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Nace (TJ’s slave; b. 1773)

  • as headman, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308
  • tasks for, 4:379–380

Nace (TJ’s slave; b. 1796)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Nack, James Madison, 3:345

Nack, Matthias

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

Nack, Rinier, 3:345

Nack, Sarah, 3:345

naileries

  • at Monticello, 1:39n, 1:282, 1:422, 1:423n, 1:503, 2:328, 3:412n
  • R. Morgan proposes establishing, 1:209
  • nailrod and iron stock, 1:246, 1:282, 1:319, 1:422, 1:423n, 1:435, 1:503, 2:328–329, 2:463, 3:214, 3:290, 3:526, 3:597, 4:57, 4:315, 4:522, 4:548, 5:133

nails

  • and batture controversy, 2:545, 2:546, 2:547
  • and 1810 census, 3:202
  • as payment for J. B. Magruder, 4:420–421, 4:464–465
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:380
  • purchased by TJ, 2:89, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347
  • sold by TJ, 2:370, 3:302, 3:526
  • supplied to J. Leitch, 1:64, 1:303, 1:458, 3:242, 4:400

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

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

Nancy (TJ’s slave; b. 1791)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Nancy (TJ’s slave; b. 1812)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:386n, 5:462, 6:308

Nanny (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Nanny (TJ’s slave; b. 1778)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:308, 6:309, 6:309, 6:310, 6:310

Nanny (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1799)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Napier, Thomas, 5:15

Naples

  • American property seized in, 2:162

Napoleon I, emperor of France

  • J. Adams on, 5:13
  • American antipathy toward, 6:376n
  • appointments of, 4:35, 4:36n
  • armies of, 4:17, 5:68, 5:212
  • and Austria, 1:140–141, 1:328, 1:370–371, 2:7, 2:9n, 6:540n
  • Battle of Aspern-Essling, 1:371–372, 1:377n, 1:436
  • bust of, 3:624
  • code of, 3:71, 3:546, 5:576, 5:576–577n
  • coins word, 6:286
  • Continental System, 1:331–332, 1:373, 1:442, 1:517n, 2:162, 2:345, 2:406, 2:418, 4:37n, 4:54, 4:78n, 4:234
  • H. Dearborn on, 3:553
  • defeated in Russia, 6:212, 6:293, 6:539, 6:540n
  • described as Antichrist, 4:484
  • diplomatic appointments, 1:537
  • and droit d’aubaine, 3:472n, 3:653
  • 1813 campaign of, 6:619, 6:637n
  • engraving of, 3:310n
  • fails to conquer Syria, 2:274, 2:277n
  • family of, 1:250n, 5:214, 5:215n
  • at Fontainebleau, 1:627, 1:629
  • and Great Britain, 1:528, 2:242, 2:476
  • health of, 1:529
  • on ideology, 6:52
  • intentions unclear, 1:160, 1:169, 1:224, 1:251
  • Lafayette on, 1:528
  • J. Madison on, 3:463, 5:587
  • marriage of, 2:242, 2:246n, 2:287, 2:466, 3:198
  • mentioned, 2:276, 2:311, 3:226, 6:87, 6:466, 6:522, 6:539
  • and merino sheep, 5:8n
  • newspaper attacks on, 3:50n
  • and Pope Pius VII, 2:7, 2:9n, 2:242
  • portraits of, 3:624–625
  • practices religious toleration, 6:541–542, 6:543n
  • and publication on ancient vases, 1:453n
  • receives J. Barlow, 4:358, 4:540n
  • on republican government, 6:286
  • restricts freedom of the press, 6:401
  • W. Short on, 3:197, 3:199
  • and Spain, 1:160, 1:344, 2:247
  • Spain resists, 4:56–57, 4:271
  • Madame de Staël Holstein on, 5:449–451
  • TJ compared to, 4:117, 4:306
  • TJ on, 1:20, 1:154–155, 1:169, 1:442, 2:210, 2:341, 2:491, 3:208, 3:238, 3:313, 3:437, 3:554, 3:578–579, 4:52, 4:83, 4:84n, 4:148, 4:149n, 4:670, 4:672, 5:311, 5:385, 5:502, 5:546, 5:561, 5:600–601, 6:53, 6:57–58, 6:140–141, 6:144, 6:293–294, 6:539, 6:644–645
  • and trade agreement with U.S., 5:577n
  • in S. G. Tucker’s poem, 1:617, 1:619n
  • and U.S., 1:154–155
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506, 4:507n
  • D. B. Warden on, 3:274
  • and weights and measures, 4:410

Napoleon François Joseph Charles, king of Rome (son of Napoleon I)

  • birth of, 5:214, 5:215n

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

Nash, Melatiah

  • The Columbian Ephemeris and Astronomical Diary, for the year 1812, 4:213–214, 4:243–244, 4:245n
  • identified, 4:214n
  • letter from, 4:213–214
  • letter to, 4:243–245

Nash, Thomas

  • and J. Robbins affair, 5:4n

Nashville

  • Nashville Whig, 6:112

Nashville Whig, 6:112

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

Natchez, Miss., 2:211, 2:356, 3:149

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

National Gazette (Philadelphia newspaper), 1:113n

National Institute of France. See Institut de France

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

  • advertisements in, 4:201–202n
  • and allegations against A. Gallatin, 3:70n
  • and W. Brown, 2:265, 2:266n
  • compared to other newspapers, 6:340n
  • on Conn. libel prosecutions, 1:349–350, 2:179
  • and G. W. Erving, 4:31
  • and Gallatin-Smith feud, 2:225n
  • mentioned, 6:259
  • as party newspaper, 1:30n, 1:65
  • prints correspondence to TJ, 2:510n, 3:625n
  • prints diplomatic correspondence, 2:418, 2:419n, 2:470, 2:471n
  • prints J. Madison’s annual messages, 3:260n, 4:541n
  • prints TJ’s correspondence, 1:12n, 1:14n, 1:23n, 1:34n, 1:569n, 3:320n, 5:644n
  • prints D. B. Warden’s review of C. C. Robin, 3:557, 3:558n
  • reports W. Hampton’s death, 2:44n
  • and Tammany Society, 2:399
  • TJ forwards letter for publication in, 2:670
  • TJ’s account with, 2:670, 2:671n, 6:461–462, 6:505, 6:506, 6:544, 6:560, 6:648
  • TJ subscribes to, 2:175n, 4:633, 6:399, 6:560
  • and War of 1812, 5:173

Native American (Norwich, Conn., newspaper)

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

“A Native Virginian”

  • accuses TJ of misuse of public funds, 1:43n

The Natural and Civil History of Vermont (Williams), 1:581, 2:71

Natural Bridge, Va.

  • drawing of, by Baron de Turpin, 1:197, 1:198–199n
  • proposed sale of TJ’s lands at, 1:318, 1:319–320, 1:367, 1:506–507, 3:155–156
  • saltpeter cave near, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 3:155
  • and shot manufactory, 1:319–320n, 1:367n
  • visitors to, 4:675

natural history

  • books on, 6:133, 6:134n, 6:213, 6:368–369
  • study of, 2:308, 2:507–510, 2:551
  • TJ receives books on, 1:36
  • TJ recommends books on, 1:581

Naturalis Historiæ (Plinius), 3:547

natural law

  • and batture controversy, 3:138–139, 3:142, 3:144

natural philosophy

  • binding of TJ’s books on, 1:37, 1:38n
  • study of, 2:110, 2:134
  • TJ on, 4:162
  • TJ recommends books on, 1:508, 1:581

Natural Theology (Paley), 3:590

Nature Displayed (Dufief), 1:581, 3:98n, 5:467n, 5:557

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

The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (Blunt)

  • sent to TJ, 4:13, 4:55, 4:202, 6:535, 6:559

The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (Garnett)

  • bound by J. Milligan, 1:35, 1:225, 1:286
  • errors in, 4:13, 4:55, 4:202, 4:222, 4:230
  • and W. Lambert, 1:492, 1:498n, 2:62, 2:64, 2:338n
  • and R. Patterson, 3:431–432, 3:447, 3:479
  • sent to TJ, 4:167, 4:289

Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (London edition)

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

Navarro, Mr., 3:491

navigational instruments, 3:447–448

Navy Department, U.S. See also Hamilton, Paul (1762–1816); Jones, William

  • applications to, 4:91, 4:171–172, 4:178, 6:126, 6:161–162, 6:170–171, 6:211, 6:211
  • appointments to, 4:185
  • chief clerk of, 1:445n, 1:601
  • congressional committee investigates, 1:361, 1:362n
  • and floating batteries, 2:606
  • gunboats of, 1:203, 1:510, 2:177–178, 2:258, 2:259, 2:412n, 2:606, 5:524, 5:526n, 6:216, 6:320
  • Marine Barracks, 1:601, 1:649
  • offer to supply duck cloth to, 2:99
  • and D. Porter’s voyage of discovery, 1:443, 1:445n
  • TJ on, 5:606
  • and War of 1812, 6:14–15
  • Washington Navy Yard, 4:63, 5:206, 6:307

Neal, Daniel

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

Neal, John

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

Nebuchadnezzar

  • referenced by TJ, 5:135–136, 5:137n

Necker, Jacques

  • on bank in Paris, 6:650
  • family of, 5:452n, 6:140, 6:144–145, 6:145n
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Necker, Suzanne Curchod de Nasse, 5:452n

nectarines

  • planted at Monticello, 3:455

Ned (J. B. Couch’s slave)

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

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

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

Needham (Nedham), Marchamont

  • read by J. Adams, 4:474

Needham, Peter, 2:81

Neef, Joseph

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

Neelly, James

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

Négrin, John J., 3:49–50

Neilson (Nelson), John

  • identified, 5:299–300n
  • and lost box, 1:77, 1:84
  • TJ recommends, 5:299
  • and work at Bremo, 3:136n
  • and work at Montpellier, 1:136n, 1:155

Nelson, Mr. See Neilson (Nelson), John

Nelson, Horatio, Viscount

  • Battle of Trafalgar, 2:317
  • compared to American commodore, 4:109

Nelson, Hugh

  • as circuit court judge, 3:532–533
  • family of, 4:493, 4:499
  • and figs for J. Walker, 1:500
  • identified, 1:500n
  • and legislation concerning military preparations, 4:393, 4:394n, 4:568
  • letters from, 1:500, 4:393–394, 4:492–493, 4:566–569
  • letters to, 4:367–368, 4:482, 4:585–586
  • and W. McClure’s debts, 5:174–175, 5:328–329, 5:639–640
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • potential governor of Va., 3:303
  • reference for F. Willis, 4:516
  • and TJ’s statement on the batture case, 4:367–368, 4:393–394, 4:482, 4:492–493, 4:499, 4:567–568
  • and Va. land warrants, 4:566–567, 4:568–569n, 4:585

Nelson, Judith, 1:670

Nelson, Nancy Crawford Henderson (Bennett Henderson’s daughter; Matthew Nelson’s wife), 1:440, 1:459, 1:460–461, 1:463, 5:422, 5:423, 6:50–6:51, 6:51n, 6:367, 6:367n, 6:472

Nelson, Roger

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

Nelson, Thomas

  • appointed loan officer, 1:25
  • bonds of, 3:426, 3:458
  • as governor of Va., 3:99, 3:101n, 4:432–433, 4:434n

Nelson, William

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

Neponset Indians, 5:184–185, 5:186n

Nepos, Cornelius

  • Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum, 1:580

Neptune (ship), 6:103

Neptunism

  • German geological school, 3:263–264

Néron, Pierre

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

The Netherlands

  • American property seized in, 2:162n, 2:342
  • annexed to France, 2:242, 2:245, 2:246n, 2:325
  • Battle at Flushing, 1:529, 1:530n, 1:593n
  • Bonaparte, Louis (king), 1:194, 2:49n, 2:354
  • and British trade, 1:464
  • emigration from, 2:608
  • government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16
  • and madder cultivation, 3:289
  • tobacco shipped to, 2:262
  • and U.S. finances, 2:73
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:503, 4:504, 4:505, 4:507n

nettle

  • wood (Urtica Whitlowi), 4:427–428n

Neville, Henry

  • Plato Redivivus, 4:474, 4:476n

A New Abridgment of the Law (Bacon), 3:546, 3:547

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

The New and Complete American Encyclopædia: or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 4:281, 4:336, 4:365–366, 4:371, 4:408, 4:409, 4:530–531, 4:557, 4:558–559

A New and Complete System of Arithmetic (Pike), 1:576, 4:244, 4:245n

New and Elegant General Atlas (Arrowsmith), 4:352, 4:354n

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

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

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

New Brunswick, N.J.

  • Democratic Corresponding Society, 3:510–511

Newburyport, N.H.

  • collector at, 1:25

Newby, William P.

  • carries letter to TJ, 5:394
  • identified, 4:414n
  • letter from, 4:414, 5:260
  • mentioned, 6:344
  • Tufton overseer, 4:101, 4:414, 5:260

New Caledonia, 5:202–203

New Canton, Va.

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

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

Newell, Thomas

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

New England

  • and candidates for Supreme Court, 3:126–127
  • and criticism of TJ’s administration, 1:138n
  • Federalists in, 1:301, 1:583–584, 3:113, 3:120–121, 3:122n, 3:229–232, 3:257, 5:13, 5:14n, 5:640–641
  • history of, 5:386–390, 5:390n, 5:508–513, 5:513n, 5:583–584, 5:585n
  • and madder cultivation, 3:288
  • politics in, 3:28, 3:75, 3:553
  • Republicans in, 3:121, 3:128, 3:246
  • Revolutionary War volunteers from, 6:577
  • TJ on law in, 3:117–119, 3:124–125, 3:165

The New-England farmer, or, Georgical dictionary (Deane), 1:581

New England Mississippi Land Company, 3:129n

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

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

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

New Hampshire

  • and canals, 2:674
  • elections in, 2:348, 2:429, 2:430n, 2:506, 2:533, 2:537, 5:396–397, 5:453, 5:453n
  • Republicans in, 3:27–28, 3:127

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

New Jersey

  • elections in, 5:396–397

New Jersey (ship), 1:36

New Kent County, Va.

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

New London, Conn.

  • British blockade of, 6:190

New London, Va.

  • latitude calculations of, 4:98, 4:369
  • mentioned, 5:338, 5:339, 5:339n
  • military arsenal at, 5:81, 5:104–105, 5:107

Newman, Jeremiah Whitaker

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

Newnan, Daniel

  • E. Fla. campaign of, 6:113n

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

  • in American Revolution, 4:377
  • banks in, 3:344n
  • canals at, 2:244, 2:246n, 2:485, 6:435–436
  • city council of, 6:388, 6:390–391, 6:392–393, 6:394–395
  • climate, 2:44
  • collector at, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:122, 2:284, 2:285n, 2:356, 2:357n
  • commissioner, 1:179n
  • defenses, 2:258, 2:375n, 5:383
  • and G. Du Jareau, 2:372–373, 2:375n, 2:483, 2:484, 2:487n, 2:552, 2:663, 2:665n
  • fire at, 2:663
  • and French refugees, 1:203
  • goods shipped to, for TJ, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n, 1:510
  • gunboats at, 1:203, 1:510
  • height of Mississippi River at, 2:445–446n, 2:522
  • immigrants to, 2:211, 2:269
  • judges in, 3:31
  • E. Livingston arrives at, 3:157
  • and Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:294, 4:296
  • mail service to, 2:178–179
  • maps of, 2:351, 2:446n, 2:463, 2:517–518n, 3:83, 3:487, 3:488n, 3:500
  • and nearby slave insurrection, 3:326, 3:344n
  • need for fire pumps in, 2:484
  • Orleans Parish court, 6:433–434, 6:434–436, 6:437n
  • outlet for western produce, 2:359, 2:360
  • petitions from inhabitants, 3:25, 3:26–27n, 3:475, 3:484
  • port of, 6:388–389, 6:390, 6:390, 6:395, 6:395, 6:434, 6:435, 6:435, 6:435, 6:435–436, 6:436, 6:436
  • and N. G. M. Senter’s charitable organization, 5:65, 5:68n, 5:218
  • Telegraphe et le General Advertiser, 2:657, 3:233, 3:234n
  • wardens at, 3:486
  • and yellow fever, 2:135–136, 2:356

Newport, Ky.

  • arsenal at, 6:577

newspapers. See also Enquirer (Richmond newspaper); National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C., newspaper)

  • Albany Register, 5:318, 5:319n, 5:354n
  • Alexandria Gazette, 5:173
  • Annapolis Maryland Republican, 1:303–304
  • Baltimore American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 2:173, 2:174n
  • Baltimore Federal Republican & Commercial Gazette, 3:261–263, 3:414n, 4:234, 5:682n
  • Baltimore North American and Mercantile Daily Advertiser, 3:262n
  • Baltimore Observer, 4:336, 4:338n
  • Baltimore Weekly Register, 4:177–178
  • Bardstown Republican (Ky.), 4:277n
  • Boston Columbian Detector, 5:110n
  • Boston Democrat, 1:50n
  • Boston Independent Chronicle, 1:50n, 1:671, 1:673n
  • Boston Patriot, 1:533n, 1:569n, 4:92
  • bound for TJ, 1:37
  • British, 1:82
  • Charleston City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 6:251n, 6:611, 6:611n, 6:636, 6:636n
  • collection of Va., owned by TJ, 1:289n, 1:369, 1:370n, 1:381, 1:457, 1:469, 1:472–473, 3:190–191, 3:569–570, 3:636
  • Eastport, Me., Northern Light, 5:110n
  • Federalist, 6:632–633
  • in Frederick, Md., 1:107n
  • Hagers-Town Gazette (Md.), 4:37n
  • Hope’s Philadelphia Price-Current and Commercial Record, 5:133, 5:133n
  • Hudson, N.Y., Bee, 3:185n
  • Lexington, Ky., Reporter, 4:285
  • London Weekly Political Register, 5:370n, 5:384
  • Louisiana Gazette and New-Orleans Daily Advertiser, 3:234–235n, 3:418, 3:616
  • Maryland Herald, and Hagers-Town Weekly Advertiser, 4:37n
  • Nashville Whig, 6:112
  • New London Bee, 3:185n, 3:227
  • New Orleans Telegraphe et le General Advertiser, 2:657, 3:233, 3:234n
  • New York Columbian, 5:621n
  • New York Daily Columbian, 3:185, 3:510–511n
  • New-York Evening Post, 3:414, 3:539, 3:540n, 3:557, 6:313, 6:314n
  • New York Mercantile Advertiser, 1:96n, 5:684–685, 5:685n
  • New York Public Advertiser, 1:226–229
  • New York Standard of Union, 6:339, 6:340n, 6:340n, 6:340n, 6:400, 6:401n
  • Norwich, Conn., Native American, 5:407n
  • Philadelphia American Weekly Messenger; or, Register of state papers, history and politics, 6:599, 6:599n
  • Philadelphia Aurora, 1:48, 1:49n, 2:175n, 4:56, 4:174, 6:83, 6:83n, 6:510
  • Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 3:50n
  • Philadelphia Gazette of the United States, 2:92, 2:93n
  • Philadelphia National Gazette, 1:113n
  • Philadelphia Political and Commercial Register, 2:284, 2:285n
  • Philadelphia Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 3:95n, 3:577, 3:578n
  • Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 1:30n
  • Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n
  • politics of, 3:584, 3:595
  • Raleigh Star, 1:125n, 1:677
  • Richmond Spirit of ’Seventy-Six, 1:93
  • Richmond Virginia Argus, 1:290, 1:291n, 2:224, 2:225n, 4:472n
  • Saint Louis Louisiana Gazette, 4:7, 4:53
  • Salem Register (Mass.), 1:50n
  • Savannah Georgia Republican, 4:92, 4:127, 4:128n, 4:130–131
  • subscriptions to, by TJ, 1:48, 1:49, 1:50n, 1:85, 1:96, 1:107, 1:214, 3:185n, 4:56, 4:92, 4:127–128, 4:130–131, 4:177–178, 6:461–462, 6:505, 6:505n, 6:506, 6:560, 6:648
  • TJ on, 1:49, 3:257, 3:440–441, 3:584, 3:592, 3:595, 3:607, 3:616, 4:429, 4:471, 4:472, 4:637, 6:154, 6:400–401, 6:524
  • Trenton True American, 1:226–229, 3:510–511
  • Virginia, 1:288–289, 1:369, 4:467
  • Washington Monitor, 1:107
  • in Williamsburg, 1:370n
  • Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, 3:190–191
  • Winchester Republican Constellation, 2:120, 2:174
  • Worcester, Mass., National Aegis, 1:50n

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

Newton, Isaac

  • acquaintances, 3:356
  • in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 5:545
  • genius of, 2:171, 3:305
  • and geodesy, 1:357
  • mentioned, 6:238
  • TJ on, 3:305
  • TJ reads, 4:429, 4:474, 6:302
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Newton, John

  • and committee of Republican mechanics, 1:90n

Newton, Thomas

  • forwards ram to TJ, 1:596
  • identified, 3:611n
  • introduces R. E. Lee, 6:364
  • introduces W. R. Nimmo, 3:611
  • letter from, 3:611, 6:364

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

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

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, 6:220, 6:280, 6:441, 6:471, 6:533

New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (Barton), 1:520–521

New York (city). See also Bailey, Theodorus: postmaster in New York City

  • collector at, 3:604, 3:637–638, 4:365, 4:589, 4:591
  • commerce at, 4:26
  • Daily Columbian, 3:185n, 3:227, 3:510–511n
  • defenses of, 2:258, 6:120–121, 6:122n
  • dinner for J. Armstrong, 3:251–252
  • dinner for D. B. Warden, 3:340
  • Federalists in, 3:345
  • flour exported from, 6:48
  • Gazette, 3:95n
  • and imprisonment for debt, 4:489–492
  • influenza in, 1:257, 1:294–295
  • Mechanics Hall, 1:171
  • Medical Repository, 3:333
  • Mercantile Advertiser, 1:96n
  • newspapers, 5:621n, 5:684–685, 5:685n
  • New-York Evening Post, 3:414, 3:539, 3:540n, 3:557
  • Public Advertiser, 1:226–229
  • Republicans in, 3:345–346
  • Republicans in address TJ, 1:530–534
  • Spanish consul at, 1:578, 1:604
  • TJ addresses Republicans in, 1:568–569

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

  • and canals, 2:674
  • Dutch inhabitants of, 2:202
  • elections in, 1:183, 2:367, 2:430n, 3:306
  • insolvency laws of, 4:490
  • judicial system in, 4:491
  • lawyers from, 2:432
  • legislature of, 6:122n
  • legislature of, addresses TJ, 1:79–80
  • longitude of Kinderhook, 4:263, 4:654
  • maps of, 3:459–460, 3:521, 3:597–598
  • and merino sheep, 2:456
  • newspapers, 3:185n, 5:318, 5:319n, 5:354n
  • Report of the Commissioners, 3:459–460, 3:597
  • Republicans in, 4:53–54, 4:543
  • steamboats in, 4:199, 4:199–200, 4:235
  • Tammany societies of, 4:53–54, 6:218, 6:218–219n, 6:219n, 6:526n
  • TJ addresses legislature of, 1:125
  • U.S. Military Academy (West Point), 1:23n, 2:258, 2:261n, 3:93–94, 4:375n, 4:376, 4:434
  • wheat harvest in, 2:496
  • works on, 6:352, 6:352, 6:352–353n, 6:400, 6:400n, 6:449, 6:450, 6:450, 6:450n, 6:450n

New-York Evening Post, 3:414, 3:539, 3:540n, 3:557, 6:313, 6:314n

New-York Historical Society, 2:503n

Nexsen, William

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

Niagara Campaign. See War of 1812: Niagara Campaign

Nicholas, George, 3:208

Nicholas, Jane Hollins. See Randolph, Jane Hollins Nicholas

Nicholas, John

  • as Albemarle Co. clerk, 1:462–463n, 2:229n, 5:141n, 5:570n, 5:623–624n, 5:651, 5:658
  • and Mutual Assurance Society, 1:318
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
  • and Rivanna Company, 3:146n, 3:272, 3:286

Nicholas, Lewis

  • as E. Randolph’s trustee, 4:231n

Nicholas, Margaret Smith (Wilson Cary Nicholas’s wife), 2:198n, 2:329, 3:526n

Nicholas, Philip Norborne

  • drafts address, 1:611n
  • as E. Randolph’s trustee, 4:231n, 4:366
  • and R. Smith’s dismissal, 5:648n
  • sued by A. Randolph’s executors, 4:595, 4:597
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
  • Va. attorney general, 2:470

Nicholas, Robert Carter

  • and P. Henry, 4:598
  • and Stamp Act resolutions, 4:599
  • and TJ’s Richmond lot, 4:154, 4:287

Nicholas, Robert Carter (ca. 1788–1856)

  • identified, 5:646n
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
  • seeks military appointment, 5:645–646, 5:647–648, 5:684, 5:685n

Nicholas, Wilson Cary

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:347, 3:351n
  • and appointment of principal assessor, 6:443
  • J. Armstrong on, 5:645–646, 5:646n
  • on banks, 6:600
  • foreign policy views, 1:223, 1:224, 2:194–195
  • forwards letter from TJ, 4:527
  • and franking privilege for TJ, 1:278, 1:349
  • identified, 1:223n
  • illness of, 1:223, 2:194, 2:195, 2:197, 2:226, 2:329, 2:341
  • letters from, 1:223, 1:349–350, 2:193–196, 2:495, 6:600–602
  • letters to, 1:224, 1:276–279, 2:81, 2:334, 3:347, 6:594–595
  • mentioned, 3:526n
  • and merino sheep, 2:495
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
  • resigns congressional seat, 2:46n, 2:81, 2:193–195
  • and R. Smith’s dismissal, 5:646–648, 5:648n, 5:684
  • TJ recommends agricultural publications to, 2:81, 2:81–83, 2:195
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
  • and TJ’s letters on finance, 6:594, 6:600–602
  • and TJ’s libel prosecutions, 1:276–278, 1:349–350
  • on wartime finance, 6:600–602

Nicholson, Samuel, 5:641–642, 5:642n

Nicholson, William

  • An Introduction to Natural Philosophy, 1:581

Niclas, Johann Nicolaus, 2:81

Nicotiania latifolia. See tobacco

nicotine, 1:149–150

Nicy (Nisy) (TJ’s slave; b. 1799)

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

Niemcewicz, Julian Ursin

  • identified, 3:62–63n
  • letter from, 3:62–63
  • and TJ’s membership in Royal Society of the Friends of Science in Warsaw, 3:62

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

Nijmegen, Treaty of (1678–79)

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

Nile, Battle of the, 6:623

Nile River

  • and batture case, 3:45–46, 3:132–134, 3:135n, 3:226

Niles, Hezekiah

  • and Baltimore Tammany Society, 1:176–178
  • and Baltimore Weekly Register (Niles’ Weekly Register), 4:177–178
  • identified, 4:178n
  • letters from accounted for, 4:177–178
  • letters to accounted for, 4:177–178

Niles’ Weekly Register. See Weekly Register (Baltimore newspaper)

Nimmo, Matthew

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

Nimmo, William Robinson

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

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

Noah (Old Testament patriarch), 6:137, 6:183

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

Noailles, Henriette Daguesseau, duchesse de

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

Noailles, Louis Marie, vicomte de, 2:10, 2:26n

Noel, Mr., 5:663

Noël de la Morinière, Simon Barthélemy Joseph

  • and American fish, 5:601–602, 5:604n, 5:604–605
  • Histoire Naturelle Économique et Politique des Poissons Utiles, 5:601, 5:603–604n
  • identified, 5:604n
  • letter from, 5:601–604
  • Questionnaire on River Fishes, 5:604–606

“John Nokes”

  • mentioned, 6:590, 6:593n

Non-Intercourse Act

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

Noodt, Gerard

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

Noot, Henri van der

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

Nootka, 1:446

Norfolk, Bank of, 1:626

Norfolk, Va.

  • canal at, 6:119, 6:121
  • mentioned, 3:505
  • and War of 1812, 6:20, 6:536, 6:536, 6:536

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

Norris, Opie

  • identified, 3:465n
  • letter from, 3:464–465
  • letters from accounted for, 3:465n
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • and Shadwell Mill, 3:464–465, 5:575

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

  • conciliatory propositions of, 4:601
  • and peace negotiations, 3:40n

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

The North American Sylva (Michaux), 2:681n

North Carolina

  • climate compared to Mississippi, 2:360
  • earthquake in, 4:573
  • elections in, 5:396–397
  • and land warrants, 3:548, 3:549n
  • Roanoke River navigation, 5:458, 5:458n
  • surveying of, 5:100–101

Northcut, Daniel

  • and lost trunk, 1:311, 1:347

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

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

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

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

Northmore, Thomas

  • Washington, or Liberty Restored, 4:392, 4:393n, 4:470, 4:471

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

Northwest Coast

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

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

Northwest Ordinance, 2:521

Northwest Territory

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

Norvell, Mr., 2:27, 3:512

Norvell, John

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

Norvell, William

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

Norwich, Conn.

  • newspapers in, 5:407n

Notes of an American Lyre (Lomax), 6:464n

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

Notes on the State of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson)

  • and H. M. Brackenridge, 6:322
  • M. Carey edition, 4:431n
  • and climate change, 2:71
  • description of Harper’s Ferry, 1:197, 5:407n
  • first American edition, 3:243n
  • and J. S. Gaines, 4:117n
  • H. Grégoire on, 1:588–589
  • A. von Humboldt obtains copy of, 1:265, 3:108, 4:352, 4:354n
  • and mammoths, 5:460, 5:460n
  • and J. Melish’s work, 3:386n, 5:627–628, 5:629n
  • and native Americans, 2:60n, 2:204–205, 2:340
  • and T. H. Palmer’s work, 5:650
  • Paris edition, 1:587–588, 1:600, 3:555
  • W. Pechin’s edition, 2:173, 2:174n, 2:215–216
  • revised edition proposed, 1:385, 1:486, 1:567–568, 1:587–588, 1:600–601, 1:654, 3:38, 3:40n, 3:87
  • and slavery, 2:382n
  • J. Stockdale edition, 1:588
  • TJ on posthumous revised edition, 1:587
  • and wooden buildings, 5:170, 5:171n

Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris), 4:474

Nourse, Joseph, 1:23n, 1:585, 2:219, 2:478, 3:29

Nouveau Commentaire sur l’Ordonnance de la Marine (Valin), 2:657, 2:658n, 3:547

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

Nouvelle Architecture Hydaulique (Prony), 6:381–382

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

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

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

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

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

“Numa”

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

Numa Pompilius (legendary king of ancient Rome), 6:298

nutmeg, 1:44, 1:368, 2:109, 6:343, 6:348

nutmeg melon (cantaloupe; muskmelon), 3:473, 3:501, 3:503n

nuts

  • almond, 3:455, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487, 4:522
  • chestnut, 1:593, 1:594n, 2:310, 3:503, 4:322–323
  • filbert, 1:631
  • hickory, 1:111, 1:252, 1:657, 3:544
  • pecan, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n, 1:631, 1:657, 2:103, 2:294n

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

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