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Laban (Old Testament figure), 6:564

La Bergerie (J. Armstrong’s Hudson River estate), 5:8n

Labigarre. See Delabigarre, Peter

Labouchere, Peter Caesar, 2:9, 2:245, 3:54, 3:105–106

La Brousse, M. de

Traité de la Culture du Figuier, suivi d’observations & d’expériences sur la meilleure maniere de cultiver, 2:82, 2:83n

Lacépède, Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-Sur-Illon, comte de

analyzes bones for Institut de France, 1:101n, 1:250n
Histoire naturelle de l’homme, 1:250n
identified, 1:250n
letter from, 1:248–250
mentioned, 3:221n, 5:601
sends greetings to TJ, 1:629
TJ forwards letter from, 1:249, 1:417

Laclotte, Jean Hyacinthe, 2:445n, 5:86n

Lacroix, Irenée Amelot De, Baron de Vanden Boègard

identified, 4:375–376n
letter from accounted for, 4:376n
letter to, 4:375–376
seeks military appointment, 4:375–376, 4:376

Lacroix, Sylvestre François

Complément des élémens d’algèbre, 4:79, 4:80n
Cours de Mathematiques à l’usage de l’École Centrale des Quatres-Nations, 4:72, 4:79, 5:14, 5:36
Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique et d’application de l’algèbre à la géométrie, 4:79, 4:80n
works on calculus, 4:370

Lacy, Stephen H.

and P. Piernet’s estate, 3:466, 3:467, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:42, 4:43n, 4:81–82, 4:166n, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:217, 5:333–334
and P. Piernet’s will, 5:332

Ladd, Thomas

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304, 1:305, 1:306–307, 1:329–330, 1:331, 1:362–363, 1:364–365, 1:591, 1:608, 2:123, 2:368, 2:396–397, 2:403, 2:407, 2:425, 2:447, 2:448, 2:464–465, 2:465–466, 2:674–675, 3:44–45, 3:45, 3:84, 3:85–86
identified, 1:307n
letter from accounted for, 3:45n
letters from, 1:329–330, 2:674–675
letters to, 1:306–307, 2:464–465, 3:45

Ladvocat, Jean Baptiste

Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique Portatif, 1:580

lady-slipper (Cypripedium), 1:436–437n

Laet, Joannes de

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

Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de (Lafayette’s wife)

dowry of, 2:10, 2:12, 2:13
mentioned, 2:16

Lafayette, Emilie Destutt de Tracy (Lafayette’s daughter-in-law), 2:17

Lafayette, George Washington (Lafayette’s son)

inheritance of, 2:14
marriage and marriage contract of, 2:16, 2:17
mentioned, 3:447
sends greetings to TJ, 3:106, 4:359

Lafayette, Gilbert Motier de (1380-1462), 2:12–13

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de

J. Adams on, 6:287
and American Revolution, 2:10–11, 3:314, 3:315n, 4:434
attempts to emancipate African slaves, 2:11
and Bureaux de Pusy family, 4:155, 5:71, 5:72n
and chestnuts, 4:322
and I. A. Coles, 1:269–270, 1:528
description of his finances, 2:10–26, 3:213, 3:214n, 3:446, 3:447n
and Destutt de Tracy, 1:270
and Destutt de Tracy’s commentary on Montesquieu, 4:54, 4:202, 4:446
family of, 1:629, 5:212, 5:215n
financial situation of, 1:376, 1:628, 2:8–9, 2:10–18, 2:243–245, 2:287–288, 2:310, 2:418, 3:54–55, 3:212, 3:213, 3:445–446
identified, 1:270–271n
introduces J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:359
land of, in La., 1:270n, 1:529, 1:628, 2:8, 2:9, 2:15, 2:16, 2:17–18, 2:33–34, 2:72–73, 2:243, 2:244, 2:245, 2:418, 3:54, 3:105–106, 3:212–213, 3:248, 3:314, 3:445, 4:29–31, 4:359, 4:649–650, 5:68–69, 5:69n, 5:212–214, 5:215n
on Latin American revolutions, 4:359
and J. B. Lefevre, 2:74, 2:75n
letter from mentioned, 2:512
letters from, 1:269–271, 1:528–530, 1:627–629, 2:7–9, 2:242–246, 2:287–288, 2:310, 3:54–55, 3:105–106, 3:211–214, 3:444–447, 4:155, 4:358–359, 4:649–650, 5:68–69, 5:212–215
letters to, 3:313–315, 4:29–31, 4:36
letter to mentioned, 4:33
mentioned, 3:114, 3:512, 3:538, 5:189
and merino sheep, 2:39
on neutral powers, 2:242
plans to write TJ, 4:325
recommends L. P. G. de Lormerie to TJ, 1:342
sends dogs, 1:376, 1:457, 6:511
sends greetings to TJ, 3:198
sends merino sheep, 1:529, 1:537–538, 1:629
and W. Short, 5:215n
Madame de Staël Holstein on, 5:450
and Madame de Tessé, 1:528, 1:593–594, 1:627
TJ on, 3:504
TJ sends greetings to, 3:443, 3:444n
travels of, 2:11, 2:13, 2:16

Lafitau, Joseph François

Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains, 5:122–123, 5:125n, 5:182, 6:324

Lafon, Bartholemew

“Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans,” 2:525, 3:486, 3:488n

La Forest. See Mathurin, Antoine René Charles, comte de La Forest

La Grange (Lafayette’s French estate), 1:270n, 1:529, 2:15, 2:17

La Grange et de Fourilles, Adélaïde Blaise François Le Lièvre, marquis de, 1:372

La Harpe, Jean François de

writings of, 6:302

Lake Erie

O. H. Perry’s naval victory on, 6:524, 6:524n, 6:531, 6:546n
proposed canal to, 3:459, 3:597–598, 4:160, 4:161n
survey on, 3:437

Lake Ontario, 3:459

Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de

Astronomie, 4:244
Histoire des Mathématiques, 6:381
and W. Lambert’s calculations, 4:253, 4:260, 5:249

Lallemand, François Antoine, baron, 1:372

La Marck, Marie Françoise Augustine Ursule Le Danois de Cernay, comtesse de, 2:10

Lambarde, William

Eirenarcha: or Of the office of the Iustices of peace, 3:547

Lambert, John

letter to, 4:164
as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n

Lambert, William

and American Philosophical Society, 5:251, 5:311
astronomical calculations, 2:54, 2:55n, 4:634–637, 5:311
calculates longitude of U.S. Capitol, 4:275–276, 4:651–660
calculates Monticello’s longitude, 4:235–236, 4:239n, 4:246, 4:247–266, 4:276, 4:368, 4:369, 4:402–406, 4:407–408
clerk of the House of Representatives, 1:275, 1:359n, 1:512
congratulates TJ, 1:54–55, 1:237–238
and domestic manufactures, 1:560–562
on House of Representatives, 1:274–275, 1:534–535
identified, 1:54–55n
and latitude calculations, 3:367n
letter from accounted for, 2:68n
letters from, 1:54–55, 1:274–276, 1:356–359, 1:489–498, 1:534–535, 1:539–540, 1:560–562, 2:54–55, 2:60–68, 2:337–338, 2:398–399, 2:566, 3:285, 4:235–236, 4:275–276, 4:402–406, 4:407–408, 4:634–637, 4:651–660, 5:245–251
letters to, 1:237–238, 1:511–512, 2:541, 4:368–369
letter to accounted for, 2:54n
lunar calculations, 1:539–540, 1:540–554, 2:54, 2:60–68, 5:245–251
ode for Fourth of July by, 2:399, 2:400–401
and prime meridian, 1:275–276, 1:356–358, 1:359n, 1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534–535, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–338, 2:398–399, 2:541, 2:566, 3:285, 3:367n
Table for Computing the Moon’s Motion, with Explanations, 1:540–554, 1:571–572, 1:608–609
To the Critical Reviewers of Boston, 3:285

Lamétherie, Jean Claude de, 2:551, 2:552n

lamps

at Bell Rock lighthouse, 4:363

lamps, alabaster

brass chain for, 1:190, 1:309

Lancaster, Joseph

Improvements in Education, 1:662

Lance, William

identified, 4:106n
letter from, 4:105–107
letter to accounted for, 4:107n
and Seventy-Six Association, 4:105, 4:106n

land conveyances. See indentures

Lane’s Ordinary (Fairfax Co.), 1:52n

Langdon, John

elected governor, 2:348
identified, 2:231–232n
letter from, 2:230–232
letter to, 2:274–277
as member of Continental Congress, 6:184n
and political situation, 2:230–231, 2:274–277
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Langhorne, John, trans.

Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langhorne, William, trans.

Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langland, William

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, 1:390, 1:397n

Langley, Batty

Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated, 2:82

books on French, 2:27n, 5:557
books on Spanish, 2:32n
Chinese, 1:518
French training of T. J. Randolph, 1:520, 1:557
Indian, 1:205, 1:269, 1:520–521, 1:555–557, 1:599n, 1:651–652, 3:596–597, 3:616
A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages (Dufief), 3:97–98, 3:137, 3:393, 4:71, 4:79, 5:557
and phonics, 2:306–307, 2:308n
Russian, 1:556
sign, 1:662
TJ on study of, 4:162–163
translations by TJ, 3:11–15, 3:21–23, 3:652–653
translations by D. B. Warden, 1:142–152

Lania (TJ’s slave; b. 1805)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Lannes, Jean, Duc de Montebello, 1:371, 1:372

lanterns, 1:303

Lanusse, Paul, 6:436

La Pérouse, Jean François de Galalup, comte de

Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde, 1:445–449

Lapie, Pierre

Carte réduite de la Mer Méditerranée et de la mer Noire (Zannoni and Lapie), 1:247–248

Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de

Americans correspond with, 4:196
error of detected, 4:634
Exposition du Systême du Monde, 1:348, 1:349n, 1:357, 1:490
J. Wood’s book sent to, 2:171

Laportea canadensis. See Urtica Whitlowi (wood nettle)

lard

as scab remedy, 5:182n

La Rivière. See Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

La Roche, Martin Lefèbvre de (abbé), 3:9, 3:17, 3:87, 3:89n, 3:330

La Rochefoucauld, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, duchesse de. See Castellane, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, marquise de

La Rochefoucauld, François de, 6:228, 6:287, 6:296

La Romana, José Caro, marquês, 2:247, 2:248n

La Rouërie, Armand Charles Tuffin, marquis de, 2:74

Lasalle, Philippe de, 2:591

Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, comte de (A. Le Sage)

Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique, 3:552, 3:578
Genealogical, chronological, historical, and geographical atlas, 4:325, 4:326n, 5:7, 5:83, 5:114, 5:211, 5:436
work of sent to M. J. Randolph, 5:7, 5:436

Last Day. A Poem In Three Books (Young), 6:297

Lasteyrie, Louis, marquis de (Lafayette’s son-in-law), 2:17

Lasteyrie, Virginie, marquise de (Lafayette’s daughter)

sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

Lasteyrie Dusaillant, Charles Philibert, comte De

agricultural report of, 2:83
Du Cotonnier et de sa Culture, 1:37, 2:83
Du Pastel, de l’indigotier, 3:461–462
identified, 3:115n
letters from, 3:114–115, 3:461–462
sends books on arts and sciences, 3:114–115, 3:461–462
sends greetings to TJ, 1:141
Traité sur les Bêtes-à-Laine d’Espagne, 2:83
A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, History and Analysis of Pastel, or Woad (trans. Dearborn), 3:462n

Latham, William, 5:253, 5:253n

Latin

of G. Buchanan, 2:215
dictionaries, 6:387
document in, from
- S. G. Tucker, 1:617–619
education in, 3:327, 3:372, 3:501, 4:131, 4:372, 4:648, 6:65

Latin America

revolutions in, 4:359
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506, 4:508n

Latin and English Dictionary abridged (Ainsworth), 1:35

latitude

calculations for Poplar Forest, 3:361–367

Latour, Arsène Lacarrière, 3:478n

La Tour-Maubourg, Anastasie, comtesse de (Lafayette’s daughter)

inheritance of, 2:17
marriage contract with, 2:16
sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

La Tour-Maubourg, Charles, comte de (Lafayette’s son-in-law), 2:17

La Trémoïlle, Marie Geneviève de Durfort, duchesse de, 2:10, 2:15

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry

Anniversary Oration, 3:624, 3:625n
and J. Barlow’s letter, 5:576, 5:577n
and E. F. Bond’s application, 5:525, 5:526n
and carving for TJ, 4:66, 4:459, 5:206–207
designs houses in Philadelphia, 4:63
drawings by, 2:39, 2:40n, 2:106, 3:535–536, 3:537n, 3:581–582, 3:590–591
and expenses at U.S. Capitol, 5:205, 5:207n, 5:238, 5:239n
to find work for J. Dougherty, 1:199
furnishes President’s House, 1:43n
identified, 1:474–475n
letters from, 1:473–475, 3:534–538, 3:624–625, 4:63–67, 5:205–207
letters to, 1:595–596, 3:555–557, 4:459, 5:238–239
mentioned, 6:216
and model of corncob capitals, 1:473, 1:475n, 1:595
oversees work at Washington Navy Yard, 4:63, 5:206
and payment for Italian sculptors, 1:78n, 1:113, 1:114n
A Private Letter to the Individual Members of Congress, 3:537
and proposed marine hospital, 5:178, 5:179n, 5:206
proposed visit to Monticello, 1:366, 1:474, 1:595–596
and window glass for TJ, 2:80, 2:188, 2:346, 2:362, 5:298
works on U.S. Capitol, 1:65, 1:92, 1:474n, 3:534–537, 3:555–556, 4:64–66, 4:67n, 5:205–206, 5:238

Latrobe, Henry, 1:65n

Latrobe, Mary Elizabeth Hazlehurst (Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s wife)

greetings from, 5:207

Laud, William

archbishop of Canterbury, 5:387, 5:389, 6:145, 6:228

Lauffeld, Battle of

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

Laurent, Simon, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

La Vauguyon, Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade, duc de

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

Lavergné, Celestino, 5:85n

law. See also Virginia: laws of

agrarian, 4:168
books on, 1:158, 1:416, 2:28, 2:51, 2:103, 2:104n, 2:420, 2:521, 2:676, 2:677, 3:173–176n, 3:236–237n, 3:546–547, 5:176, 5:176n, 5:245, 6:45, 6:122, 6:372, 6:374, 6:412–413, 6:445, 6:477, 6:479, 6:598
British, 5:135–136
civil, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:526, 2:527, 2:678, 2:679, 3:31, 4:477
common, 1:381, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:527, 2:532, 3:117, 3:144, 3:165, 4:293, 4:296–297n, 4:297–298, 4:300–301, 5:58–59, 5:135–136
criminal, 1:382, 1:384n
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:330–331
feudal, 3:174–175n
French, 2:676, 2:678, 3:47–48, 3:71, 3:73n, 3:130–132, 3:159–160, 3:203, 3:226–227, 3:236–237n, 4:477, 4:643n, 5:45–47, 5:576, 5:576–577n
of Great Britain, 1:382, 1:424, 4:293, 4:294, 4:296–297n, 4:297–298, 4:299–300, 4:302n, 5:137n
Jewish, 3:124, 3:165
and judicial review, 1:380
martial, 1:571, 3:120–121
natural, 3:138–139, 3:142, 3:144
Roman, 2:676, 3:47–48, 3:130–131, 3:132, 3:151n, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:236n, 3:237n, 3:546, 4:502, 4:643n
Spanish, 2:471, 2:678, 3:52–53, 3:71, 3:160–161, 3:175n, 4:477, 4:643n
study of, 3:276
TJ on study of, 4:162
TJ provides training in, 1:245, 1:389, 1:416, 2:28, 2:51, 2:77n, 2:259, 2:420
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:503
and the West, 3:423–424

Law, Edward, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

and alleged remarks on TJ by C. J. Fox, 3:261n, 3:261–262, 4:234
family of, 3:261n, 3:262n

Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis (Thomas Law’s wife), 3:209n

Law, John

Mississippi scheme of, 6:586, 6:593n

Law, Jonathan

identified, 1:95n
letter from, 1:95
letter to, 1:126–127
and meeting of Conn. Republicans, 1:95, 1:126–127

Law, Thomas

on Anglo-American relations, 4:234
on banks and banking, 6:578, 6:592, 6:594, 6:649, 6:649
and Federalist criticism of TJ, 3:260–263, 4:234
identified, 3:209n
on interest-bearing treasury notes, 6:534, 6:578, 6:592, 6:594, 6:649
letters from, 3:209, 3:261, 3:552, 4:234–235, 6:534, 6:649
letters to, 3:298–299, 3:578–579, 6:594
letter to J. Wagner, 3:261–262
sends prospectus to TJ, 3:552, 3:578–579
taxation policy of, 4:234, 4:235n
Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses, 3:209, 3:261, 3:298, 3:578, 3:579n

Lawfeld. See Lauffeld, Battle of

Law of Nations. See Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains (Vattel)

Law of Orleans. See A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (Kerr and Moreau Lislet)

The Laws of Las Siete Partidas (Carleton and Moreau Lislet), 3:53n, 3:160–161, 3:168

The laws of the United States of America (Swift), 2:521

Lawson, Sarah

boardinghouse of, 3:552

Lawur, Peter

letter from accounted for, 1:677

Lay, Amos

Map of the Northern Part of the State of New York, 5:263n, 5:306n, 5:581

Lazaria (Maria) (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

lead

manufacture of, 2:376
white, 1:55n, 1:77, 5:33, 6:111

Leake, Walter, 2:211

Leander (British warship), 1:228n

Lear, Benjamin Lincoln

education of, 6:158–159, 6:208

Lear, Frances Dandridge Henley (Tobias Lear’s wife)

mentioned, 6:208, 6:208
sends greetings to TJ, 6:159
TJ sends greetings to, 6:209

Lear, Tobias

identified, 6:159n
letter from, 6:157–160
letter to, 6:208–209
and proposed visit to TJ, 6:158, 6:208
son’s education, 6:158–159, 6:208
as U.S. consul to Algiers, 6:159–160n, 6:164

leather

for shoes, 6:345, 6:345, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 6:348

Leavenworth, Mark, 3:542, 3:543n

Le Baron, Francis

appointment of, 6:28n

le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

La Fête du Petit Blé; ou, L’Heroisme du Poucha-Houmma, 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509

LeBourdais, Mr., 1:557

Le Bourgeois, Mr., 2:244

Le Breton D’orgenoy, Francis Joseph. See D’orgenoy, Francis Joseph Le Breton

Leclerc, Georges Louis, 5:452n

Leclerc, Jean (Joannes Clericus), 5:594

Leçons d’Histoire (Volney), 1:580

Le Coulteux, Mr., 2:13

A Lecture, introductory to a Course of Lectures on the Cause, Seat and Cure of Diseases (Crawford), 4:336, 4:338n, 4:394

Lectures on Mechanics (Helsham), 1:581

Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (Adams), 1:581

Lectures on Political Principles (Williams), 3:38, 3:40n, 3:87, 3:189, 3:334

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Blair), 1:576

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (Adams), 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics (Ferguson), 1:581, 6:380

Ledyard, John

letters from, 2:419, 2:423–424
seeks assistance from TJ, 2:419, 2:423–424

Ledyard, John (of Connecticut)

and western exploration, 6:417, 6:420

Lee, Arthur

and cession of Northwest Territory, 4:567
The Farmer’s and Monitor’s Letters, 6:440
as writer, 6:440

Lee, Edmund Jennings, 1:516

Lee, Henry (1756–1818)

as defense witness, 1:277, 1:278–279n
introduces I. McPherson to TJ, 6:353, 6:354n
medal voted for, 2:104–105, 2:106n, 2:125–126, 2:224, 2:253
Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States, 6:122

Lee, Henry (1787–1837)

and father’s medal, 2:104–105, 2:106n, 2:224, 2:253

Lee, Rachel Fanny Antonina

An Essay on Government, 1:123–124, 3:116, 3:117n

Lee, Richard Bland, 2:170n

Lee, Richard Evers

identified, 6:364n
introduced to TJ, 6:364

Lee, Richard Henry

and G. R. Clark’s 1779 expedition, 4:378
and P. Henry, 4:378, 4:604
as member of Continental Congress, 4:600, 4:601, 4:602, 6:440, 6:612, 6:612, 6:613
oratorial skills of, 2:156

Lee, Thomas Ludwell

and revision of Va. laws, 1:381–382, 3:570, 5:136

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

Lee, William

assists J. Ronaldson in Paris, 2:163
consul at Bordeaux, 1:118, 1:121n, 3:166, 3:178, 3:442, 3:599, 4:189, 4:529, 4:530n
forwards letters to TJ, 2:672
identified, 2:672n
letter from, 2:672

Lee, William Raymond

forwards items to TJ, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 6:163
identified, 4:220n
letter to, 4:220

Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of, 1:516

Leesburg, Va

Republican mechanics of, address TJ, 1:89–90

Lefevre, Jean Baptiste

land warrant issued to, 2:74, 2:75n, 2:94

Leforest, A., 2:154

Leftwich, Jabez, 5:339

Leftwich, Joel, 5:339

leg

broken, 2:289

Legaux, Pierre

and Alexander grape, 4:524, 4:525n

Le Gendre, Louis, 3:235, 3:237n

Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton), 1:383, 3:547

Lego (TJ’s estate)

acreage of, 4:387
hogs at, 5:545
lease of, 1:488n
and W. McClure’s weaving establishment, 4:143
overseers at, 1:137–138n, 3:180, 3:181n, 3:196, 3:642, 4:101
rent at, 3:522
slaves at, 3:37, 3:180–181, 3:196, 6:181
surveys of, 2:107–108, 2:109n, 3:570–573, 5:362
and TJ's lease dispute with E. Alexander, 2:85–86, 2:150–151, 2:199, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:240, 2:277–281, 2:282, 2:286, 2:286–287, 2:294
tobacco grown at, 2:86, 2:200, 2:239, 2:240
wheat grown at, 2:239, 2:240, 3:191

Lehré, Thomas

appointed loans commissioner, 6:113n
and appointment as federal marshal, 6:28, 6:29, 6:29n, 6:63–64, 6:64, 6:113
and celebration of Revolutionary War victory, 6:250
on J. W. Eppes’s election, 6:80
and P. Freneau, 6:611, 6:636
on Great Britain, 6:80
identified, 5:244n
introduces J. Bellinger to TJ, 6:317
letters from, 5:243–244, 5:284–286, 5:329–330, 5:332, 5:355–356, 5:393–394, 5:680–681, 6:28–29, 6:80, 6:113, 6:250–251, 6:317, 6:611, 6:636
letters to, 5:303–304, 6:63–64
on Republicans, 5:244
and S.C. politics, 5:243–244, 5:284–285, 5:285–286n, 5:303–304, 5:329, 5:329–330n, 5:332, 5:393, 5:680–681, 5:681n, 6:317
supports TJ and J. Madison for president, 6:28
on War of 1812, 6:250–251, 6:636

Leib, Michael

and A. Gallatin, 1:598, 1:599n
identified, 4:174n
letter from, 4:173–175
letter to, 4:164
recommends A. Macaulay, 2:304
supports W. Duane, 4:174
as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n, 4:173, 6:241

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:506n

Leiper, Thomas

and W. Duane, 3:450–451, 3:452n, 3:506, 3:507, 3:585
purchases TJ’s tobacco, 4:593

Leipzig, Battle of (Battle of the Nations), 6:637n

Leitch, James. See also Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

accepts draft, 2:234n
account with TJ, 1:64, 1:65n
agent for TJ, 3:83, 4:77, 5:394, 6:431
asks TJ for nails, 2:77
and gunpowder sales, 3:583
identified, 1:65n
as juror, 5:278, 5:279
letters from, 1:64–65, 1:458, 2:40, 2:77, 5:394, 6:431
letters to, 1:302–303, 4:182, 4:358, 4:477, 4:496, 4:647, 4:686–7, 5:119, 5:133, 5:394
letter to accounted for, 5:394n
petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380
requests payment from TJ, 2:40, 2:52–53, 2:77, 2:80
and timothy seed, 4:156, 4:194
TJ orders clothes from, 4:496
TJ orders goods from, 1:302–303
TJ orders household goods from, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211, 4:358, 4:477, 4:647, 4:686, 5:119, 5:133, 5:394
trades nails for goods, 1:64, 1:303, 1:458
vouches for O. Norris, 3:465
witnesses warrant, 5:280

Leitch, Samuel. See also Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

and Albemarle Volunteer Company subscription, 5:344
identified, 3:242n
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

agent for TJ, 3:200
letter from, 3:242, 6:40
letter from accounted for, 4:400n
letter to, 4:400, 6:341
and nails, 3:242
procures groceries for TJ, 6:40, 6:341
TJ’s account with, 4:400, 5:409, 6:337, 6:338n, 6:431, 6:431, 6:431n

Leith threshing machine, 5:444–445, 5:445n

Leland, John

A View Of the Principal Deistical Writers, 6:302

Lemaire, Etienne

identified, 1:56n
and kitchen inventory of President’s House, 1:43n, 1:155, 1:156n
letters from, 1:59–60, 1:71–72, 1:188–189, 1:222
letters to, 1:55–56, 1:161–162
maître d’hôtel, 1:42
offers to run errands in Philadelphia, 1:59–60, 1:71
paid by TJ, 1:41, 1:294
sends oil and syrup to TJ, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:222, 1:245, 1:257
TJ praises, 1:55–56, 1:71

Le Maire, Jacques, 1:450

Lemaire, Santiago, 3:478n, 5:85n

Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

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

Leney, William Satchwell

engraver, 6:125

Lenox, Peter

identified, 5:178–179n
letter from, 5:177–179
seeks position at Washington, 5:177–178
TJ pays, 1:41

Lenthall, John

clerk of works at U.S. Capitol, 1:92, 5:205
death of, 1:65n

Lentz, John, 6:83n

“Leolin.” See Austin, James Trecothick

León y Gama, Antonio de

Descripción histórica y cronológica de los piedras, 1:521, 1:556

Leopard, HMS

and Chesapeake incident, 2:261n

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:507n

Lepidium sativum (garden cress), 5:550–551

Lerasle

Encyclopédie Méthodique: Jurisprudence, 3:130, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:546

Le Ray de Chaumont, Jacques Donatien, 2:13, 3:446

Leroy, Louis

Les politiqves d’Aristote, 3:547

Le Sage, A. See Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, Comte de (A. Le Sage)

Le Sage, Alain René

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 4:163n

Lescallier, Daniel

and J. Corrêa da Serra, 5:7–8
identified, 1:184n
letter from, 1:184
and A. M. Rochon, 5:301
sends book to TJ, 1:184
Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine Anglais et Français, 1:36, 1:184n

Leslie, Charles

A Short and Easie Method with Deists, 3:590

lesser celandine. See ranunculus (buttercup; spearwort; water crowfoots)

Lesslie, John

and TJ’s flour, 4:12, 4:58

Le Tellier, François Michel, marquis de Louvois

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

Le Tellier, John

identified, 2:316n
and Jefferson Cups, 2:xlii, 2:315–316, 2:474, 3:83, 3:154, 3:168, 3:177
letter from, 2:474
letter to, 2:315–316

Letombe, Joseph Philippe, 5:266

Letter from the Secretary of State Accompanied with a List of the Names of Persons who have Invented any New and Useful Art, Machine, Manufacture or Composition of Matter, 6:282, 6:282n

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a List of the Names of Patentees, their Places of Residence, and the Nature of their Inventions or Improvements, 6:362

Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting a List of the Names of Persons to whom Patents have been Issued, 6:282, 6:282n

A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government (Walsh), 3:190n, 3:199, 3:200n

letter press, 3:xlvii, 3:358 (illus.)

Letters of Abbe Salemankis to a Friend in Ireland (“Salemankis”), 2:263, 2:296

The Letters of the British Spy (Wirt), 4:471, 4:472n, 4:560

Letters on Political Liberty (Williams), 3:189, 3:190n, 3:207

Letters on The Subject of The Catholics (Smith), 2:161

Letters to Friends (Cicero), 1:386

Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood (Priestley), 1:119, 1:121–122n

A Letter to a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina (Tucker), 5:458, 5:458n

A Letter to Harrison G. Otis, Esquire (J. Q. Adams), 4:435n

Letter to Henri Gregoire (Barlow), 1:588, 1:590n

A Letter to the Honorable John Randolph (“Numa”), 2:264, 2:290

Lettres d’un Bourgeois de New-Heaven (Condorcet), 5:595, 5:595–596n

Lettres Patentes du Roy

J. Armstrong sends, 5:8, 5:8n, 5:8–9n

Lettres sur la Vieillesse (Meister), 3:137, 3:393

Lettsom, John Coakley

collaboration with B. Waterhouse, 6:39n

lettuce

impact of drought on, 4:38
mentioned, 6:187
seeds, 4:527, 5:31, 5:490
tennis ball, 5:307, 5:307n

Leunclavius, Johannes

Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis, 3:546

Lewis (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1760)

on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. 1788)

given to T. J. Randolph, 6:36
on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Lewis, Capt.

master of schooner Liberty, 1:307, 2:349

Lewis, Ann Marks (TJ’s niece)

financial situation of, 3:90–91, 6:358
identified, 3:91n
letter from, 3:90–91
sends greetings to TJ, 6:358

Lewis, Charles (George Washington’s grandnephew)

impressed into British navy, 6:145n

Lewis, Charles (Meriwether Lewis’s uncle), 6:418–419

Lewis, Charles, Jr. (TJ’s uncle), 1:168n

Lewis, Charles Lilburne (TJ’s brother-in-law)

family of, 1:167, 1:168n, 1:415n
financial situation of, 3:90, 3:91, 3:242–243, 6:358
identified, 3:92–93n
and Jefferson v. Michie, 6:477, 6:479, 6:480, 6:481–482n
on Kentucky life, 3:92
letters from, 3:91–93, 6:358
requests money from TJ, 6:358

Lewis, David Jackson

identified, 5:281n
letter to accounted for, 5:281n
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
and warrant for restitution of land, 5:280–281, 6:215, 6:216n, 6:554, 6:555

Lewis, Fielding (Meriwether Lewis’s granduncle), 6:418

Lewis, Henry, 1:27

Lewis, Howell

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lewis, Isham (TJ’s nephew)

identified, 1:168n
letter from, 1:167–168
letters of introduction for from TJ, 1:215, 1:216
letter to, 1:181–182
and murder of slave, 1:168n
seeks TJ’s assistance, 1:167–168
TJ offers to teach surveying to, 1:181–182

Lewis, James

account of, 4:9
and deposition in Henderson case, 5:179, 5:180, 5:192–198, 6:153, 6:198, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:200, 6:200, 6:479
and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459, 5:139–141, 6:197, 6:197, 6:197, 6:478, 6:479, 6:572, 6:574n
identified, 5:197n
letter from accounted for, 5:198n
letter to accounted for, 5:180n
tends to ill slave, 3:283, 3:368, 3:529
and TJ’s land dispute with D. Michie, 5:139–141, 5:261

Lewis, Jane Woodson (Robert Lewis’s wife), 3:179

Lewis, Jesse

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lewis, Jesse (first)

petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380

Lewis, Jesse (second)

petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380

Lewis, John

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Lewis, John (George Washington’s grandnephew)

impressed into British navy, 6:145n

Lewis, John (Meriwether Lewis’s granduncle), 6:418

Lewis, Joshua, 2:443n

Lewis, Lillburne (TJ’s nephew)

family of, 3:90
and murder of slave, 1:168n

Lewis, Lucy B. (TJ’s niece)

financial situation of, 3:90–91, 6:358
identified, 3:91n
letter from, 3:90–91
sends greetings to TJ, 6:358

Lewis, Lucy Jefferson (TJ’s sister; Charles Lilburne Lewis’s wife)

death of, 3:92n
family of, 1:168n, 1:415n, 3:90–91, 6:611n

Lewis, Lucy Meriwether, 2:120, 2:241, 2:340

Lewis, Martha C. (TJ’s niece)

financial situation of, 3:90–91, 6:358
identified, 3:91n
letter from, 3:90–91
sends greetings to TJ, 6:358

Lewis, Mary Walker (Nicholas Lewis’s wife)

gives apples to TJ, 5:357
identified, 2:291–292n
letters from, 2:291–292, 5:357
letter to, 4:38
letter to accounted for, 2:38n
paid by TJ, 6:338n
seeks appointment for Wood, 4:186–187
sells victuals to TJ, 2:37–38, 2:291, 2:292n, 4:210
TJ sends figs to, 4:38

Lewis, Meriwether

and artifact collection of W. Clark, 1:510
death of, 1:436n, 1:602–603, 1:606–608, 1:632, 1:668, 2:30, 2:35, 2:42, 2:44, 2:120, 2:121, 2:191–192, 2:208, 6:423–424
education of, 6:419, 6:421–422, 6:424n, 6:426, 6:426
executor of, 2:123, 2:336, 2:567, 3:110, 3:166
family of, 6:418–419
health of, 6:423–424
as hunter, 6:419, 6:426
identified, 1:436n
and Indian dialects, 1:520, 1:556
land warrant granted to, 2:121, 2:122n, 6:424n
letter to, 1:435–437
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140, 6:417–418, 6:422–424
makes payment for TJ, 6:506, 6:506n
military career of, 6:419, 6:426
and J. Neelly, 2:30–31, 2:34, 2:73n, 2:121, 2:191–192, 6:423–424
papers of, 2:31, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:72, 2:121, 2:122, 2:123, 2:127, 2:140, 3:181–182
J. Pernier’s claim against estate of, 2:34, 2:192, 2:208–209, 2:364, 2:672, 2:673n, 3:49, 3:110
personal belongings of, 2:34, 2:121, 2:123, 2:191, 2:192, 2:208, 2:241, 2:340
plants discovered by, 2:90–91, 2:140, 4:524
prepares for Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1:101n, 1:194n, 6:421–422
and publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:668–669, 3:33, 3:150, 3:166–167, 3:181–182, 4:147, 6:417, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:430, 6:531–532
seeds brought by from the West, 1:192, 3:150, 3:166, 6:152
and stone block for TJ, 4:66
TJ introduces J. Bradbury to, 1:435–436
TJ on, 2:336, 2:340, 6:417–418
TJ’s biography of, 6:357, 6:418–424, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:531, 6:532
TJ’s claim against estate of, 2:294, 2:294
TJ sends greetings to, 1:511
TJ’s instructions for Lewis and Clark Expedition to, 6:422
as TJ’s private secretary, 6:421, 6:425n, 6:426
will of, 2:123–124, 2:140

Lewis, Morgan, 5:635, 5:637n, 6:242, 6:527

Lewis, Nicholas

family of, 4:186
land of bought, 3:622
as M. Lewis’s guardian, 6:419
manages TJ’s affairs, 5:88, 6:535, 6:535n
mentioned, 6:397

Lewis, Nicholas H.

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

Lewis, Nicholas Meriwether

seeks appointment for Wood, 4:187
TJ receives land from, 4:386

Lewis, Randolph (TJ’s nephew)

family of, 3:90
moves to Ky., 1:168n

Lewis, Robert (Meriwether Lewis’s grandfather), 6:418

Lewis, Robert (of Goochland Co.), 3:179, 3:211

Lewis, William (Meriwether Lewis’s father), 6:418

Lewis, William (of Philadelphia)

and batture controversy, 2:444–445n, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:658, 3:235, 3:271, 3:483

Lewis, William W.

and merino sheep, 2:233, 2:360, 2:361, 2:453, 2:454, 2:481, 2:496n

Lewis and Clark Expedition

and chronometer, 3:83n
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 5:612–613, 5:614n
P. Gass’s account of, 6:122
history of, 2:332, 3:166–167, 3:181–182, 3:309, 3:582, 3:649–650, 6:46, 6:357, 6:417–426
journals of, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140, 3:181–182
land warrants awarded in consequence of, 2:120, 2:121n
plants discovered during, 2:90–91, 2:140, 3:150, 3:166
publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30–31, 2:72, 2:140, 4:568, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:430, 6:531–532
route of, 4:550–551, 6:421
seeds from, 1:192n, 3:150, 3:166, 6:152
N. G. M. Senter on, 5:65–66
and stone block for TJ, 1:473, 1:475n, 4:66

Lexicon Ivridicvm Ivris Cæsarei simvl, et canonici, fevdalis item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici (Calvinus), 3:546

Lexington, Va.

Ann Smith Academy, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201
mail service to, 3:56, 3:104
Washington Academy, 1:367, 1:367–368n

libel

W. Duane sued for, 4:174–175
E. Gerry’s message on, 5:6, 5:7n
proposed punishment for, 4:122
prosecutions during TJ’s presidency, 1:276–278, 1:349–350

Liberty (ship), 1:307, 2:349

Liberty Hall Academy. See Washington Academy (later Washington and Lee University)

Liblong, Col. See le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

libraries. See also Library of Congress

at Alexandria, Egypt, 6:278, 6:542, 6:542
formed by S. R. Demaree in Ky., 1:455–457
TJ on, 1:205–206
TJ’s personal, 1:35–38, 1:390, 1:400n
Westwardmill Library Society, 1:66–67, 1:205–206, 1:508

Library of Congress

book list prepared to guide purchases for, 2:81–83
TJ on, 1:592

Liebault, Jean

Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme, 2:82, 4:139, 4:142n

Lieper, Thomas. See Leiper, Thomas

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Sterne), 6:616

Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth (Roscoe), 1:163, 1:164n, 1:435

The Life of Catharine II, Empress of all the Russias (Tooke), 1:580

Life of George Washington (Marshall)

mentioned, 6:258, 6:258, 6:258
TJ on, 1:589, 1:590n, 3:564, 3:565n, 6:440

The Life of George Washington (Ramsay), 1:35

Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, called the Magnificent (Roscoe), 1:164n, 1:435

Lightfoot, John

English theologian, 6:618

Light of Nature Pursued (Tucker), 6:302

Ligon, James

clerk for Gibson & Jefferson, 4:13n, 4:58n, 4:234n, 4:467, 4:530, 5:161, 5:316, 5:587
witnesses document, 4:278n

lilac, 1:61, 3:354

Lilburn (TJ’s slave; b. 1809). See Hern, Lilburn (TJ’s slave)

lilies

Allegheny, 1:660, 2:36
Canada, 2:103, 2:104n
TJ requests of B. McMahon, 3:545
Turk’s-cap, 4:523

Lilium canadense (Canada lily), 2:103, 2:104n

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

Lille Belt, HMS

encounter with USS President, 3:638, 3:639n

Lilly (TJ’s slave; b. 1791). See Hern, Lilly (TJ’s slave)

Lilly, Gabriel

Monticello overseer, 2:279, 2:281n, 4:543, 5:425
superintendent of TJ’s nailery, 2:281n

lima beans, 1:631, 1:657, 3:502, 5:658

lime (Citrus aurantifolia), 1:631–632

lime (mineral)

and J. Brand, 5:427
at Poplar Forest, 2:150, 5:381–382, 5:403, 5:663
requested from TJ, 2:201
toll on, 5:379

limestone survey (Albemarle Co.), 3:432–433, 3:458

Lincoln, Daniel Waldo

An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1810, before the “Bunker-Hill Association,”, 2:504, 2:505n, 2:666

Lincoln, Levi

family of, 2:666
identified, 1:49–50n
letters to, 1:49–50, 4:100
and J. Madison, 3:245, 3:246n
paid by TJ, 1:41, 1:49
as potential Supreme Court justice, 3:118, 3:124, 3:126, 3:151, 3:165, 3:178, 3:182, 4:100
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
and Yazoo land scheme, 3:127, 3:129n

Lind, James

An Essay on diseases incidental to Europeans, 3:38, 3:40n

Lindsay, Mr., 2:40

Lindsay, George G.

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lindsay, Reuben

friend of TJ, 4:671
hair described as white, 5:253
on W. McGehee, 3:35–36
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
and W. Short’s land, 4:60
travels to Montpellier, 1:562–563

Lindsey, Theophilus

correspondence with J. Priestley, 6:146, 6:233, 6:278, 6:300, 6:317–318, 6:367–368
Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, 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, 6:145–146, 6:146, 6:227, 6:227, 6:227, 6:237, 6:300, 6:302

Lindsey’s Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 1:359n

linen, 3:202, 3:280n, 3:309, 4:27, 4:102, 4:138, 4:231n, 5:187, 5:439, 5:470, 6:344, 6:347

Lingan, James McCubbin, 1:75

Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus (Littleton), 6:387

linguistics. See philology

Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné)

A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals (trans. Turton), 1:581
and Indian hemp, 4:667
mentioned, 5:601
and mineralogy, 2:489, 2:490n
Systema Naturæ, 4:536, 6:408, 6:409

Linnean Society of London, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521n

Linnean Society of Philadelphia, 1:663, 2:70

linseed oil, 1:55n, 1:77, 1:97, 5:33, 5:379

Linum perenne. See flax (Linum perenne)

lion’s foot (Prenanthes serpentaria)

as snakebite remedy, 1:58n

Lipop, Joseph

identified, 6:43n
seeks advice from TJ, 6:43

Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar; tulip tree), 3:353

earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n
and P. Gibson, 3:435–436, 3:441–442, 3:443
sheep shipped from, 2:431, 2:481
U.S. consulship at, 1:114, 3:441–442, 3:523–524, 3:541–542, 4:185, 4:212, 4:219, 5:313, 5:313n, 5:313–314, 5:314n, 5:319, 5:456, 5:504, 6:164

Lislet, Louis Moreau. See Moreau Lislet, Louis

List of Post Offices in the United States, 1:514

Liston, Robert, 5:266, 6:33, 6:34n

Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina

and J. Madison, 6:377
J. L. E. W. Shecut’s critique of, 6:377
TJ elected honorary member of, 6:377, 6:377, 6:483, 6:561

Lithgow, Alexander, 5:240n

Little Bear (Chippewa chief), 2:58n

Little Belt. See Lille Belt, HMS

Littlebury, trans.

Herodotus, 1:580

Little Dick (TJ’s slave; b. 1781). See Dick (TJ’s slave; b. 1781)

Littlejohn, John

chairs committee of Republican mechanics, 1:90n

The Little Medly: containing short remarks on the ... New Testament (Brunt), 1:403

Littlepage, Mr., 2:397, 2:433

Littleton, Mr. See Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton.

Littleton, Adam

Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus, 6:387

Littleton, Thomas

Anciennes loix des François, 3:130–131, 3:175n, 3:546

Livandais, Mr. See Livaudais, Jacques M.

Livaudais, Jacques M., 3:484, 5:85n

Lively, Charles

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
rents part of Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 4:197

Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, 2d Earl of

as British foreign secretary, 4:587, 4:671
and J. Henry’s mission, 4:541, 4:628
parliamentary comments of, 4:539
as prime minister, 5:156n

Liverpool Botanic Garden, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:435, 4:146

Lives (Plutarch; trans. W. & J. Langhorne), 1:580

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (Johnson), 6:183

livestock. See also cattle; hogs; horses; sheep

draught animals, 3:170, 3:348, 3:349, 3:371n
goats, 6:103
for Monticello, 1:81n
oxen, 4:373, 4:526, 6:306n
pigs, 4:109, 4:110n, 4:381, 4:382
at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:526

Livingston, Brockholst, 1:195n

Livingston, Edward. See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over; Livingston v. D’orgenoy; Livingston v. Jefferson; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston (Thomas Jefferson)

J. Adams on, 5:3
Address to the People of the United States, on the measures pursued by the Executive with respect to the Batture at New-Orleans, 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
An Answer to Mr. Jefferson’s Justification of His Conduct in the Case of the New Orleans Batture, 4:292n, 5:163, 6:627–628
bankruptcy of, 2:402
bill of complaint against TJ, 2:545, 2:546–550, 2:659, 3:226, 3:227n
canal of, 2:444n, 2:445–446n, 2:547, 2:548, 6:435–436
and case of J. Robbins, 6:255, 6:255
W. C. C. Claiborne on, 2:434, 2:471–472, 2:682, 3:25, 3:157–158
and G. Du Jareau, 2:484
Examination of the title of the United States, 3:476, 3:483
A. Gallatin on, 2:528, 3:68, 3:70, 3:71–72
identified, 2:549–550n
L. Moreau Lislet on, 3:174n, 3:175–176n
offers to aid Trist family, 4:572–573
opens canal on batture, 3:175n, 3:404, 3:406, 3:494–495, 3:496–497
portrait of, 4:xliv, 4:370 (illus.)
proclaims right to batture, 1:287n, 3:233, 3:234–235n, 3:248n, 3:484
and riots at Batture Sainte Marie, 2:440–442n, 3:26n, 3:495
and J. Robbins case, 5:3, 5:4n
speeches of, 6:297
L. W. Tazewell on, 5:44–45, 5:45
TJ on, 3:203–204, 4:292n, 5:134–135
and TJ’s Statement of Facts in the Batture Case, 4:110
E. Trist on, 4:572, 5:111–113
validity of land claim, 3:27n

Livingston, Louise (Edward Livingston’s wife)

offers to aid Trist family, 4:573

Livingston, Mary Stevens (Robert R. Livingston’s wife)

illustrates Essay on Sheep, 3:63, 3:64n

Livingston, Robert R.

death of, 6:55, 6:57n
Essay on Sheep, 1:667, 1:668n, 2:39, 2:83, 3:63, 3:64n, 4:637, 5:181, 5:182n
family of, 1:20n
identified, 4:638n
and inland navigation, 6:268–269n
letter to, 4:637–638
as member of Continental Congress, 4:475, 4:476n, 4:600, 4:601, 4:602, 6:440
and merino sheep, 1:529, 2:39, 4:637, 6:504
recommends F. A. Van der Kemp to TJ, 4:500, 4:501n
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:637
and F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507n, 4:614

Livingston, William

as member of Continental Congress, 6:612

Livingston, William, Jr., 1:195n

Livingston v. D’orgenoy, 3:233, 3:234n, 3:246–248, 3:265, 3:484, 5:134–135, 5:137n, 5:144–145, 5:315, 5:315n, 6:388, 6:390, 6:392, 6:392, 6:394, 6:395

Livingston v. Jefferson. See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

background of, 4:291–292n
dismissal reported to TJ, 4:303–304
J. Marshall’s opinion in, 4:297–303, 5:58, 5:59n, 5:176n
opinions published, 5:59n, 5:176, 5:176n, 5:219
TJ congratulated on dismissal of, 4:572
J. Tyler’s opinion in, 4:293–297, 5:58, 5:59n, 5:176n
U.S. Circuit Court dismisses, 4:304, 4:311, 4:367–368, 4:477, 4:520n, 4:631, 4:639, 5:240, 5:240–241n

Livy (Titus Livius)

Historiarum Libri Qui Extant, 1:580
lost works of, 6:278
mentioned, 6:402
Titi Livii Historiarum Libri, 5:501, 5:523, 5:549, 5:594, 5:594–595n, 5:625, 6:157
Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum Libri Qui Extant, 5:549, 5:549n
TJ on, 2:153, 6:53
TJ quotes, 6:402, 6:407n

Liza (slave), 4:15

Lloyd, James, 1:473, 2:70

Lloyd, Thomas, 1:214n

Lobinhes, Dr., 2:11, 2:12

Locke, Jesse (of Campbell Co.), 5:49

Locke, John

An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1:576
in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 5:545
mentioned, 6:238, 6:296, 6:296
portraits of, 3:305
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503, 4:506n
and A. B. Woodward’s work, 1:254n

Locke, Samuel, 6:501

locks, 6:346

locks (canal), 3:286–288, 3:303, 3:421–422

locus in quo, pleading on. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over: pleadings in

locust

bristly, 3:354
common, 3:353

Logan, Andrew

and Bank of the United States, 4:371–372, 4:373n
identified, 4:372–373n
letter from, 4:371–373
seeks TJ’s advice, 4:372

Logan, Deborah Norris (George Logan’s wife)

mentioned, 6:539

Logan, George

identified, 6:513–514n
letter from, 6:512–514
letter to, 6:538–540
opposes War of 1812, 6:512, 6:513
and peace with Great Britain, 6:512–513, 6:538–539
sells plows, 2:312–313, 2:334
sends book to J. Madison, 6:513
sheep of, 1:16
unofficial peace missions of, 6:512, 6:513n, 6:538

Logan, James

translates Cato Major, or Discourse on old age (Cicero), 3:137

Logan, James (Mingo Indian)

speech of, 2:204, 2:205n, 2:340

Logan County, Ky., 3:647–648

Logique (Destutt de Tracy), 4:203, 4:209n

La logique, ou, Les premiers developpemens de l’art de penser (Condillac), 5:276, 5:277n

Logwood, Burwell

identified, 2:119n
letter to A. L. Duncan, 2:119
and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:119, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 3:648

Logwood, Pruey Peyton, 2:117, 2:254, 3:648

Les lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (Domat; trans. Strahan), 3:160, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:547

Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l’Amerique sous le vent (Moreau de Saint Méry), 3:160, 3:175n

Lomax, Elizabeth, 1:305n

Lomax, Judith

and J. Adams, 6:440, 6:441n
identified, 6:464n
“Monticello”, 6:463–464
The Notes of an American Lyre, 6:464n
poetry of, 6:463, 6:464n
visits Monticello, 6:440

Lomax, Lunsford, 2:84, 2:256

Lomax, Thomas

exchanges seeds with TJ, 1:631, 1:657
and P. Henry, 4:603
identified, 1:631n
letter from, 1:631–632
letter to, 1:657
as P. Mazzei’s friend, 4:35

Lombardy poplars, 1:192n

London. See also Russell, Jonathan

Courier, 3:577, 3:578n
exchange at, 3:524, 3:558
firms, 3:426
Geological Society of, 5:514, 5:514, 5:514–515n
Horticultural Society of, 5:514, 5:514–515n
Linnean Society of, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521n
London Vaccine Institution, 6:342, 6:343n
newspapers in, 5:370n, 5:384
Royal Society of, 4:227, 4:228, 4:353, 5:513, 5:514–515n
Royal Veterinary College of, 5:414, 5:416n
Society of Antiquaries of, 5:513, 5:514–515n
TJ on burning the city, 5:186, 5:293
tunnels near, 6:574
U.S. agent at, 3:37

The London and Country Brewer (Ellis), 6:507

Long, Gabriel, 1:415, 1:416n

Long, James

letter from, 1:464–465
seeks TJ’s assistance, 1:464–465

Long, William B., 5:18n

Long’s Hotel (Washington, D.C.)

R. Fulton lectures at, 2:250, 2:251n
inaugural ball at, 1:10n

Long’s Ordinary (Spotsylvania Co.), 1:416n

A Long Talk, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, on their anniversary, A.D. 1810: in Providence (Pitman), 4:306n, 4:395–396

looking glasses, 1:303

looms, 3:202, 4:143, 4:428, 5:560, 5:562–563, 5:563, 6:107, 6:140, 6:556

López, Gregorio

Las siete partidas del sabio rey Don Alonso el Nono, 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:176n

Lormerie, Louis Philippe Gallot de

on Florida, 3:33
on forest management, 3:33–34
identified, 1:131n
and Ky. land, 1:342, 5:431–433
letter from accounted for, 1:343n
letters from, 1:128–131, 1:342–343, 3:32–35, 5:265–267, 5:375–377, 5:431–435, 5:550–552, 5:665–667, 6:33–34, 6:102–105, 6:190–191
letters to, 1:354–355, 5:304, 5:417, 6:49
medical knowledge of, 6:103, 6:103–104
Memoir on American Forest Management, 1:131–134, 1:342, 1:354
on preservation of water and milk at sea, 6:103
Proposal for the Military Use of Sugar, 5:552
return to France of, 6:102–103, 6:103, 6:190
seeks permission to ship goods to France, 1:128–129, 1:342, 1:354, 5:265–266, 5:304, 5:375–376, 5:417, 5:431–433, 5:441, 5:550, 5:665–666, 6:33, 6:49

lotteries

East Tennessee College, 2:266–267, 2:268n, 2:365
Potomac & Shenandoah navigation, 4:288
Susquehanna Canal, 4:391

Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of, 1:291n

Loudoun County Superior Court, 1:417

Louis XI, king of France

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506n, 5:459

Louis XII, king of France

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:501, 5:459

Louis XIV, king of France

declaration of 1683, 3:160, 3:236n
and edict of 1693, 2:524, 3:130, 3:131, 3:132, 3:160, 3:174n, 3:226
and edict of 1710, 2:524, 3:174n, 3:235, 3:236–237n, 3:484
and La. territorial charter, 2:676, 3:48n, 3:489–490
and ordinance of 1669, 2:657
W. Short on, 3:197
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:504

Louis XV, king of France

charters Company of the West, 2:657
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:507n

Louis XVI, king of France

execution of, 3:66n, 3:221n, 4:483, 4:484
TJ on, 2:276
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Louis XVIII, king of France, 3:221n

Louisa County, Va.

and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Louisa Court House, Va., 3:254n

Louisiade Archipelago (Solomon Sea), 5:202–203

Louisiana (revenue cutter), 2:445n

Louisiana (Spanish and French colony). See also Louisiana Territory; Orleans Territory

“Chronological Series of Facts relative to Louisiana” (Jefferson), 3:281, 3:282–283, 3:292, 3:297, 3:327, 3:328n
“Examination into the Boundaries of Louisiana” (Jefferson), 3:256, 3:281, 3:282–283
laws governing, 2:462, 2:471, 2:676, 3:52–53, 3:168, 6:395
maps of, 1:247, 1:248n
pamphlets on, 1:36, 1:37, 1:38n
Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana (Stoddard), 3:291–292
Spanish government of, 2:520, 2:523–524, 2:525
and Treaty of Paris (1763), 3:256–257

Louisiana (state)

conditions for statehood, 6:389, 6:390n, 6:395
constitution of, 4:648, 4:649n, 5:9, 5:9n
U.S. district court in, 6:390, 6:394, 6:395

Louisiana Gazette (Saint Louis newspaper), 4:7

Louisiana Gazette and New-Orleans Daily Advertiser, 3:234–235n, 3:418, 3:616

Louisiana Territory. See also Lewis, Meriwether; Louisiana (Spanish and French colony); Orleans Territory

act to establish (1804), 3:409, 3:410n
botanical expeditions in, 1:164n, 2:533, 4:535–536
boundaries of, 3:256–257, 3:282
exploration of navigable waters proposed, 1:443, 1:448–449
Federalists on, 3:256
land exchange with Great Britain, 1:672–673
J. Monroe offered governorship of, 2:35, 2:42–43, 2:44, 2:46n
sugar-cane industry in, 2:556
TJ on, 2:360

The Lounger’s Common-Place Book (Newman), 6:220, 6:280

Loury, Thomas T.

letter from, 3:647–648
sends silver ore sample to TJ, 3:647–648

Louvois. See Le Tellier, François Michel, marquis de Louvois

Love & Madness, A Story too True (Croft), 2:204, 2:339–340

Lovely Mathilda (ship), 2:353

Lovilo (TJ’s slave; b. 1801). See Hern, Lovilo (TJ’s slave)

Low, Esther Prentiss (wife of John Low [1763–1809])

and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (1763–1809)

and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (ca.1790–1829)

identified, 4:281–282n
letters from, 4:281–282, 4:336, 4:408, 4:530–531
letters to, 4:365–366, 4:558–559
TJ subscribes to The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281, 4:336, 4:365–366, 4:371, 4:408, 4:409, 4:530–531, 4:557, 4:558–559

Lowell, John

political writings of, 6:297

Lowry, Mrs., 5:121

Lowry, Andrew, 1:335

Lowry, Morrow, 1:335

Loyd, Mr., 6:255

Lozano, Joaquin, 3:478n

Lüber, Thomas. See Erastus, Thomas

Lucan

Pharsalia, 4:503, 4:506n

Lucinda (TJ’s slave; b. 1791)

laborer, 4:379
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:308, 6:308

Lucket, Mr. (captain of Diana), 5:289–290

Lucy (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. 1783)

on Monticello slave list, 4:387
on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:382, 4:383

Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1800)

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

Ludlow, Charles, 3:524

Ludlow, Edmund

Memoirs, 1:37, 1:580

Luke (New Testament evangelist), 6:278

Lukens, Isaiah

and perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–l, 5:358 (illus.), 5:558, 5:559n

Lukens, Samuel

letter from, 4:571
letter to, 4:619
and I. Shoemaker, 4:571, 4:619

lumber trade, 3:345–346

lunar caustic (silver nitrate)

as medicine, 4:416

lunettes, 5:507

Lusignem, Louis Hugues Thibault Henri Jacques, marquis de, 2:11, 2:12, 2:14

Luther, Martin, 6:409

Luzac, Jean

and F. A. Van der Kemp’s work on copper, 4:614

Luzerne Federalist (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)

prints poems on TJ, 1:429–431, 1:431–433

Lydia (brig), 1:629, 3:434n

Lydia (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

lye

as scab remedy, 5:182n

Lye, Edward

Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum, 6:406, 6:407n

Lyle, James

agent for Henderson, McCaul, & Co., 2:180, 2:216–217, 2:433, 2:513, 3:280, 3:341, 3:488, 3:538, 3:627–628, 4:11, 4:75–76
identified, 2:180n
letters from, 2:180, 3:280–281, 3:488, 3:627–628, 4:75–76
letters to, 2:216–217, 3:341–342, 3:538, 4:11
supposed land purchase from W. Byrd, 6:304
TJ pays, 4:10, 4:24
TJ’s account with, 4:76
vision loss of, 3:280–281, 3:341–342, 3:489, 4:75

Lyman, Jerushia

B. Rush on, 4:673–674

Lyman, William

and anonymous letter, 3:578
identified, 1:182n
letter from, 1:182
sends publication to TJ, 1:182
U.S. consul at London, 1:182, 4:673, 4:674n

Lyman, William, Jr.

arrives at Philadelphia, 4:673, 4:674n

Lynch, John

antislavery activities of, 3:267–269, 3:318–320
identified, 3:269n
letter from, 3:267–270
letter to, 3:318–320

Lynchburg, Va.

citizens of, address TJ, 1:671
economy of, 3:102–104
fish shipped to, 2:423, 2:503
flour market at, 3:103, 3:341
founding of, 3:269n
mail service to, 3:56, 3:102–104, 3:147–148, 3:164
plaster at, 5:457–458
price of tobacco at, 4:95, 4:105, 4:461
schools in, 6:64, 6:130–131, 6:451, 6:451
TJ on, 5:104–105

Lyon, James

and Georgia Republican, 4:92, 4:127, 4:128n, 4:130–131
identified, 4:131n
letter to, 4:130–131
whereabouts of, 4:112, 4:128

Lyon, Matthew

family of, 4:112
persecutes W. Duane, 3:449

Lyon, Oliver, 1:33n

Lyons, Mr., 1:338

Lyons, Peter, 2:369, 2:370, 2:540

Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton

The History of the Life of Henry the Second, and of the Age in which he lived, 2:51

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