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Dacqueny, John, 3:233

Daendels, Herman Willem

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:505

Daingerfield, John

  • identified, 2:661n
  • letter from accounted for, 2:661n
  • letter to, 2:661
  • TJ hires slaves from, 2:661, 3:111–112, 4:142
  • TJ's debt to, 2:661

Daingerfield, Mary Willis

  • account with, 4:556
  • death of slave of, 3:180–181
  • identified, 1:48n
  • letters to, 1:47–48, 2:41
  • paid by TJ, 1:41n
  • TJ hires slaves from, 1:48n, 2:41, 2:661, 3:55, 3:111–112, 3:180–181, 3:302, 4:81, 4:142, 4:183, 4:556

Daingerfield, Sarah, 1:41n, 1:48n

Daingerfield, William, 1:48n

Dallas, Alexander James

  • and Franklin's estate, 3:451, 3:452n
  • publishes The Opinion of Judge Cooper on the Effect of a Sentence of a Foreign Court of Admiralty, 2:376, 2:377n
  • Reports of Cases ruled and adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania, before and since the Revolution, 3:547
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625

Dalrymple, Sir John

  • An Essay towards a general history of Feudal Property in Great Britain, 2:51

Dalton, Michael

  • on land litigation, 2:234

Damoulin. See Du Moulin, Charles

dams

  • destroyed, 4:165
  • mill and wing, 3:421–422
  • on Rivanna River, 1:560, 1:579, 2:97–98, 3:303

Danäe and the Shower of Gold (Wertmüller), 4:181, 4:182n

Dance, Harrison

  • Va. Court of Appeals clerk, 4:402

dancing

  • TJ attends inaugural ball, 1:9, 1:10n

Dandridge, Nathaniel West

  • TJ spends Christmas with, 4:598

Daniel, Peter Vivian

  • identified, 2:88n
  • letter from, 2:87–88
  • letter to, 2:133
  • and Stadler's land grant, 2:87–88, 2:133

Daniel, Thomas

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Daniel (TJ's slave; b. 1790)

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

Danton, Georges Jacques

  • leader of French Revolution, 4:471

Darcantel, Paul, 3:478n

Darmsdatt, Joseph

  • identified, 2:423n
  • letters from, 2:430, 2:502, 3:550
  • letters to, 2:422–423, 2:503, 3:530
  • sells TJ fish, 2:422–423, 2:430, 2:502, 2:503, 3:530, 3:550
  • TJ makes payments to, 3:530, 3:531, 3:550

Darnell, Mr. See Darnil, Nimrod

Darnil (Darnell, Darnold, Darniel), Nimrod

  • Poplar Forest overseer, 4:306–307, 4:374

Darrell, Phillip

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Darsonel. See Durosnel, Antoine Jean Auguste Henri, comte

Daschkoff, André

  • forwards letters to TJ, 1:328
  • identified, 1:329n
  • letters from, 1:328–329, 1:484–485
  • letter to, 1:433
  • Russian consul general to U.S., 1:120, 1:329, 1:332, 1:360, 3:190, 4:551
  • visits Monticello, 1:120, 1:433, 1:484, 1:519

Dashwood. See Despencer, Sir Francis Dashwood, baron le

dates, 1:366, 2:271

Datt, Johann Philipp

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506n

Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie

  • Advice to Shepherds, 3:96n, 3:343

Daucus carota (wild carrots), 4:139

Davenport, Jesse

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Daveny. See Rioult-Davenay, Archange Louis, baron

David, king of Israel, 2:584

Davidson, Capt., 1:15, 1:217, 2:362

Davies, Tamerlane W. W.

  • witnesses land conveyance, 4:318n

Davis, Daniel

  • aks for varnish, 1:419
  • identified, 1:419n
  • letter from, 1:419

Davis, Edmund

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Davis, George

  • resigns consular position, 4:5n
  • U.S. consul at Tripoli, 1:26

Davis, Samuel B., 2:450n

Davis, Sancho (TJ's slave)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Davout, Louis Nicolas, Duc d'Auerstädt, Prince of Eckmühl, 1:372

Davy. See Hern, David (Davy; TJ's slave)

Davy (TJ's slave; b. 1755). See Hern, David (Davy) (TJ's slave; b. 1755)

Davy (TJ's slave; b. 1784). See Hern, David (Davy) (TJ's slave; b. 1784)

Davy (TJ's slave; b. 1785)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Davy (TJ's slave; b. 1803). See Hern, David (Davy) (TJ's slave; b. 1803)

Davy (TJ's slave; b. 1806)

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

Davy, William

  • and domestic manufactures, 1:170–172
  • identified, 1:172n
  • letter from, 1:170–172
  • and merino sheep, 1:16, 1:17

Dawson, Allen

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Dawson, John

  • diplomatic mission of, 4:648, 4:649n
  • identified, 4:648n
  • letter from, 4:648–649
  • sends La. state constitution, 4:648
  • U.S. Representative from Va., 1:644

Dawson, Martin. See also Dawson, Martin, & Co. (Milton firm)

  • identified, 2:281–282n
  • letter from, 2:286
  • letter to, 2:281–282
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
  • and TJ's dispute with Alexander, 2:240n, 2:281–282, 2:286–287, 2:294

Dawson, Martin, & Co. (Milton firm), 4:74

Dawson, Pleasant

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Dawson, William

  • identified, 1:219n
  • letter from, 1:417
  • letters to Greenhow, 1:218–219, 1:240, 1:244n, 1:317–318
  • and Mutual Assurance Society, 1:218–219, 1:240, 1:244n, 1:333, 1:417, 1:472, 1:625, 1:659, 2:29

Dayton, Jonathan, 3:324

Deane, P.

  • letter from accounted for, 1:677

Deane, Samuel

  • The New-England farmer, or, Georgical dictionary, 1:581

Dearborn, Dorcas Osgood Marble (Henry Dearborn's wife)

  • death of, 3:552, 3:553n, 4:82
  • mentioned, 1:301
  • sends greetings to TJ, 2:430
  • TJ sends greetings to, 1:280, 2:538

Dearborn, Henry

  • and batture controversy, 2:426, 2:435
  • and charges against Waterhouse, 1:295
  • consults with TJ on botany, 1:189
  • on foreign relations, 3:552–553
  • and Gerry, 4:84n
  • and Granger, 3:129
  • and gunpowder, 3:583
  • and Herrick's spinning machine, 4:513, 4:514, 4:544
  • identified, 1:280n
  • introduced to T. M. Randolph, 1:572–573, 1:574
  • letters from, 1:301–302, 2:429–430, 3:27–28, 3:552–553, 4:544–545
  • letters to, 1:279–280, 1:572–573, 2:537–538, 4:82–84, 4:513
  • on New England politics, 2:429–430, 2:537–538, 3:28, 3:75, 3:553
  • nomination as major general, 4:513, 4:544
  • recommendation by, 2:320
  • as secretary of war, 1:6, 1:7, 1:48, 1:351, 2:56, 2:57, 2:175, 2:176n, 2:315, 4:196, 4:376, 4:398, 4:412, 4:537, 4:538n
  • sends fish to TJ, 1:153, 1:279
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
  • TJ sends greetings to, 4:238
  • and wife's death, 4:82

Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell

  • and astronomy, 4:195–196, 4:237–239
  • and Herrick's spinning machine, 4:544, 4:545n
  • identified, 4:197n
  • letter from, 4:195–197
  • letter to, 4:237–239
  • military commission of, 1:78, 1:280, 1:301–302
  • translator of A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, History and Analysis of Pastel, or Woad (Lasteyrie), 3:462n

Dearborn, Sarah Bowdoin (James Bowdoin's widow; Henry Dearborn's second wife)

  • and Daubenton's work on sheep, 3:343n

Deborah (schooner), 2:118

debt, private

  • imprisonment for, 4:489–492

debt, public

  • Du Pont on, 2:583, 2:590, 2:603, 2:611
  • Gallatin on, 4:547
  • reduction of, 1:62, 1:177, 1:610, 1:664, 2:358n, 4:54n
  • TJ on, 1:168–169, 1:598, 3:560, 3:566

Debue, Monsieur, 1:372

DeButts, Mary Anne Welby (Samuel DeButts's wife)

  • and Northmore's poem, 4:392–393, 4:470

DeButts, Richard

  • mentioned, 4:392, 4:393n

DeButts, Samuel

  • dispute with S. Carr, 1:75, 1:134–135
  • identified, 1:75n
  • letter from, 1:75
  • letter to, 1:134–135
  • mentioned, 4:393n

Decatur, Stephen, 1:111, 1:252

Declaration of Independence

  • mentioned, 2:105
  • signers of, 4:429, 4:475, 4:476n
  • TJ as author of, 1:11, 1:487, 1:610, 4:490

deer skins, 2:118, 2:255

"Defence of the Review of Mr. Lambert's Memorial," 3:285n

Defoe, Daniel

  • Essay upon Projects, 1:572
  • Robinson Crusoe, 1:110

Deforge, Mr. See Desforgues,François Louis Michel Chemin (French consul at New Orleans)

Degen & Purviance (Leghorn mercantile firm), 1:361, 1:362n, 1:515, 3:381n

Delabigarre, Peter

  • and batture controversy, 2:524, 2:527–528, 3:476, 3:478n, 3:484, 3:485, 3:492–493, 4:111n

Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 1:100–101, 1:357

Delaplaine, Joseph. See also Delaplaine & Hellings (Philadelphia firm)

  • American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:51n, 3:589, 3:609
  • and Emporium of Arts & Sciences, 4:663, 4:685
  • identified, 3:51n
  • letters from, 3:589, 4:663
  • letters to, 3:609, 4:685
  • Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans, 3:51n

Delaplaine & Hellings (Philadelphia firm)

  • identified, 3:51n
  • letter from, 3:50–51
  • letter from accounted for, 3:51n
  • solicits subscription, 3:50–51

Delaware County, Pa., 1:69n

Delaware River

  • act to improve navigation on, 4:161n

Delessert, Étienne, 2:xli

Delessert, Jules Paul Benjamin, & Cie, 1:235

Delolme, Jean Louis

  • read by J. Adams, 4:474
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:503

Delor, Mrs., 2:441n

Demaree, Samuel R.

  • identified, 1:457n
  • letter from, 1:455–457
  • letter to, 1:575–576
  • TJ recommends books, 1:576–577

Demeneu, Mr., 2:463

Democrat (Boston newspaper), 1:50n

Demosthenes, 1:70

Dempsey v. Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, 2:377n, 2:668, 3:79

Denisart, Jean Baptiste

  • Collection de décisions nouvelles, 3:131, 3:160, 3:174n, 3:546

Denmark

  • Erving appointed special minister to, 3:293, 3:459, 3:539
  • government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16
  • prisoners of war from, 4:362
  • relations with U.S., 4:237n, 4:611, 4:612
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506n, 4:507n

Dennis, George (TJ's slave; b. 1808)

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

Derbigny, Pierre (Peter) Augustin Bourguignon

  • and batture controversy, 2:160n, 2:444n, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:524, 3:30, 3:71, 4:110, 4:643n
  • Case laid before Counsel for their opinion on the claim to the Batture, situated in front of the Suburb St. Mary, 2:658, 3:476, 3:483, 3:494
  • identified, 4:632n
  • letter to, 4:631–632
  • Mémoire a Consulter, sur la Réclamation de la Batture, Située en Face du Faubourg Sainte-Marie de la Nouvelle-Orléans, 2:439, 2:441n, 2:446n, 2:531, 2:532n, 4:466
  • Réfutation du Mémoire en forme de consultation, 2:657, 2:658n, 3:173–174n, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:237n, 3:271, 3:476, 3:484
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:631–632

Derieux, Maria Margherita Martin (Peter Derieux's wife)

  • financial situation of, 3:77, 3:394–395
  • stepdaughter of Mazzei, 3:77n, 3:381n, 3:576

Derieux, Peter (Justin Pierre Plumard)

  • financial situation of, 3:77, 3:394–395
  • identified, 3:395–396n
  • letter from, 3:394–396
  • letter to, 3:575–576
  • and Mazzei, 3:395, 3:576
  • TJ forwards letter to, 3:77, 3:295, 3:481, 3:511, 3:575

Desalination of Sea Water, Report on (Thomas Jefferson), 1:487

Descripción histórica y cronológica de los piedras (León y Gama), 1:521, 1:556

Desforgues, François Louis Michel Chemin (French consul at New Orleans), 1:203

Deshay, Madame

  • letter from, 1:450–451
  • seeks TJ's aid, 1:450

Despencer, Sir Francis Dashwood, baron le, 1:124

Despinville, Charles

  • and West Point appointment, 4:375n, 4:376, 4:434

Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude

  • as anonymous author, 3:335
  • Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 1:260–261, 1:262–263n, 1:270, 2:288, 3:xlvi, 3:3 3:58 (illus.), 3:3–4, 3:6–7, 3:7–25, 3:89, 3:105, 3:184–185, 3:189, 3:207, 3:208n, 3:213, 3:310–312, 3:329, 3:339, 3:444, 3:449, 3:452, 3:509, 3:584, 4:19, 4:25, 4:30, 4:36, 4:54, 4:56, 4:57n, 4:202, 4:204, 4:239, 4:240, 4:325, 4:436, 4:446, 4:457n, 4:607, 4:608, 4:609, 4:611n
  • Discours prononcés dans la séance publique tenue par la classe de la langue, 1:262
  • Élémens d'Idéologie: Idéologie proprement dite, 4:203, 4:209n, 4:239–241, 4:242–243n
  • on federalism, 4:204–206
  • Grammaire, 4:203, 4:209n
  • health of, 4:649
  • identified, 1:262n
  • and Lafayette, 4:358
  • letters from, 1:260–263, 4:202–209, 4:239–243
  • letter to, 3:334–339
  • letter to mentioned, 4:30
  • Logique, 4:203, 4:209n
  • portrait of, 3:xlvi, 3:358 (illus.)
  • sends manuscript to TJ, 4:239–241, 4:325, 4:326n, 4:574–575
  • TJ on Commentary, 3:86–87, 3:334–339
  • Traité de la volonté et de ses effets, 4:203, 4:243n
  • A Treatise on Political Economy, 4:243n
  • on U.S. Constitution, 4:204–205
  • Warden carries TJ's letter to, 3:443, 3:444n, 3:538

Detroit, Mich. Territory, 1:7, 1:660–662, 2:55–57, 2:58n, 3:369–371

Detroit red apple, 3:448

Devany, Mr., 2:323

Dexter, Samuel, 3:68, 3:69n, 3:73

diamonds

  • purchased by TJ, 4:576, 4:577, 4:590

Diana (ship), 2:233, 2:360–361

Dianthus Caryophyllus (carnation), 3:545, 4:497, 4:498

dianthus (pinks), 3:353, 3:355n

Diar, Francisco Geronimo Barquez, 2:480n

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

Dick (TJ's slave), 4:373

Dick (TJ's slave; b. 1781)

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

Dick (TJ's slave; b. 1790). See Gillette, Dick (TJ's slave)

Dick (Yellow Dick) (TJ's slave; b. 1767)

  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385

Dickenson, John, 3:318

Dickerson, Wiley

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Dickinson, John

  • and Continental Congress, 4:601

Dickson, Adam

  • The Husbandry of the Ancients, 1:581, 2:82

Dickson, William

  • identified, 2:242n
  • letter from, 2:241–242
  • letter to, 2:340
  • and Lewis's effects, 2:241, 2:340

Dictionaire Historique et Critique (Bayle), 3:547

Dictionary of Arts & Sciences (Owen), 1:582

Dictionary of the Holy Bible (Brown), 1:36, 1:630n

Dictionnaire de droit et de pratique (Ferrière), 3:131, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:546

Dictionnaire de jurisprudence et des arrêts (Prost de Royer), 3:174n, 3:175n

Dictionnaire de la Langue Françoise, Ancienne et Moderne (Richelet), 3:547

Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique Portatif (Ladvocat), 1:580

Diderot, Denis

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

Didot, Firmin

  • publishes work, 1:316–317, 4:148

Digby, John, trans.

  • Historia Alexandri Magni Regis (Curtius Quintus), 1:580

Digest. See Corpus Juris civilis Romani (Godefroy)

A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (Kerr and Moreau Lislet), 3:168, 3:547

A Digest of the laws of England (Comyns), 3:547

Digges, Frank, 1:516

Digges, Thomas Attwood

  • identified, 1:517n
  • letter from, 1:515–517

Digges, William, 3:426

Diggs, Dudley, 3:179

Dillwyn, William, 3:268

Dinah (TJ's slave; b. 1766)

  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385

Dinsmore, James

  • accounts with TJ, 1:64, 1:65n
  • identified, 1:136n
  • letter to, 3:119–120
  • list of carpenter's tools, 1:135–136
  • seeks recommendation for brother, 4:476
  • works at Montpellier, 1:155, 2:106, 3:119–120

Dinsmore, John

  • TJ recommends, 4:476–477

Diocletian

  • drawings of palace of, 2:39, 3:581–582

Diodorus Siculus

  • Bibliothecae Historicae Libri Quindecim de quadraginta, 1:580
  • on Egyptian finance, 2:582
  • Historiarum Libri Aliquot, qui extant, opera & studio Vincentii Obsopoei in lucem editi, 1:580

Diomed (British horse), 1:52n

Diomede (TJ's horse), 1:51

Dionysius Halicarnasseus

  • Opera Omni Graece et Latine (trans. Spelman), 1:580

Dipsacus fullonum (teasel), 2:271

Directions for the Transplantation and Management of young Thorn or other Hedge Plants (Main), 2:132n

A Discourse Delivered at Cambridge (Osgood), 2:411, 2:412n

Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux (Saurin), 2:322n

Discours prononcés dans la séance publique tenue par la classe de la langue (Destutt de Tracy), 1:262

Discours sur les progrès des sciences (Kesteloot), 1:656

Dismal Swamp Land Company, 4:80

A Dissertation on the Prophecies (Faber), 4:484, 4:485n

Dissertations de Maxime de Tyr, philosophe platonicien (Maximus of Tyre), 1:35

distiller's syphon, 1:482–483

D'Ivernois, Sir Francis

  • Effets du blocus continental, 3:198, 3:200n, 3:274

Divers, George

  • and Duane, 3:507, 3:509n, 3:540
  • exchanges plants and cuttings with TJ, 4:561, 4:562
  • and fiorin grass, 4:561, 4:562
  • friend of TJ, 4:671
  • grinds wheat, 1:109
  • health of, 2:265
  • hosts Trist, 1:73
  • identified, 1:157–158n
  • letters from, 1:157–158, 3:456, 4:562
  • letters to, 3:454, 3:460–461, 4:156, 4:561
  • mentioned, 3:68n, 3:136
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
  • and Rivanna Company, 3:192–194
  • sends seeds to TJ, 1:157
  • and timothy seed, 3:454, 3:456, 3:460–461, 4:156, 4:157n
  • TJ visits, 1:80, 1:98n

Divers, Martha Walker (George Divers's wife)

  • hostess to Trist, 1:73
  • mentioned, 1:157n

Divers, Thomas

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Divers, Thomas Jefferson, 1:157n

The Diversions of Sidney (Margaret Bayard Smith), 1:10n

Dixon, George, ed.

  • A Voyage Round The World (Beresford), 1:445–446, 1:449n

Dizionario d'agricoltura o sia la coltivazione italiana (Ronconi), 2:82

Dobson, Mr., 1:308

Dobson, John, 3:211

Dobson, Thomas

  • Encyclopædia, 1:576, 1:577n, 1:582, 4:365, 4:366n

dock (Rumex), 4:139, 4:142n

The Doctrine of fluxions (Emerson), 1:576

Dodsley, Robert

  • The Economy of Human Life, 3:50n

dogs

  • bill for taxing, 1:17, 1:68
  • breeding of, 1:3n
  • described by TJ, 2:378, 2:409, 2:490, 2:492
  • kill sheep, 1:476
  • proposed taxation of, 4:161, 4:170, 4:346–349
  • puppy given to F. W. Eppes, 2:378
  • and R. Jefferson, 4:183, 4:481, 4:607
  • requested from TJ, 2:3, 2:32, 2:53, 2:413, 2:456
  • sent to Thornton, 2:511–512, 2:568, 2:569, 2:666, 3:63
  • shepherd, 1:376, 1:457, 1:469–470, 1:483, 3:63, 3:201, 3:241, 3:252, 3:503
  • TJ on, 4:170
  • in U.S. Congress, 3:330

dogwood (Cornus florida), 1:272, 1:274n, 3:353

Dollond, Peter & John (London firm)

  • TJ purchases telescope from, 4:237, 4:238n

Doll (TJ's slave; b. 1757)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:386

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

Dolly (TJ's slave; b. 1794)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Dolly (TJ's slave; b. 1809). See Hughes, Dolly (TJ's slave)

Dolphin of York (ship), 1:53, 1:64

Domat, Jean

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

Domesday Book

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

Domestic encyclopædia (Willich), 1:18, 1:19n, 1:252

Domestic Spinner. See Herrick, Ebenezer: Domestic Spinner (spinning machine of)

Donald, James, 2:434

Donck, Adriaen van der

  • Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant, 2:503n

Don Pedro (sheep), 1:16, 1:18, 1:19n, 2:xli, 2:379, 2:380 (illus.), 2:380n

D'orgenoy, Francis Joseph Le Breton

  • and batture controversy, 2:444n, 2:449, 2:450n, 2:516, 2:545, 2:659, 2:682
  • marshal at New Orleans, 3:233, 3:246–248, 3:265, 3:326, 3:409, 3:410n, 3:477, 3:485, 3:498

D'oring, Mr., 3:478n

Dorsenne, Jean Marie Pierre François Lepaige, comte, 1:372

Dorsière, Eugene, 3:478n

Dort, Synod of (1618–19)

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506n

Dortic, John

  • forwards seeds to TJ, 3:583, 3:604–605, 3:614
  • identified, 3:583n
  • letters from, 3:583, 3:614, 3:619–620, 4:84–85, 4:419–420
  • letters to, 3:604, 3:628, 4:176–177
  • and public dispatches, 3:619–620, 3:628
  • travels of, 4:419–420
  • and viticulture, 4:84–85, 4:176–177, 4:419–420

Dossie, Robert

  • The Handmaid to the Arts, 1:581

Doublehead

  • Cherokee leader, 1:7

Doublehead's Reserve, Tenn., 1:7

Dougherty, Joseph

  • account with TJ, 1:3–4
  • acquires sheep for TJ, 1:153, 1:464, 1:465–466, 1:467, 1:476–477, 1:486
  • acquires sheep from Thornton, 1:465–466, 1:476, 1:480–481
  • and books for TJ, 2:101
  • delivers seeds, 3:98
  • identified, 1:3–4n
  • letters from, 1:64, 1:153, 1:199–200, 1:286, 1:320–321, 1:480–481, 2:53–54, 2:101, 2:362, 2:392, 2:431–432, 3:241–242, 4:124, 4:200
  • letters to, 1:76, 1:224–225, 1:310, 1:464, 1:467, 2:409–410, 2:490–491, 3:252, 4:163–164
  • letter to accounted for, 2:53n
  • mentioned, 3:528, 3:587
  • and merino sheep, 1:3n, 1:153, 1:199, 1:225, 1:286, 1:310, 1:320–321, 1:467, 2:362, 2:366, 2:392, 2:409, 2:431–432, 2:457, 2:481, 2:491, 3:241–242, 3:252
  • oversees transport of TJ's belongings, 1:53
  • paid by TJ, 1:41, 1:42n
  • and porter business, 3:241–242, 3:252
  • and ram husbandry, 2:431–432
  • seeks Senate doorkeeper appointment, 4:124, 4:163, 4:164, 4:171, 4:173, 4:200
  • and shepherd dogs, 2:53, 2:409, 2:413, 2:431, 2:456, 2:490, 2:492, 3:63, 3:241, 3:252
  • travels to Monticello, 1:53

Dougherty, Mary (Joseph Dougherty's wife), 1:3n, 1:53

Doulson v. Matthews, 2:432n, 2:455–456, 4:302n

drawknives, 1:135–136

drayman. See Ned (Couch's slave)

Le droit commun de la France (Bourjon), 3:174n

droit d'aubaine, 3:468, 3:472n

Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains (Vattel), 3:159, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:546

drunkenness

  • of Fontaine, 1:526, 1:645–646
  • of Madison's maitre d'hotel, 1:53
  • of TJ's blacksmith, 1:419n

Duane, Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache (William Duane's wife), 3:40n, 3:452n

Duane, William

  • and Armstrong, 3:330–331
  • and Bank of the United States, 3:450–451
  • books requested from, 4:56
  • Dearborn on, 3:553
  • and failed Washington bookstore, 3:449, 3:452n
  • and Gallatin, 3:584, 3:585–586, 3:600, 3:601–603, 3:626
  • identified, 1:49n
  • letters from, 2:538–540, 3:37–340, 3:189–190, 3:329–331, 3:449–453, 4:25–26
  • letters to, 1:48–49, 3:4–7, 3:86–89, 3:184–185, 3:207–208, 3:310–311, 3:339, 3:506–509, 3:591–594, 4:56–57, 4:632–633
  • libel charges against, 4:174–175
  • mentioned, 3:385
  • A Military Dictionary, 3:38, 3:40n
  • portrait of, 3:xlvi, 3:358 (illus.)
  • publishes Destutt de Tracy's works, 3:3–4, 3:6–7, 3:38, 3:184–185, 3:189, 3:310–311, 3:329, 3:339, 3:449, 4:25, 4:243n
  • recommends Macaulay, 2:304
  • reference for Melish, 4:423
  • and Republican supporters, 3:451–452, 3:507–509, 3:515, 3:540, 3:549–550, 3:573–575, 3:584, 3:585–586, 3:591–593, 4:25
  • sedition prosecution, 1:278, 2:412n
  • sends document to TJ, 2:538–539
  • and Snyder, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:601
  • TJ on, 3:563–564, 3:601–602, 3:603
  • TJ's account with, 4:56, 4:633, 4:634
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:632
  • and Warden, 3:340, 4:19
  • and The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, 3:449, 3:451, 4:56

Duane, William J., 1:49n

Duckett, Allen Bowie, 1:516

ducks

  • summer, 1:56

dueling, 3:277, 3:279n, 3:425

Dufief, Nicolas Gouin

  • bookseller, 3:340, 4:71–72, 4:79
  • identified, 3:98n
  • letters from, 3:97–98, 3:393, 4:79–80, 4:278, 4:370
  • letters to, 3:137, 4:71–72
  • mentioned, 3:309
  • Nature Displayed, 1:581, 3:98n
  • A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages, 3:97–98, 3:137, 3:393, 4:71, 4:79
  • sends book catalogs, 4:278, 4:370

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

  • A Practical Treatise of Husbandry, 2:82

Du Jareau, Godefroi

  • and American Philosophical Society, 2:372, 2:375n, 2:663, 2:664, 2:665n, 3:41–42
  • civic improvement proposals of, 2:372, 2:373, 2:375n, 2:483, 2:484, 2:485, 2:487n, 2:552, 2:557, 2:665n
  • and flour milling, 2:557–558
  • horse-drawn saw, 2:374n, 2:553, 3:41–42
  • identified, 2:375n
  • letters from, 2:372–375, 2:483–487, 2:552–563, 2:663–665
  • and Mather, 2:373, 2:484, 2:487n, 2:657, 3:233, 3:234n, 3:484
  • water-raising machine, 2:553–557, 2:563–564, 2:663–664

Dulac, Madame, 2:15

Dumont, Jean, baron de Carlscroon

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506n

Du Moulin, Charles

  • Coutumes du comté et bailliage de Mante et Meulant, 3:131, 3:174n
  • Coûtumes generales du paîs et duché de Bretagne, 3:131, 3:174n

Dumouriez, Charles François, 2:14

Dumouriez, Charles François du Périer

  • advises British ministry, 4:270
  • on British politics, 4:270–271

Dunbar, John, 3:183, 3:210–211

Dunbar, William, 1:97n, 1:498n

Duncan, Abner Lawson

  • identified, 2:119n
  • and Peyton's estate, 2:117, 2:118, 2:119, 2:254, 2:255, 2:383, 2:495, 3:59–60, 3:149, 3:186, 3:480–481, 4:640, 4:641

Dundee. See Thomas Smart v. The Magistrates and Town Council of the Burgh of Dundee (Brown's Reports)

dunfish (New England cod), 1:115n, 1:176, 1:279

Dunkum, William

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Dunlap, William, 3:633n

Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of

  • colonial governor of Va., 4:601

Dunn, William

  • letter from, 1:467–469
  • requests charity, 1:467–469

Duplantier, Gabriel Armand Allard

  • and Lafayette's La. land, 1:529, 1:530n, 1:628, 2:8–9, 2:243–244, 2:418, 3:212, 3:314, 3:445, 4:649

Duplessis, P. L. B., 3:478n

Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen

  • and American Philosophical Society, 3:41–42
  • and batture controversy, 1:287, 2:516
  • Mémoire en forme de consultation, 2:532n, 2:657, 2:658
  • A Review of the Cause of the New Orleans Batture, 3:73, 3:133, 3:135n, 3:173–175n, 3:235, 3:271, 3:483

Du Pont, Bauduy & Company, 3:223n

du Pont, Victor Marie, 2:243

du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthère Irénée

  • and Don Pedro (sheep), 2:xli, 2:379, 2:380n
  • explosion at factory, 4:686
  • and father's speech, 3:414
  • gunpowder ordered from, 4:218, 4:686
  • identified, 3:414n
  • letters from, 3:414, 3:621
  • letters to, 4:218, 4:686
  • letter to, 3:583–584
  • mentioned, 1:200n, 1:667, 2:431
  • and merino sheep, 1:16, 1:18, 1:19n, 1:153, 4:686
  • sells TJ gunpowder, 3:583–584, 3:621
  • TJ pays, 4:685, 4:686

Du Pont de Nemours, Françoise Robin Poivre

  • and Julienne Bureaux de Pusy, 4:155

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel. See also taxes, Du Pont de Nemours on

  • on American financial system, 2:163–164, 2:330–331, 2:569–570, 2:578, 2:582–583, 2:594–595, 2:599, 2:600–601, 2:604–618, 3:80, 3:248, 3:515–516, 3:517n, 3:559–560, 4:327–328, 4:445
  • and Armstrong, 1:314
  • on ascertaining revenue from American landholdings, 2:595–596, 2:604
  • on British constitution, 2:607
  • and Bureaux de Pusy family, 4:124–125, 4:155, 4:457n
  • on Chinese financial system, 2:585–586
  • on class and citizenship, 4:608
  • and contraband trade, 2:601–602
  • on Destutt de Tracy's commentary on Montesquieu, 4:436–448, 4:607–609
  • edits Turgot's Oeuvres, 1:263, 1:264n, 1:584–585, 3:516, 4:22–23, 4:24n, 4:125, 4:126–127n
  • on education, 1:202n, 1:584–585, 4:125
  • on Egyptian financial system, 2:582–583, 4:437
  • on English financial system, 2:570–581, 2:590–591, 2:612, 4:439
  • financial estimates of, 2:587, 2:588, 2:614, 2:615
  • on governmental authority, 4:608–609
  • on Hamilton, 2:578, 3:80, 4:328
  • on Hebrew financial system, 2:583–585
  • identified, 1:201–202n
  • introduces Corrêa da Serra, 4:350–351, 4:539n
  • introduces Jullien, 2:503–504
  • on labor and wealth production, 4:440–445, 4:446–448
  • and land offices, 2:597–598, 2:616
  • on landownership and citizenship, 2:576–577, 2:581, 4:328–330
  • on law and justice, 4:330–331
  • letters from, 1:263–264, 2:162–165, 2:330–332, 2:503–504, 2:569–656, 3:80–82, 3:515–517, 4:22–24, 4:124–127, 4:327–336, 4:350–352, 4:436–458, 4:607–611
  • letters to, 1:201–202, 1:315–316, 1:385–386, 3:559–561
  • letter to Madison, 1:584–585, 1:592
  • and Madison, 2:570, 2:654n, 4:22, 4:24n
  • Mémoires soumis à Troisième Classe de l'Institut, 3:516, 3:517n
  • and merino sheep, 1:199, 1:584–585n
  • on Montesquieu, 2:579, 2:592
  • and mortgage legislation, 2:593–8, 2:616
  • on national defense, 2:588, 2:603, 2:606, 2:614, 3:81, 4:328, 4:445–446
  • organizes aid for Parisians, 2:331
  • portrait of, 2:xli, 2:380 (illus.)
  • and public lands, 2:582–583, 2:587
  • and public works, 2:589, 2:614
  • and R. M. Patterson, 1:201, 2:162–163
  • sent geophysical work, 2:536
  • on slaves and slavery, 4:328, 4:444
  • and speech in L'Historien, 3:414
  • and subsidies to agriculture and industry, 2:613
  • Sur l'éducation nationale dans les États-Unis d'Amérique, 1:592, 1:593n, 1:674, 4:125, 4:127n, 4:327
  • Table raisonnée des principes de l'economie politique, 4:327
  • taxes, 3:80, 3:248, 3:515–516, 3:517n, 3:559–560
  • TJ praises, 1:402
  • on war with Great Britain, 4:327–328

Durnford, Charles

  • Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench, 2:455, 4:300, 4:302n

Durosnel, Antoine Jean Auguste Henri, comte, 1:372

Durrett, Mr.

  • overseer of, 4:101

Duval, Benjamin

  • newspaper collection of, 1:288
  • and Wythe's lectures, 3:206

DuVal, John Pope

  • TJ recommends, 4:458

DuVal, William

  • and burnet seed, 4:515, 4:526
  • as E. Randolph's trustee, 4:231n
  • letter from accounted for, 4:458n
  • seeks appointment for son, 4:458

Duvall, Gabriel

  • comptroller of the Treasury, 1:352, 2:435
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Duvernois, Claude Antoine Prieur

  • identified, 3:66n
  • letter from, 3:65–66
  • sends minerals to TJ, 3:65–66

dyeing, 3:221–223, 3:238–239, 3:288–289, 3:326–327, 3:461–462

dyer's madder (Rubia tinctorum), 3:288–289, 3:326–327

dynamometer

  • forwarded by Coles, 1:20, 1:21n, 1:376
  • lost in transit, 1:180, 1:204, 1:205, 2:111, 2:333
  • TJ tries to obtain, 2:111, 2:145, 2:152, 2:176, 2:317, 2:332–333

dysentery

  • among slaves, 1:354, 1:416
  • treatment for, 1:483

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