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Aaron (slave)

  • and H. Marks's estate, 4:511

"Abbe Salemankis"

  • letter from, 2:263
  • Letters of Abbe Salemankis to a Friend in Ireland, 2:263, 2:296
  • letter to, 2:296

Abbey (Abby) (TJ's slave; b. 1804)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385

Abbey (TJ's slave)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:382

Abby (TJ's slave; b. 1753)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385
  • spinner, 4:380

Abell, John S.

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Abercrombie, John

  • The Gardener's Pocket Dictionary, 2:83

Abies balsamea (balsam fir; balm of Gilead fir), 4:497, 4:498

Aborn, Henry, 2:399n

Abrahams, A. D., 2:118

Abram (TJ's slave; b. ca. 1740)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Abram (TJ's slave; b. ca. 1794)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Un Abridgment des plusieurs cases et resolutions del Common Ley (Rolle), 3:547

Acacia farnesiana (sweet acacia), 1:555, 1:631–632, 2:301, 2:302

Acacia nilotica (gum arabic tree), 2:302

Académie des Sciences et Beaux-Arts des États-Unis, 3:472n

Académie Française, 3:xliii

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi (Pike), 3:309, 4:354n, 4:445, 4:457n

Acherley, Roger

  • J. Adams on, 4:474

achilles tendon

  • cut, 2:438

acid, marine (hydrochloric, muriatic), 4:8

An Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls (1792), 4:212–213n

An Act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof (1804), 2:521

An Act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia; and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi Territory (1798), 2:521

An Act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country (1791), 3:70, 3:73n, 3:123

An Act further providing for the government of the territory of Orleans (1805), 2:521

An Act to amend the judicial system of the United States (1802), 3:127, 3:129n

An Act to confirm an act entitled, an act to incorporate certain Persons in every Christian church or congregation in this state (1810), 2:124, 2:125n

An Act to enable the people of the Territory of Orleans to form a constitution and state government (1811), 3:328

An Act to establish post roads (1810), 3:147–148

An Act to Incorporate the Union Canal Company, of Pennsylvania, 4:315, 4:316n

An Act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law (1807)

  • and batture controversy, 2:435–436, 2:441n, 2:450n, 2:455, 2:462, 2:516, 2:518–519, 2:520, 2:522, 2:528, 2:659n, 3:72, 3:176n

An Act to prevent the destruction of Sheep in this Commonwealth (1814), 4:349n

Acton, Thomas Harman

  • Reports of Cases Argued and Determined, 3:514n

Acts passed at a Congress of the United States of America, begun ... in the Year 1789, 3:547

Adams, Abigail (J. Adams's granddaughter), 4:475

Adams, Abigail Smith (John Adams's wife)

  • and Coles's visit, 4:314n
  • correspondence with TJ, 3:305, 3:307, 3:356, 4:312, 4:313, 4:389n, 4:xlvi
  • sends greetings to TJ, 4:475
  • TJ sends greetings to, 4:628

Adams, George

  • Geometrical and Graphical Essays, 1:581
  • Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 1:581

Adams, John

  • administration of, 3:94n
  • on banks, 3:357
  • and broadside from Rush, 4:17n
  • on coining of new words, 4:534n
  • and Coles's visit, 4:312–313, 4:314n, 4:389n
  • congressional journals of, 3:39
  • depicted in Gimbrede engraving, 4:540 (illus.)
  • diplomatic expenses of paid, 2:46n
  • on domestic manufacturing, 4:473–474, 4:483
  • friendship with TJ, 1:185–186n
  • and Hamilton, 2:176, 2:177n
  • health of, 4:475
  • identified, 4:390–391n
  • on Indians, 4:475–476
  • and J. Henry's mission, 4:628
  • letters from, 4:390–391, 4:473–476, 4:483–485
  • letters to, 4:428–430, 4:435, 4:626–628
  • mentioned, 2:604, 3:381n
  • and Midnight Appointments, 3:306–307
  • nepotism practiced by, 2:183, 2:184n
  • portrait of, 4:370 (illus.), 4:xlvi
  • presidency of, 2:273–274n, 2:385
  • print of, 2:127
  • on prophecy, 4:483–485, 4:626–628
  • reading habits of, 3:356, 3:357n
  • resumes correspondence with TJ, 4:312–314, 4:338–339, 4:340n, 4:389n, 4:431, 4:473, 4:486, 4:533–534, 4:642, 4:673, 4:xlv
  • on retirement, 1:513
  • on Revolutionary generation, 4:475
  • and Rush, 3:278–279n, 3:304–308
  • on Russia, 4:474
  • sends works of J. Q. Adams, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483
  • Short forwards pamphlet to, 3:198, 3:274
  • TJ on, 3:304–308, 4:312, 4:313
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:626
  • on Union, 4:474–475
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:503
  • as vice president, 3:305
  • voyage to France (1778), 4:474, 4:476n

Adams, John Quincy

  • American Principles, 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435n
  • and charges against Waterhouse, 1:296
  • and J. Henry's mission, 4:628
  • Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483
  • A Letter to Harrison G. Otis, Esquire, 4:435n
  • mentioned, 3:205n, 3:333n
  • minister to Russia, 1:38, 1:328, 1:360, 1:537, 3:115, 3:116n
  • nominated as Supreme Court justice, 3:246
  • professor at Harvard, 4:473
  • rumored as secretary of state, 1:118

Adams, Samuel G.

  • Richmond merchant, 4:487, 4:522

Adams, Susanna Boylston (J. Adams's mother)

  • family of, 4:473

Adams, Susanna (J. Adams's granddaughter)

  • family of, 4:475

Adam's needle (bear grass; silk grass; Yucca filmanetosa), 3:353

Addington. See Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount

Address at the Opening of the Botanic Garden of Liverpool (Roscoe), 1:164n

Address to the People of the United States, on the measures pursued by the Executive with respect to the Batture at New-Orleans (Livingston), 2:455, 2:456n, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:133, 3:173n, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:271, 3:483

Address to the People of the United States (Robert Smith), 1:340n, 3:110n, 3:595, 3:608n, 4:21, 4:31, 4:109

Adelung, Friedrich

  • director of Oriental Institute, 4:99n
  • forwards packet through Harris, 3:150
  • introduced to TJ, 2:467
  • offers to assist American Philosophical Society, 2:468n
  • Rapports entre la langue sanscrit et la langue Russe, 4:99

Adelung, Johann Christophe

  • Mithridates: Oder Allgemeine Sprachenkunde, 1:265, 1:267n, 1:652n

Adlum, John

  • Adlum on Making Wine, 1:587n
  • identified, 1:587n
  • letters from, 2:220–223, 2:292–293, 2:330
  • letters to, 1:586–587, 2:338–339
  • A Memoir on the Cultivation of the Vine in America, and the Best Mode of Making Wine, 1:587n
  • and wine, 2:220–222, 2:292, 2:293, 2:330, 2:338–339

Adlum on Making Wine (Adlum), 1:587n

Adresse au Conseil Legislatif du Territoire d'Orleans (Poydras), 2:682, 4:466

Advice to Shepherds (Daubenton; trans. Bowdoin), 3:96n, 3:343

Aesculapius (god of medicine), 2:187, 2:188n

Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut; marrons d'Inde), 1:593, 1:594n, 2:310, 3:503, 3:504n

Aesop's Fables

  • advocated for Indians, 1:110

Africa

  • colonization of blacks to, 3:267–269, 3:318–320
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506

Aggy (E. Randolph's slave), 4:231n

Aggy (TJ's slave; b. 1789). See Hern, Aggy.

Aggy (TJ's slave; b. 1789; daughter of Dinah)

  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:384, 4:385
  • weaver, 4:380

Aggy (TJ's slave; b. 1798). See Gillette, Aggy (TJ's slave)

aging

  • books on, 3:137
  • TJ on youth, 2:187

Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (Paine), 4:168n

L'Agricoltore Sperimentato (Trinci), 2:82

Agricultural Museum, 2:543, 2:544n

Agricultural Society of Albemarle

  • members of, 4:22n, 4:58–58n, 4:538–539n
  • officers of, 1:53–54n, 3:136n, 3:146n, 4:415–416n
  • TJ's involvement with, 3:351n
  • TJ's proposed constitution for, 3:347–352

agriculture. See also Agricultural Society of Albemarle; crops; Hessian fly; plows

  • Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, 1:133
  • along the lower James River, 2:167
  • and Belfast Literary Society, 4:159, 4:175, 4:188n
  • books on, 1:35, 1:36, 1:37, 1:508, 1:581–582, 3:321, 3:322n, 4:110n
  • British Board of Agriculture, 1:252
  • and cast-iron presses, 2:302
  • clearing and belting of land, 2:85, 2:86–87n
  • and coating seeds with tar and plaster, 2:334
  • Columbian Agricultural Society, 1:23n, 1:40n, 1:133, 1:134n
  • Columbian Society for the Promotion of Rural and Domestic Economy, 3:33, 3:35n
  • and contour plowing, 2:254
  • crops
  • C.W. Peale on farming, 4:136–142, 4:179–181
  • Domestic encyclopædia, 1:18, 1:19n, 1:252
  • dynamometer
  • government subsidies to, 2:613–614
  • happiness of agricultural workers, 2:296
  • and hawthorn hedges, 2:132n, 2:167
  • Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor)
  • impact of taxation on, 2:573–574, 2:577, 2:580, 2:584, 2:585–586, 2:589, 2:590
  • implements of, 3:171, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251, 3:349, 3:456, 3:461
  • and insects, 2:222, 2:496
  • law on, 4:168
  • manure as fertilizer, 4:179, 4:180, 4:531
  • Pennsylvania moldboard, 1:111, 1:252
  • Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1:477, 1:479–480n, 2:220, 2:223n, 4:161
  • plaster (plaister) of paris (gypsum)
  • plows
  • and provision of fodder, 2:271, 2:371
  • Richmond Society for Promoting Agriculture, 3:348, 3:351n
  • Société d'agriculture du département de la Seine
  • and threshing machines, 2:5, 2:36, 2:675, 3:293, 3:349, 3:371
  • TJ buys fruit trees, 1:40
  • TJ lists works on, 1:581–582, 2:81–83, 2:195
  • TJ on, 1:110, 1:252, 1:559
  • TJ on farming, 4:93
  • TJ's farm book, 4:370 (illus.), 4:xliv
  • use of gypsum (plaster of paris) in, 2:197–198, 2:205, 2:226, 2:304, 2:305, 2:329, 2:334, 2:341, 3:313, 3:341, 3:349

Agrostis stolonifera (fiorin grass), 3:279, 3:280n, 3:294–295, 3:339–340

  • sent to TJ, 4:159, 4:187, 4:192–193, 4:201, 4:363
  • TJ on, 4:175, 4:364, 4:561, 4:562, 4:638

Ainsworth, Robert

  • Latin and English Dictionary abridged, 1:35

Aird, John

  • reference for Melish, 4:423

Akers, John, 1:415

Alabama River, 1:351

Albaflor wine, 1:345, 1:346, 4:4, 4:530

Albany Congress (1754)

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504

Albemarle Academy, 3:540n

Albemarle Baptist Church of Christ. See Buckmountain Baptist Church (Albemarle Co.)

Albemarle County, Va.

  • Agricultural Society of, 1:53–54n, 3:136n, 3:146n, 3:347–352, 4:22n, 4:58–59n, 4:415–416n, 4:538–539n
  • Barringer Creek, 3:432
  • Buckmountain Baptist Church, 1:63–64, 1:126
  • cloth factory in, 4:143, 4:169, 4:209, 4:667
  • devastating rain in, 2:254
  • and dogs, 4:161, 4:170, 4:346–349
  • grape cultivation in, 4:177
  • Hardware River, 4:146, 4:387
  • inhabitants of address TJ, 1:46–47, 1:74
  • inhabitants of meet with TJ, 1:79
  • land prices in, 3:622, 3:644
  • map, volume frontmatter
  • petitions to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
  • and road orders, 3:527
  • schools in, 1:82n, 4:493
  • TJ addresses inhabitants of, 1:102–103
  • wheat harvest in, 2:495, 4:95
  • Woods, Micajah (deputy sheriff), 1:590, 1:595

Albemarle County Court, Va., 1:415n, 2:227, 3:225

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

Alberoni, Giulio

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Albizia Julibrissin (mimosa tree; silk tree), 1:631, 2:103, 2:104n

Albuquerque, Don José Miguel de la Cuerva, duque de, 2:247

Alcocke, Elliott, 2:452

alcohol. See also wine.

  • ale, 3:241–242
  • beer, 1:299, 2:116
  • Bishop Madison on, 4:17
  • brandy, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211, 4:419
  • cider, 1:581, 1:657, 2:223, 4:140–141, 4:210
  • claret, 1:387, 1:397n
  • drunkenness
  • excise tax on, 3:81, 3:82n
  • French brandy, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223
  • gin distilling, 1:465
  • Madeira, 1:387, 1:397n
  • medicinal uses of, 1:483
  • porter, 3:241–242, 3:252, 4:630
  • production of, 3:241–242
  • rum, 1:299
  • Rush on, 4:17
  • and stills, 3:171, 3:359, 3:521
  • whiskey, 1:31, 1:465, 3:359, 4:210, 4:483
  • wine

alcoholism, 2:87, 2:191

ale, 3:241–242

Aleck (TJ's slave; b. 1806)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Aleutian Islands, 1:447

Alexander, Eli

  • grinds wheat, 1:109, 1:353
  • identified, 1:137–138n
  • letters from, 1:353, 2:198–199, 2:213
  • letters to, 1:137–138, 1:353, 2:85–87, 2:150–151, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:421–422, 3:328
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
  • and rent, 1:353, 2:421–422, 3:328
  • TJ's dispute with, 2:85–86, 2:150–151, 2:199, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:277–280, 2:281, 2:282, 2:286–287, 2:294

Alexander, James, 2:221, 2:223n, 3:247n

Alexander I, emperor of Russia

  • diplomatic appointments, 1:537
  • and J. S. Smith, 2:466
  • and letters of credence, 1:328, 1:343–344, 1:359, 1:484, 1:485n
  • TJ on, 2:277, 2:512, 3:208
  • TJ's relationship with, 1:38, 1:433, 1:659n, 2:467, 2:487–488, 2:512, 2:513
  • and U.S., 1:115–116, 1:233, 1:328, 1:659n
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:507n

Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, 2:274

Alexandria, Va.

  • commerce at, 4:26
  • merino sheep shipped to, 2:166, 2:233, 2:313, 2:360–361, 2:362, 2:366, 2:379, 2:481
  • port of, 4:27

Alfonso X, king of Castile and León

  • Las Siete Partidas, 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:546

Alfred, king of England, 2:571

Alien and Sedition Acts, 1:278, 3:452, 3:473

Alisma plantago-aquatica (water plantain), 1:57–58n

Allegany County, Md.

  • letter to citizens of, 1:94

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

Allen, Hancock, 2:168, 2:169n

Allen, Paul, 3:632, 3:633n

Allen, William, 2:319

Allen, William O.

  • identified, 2:204n
  • letter from, 2:204–205
  • letter to, 2:339–340
  • and Logan's speech, 2:204, 2:339–340

Allison, Burgess

  • and American Philosophical Society, 4:167n
  • and Lambert's astronomical calculations, 4:637n

Allison, Mary D., 2:87, 2:88n

Allison, Thomas, 2:87

Allone, William B. W.

  • letters from, 1:101–102, 2:241
  • requests money from TJ, 1:101–102, 2:241

allspice, 1:45

almanacs, nautical. See also Blunt, Edmund March; Garnett, John.

  • TJ on, 4:55
  • TJ purchases, 4:289

Almeida, Portugal

  • French forces besiege, 2:667

almonds

  • planted at Monticello, 3:455
  • sent to TJ, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:487, 4:522, 4:530

Alpine strawberries (Fragaria vesca), 2:481, 2:482n, 2:543, 3:353, 4:34, 4:561, 4:562

Alston, Lemuel James

  • identified, 2:218n
  • letter from, 2:218
  • letter to, 2:252–253
  • and merino sheep, 2:218, 2:252

Alston, Willis, 3:330, 4:39

althaea (Hibiscus syriacus; rose of Sharon), 3:354

amaryllis, 3:545

Amaryllis Atamsco (Zephyranthes Atamsco), 4:523

Amaryllis Belladonna (Belladonna lily), 4:523

Ambler, Mr.

  • and TJ's Richmond lot, 4:154

Ambrose (TJ's slave; b. 1799)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:386

Amedie (ship), 3:514n

Amelia County, Va.

  • TJ visits, 2:76, 2:77n, 2:183

Amelia Island

  • and ports in E. Fla., 4:593, 4:594n, 4:623, 4:665n

Amendments and Notes to Statement on the Batture Case (Thomas Jefferson), 3:226–227, 3:316, 3:424–425

American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore newspaper)

  • mentioned, 2:173, 2:174n
  • prints TJ's correspondence, 1:178n, 1:221n

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 4:196, 4:197n, 4:228, 4:229n

American Artillerist's Companion, or Elements of Artillery (Tousard), 1:412, 2:332n

American Colonization Society, 1:30n, 1:39n, 2:196n

The American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopedia (Parker and Delaplaine), 3:51n, 3:589, 3:609

American Fur Company, 4:551, 4:552, 4:553

The American Gardener (Gardiner and Hepburn), 4:289n

The American Gardener's Calendar (McMahon), 1:135, 1:582, 2:83, 3:327, 4:289n

American Magazine, 1:106n

American Ornithology (Wilson), 2:483n, 3:623n, 4:289

American Philosophical Society

  • Adelung offers to assist, 2:468n
  • Barton to present paper to, 2:509
  • and Corrêa da Serra, 4:351
  • and Du Jareau, 2:372, 2:375n, 2:663, 2:664, 2:665n, 3:41–42
  • Du Pont de Nemours sends works to, 4:24n
  • foreign members of, 1:72n, 1:146n, 1:452, 1:453n, 1:471n, 2:510n, 3:63n, 3:115n, 3:461–462, 3:472n, 4:501n, 4:538–539n
  • forwards publications to TJ, 1:452, 1:453n, 4:167, 4:325
  • and Godon, 2:404n
  • Hewson acknowledges gift to, 2:536–537
  • and Lambert, 2:54–55n, 2:68n, 2:337–338, 2:541, 2:566, 4:637n, 4:651, 4:660n
  • Lasteyrie sends work to, 3:461–462
  • librarian of, 1:452–453, 1:455, 1:482
  • and mastodon bones, 1:511
  • members of, 1:152n, 1:172n, 1:194n, 1:482, 1:571–572, 2:75n, 2:236n, 2:377n, 2:404n, 3:40n, 3:94n
  • Michaux sends works to, 3:320–322
  • officers of, 1:101n
  • and Philadelphia Museum, 1:46n
  • and Rush portrait, 4:xlvi
  • TJ as president of, 1:540, 4:411–412, 4:462, 4:637n
  • TJ forwards material to, 1:97–98, 1:100–101, 1:140, 1:152n, 1:482, 1:535, 1:571–572, 1:608–609, 4:147, 4:149n
  • TJ reelected president of, 2:128, 2:170, 3:284–285, 3:312
  • Transactions, 1:36, 2:71, 2:222, 2:404n, 4:651
  • and Treat, 2:46–47, 2:135, 2:226
  • and Warden, 2:536–537
  • and weights, measures, and coins, 4:167, 4:222, 4:228, 4:409
  • and Wistar, 1:100, 1:677

American Principles (J. Q. Adams), 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435n

American Revolution

  • books on, 3:41, 3:98
  • and Bunker Hill Association, 2:504–505
  • and Chew's speech, 4:152, 4:153n
  • and fugitive slaves, 3:319
  • historiography of, 1:288–289, 1:334, 1:634n
  • and Lafayette, 2:10–11, 3:314, 3:315n
  • mentioned, 2:604
  • and N.Y. loyalists, 2:289
  • Seventy-Six Association, 4:105–107
  • Stake's service in, 4:623, 4:624n
  • TJ on, 2:421, 2:505, 2:529, 2:541, 4:470–471
  • Tyler on, 2:384, 2:385, 2:386
  • and Va. land warrants, 2:74, 2:94, 4:134–135, 4:176, 4:566–567, 4:568–569n, 4:585
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504, 4:507n

American State Papers and Public Documents, 1:36

Ames, Fisher

  • criticized by J. Q. Adams, 3:356, 3:357n, 4:435

Amherst, Sir Jeffery, 1:290

Amicus. See Cerus

Amiot, Mme, 1:450

ammonia (spirit of hartshorn), 4:102

ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac)

  • for copper utensils, 1:467, 3:183, 3:200

Amonett, Thomas

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Amsterdam

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504

Amy (TJ's slave; b. 1756)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Amy (TJ's slave; b. 1797)

  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385

The Anabasis (Xenophon; trans. Spelman), 1:580

The Analogy of Religion (Butler), 3:590

Analostan Island. See Mason's Island.

Analysis of Green Tobacco (Vauquelin), 1:142–146, 1:482

Analysis of Prepared Tobacco (Vauquelin), 1:147–152, 1:482

"Anas" (Thomas Jefferson), 2:92, 2:93n

anatomy

  • books on, 1:35, 1:307
  • study of, 1:101n

Anatomy of the Human Body (Bell), 1:35, 1:307

anchovies, 1:366

Anciennes loix des François (Hoüard, Littleton, and Pothier), 3:130–131, 3:175n, 3:546

Anderson, Joseph

  • letter to, 4:164
  • as U.S. senator, 1:119, 1:473, 4:163, 4:164n

Anderson, Richard

  • and account with Craven, 2:116, 2:371
  • and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459, 1:460
  • and Shoemakers, 3:318

Anderson, William

  • Richmond merchant, 4:510

Anderson, William C., 1:444, 1:445n, 2:241, 2:242n

Anderson (TJ's slave; b. 1806)

  • death of, 4:388n

Anderson (TJ's slave; b. 1810; Nanny's son)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:386

Anderson (TJ's slave; b. 1810; Sarah [Sally] Hubbard's son)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385

Andrei, Giovanni

  • and carving for TJ, 1:474–475, 1:595, 4:66, 4:459
  • sculptor for U.S. Capitol, 1:78n

Andrews, Henry

  • letter from, 4:479–480
  • seeks aid from TJ, 4:479–480

Andrews, Mr., 3:376

anemone, double (Anemone coronaria), 4:497, 4:498

Anemone coronaria (double anemone), 4:497, 4:498

anemone flower (anemone pulsatilla), 3:545

anemone pulsatilla (anemone flower), 3:545

Anglo-Saxon laws, 1:383

Ann (ship), 2:672

Annales de Chimie, 2:406n

Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

  • and Corrêa da Serra, 4:319

Anne, queen of Great Britain

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Anne (TJ's slave; b. 1807). See Hughes, Anne (TJ's slave)

Anniversary Oration (Latrobe), 3:624, 3:625n

Ann Smith Academy (Lexington), 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201

anonymous correspondents

  • letter from accounted for, 3:655
  • letters from, 1:69–70, 1:291–292, 1:654, 1:655n, 1:671–673, 2:263, 3:225–226, 3:578, 3:585, 3:590, 4:109, 4:606–607, 4:611–612
  • letter to, 2:296
  • in newspapers, 4:36–37

An Answer to Mr. Jefferson's Justification of His Conduct in the Case of the New Orleans Batture (Livingston), 4:292n

Anthony, Benjamin, 1:257n

Anthony, Christopher

  • and Campbell Co. land, 4:680

Antient Plymouth Society (New London), 1:58–59, 1:102

antimony

  • rumored source of, 1:189, 3:39, 3:88–89
  • sought in Europe, 1:18, 1:283, 1:314, 4:360
  • used in casting type, 1:19n, 1:315–316

antiquities

  • and government, 1:254n
  • paintings of, 1:522, 1:523–524n
  • and vases, 1:452, 1:453n, 1:482
  • Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (Castell), 1:390, 1:397n

antiquity

  • financial systems of Egypt, Israel, and China, 2:582–586
  • Husbandry of the Ancients (Dickson), 1:581, 2:82
  • Punic wars, 2:606

antislavery

  • in Va., 3:267–269, 3:318, 3:319
  • and Wilberforce, 3:319, 3:320n, 3:513–514

Antraigues, Emmanuel Henri Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d'

  • on British politics, 4:270–271
  • Mémoire sur les Etats-généraux, leurs droits, et la maniere de les convoquer, 4:270, 4:274n

Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'

  • Compendium of Ancient Geography, 4:311–312
  • Géographie Ancienne Abrégée, 4:312n
  • works of, 3:296n

Apocynum cannabinum (Indian hemp), 4:667

apoplexy, 1:526

apples

  • Calvite, 3:455–456
  • as crop, 4:141
  • Detroit, 3:448
  • Newtown (Albemarle) pippin, 3:448, 3:455
  • Spitzenberg, 3:448, 3:455
  • Taliaferro, 3:455–456

Appleton, Thomas

  • consul at Leghorn, 3:375, 3:381n, 3:646

Appomattox River, 3:103, 3:104, 3:140, 3:195, 4:146

apricots

  • planted at Monticello, 3:455
  • trees, 1:40, 2:294, 2:313

Apuntes ligeros sobre la nueva constitución (Foronda), 1:470–471, 1:577, 1:604, 1:606n, 4:282, 4:284n

Arata, Teophane

  • and consulship at Civitavecchia, 3:645–646, 3:647
  • letter from, 3:647
  • recommended by Gerna, 4:376

Archaeologiae americanae telluris collectanea et specimina (Barton), 2:510n

Archbald, James, 1:238–240, 2:202

Archbald, Mary Ann Wodrow

  • identified, 1:240n
  • letters from, 1:238–240, 2:201–203
  • seeks TJ's advice on sheep husbandry, 1:238–240, 2:202

architecture

  • building materials
  • construction at U.S. Capitol, 3:534–537, 3:555–556
  • Diocletian's palace, 3:581–582
  • Latrobe's drawings, 3:535–536, 3:537n, 3:581–582, 3:590–591
  • TJ's opinion on Monticello as, 1:595–596

Archives of Useful Knowledge (Mease), 3:51n, 3:95n

Archy (TJ's slave; b. 1808)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Arctomys (marmot), 4:535

Arcueil, Société de, 1:264, 1:267n, 1:316

Arden, Daniel D.

  • publisher, 4:312n

Argand lamps, 4:363

Argentré, Bertrand d'

  • Coûtumes generales du paîs et duché de Bretagne, 3:131, 3:174n

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

Aristides "the Just"

  • TJ addressed as, 4:469

Aristotle, 3:278

  • Les Politiqves d’Aristote (Leroy), 3:547
  • read by J. Adams, 4:474

Arkansas District (Louisiana Territory)

  • judges in, 4:71
  • land claims in, 4:70

Arkansas River, 4:535

Arkansas (trading post)

  • meteorological observations at, 1:97–98, 1:482, 1:608–609, 2:46–47, 2:135, 2:198, 2:226

Arkansas River, 1:97n

Arkwright, Sir Richard

  • spinning jenny of, 1:525, 4:512

Armand, Colonel. See La Rouërie, Armand Charles Tuffin, marquis de

Armistead (TJ's slave; b. 1771)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385

Arms, William G.

  • letter of introduction for, 3:51–52

Armstead (Manuel) (TJ's slave; b. 1794)

  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385

Armstrong, John

  • advocates war against France and Great Britain, 1:536–537
  • anti-administration activities of, 3:260, 3:274, 3:275n, 3:330, 3:553
  • carries Short's letters to U.S., 1:115, 1:120
  • comments on Coles, 1:260
  • dispatches mentioned, 1:65, 1:113, 1:117, 1:229–230, 1:370, 1:658, 1:659, 2:36, 2:242, 2:256, 2:257, 2:287, 2:410, 2:463, 2:470, 2:471n, 2:480, 2:536, 2:672
  • and Du Pont de Nemours, 1:314
  • identified, 1:20n
  • and Lafayette's La. lands, 2:243
  • letters from, 1:260, 1:536–538, 3:228–229
  • letters to, 1:19–21, 1:412–413, 3:251–252
  • and merino sheep, 2:39
  • opposes Warden's appointment, 3:518–519
  • and Parker's double plow, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
  • and profit-making scheme, 3:577, 3:578n
  • returns to U.S., 3:106, 3:251–252
  • rumored as secretary of war, 1:118, 1:140, 1:375
  • sends dynamometer to TJ, 1:20
  • sends Guillaume plow to TJ, 1:313
  • sends spinning wheel to TJ, 1:313
  • TJ on, 3:542
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
  • TJ's letters of introduction to, 1:402, 1:423
  • U.S. minister to France, 1:235n, 1:331, 1:374–375, 1:413, 1:528, 1:529, 1:627, 2:288, 2:295, 2:310, 2:366, 2:418, 2:419, 3:54, 3:96n, 3:105, 3:114, 3:177, 3:224, 3:229, 3:444, 3:524
  • and Warden, 1:141n, 3:107–108, 3:248, 3:251, 3:279–280, 3:309, 3:330, 3:340, 3:463, 3:538–539, 3:542, 3:557–558

Army, U.S.

  • artillery and small arms for, 2:258, 2:588, 2:603, 2:606, 2:614
  • expansion of, 2:130, 2:131n, 2:190
  • funding for, 2:358n
  • light artillery, 2:304
  • military academy, 2:258, 2:261n, 2:387
  • military stores for, 2:257
  • and militia, 2:130, 2:131n, 2:258, 2:259, 2:588
  • Monroe refuses a commission in, 2:45
  • officers' commissions sought, 1:583, 4:186–187
  • Peace Establishment Act (1802), 3:120, 3:122n, 3:163
  • resignations from, 2:107, 2:539

Arnold, Benedict

  • Va. invasion of, 4:15, 4:432, 4:434n

Arrowsmith, Aaron

  • New and Elegant General Atlas, 4:352, 4:354n

artificial horizon

  • made for TJ, 3:479–480, 4:167
  • owned by TJ, 4:369

Artzt, Charles

  • designs spinning jenny, 1:524–525

Aruda wine, 3:240, 3:241n

Ashlin, John

  • identified, 4:629n
  • letter to, 4:629
  • mill of, 1:560, 2:97, 2:98n
  • TJ procures fish from, 4:629, 4:668, 4:677

Asia

  • immigrants from, 1:253
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506

Asiatic mammoth (Chemung mammoth; Mammuthus primigenius), 2:507–508, 2:509

asparagus, 2:334, 2:368, 3:353, 3:394

asparagus beans (Vigna unguiculata), 3:454, 3:456, 3:501–502

aspen trees, 3:353, 3:354, 3:448

Aspern-Essling, Battle of (1809), 1:371–372, 1:377n, 1:436

Ast, William Frederick, 1:219n, 1:244n

Astor, John Jacob

  • and fur trade, 4:550–553
  • identified, 4:554n
  • letter from, 4:550–554
  • meets TJ, 4:550, 4:554n

L'Astronomie, Poëme en Quatre Chants (Gudin de la Brenellerie), 4:147, 4:149n, 4:167

Astronomie (Lalande), 4:244

astronomy

  • ancient Mexican, 1:521, 1:556
  • astronomical instruments, 4:237, 4:238n, 4:369, 4:370n
  • and Banneker, 1:588, 1:590n
  • books on, 1:24, 1:35, 1:576n, 1:581, 2:466, 4:194–196, 4:213–214
  • and calculations of Monticello's longitude, 4:235–236, 4:239n, 4:246, 4:247–266, 4:276, 4:344, 4:368, 4:369, 4:402–406, 4:407–408
  • and calculations of Poplar Forest latitude, 3:361–367
  • and calculations of prime meridian, 1:54–55n, 1:275–276, 1:356–359, 1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–338n, 2:398–399, 2:541, 2:566, 4:275–276, 4:651–660
  • Jupiter, 3:480, 4:368, 4:369
  • and lunar calculations, 1:540–554, 2:54, 2:60–68, 4:368–369, 4:369
  • solar eclipse of 1806, 4:246, 4:263
  • and solar observations, 4:188, 4:195, 4:235, 4:237–239, 4:246, 4:263, 4:368, 4:369, 4:403, 4:407
  • study of, 1:535
  • TJ on, 3:480

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles (Ferguson), 1:576n, 1:581, 2:466

Asturias, Prince of. See Ferdinand VII, king of Spain.

Athens

  • democracy in, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15

Atkinson, William K., 3:122n

Atlantic Ocean

  • and northwest passage, 1:443
  • passage across, 2:202, 2:289

Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique (Las Cases), 3:552, 3:578

Attwater, Reuben, 3:370

Auerstaedt, Duke of. See Davout, Louis Nicolas, Duc d'Auerstädt, Prince of Eckmühl

augers

  • TJ orders, 4:315

Augusta County, Va.

  • springs at, 1:191–192
  • Weyers Cave, 1:309

Auguste, Henry, 3:557n

Augustine (Austin) (TJ's slave; b. ca. 1775)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385

auricula (Primula Auricula), 4:497, 4:498, 4:523

auriculas, 3:545

Auriol, M., 1:536

Aurora (Philadelphia newspaper)

  • anti-Republican writings of, 3:574, 3:585, 3:586n, 3:591, 3:600
  • and Duane, 1:48, 1:49n, 3:331, 4:174
  • financial difficulties of, 3:450–452, 3:507, 3:515, 3:550
  • on Smith's dismissal, 3:622–623
  • TJ's subscription to, 1:48, 1:49n, 2:175n, 4:56

Austin, Mr., 2:397

Austin, Eli

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Austin, James, 2:397

Austin, James Trecothick

  • identified, 4:38n
  • letter from, 4:37–38
  • letter to, 4:67–68
  • Resistance to the Laws of the United States ("Leolin"), 4:38n, 4:67–68
  • sends pamphlet to TJ, 4:37

Austin, John

  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:608
  • letter to, 1:608

Austin (TJ's slave; b. ca. 1775). See Augustine (Austin) (TJ's slave; b. ca. 4:1775)

Austria. See also Francis I, emperor of Austria

  • Charles, archduke of Austria, 1:371, 1:372
  • and Declaration of Pillnitz, 4:430n
  • John, archduke of Austria, 1:372
  • relations with Great Britain, 2:275
  • Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp (Austrian Ambassador), 1:117, 1:121n
  • and Treaty of Tilsit, 1:516, 1:517n, 1:529, 1:627
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502
  • war with Napoleon, 1:140–141, 1:328, 1:370–371, 2:7, 2:9n

"Authentic Anecdote," 3:261–262

autobiography

  • TJ on his, 1:383, 1:384n

avisos, 1:19, 1:21n, 1:117, 1:230

Aylett, Philip, 2:535

azedaracs (chinaberry; Melia azedarach), 3:354, 3:355n

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