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La Bergerie (J. Armstrong’s Hudson River estate), 5:8n

Labigarre. See Delabigarre, Peter

Labouchere, Peter Caesar, 2:9, 2:245, 3:54, 3:105–106

La Brousse, M. de

Traité de la Culture du Figuier, suivi d’observations & d’expériences sur la meilleure maniere de cultiver, 2:82, 2:83n

Lacépède, Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-Sur-Illon, comte de

analyzes bones for Institut de France, 1:101n, 1:250n
Histoire naturelle de l’homme, 1:250n
identified, 1:250n
letter from, 1:248–250
mentioned, 3:221n, 5:601
sends greetings to TJ, 1:629
TJ forwards letter from, 1:249, 1:417

Laclotte, Jean Hyacinthe, 2:445n, 5:86n

Lacroix, Irenée Amelot De, Baron de Vanden Boègard

identified, 4:375–376n
letter from accounted for, 4:376n
letter to, 4:375–376
seeks military appointment, 4:375–376, 4:376

Lacroix, Sylvestre François

Complément des élémens d’algèbre, 4:79, 4:80n
Cours de Mathematiques à l’usage de l’École Centrale des Quatres-Nations, 4:72, 4:79, 5:14, 5:36
Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique et d’application de l’algèbre à la géométrie, 4:79, 4:80n
works on calculus, 4:370

Lacy, Stephen H.

and P. Piernet’s estate, 3:466, 3:467, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:42, 4:43n, 4:81–82, 4:166n, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:217, 5:333–334
and P. Piernet’s will, 5:332

Ladd, Thomas

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304, 1:305, 1:306–307, 1:329–330, 1:331, 1:362–363, 1:364–365, 1:591, 1:608, 2:123, 2:368, 2:396–397, 2:403, 2:407, 2:425, 2:447, 2:448, 2:464–465, 2:465–466, 2:674–675, 3:44–45, 3:45, 3:84, 3:85–86
identified, 1:307n
letter from accounted for, 3:45n
letters from, 1:329–330, 2:674–675
letters to, 1:306–307, 2:464–465, 3:45

Ladvocat, Jean Baptiste

Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique Portatif, 1:580

lady-slipper (Cypripedium), 1:436–437n

Laet, Joannes de

Nieuwe wereldt, ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, 2:503n, 2:511

Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de (Lafayette’s wife)

dowry of, 2:10, 2:12, 2:13
mentioned, 2:16

Lafayette, Emilie Destutt de Tracy (Lafayette’s daughter-in-law), 2:17

Lafayette, George Washington (Lafayette’s son)

inheritance of, 2:14
marriage and marriage contract of, 2:16, 2:17
mentioned, 3:447
sends greetings to TJ, 3:106, 4:359

Lafayette, Gilbert Motier de (1380-1462), 2:12–13

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de

and American Revolution, 2:10–11, 3:314, 3:315n, 4:434
attempts to emancipate African slaves, 2:11
and Bureaux de Pusy family, 4:155, 5:71, 5:72n
and chestnuts, 4:322
and I. A. Coles, 1:269–270, 1:528
description of his finances, 2:10–26, 3:213, 3:214n, 3:446, 3:447n
and Destutt de Tracy, 1:270
and Destutt de Tracy’s commentary on Montesquieu, 4:54, 4:202, 4:446
family of, 1:629, 5:212, 5:215n
financial situation of, 1:376, 1:628, 2:8–9, 2:10–18, 2:243–245, 2:287–288, 2:310, 2:418, 3:54–55, 3:212, 3:213, 3:445–446
identified, 1:270–271n
introduces J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:359
land of, in La., 1:270n, 1:529, 1:628, 2:8, 2:9, 2:15, 2:16, 2:17–18, 2:33–34, 2:72–73, 2:243, 2:244, 2:245, 2:418, 3:54, 3:105–106, 3:212–213, 3:248, 3:314, 3:445, 4:29–31, 4:359, 4:649–650, 5:68–69, 5:69n, 5:212–214, 5:215n
on Latin American revolutions, 4:359
and J. B. Lefevre, 2:74, 2:75n
letter from mentioned, 2:512
letters from, 1:269–271, 1:528–530, 1:627–629, 2:7–9, 2:242–246, 2:287–288, 2:310, 3:54–55, 3:105–106, 3:211–214, 3:444–447, 4:155, 4:358–359, 4:649–650, 5:68–69, 5:212–215
letters to, 3:313–315, 4:29–31, 4:36
letter to mentioned, 4:33
mentioned, 3:114, 3:512, 3:538, 5:189
and merino sheep, 2:39
on neutral powers, 2:242
plans to write TJ, 4:325
recommends L. P. G. de Lormerie to TJ, 1:342
sends dogs, 1:376, 1:457
sends greetings to TJ, 3:198
sends merino sheep, 1:529, 1:537–538, 1:629
and W. Short, 5:215n
Madame de Staël Holstein on, 5:450
and Madame de Tessé, 1:528, 1:593–594, 1:627
TJ on, 3:504
TJ sends greetings to, 3:443, 3:444n
travels of, 2:11, 2:13, 2:16

Lafitau, Joseph François

Moers des Sauvages Ameriquains, TJ on, 5:122–123, 5:125n, 5:182

Lafon, Bartholemew

“Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans,” 2:525, 3:486, 3:488n

La Forest. See Mathurin, Antoine René Charles, comte de La Forest

La Grange (Lafayette’s French estate), 1:270n, 1:529, 2:15, 2:17

La Grange et de Fourilles, Adélaïde Blaise François Le Lièvre, marquis de, 1:372

Lake Erie

proposed canal to, 3:459, 3:597–598, 4:160, 4:161n
survey on, 3:437

Lake Ontario, 3:459

Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de

Astronomie, 4:244
and W. Lambert’s calculations, 4:253, 4:260, 5:249

Lallemand, François Antoine, baron, 1:372

La Marck, Marie Françoise Augustine Ursule Le Danois de Cernay, comtesse de, 2:10

Lambarde, William

Eirenarcha: or Of the office of the Iustices of peace, 3:547

Lambert, John

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

Lambert, William

and American Philosophical Society, 5:251, 5:311
astronomical calculations, 2:54, 2:55n, 4:634–637, 5:311
calculates longitude of U.S. Capitol, 4:275–276, 4:651–660
calculates Monticello’s longitude, 4:235–236, 4:239n, 4:246, 4:247–266, 4:276, 4:368, 4:369, 4:402–406, 4:407–408
clerk of the House of Representatives, 1:275, 1:359n, 1:512
congratulates TJ, 1:54–55, 1:237–238
To the Critical Reviewers of Boston, 3:285
and domestic manufactures, 1:560–562
on House of Representatives, 1:274–275, 1:534–535
identified, 1:54–55n
and latitude calculations, 3:367n
letter from accounted for, 2:68n
letters from, 1:54–55, 1:274–276, 1:356–359, 1:489–498, 1:534–535, 1:539–540, 1:560–562, 2:54–55, 2:60–68, 2:337–338, 2:398–399, 2:566, 3:285, 4:235–236, 4:275–276, 4:402–406, 4:407–408, 4:634–637, 4:651–660, 5:245–251
letters to, 1:237–238, 1:511–512, 2:541, 4:368–369
letter to accounted for, 2:54n
lunar calculations, 1:539–540, 1:540–554, 2:54, 2:60–68, 5:245–251
ode for Fourth of July by, 2:399, 2:400–401
and prime meridian, 1:275–276, 1:356–358, 1:359n, 1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534–535, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–338, 2:398–399, 2:541, 2:566, 3:285, 3:367n
Table for Computing the Moon’s Motion, with Explanations, 1:540–554, 1:571–572, 1:608–609

Lamétherie, Jean Claude de, 2:551, 2:552n

lamps

at Bell Rock lighthouse, 4:363

lamps, alabaster

brass chain for, 1:190, 1:309

Lancaster, Joseph

Improvements in Education, 1:662

Lance, William

identified, 4:106n
letter from, 4:105–107
letter to accounted for, 4:107n
and Seventy-Six Association, 4:105, 4:106n

land conveyances. See indentures

Lane’s Ordinary (Fairfax Co.), 1:52n

Langdon, John

elected governor, 2:348
identified, 2:231–232n
letter from, 2:230–232
letter to, 2:274–277
and political situation, 2:230–231, 2:274–277
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Langhorne, John, trans.

Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langhorne, William, trans.

Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langland, William

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, 1:390, 1:397n

Langley, Batty

Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated, 2:82

books on French, 2:27n, 5:557
books on Spanish, 2:32n
Chinese, 1:518
French training of T. J. Randolph, 1:520, 1:557
Indian, 1:205, 1:269, 1:520–521, 1:555–557, 1:599n, 1:651–652, 3:596–597, 3:616
A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages (Dufief), 3:97–98, 3:137, 3:393, 4:71, 4:79, 5:557
and phonics, 2:306–307, 2:308n
Russian, 1:556
sign, 1:662
TJ on study of, 4:162–163
translations by TJ, 3:11–14, 3:21–23, 3:652–653
translations by D. B. Warden, 1:142–152

Lania (TJ’s slave; b. 1805)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Lannes, Jean, Duc de Montebello, 1:371, 1:372

lanterns, 1:303

La Pérouse, Jean François de Galalup, comte de

Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde, 1:445–449

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

Lapie, Pierre

Carte réduite de la Mer Méditerranée et de la mer Noire (Zannoni and Lapie), 1:247–248

Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de

Americans correspond with, 4:196
error of detected, 4:634
Exposition du Systême du Monde, 1:348, 1:349n, 1:357, 1:490
J. Wood’s book sent to, 2:171

Laportea canadensis. See Urtica Whitlowi (wood nettle)

lard

as scab remedy, 5:182n

La Rivière. See Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

La Roche, Martin Lefèbvre de (abbé), 3:9, 3:17, 3:87, 3:89n, 3:330

La Rochefoucauld, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, duchesse de. See Castellane, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, marquise de

La Romana, José Caro, marquês, 2:247, 2:248n

La Rouërie, Armand Charles Tuffin, marquis de, 2:74

Lasalle, Philippe de, 2:591

Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, comte de (A. Le Sage)

Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique, 3:552, 3:578
Genealogical, chronological, historical, and geographical atlas, 4:325, 4:326n, 5:7, 5:83, 5:114, 5:211, 5:436
work of sent to M. J. Randolph, 5:7, 5:436

Lasteyrie, Louis, marquis de (Lafayette’s son-in-law), 2:17

Lasteyrie, Virginie, marquise de (Lafayette’s daughter)

sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

Lasteyrie Dusaillant, Charles Philibert, comte De

agricultural report of, 2:83
Du Cotonnier et de sa Culture, 1:37, 2:83
identified, 3:115n
letters from, 3:114–115, 3:461–462
Du Pastel, de l’indigotier, 3:461–462
sends books on arts and sciences, 3:114–115, 3:461–462
sends greetings to TJ, 1:141
Traité sur les Bêtes-à-Laine d’Espagne, 2:83
A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, History and Analysis of Pastel, or Woad (trans. Dearborn), 3:462n

Latham, William, 5:253, 5:253n

Latin

of G. Buchanan, 2:215
document in, from

S. G. Tucker, 1:617–619

education in, 3:327, 3:372, 3:501, 4:131, 4:372, 4:648

Latin America

revolutions in, 4:359
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506, 4:508n

Latin and English Dictionary abridged (Ainsworth), 1:35

latitude

calculations for Poplar Forest, 3:361–367

Latour, Arsène Lacarrière, 3:478n

La Tour-Maubourg, Anastasie, comtesse de (Lafayette’s daughter)

inheritance of, 2:17
marriage contract with, 2:16
sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

La Tour-Maubourg, Charles, comte de (Lafayette’s son-in-law), 2:17

La Trémoïlle, Marie Geneviève de Durfort, duchesse de, 2:10, 2:15

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry

Anniversary Oration, 3:624, 3:625n
and J. Barlow’s letter, 5:576, 5:577n
and E. F. Bond’s application, 5:525, 5:526n
and carving for TJ, 4:66, 4:459, 5:206–207
designs houses in Philadelphia, 4:63
drawings by, 2:39, 2:40n, 2:106, 3:535–536, 3:537n, 3:581–582, 3:590–591
and expenses at U.S. Capitol, 5:205, 5:207n, 5:238, 5:239n
to find work for J. Dougherty, 1:199
furnishes President’s House, 1:43n
identified, 1:474–475n
letters from, 1:473–475, 3:534–538, 3:624–625, 4:63–67, 5:205–207
letters to, 1:595–596, 3:555–557, 4:459, 5:238–239
and model of corncob capitals, 1:473, 1:475n, 1:595
oversees work at Washington Navy Yard, 4:63, 5:206
and payment for Italian sculptors, 1:78n, 1:113, 1:114n
A Private Letter to the Individual Members of Congress, 3:537
and proposed marine hospital, 5:178, 5:179n, 5:206
proposed visit to Monticello, 1:366, 1:474, 1:595–596
and window glass for TJ, 2:80, 2:188, 2:346, 2:362, 5:298
works on U.S. Capitol, 1:65, 1:92, 1:474n, 3:534–537, 3:555–556, 4:64–66, 4:67n, 5:205–206, 5:238

Latrobe, Henry, 1:65n

Latrobe, Mary Elizabeth Hazlehurst (Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s wife)

greetings from, 5:207

Laud, William

Archbishop of Canterbury, 5:387, 5:389

Lauffeld, Battle of

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Laurent, Simon, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

La Vauguyon, Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade, duc de

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Lavergné, Celestino, 5:85n

law. See also Virginia: laws of

agrarian, 4:168
books on, 1:158, 1:416, 2:28, 2:51, 2:103, 2:104n, 2:420, 2:521, 2:676, 2:677, 3:173–176n, 3:236–237n, 3:546–547, 5:176, 5:176n, 5:245
British, 5:135–136
civil, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:526, 2:527, 2:678, 2:679, 3:31, 4:477
common, 1:381, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:527, 2:532, 3:117, 3:144, 3:165, 4:293, 4:296–297n, 4:297–298, 4:300–301, 5:58–59, 5:135–136
criminal, 1:382, 1:384n
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:330–331
feudal, 3:174–175n
French, 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, 5:45–47, 5:576, 5:576–577n
of Great Britain, 1:382, 1:424, 4:293, 4:294, 4:296–297n, 4:297–298, 4:299–300, 4:302n, 5:137n
Jewish, 3:124, 3:165
and judicial review, 1:380
martial, 1:571, 3:120–121
natural, 3:138–139, 3:142, 3:144
Roman, 2:676, 3:47–48, 3:130–131, 3:132, 3:151n, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:236n, 3:237n, 3:546, 4:502, 4:643n
Spanish, 2:471, 2:678, 3:52–53, 3:71, 3:160–161, 3:175n, 4:477, 4:643n
study of, 3:276
TJ on study of, 4:162
TJ provides training in, 1:245, 1:389, 1:416, 2:28, 2:51, 2:77n, 2:259, 2:420
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:503
and the West, 3:423–424

Law, Edward, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

and alleged remarks on TJ by C. J. Fox, 3:261n, 3:261–262, 4:234
family of, 3:261n, 3:262n

Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis (Thomas Law’s wife), 3:209n

Law, Jonathan

identified, 1:95n
letter from, 1:95
letter to, 1:126–127
and meeting of Conn. Republicans, 1:95, 1:126–127

Law, Thomas

on Anglo-American relations, 4:234
and Federalist criticism of TJ, 3:260–263, 4:234
identified, 3:209n
letters from, 3:209, 3:261, 3:552, 4:234–235
letters to, 3:298–299, 3:578–579
letter to J. Wagner, 3:261–262
sends prospectus to TJ, 3:552, 3:578–579
taxation policy of, 4:234, 4:235n
Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses, 3:209, 3:261, 3:298, 3:578, 3:579n

Lawfeld. See Lauffeld, Battle of

Law of Nations. See Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains (Vattel)

Law of Orleans. See A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (Kerr and Moreau Lislet)

The Laws of Las Siete Partidas (Carleton and Moreau Lislet), 3:53n, 3:160–161, 3:168

The laws of the United States of America (Swift), 2:521

Lawson, Sarah

boardinghouse of, 3:552

Lawur, Peter

letter from accounted for, 1:677

Lay, Amos

Map of the Northern Part of the State of New York, 5:263n, 5:306n, 5:581

Lazaria (Maria) (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

lead

manufacture of, 2:376
white, 1:55n, 1:77, 5:33

Leake, Walter, 2:211

Leander (British warship), 1:228n

Leavenworth, Mark, 3:542, 3:543n

le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

La Fête du Petit Blé; ou, L’Heroisme du Poucha-Houmma, 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509

LeBourdais, Mr., 1:557

Le Bourgeois, Mr., 2:244

Le Breton D’orgenoy, Francis Joseph. See D’orgenoy, Francis Joseph Le Breton

Leclerc, Georges Louis, 5:452n

Leclerc, Jean (Joannes Clericus), 5:594

Leçons d’Histoire (Volney), 1:580

Le Coulteux, Mr., 2:13

A Lecture, introductory to a Course of Lectures on the Cause, Seat and Cure of Diseases (Crawford), 4:336, 4:338n, 4:394

Lectures on Mechanics (Helsham), 1:581

Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (Adams), 1:581

Lectures on Political Principles (Williams), 3:38, 3:40n, 3:87, 3:189, 3:334

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Blair), 1:576

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (Adams), 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics (Ferguson), 1:581

Ledyard, John

letters from, 2:419, 2:423–424
seeks assistance from TJ, 2:419, 2:423–424

Lee, Arthur

and cession of Northwest Territory, 4:567

Lee, Edmund Jennings, 1:516

Lee, Henry (1756–1818)

as defense witness, 1:277, 1:278–279n
medal voted for, 2:104–105, 2:106n, 2:125–126, 2:224, 2:253

Lee, Henry (1787–1837)

and father’s medal, 2:104–105, 2:106n, 2:224, 2:253

Lee, Rachel Fanny Antonina

An Essay on Government, 1:123–124, 3:116, 3:117n

Lee, Richard Bland, 2:170n

Lee, Richard Henry

and G. R. Clark’s 1779 expedition, 4:378
and P. Henry, 4:378, 4:604
as member of Continental Congress, 4:600, 4:601, 4:602
oratorial skills of, 2:156

Lee, Thomas Ludwell

and revision of Va. laws, 1:381–382, 3:570, 5:136

Lee, Tom (Shackelford estate’s slave), 3:36, 3:37n, 3:529

Lee, William

assists J. Ronaldson in Paris, 2:163
consul at Bordeaux, 1:118, 1:121n, 3:166, 3:178, 3:442, 3:599, 4:189, 4:529, 4:530n
forwards letters to TJ, 2:672
identified, 2:672n
letter from, 2:672

Lee, William Raymond

forwards items to TJ, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220
identified, 4:220n
letter to, 4:220

Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of, 1:516

Leesburg, Va

Republican mechanics of, address TJ, 1:89–90

Lefevre, Jean Baptiste

land warrant issued to, 2:74, 2:75n, 2:94

Leforest, A., 2:154

Leftwich, Jabez, 5:339

Leftwich, Joel, 5:339

leg

broken, 2:289

Legaux, Pierre

and Alexander grape, 4:524, 4:525n

Le Gendre, Louis, 3:235, 3:237n

Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton), 1:383, 3:547

Lego (TJ’s estate)

acreage of, 4:387
hogs at, 5:545
lease of, 1:488n
and W. McClure’s weaving establishment, 4:143
overseers at, 1:137–138n, 3:180, 3:181n, 3:196, 3:642, 4:101
rent at, 3:522
slaves at, 3:37, 3:180–181, 3:196
surveys of, 2:107–108, 2:109n, 3:570–573, 5:362
and TJ's lease dispute with E. Alexander, 2:85–86, 2:150–151, 2:199, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:277–281, 2:282, 2:286–287, 2:294
tobacco grown at, 2:86, 2:200, 2:239, 2:240
wheat grown at, 2:239, 2:240, 3:191

Lehré, Thomas

identified, 5:244n
letters from, 5:243–244, 5:284–286, 5:329–330, 5:332, 5:355–356, 5:393–394, 5:680–681
letters to, 5:303–304
on Republicans, 5:244
and S.C. politics, 5:243–244, 5:284–285, 5:285–286n, 5:303–304, 5:329, 5:329–330n, 5:332, 5:393, 5:680–681, 5:681n

Leib, Michael

and A. Gallatin, 1:598, 1:599n
identified, 4:174n
letter from, 4:173–175
letter to, 4:164
recommends A. Macaulay, 2:304
supports W. Duane, 4:174
as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n, 4:173

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:506n

Leiper, Thomas

and W. Duane, 3:450–451, 3:452n, 3:506, 3:507, 3:585
purchases TJ’s tobacco, 4:593

Leitch, James. See also Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

accepts draft, 2:234n
account with TJ, 1:64, 1:65n
agent for TJ, 3:83, 4:77, 5:394
asks TJ for nails, 2:77
and gunpowder sales, 3:583
identified, 1:65n
as juror, 5:278, 5:279
letters from, 1:64–65, 1:458, 2:40, 2:77, 5:394
letters to, 1:302–303, 4:182, 4:358, 4:477, 4:496, 4:647, 4:686–7, 5:119, 5:133, 5:394
letter to accounted for, 5:394n
petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380
requests payment from TJ, 2:40, 2:52–53, 2:77, 2:80
and timothy seed, 4:156, 4:194
TJ orders clothes from, 4:496
TJ orders goods from, 1:302–303
TJ orders household goods from, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211, 4:358, 4:477, 4:647, 4:686, 5:119, 5:133, 5:394
trades nails for goods, 1:64, 1:303, 1:458
vouches for O. Norris, 3:465
witnesses warrant, 5:280

Leitch, Samuel. See also Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

and Albemarle Volunteer Company subscription, 5:344
identified, 3:242n
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

agent for TJ, 3:200
letter from, 3:242
letter from accounted for, 4:400n
letter to, 4:400
and nails, 3:242
TJ’s account with, 4:400, 5:409

Leith threshing machine, 5:444–445, 5:445n

Lemaire, Etienne

identified, 1:56n
and kitchen inventory of President’s House, 1:43n, 1:155, 1:156n
letters from, 1:59–60, 1:71–72, 1:188–189, 1:222
letters to, 1:55–56, 1:161–162
maître d’hôtel, 1:42
offers to run errands in Philadelphia, 1:59–60, 1:71
paid by TJ, 1:41, 1:294
sends oil and syrup to TJ, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:222, 1:245, 1:257
TJ praises, 1:55–56, 1:71

Le Maire, Jacques, 1:450

Lemaire, Santiago, 3:478n, 5:85n

Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

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

Lenox, Peter

identified, 5:178–179n
letter from, 5:177–179
seeks position at Washington, 5:177–178
TJ pays, 1:41

Lenthall, John

clerk of works at U.S. Capitol, 1:92, 5:205
death of, 1:65n

“Leolin.” See Austin, James Trecothick

León y Gama, Antonio de

Descripción histórica y cronológica de los piedras, 1:521, 1:556

Leopard, HMS

and Chesapeake incident, 2:261n

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:507n

Lepidium sativum (garden cress), 5:550–551

Lerasle

Encyclopédie Méthodique: Jurisprudence, 3:130, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:546

Le Ray de Chaumont, Jacques Donatien, 2:13, 3:446

Leroy, Louis

Les politiqves d’Aristote, 3:547

Le Sage, A. See Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, Comte de (A. Le Sage)

Le Sage, Alain René

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 4:163n

Lescallier, Daniel

and J. Corrêa da Serra, 5:7–8
identified, 1:184n
letter from, 1:184
and A. M. Rochon, 5:301
sends book to TJ, 1:184
Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine Anglais et Français, 1:36, 1:184n

Leslie, Charles

A Short and Easie Method with Deists, 3:590

lesser celandine. See ranunculus (buttercup; spearwort; water crowfoots)

Lesslie, John

and TJ’s flour, 4:12, 4:58

Le Tellier, François Michel, marquis de Louvois

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

Le Tellier, John

identified, 2:316n
and Jefferson Cups, 2:xlii, 2:315–316, 2:474, 3:83, 3:154, 3:168, 3:177
letter from, 2:474
letter to, 2:315–316

Letombe, Joseph Philippe, 5:266

A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government (Walsh), 3:190n, 3:199, 3:200n

letter press, 3:xlvii, 3:358 (illus.)

Letters of Abbe Salemankis to a Friend in Ireland (“Salemankis”), 2:263, 2:296

The Letters of the British Spy (Wirt), 4:471, 4:472n, 4:560

Letters on Political Liberty (Williams), 3:189, 3:190n, 3:207

Letters on The Subject of The Catholics (Smith), 2:161

Letters to Friends (Cicero), 1:386

Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood (Priestley), 1:119, 1:121–122n

A Letter to a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina (Tucker), 5:458, 5:458n

A Letter to Harrison G. Otis, Esquire (J. Q. Adams), 4:435n

Letter to Henri Gregoire (Barlow), 1:588, 1:590n

A Letter to the Honorable John Randolph (“Numa”), 2:264, 2:290

Lettres d’un Bourgeois de New-Heaven (Condorcet), 5:595, 5:595–596n

Lettres Patentes du Roy

J. Armstrong sends, 5:8, 5:8n, 5:8–9n

Lettres sur la Vieillesse (Meister), 3:137, 3:393

lettuce

impact of drought on, 4:38
seeds, 4:527, 5:31, 5:490
tennis ball, 5:307, 5:307n

Leunclavius, Johannes

Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis, 3:546

Lewis (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1760)

on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. 1788)

on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Lewis, Capt.

master of schooner Liberty, 1:307, 2:349

Lewis, Ann Marks (TJ’s niece)

financial situation of, 3:90–91
identified, 3:91n
letter from, 3:90–91

Lewis, Charles, Jr. (TJ’s uncle), 1:168n

Lewis, Charles Lilburne (TJ’s brother-in-law)

family of, 1:167, 1:168n, 1:415n
financial situation of, 3:90, 3:91, 3:242–243
identified, 3:92–93n
on Kentucky life, 3:92
letter from, 3:91–93

Lewis, David Jackson

identified, 5:281n
letter to accounted for, 5:281n
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
and warrant for restitution of land, 5:280–281

Lewis, Henry, 1:27

Lewis, Howell

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lewis, Isham (TJ’s nephew)

identified, 1:168n
letter from, 1:167–168
letters of introduction for from TJ, 1:215, 1:216
letter to, 1:181–182
and murder of slave, 1:168n
seeks TJ’s assistance, 1:167–168
TJ offers to teach surveying to, 1:181–182

Lewis, James

account of, 4:9
and deposition in Henderson case, 5:179, 5:180, 5:192–198
and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459, 5:139–141
identified, 5:197n
letter from accounted for, 5:198n
letter to accounted for, 5:180n
tends to ill slave, 3:283, 3:368, 3:529
and TJ’s land dispute with D. Michie, 5:139–141, 5:261

Lewis, Jesse

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lewis, Jesse (first)

petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380

Lewis, Jesse (second)

petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380

Lewis, John

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Lewis, Joshua, 2:443n

Lewis, Lillburne (TJ’s nephew)

family of, 3:90
and murder of slave, 1:168n

Lewis, Lucy B. (TJ’s niece)

financial situation of, 3:90–91
identified, 3:91n
letter from, 3:90–91

Lewis, Lucy Jefferson (TJ’s sister; Charles Lewis’s wife)

death of, 3:92n
family of, 1:168n, 1:415n, 3:90–91

Lewis, Lucy Meriwether, 2:120, 2:241, 2:340

Lewis, Martha C. (TJ’s niece)

financial situation of, 3:90–91
identified, 3:91n
letter from, 3:90–91

Lewis, Martha Woodson (Robert Lewis’s wife), 3:179

Lewis, Mary Walker (Nicholas Lewis’s wife)

gives apples to TJ, 5:357
identified, 2:291–292n
letters from, 2:291–292, 5:357
letter to, 4:38
letter to accounted for, 2:38n
seeks appointment for Wood, 4:186–187
sells victuals to TJ, 2:37–38, 2:291, 2:292n, 4:210
TJ sends figs to, 4:38

Lewis, Meriwether

and artifact collection of W. Clark, 1:510
death of, 1:436n, 1:602–603, 1:606–608, 1:632, 1:668, 2:30, 2:35, 2:42, 2:44, 2:120, 2:121, 2:191–192, 2:208
executor of, 2:123, 2:336, 2:567, 3:110, 3:166
identified, 1:436n
and Indian dialects, 1:520, 1:556
land warrant granted to, 2:121, 2:122n
letter to, 1:435–437
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140
and J. Neelly, 2:30–31, 2:34, 2:73n, 2:121, 2:191–192
papers of, 2:31, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:72, 2:121, 2:122, 2:123, 2:127, 2:140, 3:181–182
J. Pernier’s claim against estate of, 2:34, 2:192, 2:208–209, 2:364n, 2:672, 2:673n, 3:49, 3:110
personal belongings of, 2:34, 2:121, 2:123, 2:191, 2:192, 2:208, 2:241, 2:340
plants discovered by, 2:90–91, 2:140, 4:524
prepares for expedition, 1:101n, 1:194n
and publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:668–669, 3:33, 3:150, 3:166–167, 3:181–182, 4:147
seeds brought by, 1:192, 3:150, 3:166
and stone block for TJ, 4:66
TJ introduces J. Bradbury to, 1:435–436
TJ on, 2:336, 2:340
TJ’s claim against estate of, 2:294, 2:294
TJ sends greetings to, 1:511
will of, 2:123–124, 2:140

Lewis, Morgan, 5:635, 5:637n

Lewis, Nicholas

family of, 4:186
land of bought, 3:622
manages TJ’s affairs, 5:88

Lewis, Nicholas H.

as juror, 5:278, 5:279
witnesses warrant, 5:280

Lewis, Nicholas Meriwether

seeks appointment for Wood, 4:187
TJ receives land from, 4:386

Lewis, Randolph (TJ’s nephew)

family of, 3:90
moves to Ky., 1:168n

Lewis, Robert, 3:179, 3:211

Lewis, William

and batture controversy, 2:444–445n, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:658, 3:235, 3:271, 3:483

Lewis, William W.

and merino sheep, 2:233, 2:360, 2:361, 2:453, 2:454, 2:481, 2:496n

Lewis and Clark Expedition

and chronometer, 3:83n
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 5:612–613, 5:614n
history of, 2:332, 3:166–167, 3:181–182, 3:309, 3:582, 3:649–650
journals of, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140, 3:181–182
land warrants awarded in consequence of, 2:120, 2:121n
plants discovered during, 2:90–91, 2:140, 3:150, 3:166
publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30–31, 2:72, 2:140, 4:568
route of, 4:550–551
seeds from, 1:192n, 3:150, 3:166
N. G. M. Senter on, 5:65–66
and stone block for TJ, 1:473, 1:475n, 4:66

Lexicon Ivridicvm Ivris Cæsarei simvl, et canonici, fevdalis item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici (Calvinus), 3:546

Lexington, Va.

Ann Smith Academy, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201
mail service to, 3:56, 3:104
Washington Academy, 1:367, 1:367–368n

libel

W. Duane sued for, 4:174–175
E. Gerry’s message on, 5:6, 5:7n
proposed punishment for, 4:122
prosecutions during TJ’s presidency, 1:276–278, 1:349–350

Liberty (ship), 1:307, 2:349

Liberty Hall Academy. See Washington Academy (later Washington and Lee University)

Liblong, Col. See le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

libraries

congressional, 2:81–83
formed by S. R. Demaree in Ky., 1:455–457
TJ on, 1:205–206
TJ on congressional, 1:592
TJ’s personal, 1:35–38, 1:390, 1:400n
Westwardmill Library Society, 1:66–67, 1:205–206, 1:508

Liebault, Jean

Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme, 2:82, 4:139, 4:142n

Lieper, Thomas. See Leiper, Thomas

Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth (Roscoe), 1:163, 1:164n, 1:435

The Life of Catharine II, Empress of all the Russias (Tooke), 1:580

Life of George Washington (Marshall)

TJ on, 1:589, 1:590n, 3:564, 3:565n

The Life of George Washington (Ramsay), 1:35

Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, called the Magnificent (Roscoe), 1:164n, 1:435

Ligon, James

clerk for Gibson & Jefferson, 4:13n, 4:58n, 4:234n, 4:467, 4:530, 5:161, 5:316, 5:587
witnesses document, 4:278n

lilac, 1:61, 3:354

Lilburn (TJ’s slave; b. 1809). See Hern, Lilburn (TJ’s slave)

lilies

Allegheny, 1:660, 2:36
Canada, 2:103, 2:104n
TJ requests of B. McMahon, 3:545
Turk’s-cap, 4:523

Lilium canadense (Canada lily), 2:103, 2:104n

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

Lille Belt, HMS

encounter with USS President, 3:638, 3:639n

Lilly, Gabriel

Monticello overseer, 2:279, 2:281n, 4:543, 5:425
superintendent of TJ’s nailery, 2:281n

Lilly (TJ’s slave; b. 1791). See Hern, Lilly (TJ’s slave)

lima beans, 1:631, 1:657, 3:502, 5:658

lime (Citrus aurantifolia), 1:631–632

lime (mineral)

and J. Brand, 5:427
at Poplar Forest, 2:150, 5:381–382, 5:403, 5:663
requested from TJ, 2:201
toll on, 5:379

limestone survey (Albemarle Co.), 3:432–433, 3:458

Lincoln, Daniel Waldo

An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1810, before the “Bunker-Hill Association,” 2:504, 2:505n, 2:666

Lincoln, Levi

family of, 2:666
identified, 1:49–50n
letters to, 1:49–50, 4:100
and J. Madison, 3:245, 3:246n
paid by TJ, 1:41, 1:49
as potential Supreme Court justice, 3:118, 3:124, 3:126, 3:151, 3:165, 3:178, 3:182, 4:100
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
and Yazoo land scheme, 3:127, 3:129n

Lind, James

An Essay on diseases incidental to Europeans, 3:38, 3:40n

Lindsay, Mr., 2:40

Lindsay, George G.

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lindsay, Reuben

en route to Montpellier, 1:562–563
friend of TJ, 4:671
hair described as white, 5:253
on W. McGehee, 3:35–36
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
and W. Short’s land, 4:60

Lindsey’s Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 1:359n

linen, 3:202, 3:280n, 3:309, 4:27, 4:102, 4:138, 4:231n, 5:187, 5:439, 5:470

Lingan, James McCubbin, 1:75

linguistics. See philology

Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné)

A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals (trans. Turton), 1:581
and Indian hemp, 4:667
mentioned, 5:601
and mineralogy, 2:489, 2:490n
Systema Naturæ, 4:536

Linnean Society of London, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521n

Linnean Society of Philadelphia, 1:663, 2:70

linseed oil, 1:55n, 1:77, 1:97, 5:33, 5:379

Linum perenne. See flax (Linum perenne)

lion’s foot (Prenanthes serpentaria)

as snakebite remedy, 1:58n

Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar; tulip tree), 3:353

earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n
and P. Gibson, 3:435–436, 3:441–442, 3:443
sheep shipped from, 2:431, 2:481
U.S. consulship at, 1:114, 3:441–442, 3:523–524, 3:541–542, 4:185, 4:212, 4:219, 5:313, 5:313n, 5:313–314, 5:314n, 5:319, 5:456, 5:504

Lislet, Louis Moreau. See Moreau Lislet, Louis

List of Post Offices in the United States, 1:514

Liston, Robert, 5:266

Lithgow, Alexander, 5:240n

De La Littérature des Nègres (Grégoire), 1:36, 1:588, 1:590n

Little Bear (Chippewa chief), 2:58n

Little Belt. See Lille Belt, HMS

Littlebury, trans.

Herodotus, 1:580

Little Dick (TJ’s slave; b. 1781). See Dick (TJ’s slave; b. 1781)

Littlejohn, John

chairs committee of Republican mechanics, 1:90n

The Little Medly: containing short remarks on the . . . New Testament (Brunt), 1:403

Littlepage, Mr., 2:397, 2:433

Littleton, Mr. See Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton.

Littleton, Thomas

Anciennes loix des François, 3:130–131, 3:175n, 3:546

Livandais, Mr. See Livaudais, Jacques M.

Livaudais, Jacques M., 3:484, 5:85n

Lively, Charles

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
rents part of Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 4:197

Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, 2d Earl of

as British foreign secretary, 4:587, 4:671
and J. Henry’s mission, 4:541, 4:628
parliamentary comments of, 4:539
as prime minister, 5:156n

Liverpool Botanic Garden, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:435, 4:146

Lives (Plutarch; trans. W. & J. Langhorne), 1:580

livestock. See also cattle; hogs; horses; sheep

draught animals, 3:170, 3:348, 3:349, 3:371n
for Monticello, 1:81n
oxen, 4:373, 4:526
pigs, 4:109, 4:110n, 4:381, 4:382
at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:526

Livingston, Brockholst, 1:195n

Livingston, Edward. See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over; Livingston v. D’orgenoy; Livingston v. Jefferson; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi (Thomas Jefferson)

J. Adams on, 5:3
Address to the People of the United States, on the measures pursued by the Executive with respect to the Batture at New-Orleans, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:133, 3:173n, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:271, 3:483, 5:45, 5:47n, 5:143–144
An Answer to Mr. Jefferson’s Justification of His Conduct in the Case of the New Orleans Batture, 4:292n, 5:163
bankruptcy of, 2:402
bill of complaint against TJ, 2:545, 2:546–50, 2:659, 3:226, 3:227n
canal of, 2:444n, 2:445–446n, 2:547, 2:548
W. C. C. Claiborne on, 2:434, 2:471–472, 2:682, 3:25, 3:157–158
and G. Du Jareau, 2:484
Examination of the title of the United States, 3:476, 3:483
A. Gallatin on, 2:528, 3:68, 3:70, 3:71–72
identified, 2:549–550n
L. Moreau Lislet on, 3:174n, 3:175–176n
offers to aid Trist family, 4:572–573
opens canal on batture, 3:175n, 3:404, 3:406, 3:494–495, 3:496–497
portrait of, 4:xliv, 4:370 (illus.)
proclaims right to batture, 1:287n, 3:233, 3:234–235n, 3:248n, 3:484
and riots at Batture Sainte Marie, 2:440–442n, 3:26n, 3:495
and J. Robbins case, 5:3, 5:4n
L. W. Tazewell on, 5:44–45, 5:45
TJ on, 3:203–204, 4:292n, 5:134–135
and TJ’s Statement of Facts in the Batture Case, 4:110
E. Trist on, 4:572, 5:111–113
validity of land claim, 3:27n

Livingston, Louise (Edward Livingston’s wife)

offers to aid Trist family, 4:573

Livingston, Mary Stevens (Robert R. Livingston’s wife)

illustrates Essay on Sheep, 3:63, 3:64n

Livingston, Robert R.

Essay on Sheep, 1:667, 1:668n, 2:39, 2:83, 3:63, 3:64n, 4:637, 5:181, 5:182n
family of, 1:20n
identified, 4:638n
letter to, 4:637–638
as member of Continental Congress, 4:475, 4:476n, 4:600, 4:601, 4:602
and merino sheep, 1:529, 2:39, 4:637
recommends F. A. Van der Kemp to TJ, 4:500, 4:501n
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:637
and F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507n, 4:614

Livingston, William, Jr., 1:195n

Livingston v. D’orgenoy, 3:233, 3:234n, 3:246–248, 3:265, 3:484, 5:134–135, 5:137n, 5:144–145, 5:315, 5:315n

Livingston v. Jefferson. See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

background of, 4:291–292n
dismissal reported to TJ, 4:303–304
J. Marshall’s opinion in, 4:297–303, 5:58, 5:59n, 5:176n
opinions published, 5:59n, 5:176, 5:176n, 5:219
TJ congratulated on dismissal of, 4:572
J. Tyler’s opinion in, 4:293–297, 5:58, 5:59n, 5:176n
U.S. Circuit Court dismisses, 4:304, 4:311, 4:367–368, 4:477, 4:520n, 4:631, 4:639, 5:240, 5:240–241n

Livy (Titus Livius)

Historiarum Libri Qui Extant, 1:580
Titi Livii Historiarum Libri, 5:501, 5:523, 5:549, 5:594, 5:594–595n, 5:625
Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum Libri Qui Extant, 5:549, 5:549n
TJ on, 2:153

Liza (slave), 4:15

Lloyd, James, 1:473, 2:70

Lloyd, Thomas, 1:214n

Lobinhes, Dr., 2:11, 2:12

Locke, Jesse (of Campbell Co.), 5:49

Locke, John

An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1:576
in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 5:545
portraits of, 3:305
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503, 4:506n
and A. B. Woodward’s work, 1:254n

locks (canal), 3:286–288, 3:303, 3:421–422

locus in quo, pleading on. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over: pleadings in

locust

bristly, 3:354
common, 3:353

Logan, Andrew

and Bank of the United States, 4:371–372, 4:373n
identified, 4:372–373n
letter from, 4:371–373
seeks TJ’s advice, 4:372

Logan, George

sells plows, 2:312–313, 2:334
sheep of, 1:16

Logan, James

translates Cato Major, or Discourse on old age (Cicero), 3:137

Logan, James (Mingo Indian)

speech of, 2:204, 2:205n, 2:340

Logan County, Ky., 3:647–648

Logique (Destutt de Tracy), 4:203, 4:209n

La logique, ou, Les premiers developpemens de l’art de penser (Condillac), 5:276, 5:277n

Logwood, Burwell

identified, 2:119n
letter to A. L. Duncan, 2:119
and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:119, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 3:648

Logwood, Pruey Peyton, 2:117, 2:254, 3:648

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

Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l’Amerique sous le vent (Moreau de Saint Méry), 3:160, 3:175n

Lomax, Elizabeth, 1:305n

Lomax, Lunsford, 2:84, 2:256

Lomax, Thomas

exchanges seeds with TJ, 1:631, 1:657
and P. Henry, 4:603
identified, 1:631n
letter from, 1:631–632
letter to, 1:657
as P. Mazzei’s friend, 4:35

Lombardy poplars, 1:192n

London. See also Russell, Jonathan

Courier, 3:577, 3:578n
exchange at, 3:524, 3:558
firms, 3:426
Geological Society of, 5:514, 5:514, 5:514–515n
Horticultural Society of, 5:514, 5:514–515n
Linnean Society of, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521n
newspapers in, 5:370n, 5:384
Royal Society of, 4:227, 4:228, 4:353, 5:513, 5:514–515n
Royal Veterinary College of, 5:414, 5:416n
Society of Antiquaries of, 5:513, 5:514–515n
TJ on burning the city, 5:186, 5:293
U.S. agent at, 3:37

Long, Gabriel, 1:415, 1:416n

Long, James

letter from, 1:464–465
seeks TJ’s assistance, 1:464–465

Long, William B., 5:18n

Long’s Hotel (Washington, D.C.)

R. Fulton lectures at, 2:250, 2:251n
inaugural ball at, 1:10n

Long’s Ordinary (Spotsylvania Co.), 1:416n

A Long Talk, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, on their anniversary, A.D. 1810: in Providence (Pitman), 4:306n, 4:395–396

looking glasses, 1:303

looms, 3:202, 4:143, 4:428, 5:560, 5:562–563, 5:563

López, Gregorio

Las siete partidas del sabio rey Don Alonso el Nono, 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:176n

Lormerie, Louis Philippe Gallot de

on Florida, 3:33
on forest management, 3:33–34
identified, 1:131n
and Ky. land, 1:342, 5:431–433
letter from accounted for, 1:343n
letters from, 1:128–131, 1:342–343, 3:32–35, 5:265–267, 5:375–377, 5:431–435, 5:550–552, 5:665–667
letters to, 1:354–355, 5:304, 5:417
Memoir on American Forest Management, 1:131–134, 1:342, 1:354
Proposal for the Military Use of Sugar, 5:552
seeks permission to ship goods to France, 1:128–129, 1:342, 1:354, 5:265–266, 5:304, 5:375–376, 5:417, 5:431–433, 5:441, 5:550, 5:665–666

lotteries

East Tennessee College, 2:266–267, 2:268n, 2:365
Potomac & Shenandoah navigation, 4:288
Susquehanna Canal, 4:391

Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of, 1:291n

Loudoun County Superior Court, 1:417

Louis XI, king of France

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506n, 5:459

Louis XII, king of France

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:501, 5:459

Louis XIV, king of France

declaration of 1683, 3:160, 3:236n
and edict of 1693, 2:524, 3:130, 3:131, 3:132, 3:160, 3:174n, 3:226
and edict of 1710, 2:524, 3:174n, 3:235, 3:236–237n, 3:484
and La. territorial charter, 2:676, 3:48n, 3:489–490
and ordinance of 1669, 2:657
W. Short on, 3:197
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:504

Louis XV, king of France

charters Company of the West, 2:657
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:507n

Louis XVI, king of France

execution of, 3:66n, 3:221n, 4:483, 4:484
TJ on, 2:276
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Louis XVIII, king of France, 3:221n

Louisa County, Va.

and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Louisa Court House, Va., 3:254n

Louisiade Archipelago (Solomon Sea), 5:202–203

Louisiana (revenue cutter), 2:445n

Louisiana (Spanish and French colony). See also Louisiana Territory; Orleans Territory

“Chronological Series of Facts relative to Louisiana” (Jefferson), 3:281, 3:282–283, 3:292, 3:297, 3:327, 3:328n
“Examination into the Boundaries of Louisiana” (Jefferson), 3:256, 3:281, 3:282–283
laws governing, 2:462, 2:471, 2:676, 3:52–53, 3:168
maps of, 1:247, 1:248n
pamphlets on, 1:36, 1:37, 1:38n
Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana (Stoddard), 3:291–292
Spanish government of, 2:520, 2:523–524, 2:525
and Treaty of Paris (1763), 3:256–257

Louisiana (state)

constitution of, 4:648, 4:649n, 5:9, 5:9n

Louisiana Gazette (Saint Louis newspaper), 4:7

Louisiana Gazette and New-Orleans Daily Advertiser, 3:234–235n, 3:418, 3:616

Louisiana Territory. See also Lewis, Meriwether; Louisiana (Spanish and French colony); Orleans Territory

act to establish (1804), 3:409, 3:410n
botanical expeditions in, 1:164n, 2:533, 4:535–536
boundaries of, 3:256–257, 3:282
exploration of navigable waters proposed, 1:443, 1:448–449
Federalists on, 3:256
land exchange with Great Britain, 1:672–673
J. Monroe offered governorship of, 2:35, 2:42–43, 2:44, 2:46n
sugar-cane industry in, 2:556
TJ on, 2:360

Loury, Thomas T.

letter from, 3:647–648
sends silver ore sample to TJ, 3:647–648

Louvois. See Le Tellier, François Michel, marquis de Louvois

Love & Madness, A Story too True (Croft), 2:204, 2:339–340

Lovely Mathilda (ship), 2:353

Lovilo (TJ’s slave; b. 1801). See Hern, Lovilo (TJ’s slave)

Low, Esther Prentiss (wife of John Low [1763–1809])

and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (1763–1809)

and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (ca.1790–1829)

identified, 4:281–282n
letters from, 4:281–282, 4:336, 4:408, 4:530–531
letters to, 4:365–366, 4:558–559
TJ subscribes to The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281, 4:336, 4:365–366, 4:371, 4:408, 4:409, 4:530–531, 4:557, 4:558–559

Lowry, Mrs., 5:121

Lowry, Andrew, 1:335

Lowry, Morrow, 1:335

Lozano, Joaquin, 3:478n

Lüber, Thomas. See Erastus, Thomas

Lucan

Pharsalia, 4:503, 4:506n

Lucinda (TJ’s slave; b. 1791)

laborer, 4:379
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461

Lucket, Mr. (captain of Diana), 5:289–290

Lucy (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. 1783)

on Monticello slave list, 4:387
on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:382, 4:383

Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1800)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462
spinner, 4:380

Ludlow, Charles, 3:524

Ludlow, Edmund

Memoirs, 1:37, 1:580

Lukens, Isaiah

and perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–l, 5:358 (illus.), 5:558, 5:559n

Lukens, Samuel

letter from, 4:571
letter to, 4:619
and I. Shoemaker, 4:571, 4:619

lumber trade, 3:345–346

lunar caustic (silver nitrate)

as medicine, 4:416

lunettes, 5:507

Lusignem, Louis Hugues Thibault Henri Jacques, marquis de, 2:11, 2:12, 2:14

Luzac, Jean

and F. A. Van der Kemp’s work on copper, 4:614

Luzerne Federalist (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)

prints poems on TJ, 1:429–431, 1:431–433

Lydia (brig), 1:629, 3:434n

lye

as scab remedy, 5:182n

Lydia (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Lyle, James

agent for Henderson, McCaul, & Co., 2:180, 2:216–217, 2:433, 2:513, 3:280, 3:341, 3:488, 3:538, 3:627–628, 4:11, 4:75–76
identified, 2:180n
letters from, 2:180, 3:280–281, 3:488, 3:627–628, 4:75–76
letters to, 2:216–217, 3:341–342, 3:538, 4:11
TJ pays, 4:10, 4:24
TJ’s account with, 4:76
vision loss of, 3:280–281, 3:341–342, 3:489, 4:75

Lyman, Jerushia

B. Rush on, 4:673–674

Lyman, William

and anonymous letter, 3:578
identified, 1:182n
letter from, 1:182
sends publication to TJ, 1:182
U.S. consul at London, 1:182, 4:673, 4:674n

Lyman, William, Jr.

arrives at Philadelphia, 4:673, 4:674n

Lynch, John

antislavery activities of, 3:267–269, 3:318–320
identified, 3:269n
letter from, 3:267–270
letter to, 3:318–320

Lynchburg, Va.

citizens of, address TJ, 1:671
economy of, 3:102–104
fish shipped to, 2:423, 2:503
flour market at, 3:103, 3:341
founding of, 3:269n
mail service to, 3:56, 3:102–104, 3:147–148, 3:164
plaster at, 5:457–458
price of tobacco at, 4:95, 4:105, 4:461
TJ on, 5:104–105

Lyon, James

and Georgia Republican, 4:92, 4:127, 4:128n, 4:130–131
identified, 4:131n
letter to, 4:130–131
whereabouts of, 4:112, 4:128

Lyon, Matthew

family of, 4:112
persecutes W. Duane, 3:449

Lyon, Oliver, 1:33n

Lyons, Mr., 1:338

Lyons, Peter, 2:369, 2:370, 2:540

Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton

The History of the Life of Henry the Second, and of the Age in which he lived, 2:51

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