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Table of Contents to Volume One, Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series

INTRODUCTION		vii
FOREWORD		xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS		xiii
EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS		xvii
MAPS		xliii
ILLUSTRATIONS		xlvii
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY		2
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Account with Joseph Dougherty, [4-10 March]		3
From the Students of Jefferson College, 4 March		4
Memoranda to James Madison, [ca. 4-11 March]		6
Margaret Bayard Smith's Account of Madison's Inauguration and Ball, [4 March]		8
From the Citizens of Washington, D.C., 4 March		11
To the Citizens of Washington, D.C., 4 March		13
To John Benson, 5 March		14
From John Norvell, 5 March		14
From James Ronaldson, 5 March		15
To John Armstrong, 6 March		19
From the Republicans of Georgetown, 6 March		21
From Thomas Gimbrede, 6 March		23
To Alexander von Humboldt, 6 March		24
Notes on Presidential Appointments, [ca. 6 March]		25
From Nathaniel Rochester and William L. Brent, 6 March		26
To Margaret Bayard Smith, 6 March		29
To Samuel H. Smith, enclosing Circular to Office Seekers, 6 March		30
Account with John Barnes, 7 March		31
To Thomas Gimbrede, 7 March		32
From William Ray, 7 March		33
To the Republicans of Georgetown, 8 March		34
Account with Joseph Milligan, [8-10 March]		35
To William Short, 8 March		38
To John Threlkeld, 8 March		40
From John Threlkeld, [8 March]		40
Notes on Expenses, 9 March		41
From Thomas Claxton, 10 March		42
From Richard Harrison, 10 March		43
To George Jefferson, 10 March, enclosing Packing List from John Barnes, 7 March		44
To Charles Willson Peale, 10 March		45
From the Inhabitants of Albemarle County, [ca. 11 March]		46
To Mary Daingerfield, 11 March		47
To William Duane, 11 March		48
To Levi Lincoln, 11 March		49
To Mayer & Brantz, 11 March		50
To George C. Shattuck, 11 March		50
Edmund Bacon's Account of Thomas Jefferson's Reception at Culpeper Court House, [13 March]		51
From Isaac A. Coles, 13 March		53
From William Lambert, 14 March		54
From John Taggart, 15 March		55
To Etienne Lemaire, 16 March		55
From James W. Wallace, [received 16 March]		56
From James Hochie, 17 March, enclosing Resolutions of the Antient Plymouth Society, 16 March		58
From Etienne Lemaire, 17 March		59
To James Madison, 17 March		60
From the Republicans of Queen Annes County, Maryland, 18 March		62
From the Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church, 19 March		63
From Joseph Dougherty, 19 March		64
From James Leitch, 19 March		64
From James Madison, 19 March		65
From John Wyche, 19 March		66
From Ann Craig, 20 March		67
From James Ronaldson, 20 March		68
From Anonymous, 21 March		69
From Charles Willson Peale, 21 March		70
From Etienne Lemaire, 22 March		71
From Samuel H. Smith, 22 March		72
From Elizabeth Trist, 22 March		73
From William D. Meriwether, [23 March]		74
From Samuel DeButts, 24 March		75
To Joseph Dougherty, 24 March		76
To Henry Foxall, 24 March		76
To George Jefferson, 24 March		77
To James Madison, 24 March		77
To William D. Meriwether, 24 March		79
From the New York State Legislature, 24 March		79
To Elizabeth Trist, 24 March		80
To George Jefferson, 25 March		81
From James Maury, 25 March		82
From John MacGowty, 26 March		83
From Cunningham Harris, 27 March		84
From George Jefferson, 27 March		84
From James Madison, 27 March		85
To the Republicans of Essex County, Massachusetts, 28 March		85
From James Madison, 28 March		87
From Larkin Smith, 28 March		87
To the Convention of Bristol County, Rhode Island, 29 March		88
To the Republican Mechanics of Leesburg, Virginia, 29 March		89
To William McCandless, 29 March		90
From James McKinney, 30 March		91
To James Madison, 30 March		92
To the Citizens of Allegany County, Maryland, 31 March		94
From Jonathan Law, 31 March		95
To James Madison, 31 March		96
To John Taggart, 31 March		97
From John Breck Treat, 31 March		97
From Elizabeth Trist, 31 March		98
To the Republicans of Washington County, Maryland, 31 March		98
To the Democratic Republican Delegates of Washington County, Pennsylvania, 31 March		99
To Caspar Wistar, 31 March		100
From William B. W. Allone, March		101
To James Hochie, 2 April		102
To the Inhabitants of Albemarle County, 3 April		102
From Charles Willson Peale, 3 April		103
From Horatio G. Spafford, 3 April		105
To Robert Wright, 3 April		106
To John B. Colvin, 4 April		107
From Larkin Smith, 4 April		108
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 6 April		108
To James Jay, 7 April		110
From Philip Tabb, 7 April		111
From John Taggart, 7 April		111
From Benjamin F. Whitner, 7 April		112
From Philip Freneau, 8 April		112
From James Madison, 9 April		113
From George Jefferson, 10 April		114
From William Short, 10 April		115
From Henry Foxall, 11 April		122
List of Goods Sent by George Jefferson, with Thomas Jefferson's Notes, 11 April		123
From Thomas Gillet, 12 April		123
To the New York State Legislature, 12 April		125
To the Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church, 13 April		126
To Jonathan Law, 13 April		126
To the Republicans of Queen Annes County, Maryland, 13 April		127
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, enclosing Memoir on American Forest Management, 14 April		128
To Samuel DeButts, 15 April		134
James Dinsmore's List of Thomas Jefferson's Tools, 15 April		135
To Larkin Smith, 15 April		136
To Eli Alexander, 17 April		137
From Caleb Cross, 17 April		138
To Isaac Shoemaker, 17 April		138
From Jonathan Shoemaker, 17 April		139
From David Bailie Warden, 17 April, enclosing Nicolas Louis Vauquelin's Analysis of Green Tobacco, 12 January, and Vauquelin's Analysis of Prepared Tobacco, [12 January-17 April]		140
From Joseph Dougherty, 19 April		153
To George Jefferson, 19 April		153
To James Madison, enclosing Deed of John Freeman's Indenture to James Madison, 19 April		154
From George Jefferson, 21 April		157
From George Divers, 22 April		157
From William W. Hening, 23 April		158
From George Jefferson, 24 April		159
From James Madison, 24 April		160
To John Graham, 25 April		161
To Etienne Lemaire, 25 April		161
From John MacGowty, 25 April		162
From William Roscoe, 25 April		163
From Augustus B. Woodward, 25 April		164
To John Barnes, 27 April		165
From John Graham, 27 April		167
From Isham Lewis, 27 April		167
To James Madison, 27 April		168
From William Davy and Others, 28 April		170
To Thomas Moore, 28 April		172
From Madame de Corny, 29 April		173
Invoice from George Jefferson, 29 April		176
From the Baltimore Tammany Society, 1 May		176
From William C. C. Claiborne, 1 May		179
To George Jefferson, 1 May		180
To Isham Lewis, 1 May		181
From William Lyman, 1 May		182
From James Madison, 1 May		183
From Daniel Lescallier, 2 May		184
From Benjamin Rush, 3 May		184
From John Graham, 5 May		186
From George Jefferson, 5 May		186
To Charles Willson Peale, 5 May		187
From Etienne Lemaire, 6 May		188
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 6 May		189
To William Hamilton, 7 May		191
To John M. Perry, 7 May		192
From Robert Patterson, 10 May		193
From Gerardus Vrolik, 10 May		194
From Henry Hiort, 11 May		195
To Horatio G. Spafford, 14 May		196
From Joseph Dougherty, 15 May		199
From Edmund Pendleton, 15 May		200
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, André Thoüin, and Bartelémy Faujas de Saint-Fond, 16 May		201
From William C. C. Claiborne, 17 May		202
From John Minor, 17 May		204
To George Jefferson, 18 May		204
To John Wyche, 19 May		205
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 20 May		206
From David Bailie Warden, 20 May		207
From James Sylvanus McLean, [21 May]		209
From Rufus Morgan, 21 May		209
To William Brown, 22 May		210
To Philip Freneau, 22 May		211
To Cunningham Harris, 22 May		211
To James Madison, 22 May		212
To Thomas Ritchie, 22 May		214
To Gideon Fitz, 23 May		215
To Seth Pease, 23 May		216
From William Pelham, 23 May		216
To John Barnes, 24 May		217
William Dawson to Samuel Greenhow, 24 May		218
From Claude Alexandre Ruelle, 24 May		219
To the Baltimore Tammany Society, 25 May		221
From Etienne Lemaire, 25 May		222
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 25 May		223
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 25 May		224
To Joseph Dougherty, 27 May		224
From Philip Freneau, 27 May, enclosing Poem on Thomas Jefferson's Retirement, February		225
From William Short, 27 May		229
To Augustus B. Woodward, 27 May		236
To Elijah Griffiths, 28 May		236
To William Lambert, 28 May		237
From Mary Ann Archbald, 29 May		238
From Samuel Greenhow, 29 May		240
From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 29 May		245
From George Jefferson, 30 May		246
From James Madison, 30 May		246
From Antoine François Tardieu, 30 May		247
From Lacépède, 31 May		248
From Bishop James Madison, 31 May		251
To Philip Tabb, 1 June		252
From Augustus B. Woodward, 3 June		253
From James Fishback, 5 June		254
From Jonathan Shoemaker, 5 June		256
From Kimber & Conrad, 7 June		256
To George Jefferson, 8 June		257
From Shadrach Ricketson, 8 June		257
From Augustin François Silvestre, 8 June		258
From John Armstrong, 11 June		260
From Destutt de Tracy, 12 June		260
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 June		263
From Alexander von Humboldt, 12 June		264
To George Jefferson, 12 June		267
From George Jefferson, 12 June		268
From George Jefferson, 12 June		269
From Lafayette, 12 June		269
From James Madison, 12 June		271
From Madame de Tessé, 12 June		271
From William Lambert, 13 June		274
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 13 June		276
To Henry Dearborn, 14 June		279
To John Barnes, 15 June		281
To David Gelston, 15 June		281
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 15 June		282
From Binny & Ronaldson, 16 June		283
From George Jefferson, 16 June		284
To James Madison, 16 June		284
From Joseph Dougherty, 18 June		286
From William C. C. Claiborne, 19 June		287
From George Jefferson, 19 June		287
From Skelton Jones, 19 June		288
From William Nelson, 19 June		290
From "Goodwill," 20 June		291
From James Madison, 20 June		292
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 20 June		293
From David Gelston, 21 June		294
To Shadrach Ricketson, 21 June		294
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 June		295
From Henry Dearborn, 23 June		301
From Henry Dearborn, 23 June		301
From George Jefferson, 23 June		302
To James Leitch, 23 June		302
From John W. Butler, 24 June		303
To David Copeland, 25 June		304
To Skelton Jones, 25 June		305
To Thomas Ladd, 25 June		306
From Charles Willson Peale, 25 June		307
To Joseph Dougherty, 26 June		310
From George Jefferson, 26 June		311
From Stephen Cathalan, 27 June		312
From James Madison, 27 June		313
To Binny & Ronaldson, 28 June		314
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 28 June		315
From David Bailie Warden, 28 June		316
William Dawson to Samuel Greenhow, 1 July		317
To George Jefferson, 1 July		318
To William Jenkings, 1 July		319
From Benjamin Brown, 3 July		320
From Joseph Dougherty, 3 July		320
From Joseph McCoy, enclosing poem "The Expedient," 3 July		321
From James Madison, 4 July		327
From André Daschkoff, 5 July		328
From Thomas Ladd, 5 July		329
From Robert Patterson, 6 July		330
From Skelton Jones, 7 July		331
From James Madison, 7 July		331
To Joseph Milligan, 7 July		332
To Benjamin Brown, 8 July		333
From William W. Hening, 8 July		333
To William Nelson, 8 July		334
To Samuel Smith (of Pennsylvania), 9 July		335
From John Wayles Eppes, 10 July		336
To John Minor, 10 July		338
From Henry Skipwith, 10 July		339
To Robert Smith, 10 [July]		340
From William Wirt, 10 July		341
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 11 July		342
To James Madison, 12 July		343
From George Jefferson, 14 July		344
From Robert Smith, 15 July		345
From John Martin Baker, 16 July		345
Samuel J. Harrison to Gibson & Jefferson, 16 July		346
From James Monroe, 18 July		348
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 18 July		349
From Joseph Wheaton, 20 July		350
To Eli Alexander, 22 July		353
From Eli Alexander, 22 July		353
To George Jefferson, 22 July		353
To Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 22 July		354
From Alexander McRae, 22 July		355
From William Lambert, 23 July		356
From James Madison, 23 July		359
From Samuel Smith (of Maryland), 23 July		360
To David Copeland, 24 July		362
To John Wayles Eppes, 24 July		362
To William Fleming, 24 July		363
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 24 July		364
To Henry Skipwith, 24 July		364
To John Martin Baker, 25 July		365
From William Caruthers, 25 July		367
To Gordon, Trokes & Company, 25 July		368
To William W. Hening, 25 July		369
From Isaac A. Coles, 26 July		370
To Samuel Smith (of Maryland), 26 July		377
From William Fleming, 27 July		378
To Levett Harris, 27 July		379
From Leonard Jewett, 28 July		380
To Skelton Jones, 28 July		381
From Joseph Milligan, 28 July		384
From John W. Campbell, 29 July		385
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 29 July		385
Margaret Bayard Smith's Account of a Visit to Monticello, [29 July-2 August]		386
To Samuel Smith (of Maryland), 29 July		402
From Jonathan Brunt, 31 July		402
From William W. Hening, 31 July		403
From John Monroe, 1 August		404
From Jonathan Shoemaker, 1 August		407
To John Barnes, 3 August		408
From James Madison, 3 August		408
To Samuel H. Smith, 3 August		410
From Josef Yznardy, 3 August		410
From C. & A. Conrad & Company, 4 August		412
To John Armstrong, 5 August		412
To Alexander McRae, 5 August		413
To William Pinkney, 5 August		414
From Craven Peyton, 6 August		415
To William C. Rives, 6 August		416
To Louis Marie Turreau, 6 August		417
From William Dawson, 7 August		417
From George Gilpin, 7 August		418
From Daniel Davis, 8 August		419
Agreement with William McGehee, 8 August		419
To Jonathan Shoemaker, 8 August		421
To Jones & Howell, 10 August		422
From Alexander McRae, 10 August		423
From William Smith, 10 August		425
From Charles F. Welles, [ca. 11 August], enclosing Charles Minor's Poem on Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 21 July], and Charles F. Welles’s Poem on Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 11 August]		428
To André Daschkoff, 12 August		433
From John Martin Baker, 14 August		434
From Samuel H. Smith, 15 August		434
From Jones & Howell, 16 August		435
To Meriwether Lewis, 16 August		435
From James Madison, 16 August		437
To Craven Peyton, 16 August		439
To James Madison, 17 August		441
From David Porter, enclosing Plan for a Voyage of Discovery to the Northwest Coast of America, 17 August		443
From Madame Deshay, 18 August		450
From George Jefferson, 18 August		451
From Jonathan Shoemaker, 18 August		451
From John Vaughan, 19 August		452
To Craven Peyton, 20 August		453
From Craven Peyton, [20 August]		454
From John Vaughan, 20 August		455
To John Barnes, 22 August		455
From Samuel R. Demaree, 22 August		455
To George Jefferson, 22 August		457
From James Leitch, 22 August		458
To Charles Willson Peale, 22 August		458
Craven and Jane Peyton's Conveyance of the Henderson Lands, [22 August]		459
Declaration to Craven Peyton, 22 August		463
From James Madison, 23 August		464
To Joseph Dougherty, 24 August		464
From James Long, 24 August		464
To William Thornton, 24 August		465
To James W. Wallace, 24 August		466
To John Barnes, 25 August		467
To Joseph Dougherty, 25 August		467
From William Dunn, 25 August		467
To Robert Graham, 25 August		469
From George Jefferson, 25 August		469
To Craven Peyton, 25 August		470
From Valentín de Foronda, 26 August		470
To George Jefferson, 27 August		472
To Alexander McRae, 27 August		472
To William W. Hening, 28 August		472
From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 28 August		473
To Charles Pinckney, 29 August		475
From William Thornton, 30 August		476
From Abraham Bradley, 31 August		480
From Joseph Dougherty, 31 August		480
To Robert Patterson, 31 August		482
To John Vaughan, 31 August		482
From George Jefferson, 1 September		483
From William D. Meriwether, [received 1 September]		483
From André Daschkoff, 2 September		484
From Robert Graham, 2 September		486
To John W. Campbell, 3 September		486
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 3 September		488
From William W. Hening, 4 September		488
From William Lambert, 4 September		489
From James Monroe, 4 September		498
To James Monroe, [4 September]		500
From Hugh Nelson, [4 September]		500
From James Wood, 5 September		501
To Jones & Howell, 6 September		503
To Joseph McCoy, 6 September		504
From J. Philippe Reibelt, 6 September		504
To Abraham Bradley, 7 September		505
To William Caruthers, 7 September		506
To George Gilpin, 7 September		507
From John Wyche, 7 September		508
To William Brown, 10 September		509
To William C. C. Claiborne, 10 September		509
To William Clark, 10 September		510
To William Lambert, 10 September		511
From Charles Pinckney, [ca. 10 September]		513
From Abraham Bradley, 11 September		514
From Thomas A. Digges, 11 September		515
From James Madison, 11 September		518
From John Minor, 11 September		519
To James Madison, 12 September		519
To George Jefferson, 13 September		520
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 14 September		520
From J. B. Moussier, 14 September		522
From Thomas Mann Randolph (1792-1848), 15 September		524
From George Sullivan, 15 September		524
From William Fontaine, 16 September		525
From Lafayette, 16 September		528
From the General Republican Committee of the City and County of New York, 16 September		530
From William Lambert, 17 September		534
From David Bailie Warden, 17 September		535
To James Madison, 18 September		536
From John Armstrong, 19 September		536
From John W. Campbell, 19 September		538
From William Lambert, enclosing Table for Computing the Moon's Motion, with Examples, 19 September		539
From William Johnson, 20 September		555
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 21 September		555
From George Jefferson, 22 September		557
From Dudley Richardson, 22 September		558
To Benjamin Rush, 22 September		558
From Robert Quarles, 24 September		560
From William Lambert, 25 September		560
Notes on Distances between Monticello and Montpellier, [ca. 25 September]		562
Jefferson's Letter to James Fishback		563
I. To James Fishback (Draft), September		563
II. To James Fishback (Final State), 27 September		565
From Samuel Kercheval, 28 September		566
From Isaac Riley, 29 September		567
To the General Republican Committee of the City and County of New York, 30 September		568
To John W. Campbell, 1 October		569
To William W. Hening, 1 October		570
To Alexander Macomb, 1 October		571
To Robert Patterson, 1 October		571
From John Stout, 1 October		572
To Henry Dearborn and Elbridge Gerry, 2 October		572
From John Koontz, 2 October		573
To Thomas Mann Randolph (1792-1848), 2 October		574
From William Henry Harrison, 3 October		574
To Samuel R. Demaree, enclosing Supplemental List of Recommended Books, 4 October		575
To Valentín de Foronda, 4 October		577
To Robert Quarles, 4 October		579
To John Wyche, enclosing List of Recommended Books, 4 October		579
From Thomas Cadwalader, 6 October		583
To William Eustis, 6 October		583
From James Madison, 6 October		584
To John Minor, 6 October		585
To John Smith (1750-1836), 6 October		585
To John Adlum, 7 October		586
To Isaac Riley, 7 October		587
To Joel Barlow, 8 October		588
To George Jefferson, 8 October		590
To George Sullivan, 8 October		591
To William Fontaine, 9 October		591
To James Madison, 9 October		592
From Madame de Tessé, 9 October		593
To George Jefferson, 10 October		595
To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 10 October		595
To John Milledge, 10 October		596
From George Williamson, 10 October		597
To Albert Gallatin, 11 October		597
To William Thornton, 11 October		599
From Isaac Riley, 16 October		600
From Clotworthy Stephenson, 16 October		601
From Luis de Onís, 17 October		601
From John Brahan, 18 October		602
From Valentín de Foronda, 18 October		604
From James Neelly, 18 October		606
To John Austin, 20 October		608
From Thomas T. Hewson, 20 October		608
From the Citizens of Richmond, [20 October]		609
From August in François Silvestre, 20 October		611
From John Tyler, 20 October		613
From Henry Banks, 21 October		614
From Alexander McRae, 21 October		615
From St. George Tucker, 21 October, enclosing Ode to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October		617
From William W. Hening, 22 October		619
To the Citizens of Richmond, 22 October		620
From Alexander Burot, 23 October		622
From William Eustis, 25 October		624
From Samuel Greenhow, 25 October		625
To James Madison, 25 October		626
From Lafayette, 26 October		627
From David Bailie Warden, 27 October		629
From Zadok Cramer, 30 October		630
From Thomas Lomax, 30 October		631
From James Madison, 30 October		632
To Louis H. Girardin, 31 October		633
To George Jefferson, 31 October		634
From Gideon Fitz, 1 November		635
From Elias Glover, 1 November		643
To William Miller, 1 November		644
To John Porter, 2 November		644
To Dudley Richardson, 2 November		645
From William Fontaine, 3 November		645
From David K. Hopkins, 3 November		646
To Clotworthy Stephenson, 3 November		649
To Albert Gallatin, 4 November		650
To Luis de Onís, 4 November		651
From Johann Severin Vater, 4 November		651
From David Campbell, 5 November		652
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 5 November		654
From William Turpin, [received 5 November]		654
To George Jefferson, 6 November		655
From Jacob L. Kesteloot, 6 November		656
To Thomas Lomax, 6 November		657
To James Madison, 6 November		657
From James Madison, 6 November		658
To Samuel Greenhow, 7 November		659
From William Fleming, 9 November		660
From Gabriel Richard, 9 November		660
From Nathaniel Chapman, 10 November		663
From Albert Gallatin, 11 November		664
From John Milledge, 11 November		666
From Isaac A. Coles, 12 November		667
From C. & A. Conrad & Company, 13 November		668
From George Jefferson, 13 November		669
Notes on Ivy Creek Lands, 14 November		670
From the Citizens of Lynchburg, [14 November]		671
From Anonymous, [15 November]		671
From Marc Antoine Jullien, 15 November		674
APPENDIX: Supplemental List of Documents Not Found		677
INDEX		679

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