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  • Pace, Edward, 1:462

    Pacific (ship), 1:271, 1:284

    Pacific Ocean, 1:443, 1:449, 5:202–203, 5:203–204n

    padlocks, 1:302–303, 6:344, 6:348

    Paganel, Pierre

    • Essai historique et critique, 3:219–221, 3:562
    • identified, 3:221n
    • letter from, 3:219–221
    • letter to, 3:562–563

    Page, Carter B.

    • and TJ’s bond, 5:483

    Page, Elizabeth Burwell, 1:557, 1:634, 1:669, 1:670n

    Page, Francis

    • recommended for collector of Yorktown, 1:77, 1:78n, 1:87

    Page, Gregory, 3:191

    Page, John

    • death of, 4:35
    • family of, 1:78n, 3:276
    • as governor of Va., 4:680, 4:683n, 5:236n
    • on R. H. Lee, 2:156
    • and TJ’s newspapers, 1:469, 3:190–191, 3:569–570

    Page, John Tayloe

    • employment for, 3:276, 3:423

    Page, Lucy Gwynn, 3:276

    Page, Mann, 3:276

    Page, Margaret Lowther (John Page’s wife), 3:570

    Page, Maria, 3:276

    Page, Mary Tayloe

    • identified, 3:276n
    • letter from, 3:276
    • letter to, 3:423–424
    • seeks appointment for son, 3:276, 3:423–424

    Page, Samuel (Poplar Forest overseer)

    • share of crops, 2:27, 2:28, 2:96, 2:230

    Page, William, 6:19

    Pagowski, Jérome, 1:53n

    Pahlen, Nicolas, 3:532, 3:539, 3:563, 3:567

    Pahlen, Théodore, Count

    • carries letter from Lafayette, 3:54, 3:211
    • forwards letters, 2:287, 2:487
    • and A. von Humboldt engraving, 2:310, 2:487, 3:503, 3:504n, 3:563
    • identified, 2:488–489n
    • letter of introduction for, 3:567
    • letters from, 2:487–489, 3:532
    • letters to, 2:512–513, 3:563
    • opinions of, 2:200n, 2:311, 2:513
    • Russian minister to U.S., 1:233, 1:329n, 1:537, 1:659n, 4:551
    • visits Monticello, 3:532, 3:539, 3:558n, 3:563, 3:567

    Paine, Capt. See Payne, Tarlton

    Paine, Robert Treat (1731–1814)

    • J. Adams on, 6:183, 6:183
    • family of, 6:183
    • as member of Continental Congress, 6:183, 6:184n
    • signer of Declaration of Independence, 4:475, 6:137, 6:183, 6:183

    Paine, Robert Treat (1770–98), 6:184n

    Paine, Robert Treat (1773–1811)

    • The Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Robert Treat Paine, Jun., 6:183, 6:184n

    Paine, Samuel

    • and TJ’s Richmond lot, 4:290

    Paine, Thomas

    • J. Adams on, 5:184, 6:297
    • Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly, 4:168n
    • J. Melish quotes, 5:626–627, 5:629n
    • mentioned, 6:255, 6:296
    • TJ quotes, 1:512
    • TJ’s letters to, 6:8, 6:8, 6:47

    paint, 1:55n, 1:97

    paintings, 1:522, 1:523–524n, 2:39–40n, 2:93, 2:106, 2:127, 3:624–625, 4:181

    paleontology

    • and Institut de France, 1:xlviii, 1:100–101, 1:103–104, 1:187, 1:248–249, 1:250n, 1:510–511
    • mastodon jawbone, 1:xlviii, 1:380 (illus.)

    Paleske, Charles Gottfried

    • identified, 4:160n
    • letters from, 4:160–161, 4:315–316, 5:468–469
    • letter to, 4:175
    • and Union Canal Company of Pa., 4:160, 4:175, 4:315–316, 5:468, 5:468–469n

    Paley, William

    • Natural Theology, 3:590

    Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph

    • Flore d’Oware et de Benin, en Afrique, 3:472n
    • identified, 3:472n
    • letters from, 3:465–473, 4:89–90, 4:517–518
    • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:465–469, 3:472n, 3:651–653, 4:42, 4:68, 4:70, 4:81, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:216, 5:216–217, 5:228, 5:333–335, 5:351

    Palisot de Beauvois, Mary Ann Rouelle (widow of Jean Rouelle and wife of A. Palisot de Beauvois)

    • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:42, 4:70, 4:82, 4:166, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:216, 5:216–217, 5:228, 5:332–333, 5:333–335, 5:351, 5:378

    Palladius

    • Rei rusticae, 2:82

    Palm, John

    • and Antient Plymouth Society, 1:58n, 1:59

    Palmer, Aaron H., 1:518

    Palmer, George, 6:77

    Palmer, John, 3:385, 3:386n

    Palmer, Thomas H.

    • Historical Register of the United States, 6:77n, 6:124
    • identified, 5:650n
    • letter from, 5:649–650, 6:77
    • letter to, 5:667–668, 6:124
    • and publication on constitutions, 5:649–650, 5:650n, 5:667–668
    • and subscribers for new periodical by, 6:77, 6:77n

    Palmetto Society (Charleston), 6:250, 6:251n

    Pani (Pawnee) corn, 3:501, 3:502

    Panicum maximum (Guinea grass), 5:364–365, 6:26, 6:66, 6:67, 6:81, 6:128

    pans, milk, 1:303

    Pantops (TJ’s estate)

    • J. W. Eppes to sell, 5:102–103, 5:171, 5:325, 5:347–348, 5:349–350n
    • proposed exchange of portion of, 6:71–73, 6:129–130
    • and T. E. Randolph, 5:171–172, 5:325, 5:325–326, 5:347–348, 6:72, 6:130
    • and T. J. Randolph, 5:102, 5:171–172
    • surveys of, 3:570–573
    • TJ proposes to buy, 5:102–103

    Panza, Sancho (fictional character), 2:44, 2:46n

    Paoli, Pasquale

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

    Papaver somniferum (oil poppy), 2:270, 2:271

    Papendick, George

    • The Stranger, 3:633n

    paper. See also stationery

    • in lost trunk, 1:153, 1:180, 1:205, 1:269, 1:284, 1:311

    paper mills

    • at Petersburg, Va., 1:489

    Paradis de Raymondis, Jean Zacharie

    • Traité élémentaire de Morale et du Bonheur, 6:510–511, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647

    Paradise Lost (Milton), 1:228–229n, 3:631, 3:633n, 5:585, 5:585n

    Paragon (steamboat), 4:199

    The Parent’s Assistant; or, Stories for Children (Edgeworth), 2:101, 2:193, 2:264, 3:122, 4:289

    Paris

    • banks in, 6:650, 6:650
    • cisterns in, 5:308
    • coutumes de (legal customs of), 3:47–48, 3:71, 3:130, 3:132, 3:236n, 4:643n
    • hospitals in, 6:650
    • Parlement de, 3:174n, 3:176n
    • poor relief in, 2:331
    • Treaty of (1803), 3:256–257
    • U.S. consul at, 1:26, 1:207, 1:208n, 1:317, 1:536

    Parish, David

    • carries dispatches, 2:410
    • and Lafayette, 3:54, 3:105, 3:106, 3:212, 3:213, 3:314, 3:445, 3:446
    • purchases bills of exchange, 4:488
    • and E. Ross, 6:568–569n
    • subscribes to U.S. war loan, 6:600, 6:602n

    Parish, Elijah

    • A Sermon, Preached at Boston, before his Excellency Christopher Gore, 3:75n, 3:156

    Parish, John

    • and Lafayette, 2:14, 3:212, 3:446, 4:359, 4:649, 5:68–69, 5:213

    Parker, Mr.

    • considered for appointment by TJ, 1:26

    Parker, Daniel (of Paris)

    • on British debt, 3:199, 4:273
    • and design for plow, 1:233–234, 1:235n, 1:375, 1:538, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
    • and Fla. land scheme, 3:96
    • and Lafayette, 1:376, 2:16, 2:245, 3:54, 3:212, 3:314, 3:445, 5:213
    • and merino sheep, 1:479, 1:538, 1:667, 3:342
    • sends dynamometer to TJ, 1:376

    Parker, Daniel (of War Department)

    • reference for J. L. Edwards, 4:92

    Parker, Edward

    • and American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589, 3:609
    • and Emporium of Arts & Sciences, 4:663n
    • identified, 3:589n
    • letter from, 3:589
    • letter to, 3:609

    Parker, Sir Peter

    • British admiral, 6:250, 6:251n

    Parker, Thomas

    • and Niagara Campaign, 5:533–542
    • recommended for military appointment, 4:529

    Parkinson, Richard

    • breeds Chinese pigs, 4:109, 4:110n
    • The Experienced Farmer, 4:110n

    Parks, William, 1:370n

    parlementaires, 1:128, 1:131n, 1:522

    The Parlor Gardener (Cornelia Randolph), 3:635n

    Parmentier, Antoine Auguste

    • Recherches sur les Végétaux nourissans, 2:82
    • Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne, 2:82

    Parr, Samuel

    • A free translation of the Preface to Bellendenus, containing animated strictures on the great political characters of the present time, 1:35

    Parrott, Richard, 1:23n

    parrot tulips, 5:358

    parsnips, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38, 5:658

    Parsons, Theophilus

    • criticized by B. Waterhouse, 6:37, 6:96–97, 6:100n

    Partridge, Alden, 3:95n

    partridge, red-legged, 1:479, 1:599

    Partridge, William

    • identified, 3:223n
    • letter from, 3:221–223
    • letter to, 3:238–239
    • and publication on dyeing, 3:221–223, 3:238–239

    Pascagoula River, 3:265

    Passamaquoddy Bay, Me.

    • gold found at, 1:330

    pastel (Isatis tinctoria; woad), 3:461–462

    Pasteur, William, 1:67, 1:68n

    Pate, Matthew

    • as Bedford Co. surveyor, 5:50n, 5:63, 5:465
    • identified, 5:465n
    • letter to, 5:465

    Patent Office, U.S.

    • reports of, 6:226, 6:362

    patents

    • of J. Baily, 6:456, 6:458n
    • of O. Barrett, 4:426, 4:512, 4:512–513n, 4:592, 4:667, 5:181, 5:182n
    • of B. B. Bernard, 2:5, 2:36
    • of T. Bruff, 5:108
    • of A. Butler, 4:315
    • G. Du Jareau on, 2:372–373, 2:665n
    • of G. Easterly, 2:283n
    • of O. Evans, 4:468n, 6:353, 6:354n, 6:379, 6:380, 6:382, 6:385, 6:454, 6:454, 6:454n, 6:455, 6:455, 6:455, 6:456, 6:457–458n, 6:514
    • and G. Fitz, 2:458, 2:479
    • of M. Garber, 2:458n
    • of J. Hargreaves, 4:418n
    • of B. J. Harris, 5:291, 5:292n, 5:307–308
    • of D. Hartley, 5:307–308
    • of J. I. Hawkins and C. W. Peale, 2:xlii
    • of E. Herrick, 4:417n, 4:514n
    • lists of, 6:226, 6:282, 6:362
    • of C. Morneveck, 1:196n
    • number issued, 2:367
    • of D. Peacock, 4:219n
    • of H. Pease, 4:220n
    • of E. Perkins, 4:104n
    • of A. H. Quincy, 5:109–110
    • of H. G. Spafford, 1:106n
    • of J. Staples, 5:93n
    • of F. Tudor, 5:492n
    • of C. Whitlow, 4:427, 4:427–428n, 4:667, 5:22

    patronage

    • circular to office seekers, 1:30–31, 2:143n, 6:648
    • letters of application and recommendation from TJ, 1:77–78, 1:626–627, 2:179, 2:363–364, 2:416–417, 3:303, 4:164, 4:171–172, 4:186–187, 4:376, 4:458, 4:476–477, 4:482–483, 4:516, 4:564–565, 5:9, 5:10–11, 5:11, 5:109, 5:299–300, 5:311, 5:313, 5:327, 5:359, 5:373, 5:373–374, 5:408–409, 5:417–418, 5:430–431, 5:435–436, 5:449, 5:495, 5:502, 5:586, 5:591, 5:645–646, 6:46, 6:63, 6:64, 6:211, 6:211, 6:288–289, 6:292, 6:396, 6:398, 6:399, 6:412
    • letters of application and recommendation to TJ, 1:14–15, 1:91–92, 1:167–168, 1:404–406, 1:464–465, 2:142–143, 2:211–212, 2:319–321, 2:383–384, 2:391, 2:423–424, 2:458–460, 2:500–501, 3:60–61, 3:249–250, 3:276, 3:345–346, 3:372–373, 3:523–524, 3:532–533, 3:645–647, 3:647, 3:649, 3:650, 3:651, 4:91, 4:274–275, 4:372, 4:468, 4:508n, 4:545–546, 4:623, 4:648, 5:36–38, 5:42–43, 5:70–71, 5:177–178, 5:286, 5:297, 5:300–301, 5:328, 5:398–399, 5:408, 5:456–457, 5:483–484, 6:27, 6:28–29, 6:29–30, 6:40–41, 6:42, 6:74, 6:113, 6:126–127, 6:170–171, 6:229, 6:268, 6:365, 6:503, 6:525, 6:546–547
    • literary, 1:321–322
    • misuse of, 2:224, 2:236, 2:385
    • TJ on, 6:50, 6:161–162, 6:211

    Patterson, Capt., 2:453

    Patterson, Mr.

    • acquaintance of Nicholas, 1:276, 2:495
    • and appointment of principal assessor, 6:443

    Patterson, Dorcas Spear, 3:526

    Patterson, Edward, 3:534, 3:537n

    Patterson, John

    • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

    Patterson, Robert

    • and American Philosophical Society, 1:152n, 1:482, 1:571–572, 3:41–42, 5:311, 6:59–60, 6:60n, 6:83, 6:516n
    • and artificial horizon, 3:448, 3:479–480, 5:92
    • and astronomical case clock, 4:xlv, 4:149, 4:167, 4:229–230, 5:471, 5:507, 5:558, 6:31, 6:59, 6:61, 6:82, 6:83, 6:117, 6:468n
    • and books for TJ, 5:442
    • director of the Mint, 1:330
    • and Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589n
    • friendship with TJ, 1:201
    • A. von Humboldt sends greetings to, 1:453n
    • identified, 1:193–194n
    • and instruction of M. Lewis, 6:424n
    • and W. Lambert’s astronomical calculations, 4:637n, 5:311
    • letters from, 1:193–194, 1:330–331, 3:41–42, 3:447–448, 4:167, 4:230–231, 4:409–411, 5:471–473, 5:558–559, 6:31, 6:82–83
    • letters to, 1:482, 1:571–572, 3:431–432, 3:479–480, 4:147–149, 4:222–229, 4:229–230, 5:92–93, 5:311, 5:506–508, 6:59–60
    • letters to accounted for, 1:201n, 2:68n, 2:404n
    • mentioned, 5:101n
    • and Nautical Almanac, 3:431–432, 3:447, 3:479
    • and naval position for F. B. Taggart, 5:502, 5:503
    • and perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–l, 5:471–473, 5:506–507, 5:558–559, 5:559n
    • recommends son to TJ, 1:193
    • reputation in Paris, 2:48
    • and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:147–149, 4:167, 4:222–229, 4:409–411
    • and watchmaker for Charlottesville, 6:83, 6:118

    Patterson, Robert Maskell

    • family of, 1:194n
    • introduced into Parisian society, 2:48, 2:49n, 2:162–163
    • letters of introduction from TJ, 1:193, 1:201–202, 1:331
    • and perpetual-motion machine, 5:558–559
    • suggests standard of weight, 4:411
    • and translation of P. S. Du Pont de Nemours’s works, 4:327, 6:485n

    Patterson, William, 3:526

    Patteson, Mr. R.

    • and R. Jefferson’s watch, 4:607

    Paul. See Julius Paulus (Roman jurist)

    Paul, Saint, 6:541

    Paulding, James Kirke

    • The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, 5:397, 5:397n, 6:110, 6:264, 6:644, 6:645n

    Paulinia aurea (goldenrain tree; Koelreuteria paniculata), 1:272, 1:274n, 1:594n, 3:503

    Pauly, Lewis Abraham

    • identified, 5:99–100n
    • letters from, 5:116–119, 5:228, 5:378
    • letters to, 5:99–100, 5:216–218, 5:351
    • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466, 3:467, 4:68, 4:70, 4:81, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–119, 5:216, 5:216, 5:228, 5:332, 5:351, 5:378

    Pauw, Cornelius de

    • Recherches philosophiques sur les américains, 1:521

    Pavia, University of, 2:565

    Pawnee corn. See Pani (Pawnee) corn

    Pawnee Indians, 1:521, 1:556

    Pawtucket, R.I.

    • cotton factories in, 2:99

    Paxton, Charles

    • correspondence of published, 6:258

    Payerne, Francis, 1:222

    Payne, Mary, 3:533n

    Payne, Tarlton

    • witnesses H. Marks’s will, 4:510

    peaches

    • black, 1:483
    • planted at Monticello, 3:455
    • trees, 1:93, 2:107, 2:294n, 2:294, 2:313, 4:34, 4:141, 4:532

    Peacock, David

    • plows of, 4:219–220, 4:221, 4:487, 4:526

    Peake, Thomas

    • A Compendium of the Law of Evidence, 2:676, 2:677n

    Peaks of Otter, Va., 3:354

    Peale, Charles Willson

    • An Essay to promote Domestic Happiness, 4:531–532, 6:68–69, 6:70n
    • and expenses for T. J. Randolph, 1:41, 1:45, 1:70–71, 1:307–309, 1:455, 1:458, 1:467
    • and farming, 4:136–142, 4:179–181, 4:531, 4:532, 5:324–325
    • and gardening, 4:93, 4:139, 4:180, 4:531, 5:323–324
    • health of, 4:140
    • and A. von Humboldt, 1:25n, 1:453n
    • identified, 1:45–46n
    • invents polygraph, 2:xlii, 5:207
    • letters from, 1:70–71, 1:103–104, 1:307–310, 4:136–142, 4:179–182, 4:531–532, 5:323–325
    • letters to, 1:45–46, 1:187, 1:458, 4:93–94, 6:68–70
    • lodges T. J. Randolph, 1:101n, 1:104
    • and mastodon, 1:101n, 1:103–104, 1:187, 2:507
    • on modesty of Indians, 4:181–182
    • paints portraits, 4:141
    • and Philadelphia Museum, 3:472n, 4:137–138, 4:181, 4:182n, 5:323, 5:324, 6:291
    • and plows, 4:137, 4:180
    • polygraph of, 4:182
    • portrait of T. J. Randolph, 1:xlviii–xlix, 1:45, 1:46n, 1:380 (illus.)
    • TJ advises on agriculture, 6:69–70

    Peale, Hannah Moore (Charles Willson Peale’s wife)

    • T. J. Randolph on, 1:458
    • sends greetings to M. J. Randolph, 1:71

    Peale, James

    • copies Titian painting, 4:181

    Peale, Rembrandt

    • Baltimore museum of, 6:291, 6:291–292n, 6:374
    • forwards minerals to TJ, 3:66n, 6:291, 6:373
    • identified, 4:357n
    • letter from, 6:291–292
    • letter to, 6:373–374
    • portrait of P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 2:xli, 2:380 (illus.)
    • portrait of TJ, 3:625n, 6:125, 6:148, 6:149n
    • and portrait painting, 4:141, 4:181
    • portraits of Europeans, 1:71, 1:104, 1:187, 1:309, 3:624–625
    • and Society of Artists of the United States, 4:356, 4:400

    Peale, Rubens

    • and gardening, 5:323
    • and Philadelphia Museum, 4:138, 4:181, 4:531, 5:323

    Pearney, John. See Pernier (Purney), John

    pears, 3:190, 3:448, 4:561, 4:562

    Pearson, Joseph

    • duel with J. G. Jackson, 2:53–54n, 3:533n

    peas

    • as crop, 3:348, 3:351n, 3:502, 6:110, 6:514
    • grown at Poplar Forest, 4:379, 6:486
    • Ravensworth, 6:86, 6:86n, 6:109, 6:139, 6:140n
    • TJ sends seeds, 5:658, 6:45

    Pease, Horace

    • plows of, 4:219, 4:220n

    Pease, Seth

    • identified, 1:216n
    • and W. Lambert’s calculations, 4:254, 4:262, 5:245–251
    • letter to, 1:216
    • TJ recommends I. Lewis to, 1:181, 1:215, 1:216

    pecans

    • planted at Monticello, 3:455
    • TJ orders via New Orleans, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n
    • TJ sends seeds, 2:103, 2:294n
    • TJ to plant, 1:631, 1:657

    Pechin, William

    • payment to, 1:41n
    • publishes Notes on the State of Virginia, 2:173, 2:174n, 2:215–216

    Peddock, Leonard, 5:595

    Pedesclaux, Pierre, 3:237n, 3:478n, 3:485, 3:496, 5:85n

    Pedro Alcántara de Toledo y Salm-Salm (Duke of Infantado), 3:342–343

    Peintures des Vases Antiques (ed. Maisonneuve), 1:452, 1:453n, 1:482

    Pekin (ship), 1:331

    Pelham, William

    • identified, 1:217n
    • letter from, 1:216–217
    • A System of Notation; Representing the Sounds of Alphabetical Characters, 1:216–217

    Pelletier. See Mansuy Pelletier, Charles V

    Pemberton, Mr.

    • recommended by C. Clay, 4:86n

    Pemberton, Israel, 6:284

    Pemberton, James, 2:158, 3:268, 3:269n

    pen, metallic, 1:106

    penal institutions, 1:383, 1:384n, 1:474n

    Pendleton, Edmund (1721–1803)

    • family of, 1:200n
    • on importance of limited government, 4:116, 4:117n
    • as member of Continental Congress, 4:601
    • and revision of Va. laws, 1:381–382, 3:570, 5:136
    • and Stamp Act resolutions, 4:599
    • TJ on, 5:136–137, 5:137n

    Pendleton, Edmund (1745–1827)

    • identified, 1:200n
    • letter from, 1:200
    • and B. Moore’s estate, 1:200, 1:339
    • and T. Nelson’s bonds, 3:426, 3:458

    pendulum

    • as basis for system of weights and measures, 4:147–148, 4:149n, 4:223–224, 4:226, 4:227, 4:228, 4:409, 4:410
    • in clocks, 4:229–230, 6:82–83

    Penet, D’Acosta freres & Compagnie (Bordeaux firm)

    • drafts on, 4:578, 4:625, 4:626

    Penguin (Australia), 5:202–203

    penmanship

    • books on, 1:37
    • TJ on, 2:335, 2:352

    Penn, John, 2:221, 2:223n

    Penn, Thomas, 2:223n

    Penn, William, 6:508

    Pennsylvania. See also Bank of Pennsylvania

    • Academy of the Fine Arts, 3:66n
    • banks, local, 2:135, 2:181, 6:650
    • canals in, 4:160–161, 4:175, 4:315–316
    • elections in, 5:370n, 5:396–397
    • Hospital, 3:277, 3:279n
    • legislative resolutions, 1:90–91
    • legislature of, 4:181, 4:182n, 5:468, 5:468–469n, 5:558, 5:559n, 6:650
    • legislature of, purchases sheep, 1:18
    • mammoth bones found in, 2:507
    • marble from, 1:473
    • moldboard of, 1:111, 1:252
    • Olmstead v. the Executrices of the late David Rittenhouse, 1:213–214
    • petition to legislature of, 6:650
    • Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n
    • Pittsburgh Republicans address TJ, 1:90, 1:91n
    • politics in, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:584, 3:595
    • Provincials in French and Indian War, 1:290
    • Quakers of, 2:124–125
    • Republicans in, TJ comments on, 1:236–237
    • sheep in, 1:18, 1:69n
    • and S. Snyder, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:601
    • statute taxing dogs, 1:17, 1:68–69, 4:161
    • supreme court of, 2:376, 2:377n
    • Washington Co. Republicans, 1:4–6, 1:99–100
    • wheat harvest in, 2:496
    • Whiskey Rebellion in, 2:385, 2:387n, 2:617

    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), 3:66n, 4:182, 5:166–167, 6:291

    Pennsylvania Hospital, 3:277, 3:279n

    Pennsylvania Land Office, 5:101n

    Pennsylvania Magazine; or, American Monthly Museum, 4:152, 4:153n

    Pensacola, W. Fla., 3:281–382

    Pentland, Ephraim

    • editor of Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n

    pepper

    • bird (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum), 6:xliii, 6:66–67, 6:67, 6:81, 6:127–128, 6:187–188, 6:195–196, 6:252, 6:292, 6:377, 6:386 (illus.), 6:615
    • black, 1:31, 1:45, 1:368, 2:109, 4:211, 6:345, 6:348
    • cayenne (Capsicum annuum), 5:364–365
    • tabasco (Capsicum frutescens), 6:252, 6:252n

    Peray. See Piré, Hippolyte Marie Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, comte de

    Perceval, Spencer

    • assassination of, 5:68, 5:69n, 5:156, 5:156n
    • British chancellor of the exchequer, 1:285n
    • British prime minister, 1:658, 1:659n, 3:437, 4:271, 4:272, 4:586, 4:587, 5:293, 5:296
    • parliamentary comments of, 4:539

    perch, 5:604–605

    Percivall, Joseph, 1:66

    Percy, Mr.

    • and batture, 3:491

    Percy, Fernando, 5:85n, 6:436

    Perdido River, 3:177, 3:264, 3:326, 3:344n

    Perkins, Elisha

    • medical invention of, 4:102, 4:104n

    Perkins, Samuel, 5:66

    Pernier (Purney), John

    • account with M. Lewis, 2:34, 2:208–209, 2:364, 2:672, 2:673n, 3:49, 3:110
    • identified, 2:209n
    • letter from, 2:208–209
    • and M. Lewis’s death, 1:602, 1:603, 1:606, 1:607, 1:608n, 2:192, 2:209n
    • travel expenses paid, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:209n

    Péron, François

    • Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes, 5:463, 5:464n

    perpetual-motion machines

    • I. Lukens’s model of, 5:358 (illus.), 5:558–559, 5:559n
    • and R. Patterson, 5:471–473, 5:558–559
    • of C. Redheffer, 5:xlix–l, 5:358 (illus.), 5:471–473, 5:473n, 5:474 (illus.), 5:506–507, 5:558, 5:559n
    • TJ on, 5:506–507

    Perrault, Claude

    • as translator of Vitruvius, 6:381

    Perrin, John

    • A Grammar of the French Tongue, 5:557

    perry

    • Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry (Knight), 1:581, 2:83

    Perry, Jesse

    • identified, 2:168n
    • letter to, 2:167–168
    • TJ seeks to hire, 2:167–168

    Perry, John M.

    • agreement with TJ, 2:169, 4:420, 4:421, 4:465, 4:498, 4:509
    • family of, 2:168n
    • identified, 1:192–193n
    • letters from accounted for, 1:193n, 4:510n
    • letters to, 1:192–193, 2:168–169, 4:498
    • paid by TJ, 6:554n
    • petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380
    • and plank for TJ, 1:192, 2:168–169
    • TJ’s carpenter, 3:412, 5:92n

    Perry, Oliver Hazard

    • American naval commander, 6:370, 6:645
    • naval victory of on Lake Erie, 6:524, 6:524n, 6:531, 6:546n

    Perry, Reuben

    • account with, 4:280, 6:162, 6:257
    • and court summons, 5:381
    • family of, 2:168n
    • identified, 2:89n
    • letter from accounted for, 6:163n
    • letters from, 2:89, 3:513
    • letters to, 3:612–613, 4:620, 5:311, 5:338, 5:343, 5:485, 5:505
    • letter to accounted for, 2:89n, 6:163n
    • and plastering at Poplar Forest, 5:311, 5:343, 5:403, 5:545
    • purchases slave from TJ, 3:411–413, 3:513, 3:612–613, 4:620, 5:34
    • TJ’s carpenter, 2:89, 2:149, 3:412, 5:338, 5:485, 5:485, 5:488, 5:505, 6:107, 6:162, 6:257
    • witnesses land conveyance, 3:369, 3:374

    Perseverance (steamboat), 4:199

    Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik

    • Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum, 1:437n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:596, 4:146

    Peruvian bark (cinchona)

    • C. Sanford’s essay on, 4:18n, 5:670n
    • used to treat J. Madison, 6:241

    Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 3:39–40, 3:88

    Peter (J. Chamberlain’s slave), 4:15

    Peter (J. B. Couch’s slave)

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

    Peter (F. Smith’s slave), 6:378

    Peter (TJ’s slave; b. 1770). See Hemmings, Peter (TJ’s slave; b. 1770)

    Peter, George, 3:324

    Peters, Richard

    • on breeding sheep, 1:477, 2:380
    • “On Sheep-killing Dogs,” 4:161
    • as president of Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1:133, 1:134n, 5:413

    Petersburg, Va.

    • markets in, 3:102, 3:104
    • paper produced in, 1:489
    • schools in, 6:269, 6:332, 6:334–335

    Peter’s Mountain (Southwest Mountains)

    • TJ hunts on, 4:671

    Peter the Hermit

    • J. Adams on, 5:12, 5:13n

    Petty, Sir William

    • economic theory of, 6:593n

    Peuchet, Jacques

    • Statistique élémentaire de la France, 4:325, 4:326n, 5:436

    La Peyrouse (Kotzebue), 4:269, 4:274n

    Peyton, Bernard

    • identified, 6:51–52n
    • introduced by I. A. Coles, 6:51, 6:52n

    Peyton, Craven

    • account with TJ, 1:470, 5:346, 5:420n, 5:421, 5:422–424, 5:426–428, 6:372, 6:544
    • and clover seed, 4:548, 4:557
    • conveys Henderson lands to TJ, 1:415n, 1:439–441, 1:453–454, 1:459–463, 6:198
    • corn contract with TJ, 5:419, 5:425, 6:553
    • declaration concerning Henderson lands by TJ, 1:463
    • and R. Grady, 3:625
    • grinds wheat, 1:109
    • and Henderson case, 1:415–416, 1:453–454, 3:594–595, 3:617–618, 4:401–402, 5:138–140, 5:147, 5:149–150, 5:157, 5:158–159, 5:193–196, 5:198n, 5:224, 5:275n, 5:364, 5:419–420, 5:651, 5:651n, 6:50–51, 6:78, 6:78, 6:79, 6:153, 6:196, 6:197, 6:197, 6:198, 6:198, 6:200, 6:201n, 6:201n, 6:201n, 6:315, 6:315, 6:316, 6:367, 6:472–473, 6:475, 6:475, 6:572, 6:573, 6:609–610, 6:611n
    • identified, 1:415n
    • Jefferson v. Michie, 5:149–150, 5:157, 5:158–159, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:477, 6:477, 6:478, 6:478, 6:479, 6:480, 6:480, 6:481–482n
    • and lease of TJ’s land, 2:132, 2:133n
    • letter from B. H. Henderson to, 3:594–595
    • letters from, 1:415–416, 1:454
    • letters from accounted for, 2:133n, 3:243n, 4:641n, 5:346n, 6:367n, 6:372n
    • letters to, 1:439–441, 1:453–454, 1:470, 2:132–133, 3:242–243, 3:617–618, 5:346, 5:351, 5:419–420, 6:50–51, 6:367, 6:372
    • letters to accounted for, 5:346n, 5:420n
    • letter to A. L. Duncan from, 2:119
    • and Lewis family, 3:90, 3:91, 3:93n, 3:242–243
    • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
    • and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:117, 2:119, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 3:59, 3:186, 3:480, 3:481, 3:648–649, 4:640–641, 4:641–642, 5:350, 5:351, 5:409
    • and proposed duel with D. Michie, 5:150, 5:158–159, 6:479
    • and T. E. Randolph, 1:470, 3:334, 3:522–523
    • and shoemaker for TJ, 2:132

    Peyton, Harrison, 1:462, 2:119

    Peyton, Jane Jefferson Lewis (Craven Peyton’s wife)

    • conveys Henderson lands to TJ, 1:441, 1:459–463
    • family of, 1:415n
    • identified, 1:463n

    Peyton, John

    • estate of, 2:117, 2:118, 2:119, 2:254, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 2:495, 3:59–60, 3:149, 3:186, 3:480, 3:481, 3:648–649, 4:48, 4:640–641, 4:641–642, 5:314, 5:351, 5:383
    • identified, 2:118–119n
    • Milton postmaster, 1:506n
    • receipt for effects of, 2:118–119
    • shoemaker employed by, 2:132, 2:133n

    Peyton, Robert

    • identified, 2:119n
    • letter to A. L. Duncan from, 2:119
    • and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:117, 2:118, 2:119, 2:254, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 2:495, 3:59–60, 3:149, 3:186, 3:480, 3:481, 4:640, 4:641, 4:641n, 4:642n, 5:314, 5:383

    Peyton v. Henderson

    • court costs in, 6:338n
    • and H. Dance, 5:224
    • decision in, 4:401–402, 5:149, 6:473, 6:477, 6:477–478, 6:480, 6:572
    • depositions in, 6:200, 6:479, 6:480, 6:572, 6:609
    • and J. Henderson, 5:138–141, 5:224, 5:260–261, 6:153, 6:197, 6:472–473, 6:475
    • C. Peyton on, 5:261
    • TJ on C. Peyton’s role in, 6:572

    phaetons

    • of E. Randolph, 4:231n

    Phalaris canariensis (canary seed), 2:271

    Pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1:35

    Pharsalia (Lucan), 4:503, 4:506n

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

    Philadelphia

    • Aurora, 4:56, 4:174, 6:83, 6:83n, 6:510
    • banks, 1:458, 2:117, 6:649
    • Birch & Small (publishers), 1:18, 1:19n, 1:172n
    • commerce at, 4:26
    • directory, 6:220, 6:280
    • dogs taxed in, 1:69n
    • and domestic manufactures, 1:170–172
    • and drinking water, 4:161n
    • Francis’s Hotel, 4:537
    • Gazette of the United States, 2:92, 2:93n
    • and Genet riots, 6:254
    • houses designed in, 4:63–64
    • lawyers, 2:432
    • Linnean Society of, 1:663, 2:70
    • Museum, 1:45, 1:46n, 1:104n, 1:187, 3:472n, 4:137–138, 4:181, 4:182n, 4:531, 4:532, 5:323, 5:324, 6:291, 6:291n
    • National Gazette, 1:113n
    • newspapers in, 5:133, 5:133n, 6:83, 6:83n, 6:510, 6:599, 6:599n
    • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 3, 66n, 4:182
    • The Picture of Philadelphia (Mease), 3:51n
    • Political and Commercial Register, 2:284, 2:285n
    • Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 3:95n, 3:577, 3:578n
    • price of flour at, 3:518, 6:561
    • printers in, 3:189, 3:329–330, 3:449
    • scarlet fever outbreak in, 6:74
    • science popular in, 2:375
    • and Society of Artists of the United States, 2:437, 3:624–625, 4:355–358, 4:398–400, 4:407, 4:459–460
    • and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:228
    • Universal Gazette, 1:30n
    • Walnut Street prison, 1:383, 1:384n
    • wool analyzed at, 2:39, 2:252, 2:492
    • yellow fever epidemic (1793), 1:185n, 6:254

    Philadelphia (ship), 1:33n

    Philadelphia, USS (frigate), 6:206, 6:207n

    Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture

    • and L. P. G. de Lormerie, 1:133, 5:550
    • members of, 5:435n
    • Memoirs, 1:477, 1:479–480n, 2:220, 2:223n, 3:33, 4:161, 5:413, 5:416n, 5:432

    Philip (TJ’s slave; b. 1796). See Evans, Philip (TJ’s slave; b. 1796)

    Philip, Mr.

    • and Niagara Campaign, 5:540

    Philip II, king of Spain

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

    Philip V, king of Spain

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

    Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

    • and paper currency, 6:586

    Philis (Chamberlain’s slave), 4:15

    Phill. See Hubbard, Phill (TJ’s slave)

    Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b. 1801)

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

    Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b. 1808)

    • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:385, 5:461, 6:308, 6:308

    Phillip II, king of France

    • and 1550 edict, 3:175n

    Phillips, William

    • British general, 6:510, 6:510n

    Phillis (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

    Philo (Philo Judaeus), 5:183

    philology

    • TJ on, 6:403–406
    • works on, 1:265, 1:267n, 1:652n, 4:99

    The Philosophical Grammar; being a view of the Present State of Experimental Physiology, or Natural Philosophy (Martin), 1:581

    The Philosophical Principles of the Science of Brewing (Richardson), 6:533, 6:597

    The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke (Bolingbroke), 2:51

    philosophy

    • natural philosophy, 4:162
    • study of, 1:502

    Philpotts, Oakley

    • purchases TJ’s tobacco, 4:593
    • and unpaid tobacco bill, 5:138, 6:356

    Phoenix, Alexander

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

    Phoenix Insurance Company (N.Y. firm), 4:423

    Physick, Philip Syng, 1:307

    physics

    • TJ’s pamphlets on bound, 1:36, 1:38n

    pickaxes, 2:546, 2:547, 2:548

    Pickering, Timothy

    • accused of conspiracy, 4:83, 4:628
    • criticized by J. Q. Adams, 4:435
    • criticized by B. Waterhouse, 5:641, 5:642n
    • and foreign relations, 2:70, 2:387, 3:502
    • mentioned, 5:126, 6:254, 6:298n
    • opposes H. A. S. Dearborn’s nomination, 1:78, 1:280, 1:301–302
    • and plan for New England secession, 5:13
    • possesses TJ-Canby letters, 6:447n, 6:509n
    • as secretary of state, 3:262n, 3:638, 6:194, 6:194, 6:195n
    • and R. Smith’s removal from cabinet, 3:568
    • on G. Washington’s cabinet selections, 6:259, 6:259n

    pickles, 2:291

    Pictet, Marc Auguste, 1:452

    The Picture of Philadelphia, giving an Account of its Origin (Mease), 3:51n, 4:186

    Pieces Probantes, 2:439, 2:446n, 2:531, 2:532n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:233, 3:484, 3:487n, 4:466

    Pierce, John, 1:227, 1:228n

    Pierce, William Leigh

    • on earthquakes, 4:573

    Piernet, Pierre (Peter)

    • estate of, 3:466–469, 3:472n, 3:651–653, 4:42, 4:43n, 4:70, 4:81–82, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:216, 5:228, 5:332–333, 5:333–335

    Piers Plowman. See The Vision of Pierce Plowman (Langland)

    pigs

    • Chinese, 4:109, 4:110n
    • killed by dogs, 4:170, 6:511
    • at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:382
    • at Tufton, 4:414

    Pike, Nicolas

    • A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, 1:576, 4:244, 4:245n

    Pike, Zebulon Montgomery

    • An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, 3:309, 4:354n, 4:445, 4:457n, 6:374, 6:413
    • and A. von Humboldt’s map, 4:352–353
    • mentioned, 3:149, 6:209, 6:525
    • and War of 1812, 6:526–528, 6:528

    Pilgrim (ship), 1:294

    Pillnitz, Declaration of, 4:429, 4:430n

    Pinckney, Charles

    • and domestic manufacturing, 4:343
    • and S. House, 1:475, 1:513
    • identified, 1:476n
    • letters from, 1:513–514, 4:342–343
    • letters to, 1:475–476, 4:472
    • and J. Madison, 1:513–514
    • and J. Monroe, 1:514
    • and report of S.C. legislature, 4:342, 4:343n, 4:472
    • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625

    Pinckney, Charles Cotesworthy, 5:127n

    Pinckney, Frances Henrietta, 1:514

    Pinckney, Jonathan

    • and death of G. Jefferson, 5:258, 5:289–290

    Pinckney, Mary Eleanor, 1:514

    Pinckney, Thomas, 1:39n

    pincushion flower (mourning bride; Scabiosa), 3:645

    Pindar (Greek poet)

    • mentioned, 6:403

    Pindar, Peter [John Wolcot]

    • “A Simile”, 1:538n

    pine planking, 1:192

    Pinkerton, John

    • A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages, 1:256n
    • Modern Atlas, 3:296
    • Modern Geography, 1:256, 1:576n, 1:581

    Pinkney, William

    • dispatches mentioned, 2:410, 2:419n, 2:470, 2:471n, 2:480, 2:530
    • and Embargo Act, 2:69, 2:70n
    • forwards letter to TJ, 1:124, 3:116
    • identified, 1:414n
    • letters from, 2:350–351, 3:116–117, 5:180
    • letters to, 1:414, 2:533–534
    • letter to mentioned, 2:544
    • and J. Monroe, 1:414n
    • and Monroe-Pinkney Treaty, 1:169, 1:170n, 1:414n, 2:412n
    • and Orders in Council, 1:271
    • returns to U.S., 3:577–578
    • TJ recommends A. McRae and J. Clarke to, 1:414
    • on TJ’s batture pamphlet, 5:180
    • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
    • U.S. minister to Great Britain, 1:113, 1:118, 1:374, 1:409, 1:413, 1:423, 1:436–437n, 1:464, 1:518, 2:287, 2:325, 2:366, 2:418, 2:419n, 3:177, 3:245, 3:246n, 3:519, 3:568, 3:577, 3:600, 4:32, 4:234
    • visits Washington, 4:19

    pinks (dianthus), 3:353, 3:355n, 5:477, 5:477n, 5:553

    pippin. See Albemarle pippin (Newtown pippin)

    Piré, Hippolyte Marie Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, comte de, 1:372

    Pisistratus

    • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:329

    Pitman, John

    • identified, 4:306n
    • letter from, 4:305–306
    • letter to, 4:395–396
    • A Long Talk, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, on their anniversary, A.D. 1810: in Providence, 4:306n, 4:395–396
    • A Poem on the Social State and its Future Progress, 4:306n, 4:395–396
    • secretary of Republican meeting, 3:232n
    • sends pamphlets to TJ, 4:305–306, 4:395–396

    Pitot, James, 2:243, 6:434–436, 6:437n

    Pitt, William (the Younger)

    • mentioned, 6:141
    • TJ on, 1:507
    • TJ quotes, 5:303, 5:304n

    Pittsburgh, Pa.

    • glass factory at, 6:468
    • Republicans of, address TJ, 1:90, 1:91n

    Pius VII, pope

    • and Napoleon, 2:7, 2:9n, 2:242
    • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

    planes, 1:135–136

    A Plan of New Orleans & its Environs (Boqueta de Wosieri), 3:499, 3:500n

    “Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans” (Lafon), 3:486, 3:488n

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

    Plantago major (plantain), 4:139

    plantain (Plantago major). See also water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)

    • buckhorn, 5:550
    • treated as weed, 4:139

    plant geography. See also botany

    • Essai sur la géographie des plantes (Humboldt), 1:265, 1:267n
    • forests, 1:131–134, 1:354, 3:33–34

    plants. See also botany; seeds; specific plant names

    • books on, 1:582, 2:82, 2:83, 2:132n, 2:680, 2:681n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:321, 3:322n, 3:561–562
    • bulbs, 4:497, 4:498
    • catalogues of, 3:368
    • cultivated in France, 2:270
    • discovered by Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:90–91, 2:140, 3:150, 3:166
    • discovery of new, 4:426–428
    • eradication of weeds, 4:139, 4:142n, 4:180, 4:531
    • forest management, 3:33–34
    • inoculation, 3:644–645
    • medicinal properties of, 1:56–57, 1:84, 3:419, 3:604, 5:30
    • Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 3:xlv–xlvi, 3:352–355, 3:358 (illus.)
    • sent to TJ, 3:418, 3:448, 3:645, 4:523–524, 4:535, 4:557, 4:559, 4:561
    • TJ orders, 1:51, 2:140, 4:496–498
    • TJ requests, from Ireland, 3:294–295

    plastering

    • at Poplar Forest, 5:381–382, 5:403, 5:545

    plaster (plaister) of paris. See gypsum (plaster of paris)

    Plato

    • J. Adams on, 4:474, 5:183, 5:184, 6:503, 6:504, 6:505
    • and Scottish philosophy, 3:277–278
    • TJ on, 4:396

    Plato Redivivus (Neville), 4:474, 4:476n

    play

    • sent to TJ, 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509

    Playfair, William

    • A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain, 3:274, 3:275n
    • TJ's gift of a work by, 1:265, 1:267n

    Pleasant, Thomas, 3:183

    Pleasants, Mr., 5:121

    Pleasants, James

    • identified, 2:185n
    • letter from, 4:519–520
    • letters to, 2:184–185, 4:482–483
    • recommends W. J. Harris, 4:91n, 4:172
    • and W. Ronald’s estate, 2:170n, 2:184, 3:155, 4:519–520
    • TJ forwards application to, 4:482–483, 4:519
    • TJ on, 4:172

    Pleasants, Samuel

    • and books for TJ, 5:447, 5:455, 5:493, 6:122, 6:374, 6:412–413
    • A Collection of all such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public and permanent nature, as are now in force, 3:146n, 3:168, 3:169n, 3:177, 5:245, 5:245n, 5:253, 5:278, 5:278n, 6:122
    • and collection of Va. laws, 5:253, 5:278
    • identified, 5:253–254n
    • letter from accounted for, 6:122n
    • letters from, 5:278, 5:455, 5:493, 6:412–413
    • letters to, 5:253–254, 5:447–448, 6:122, 6:374
    • newspaper editor, 5:193
    • Richmond printer, 4:312, 6:32, 6:32n

    Les Plees del Coron (Stanford), 3:547

    Plinius Secundis, Caius

    • Naturalis Historiæ, 3:547

    Plowden, Francis

    • An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 1:580

    plows

    • bar share, 5:326
    • Cary (Dagen; Connecticut), 4:219, 4:220n, 4:487
    • Guillaume, 1:20, 1:21n, 2:111, 2:176, 2:312, 2:332, 2:333, 5:273n
    • mentioned, 2:112, 2:259, 6:344, 6:347
    • moldboard designed by TJ, 1:252, 4:137
    • D. Parker’s double, 1:538, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
    • Peacock, 4:219–220, 4:221, 4:487, 4:526
    • C. W. Peale experiments with, 4:137, 4:180
    • Pease, 4:219, 4:220n
    • Pennsylvania moldboard, 1:111, 1:252
    • sent to P. Mazzei, 3:375, 3:378
    • TJ orders, 4:522
    • TJ’s moldboard, 2:111, 2:145, 2:176, 2:312–313, 2:326, 2:332–333, 2:334, 2:345, 5:93, 5:94n

    Plumard, M.

    • and P. Derieux, 3:77
    • identified, 3:77n
    • letter from, 3:77

    Plumard de Bellanger, Marie Françoise, 3:77n, 3:395n, 6:337, 6:338n

    Plumer, William

    • historical writings of, 2:347–349, 2:505–506
    • identified, 2:348n
    • letter from, 2:347–349
    • letter to, 2:505–506

    plums

    • planted at Monticello, 3:455
    • worms feed on, 4:532

    Plutarch

    • Lives (trans. J. & W. Langhorne), 1:580
    • mentioned, 6:542
    • quoted by Destutt de Tracy, 4:608, 4:611n
    • TJ quotes, 6:494, 6:498n, 6:591, 6:593n

    Plymley, Peter. See Smith, Sidney

    A Poem on the Social State and its Future Progress (Pitman), 4:306n, 4:395–396

    “Poem on Thomas Jefferson” (Miner), 1:429–431

    “Poem on Thomas Jefferson” (Welles), 1:431–433

    “Poem on Thomas Jefferson’s Retirement” (Freneau), 1:226–229

    Poems Written and Published during the American Revolutionary War (Freneau)

    • P. Freneau sends to TJ, 1:112, 1:113n
    • TJ’s subscription to, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334

    poetry

    • in America, 4:305, 6:297
    • dedicated to TJ, 6:464n
    • forwarded by TJ to American Philosophical Society, 4:147, 4:149n
    • memorization of, 4:131
    • sent to TJ, 1:226–229, 1:322–327, 1:429–431, 1:431–433, 1:617–619, 2:400–401, 4:167, 4:286, 4:305, 4:306n, 4:392, 4:393n
    • subscriptions to, sent to TJ, 1:225–226, 1:504n, 2:309, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
    • TJ on, 1:504, 1:509, 2:52, 2:336, 4:396, 4:466
    • TJ orders, 4:201, 4:202n
    • works on, bound for TJ, 1:36
    • written at Monticello, 6:463

    poet’s jessamine (Jasminum officinale; white jessamine), 3:354, 3:355n

    Poeyfarré, Juan, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

    Poindexter, George

    • appointment considered, 1:25
    • carries letter, 5:364–365, 6:26
    • identified, 6:27n
    • and seed for TJ, 6:26, 6:66

    Poindexter, Samuel, 5:487

    Poindexter, Thomas, 3:254n

    Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 2:467

    Pointe Coupee, La.

    • Lafayette’s land at, 2:244, 2:418, 3:212, 3:445–446, 4:30, 4:649, 4:650, 5:69, 5:212–213, 5:213, 5:214

    Point of Honor (G. Cabell’s estate near Lynchburg), 5:28, 5:29n

    Poirey, Joseph Léonard

    • identified, 4:527–528n
    • letters from accounted for, 4:527n
    • seeks compensation, 4:527n

    Poland

    • government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16, 3:517n
    • history of, 1:35, 1:535, 4:56
    • partitions of, 6:212, 6:212n
    • scientific society in, 3:62
    • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

    Poletika, Petr Ivanovich

    • counselor of Russian legation, 3:189–190, 3:208
    • A Sketch of the Internal Condition of the United States of America, 3:190n
    • visits Monticello, 3:532, 3:539, 3:563, 3:567

    Political Arithmetic (Cooper), 6:583

    political economy

    • J. W. Eppes asks TJ for outline of, 6:312
    • TJ on study of, 4:162
    • TJ’s letters on finance, 6:220–225, 6:490–497, 6:578–592

    politics. See also Federalist party; Republican party

    • books on, 5:223–224, 6:374, 6:374, 6:413, 6:413, 6:504, 6:505n, 6:613, 6:613
    • books on government, 1:253–254
    • and legislative instructions, 4:113, 4:128–129
    • in Md., 4:151–152, 4:153n
    • in New England, 2:429–430, 2:533, 2:537–538, 3:28, 3:75, 3:553, 4:83, 4:612
    • newspaper, 3:584, 3:595
    • in Penn., 3:584, 3:595
    • in R.I., 3:229–232, 3:257
    • in S.C., 4:342–343, 4:472
    • TJ on his role in Va., 2:259, 3:507–508
    • TJ on Republican party unity, 3:508–509, 3:515, 3:563–564, 3:584, 3:586, 3:592–593, 3:595, 3:606
    • TJ on study of, 4:162
    • works on, bound for TJ, 1:36

    Les Politiqves d’Aristote ... traduictes de Grec en François, par Loys le Roy dict Regivs (Aristotle), 3:547

    Pollock, George, 2:446n, 3:486

    Pollock, Oliver

    • identified, 3:580n
    • letters from, 3:579–580, 4:267, 4:578–579
    • letters to, 3:605, 4:377–378, 4:625–626
    • and W. Robertson, 3:580–581
    • seeks reimbursement from Va., 3:579–581, 3:605, 4:267, 4:377–378, 4:578–579, 4:625–626
    • To the Honourable the Legislature of Virginia. The Memorial of Oliver Pollock, of the State of Maryland, 4:267

    Pollock, Thomas, 2:445n

    Polly (M. Daingerfield’s slave), 3:112

    Polly, John

    • subject of anonymous letter to TJ, 3:225–226

    polyanthus (Primula X polyantha), 4:523

    Polybius

    • The General History of Polybius (trans. Hampton), 1:580

    polygraph

    • copies, 3:281–282
    • description of, 1:46n, 2:xlii
    • and J. I. Hawkins, 6:560n
    • illustration of, 2:380 (illus.)
    • B. H. Latrobe uses, 4:67, 5:207
    • and C. W. Peale, 1:307, 4:182, 5:207

    Pomeroy, Mr., 5:533

    Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated (Langley), 2:82

    Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette, marquise de, 6:622

    Pompei, Girolamo

    • as translator, 6:280n, 6:522, 6:541, 6:541, 6:551, 6:552n

    Pompeius Magnus, Gnaeus (Pompey the Great), 6:542, 6:542, 6:625

    Poor, Immanuel

    • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

    Pope, Alexander

    • and Cleanthes’s Hymn to Zeus, 6:521, 6:521
    • The Iliad of Homer, 2:51
    • Moral Essays, 4:391, 4:392n
    • quoted, 6:632, 6:633n
    • religious beliefs of, 6:521
    • TJ purchases works of, 2:466
    • “The Universal Prayer”, 6:521
    • on women, 6:259, 6:259n

    Pope, John

    • letter to, 4:164
    • as U.S. senator, 4:113n, 4:129, 4:163, 4:164n

    poplar

    • Athenian, 3:353
    • balsam, 3:353, 3:355
    • Lombardy, 1:192n, 3:353, 3:354
    • tulip, 3:353

    Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate). See also Bear Creek plantation; Tomahawk plantation

    • acreage of, 4:387
    • Agreement with Benjamin Johnson for Exchange of Poplar Forest Lands, 5:486–488
    • annual income of, 1:213, 5:400–402
    • astronomical observations at, 3:361–367
    • attempted sale of part of, 2:77–78, 2:79–80, 3:64, 3:162, 3:163n, 3:186–188, 5:34–35
    • barns at, 6:488n
    • beds and blankets for slaves at, 4:382–383, 5:33, 5:34, 5:460–463, 6:308–309
    • builders at, 1:192n, 3:215, 3:412, 3:613
    • cellars at, 2:89
    • chimney backs for, 5:485, 5:485, 5:505, 6:109, 6:349, 6:350
    • chimney screens for, 5:485
    • clothing for slaves at, 6:308
    • corn grown at, 2:96, 4:379, 4:380, 5:489, 6:486, 6:486
    • and curtilage survey, 5:482, 5:489
    • and F. Eppes, 6:71–73
    • fish for, 2:423, 2:503, 5:33
    • flour from, 3:421, 3:518, 3:531, 3:561, 3:612, 4:10, 4:11, 4:86–87, 4:165–166, 4:241–242, 5:307, 5:340–341, 5:341n, 5:481–482, 5:488–489, 5:545, 5:576, 5:600, 5:656, 6:3, 6:487
    • furniture for, 1:44, 1:287, 1:319
    • garden at, 4:381
    • hemp grown at, 4:379, 4:380, 5:489, 6:486
    • hogs at, 2:96
    • horses at, 4:373, 4:381, 5:653, 5:653n
    • household manufacture at, 4:380, 4:515
    • invitations to visit, 6:451, 6:451, 6:648, 6:649
    • latitude of, 3:361–367, 4:369
    • livestock at, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:526, 6:366
    • main house at, 2:xliii, 2:380 (illus.), 6:71, 6:72, 6:129, 6:129, 6:162, 6:488n
    • map of, 4:xlv, 4:370 (illus.)
    • merino sheep at, 5:600
    • mills at, 3:64, 3:162
    • mismanagement at, 2:149–150
    • Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest, 5:475–476
    • Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 3:xlv–xlvi, 3:352–355, 3:358 (illus.)
    • Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest, 5:481–482
    • oats grown at, 4:379
    • peas grown at, 4:379, 6:486, 6:486
    • plastering at, 2:96, 2:149–150, 5:311, 5:338n, 5:381–382, 5:403, 5:457–458
    • portion of offered as security, 4:584, 4:678
    • pumpkins grown at, 4:379
    • T. M. Randolph visits, 2:97
    • round table for, 4:xlv, 4:307, 4:370 (illus.)
    • sheep at, 6:6
    • slaves at listed, 4:384–386
    • spinning at, 6:106, 6:107, 6:203
    • sundial at, 4:96–98
    • surveys of, 4:279–280, 6:488, 6:488–489n
    • timothy grown at, 4:379, 6:486
    • TJ describes, 5:348–349
    • TJ plans visit to, 3:30, 3:46, 3:67, 3:75, 3:86, 3:86, 3:154, 3:327–328, 3:332, 3:334, 3:339, 3:421, 3:644, 4:11, 4:132, 5:9, 5:17, 5:401–402, 5:417, 5:446, 5:448, 6:43, 6:66, 6:76, 6:84, 6:84, 6:85, 6:86–87, 6:88, 6:125, 6:132, 6:156, 6:203, 6:204, 6:214, 6:225, 6:285, 6:331, 6:366, 6:397, 6:398, 6:412, 6:429, 6:430, 6:442, 6:442, 6:445, 6:523, 6:594, 6:595, 6:595–596, 6:604, 6:605, 6:621, 6:635
    • TJ returns from, 2:33, 2:39, 2:50, 5:91, 5:94, 6:111, 6:116, 6:135, 6:155, 6:451, 6:486, 6:486n, 6:487, 6:487–488n
    • and TJ’s debts, 2:260
    • TJ sends for steers from, 4:526
    • TJ’s instructions for management of, 4:379–382
    • TJ visits, 1:519, 2:xliii, 2:50, 2:256, 2:314, 2:329, 2:408, 2:462, 2:464, 3:64, 3:102, 3:286, 3:316, 3:347, 3:351n, 3:397n, 4:5, 4:6n, 4:82, 4:86, 4:87, 4:90, 4:94, 4:95, 4:98, 4:146, 4:183, 4:312, 4:346n, 4:429, 4:459, 4:460, 4:463, 4:584, 4:620, 4:650, 4:675, 4:676, 4:677, 4:679, 6:106–107, 6:225, 6:438, 6:483n, 6:497, 6:595n, 6:604n, 6:646
    • tobacco grown at, 1:157n, 2:27–28, 2:96, 2:217, 2:230, 3:375, 3:392, 3:420, 4:307, 4:373, 4:379, 4:381, 4:422, 4:461, 4:515, 4:516, 4:528, 4:555, 5:91, 5:92n, 5:132, 5:531, 5:545, 5:599, 6:203, 6:486, 6:544
    • visitors to, 6:94, 6:106
    • wheat grown at, 2:96, 2:217, 2:495, 3:392, 3:394, 3:420–421, 3:538, 4:86–87, 4:87, 4:94, 4:95, 4:165–166, 4:170–171, 4:184, 4:307–308, 4:341–342, 4:373, 4:379, 5:340–341, 5:470–471, 5:475, 5:481–482, 6:331, 6:486, 6:544
    • wing of offices at, 6:71
    • Overseers at. (See also Goodman, Jeremiah A.; Griffin, Burgess; Morris, Zachariah)
      • accounting practices of, 4:94
      • crop share of, 2:27, 2:28, 2:230, 4:342
      • hired, 4:132, 4:133n, 4:307
      • list slave beds and blankets, 4:382–383
      • make contracts for sale of wheat, 4:165, 4:170–171, 4:184, 4:212, 5:482n
      • plantation management by, 2:149–150, 4:386n, 5:488–490, 5:663
      • and prizing of tobacco, 3:269, 3:457
      • report plantation activities, 1:180, 2:96–97
      • and sale of tobacco to S. J. Harrison, 3:457, 3:561, 3:634, 3:639–640, 3:650, 4:422, 4:461, 4:515, 4:549, 5:531, 5:545, 5:600, 5:638, 6:4, 6:5, 6:24–25, 6:25–26
      • send tobacco to Richmond, 1:157n
      • TJ entrusts documents to, 2:328, 2:330, 4:308
      • TJ’s instructions to, 2:232, 2:233n, 4:379–382, 4:515, 4:526–527, 5:31, 5:600, 6:486–487

    poppy, oil (Papaver somniferum), 2:270, 2:271

    Porcupine, Peter. See Cobbett, William

    Porée, Jean Baptiste

    • conveys book to TJ, 1:674, 2:353, 2:405
    • identified, 2:354n
    • letter from, 2:353–354
    • letter to, 2:405

    pork

    • at Belmont estate, 3:170–171
    • for R. Durrett, 5:418
    • received as pay, 1:419, 1:421n, 4:143, 6:304
    • supply of, 1:451, 5:545–546
    • toll on, 5:379
    • at Tufton, 2:112, 2:371

    Portalis, Jean Etienne Marie

    • Projet de Code Civil, 3:132, 3:135n

    porter (beer), 3:241–242, 3:252, 4:630

    Porter, David

    • identified, 1:444n
    • letter from, 1:443–445
    • Plan for a Voyage of Discovery to the Northwest Coast of America, 1:445–449

    Porter, John

    • claim for compensation, 1:583–584, 1:625, 1:644
    • identified, 1:644–645n
    • letter from accounted for, 1:584n
    • letter to, 1:644–645

    Porter, Peter Buell

    • identified, 3:333n
    • letter from, 3:333
    • letter from accounted for, 3:460n
    • letter to, 3:437
    • and Niagara Campaign, 5:536–540
    • as quartermaster general, 5:410–411
    • and Report of the Commissioners, 3:460n
    • sends gypsum, 3:333, 3:437

    Porteus, Beilby

    • A Summary of the Principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation, 3:590, 4:674, 5:98n, 6:15, 6:61

    Port Folio

    • reviews J. Melish’s work, 5:628–629, 5:630n

    Portobello (TJ’s property)

    • TJ’s patent of, 4:386

    Portsmouth, Va.

    • unusual atmospheric phenomenon reported from, 6:340–341
    • Washington Tavern, 6:341

    Portugal

    • and colonization of slaves, 3:319
    • earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n
    • French designs on, 2:274
    • health in, 4:361
    • merino sheep arrive from, 4:40
    • military operations in, 2:166, 2:233, 2:667
    • relations with Great Britain, 2:275, 2:277n, 4:337, 4:587
    • U.S. consulship in, 4:185, 4:212, 4:219
    • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

    posterity

    • TJ on, 5:166, 6:233, 6:234

    Postlethwayt, Malachy

    • and economic theory, 6:593n

    postmaster general, U.S. See Granger, Gideon: postmaster general

    Post Office, U.S.

    • contracts with, 1:139–140, 1:350–352
    • 1810 act, 3:147–148
    • funds of, 1:407, 1:421
    • List of Post Offices in the United States, including all established before December 31st, 1807, 1:514
    • and post road, 1:350–352
    • 1799 Act, 3:147–148
    • and H. G. Spafford’s Gazeteer, 6:449–450
    • Table of Post Offices in the United States, 4:10, 4:112–113
    • TJ requests local schedule, 1:506, 1:514
    • and Va. post offices, 2:169, 2:178–179, 2:269, 2:333, 2:535, 3:102–104, 3:147–148, 6:644

    potash, 4:8

    potatoes, 1:157, 1:196–197, 2:38, 3:348, 4:141, 4:180, 4:531

    potato oats, 5:657, 5:658n

    Pothier, Robert Joseph

    • Anciennes loix des François, 3:130–131, 3:175n, 3:546
    • Traité du droit de domaine de propriété, 3:174n

    Potocki, Jean

    • identified, 3:44n
    • letter from, 3:43–44
    • letter to, 3:618
    • letter to forwarded, 4:99
    • Principes de Chronologie, pour les Temps Antérieurs aux Olympiades, 2:467, 2:468n, 3:43–44, 3:115, 3:434, 3:456, 3:618
    • writings of, 2:467

    Potomac River

    • establishment of steamboats on, 6:62
    • lottery to improve navigation on, 4:288
    • mentioned, 3:238–239, 5:215

    Potoski, Count. See Potocki, Jean

    pots, coffee, 4:231n

    Potter, Tom, 3:474

    Potter, Walter. See also Fitzwhylsonn & Potter (Richmond firm)

    • and Edinburgh Review, 3:599
    • identified, 3:599n

    Potts, Isaac, 2:223

    Pouncey’s tract (TJ’s property), 1:488n, 4:387

    Power, J., 2:84

    Power, Thomas

    • correspondence with J. Wilkinson, 4:398

    Powhatan Court House, Va., 3:103, 3:104n, 3:148, 3:164

    Poydras, Julien Lalande

    • Adresse au Conseil Legislatif du Territoire d’Orleans, 2:682, 4:466
    • affidavit on batture, 3:483, 3:486–487n, 3:497
    • and batture controversy, 2:427, 2:435, 2:436n, 2:463, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 2:682, 3:25, 3:26n, 3:204, 3:483, 3:487n, 5:85n
    • and J. Dawson’s application, 4:648
    • Orleans territorial delegate, 1:179, 1:180n
    • Speech of Julien Poydras, Esq. the Delegate of the Territory of Orleans, in support of the right of the public to the Batture, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:483
    • and TJ’s Proceedings, 5:392

    Practical Piety; or, The Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life (More), 5:98n

    A Practical Treatise of Husbandry (Duhamel du Monceau), 2:82, 6:380

    A Practical Treatise of The Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates (Sugden), 6:477

    A Practical Treatise on Dyeing, and Callicoe Printing (Cooper), 2:377n

    Pradelle (Pradel), Alexandrina de la Chaise, 2:523, 3:489

    Pradelle (Pradel), Jean, 2:523, 2:524, 2:525, 3:489

    Pragmatics of Attaliata. See Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis (Leunclavius)

    Preble, Edward

    • U.S. naval commander, 6:216

    Preble, Henry, 3:212, 3:445, 5:213

    Precedents of proceedings in the House of Commons (Hatsell), 4:400–401, 4:464

    Prenanthes serpentaria (lion’s foot)

    • as snakebite remedy, 1:58n

    President (ship)

    • carries mammoth bones, 1:509
    • encounter with HMS Lille Belt, 3:638, 3:639n

    President’s House

    • alterations by Madisons, 1:53
    • description of, 1:199–200
    • inventory of, 1:42, 1:43n, 1:76, 1:155, 1:156n
    • and T. Kosciuszko’s profiles of TJ, 2:39–40, 2:106
    • J. Melish meets TJ at, 4:424n
    • mentioned, 2:225, 2:338n, 3:536, 5:109, 5:178n
    • presidential portraits, 2:127
    • sitting room clock at, 1:85, 1:96
    • stew stoves at, 1:76
    • TJ’s belongings at, 3:581, 4:49, 4:52, 4:193, 4:219, 4:221
    • during TJ’s presidency, 1:29n, 1:55–56

    Pressed Shot Factory (Bruff), 5:107–108n

    presses (furniture), 6:88

    presses, cast-iron, 2:302

    Preston, James

    • recommended for military appointment, 4:529

    Preston, Thomas Lewis, 6:20–21

    Prevost, George

    • governor in chief of British North America, 5:320–321, 6:529, 6:641n, 6:645, 6:645–646n

    Prevot de la Janné, 3:546

    Price, Andrew, 2:446n, 3:486

    Price, Chandler

    • identified, 5:37–38n
    • letter from, 5:36–38
    • recommends A. Stewart, 5:36–37, 5:81

    Price, Joseph

    • manages W. Short’s Indian Camp estate, 3:438, 4:59, 4:197–198, 6:87
    • rents part of Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 3:198, 3:272–273, 3:275, 3:622, 4:198, 5:363, 5:570n

    Price, Mrs. (Joseph Price’s wife)

    • land tenure of, 4:198
    • sells geese, 5:5, 5:6n

    Price, Richard (British author and philosopher)

    • Observations on Reversionary Payments; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in Old Age … and on The National Debt, 6:497, 6:498n
    • as theologian and moral philosopher, 6:145–146, 6:146, 6:227, 6:296, 6:502, 6:503, 6:503, 6:504, 6:624
    • and Turgot, 4:22, 4:24n, 6:288n
    • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503

    Price, Richard (of Milton)

    • as gardener, 6:45
    • and Henderson estate, 6:76, 6:81, 6:198, 6:198, 6:199, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:200, 6:201n, 6:201n, 6:479, 6:480, 6:480, 6:573–574n

    Price, William

    • and Va. Land Office, 4:309n

    Prichard, William

    • and P. Freneau’s poetry subscription, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
    • identified, 3:243–244n
    • letter from, 3:296–297, 5:254
    • letters to, 3:243–244, 3:334, 5:222–223
    • and TJ’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 4:401, 5:222, 5:254

    Priddy, John, 1:246n

    Pride, James, 2:84

    Priestley, Joseph

    • J. Adams on, 6:145–146, 6:146, 6:236–237, 6:302, 6:317–319
    • and Cleanthes, 6:520, 6:521, 6:521, 6:540, 6:542
    • and T. Cooper, 6:318, 6:318, 6:318
    • correspondence with T. Lindsey, 6:146, 6:233, 6:278, 6:278, 6:300, 6:317–318, 6:367–368
    • death of, 6:318, 6:319n
    • Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, 6:302, 6:440
    • The Doctrines of Heathen Philosophy, compared with those of Revelation, 6:204, 6:317–318, 6:318, 6:319n, 6:367, 6:368, 6:368n, 6:439, 6:441, 6:471, 6:499, 6:499–500, 6:510, 6:520
    • An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, 6:302, 6:440
    • History of the Corruptions of Christianity, 1:581, 6:302, 6:440
    • Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood, 1:119, 1:121–122n
    • library and philosophical apparatus of, 6:598
    • mentioned, 1:674, 2:489, 5:276, 6:227, 6:624
    • mineral collection of, 2:376
    • and prophecy, 4:484
    • religious beliefs of, 6:193, 6:300, 6:300
    • Socrates and Jesus Compared, 6:204, 6:317, 6:318, 6:367
    • TJ’s correspondence with, 6:146, 6:180, 6:181, 6:191, 6:193, 6:204, 6:228, 6:233, 6:233, 6:237, 6:278, 6:286, 6:298, 6:298, 6:299, 6:438, 6:439, 6:439, 6:444
    • on Unitarianism, 6:438
    • on university courses, 1:592, 1:593n
    • A view of the principles and conduct of the Protestant dissenters, with respect to the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of England, 1:581

    Prieur, Denis, 3:234n

    Prieur de la Côte-d’Or. See Duvernois, Claude Antoine Prieur

    prime meridian, 1:54–55n, 1:275–276, 1:356–358, 1:359n, 1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–338, 2:398–9, 2:541, 2:566, 3:285, 5:245, 5:251n

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

    Primula X polyantha (polyanthus), 4:523

    Prince (TJ’s slave; b. 1804)

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

    Prince, Isaac

    • ill fortune of, 3:588, 4:3n

    Prince, James, 2:135, 2:182, 3:559, 3:587–588

    Principes de Chronologie, pour les Temps Antérieurs aux Olympiades (Potocki), 2:467, 2:468n, 3:43–44, 3:115, 3:434, 3:456, 3:618

    Principes raisonnés d’agriculture (a trans. of Grundsätze der rationellen Landwirthschaft) (Thaer), 6:17, 6:18n

    The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation (Home), 2:82

    The Principles of Health: Elements of hygiene (Williamson), 1:597n

    Pringle, Mr., 3:84

    printing

    • and antimony, 1:18, 1:283, 1:315–316

    A Private Letter to the Individual Members of Congress (Latrobe), 3:537

    privies, 3:353, 3:354, 3:355n

    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). See also statement on the batture case (Thomas Jefferson)

    • J. Adams on, 5:3, 5:11–12
    • Greek used in, 3:547n
    • mentioned, 4:292n, 4:520n
    • W. Pinkney on, 5:180
    • printer’s errors in, 6:628, 6:628n
    • reprint of, 6:627, 6:627–628
    • and riverine inundations, 3:46n, 3:135n
    • R. Rush on, 6:236
    • sent to Congress, 4:565, 4:575, 4:578, 4:581, 4:582, 4:585, 4:588
    • sent to J. Madison and his cabinet, 4:574, 4:586, 4:624, 4:664
    • sent to TJ, 4:565, 4:575, 4:581, 4:582
    • sent to TJ’s lawyers, 4:594, 4:595, 4:596, 4:597, 4:605, 4:606, 4:616, 4:624, 4:646
    • L. W. Tazewell on, 5:45–47
    • title page, 4:xliii, 4:370 (illus.)
    • TJ distributes remaining copies, 4:624–625, 4:631, 4:631–632, 4:632, 4:637, 4:639, 4:639, 4:640, 4:642, 4:642, 4:643, 4:671, 5:6, 5:27, 5:106, 5:180, 5:219, 5:392, 5:548
    • TJ researches, 2:657, 3:176n
    • TJ revises, 5:8–9n
    • E. Trist on, 5:111–113

    Proclamation of 1763, 1:335

    Procter, Henry

    • military command of, 6:529

    Projet de Code Civil (Portalis), 3:132, 3:135n

    Prony, Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de

    • Nouvelle Architecture Hydraulique, 6:381–382

    Proofs of the Corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson (Clark), 3:265, 3:323, 3:325n, 3:440, 3:519, 3:543

    Proposals by Redwood Fisher, for printing by subscription, the American Artist’s Manual, or Dictionary of Practical Knowledge (Cutbush), 5:633, 5:633n, 5:661

    Propositions for Amending the Constitution of the United States (Hillhouse)

    • J. Adams on, 5:12–13, 5:13–14n

    Prospectus of a National Institution, to be established in the United States (Barlow), 4:24n, 5:615–616, 5:617n, 5:620

    Prospectus of a new monthly publication: the Massachusetts Garden, 1:671–673

    Prost de Royer, Antoine François

    • Dictionnaire de jurisprudence et des arrêts, 3:174n, 3:175n

    protractor, 4:98, 4:341

    Proud, Robert

    • The History of Pennsylvania in North America, 1:581

    Provenchere de Villiers, Pierre

    • identified, 2:129n
    • letter from accounted for, 2:129n
    • letter to, 2:128–129
    • TJ forwards letter to, 1:612, 1:613n, 2:128–129

    Prunner, Leonardo de

    • identified, 2:298n
    • letter from, 2:297–298
    • sends Sardinian minerals to TJ, 2:297, 2:299, 2:391, 4:4, 6:84

    Prunus cerasus (Carnation cherry; sour cherry), 3:644

    Prussia

    • and Declaration of Pillnitz, 4:430n
    • and partitions of Poland, 6:212, 6:212n
    • relations with Great Britain, 2:275
    • U.S. consuls at, 3:60–61
    • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503, 4:505, 4:507n

    Pryor, Nicholas Ballow

    • delivers letter, 4:183, 4:184n
    • family of, 5:653n
    • identified, 5:300–301n
    • letter from, 5:300–301
    • letter to, 5:328
    • seeks military appointment, 5:300–301, 5:327, 5:328

    Pryor, Susan B., 5:653, 5:653n

    Ptolemy I, king of Egypt, 6:542

    Public Advertiser (N.Y. newspaper)

    • publishes P. Freneau poem, 1:226–229

    Pufendorf, Samuel von

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

    Puller, Christopher, 2:455

    Pumfrey, John, 3:599n

    Pumfrey & Fitzwhylsonn (Richmond firm), 3:599n

    Pumham, Aaron (Punkapog sachem), 5:184–185

    Pumham, Moses, 5:184–185

    pumpkins, 4:379

    punch

    • syrup of, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:154

    Punkapog Indians, 5:184–185, 5:186n

    Purdie, Alexander, 1:381

    Purney, John. See Pernier (Purney), John

    Pursh, Frederick

    • Flora Americæ Septentrionalis, 2:91n
    • and plant drawings, 2:90, 2:91n, 2:140

    Purviance, Samuel, 1:140, 1:362n, 1:515

    Purvis, John

    • A Complete Collection of all the Lavvs of Virginia now in force, 1:404

    Putnam, Israel

    • British attempt to capture, 6:446, 6:446–447n

    putty, 6:344, 6:348

    Pyrenees, Treaty of (1659)

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

    Pythagoras, 5:185n, 6:299, 6:439

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