baranov, Aleksandr A.

manager of Russian-American Company, 4:550, 4:551, 4:554n

Barataria (fictional island), 2:44, 2:46n

Barbary sheep, 3:190, 3:637

barbecues, political, 1:515, 1:517n

Barbé Marbois, François de, marquis de, 5:436, 5:576

Barber, Mr. See Barbour, James; Barbour, Philip Pendleton

Barbeyrac, Jean

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

Barbour, James

and appointments, 6:288–289, 6:292, 6:301, 6:336
and approach of war, 4:566
family of, 5:391–392n
identified, 4:415–416n
and W. F. Jones, 6:126, 6:127n
letters from, 4:415–416, 4:485–486, 4:559, 6:336
letters to, 4:432–434, 4:565–566, 6:288–289
and W. McClure’s debts, 5:174–175, 5:328–329, 5:639–640
and military force from Va., 5:191–192
TJ advises, 4:415, 4:432–434, 4:485–486
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
transmits seeds to TJ, 4:534, 4:559, 4:566
wool cloth manufactured for, 6:631–632n

Barbour, Mordecai, 1:25

Barbour, Philip Pendleton

identified, 5:391–392n
and Jefferson v. Michie, 6:554, 6:630
letter from accounted for, 6:555n
letters to, 5:391–392, 5:516–522
letter to accounted for, 5:392n, 6:289n
and Rivanna Company, 5:391, 5:516–522, 5:526–528, 5:529, 5:529, 5:556, 5:639

Barbour, Thomas, 3:636

Barcelona, 4:223

Barclay, Robert

Quaker theologian, 4:152–153

“The Bard: A Pindaric Ode” (Gray), 3:633n

Bardstown Repository (Ky. newspaper), 4:277n

barilla, 2:283n

Baring, Alexander, first Baron Ashburton

An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council, 1:35
and Lafayette, 3:199, 3:212, 3:445

Baring, Francis

and Lafayette, 2:16, 2:245, 3:54, 3:55n, 4:30, 4:359, 4:649, 4:650, 5:213

Baring Brothers & Company

and Lafayette’s debts, 3:212
and remittances to T. Kosciuszko, 2:219, 3:525n, 4:418
and W. Short’s certificates, 2:479n

Barker, John, 5:623n

Barksdale, Jonathan

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Barksdale, Nelson

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Barksdale, Samuel

as juror, 5:278, 5:279
witnesses warrant, 5:280

barley

as farm produce, 3:348
Persian, 4:49
seed, 2:272, 4:562, 5:384
sent to TJ, 1:44
TJ orders, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109

Barlow, Joel

carries TJ’s letters to France, 3:554, 3:564–565, 3:598–599, 3:613, 3:617, 3:619, 3:627, 4:49, 4:62–63, 4:327, 4:462
The Columbiad, 1:35, 5:614, 5:617, 5:618, 5:621
and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:547
death of, 5:612, 5:665, 5:667n, 5:674, 6:45, 6:57, 6:485n
departure for France delayed, 4:26, 4:28–29
and dynamometer, 2:111, 2:145, 2:176, 2:317
An Elegy on the late honorable Titus Hosmer, 5:614, 5:617n, 5:618
forwards book manuscript to TJ, 6:45
forwards letters to TJ, 4:350
historical writings of, 2:145, 2:176–177, 3:564, 3:565n, 3:598
J. A. Houdon bust of, 5:l, 5:358 (illus.)
identified, 1:589–590n
Joel Barlow to his Fellow Citizens, of the United States of America. Letter I, 5:615, 5:617n, 5:619
Joel Barlow to his Fellow Citizens of the United States. Letter II, 5:615, 5:617n, 5:619
and T. Kosciuszko, 4:29
and Lafayette, 4:358, 4:359
letter from mentioned, 2:178
letters from, 2:145–147, 3:598–599, 3:619, 4:49
letters to, 1:588–590, 2:111–112, 2:176–177, 3:564–565, 3:613–614, 4:51–52, 4:62–63
Letter to Henri Gregoire, 1:588, 1:590n
and T. Main, 2:146, 2:177
mentioned, 3:280, 5:276, 5:580n, 6:429n
and merino sheep, 2:3
Obituary by P. S. Du Pont de Nemours and K. E. Oelsner, 5:612, 5:614–617, 5:618–621, 6:515–516, 6:516n
opinion of W. Lambert’s ode, 2:401n
Oration delivered at Washington, July Fourth, 1809, 1:588, 1:590n
on T. Paine, 6:297
and profit-making scheme, 3:578n
Prospectus of a National Institution, 4:24n, 5:615–616, 5:617n, 5:620
A Review of Robert Smith’s Address to the People of the United States, 4:21n
sends grain samples to TJ, 4:49
and TJ’s belongings in Washington, 4:49, 4:52, 4:193, 4:215
and treaty negotiations in Paris, 4:649, 4:650n, 4:665, 5:68, 5:82, 5:107, 5:212, 5:436–437, 5:576, 5:577n
U.S. minister to France, 3:427, 3:443, 3:444n, 3:521, 3:539, 3:564–565, 3:598–599, 4:17, 4:22, 4:30, 4:34, 4:54, 4:155, 4:358, 4:418, 4:446, 4:529, 4:540n, 5:296, 5:436, 5:616, 5:617n, 5:620
The Vision of Columbus, 5:615, 5:619
and J. Wilson, 6:415n

Barlow, Ruth Baldwin (Joel Barlow’s wife)

conveys letter, 6:459
dispute with D. B. Warden, 6:484, 6:485n
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 5:612, 6:484
family of, 5:614, 5:617n, 5:619
health of, 1:589, 5:674
sends greetings to TJ, 3:599
superintends husband’s business, 5:617n
TJ sends greetings to, 2:177, 3:565, 3:614

Barlow, Thomas, 6:484, 6:485n

Barnaby (TJ’s slave; b. 1783). See Gillette, Barnaby (TJ’s slave)

Bernard, Benjamin B.

threshing machine invented by, 2:5, 2:36

Barnes, David L., 3:231, 3:232n

Barnes, John

and M. P. Beckley, 2:135, 2:151, 2:182, 3:528, 3:558–559, 3:587–588, 4:3
cosigns loan to TJ with J. Madison, 1:212–213, 1:217–218, 1:246, 1:281, 1:285, 1:408
as customs collector, 4:488–489, 4:685
on European affairs, 6:212
handles financial transactions, 1:458, 1:467
health of, 6:558
identified, 1:32n
injures arm, 1:166, 1:206, 1:218
and T. Kosciuszko’s American investments, 2:134–135, 2:151–152, 2:181–182, 2:188, 2:219, 2:256, 2:260, 3:89, 3:90n, 3:284, 3:289, 3:524, 3:528, 3:531, 3:558, 3:567, 3:587, 3:613, 3:617, 4:3, 4:17, 4:26, 4:29, 4:418, 4:462–463, 4:469, 4:487–488, 4:521, 4:576, 4:591–592, 4:621, 4:629, 4:666, 4:684–685, 5:27–28, 5:59–60, 5:188, 5:192, 5:295, 5:374, 5:380, 5:381n, 5:393, 5:484, 5:531, 5:571, 6:85, 6:91–92, 6:118, 6:166, 6:167, 6:168, 6:211–212, 6:212, 6:239–240, 6:262–263, 6:307, 6:507, 6:546, 6:558, 6:577–578, 6:606–607, 6:607n
letter from M. P. Beckley to, 3:587–588
letters from, 2:134–135, 2:181–182, 2:219, 3:284, 3:524–525, 3:558–559, 3:587, 4:3, 4:26–28, 4:418, 4:487–489, 4:521, 4:576, 4:629–631, 5:27–28, 5:59–60, 5:177, 5:374, 5:393, 5:483–484, 5:530–531, 6:91, 6:91–92, 6:166, 6:168, 6:211–212, 6:262–263, 6:546, 6:558, 6:606–607
letters from accounted for, 1:166n, 1:281n, 1:408n, 1:455n, 1:509n, 3:90n
letters to, 1:165–166, 1:217–218, 1:281, 1:408, 1:455, 1:467, 2:151–152, 2:188, 2:256, 3:29–30, 3:89–90, 3:289–290, 3:528, 4:17–18, 4:462–463, 4:554–555, 4:589–590, 4:621, 4:684–685, 5:145, 5:380–381, 5:499, 5:570–571, 6:84–85, 6:118, 6:239–240, 6:307, 6:507, 6:577–578
letters to mentioned, 2:155, 2:260, 2:261n
mentioned, 4:193
paid by TJ, 1:41
recommends J. Eliason, 5:483–484, 5:499, 5:530, 5:570–571, 6:91, 6:166
sends greetings to TJ, 4:471–472, 5:177
ships goods to TJ, 1:44–45, 1:509
and W. Short’s certificates, 2:478, 3:29–30, 3:89, 3:106, 3:197
and supplies for TJ, 4:26–28, 4:630, 4:685
TJ pays, 3:528, 3:531, 3:550, 3:559, 4:557, 6:117
TJ’s account with, 1:31–32, 1:166, 1:217, 4:3, 4:17, 4:463, 6:118, 6:166, 6:167
as TJ’s agent, 4:554–555, 4:560, 4:560, 4:561, 4:576, 4:577, 4:589–590, 4:685, 4:686, 5:28, 5:129, 5:130–131, 5:145, 5:177, 5:454, 6:506, 6:506, 6:506n

Barnet, Isaac Cox

identified, 5:463–464n
letter from, 5:463–464
sends books to TJ, 5:463, 5:580n, 6:489, 6:509

Barnett’s Tavern (Fauquier Co.), 1:52n

Barney, Joshua

and row galleys, 6:169–170, 6:170n, 6:216
and trade with Saint-Domingue, 1:515, 1:517n

barometers

TJ purchases, 5:xlviii

Barralet, John James

and publication of Declaration of Independence, 5:631, 5:633n, 5:643

Barraud, John Taylor

forwards books for D. B. Warden, 5:436, 5:499–500
identified, 5:500n
letter from accounted for, 5:500n
letter to, 5:499–500

Barrett, Oliver

identified, 4:512–513n
letter from, 4:592–593
letters to, 4:512–513, 4:579–580
spinning machine of, 4:424–425, 4:426, 4:512–513, 4:579–580, 4:588, 4:589, 4:592, 4:637, 4:666–667, 4:673, 5:21–22, 5:23, 5:24, 5:80, 5:134, 5:181, 5:182n, 5:182n, 5:208, 5:209, 5:241–242

Barringer Creek (Albemarle Co.), 3:432

Barry, Mr.

letter from J. Wagner to, 3:262–263
and newspaper anecdote, 3:261

Barry, Jeanne du

mentioned, 6:622
quoted by J. Adams, 6:466–467

Barry, Richard

and Blodget’s Hotel, 4:577
identified, 2:41n
letters from, 2:52–53, 2:188, 2:362, 3:342, 3:441, 4:326, 4:422, 4:577
letters to, 2:40–41, 2:80–81, 2:346, 3:460, 3:525, 4:463
letter to accounted for, 4:577n
order on TJ of, 2:40, 2:40, 2:52–53, 2:77, 2:80
painter at President’s House, 1:200
and W. Thornton’s shepherd dogs, 2:456, 2:490, 2:511, 2:666, 3:63, 3:241
TJ makes payments to, 4:555, 4:576, 4:577, 4:590
TJ’s debt to, 3:342, 3:441, 3:460, 3:525, 3:528, 3:531, 3:550, 3:587, 4:3, 4:17, 4:326, 4:422, 4:463
and window glass for TJ, 2:80, 2:188, 2:346, 2:362, 3:556, 3:557n

Barthe, Dominick

forwards J. Potocki book, 3:434, 3:456
identified, 3:434n
letter from, 3:434
letter to, 3:456

Barthélemy, Jean Jacques

Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, 1:580, 1:582n

Bartlet (TJ’s slave; b. 1786)

on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Barton, Aron S.

letter from, 2:4
seeks TJ’s aid, 2:4

Barton, Benjamin Smith

and American Philosophical Society, 6:516n
and appointment to U.S. Army medical department, 6:27, 6:28n, 6:46, 6:64
Archaeologiae americanae telluris collectanea et specimina, 2:510n
botany lectures, 1:45, 1:46n, 1:191, 1:245, 1:308
botany work, 3:167, 3:181, 3:596
correspondence with TJ published, 3:76
and Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589
Elements of Botany, 1:35, 1:581
and S. Godon’s mulberry paper, 2:404n
and history of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:332, 3:166–167, 3:181–182, 3:309, 3:582, 3:649–650, 6:46, 6:46, 6:531
A. von Humboldt sends greetings to, 1:453n
identified, 1:521n
on Indians, 6:137, 6:138
and instruction of M. Lewis, 6:424n
on language, 6:137
letter from forwarded to National Intelligencer, 2:670
letters from, 1:520–522, 2:507–510, 3:166–167, 3:596–597, 6:27–28
letters to, 1:555–557, 3:150, 3:181–182, 4:146–147, 6:46
and mammoths, 2:507–509
medical instruction by, 1:193
memoir on the extinction of species, 2:509, 2:510
mentioned, 3:374
names plant after TJ, 1:57n
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1:520–521
and Noël de la Morinière’s work, 5:604n
as F. Pursh’s mentor, 2:90, 2:91n
seeks to be treasurer of U.S. Mint, 6:28n
and N. G. M. Senter’s works, 5:64, 5:66, 5:66, 5:67–68n
TJ introduces J. Bradbury to, 4:146–147
TJ recommends as correspondent, 3:618
J. S. Vater criticizes work of, 2:467n
and J. S. Vater’s work, 3:150, 3:166, 3:615
and work on Indians, 3:596–597, 3:616, 4:146–147

Barton, William

identified, 5:371–372n
letter from accounted for, 5:372n
letter to, 5:371–372
Memoirs of the Life of David Rittenhouse, 5:371, 5:372n

Bartram, William, 2:221, 5:433

basins, 6:348

bass. See chub, Roanoke

Bassano, Hugues Bernard Maret, duc de, 5:616, 5:617n, 5:620, 6:575, 6:575n

Bassett, Burwell

identified, 3:652n
letter from, 4:42–43
letters to, 3:651–652, 4:68
and mammoth bones, 4:43
and Palisot de Beauvois’s claim, 3:651–653, 4:42, 4:68
reference for Willis, 4:516

Bassette, John

and Dutch accounts of Virginia, 2:502–503, 2:511, 2:567
translates work, 2:503n

Bassus, Cassianus

Geoponica, 2:81–82, 2:83n

The Bastard (Ottawa chief)

views painting, 4:181, 4:182n

Bates, Andrew

captain of the Charles, 5:220

Baton Rouge, W. Fla., 1:442, 3:264–265, 3:282, 3:325, 3:344

Batteux, Charles

Histoire des Causes Premières, 6:439

Batture Sainte Marie

TJ receives books on, 1:37, 1:38n, 1:287

Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over. See also Livingston, Edward; Livingston v. Jefferson; Moreau Lislet, Louis; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi (Thomas Jefferson); statement on the batture case (Thomas Jefferson)

acts cited in case of, 3:72, 3:176n
books on, 3:545–547
W. C. C. Claiborne on, 2:434, 2:471–472, 2:659n, 2:681–682, 3:157–159, 6:388–389, 6:394–395, 6:433–434, 6:434n
communications between TJ and his counsel concerning, 2:414, 2:414–415, 2:432, 2:473–474, 2:474–475, 2:494, 2:494, 2:501–502, 2:545, 2:659–660, 2:675–677, 3:42–43, 3:152–153, 3:203, 3:226–227, 3:331–332, 3:481–488, 3:489–499, 3:499–500, 3:546–547, 4:110, 4:195, 4:594–595, 4:596–597, 4:605–606, 4:615, 4:646, 4:678–679, 5:43–47, 5:143–145
and Congress, 2:357, 2:358n, 2:427–428, 2:440n, 2:441n, 2:442n, 2:450, 2:451n, 2:455, 2:494, 2:519, 2:659, 2:660, 2:662, 2:682, 3:203–205, 3:244, 3:254–256, 3:256–257
deeds related to, 3:478n
and Federalist party, 2:398, 2:408, 2:414
A. Gallatin on, 2:516–518, 2:518–529
and injunction from Orleans Parish court, 6:433–434, 6:434–436, 6:437n
lawsuit brought against TJ, 2:395, 2:396n
J. Madison on, 2:435–436, 2:678–679
map of, 4:xliii–xliv, 4:370 (illus.), 4:521, 4:522n
F. X. Martin on, 6:434–436
and New Orleans city council, 6:388, 6:390–391, 6:392–393, 6:394–395
pleadings in, 3:43, 3:109, 3:118, 3:119, 3:123, 3:134, 3:147, 3:152–153, 3:203, 3:227, 3:310, 3:316, 3:331–332, 3:397–411, 3:420, 3:425
resolutions of Orleans territorial legislature concerning, 2:159–161, 2:192–193, 2:355, 2:357–358, 3:25, 3:26–27n
C. A. Rodney on, 2:454–456, 3:117, 3:151
L. W. Tazewell on, 5:43–47
TJ assembles counsel, 2:398, 2:401–402, 2:406, 2:416–417, 2:470, 2:474–475, 2:493, 2:494, 2:501
TJ receives documents, 2:435, 2:435–436, 2:439, 2:439–446, 2:449, 2:449–451, 2:516–518, 2:682, 3:30–31, 3:109, 3:233–236, 4:465, 4:466, 4:595, 4:646, 4:679, 5:16, 5:17n
TJ requests documents, 2:426, 2:426–427, 2:427, 2:427–428, 2:428, 2:429, 2:452, 2:657–659, 2:662
TJ returns documents, 3:475–478, 5:84–85, 5:85–87n
and U.S. Constitution, 2:436

Baudouin, Pierre, 6:626

Bauduy, Peter, 1:199, 1:200n, 1:667–668, 3:63

Bauluy, Mr., 2:13

Baxter, Capt. (schooner Greyhound), 2:667

Baxter, John

A New and Impartial History of England, 1:580, 3:5, 3:7n, 3:37–38, 3:86

Baxter, John George

textile machinery of, 5:207–208, 5:268

Bayard, James Ashton

and election of 1800, 6:192, 6:193n
J. W. Eppes on, 6:313
as peace negotiator, 6:74, 6:103, 6:105n, 6:313
and speech on war with Great Britain, 5:577n

Bayle, Pierre

Dictionaire Historique et Critique, 3:547
mentioned, 3:329
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506n

Bayly, Mountjoy

wins Senate doorkeeper election, 4:164n

Bayreuth. See Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine, margravine de Bayreuth

Baytop, James

recommended for military appointment, 4:529

beans

Arikara, 3:150, 3:166
asparagus, 3:454, 3:456, 3:501–502
black-eyed pea (cowpea), 1:157
chickpea, 6:188, 6:293
crowder, 1:157
as farm produce, 3:348
frijole, 6:188
haricots, 5:489–490, 5:658, 6:44, 6:45
lima, 1:631, 1:657, 3:502, 5:658
snap, 3:501–502, 5:658, 6:44–45, 6:487

bear, grizzly

skin sent to TJ, 1:668, 2:39, 2:106

Bear Creek plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate)

blankets and beds for slaves at, 4:382, 4:383, 5:463n, 6:310
clothing for slaves at, 6:309
land conveyance at, 4:316–319
slaves at, 4:384, 4:385, 4:386
Survey of Bear Creek Lands, 4:279–280
TJ’s instructions for, 4:381, 4:382n, 5:489

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

Beasley, Reuben Gaunt

as agent in London, 5:454

Beauclerk, Amelius

British admiral, 6:57, 6:58n

Beauharnais, Hortense de, 1:250n

Beaujour, Louis Auguste Félix, baron de

French consul general to U.S., 2:353
and L. P. G. de Lormerie’s passage, 5:432

Beaulieu, Va., 3:392

Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 2:13

Beautemps-Beaupré, Charles François

maps of, 5:203–204n

Beaver (ship), 4:550, 4:554n

Beaverdam lands. See Willis Creek tract (Cumberland Co., Va.)

Bec (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

given to T. J. Randolph, 6:36
on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Beccaria, Cesare Bonsana, marchese di

quoted by W. Duane, 4:25, 4:26n

Beckley, John, 2:135n, 3:588n

Beckley, Maria Prince

identified, 3:588n
letter to J. Barnes, 3:587–588
loan from TJ, 2:135, 2:151, 2:182, 3:528, 3:558–559, 3:587–588, 4:3, 4:17

Becks, Thomas, 3:612

Bécourt, Regnault de

La Création du Monde, 5:466, 5:467n, 5:467n, 5:607, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:213, 6:368, 6:368
health of, 6:368
identified, 5:467–468n
letters from, 5:466–468, 5:554–556, 6:133–134, 6:368–369
letter to, 5:607, 6:213
proposed book by, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:368–369
seeks funds from TJ, 5:466, 5:554–555, 5:607

Bedford County, Va. See also Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate)

C. L. Bankhead to buy land in, 3:64, 3:162, 3:163n, 3:186–188, 4:5–6, 4:59, 4:316, 4:317, 4:318n, 4:319n
and dog tax, 4:349n
Randolphs sell land in, 3:186–188
roads in, 3:195–196
surveyor in, 5:465, 5:465n
temperature readings at, 3:396–397
TJ’s lands in, 4:387, 5:465, 5:465n, 5:470, 5:475–476, 5:476n, 5:479–481, 5:486, 5:486–488
and TJ’s land transfer with J. W. Eppes, 5:348–349
Wolf Creek, 4:317, 4:318n, 4:391n

beds, 4:231n, 4:383

beef

mentioned, 6:187
purchased for Monticello, 1:81n
received as pay, 1:419, 1:421n
sent to TJ, 2:291
in soup, 4:180
TJ purchases, 4:12, 4:209
at Tufton, 5:260

beer

bottled, 5:31
brewed at Monticello, 6:507, 6:507n
Theory and Practice of Brewing (Combrune), 1:581
TJ orders, 2:116
B. Waterhouse on, 1:299

beets, 1:56, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38

Beggs, Charles

and Indiana Territory Legislative Council, 1:96

Beleurgey, Claudius

editor of Telegraphe, 3:233, 3:234n

Belfast Agricultural Society. See Belfast Literary Society

Belfast Literary Society, 3:279, 3:280n, 3:294–295, 3:309, 4:159, 4:175, 4:188n

Belfield (Charles Willson Peale’s Pa. estate), 5:323

Bélidor, Bernard Forest de

Architecture Hydraulique, 6:381

Belknap, Jeremy

American Biography: or, An Historical Account Of those Persons who have been distinguished in America, 5:387
The History of New-Hampshire, 1:581

Bell, George, 5:276

Bell, John

Anatomy of the Human Body, 1:35, 1:307

Bell, R.

delivers R. Jefferson’s letter, 4:607

Bell, Robert

letter from accounted for, 4:689

Bell, William

letter from accounted for, 2:683

belladonna, 3:633

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

Bellavista, Va., 3:392

Bellechasse, Joseph Deville Degoutin

and batture controversy, 2:159–160, 2:440–441n, 2:442n, 3:26n, 3:484
identified, 2:161n

Bellenden, William (Bellendenus), 1:35

Belleplaine, Va., 3:392

Bellinger, Joseph

identified, 6:317n
introduced to TJ, 6:317

Bellini, Aurora, 3:375–377, 3:381n, 4:68–69, 4:80, 4:185, 4:214

Bellini, Charles (Carlo)

estate of, 3:375, 3:381n, 4:34, 4:68–69, 4:185, 4:214

Bellini, Louisa (Luisa), 3:375–377, 3:381n, 4:68–69, 4:80, 4:185, 4:214

Bellona (schooner), 6:45, 6:152

Bell Rock (North Sea)

lighthouse on, 4:362–363, 4:364n

Belmont tract

sale of, 2:101, 2:102, 2:114, 2:137, 2:138, 2:139, 2:206–207, 2:227, 2:228, 2:347, 3:169–172, 3:210, 3:425–426, 5:671, 6:20

Belsham, Thomas

Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M.A., 6:145, 6:146, 6:146, 6:180, 6:192, 6:193, 6:204, 6:219, 6:226, 6:227, 6:228, 6:277, 6:278, 6:280, 6:367
mentioned, 6:227, 6:317–318, 6:500
TJ on, 6:233

Belsham, William

History of Great Britain, 1:580, 3:123
Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-Lunenburg, 3:123
Memoirs of the Reign of George III, 3:123
mentioned, 6:227, 6:500

Belvidera, HMS (frigate), 4:133, 5:207

Belvoir (Hugh Nelson’s Albemarle Co. estate), 1:500n

Ben (TJ’s slave; b. 1785)

and corn mill, 4:12
on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Benade, Abraham, 5:423, 5:424n

Benedict XIV, pope

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

benne (benni; sesame; Sesamum indicum). See sesame

Benner, Jacob, 3:377

Bennet, George

New Translation of the Morals of Seneca, 1:576

Bennett, Thomas

identified, 6:89–90n
letter from, 6:88–90
letter to, 6:124–125
and Seventy-Six Association, 6:88–90, 6:124–125

Benneville, George de

farm of, 4:179–180

benni (benne; sesame; Sesamum indicum). See sesame

Benson, Egbert

TJ misdirects letter to, 1:14n, 4:581n

Benson, John

Fredericksburg postmaster, 1:592, 1:667, 4:193, 4:581, 4:582, 5:83, 5:114
identified, 1:14n
letter from accounted for, 4:581n
letters to, 1:14, 4:581–582
TJ declines invitation by, 1:14

Benson, Thomas

Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum, 6:406, 6:407n

Bent Creek (Buckingham Co.)

mail service to, 3:103, 3:104n, 3:148

Bentley, William (of Massachusetts)

identified, 4:617n
introduces O. Rich, 4:617
letter from, 4:617

Bentley, William (of Virginia)

account with TJ, 2:185–186
and Beaverdam lands, 2:169, 2:170n, 3:155, 4:519–520
identified, 2:186n
letter to, 3:155
sends botanical specimens, 1:191n

Bentzon, Adrian Benjamin

and trade agreement with Russia, 4:551, 4:554n

Bérenger, Laurent

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

Beresford, William

A Voyage Round The World, 1:445–446, 1:449n

Berlin, University of, 4:354n

Berlin and Milan decrees

application of, 1:313–314, 2:345–346
criticized, 2:8
described, 1:21n
partial repeal of, 5:293, 5:294n
provoked by Great Britain, 2:231
revocation of, 1:183, 1:658, 3:54, 3:77, 3:105, 3:165, 3:255, 3:600, 5:82, 5:294n, 6:142, 6:538, 6:540n
TJ on, 1:19, 4:429, 5:293
unchanged, 2:162, 2:195, 2:470, 4:611–612

Bern, Switzerland

aristocracy of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15

Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules, crown prince of Sweden

book sanctioned by, 6:513
in 1813 campaign against Napoleon, 6:619, 6:621n
Lafayette on, 3:105
as peace broker, 6:241
and TJ, 3:105, 3:106n
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Bernard, Sir Francis

correspondence of published, 6:258

berries, 3:190

Berthollet, Claude Louis, 1:267n

Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant (Donck), 2:503n

Bess (TJ’s slave; b. 1747). See Betty (Bess) (TJ’s slave; b. 1747)

Besson, Alexandre Charles, 3:65, 3:66n

Betty (Bess) (TJ’s slave; b. 1747)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:380, 4:383, 4:384, 4:386, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308, 6:309

Betty (Island Betty; Old Betty) (TJ’s slave; b. 1749)

makes butter, 4:379
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:386, 5:461, 5:462, 6:308, 6:309, 6:309
weaver, 4:379

Betty (TJ’s slave; b. 1801)

mentioned, 5:34
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308

Betula (birch trees)

F. A. Michaux on, 5:7, 5:8n

Beverley, Robert

Histoire de la Virginie, 5:509

Beverly (Henrico Co.)

TJ’s lots in, 4:63, 4:154

Beverly (TJ’s slave; b. 1798). See Hemings, Beverly (TJ’s slave and probable son)

Bibb, George Minos

as U.S. senator, 4:114n

Bibb, William A., 5:528n

Bibb, William Wyatt

U.S. representative from Ga., 4:612n

Bible

Acts referenced, 6:541
Acts referenced by TJ, 4:73, 4:74n, 5:123, 5:125n
Amos referenced, 4:606, 4:607n
Corinthians referenced, 3:94, 3:95n, 5:326–327, 6:284, 6:285n
Daniel referenced, 6:236, 6:302
Daniel referenced by TJ, 5:135–136, 5:137n
Deuteronomy referenced, 6:98, 6:100n, 6:618
dictionary of, 1:36
Ecclesiastes referenced, 6:192, 6:192–193n
Exodus referenced, 6:616–618, 6:619n, 6:643, 6:644n
Exodus referenced by TJ, 5:591, 5:591n
Genesis referenced, 6:21, 6:23n, 6:541
Genesis referenced by TJ, 4:56–57, 6:564, 6:567n
Isaiah referenced by TJ, 4:395
Jeremiah referenced by TJ, 4:627, 4:628n, 5:12
Job referenced, 5:58, 5:59n
John referenced, 6:302, 6:447, 6:521, 6:643, 6:644n
Jonah referenced, 4:606, 4:607n
Joshua referenced by TJ, 3:579
Judith referenced, 6:623, 6:627n
Kings referenced, 5:495, 5:496–497n
Leviticus referenced, 6:98, 6:100n
Luke referenced, 2:458, 5:126–127, 5:127n, 6:183, 6:184n, 6:287, 6:288n
Luke referenced by TJ, 1:154, 1:156n, 1:564, 1:565n, 2:421, 3:145, 3:146n, 3:555, 3:606, 3:607n
Matthew referenced, 1:291, 1:292n, 2:203, 2:386, 2:387–388n, 3:74, 3:75n, 3:206, 3:207n, 3:262, 5:70, 5:71n, 5:590, 5:590n, 6:237, 6:239n, 6:447, 6:447
Matthew referenced by TJ, 5:305, 5:645–646, 5:646n
miracles in, 6:236
new edition proposed, 5:654, 5:654–655n, 5:662
Peter referenced by TJ, 2:274, 2:277n
Proverbs referenced, 5:98, 5:98n, 6:623
Psalms referenced, 5:127n, 5:612, 5:614n, 6:22, 6:23n, 6:447, 6:616, 6:616
Psalms referenced by TJ, 6:67, 6:68n, 6:402, 6:407n, 6:550–551
Revelation referenced, 5:627, 5:629n, 6:521
Romans referenced, 6:447
Samuel referenced, 5:641, 5:642n, 6:37, 6:39–40n
Samuel referenced by TJ, 1:103, 5:123, 5:125n
sermon based on, 2:411, 2:412n
societies for distribution of, 6:607–608, 6:608n
swearing on, 2:594
Ten Commandments, 6:616–618
theological works about, 2:321–322n
Thessalonians referenced by TJ, 1:596, 1:597n, 3:304, 3:308n
Timothy referenced by TJ, 5:123, 5:125n
TJ orders copy of, 2:321–322n, 2:337, 2:349
works on, 3:356–357

Bible Society of Virginia, 6:607–608, 6:608n

Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia (Kennett), 5:513, 5:513n

Bibliothecae Historicae Libri Quindecim de quadraginta (Diodorus Siculus), 1:580, 6:382

Biddle, Nicholas

American Philosophical Society membership diploma for, 6:xliv–xlv, 6:115n, 6:116n, 6:386 (illus.)
and J. Corrêa da Serra, 6:532
and history of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:332, 6:357, 6:417, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:531–532
History of the Expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, 6:417
identified, 2:74–75n
and J. B. Lefevre’s claim, 2:74, 2:94
letter from, 2:74–75, 6:531–532
letter to, 2:94, 6:430
and naval position for F. B. Taggart, 5:502, 5:503

Bidwell, Barnabas, 3:28, 3:75, 3:118, 3:124

bile, 2:542

Bill for the improvement of the United States, by public roads and canals, 2:213–214

Bill of Mortality for Portsmouth (Spalding), 3:373–374

Billy (C. Clay’s slave), 6:94

Billy (J. B. Couch’s slave)

and lost trunk, 1:346, 1:347, 1:348

Billy (N. H. Hooe’s slave), 3:112

Billy (C. Peyton’s slave)

transports clover seed, 4:548

Billy (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Billy (TJ’s slave; b. 1799)

delivers letter, 5:342
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 4:388n, 5:461
as wagoner, 5:489

Billy (TJ’s slave; b. 1808; Flora’s son)

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

Billy (TJ’s slave; b. 1808; Sarah [Sally] Hubbard’s son)

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

Bingham, William, 1:56n

Binns, John

publishes Declaration of Independence, 5:632–633n

Binns, John Alexander

and R. Rush’s cabinet proposal, 5:78
A Treatise on Practical Farming, 2:198n

Binny, Archibald. See also Binny & Ronaldson (Philadelphia firm)

and perpetual-motion machine, 5:559n
printing partnership, 1:17, 1:18n

Binny & Ronaldson (Philadelphia firm)

W. Duane on, 3:329–330
letter from, 1:283
letter to, 1:314–315
and raising of sheep, 1:17
as typefounders, 1:18n, 5:654–655n

biography

books of, 1:288–289, 1:580
of A. Hamilton proposed, 2:145–146, 2:147n, 2:176
proposed national, 2:188–189

Biot, Jean Baptiste, 1:267n

Birch, Thomas, 5:221n

Birch, Thomas Erskine

identified, 4:286n
letters from, 4:286–287, 4:391–392, 4:518–519
letters to, 4:396, 4:562–563
The Virginian Orator, 4:286, 4:287n, 4:391, 4:396, 4:518–519, 4:562–563

Birch, William Russell

bust of TJ, 3:625n
drawing of TJ by, 5:221n
and D. Edwin’s engraving of TJ, 5:221
identified, 5:221–222n
letter from, 5:221–222
letter to, 5:288

Birch, William Young, 3:296n

Birch, W. Y., & A. Small (Philadelphia publisher), 1:18, 1:19n, 1:172n

birch trees

F. A. Michaux on, 5:7, 5:8n

bird pepper (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum), 5:364–365, 6:xliii, 6:66–67, 6:67, 6:81, 6:127–128, 6:187–188, 6:195–196, 6:252, 6:292, 6:377, 6:386 (illus.), 6:615

birds

mockingbirds, 1:162
nightingale, 1:599
skylark, 1:599

A Bird’s Eye Sketch of the Military Concerns of the United States (Duane), 5:257n

Birdwood (Gilmer family’s Henry Co. estate)

E. Trist at, 5:27n

Bishop, Joseph

and Albemarle Volunteer Company subscription, 5:344
paid by TJ, 2:116
petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380

bison, American (Bos bison; buffalo), 6:470

bittersweet, American (Celastrus scandens; waxwork), 1:57, 1:58n

Bixby, Luke, 5:39n

Bizet, Charles

letter from accounted for, 4:689

Blackbeard (Edward Teach), 2:668, 5:600–601, 6:53

Blackburn, George

professor at College of William and Mary, 4:108, 4:246

Blackden, Samuel

and Ky. land, 1:131n, 5:433

black-eyed peas (cowpea), 1:157

Blackledge, William

recommendation of, 2:211, 2:212n, 2:333

Blacklock, Thomas

as translator of Horace, 6:551, 6:552n, 6:616

blackmail letter, 1:425–428

Blackmeadow (farm at Montpellier), 3:190

blacksmiths

charges from, 1:3
at Monticello, 1:419n, 1:464n

Blackstone, William

cited in Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:299, 4:302n
Commentaries on the Laws of England, 2:420, 3:547, 4:302n, 5:136, 5:136, 5:137n
on legislators’ responsibility to constituents, 4:129, 4:130n
mentioned, 4:162
Reports of Cases Determined in the Several Courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779, 3:134, 3:135n, 3:152
and royal rights, 3:174n, 3:176n
J. Tyler on, 3:206

Blackwater (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate)

beds and blankets distributed to slaves at, 4:382, 4:383

Blackwater Mills (Bedford Co.), 4:87

Blackwater tobacco warehouse (Lynchburg), 6:25, 6:26n

Bladen, Martin, trans.

Caius Julius Cæsar’s Commentaries of his wars in Gaul, and civil war with Pompey, 1:580

Blagrove, Charles

identified, 5:87n
letter from accounted for, 5:222n
letters from, 5:103, 5:159
letters to, 5:87, 5:128, 5:222
and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:87, 5:103, 5:103n, 5:128, 5:159, 5:222, 5:222n

Blagrove, William

and Bunker Hill Association, 2:504–505, 2:666
identified, 2:505n
letter from, 2:504–505
letter to, 2:666

Blair, Archibald, 3:605n

Blair, Beverley

identified, 2:154n
letter prepared by, 2:154

Blair, Hugh

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1:576

Blair, John

and P. Mazzei’s Richmond property, 3:383n, 5:598

Blake, George, 3:126, 3:127, 3:165–166, 3:178

Blake, Mrs. George (née Moredock), 3:127

Blake, James Heighe

letter from accounted for, 1:12n

Blake, Joaquín, 2:247, 2:248n

Bland, Richard

executors of, 1:403
and Stamp Act Resolutions, 4:599

Blankenship, Mr., 5:128

blankets

Dutch, 6:344, 6:344
Indian, 1:510
E. Randolph’s, 4:231n
for slaves, 4:99, 4:382, 4:383, 5:33, 5:34, 5:460–463, 5:470

Blanque, Jean Paul, 3:52, 3:496

Bleakley, David

letter from accounted for, 3:655

Bledsoe, Jesse

as U.S. senator, 6:241

Blenheim (slave), 4:231n

Bloch, Marcus Elieser, 5:601

Blocquerst, Andrew J., 5:467n

Blodget’s Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 4:577

Bloodgood, Abraham

chairs meeting of N.Y. Republicans, 1:530–534, 1:568–569
identified, 1:534n
letter from, 1:530–534
letter from accounted for, 1:533n
letter to, 1:568–569

Bloody Buoy (Cobbett), 3:305, 3:308n

Bloomfield, Joseph

military experience of, 6:527–528

Bloomfield, Samuel F.

and post road, 1:350, 1:352

Blount, William

conspiracy, 4:174, 5:4

Blount, Willie

letter from accounted for, 3:655

Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 6:619, 6:621n

Blue Ridge Mountains, 1:197–198, 2:218, 3:102, 3:355, 4:177, 4:526

blue woad (Isatis tinctoria), 2:271

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich

career of described, 2:510n
corresponds with TJ, 1:207, 1:208n
on mammoths, 2:508, 2:509

Blunt, Edmund March

Blunt’s Edition of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the year 1814, 6:535, 6:559
identified, 4:13n
letters from, 4:13, 4:202, 6:535
letter to, 4:55–56, 6:559
Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1812, 4:13, 4:55
Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1813, 4:202

boats

barges, 6:170n
design of, 5:491, 5:492n, 5:508n, 5:548–549
diving (submarine), 6:206, 6:313, 6:314n
floating batteries, 6:637–641, 6:642
rowboats, 6:169–170
steamboats, 4:199, 4:199–200, 4:235, 4:273, 6:56–57, 6:62, 6:63, 6:247–249, 6:272, 6:637–641
transfer goods to and from Richmond, 1:44n, 1:81, 1:114–115, 1:153, 1:176, 1:246, 1:257, 1:319, 1:368, 1:457, 1:488n, 2:96, 2:109, 2:110, 2:116, 2:154, 2:305, 2:335, 2:392, 2:423, 2:430, 2:438, 3:67, 3:310n, 3:334, 3:442, 3:479–480, 3:518, 3:520, 4:57, 4:219, 4:233, 4:234n, 4:381, 4:422, 4:526, 4:530, 4:548–549, 4:557, 4:580, 5:599, 5:622, 5:656

Bob (Charles Clay’s servant), 3:65

Boehmeria nivea (China grass; Chinese silk plant; ramie; silk plant), 3:343

Boerstler, Charles, 5:533–539, 6:645

Böhmer, Justus Henning

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

Boileau, Nathaniel Britton

secretary of commonwealth of Pa., 4:372, 4:373n

Boissieu, Denis Salvaing de

Traité de l’usage des fiefs et autres droits seigneuriaux, 3:175n

Bolama (Guinea-Bisseau), 3:269–270n

Bolaños, Juan de Hevia

Curia philipica: donde breve y comprehendioso se trata de los juyzios, mayormente forenses, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:546

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount

correspondence with J. Swift, 6:267, 6:267n
mentioned, 6:228, 6:238, 6:302, 6:302, 6:521
Philosophical Works, 2:51
read by J. Adams, 4:474
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507n

Bolling, Edward

and batture controversy, 3:486
debt to TJ, 4:11
identified, 6:42n
letter from, 6:42
recommends T. Roberts to TJ, 6:42

Bolling, John (TJ’s nephew)

family of, 5:568n

Bollman, Justus Erich, 2:14, 3:324, 3:325n, 6:599

Bologna, University of, 2:565

Bolton, Capt., 5:665

bolts, iron, 2:545, 2:546, 2:547

Bonamy, Alexis Cesar, 5:86n, 5:86n

Bonaparte, Caroline, 1:250n

Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 2:288n

Bonaparte, Jerome, king of Westphalia, 2:287, 2:288n

Bonaparte, Joseph, king of Spain, 1:96, 1:108, 2:35n

Bonaparte, Josephine, 1:417n

Bonaparte, Louis, king of Holland

abdication of, 2:49n
appoints TJ to Royal Institute of Science, Literature and the Arts, 1:194
interest in mineralogy of, 2:49n
TJ on, 2:354

Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon I, emperor of France

Bond, Achsah, 5:525, 5:526n

Bond, Edward Fell

identified, 5:526n
letter from, 5:524–526
seeks appointment, 5:524–526

Bond, Shadrach, 5:525, 5:526n

Bond Street (London), 4:109n

“A Bond Street Lounger”

criticizes U.S., 4:109
letter from, 4:109

Bonnel, Mrs., 1:667

Bonneville, Margaret B.

identified, 6:8n
letter from, 6:8
letter to, 6:47
and TJ’s letters to T. Paine, 6:8, 6:8, 6:47

Bonpland, Aimé Goujaud

Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland, 1:24–25n, 1:455
and D. B. Warden, 3:557n

Bonsal, Conrad & Company (Norfolk firm), 4:56n

“The Book!” or, The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales, 6:374, 6:413

books. See also Jefferson, Thomas: Books & Library

on aging, 3:137
on agriculture, 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
on American Revolution, 3:41, 3:98, 6:55, 6:122, 6:231, 6:258, 6:373
on art, 6:571, 6:571n
astronomical, 6:75, 6:84, 6:84n
autobiographical, 6:113n
and batture case, 3:545–547
to be dedicated to TJ, 2:172
biographical, 6:489, 6:509
on botany, 3:167, 3:181, 3:596, 5:640, 5:642n, 5:682
bound for TJ, 1:35–38, 1:225, 1:286, 2:321, 2:349, 2:482n, 4:289
on brewing, 4:562, 6:507, 6:510, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647
carried by B. Hemmings, 1:321
on chemistry, 5:175–176, 5:223, 6:408, 6:408, 6:411n
for children, 2:101, 2:193, 2:306–307, 2:308n, 2:309n, 3:122
of correspondence, 6:532, 6:532n
dictionaries, 6:220, 6:387, 6:441, 6:471, 6:533
on economics, 6:596
encyclopedias, 6:408
on fish, 5:601–602, 5:603–604n, 5:604–605
forwarded by W. F. Gray, 2:482, 2:483n
on gardening, 6:118, 6:167, 6:214, 6:214
on geography, 4:311, 4:312n, 4:325, 4:326n, 6:352, 6:374, 6:413
given to TJ, 2:95–96, 2:161
on grammar, 6:40–41, 6:41–42n, 6:402
on history, 1:580–581, 3:122–123, 3:635–636, 6:32, 6:45–46, 6:55, 6:58, 6:58–59, 6:93, 6:94, 6:146, 6:157, 6:165, 6:167, 6:206–207, 6:231, 6:231n, 6:289, 6:342–343n, 6:352, 6:373
on horses, 5:447, 5:448n, 5:455
on hydraulics, 6:381–382, 6:468, 6:469n
on insanity, 3:277, 3:279n, 6:60–61
on law, 5:176, 5:245, 6:45, 6:122, 6:372, 6:374, 6:412–413, 6:445, 6:477, 6:479, 6:598
lent by TJ, 2:28, 2:51
on Lewis and Clark Expedition, 6:122, 6:417, 6:418–424
on Massachusetts, 6:44, 6:82
on mathematics, 1:37, 1:576, 5:14, 5:416–417, 5:442, 5:443n, 5:447, 5:448n, 5:455, 5:493, 5:501, 5:523, 6:157, 6:381, 6:381
on merino sheep, 3:321, 3:322n
on metaphysics, 5:223, 5:276
on milling, 6:456, 6:456
on mineralogy, 3:263–264
on morals, 6:510–511, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647
on natural history, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:213, 6:368–369
on natural philosophy, 1:581
on New York, 6:352, 6:352, 6:352–353n, 6:400, 6:400n, 6:449, 6:450, 6:450, 6:450n, 6:450n
novels, 3:122, 3:633, 6:70n, 6:464n
on orthography, 6:355n
on plants, 3:167, 3:181
poetry, 6:464n
on politics, 5:223–224, 6:374, 6:374, 6:413, 6:413, 6:504, 6:505n, 6:613, 6:613
published by J. Milligan, 2:101, 2:193, 3:623n
published by W. W. Woodward, 2:321–322
publishing of, 3:238–239
purchased from J. Milligan, 1:35, 2:193
on religion, 6:61, 6:219, 6:280, 6:302, 6:367–368, 6:441, 6:471, 6:510
returned to W. Prichard, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
school textbooks, 1:455–456
on scientific nomenclature, 6:408, 6:408, 6:409, 6:411n, 6:411n
on sensation in vegetables, 5:276, 5:277n
sent by I. A. Coles, 2:106
sent by N. G. Dufief, 3:137, 3:393, 5:36, 5:442, 5:443n, 5:523, 5:594–595n, 6:119, 6:157, 6:368, 6:471, 6:510, 6:647
sent by J. R. Fenwick, 3:41, 3:98
sent by H. Gazzera, 2:37
sent by L. Harris, 2:467, 2:468n
sent by J. Milligan, 1:332–333, 1:384, 2:193, 2:264, 2:482, 2:483n, 3:122–123, 3:623, 6:643
sent by D. B. Warden, 1:613n, 1:629–630
of State Department, U.S., 3:638
TJ recommends on agriculture, 1:581–582, 2:81–83
TJ recommends on history, 1:580–581, 3:5–6, 3:7n
TJ recommends to S. R. Demaree, 1:576–577, 5:478, 5:479n, 5:557
TJ recommends to Bishop J. Madison, 5:577
TJ recommends to J. Wyche, 1:205–206, 1:508, 1:579, 1:580–582
on wool, 3:263, 3:264n

boots, 6:346

Boqueta de Wosieri, John L

A Plan of New Orleans & its Environs, 3:499, 3:500n

Borda, Jean Charles

and surveying instruments, 3:480, 4:369, 4:370n
and trigonometrical tables, 4:148
and weights and measures, 4:224, 4:227

Borda’s circle (surveying instrument), 3:480, 4:369, 4:370n

Bordeaux

U.S. consul at, 4:189, 4:529, 4:530n

Bordeaux, Decree of, 3:71, 3:73n, 3:132

Bordes, Jean Marie de

Economie de la Vie Humaine, 3:50n
identified, 3:50n
letter from, 3:49–50
sends TJ pamphlet, 3:49–50

Bordley, John Beale

Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs, 1:581
Sketches on Rotations of Crops, and other Rural Matters, 2:82

Bosanquet, John Bernard, 2:455

Bos bison (bison, American; buffalo), 6:470

Bosio, Secondo, 5:555, 5:556n

Bossut, Charles

Essai sur l’Histoire Génerale des Mathématiques, 6:381

Boston (TJ’s slave; b. 1811)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 4:386n, 5:461, 6:309

Boston, Mass.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 4:196, 4:197n, 4:228, 4:229n
commerce at, 4:26
duck cloth manufactured in, 2:98–100
impact of British blockade on, 6:48
W. Lambert criticized in, 3:285
merino sheep sold in, 2:456
newspapers, 1:50n, 1:533n, 1:569n, 1:671, 1:673n, 5:6, 5:7n, 5:110n
pharmacopoeia of, 1:35
representation of, in state legislature, 2:367

Boston Female Asylum, 5:165n

Boston glass, 3:588

Boston Patriot (newspaper)

prints TJ’s correspondence, 1:533n, 1:569n

The Botanist (Waterhouse), 5:640, 5:642n, 5:682

botany

and Belfast Literary Society, 4:159, 4:175
books on, 1:436–437n, 2:81, 2:82, 2:83, 2:680, 2:681n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:321, 3:322n, 3:561–562, 3:596, 5:640, 5:642n, 5:682
J. Bradbury’s expedition, 1:435–437, 2:533, 2:534n, 4:8, 4:146–147, 4:535–536, 4:563
and Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:90–91, 2:140, 4:524
Liverpool Botanic Garden, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:435, 4:146
and proposed Washington botanical garden, 4:426–427, 4:535, 4:563–564n
scholars of, 1:25n, 2:91n, 2:125n, 2:681n, 4:189
T. J. Randolph’s enthusiasm for, 1:191
and T. M. Randolph, 1:436–437
TJ on, 3:181

Botany Boards. See Elements of Botany (Barton)

Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, baron de

colonial governor of Va., 4:600

Botidoux, Marie Jacinthe de

correspondence with M. J. Randolph, 1:377, 1:659n

Botta, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo

identified, 2:529–530n
letter from accounted for, 2:200n
letter to, 2:529–530
sent geophysical work, 2:536
Storia della guerra dell’Independenza degli Stati Uniti d’America, 2:161–162, 2:529, 2:536, 3:41, 3:98
D. B. Warden’s opinion of, 2:162

Boucher, Pierre B.

Institution au droit maritime, 3:72, 3:73n, 3:546
Institutions Commerciales, 3:629–630, 3:638

Boudet, Jean, comte, 1:371

Bougainville (Solomon Islands), 5:202–203

Bougainville, Jean Pierre

as translator of Cleanthes, 6:521, 6:540–541, 6:541
as translator of Theognis, 6:280n

bougies, 4:416

Bouquet, Henri, 1:290

Bourdaloue, Louis

sermon of referenced, 6:21, 6:23n

Bourgeois, Maurice, 3:475n

Bourguignon, Louis. See Cartouche (Louis Bourguignon)

Bourjon, François

Le droit commun de la France, 3:174n

Bourne, Sylvanus

identified, 2:352n
letters from, 3:76–77, 4:274–275
letter to, 2:352
letter to mentioned, 2:544
and London consulship, 4:274–275
mentioned, 6:469
and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2:352, 3:76

Boutté, Hilaire, 2:445n, 5:86n

Bowditch, Nathaniel

The Comet: Elements of the Orbit of the Comet, now visible, 4:195–197, 4:237
and solar eclipse, 4:195–197, 4:237, 4:238, 4:239n

Bowdoin, James

Advice to Shepherds, 3:96n, 3:343, 5:165
eulogy for, 5:597, 5:597n
identified, 3:96n
TJ on, 5:165
U.S. minister to Spain, 1:524, 3:96, 5:165n, 5:597n

Bowdoin, Sarah. See Dearborn, Sarah Bowdoin (James Bowdoin’s widow; Henry Dearborn’s second wife)

Bowie, Washington

and merino sheep, 2:3–4, 2:31, 2:32n

Bowie & Kurtz (firm), 2:219, 3:525n, 3:558, 4:18n, 4:418

Bowles, John, 5:419, 5:426

Boxer, HMS (brig), 6:509, 6:510n, 6:526

Boyd, John Parker, 6:525

Boyer, Abel

Grammaire angloise-françoise, 5:557

Boyle, Caleb, 6:291n

Boyle, John J., 1:14, 1:25

Boylston, Nicholas

bequest to Harvard University, 4:473

Bracken, Miss (John Bracken’s daughter)

health of, 4:81

Bracken, John

and C. Bellini estate, 3:375–376, 3:381n, 4:34, 4:68–69, 4:80–81, 4:185, 4:214
and College of William and Mary, 5:469, 5:469n, 5:579n, 6:606
identified, 4:69n
letters from, 4:80–81, 4:214
letters to, 4:68–69, 4:185

Brackenridge, Henry Marie

identified, 6:329n
on Indian antiquities, 6:322–329, 6:516, 6:518
letter from, 6:322–330
letter to, 6:518
TJ forwards letter of to American Philosophical Society, 6:516, 6:518
Views of Louisiana, 4:7, 4:8n

Bracton, Henry de

Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ, 1:383, 3:547

Bradbury, John

botanical expedition of, 1:163, 1:435–437, 2:533, 2:534n, 4:8, 4:146–147, 4:535–536, 4:563, 5:252, 5:253n
identified, 4:536n
letter from, 4:535–536
letter of introduction from W. Roscoe, 1:163
letter to, 4:563–564
proposes garden at Saint Louis, 1:436–437n
TJ on, 2:533
visits Monticello, 1:164n, 1:435–436
and Washington botanical garden, 4:535, 4:563, 4:564n

Bradbury, John Leigh, 1:164n

Bradford, Samuel F., 2:680, 2:681n, 3:321, 3:322n, 6:427n

Bradford & Anderson (New Orleans firm)

letter from accounted for, 2:683

Bradford & Inskeep (Philadelphia firm)

and R. de Bécourt’s book, 5:467n
and history of Lewis and Clark expedition, 6:417
and J. Pinkerton’s atlas, 3:296n

Bradley, Abraham

identified, 1:480n
letters from, 1:480, 1:514
letter to, 1:505–506
and Milton post office, 1:480, 1:505–506, 1:514

Bradley, Absalom

and Bedford Co. land, 5:475, 5:476n

Bradley, John W.

and Bedford Co. land, 5:476, 5:480–481n
survey, 5:475

Bradley, Judith (Julia) Webb

family of, 6:47–48, 6:48n
poverty of, 6:12–13
TJ declines to aid, 6:47–48

Bradley, Mary (Absalom Bradley’s wife)

and Bedford Co. land, 5:475–476, 5:480–481n
survey, 5:475

Bradley, Richard

The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener, 2:82
A General Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening, 2:82
The Gentleman and Farmer’s Guide for the Increase and Improvement of Cattle, 2:82, 2:83n
Ten practical discourses concerning Earth and Water, Fire and Air, 2:82

Bradley, Zenas, 6:47, 6:48, 6:48n

Brady, Nicholas

as translator of Psalms, 6:550, 6:551, 6:552n

Bragg, Joseph, 3:472n

Brahan, John

identified, 1:603–604n
letter from, 1:602–604
and M. Lewis’s death, 1:602–603

Bramham, James W.

and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:460

Bramham, Nimrod

account with TJ, 5:5, 5:6n
and W. Duane, 3:507, 3:509n, 3:540
identified, 5:528n
letter to, 5:526–528
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
and Rivanna Company, 5:522, 5:526–528, 5:556, 5:638–639, 6:595, 6:597–598, 6:634
Rivanna River Company commissioner, 3:254n
vouches for O. Norris, 3:465
welcomes TJ, 1:47n

Bramham & Bibb (Albemarle Co. firm), 5:528n, 6:54n

bran, 3:541

Brand, Joseph

and Henderson lands, 1:459, 5:424n, 5:427
letter from accounted for, 6:653
paid by TJ, 2:116, 5:425

Brand, William, 2:118, 2:255

brandy

French, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223, 2:339, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211
production of in Va., 4:419, 6:487

Brantz, Lewis. See also Mayer & Brantz (Philadelphia firm)

identified, 1:50n

Brassica napus napobrassica (rutabaga; Swedish turnip), 2:481, 2:543

Brassica rapa (turnips)

seed, 2:481–482n, 2:543, 5:384, 5:658
sent to TJ, 4:363
TJ on, 2:37, 2:38

Brassica sempervirens (sprout kale), 4:498, 4:523, 4:561, 4:562, 5:490, 5:658, 6:7, 6:44

Brazer, John, 6:97, 6:100n

Brazil

and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:351
U.S. consul at, 1:26, 1:155
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Breck, Samuel, 2:200, 2:475

Breckinridge (Breckenridge), James, 2:93

Bremo (Cocke’s Fluvanna Co. estate), 1:136n

Brent, Daniel, 1:15n, 3:260

Brent, Richard

letter to, 4:164
and J. Monroe’s conversation with TJ, 2:42, 2:44–46
as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n

Brent, Robert

chairs meeting of Washington Republicans, 1:11–12
identified, 1:12n
letter from, 1:11–12
letter from accounted for, 1:12n
as mayor of Washington, 1:657
and merino sheep, 1:481
as paymaster general, 3:450

Brent, William Leigh

identified, 1:29n
letter from, 1:26–29
and Md. legislature, 2:196n
and meeting of Washington Co. Republicans, 1:26–29

Brerewood, Edward

on Indians, 6:137, 6:138

Breuil, Mr., 6:45, 6:152, 6:152

brewing

books on, 4:562, 6:507, 6:510, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647
at Monticello, 6:507, 6:507n
use of malt in, 6:517–518

Bridgen, Edward, 6:227

A Brief History of the Influenza, Which prevailed in New-York in 1807 (Ricketson), 1:257, 1:294–295

Brief Remarks on the Present and Former War with France (Caines), 3:522

A Brief View of the Policy and Resources of the United States (Hare), 3:198–199, 3:200n

brier, sun, 1:56

Briggs, Isaac

surveyor of federal lands, 1:215n, 1:650, 4:476, 4:477n, 5:449

Bright, Michael, 1:213–214n

Briley (TJ’s slave; b. 1805). See Bryley (Briley) (TJ’s slave; b. 1805)

briquet phosphorique, 1:376, 1:377n

briquet pneumatique, 1:376, 1:377n, 2:145, 2:147n

Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre, 6:228

bristly locust (Robinia hispida), 3:354

Bristol County, R.I.

convention of, letter to, 1:88–89

Britain Independent of Commerce; or, Proofs, Deducted from an Investigation into the True Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Spence), 1:35

British Board of Agriculture, 1:252, 2:83

Britton (Wingate, ed.), 1:383, 3:547

broadcloth, 4:40

Broadhead, Achilles. See Brodhead (Broadhead), Achilles

Broadhead, William

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Brochant de Villiers, André Jean François Marie

Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie suivant les Principes du Professeur Werner, 2:551, 2:552n

Brock, Isaac, 5:355, 5:396, 5:445, 5:446n

Brockenborough, William

and W. F. Jones, 6:126

Brockenbrough, John

as J. Harvie’s agent, 4:499, 4:532–533, 4:555, 4:557, 4:594, 5:671, 6:20
identified, 4:533n
letter from, 4:532–533
letter to, 4:555
and TJ’s Bank of Virginia loan, 4:555

Brodeau, Ann, 1:466, 1:479, 5:80, 5:80n, 5:148, 5:148n

Brodhead (Broadhead), Achilles

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Brodie, Francis, 1:75

Brodnax, William E., 1:66

Bronaugh, James A.

and Niagara Campaign, 5:539

Brooke, George, 1:503

Broome, John

identified, 1:80n
letter from, 1:79–80
letter from accounted for, 1:80n
letter to accounted for, 1:125n
and N.Y. state legislature, 1:79–80, 1:125n

brooms

household, 6:345
stable, 1:3

Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron Brougham and Vaux

The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. before the House of Commons, 1:35

Brown, Mr.

paid for cutting stone, 5:576n

Brown, Abraham, 5:12

Brown, Andrew, 6:255

Brown, Benjamin

and Henderson case, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:480
identified, 1:320n
letters from, 1:320, 3:294, 5:315–316
letters to, 1:333, 3:328–329
petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380
TJ purchases land from, 4:386
and TJ’s insurance, 1:320, 1:333, 3:294, 3:328–329, 4:114–115, 5:298, 5:315–316, 5:316n, 6:351, 6:361
vouches for O. Norris, 3:465

Brown, Betty (TJ’s slave; b. 1759)

on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Brown, Catherine Percy (Samuel Brown’s wife), 6:128

Brown, Charles

delivers insurance bill to TJ, 3:294n, 3:328–329

Brown, Charles Brockden, 3:632, 3:633n

Brown, Daniel

and Niagara Campaign, 5:543n

Brown, Harriot

described, 1:74n
money for, 1:73
at Monticello, 1:210, 1:509

Brown, James

and batture controversy, 2:440n, 2:441n, 2:443n, 2:528, 2:681–682, 3:476, 3:485
as U.S. senator, 6:241, 6:242n

Brown, James, Jr. (of Richmond)

and gunpowder, 5:599n

Brown, John

Dictionary of the Holy Bible, 1:36, 1:630n

Brown, John (millwright)

identified, 6:85n
letter to, 6:85
and sawmill construction, 6:70–71, 6:85, 6:125

Brown, John (1757–1837)

TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625

Brown, Josiah

Reports of Cases upon Appeals and Writs of Error (ed. Tomlins), 3:151, 3:316, 3:546

Brown, Lewis

letter from, 5:653
letter to, 6:3–4
sells horse to TJ, 5:653, 5:653n, 5:663, 6:3–4

Brown, Samuel

and American filibustering expeditions, 6:188–189, 6:293
family of, 6:128, 6:129n
and fraud, 6:189
and Henderson case, 6:81, 6:128, 6:189, 6:614
identified, 5:365n
and S. K. Jennings’s medical invention, 6:615
letters from, 5:364–365, 6:127–129, 6:187–190
letters to, 6:66–67, 6:81–82, 6:292–294, 6:614–615
and memoir on saltpeter, 5:553–554, 5:554n
and seeds for TJ, 5:364–365, 6:26, 6:66–67, 6:81, 6:127, 6:128, 6:187, 6:188, 6:292–293, 6:615
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Brown, William

absconds with public funds, 1:210n, 1:509n, 2:136, 2:177–178, 2:265, 2:266n, 2:284, 2:356–357, 3:158
appointment of, 2:284, 2:285n, 2:356, 2:357n
assists E. Trist, 1:73, 1:74n, 1:85
collector at New Orleans, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:510, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:122
described, 1:74n
identified, 1:210–211n
letters to, 1:210–211, 1:509
letter to mentioned, 1:408n
TJ on, 2:356

Brown, William (of Lynchburg). See also Brown & Robertson (Lynchburg firm)

death of, 4:514
identified, 4:94n

Brown, William (ship captain), 6:163

Brown, William (of Warren)

and fish for TJ, 6:134, 6:134, 6:215

Brown & Hollins (Baltimore firm), 5:314, 5:345n, 5:350, 5:356–357, 5:383

Brown & Robertson (Lynchburg firm). See also Brown, William; Robertson, Archibald

fish for TJ sent to, 2:423, 5:164, 6:336
identified, 4:94–95n
letter from, 4:101, 6:450–451
letter from accounted for, 4:514n
letter to, 4:94–95
TJ’s account with, 4:94, 4:101, 4:549, 5:51, 5:470–471, 5:475, 6:450–451, 6:543

Browning, Jonathan

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Brown, Rives & Company (Richmond firm), 3:629, 3:636

Bruce, Dr., 5:514

Bruce, Mr.

tobacco crop of, 4:522

Bruce, James

on pepper, 6:127

Bruce, William

on political revolutions, 3:280n

Brucker, Johann Jakob

Historia Critica Philosophiæ, 6:548, 6:548, 6:551n

Bruff, James, 3:324

Bruff, Thomas

identified, 5:108n
letter from accounted for, 5:107n
letter to, 5:108
Pressed Shot Factory, 5:107–108n
proposal for shot factory, 5:107, 5:108

Bruin, Peter Bryan, 1:25

Brunck, Richard François Philippe

Ηθικη Ποιησις: Sive Gnomici Poetæ Græci, 6:279, 6:280n

Brunswick County

Westwardmill Library Society, 1:66–67, 1:205–206, 1:508

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Louis Ernest, duke of

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

Brunt, Jonathan

identified, 1:403n
letters from, 1:402–403, 4:168
The Little Medly: containing short remarks on the ... New Testament, 1:403
seeks aid from TJ, 4:168
visits Monticello, 1:402

Bry, Theodor de

Indiam Occidentalem, 2:511, 2:512n, 5:123–124, 5:125n, 5:182
TJ on, 2:511, 5:123–124

Bryant, Lewis

identified, 5:28–29n
letter from, 5:28–29
seeks plastering work, 5:28

Bryley (Briley) (TJ’s slave; b. 1805)

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

Buccarella, Antonio Maria

voyage to Northwest Coast, 1:446

Buccarella, Port of, 1:448

Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of

An account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston, 5:416
Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the poet Thomson: Biographical, Critical, and Political, 2:172, 2:174n
and model of Swedish stove, 1:122n, 3:609
quotes TJ, 4:150, 4:153n

Buchanan, Claudius

“Goodwill” recommends his works, 5:98n
Two Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge, 4:230, 4:231n

Buchanan, George

De Jure Regni Apud Scotos, 2:172, 2:174n, 2:215
Rerum Scoticarum Historia, 1:580
as translator of Psalms, 6:551, 6:552n

Buchanan, James

and TJ’s Richmond lot, 6:366, 6:371

Buck (John Peyton’s shoemaker), 2:132, 2:133n

Buck, Tom (slave), 3:36–37, 3:196, 3:250, 3:283–284, 3:367–368, 3:529, 4:9, 4:9

buckhorn plantain (corne de cerf; hart’s horn; Plantago coronopus), 5:550

Buckingham County, Va.

Flood’s ordinary, 4:90, 6:76, 6:76, 6:88, 6:129, 6:486, 6:486n, 6:487, 6:530
Gibson’s ordinary, 6:487, 6:487–488n, 6:595, 6:595n
jail, 6:331
mills in, 3:371n, 6:621
post road through, 3:103–104n, 3:148
TJ travels through, 4:346n, 4:515n

Buckingham Court House, Va., 3:148

Buckingham Road (Va.), 3:103, 3:104n

Buckmountain Baptist Church (Albemarle Co.)

letter from, 1:63–64
letter to, 1:126

Buckner, Colin

and Bear Creek land, 4:318n, 5:62
identified, 4:413n
and inventory of military stores, 5:81, 5:104–105
letter from, 4:413–414, 5:81
letter of introduction for, from TJ, 4:460–461
letter to, 4:460
seeks letter of introduction, 4:413–414

Bucks County, Pa., 1:69n

buckwheat, 3:348, 3:351n, 4:179

buffalo (bison, American; Bos bison), 6:470

Buffalo, N.Y.

encampment near, 5:544 (illlus.)
and Niagara Campaign, 5:532–545

Buffalo tract (Bedford Co.), 5:348–349

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 1:581
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, 6:225n
mentioned, 1:250n, 5:452n
and mortality tables, 6:221–222, 6:225n
and natural history, 4:500
and F. A. Van der Kemp, 4:614, 5:459–460

Buffum, Arnold

identified, 5:496n
letter from, 5:495–497
and merino sheep, 5:495–496

Bugle lily (Watsonia meriana), 5:412

building materials

bricks, 5:468
carpentry tools, 1:135–136, 3:119–120, 3:171
dogwood, 4:145
door and window frames, 3:119–120, 3:613, 6:162
locust, 4:50, 4:145
mahogany, 4:229
marble, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487
oak, 4:51, 4:137, 4:144, 4:145, 4:230
paint, 1:55n, 1:97
pine, 4:50, 4:51, 4:144, 4:145
plank, 1:192, 2:168–169, 2:424, 2:434, 4:50, 4:145, 4:420, 4:421, 4:465, 4:498, 5:485, 5:488, 5:663, 6:257, 6:257
poplar, 4:144
stone, 1:626
stucco, 1:195–196
timber lists, 4:51, 4:144, 4:144–145, 4:145–146, 6:162, 6:257
window glass, 3:67, 3:135, 3:518, 3:520, 3:556, 3:557n, 3:575, 3:588, 3:612, 6:343, 6:344

Bulfinch, B. S.

letter from accounted for, 1:677

Buller, Francis

and Doulson v. Matthews, 4:302n

Bulletin de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, 3:114–115

Bullington, Mr.

and T. M. Randolph’s will, 6:19

Bullock, Mr., 3:215

Bullock, Eliza Henderson (Bennett Henderson’s daughter; John H. Bullock’s wife), 1:440, 1:459, 1:460–461, 5:422, 5:423, 6:472, 6:609

Bullock, J.

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349

Bullock, John H.

and Henderson lands, 1:461

Bullus, John, 1:535, 3:427, 3:557n, 5:457n

The Bulwark of Truth (Fraser), 5:160, 5:160n

Buncombe County, N.C.

earthquake in, 4:573

Bunker Hill Association

letter from, 2:504–505
letter to, 2:666
sends oration to TJ, 2:504–505, 2:666

Bunker’s Hill (Albemarle Co.), 2:132, 2:133n, 3:522, 3:523, 6:343, 6:348

Bunyan, John, 6:623

Burch, Samuel

and batture controversy, 3:26n

Burdett, Francis, 3:32

Bureaux de Pusy, Françoise Julienne Isle de France Poivre

family of, 5:163–164
forwards book to TJ, 5:402, 5:441
identified, 5:71–72n
letter of introduction for, from P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 4:124, 4:457n, 5:71
letter of introduction for, from Lafayette, 4:155, 5:71, 5:72n
letters from, 5:71–72, 5:402–403
letters to, 5:163–164, 5:441

Bureaux de Pusy, Jean Xavier

and Lafayette, 4:155
on national defense, 4:445–446, 4:457n

Bureaux de Pusy, Maurice

and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 4:124–125, 5:71
and Lafayette, 4:155, 5:71

Bureaux de Pusy, Sara

and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 4:124, 5:71
and Lafayette, 4:155, 5:71

Burgh, James

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503

Burk, John Daly

The History of Virginia, 1:288–289, 1:331, 1:457, 1:581, 1:619, 1:620n, 1:634n, 3:569
and TJ’s laws of Va., 1:370n, 1:381
and TJ’s newspaper collection, 1:381, 1:457, 1:469, 1:472–473, 3:190–191, 3:569–570, 3:636, 4:467

Burke, Edmund

British politician, 4:339, 6:433n

Burke, John, 5:427

Burke, Martha Jefferson Trist, 3:635n

Burks, John

witnesses land conveyance, 4:288

Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques

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

burnet (Sanguisorba), 4:379, 4:487, 4:515, 4:522, 4:526, 4:530

Burnley, Mr.

orders goods for TJ, 6:345, 6:346, 6:347

Burnley, Nathaniel

J. Fossett plates saddle trees for, 4:245
letter from accounted for, 1:506n
TJ on, 1:505, 1:506

Burnley, Zacariah

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Burns, Robert

Scottish poet, 6:228n, 6:403

Burns, William

and certificate for A. Quarrier, 5:76–77, 5:108–109
letter to, 5:108–109

Burot, Mme, 1:622

Burot, Alexander

identified, 1:624n
letter from, 1:622–624

Burr, Aaron (1716–57), 6:623

Burr, Aaron (1756–1836)

J. Adams on, 4:474, 5:4, 5:13, 6:192, 6:623
conspiracy, 1:350, 1:643, 2:75, 2:139, 2:249, 3:128, 3:129n, 3:429, 3:430, 3:441, 3:519, 3:543, 5:4n
and election of 1800, 3:306, 3:308n, 6:192, 6:193n, 6:625
and J. S. McLean, 1:209n
mentioned, 6:189
treason trial of, 1:161n, 1:341n, 1:355n, 1:426, 1:427–428n, 2:417, 2:473, 3:78–79, 3:100–101, 3:325n, 3:344, 3:430, 5:93n, 5:135, 5:143–144, 5:145n, 5:525
Trial of Col. Aaron Burr, 1:35
western expeditions of, 1:62, 1:63n
and J. Wilkinson, 4:412–413

Burr, David Judson

explosion at gunpowder mill of, 6:169, 6:186
gunpowder of, 5:599, 5:599n, 6:117, 6:147, 6:186, 6:186

Burrill, James, 3:230, 3:232n

Burroughs, Mr., 2:283

Burton, Mr., 2:237, 2:239n

Burton, John

petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380

Burwell (TJ’s slave; b. 1783). See Colbert, Burwell (TJ’s slave)

Burwell (TJ’s slave; b. 1809)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Burwell, Mr.

rooms with T. J. Randolph, 1:669, 1:670n

Burwell, Dudley

identified, 4:190n
letter of introduction for, from TJ, 4:190–191
letter to, 4:190

Burwell, Letitia McCreery (William Armistead Burwell’s wife)

asked to send horses, 6:307
enjoys book, 6:264
health of, 2:105, 3:162, 6:9, 6:264
misplaces ring, 4:90
sends letter for her husband to TJ, 3:163n
TJ sends greetings to, 2:254, 3:64, 4:91

Burwell, N.

witnesses document, 5:570n

Burwell, William Armistead

and batture controversy, 3:244, 3:255
and D. Burwell, 4:190, 4:190
and carding machine, 6:3, 6:9, 6:9–12
carriage of, 6:264
carries Destutt de Tracy letter, 3:443
convoy resolution of, 2:253, 2:254n
and defense of Washington, D.C., 6:307
and feuds among Republicans, 2:224–225
identified, 2:105–106n
and W. Lambert’s astronomical calculations, 2:54, 2:55n
and H. Lee’s medal, 2:104–105, 2:125–126, 2:224, 2:253
letter from accounted for, 4:191n
letters from, 2:104–106, 2:224–225, 3:162–163, 5:642–643, 6:9, 6:307
letters to, 2:125–126, 2:253–254, 3:64, 4:90–91
mentioned, 1:199, 1:670n, 3:251, 4:471
plans to visit TJ, 6:307
and quarries in Franklin Co., 3:64, 3:162
and spinning machine, 6:9
and TJ’s dispute with J. Harvie, 2:101, 2:103n
trunk of, 1:186, 1:204
in U.S. House of Representatives, 5:22–23, 6:264, 6:264
visits Monticello, 2:105, 5:663
on War of 1812, 5:642–643

Bushnell, David

submarine inventor, 6:206, 6:207n, 6:314n

Butler, Mr., 2:475

Butler, Anthony

patents auger, 4:315n

Butler, John

identified, 1:304n
letter from, 1:303–304
TJ buys plow horse from, 2:155

Butler, Joseph

The Analogy of Religion, 3:590

Butler, Pierce

and okra soup, 4:180

Butler, Stephen

witnesses agreement, 5:487–488

butter

churning, 4:138
and J. H. Craven, 2:371
ordered from M. Lewis, 4:210
at Poplar Forest, 4:380, 4:381
procured for TJ, 6:40
sent to TJ, 4:194, 4:236
J. Shoemaker sends, 2:269
TJ orders, 3:541

buttercup (lesser celandine; ranunculus; spearwort; water crowfoots), 3:545, 5:358

Butterworth, John, 2:322n

Bynkershoek, Cornelis van

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

Byrd, Mary Willing

and bounty land, 1:290, 1:335

Byrd, William (1674–1744)

and founding of Richmond, 4:288n
library of, 5:594–595n

Byrd, William (1728–77)

and bounty land, 1:290
supposed land sale to J. Lyle, 6:304
TJ purchases lot from, 4:154, 5:75–76, 5:76n, 6:304–305, 6:366

Byrne, Patrick

letter from accounted for, 1:214n
prints work, 2:377n
Report of the Whole Trial of Gen. Michael Bright and Others, 1:214n

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