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Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Maria

  • as master of petitions, 4:35, 4:36n
  • plans to come to Va. with Mazzei, 3:381n
  • and TJ's mouldboard plow, 3:378

Faber, George Stanley

  • A Dissertation on the Prophecies That Have Been Fulfilled, Are Now Fulfilling, Or Will Hereafter Be Fulfilled, 4:484, 4:485n

Fabius (ship), 1:312

The Fable of the Bees (Mandeville), 3:273, 3:275n

fables

  • TJ receives books of, 1:37

Fagg, John

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • witnesses agreement, 1:420

Fairfax, Ferdinando

  • identified, 4:425n
  • letter from, 4:424–425
  • and spinning machines, 4:424–425, 4:426

Fairfax (Culpeper Co.), 1:51

Fairman, Gideon

  • identified, 4:357n
  • and Society of Artists of the United States, 4:356

Falkenstein, Konstantin Karl, 1:24n

Fame (brig), 2:377n

fameflower (Talinum), 1:436–437n

Fanny (TJ's slave; b. 1788). See Hern, Fanny Gillette (TJ's slave; David Hern's wife)

Fanny (TJ's slave; b. 1788; daughter of Abby)

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

Farell & Jones (British firm)

  • B. Skelton's account with, 2:396, 2:424, 2:433, 2:466
  • TJ's payments to, 2:184, 2:185, 2:186
  • Wayles's account with, 2:141, 2:142, 2:396, 2:424, 2:433, 2:466, 2:513, 3:211

Farish, Hazlewood, 1:139n

Farmer's Brother (Seneca chief), 2:59, 2:175

The Farmer's Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms (Young), 1:581, 2:82

Farmington (Divers's Albemarle Co. estate), 1:98n, 1:157n, 3:67–68n

Fasbender, J. H.

  • Richmond merchant, 4:481, 4:607

Faujas de Saint-Fond, Barthélemy

  • Essai de Géologie, 2:47, 2:49n
  • identified, 1:202n
  • letter from, 2:47–49
  • letter to, 1:201–202
  • and R. M. Patterson, 1:201

Fauquier Court House, Va., 1:466

Fayon, Abbé, 2:10

Federalist party

  • abuses TJ, 2:251, 2:356
  • and American foreign policy, 2:73, 2:81, 2:537
  • and batture controversy, 2:398, 2:408, 2:414, 3:204
  • blamed for Republican discord, 2:224, 2:235
  • and charges against Waterhouse, 1:298
  • in Congress, 3:473
  • in Conn., 1:39, 1:162
  • and election of 1800, 3:305–306, 3:308n
  • electoral defeats, 2:348, 2:349n, 2:367, 2:429–430, 2:506
  • Essex Junto
  • and Fulton's torpedo, 2:250, 2:301
  • Madison on, 1:246–247
  • in Mass., 1:301, 4:83, 4:84n, 4:547, 4:612, 4:628
  • in Md., 1:515–516
  • media of, 3:261–263, 3:298, 3:606, 4:234
  • in New England, 1:301, 1:583–584, 3:113, 3:120–121, 3:122n, 3:229–232, 3:257
  • in N.Y., 3:345
  • opposes Madison, 4:541, 4:544–545, 4:547
  • opposition to W. Fla. occupation, 3:256–257
  • and P. Henry, 4:604
  • partisans in, 3:298–299
  • in R.I., 3:229–232, 3:257
  • TJ on, 2:251, 2:252, 2:274, 3:257, 3:305, 3:502, 3:563, 3:586, 3:593
  • on TJ's presidential administration, 3:256

Federal Republican & Commercial Gazette (Baltimore newspaper), 3:261–263, 3:414n, 4:234

Feltre, Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de, 1:538, 2:353

Fenner, Arthur, 2:319, 2:321n

Fenner, James

  • governor of R.I., 2:321n, 3:229–230, 3:232n, 3:257

Fenno, John

  • and Gazette of the United States, 2:92, 2:93n

Fenwick, Eliza

  • Mary and Her Cat, 1:294

Fenwick, John Roger

  • departs from France, 2:331
  • forwards book to TJ, 2:161, 2:162n
  • forwards packages to TJ, 3:41, 3:98–99
  • identified, 3:41n
  • and Lafayette's La. land, 2:244, 3:105, 3:212
  • letter from, 3:41
  • letter to, 3:98–99

Ferdinand II, king of Aragon and Castile

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:501

Ferdinand IV, king of Naples

  • TJ on, 2:276

Ferdinand VII, king of Spain

  • capture of, 4:271
  • as Prince of Asturias, 4:274n
  • royal claims of, 2:33, 2:35n
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506, 4:507n

Ferguson, James

  • Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, 1:576n, 1:581, 2:466
  • Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics, 1:581

Ferguson, Patrick

  • at Battle of Kings Mountain, 4:134, 4:135n

Ferguson, Samuel

  • Rivanna River Company commissioner, 3:254n

Ferlatt & Peillon (N.Y. firm), 2:410n

Fernandez, Mr.

  • and batture controversy, 3:492

Ferrer, José J. de

  • calculates longitude, 4:263, 4:654
  • observations of solar eclipse, 1:492, 1:498n

Ferrier, Louis, 1:522

Ferrière, Claude de, 3:131

Ferrière, Claude Joseph de

  • Dictionnaire de droit et de pratique, 3:131, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:546

La Fête du Petit Blé; ou, L'Heroisme du Poucha-Houmma (le Blanc de Villeneufve), 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509

feudalism

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:501

feudal law

  • and batture controversy, 3:174–175n

fever, 2:53, 2:469, 2:542. See also Hartford, Conn.: spotted fever; yellow fever

Few, Catharine Nicholson (William Few's wife), 3:70n

Few, William

  • death of son, 3:70n
  • and sesame, 1:198, 4:39

Fielding, Henry

  • A History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 1:174, 1:175n

Fielding, Sarah (trans.)

  • Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, 1:576

figs

  • grown at Monticello, 1:395, 1:398n, 4:38
  • Marseilles, 1:600, 2:3, 2:32, 2:413
  • roots from Thornton, 1:479, 1:481, 1:600
  • TJ sends to Walker, 1:500

filberts (Corylus avellana), 1:631

Fillietaz, Capt.

  • master of brig Wasp, 2:410n

Finch, John

  • copyrights translation, 4:672n

Findley, William

  • and d'Happart's claim, 4:538n, 4:622n
  • History of the Insurrection, in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania, 1:581
  • introduces R. M. Patterson to TJ, 1:193
  • as U.S. congressman, 1:194n

Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem (Macpherson), 4:306n

fiorin grass (Agrostis stolonifera)

  • sent to TJ, 3:339–340, 4:159, 4:187, 4:192–193, 4:201, 4:363
  • TJ on, 3:294–295, 4:175, 4:364, 4:561, 4:562, 4:638
  • writings on, 3:279, 3:280n, 3:294

fir

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

firewood

  • TJ measures use at Monticello, 4:210

The first lines of the practice of surgery (Cooper), 1:35

first meridian. See prime meridian

The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: or a Commentary upon Littleton (Coke), 2:103, 2:104n, 2:420

fish

  • American paddlefish, 3:92, 3:93n
  • anchovies, 1:366
  • carp, 4:629, 4:668, 4:677
  • cod, 1:115n, 1:176, 1:279
  • herring, 1:77, 1:115, 1:176, 1:369, 2:109, 2:422–423, 2:430, 2:502, 2:503
  • in Rivanna River, 3:139, 3:143
  • Roanoke chub, 4:650, 4:651n, 4:662–663, 4:684
  • salted, 1:279
  • shad, 2:109, 3:92, 4:629, 4:668
    • white, 1:369
    • TJ purchases, 3:530, 3:550
  • TJ's report on, 1:487
  • tongues and sounds, 1:153, 1:154n, 1:369, 2:109, 2:154

Fishback, James

  • identified, 1:255n
  • letter from, 1:254–255
  • letter to, 1:563–566
  • A new and candid investigation of the question, is revelation true?, 1:254–255, 1:563–564, 1:565–566

Fisher, Archibald

  • letter from, 2:343–345
  • letter to, 2:359–360
  • and westward migration, 2:343–345, 2:359–360

Fisheries, Report on the (Thomas Jefferson), 1:487

fishing

  • TJ on, 4:662–663

Fitch, Mr., 2:463

Fitch, George, 3:241

Fitch, Gideon. See Fitz, Gideon

Fitch, Jabez, 1:95n

Fitch, John, 3:83n

Fitz, Gideon

  • drawing of windmill, 2:460–461
  • and Gallatin, 1:665
  • identified, 1:215n
  • invents windmill, 2:458–461, 2:479
  • and La. land claims, 1:635–642
  • letter from accounted for, 1:650n
  • letters from, 1:635–642, 2:458–460, 2:461n, 2:479
  • letters from accounted for, 3:474n
  • letter to, 1:215
  • surveying work of, 1:181, 1:650
  • TJ recommends I. Lewis to, 1:215

Fitz, William, 2:459

Fitzhugh, Denis, 1:510

Fitzwhylsonn, William Henry. See also Fitzwhylsonn & Potter (Richmond firm)

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

Fitzwhylsonn & Potter (Richmond firm)

  • and Edinburgh Review, 3:599
  • identified, 3:599n
  • letter from, 3:599
  • letter to accounted for, 3:599n
  • and plows, 4:219

Flanagan, Charles

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Flash (ship)

  • carries letters to and from Europe, 3:54

flax (Linum perenne)

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:348
  • for clothing, 4:362, 4:428, 4:637
  • effect of weather on, 4:32
  • grown at Tufton, 1:420
  • publication about, 3:280n
  • seeds, 2:271, 2:371, 3:636
  • spinning of, 1:525, 1:591
  • substitute for, 4:427, 4:667

Fleming, John

  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:363, 1:591, 2:397, 2:403, 2:407, 2:425, 2:446–447, 2:448, 2:464–465, 3:84–85

Fleming, Thomas, 2:403, 2:447

Fleming, William

  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304–305, 1:305, 1:306, 1:362, 1:363, 1:365, 1:378–379, 1:591, 2:397, 2:403, 2:446–447, 2:464, 2:674, 3:85
  • identified, 1:364n
  • letters from, 1:378–379, 1:660
  • letters to, 1:363–364, 2:36
  • sends specimens to TJ, 2:36

Fleming's Mountains (Blue Ridge Mountains), 3:355

Fleta seu commentarius Juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, 3:547

Fletcher, Elijah

  • identified, 3:610n
  • Monticello visit described, 3:610–611

Fletcher, John

  • letter from, 3:372–373
  • seeks loan from TJ, 3:372–373

Fletcher v. Peck, 2:417, 3:127–128, 3:129n, 3:165–166, 3:246

Flood, Henry

  • and burnet seed, 4:515, 4:526–527
  • identified, 4:515n
  • letter from accounted for, 4:515n
  • letter to, 4:515

Flood's Ordinary (Buckingham Co., Va.), 3:148, 3:164, 3:195, 4:90

Flora Americæ Septentrionalis (Pursh), 2:91n

Flora Antillarum (Tussac), 1:100–101

Flora Boreali-Americana (Michaux), 1:436–437n

Flora (TJ's slave; b. 1783)

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

Flore d'Oware et de Benin, en Afrique (Palisot de Beauvois), 3:472n

Florida

  • acquisition of by U.S., 1:154, 1:160, 1:169, 1:224, 3:33, 3:99–100, 3:101n, 3:327, 3:328n, 3:437
  • coffee from, 4:687
  • East Florida
  • French citizens in, 1:203
  • land schemes, 3:96
  • TJ on U.S. acquisition of, 1:183–184, 1:442
  • U.S. claim to, 3:177–178
  • West Florida

flour

  • and Embargo, 4:623, 4:664
  • in Lynchburg market, 3:103, 3:341
  • from Poplar Forest, 3:421, 3:518, 3:531, 3:561, 3:612, 4:10, 4:11, 4:86–87, 4:165–166, 4:241–242
  • price of, 1:61, 1:407, 1:451, 3:286–288, 3:328, 3:373, 3:413, 3:518, 3:541, 3:550, 3:577, 3:612, 3:620, 3:630, 3:637, 4:57, 4:58, 4:86, 4:87, 4:91, 4:165, 4:321–322, 4:341–342, 4:467, 4:522, 4:548
  • received as pay, 1:419, 1:421n, 4:183, 4:233
  • at Richmond, 3:371, 3:413, 3:422, 3:518, 3:541, 3:577, 3:620, 3:629, 3:650
  • sale of, 2:269, 2:292, 3:111, 3:154, 3:181, 3:421, 3:541, 3:577, 3:613, 3:637, 4:6, 4:12, 4:57, 4:58, 4:321–322, 4:557, 4:558, 4:580, 4:593, 4:618, 4:633
  • shipment of, 3:512
  • Shoemaker sells, 3:300–301, 3:640–643
  • stored at Washington, 4:27
  • transported to Richmond, 4:24n, 4:219, 4:233, 4:234n, 4:526, 4:557, 4:580

flowers

  • plants
  • TJ compares human life to, 3:633

Flushing (Netherlands), 1:529, 1:530n, 1:593n

Fluvanna County, Va.

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n
  • Bremo, 1:136n
  • Columbia, 3:104, 3:253–254
  • deer hunting in, 4:603
  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:305n
  • Magruder's Mill, 1:109, 1:110n, 3:218, 3:254n
  • petition for dam in, 2:97–98
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • schools in, 4:546
  • Scott's Mills, 3:371n
  • and Stone's land, 3:179
  • Wood's Mill, 3:218, 3:219n

Fluvanna Court House, Va., 3:254n

Fluvanna River. See James River

fly. See Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor)

fodder

  • for Monticello, 1:81n, 2:113n, 2:371

Folch, Vicente, 2:444n

Fontaine, Claudius G., 2:410n

Fontaine, William

  • drunkenness, 1:526, 1:645–646
  • identified, 1:527n
  • letters from, 1:525–528, 1:645–646
  • letter to, 1:591–592
  • and merino sheep, 3:136, 4:59, 4:62
  • and T. M. Randolph, 1:525, 1:527, 3:136
  • visits Monticello, 1:525–528, 1:645–646

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de

  • Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes, 1:581

food

  • alcohol
  • almonds, 3:455, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:487, 4:522, 4:530
  • anchovies, 1:366
  • apples, 3:448, 3:455–456, 4:141
  • asparagus, 2:334, 2:368
  • bacon, 2:371
  • barley, 1:44, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:272, 3:348
  • beef, 1:81n, 1:419, 1:421n, 2:291, 4:12, 4:180, 4:209
  • beets, 1:56, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38
  • berries, 3:190
  • black-eyed peas (cowpea), 1:157
  • black peaches, 1:483
  • bran, 3:541
  • buckwheat, 3:348, 3:351n
  • butter, 2:269, 2:371, 3:301, 3:541, 4:138, 4:194, 4:210, 4:236, 4:380, 4:381
  • cabbage, 2:90, 2:271, 2:272
  • cantaloupe, 3:473, 3:501, 3:503n
  • capers, 1:366
  • carrots, 1:56, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38
  • cauliflower, 2:90
  • celery, 1:157, 2:37, 4:180, 4:182n
  • cheese, 1:45, 1:368, 1:369, 4:211
  • cherries, 3:448, 3:455, 3:644–645, 4:9
  • chestnuts, 1:594n, 2:310
  • chocolate, 1:44
  • cod, 1:115n, 1:176, 1:279
  • cod tongues and sounds, 1:153, 1:154n, 1:369, 2:109, 2:154
  • coffee
  • confitures, 1:505
  • corn (See also corn), 1:81n, 1:419, 1:421n, 1:436–437n, 1:592, 2:3, 2:86, 2:96, 2:112, 2:116, 2:234n, 2:239, 2:292n, 2:334, 2:342, 2:371, 2:397, 2:421, 2:422, 2:491, 2:661, 3:111, 3:501, 3:502
  • crackers, 1:45, 1:368, 2:109
  • crowder beans, 1:157
  • cucumbers, 4:38
  • currants, 2:109
  • dates, 1:366, 2:271
  • dunfish, 1:115n, 1:176, 1:279
  • eggplant, 2:481, 4:497, 4:498
  • eggs, 2:291, 4:12
  • figs, 1:395, 1:398n, 1:479, 1:481, 1:500, 1:600, 2:3, 2:32, 2:413, 4:38
  • filberts, 1:631
  • flour
  • geese, 4:12, 4:210
  • gooseberries, 4:497, 4:498, 4:523, 4:535, 4:561
  • grapes, 1:587n, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223, 2:339
  • ham, 2:291
  • herring, 1:77, 1:115, 1:176, 2:109, 2:422–423, 2:430, 2:502, 2:503
  • hickory nuts, 1:111, 1:252, 1:657, 3:544
  • hominy, 4:138
  • kale, 4:497, 4:498, 4:523, 4:561, 4:562
  • lettuce, 4:38, 4:527
  • lima beans, 3:502
  • macaroni, 2:109, 2:154
  • milk, 4:140
  • millet, 2:335, 3:348
  • molasses, 2:109, 4:27, 4:211, 4:522, 4:530
  • mustard, 1:45, 2:109
  • mutton, 1:16, 1:477, 1:481, 2:371
  • oats, 1:3, 2:93, 2:371, 3:348, 3:351n
  • oil
  • okra, 4:180
  • olive oil, 1:84n, 1:188, 1:257, 1:366, 3:545
  • olives, 1:313n, 2:271, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:487
  • oysters, 2:110–111
  • parsnips, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38
  • pears, 3:448, 4:561, 4:562
  • peas, 3:348, 3:351n, 3:502, 4:379
  • pecans, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n, 1:631, 1:657, 2:103, 2:294n, 3:455
  • pickles, 2:291
  • plums, 3:455
  • pork, 1:419, 1:421n, 1:451, 2:112, 2:371, 4:143
  • potatoes, 1:157, 1:196–197, 2:38, 4:141, 4:180, 4:531
  • pumpkins, 4:379
  • radishes, 2:271
  • raisins, 1:366, 1:368, 2:109
  • raspberries, 1:222, 3:353, 3:394, 3:456
  • rice
  • rutabagas, 2:481, 2:543
  • salad oil, 1:31, 1:161, 2:335, 2:392, 2:438, 3:434
  • salsify, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38
  • salt, 1:77, 3:301, 4:27, 4:529
  • sesame oil, 1:84n, 1:212, 3:636–637
  • shad, 2:109
  • spices
  • strawberries, 2:140, 2:481, 2:482n, 2:543, 3:353, 3:377, 3:439–440, 3:545, 4:34, 4:139, 4:497, 4:498, 4:523, 4:561, 4:562
  • sugar
  • tarragon, 1:479, 1:481, 1:660
  • tea
  • tomatoes, 4:180
  • turkeys, 4:12, 4:210
  • turnips, 2:37, 2:38, 2:481–482n, 2:543
  • vanilla, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:190
  • veal, 2:371
  • vinegar syrup, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:190, 1:222, 1:257
  • wine
  • winter melon, 2:302

Forbes, John M., 3:60, 3:61n

Ford, Benjamin Bowles

  • and Bernard's invention, 2:5, 2:36
  • identified, 2:5n
  • letter from, 2:5
  • letter to, 2:36

Ford, Peter, 1:505

Foronda, Valentín de

  • Apuntes ligeros sobre la nueva constitución, 1:470–471, 1:577, 1:604, 1:606n, 4:282, 4:284n
  • identified, 1:471n
  • letters from, 1:470–471, 1:604–606, 4:282–284
  • letters of forwarded, 4:509, 4:539
  • letter to, 1:577–578

Forrest, Richard

  • letter from accounted for, 1:313n

Forsyth, William

  • A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; in which A New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described, 1:17, 2:82, 2:293

Fort Adams, Miss. Territory, 2:118, 2:360

Fortier, John Michael, 3:235n, 3:247n, 3:248n, 3:265

Fort Massac, 1:511

Fort Stoddert, Ala., 1:350, 1:351, 1:352

Fort Warburton (later Fort Washington), 1:517

Fossett, Edith (Edy) Hern (TJ's slave)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387
  • trained in French cooking, 1:162, 1:188, 1:189n

Fossett, James (TJ's slave)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Fossett, Joseph (Joe) (TJ's slave)

  • identified, 4:245n
  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387
  • plates saddle trees, 4:245, 4:543

Fossett, Maria (TJ's slave)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Foster, Augustus John

  • attends Madison's inauguration, 1:8, 1:10n
  • British minister to U.S., 3:568, 3:577, 3:600, 3:606, 4:19, 4:32, 4:77–78, 4:90, 4:133, 4:151, 4:234, 4:237, 4:568

Foster, Jonathan & Thomas (Winchester firm)

  • identified, 2:120n
  • letter from, 2:120
  • letter to, 2:174–175
  • Republican Constellation (Winchester newspaper), 2:120, 2:174–175

Foster, Jonathan

  • identified, 2:120n
  • letter from, 2:120
  • letter to, 2:174–175

Foster, Theodore, 2:319

Foster, Thomas

  • identified, 2:120n
  • letter from, 2:120
  • letter to, 2:174–175

Fothergill, Anthony

  • Remarks on the Smut and Mildew of Wheat, 1:72

Fouché, Joseph, duc d'Otrante, 1:528, 1:529n, 1:538, 1:629, 2:39

Fouchet, Pierre, 3:478n

Fouler, Albert Louis Emmanuel de, comte de Relingue, 1:372

Fouquet, Henri

  • and climate change, 4:189

four-o'clock sweet-scented (Mirabilis longiflora; sweet-scented marvel-of-Peru), 1:57, 1:58n

Fourth of July

  • orations, 2:399, 2:400–401, 2:504–505, 2:666

Foushee, William

  • chairs meeting of Richmond citizens, 1:609–611, 1:620–621
  • as E. Randolph's trustee, 4:231n
  • identified, 1:611n
  • letter from, 1:609–611
  • letter from accounted for, 1:611n
  • letter to, 1:620–621

Fowler, John

  • identified, 4:285n
  • introduces Worsley, 4:285
  • letter from, 4:285

Fowler, Mr., 1:129

Fox, Charles James

  • British politician, 1:507, 3:464n, 4:234, 4:339, 4:670
  • A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second, 1:36, 1:37, 1:580

Fox, Henry Richard Vassall, 3d Baron Holland. See Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3d Baron

Foxall, Henry

  • identified, 1:76–77n
  • iron castings for TJ, 1:157, 1:158n
  • iron press, 3:636
  • letters from, 1:122, 3:576, 4:191–192, 4:232–233
  • letters to, 1:76–77, 3:530, 3:609, 4:215–216, 4:560
  • payment from TJ, 3:576, 3:582, 4:555, 4:560, 4:576
  • and stew stove for TJ, 1:76–77, 1:122, 3:530
  • and Swedish stove, 3:609, 4:191–192, 4:215–216, 4:232–233, 4:560

Foxall Foundry, 1:76n

Fox Indians, 2:57

Fragaria chiloensis (Chili strawberry), 2:140, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498, 4:523

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

Francais, Port des, 1:445, 1:446

France. See also Armstrong, John: U.S. minister to France; Barlow, Joel: U.S. minister to France; Institut de France; Napoleon I, Emperor of France

  • abolition of feudal rights in, 2:12
  • attempted conveyance of plow to, 2:312–313, 2:326, 2:333, 2:345
  • Berlin and Milan decrees, 1:19, 1:21n, 1:183, 1:313–314, 1:658, 2:8, 2:162, 2:195, 2:231, 2:345, 2:346, 2:470, 4:429, 4:611
  • calendar in, 4:148, 4:149n
  • and censorship, 3:219–221
  • Constituent Assembly, 2:582
  • Council of Prizes, 1:629
  • cultivation of plants in, 2:270
  • Destutt de Tracy on, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16–17
  • Directory, 3:336, 3:338
  • Dortic offers to carry letters to, 3:619–620, 3:628, 3:629, 3:637–638
  • edict of 1664, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:484
  • edict of 1710, 3:174n, 3:235, 3:236–237n, 3:484
  • excise taxes and duties in, 2:600
  • financial system of, 2:582, 2:584–585, 2:617
  • and Great Britain, 2:242, 2:245, 2:246n, 2:274, 2:289, 2:475–476, 4:78, 4:151, 4:236–237, 4:472, 4:587
  • gypsum in, 3:333
  • and Holland, 2:242, 2:245, 2:246n, 2:325
  • imperial university for, 1:676n
  • and Lafayette, 2:12, 2:14, 2:15
  • land patents of 1539, 3:160
  • laws of, 2:676, 2:678, 3:47–48, 3:71, 3:73n, 3:130–132, 3:159–160, 3:203, 3:226–227, 3:236–237n, 4:477, 4:643n
  • leaseholding in, 2:592–593
  • Marie Antoinette, queen of, 1:250, 2:592
  • marriage in, 1:121, 1:122n
  • military operations in Austria, 1:140–141, 1:328, 1:370–371
  • military operations in Spain and Portugal, 2:166, 2:233, 2:242, 2:246, 2:247, 2:248n, 2:342, 2:667
  • and native discoveries, 2:591
  • parlements of, 2:575
  • Protestants in, 2:11
  • revenue from harvest in, 2:615
  • sales and mortgage contracts in, 2:598
  • sheep raising in, 1:375–376, 1:479, 1:537–538, 1:584–585n
  • ships quarantined in, 1:373, 1:374, 1:376
  • Short on, 3:197, 4:269–271
  • and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:147–148, 4:149n, 4:222, 4:223, 4:226, 4:228, 4:410
  • TJ on, 2:273–274, 2:275, 3:335–336, 3:338, 4:429
  • TJ's acquaintances in, 1:120–121
  • and Treaty of Tilsit, 1:516, 1:517n, 1:529, 1:627
  • and U.S., 1:162, 2:43, 2:69, 2:194, 2:231, 2:341–342, 2:345, 2:346, 2:366–7, 2:406, 2:412n, 2:418, 2:419n, 2:470, 2:471n, 2:480, 2:519, 4:30, 4:31n, 4:89, 4:90n, 4:611–612, 4:649, 4:650n, 4:665, 4:670
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:501, 4:502, 4:503, 4:504, 4:505, 4:506, 4:507n
  • wines from, 1:313n, 1:387, 2:339
  • Woodward on government of, 1:254n

Francis (ship), 2:472

Francis I, emperor of Austria

  • daughter of marries Napoleon, 2:242, 2:246n
  • evades capture, 1:344
  • makes peace with France, 2:7, 2:9n
  • and treaty with Russia, 1:529

franking privilege

  • of TJ, 1:82, 1:189–190, 1:191n, 1:278, 1:349, 1:455–456, 4:365, 4:408, 4:676

Franklin, Benjamin

  • account of British negotiations, 3:87–88
  • on Adams, 4:313, 4:314n
  • correspondence of, 3:38–39, 3:40n, 3:88
  • Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:609
  • estate of, 3:452n
  • family of, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:87, 3:88, 3:94n, 3:451, 3:452n
  • and Houdetot, 4:376
  • mentioned, 1:124, 2:604
  • Miscellaneous and philosophical pieces, 1:581
  • republishes Chew's speech, 4:153n
  • on slavery, 4:444
  • statue of, 4:340
  • on taxation, 2:575, 4:447
  • and Turgot, 4:22, 4:24n
  • The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals (ed. Duane), 3:449, 3:451, 4:56

Franklin, Jesse

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

Franklin, William Temple, 3:39, 3:40n, 3:88

Franzoni, Giuseppe Antonio

  • and carving for TJ, 1:473–474, 1:595, 4:66, 4:459
  • sculptor for U.S. Capitol, 1:78n, 3:536
  • wages of, 1:87, 1:113

Fraser, Donald

  • A Compendium of the History of All Nations, 4:305, 4:395
  • identified, 4:305n
  • letters from, 4:305, 4:545–546
  • letters to, 4:395, 4:564–565
  • seeks appointment, 4:545–546, 4:564–565

Freaman, Samuel

  • letter to Geffers accounted for, 2:504n

Frederic (slave), 3:36, 3:37n, 3:529

Frederick II ("the Great"), king of Prussia

  • epigram of, 2:44, 2:46n
  • Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Bareith, 4:323, 4:324n, 4:676
  • mentioned, 2:276
  • Oeuvres Complettes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse, 1:580
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502, 4:504

Frederick Academy (Md.), 2:173, 2:174n

Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, 1:82–83n, 1:182

Frederick William I, king of Prussia

  • death of, 4:323

Frederick County, Va., 3:276

Fredericksburg, Va.

  • See Bank of Fredericksburg
  • Benson, John (postmaster), 1:592, 1:667
  • citizens of, invite TJ, 1:14
  • Ker, David C. (bank president), 1:47, 1:48n
  • racecourse at, 1:632
  • TJ's bank account at, 1:47

Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine, margravine de Bayreuth

  • Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Bareith, 4:323, 4:324n, 4:676

Freeland, Nelson

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Freeman, John (dining room servant)

  • and indenture with TJ, 1:155, 1:156

Freeman, John Holmes

  • letter from accounted for, 1:48n
  • Monticello overseer, 1:48n, 4:543

Freeman, Richard, 1:357

The Freeman's Journal and Philadelphia Mercantile Advertiser, 3:50n

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

French and Indian War, 1:290, 1:291n, 1:335

French brandy, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:221, 2:222, 2:223, 2:339

French drains, 4:179

French language

  • dictionaries, 3:97–98, 3:137
  • documents in, by
    • Destutt de Tracy, 3:7–11, 3:20–21
    • Lafayette, 2:10–26
    • Lormerie, 1:131–134
    • Orleans Territorial Legislature, 2:159–161
    • Prunner, 2:299
  • letters in, from
    • Bordes, 3:49–50
    • Burot, 1:622–624
    • Corny, 1:173–175
    • Daschkoff, 1:328–329, 1:484–485
    • Deshay, 1:450–451
    • Destutt de Tracy, 1:260–263, 4:202–209, 4:239–243
    • Dufief, 3:97–98, 3:393, 4:79–80, 4:278, 4:370
    • Du Jareau, 2:372–375, 2:483–487, 2:552–564, 2:663–665
    • Du Pont de Nemours, 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
    • Duvernois, 3:65–66
    • Faujas de Saint-Fond, 2:47–49
    • Humboldt, 1:264–267, 3:107–108, 4:352–354
    • Hyde de Neuville, 4:434–435
    • Julien, 1:674–676, 2:115
    • Kesteloot, 1:656–657
    • Kosciuszko, 1:206–207, 3:415–418, 4:469–470
    • Lacépède, 1:248–250
    • Lasteyrie, 3:114–115, 3:461–462
    • Lemaire, 1:59–60, 1:71–72, 1:188–189, 1:222
    • Lormerie, 1:128–131, 1:342–343, 3:32–35
    • Michaux, 2:679–681, 3:320–322
    • Moussier, 1:522–524
    • Oster, 4:81–82, 4:166
    • Paganel, 3:219–221
    • Pahlen, 2:487–489, 3:532
    • Palisot de Beauvois, 3:465–473, 4:89–90, 4:517–518
    • Porée, 2:353–354
    • Potocki, 3:43–44
    • Prunner, 2:297–298
    • Reibelt, 2:394–395
    • Ruelle, 1:219–221, 3:56–59
    • Silvestre, 1:258–260, 1:611–613
    • Tardieu, 1:247–248
    • Tessé, 1:271–274, 1:593–594, 2:310–312, 4:322–324
    • Thoüin, 2:308–309, 3:419, 4:319–321
    • Vrolik, 1:194–195
  • TJ on study of, 4:162
  • TJ translates works from, 3:3–4, 3:6–7, 3:11–15, 3:21–23, 3:89, 3:184–185, 3:189, 3:207, 3:310–311, 3:335, 3:339, 3:652–653

French Revolution, 1:622, 2:289, 3:xliii, 3:305, 3:308n

  • and millennial prophecy, 4:483–484
  • TJ on, 3:562, 4:471
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:505
  • works on, 3:219–221, 3:562

Freneau, Philip

  • identified, 1:113n
  • letters from, 1:112–113, 1:225–226
  • letter to, 1:211
  • "Poem on Thomas Jefferson's Retirement," 1:226–229
  • Poems Written and Published during the American Revolutionary War, 1:112, 1:113n, 1:211, 1:225–226, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
  • TJ on, 2:336

Fretwell, John

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

"A Friend to the Christian Religion" ("Goodwill"). See "Goodwill"

Fritillaria imperialis (Crown imperial), 2:140, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498

Fromentin, Elgius, 2:160n, 3:258

frostbite, 3:36–37, 3:196, 3:250

Fry, Joshua, 3:432

Fry, Peter, 3:432

Fuller, Henry Holton, 2:352

Fulton, Robert

  • Concluding Address of Mr. Fulton's Lecture on the Mechanism, Practice and Effects of Torpedoes, 2:250, 2:251n
  • identified, 2:250–251n
  • letter from accounted for, 2:333n
  • letters from, 2:250–251, 2:316–318
  • letters to, 2:301, 2:332–333
  • loans dynamometer to TJ, 2:317, 2:332–333
  • and profit-making scheme, 3:577, 3:578n
  • self-acting hydraulic ram, 2:250, 2:301, 2:316, 2:318–319, 2:332
  • and torpedo, 2:250, 2:251n, 2:301, 2:316–317
  • Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions, 2:250, 2:301, 2:317, 2:318n, 3:114–115

furniture

  • campeachy chairs, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n, 2:351n
  • E. Randolph's, 4:231n
  • Lafayette's, 2:12, 2:15
  • and President's House, 1:42, 1:43n
  • seed press, 1:xlviii, 1:190, 1:191n, 1:245, 1:308, 1:309n, 1:380 (illus.), 1:390, 1:400n
  • tables, 4:307, 4:370 (illus.), 4:xlv
  • TJ orders, 1:44
  • Windsor chairs, 1:44, 1:287, 1:319

fur trade

  • Astor on, 4:550–553
  • on Northwest Coast, 1:445–446, 1:447

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