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icehouses

  • at President’s House, 1:155

Icenhower, Samuel

  • letter from accounted for, 3:655

Idéologues, 3:xlvi

The Iliad of Homer (Homer; trans. Pope/Macpherson), 2:51, 5:595, 5:596n

Illinois Territory

  • appointments in, 1:25, 1:627

Illustrations of Prophecy (Towers), 4:483, 4:485n

impatiens, 5:358

Importance, et Avantages d’une Morale Publique et Privée (Gazzera), 1:522, 1:523n

impressment

  • of American seamen, 1:85–86, 5:7n, 5:259n, 5:453, 5:453n, 5:637n, 5:662n, 5:678, 6:14–15, 6:131n, 6:205, 6:205, 6:358n, 6:376n, 6:491
  • and Monroe-Pinkney Treaty, 1:170n
  • TJ on, 5:304, 5:304n, 6:141–144, 6:205, 6:205, 6:538–539

Improvements in Education (Lancaster), 1:662

inauguration

  • J. Madison’s presidential, 1:8–9, 1:10n

indentures, 1:156, 2:237–238, 2:238–239n, 3:186–188, 3:192–194, 3:368–369, 3:411–413, 4:287–288, 4:316–319, 5:61–62, 5:62n

Independent Chronicle (Boston newspaper), 1:50n, 1:671, 1:673n

India (Hindustan; Indostan)

  • and N. G. M. Senter’s travel writings, 5:64–65, 5:66, 5:218, 5:407–408n
  • trade to, 1:449
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

Indiam Occidentalem (Bry), 5:123–124, 5:125n, 5:182

Indiana Territory. See also Harrison, William Henry

  • appointments in, 5:445, 5:445–446n
  • chancery court in, 2:522
  • governor of, 1:405, 1:406n, 2:73
  • Indian agent for, 1:574–575
  • Legislative Council, 1:96

Indian Camp (Short’s Albemarle Co. estate)

  • boundary dispute, 6:522–523, 6:524, 6:524, 6:575, 6:604, 6:604–605, 6:636
  • sale of, 6:86, 6:87–88n, 6:204, 6:274, 6:522, 6:523n
  • W. Short on management of, 3:198, 3:272–273, 3:275, 4:268, 4:273, 4:274
  • survey of, 5:399–402, 5:407n
  • TJ superintends for W. Short, 1:234, 1:235n, 4:59–60, 4:197–198
  • TJ tries to sell for W. Short, 3:621–622, 3:644, 4:5–6, 4:59–60, 4:268, 4:675, 5:239–240, 5:264–265, 5:362–364, 5:399–402, 5:443–444, 5:506, 5:567, 5:568–570, 5:571–572, 5:573, 5:596, 5:622–623, 5:623–624n, 5:624–625

Indian cress (Capucine cress; Nasturtium officinale; watercress), 5:550

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

Indians

  • J. Adams on, 4:475–476, 5:70, 5:182–185, 5:389–390, 5:584–585, 5:595, 6:183
  • Arikara, 6:323
  • artifacts of, at Monticello, 1:397n
  • blankets, 1:510
  • as British allies, 5:320–321, 5:336
  • burial mounds and fortifications of, 6:322–329, 6:516, 6:518
  • cattle raised by, 1:110
  • Cherokee, 1:6–7, 1:110, 1:653, 5:124, 5:125n, 6:419
  • Chickasaw, 1:6–7, 1:26, 6:423, 6:423
  • Chippewa, 2:57, 2:58n
  • Creek, 1:110, 6:389
  • currency of, 1:334, 1:369
  • dialects of, 1:205, 1:520–521, 1:555–556, 1:651–652
  • education of children, 1:7, 1:660–662, 3:369–371, 3:543
  • Fox, 2:57
  • hair of, described, 1:478
  • Houmas, 1:509
  • hunt in circles, 6:138
  • Indiana Territory agent for, 1:574–575
  • intoxication among, 6:188
  • Iroquois, 6:324
  • Kaskaskia, 6:324
  • Kickapoo, 6:323–324
  • kill surveyor, 2:87
  • land claims in Orleans Territory, 1:637
  • languages, 1:205, 1:269, 1:520–521, 1:555–557, 1:599n, 1:651–652, 3:596–597, 3:616
  • Mandan, 1:520–521, 4:8, 4:536, 4:550, 6:323
  • Mascouten, 6:323–324
  • Miami, 1:652
  • Mingo, 2:204–205n, 2:340
  • modesty of, 4:181
  • Neponset, 5:184–185, 5:186n
  • of Northwest Coast described, 1:446
  • Olmec, 6:328
  • origin of, 6:137–138, 6:323
  • Osage, 1:520, 3:501
  • Ottawa, 4:181, 4:182n, 4:537, 4:538n
  • Pawnee, 1:521, 1:556
  • Punkapog, 5:184–185, 5:186n
  • plans for civilizing, 1:110–111
  • and post road, 1:351
  • preservation of artifacts of, 6:251
  • recommended readings for, 1:110
  • Sac, 2:57
  • sculpture of, for TJ, 1:473–474, 1:475n
  • Seminole, 5:651–652, 6:67–68, 6:112, 6:113n
  • Seneca, 2:59, 2:175
  • Shawnee, 4:485n
  • speeches by, 2:59, 2:175, 2:340
  • in Tenn., 1:653
  • threat posed by, on frontier, 2:359, 2:360
  • TJ on, 2:59, 2:60n, 2:301, 4:429, 5:122–124, 5:367
  • TJ’s policies concerning, 2:158, 6:512
  • TJ’s vocabularies of, 1:269, 1:555–556
  • Toltec, 6:328
  • and trade with Canada, 4:552–553, 5:74–75
  • training school for, 1:7, 1:660–662, 1:662n, 2:55–57, 2:58n
  • treaties with, 1:6–7
  • and War of 1812, 5:637n, 6:358n, 6:389, 6:577, 6:577n

Indian Speeches Delivered by Farmer’s Brother and Red Jacket, Two Seneca Chiefs, 2:59, 2:175

indigo

  • grown in Europe, 4:85

indigo, wild, 3:461–462

Indigofera tinctoria (indigotier; wild indigo), 3:461–462

indigotier (Indigofera tinctoria; wild indigo), 3:461–462

Indostan. See India

Indridge (TJ’s slave; b. 1797). See Hern, Indridge (TJ’s slave)

Infantado, Duke of. See Pedro Alcántara de Toledo y Salm-Salm (Duke of Infantado)

Ingersoll, Charles Jared

  • address to constituents of, 6:375, 6:375–376n
  • identified, 5:106n
  • letter from, 5:225–226
  • letter to, 5:106
  • An Oration delivered at Mr. Harvey’s, Spring Garden, before a Very Numerous Meeting of Democratic Citizens, July 4, 1812, 5:225–226
  • sends works to TJ, 5:225
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625, 5:106
  • A View of the Rights and Wrongs, Power and Policy, of the United States of America, 5:106

Ingersoll, Jared

  • on batture controversy, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:658, 3:235, 3:271, 3:483, 5:3, 5:4n
  • family of, 5:106n
  • Philadelphia lawyer, 2:320

Ingham, Samuel D., 5:559n

Ingle, Henry, 1:41n, 1:42n

Ingles, Joseph L., 5:623n

Ingraham, Nathaniel G.

  • identified, 4:491n
  • letter from, 4:489–492
  • seeks TJ’s aid, 4:489–492

Ingraham, Phoenix & Nexsen (N.Y. firm)

  • bankruptcy, 4:489–492, 5:41–42, 5:42n
  • identified, 4:492n

Ingraham’s tract (TJ’s estate), 4:386

inkstands

  • stone, 5:38, 5:39n, 5:109–110, 5:111

Innes, Harry, 5:644

  • conveys wartime intelligence to TJ, 6:370
  • identified, 6:370–371n
  • letter from, 6:369–371
  • letter to, 6:511–512
  • and shepherd dogs, 6:369–370, 6:511–512

An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council (Baring), 1:35

An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (Taylor), 6:504, 6:505n, 6:567, 6:613, 6:613, 6:622

An Inquiry into the Use of the Omentum (Rush), 1:185, 1:558–559

An Inquiry into the Various Systems of Political Economy (Ganilh), 6:53, 6:54n

insanity. See health: mental illness

Inskeep, Abraham H., 6:417, 6:427n

Inskeep, John, 6:427n

Institut de France

  • and J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:319, 4:350, 4:353, 6:252
  • and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 3:516, 3:517
  • fossils analyzed by, 1:100–101, 1:103–104, 1:187, 1:248–249, 1:250n
  • members of, 1:201n, 1:250n, 1:259n, 1:262n, 3:472n, 3:517n, 4:319, 5:101n, 5:301, 5:433
  • and R. M. Patterson, 2:162
  • TJ and C. Wistar give fossil bones to, 1:100–101, 1:248, 1:510–511
  • and weights, measures, and coinage, 4:227
  • and work on ancient vases, 1:452, 1:453n, 1:482

The Institutes of Justinian. With Notes (Cooper), 5:275–276, 5:277n, 5:588, 6:598

Institutes of the Laws of England (Coke), 1:382

Institution au droit maritime (Boucher), 3:72, 3:73n, 3:546

Institutions Commerciales (Boucher), 3:629–630, 3:638

Instruction sur l’art de faire le vin (Cadet-de-Vaux), 2:82, 2:83n

Instruction sur les bêtes à laine et particulièrement sur la race des mérinos (Tessier), 3:321, 3:322n

insurance. See Mutual Assurance Society

Intercepted Letters; or, the Twopenny Post Bag (Moore), 6:644, 6:645n

interest

  • TJ’s calculations for, 5:490

An Introduction to Natural Philosophy (Nicholson), 1:581

The Introductory lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq., professor of chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania, 5:223, 6:598

inventions. See also machines; patents

  • distilling, 2:458n
  • fireproof ceiling, 5:286, 5:291
  • fireproofing, 5:307–308
  • impenetrable stucco, 1:195–196
  • invisible ink, 1:111n
  • manufacturing alkali, 2:283
  • matches, 1:376, 1:377n
  • metallic pen, 1:106
  • perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–l, 5:108n, 5:358 (illus.), 5:474, 5:506–507
  • refrigerator, 1:173n
  • water filtration system, 5:286, 5:291

Investigator (Charleston, S.C., newspaper)

  • prospectus of, 5:329, 5:330n

Ireland

  • agitation in, 4:587
  • Belfast Literary Society, 4:159, 4:175
  • fiorin grass from, 4:191–192
  • George III’s death rumored in, 4:172, 4:173n
  • and introduction of potato to U.S., 1:197
  • Orange Society of, 5:641, 5:642n
  • plants in, 3:280n, 3:294–295, 3:339–340, 5:657

irises, 3:633, 5:358

iron. See also naileries, nailrod and iron stock

  • for axletree, 2:453
  • bar (Swedish), 5:133, 6:343, 6:344, 6:344, 6:344, 6:344, 6:345, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 6:347
  • manufacture of, 2:376
  • mentioned, 6:344, 6:346
  • specimens sent to TJ, 2:299
  • tin-iron, 6:347, 6:348
  • wire, 5:439

Iroquois Indians, 6:324

Irujo, Carlos Fernando Martínez de. See Yrujo (Irujo), Carlos Fernando Martínez de

Irvin, Mr. See Erving, George William

Irvine, Callender, 2:304, 5:81n

Irvine, William, 5:339

Irving, Washington

  • A History of New York, 3:625, 5:397, 5:397n

Irwin, James, 1:290, 1:335

Isaac (TJ’s slave; b. 1768)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Isaac (TJ’s slave; b. 1809)

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

Isabel (TJ’s slave; David Hern’s wife; b. 1758). See Hern, Isabel (TJ’s slave; David Hern’s wife)

Isabel (TJ’s slave; b. 1800)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Isabella I, queen of Aragon and Castile

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:501

Isaiah (Hebrew prophet), 6:542

Isaiah (TJ’s slave; b. 1800)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Isatis (woad), 2:271

Isatis tinctoria (blue woad), 2:271, 3:461–462

Isocrates (Athenian orator and rhetorician), 6:277

Israel

  • financial system in ancient, 2:583–585

Israel (TJ’s slave; b. 1800). See Jefferson, Israel Gillette (TJ’s slave)

Italian language

  • document in, by
    • P. Mazzei, 3:382–383
  • letter in, from
    • P. Mazzei, 3:375–382
  • TJ on study of, 4:163

Italy

  • American property seized in, 2:342
  • earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n
  • M. A. Jullien’s mission to, 2:503, 2:504n
  • macaroni from, 2:154
  • strawberries from, 2:481
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:503, 4:507n
  • wine from, 1:387

Ivernois, François d’. See D’Ivernois, Sir Francis

Ivy Creek (Campbell Co.)

  • S. Scott claims TJ’s land on, 2:96–97, 2:148–149, 2:232, 2:233n, 2:303, 2:303, 2:322–323, 2:324n, 2:325–326, 2:327, 2:327–328, 4:308–310, 4:549, 4:583–585, 4:647, 4:677–678, 4:679, 4:680–684, 5:39–40, 5:40–41
  • TJ sells lands on, 1:670–671, 2:5–6, 2:6, 2:50–51, 2:78–79, 2:148, 2:149n, 2:232, 2:323, 2:328, 2:330, 3:368–369, 3:374–375, 3:457, 3:461, 4:583, 4:584n, 4:677, 5:xlvii–xlviii, 5:31, 5:342–343, 6:332, 6:332n

Iznardi, Josef. See Yznardy, Josef

Izquierdo de Ribera y Lauzan, Eugenio, 3:96

 

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