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Oakley, Charles

  • secretary of British legation to U.S., 1:154, 1:156n, 1:418, 1:516

oats

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:348, 3:351n
  • from Craven, 2:371
  • damaged by drought, 2:417, 2:491, 2:496, 4:32
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:379
  • purchased by TJ, 1:3
  • seed, 2:93

O'Brien, Richard, 1:479, 1:480n

Observations (Banks), 3:296

Observations on Infidelity (Cerus), 2:124–125

Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations (Hartley), 3:277–278, 3:304

Observations on Robin's Travels in Louisiana (Warden), 3:557, 3:558n

Observations on the Climate in Different Parts of America (Williamson), 2:71–72

Observations on the influence of soil and climate upon wool (Bakewell), 1:479, 1:480n, 3:263, 3:264n

Observations sur la culture du coton (Rohr), 2:83

Observations sur "L'art de faire le vin" (Charpentier de Cossigny), 1:35

Observer (Baltimore newspaper), 4:336, 4:338n

obsidian, 2:299

O'Connor, Arthur

  • delivers letters, 4:326

Oddy, John Jepson

  • A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain, 3:274, 3:275n

"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (Gray), 2:477, 2:478–479n

"Ode to Thomas Jefferson" (Tucker), 1:617–619

Odyssea Græce et Latine (Homer), 3:547

Oeiras. See Oeyras (Oeiras) wine

Oemler, Augustus Gottlieb

  • delivers letter, 4:146
  • introduced to TJ, 3:596

Oeuvres (Bacquet), 3:174–175n

Oeuvres (Choppin), 3:174n

Oeuvres Complettes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse (Frederick II), 1:580

Œuvres (Henrys), 3:174n

Œuvres (Renusson), 3:131, 3:174n, 3:546

Oeuvres (Turgot), 1:202n, 1:263, 1:264n, 1:584–585, 1:592, 1:632, 1:667, 1:668n, 2:39, 3:516, 4:22–23, 4:24n, 4:125, 4:126–127n

Oeyras (Oeiras) wine, 3:240, 3:241n

De Officiis (Cicero), 1:576

Ogden, Samuel G., 1:578n

Ogilvie, James

  • Albemarle Co. school of, 3:632n
  • on American progress, 3:631
  • forwards newspaper prospectus, 4:276–277
  • identified, 3:632–4:3n, 3:632–633n
  • as lecturer, 4:72–74, 4:75, 4:113, 4:276–277
  • letters from, 3:630–633, 4:276–277
  • letter to, 4:72–74
  • and memoir of Charles B. Brown, 3:632

Ohio

  • proposed immigration to, 2:344, 2:345
  • senator from, 1:643n
  • state legislature, 1:380
  • TJ on, 2:359

Ohio mammoth (Mammut americanum; mastodon), 2:507, 2:508–509

Ohio River, 3:92

oil

  • olive, 1:84n, 1:188, 1:257, 1:366, 3:545, 4:210, 4:686
  • poppy, 2:270, 2:271
  • salad, 1:31, 1:161, 2:335, 2:392, 2:438, 3:434
  • sesame, 1:84n, 1:212, 3:636–637, 4:7, 4:39, 4:40
  • spermaceti, 1:31
  • turpentine, 3:442, 3:453, 3:512–513, 3:518
  • used in medicine, 4:102

okra, 4:180

Old, James

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Oldham, James

  • identified, 3:520n
  • letters from, 3:575, 3:588
  • letter to, 3:520
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • and window glass, 3:518, 3:520, 3:550, 3:575, 3:588

Oliver, Julius, 1:312, 1:313n

olives

  • oil, 1:84n, 1:188, 1:257, 1:366, 3:545, 4:210, 4:686
  • seeds, 2:271
  • sent to TJ, 1:313n, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:487

Olmstead v. the Executrices of the late David Rittenhouse, 1:213–214

O'Mealy, Michael, 3:96

Onandaga County, N.Y., 3:333

Oneale, Mr. (ship owner), 4:215

Onís y González, Frederica de Merkleiny (Luis de, Vara, López y Gómez, Onís y González's wife), 1:410

Onís y González, Vara, López y Gómez, Luis de

  • identified, 1:602n
  • letter from, 1:601–602
  • letter to, 1:651
  • minister plenipotentiary of Spain, 1:410–411, 1:604, 1:632, 1:658, 2:33
  • Yznardy introduces, 1:410–411, 1:601–602, 1:651

Onobrychis viciifolia (sainfoin), 2:272

opals, wax, 2:299

Opelousas District, Orleans Territory, 1:635–642

Opera Omnia Quae Extant (Suetonius), 1:580

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

The Opinion of Judge Cooper, on the Effect of a Sentence of a Foreign Court of Admiralty (Cooper), 2:376, 2:377n, 2:480, 2:489, 2:491, 2:668

opium

  • used in medicine, 4:102

orange (Citrus aurantium), 1:631–632

Orange County, Va.

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n

Orange Court House (Orange Co.)

  • Madison requests items sent to, 1:328
  • Madison stops at, 1:359
  • TJ's merino sheep sent to, 2:366, 2:409, 2:418, 2:490, 2:492, 2:512
  • TJ stops at, 1:52n

An Oration, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, of Brookhaven, (L.I.) (Thompson), 4:53, 4:54n, 4:76

An Oration, Delivered before the Tammany Society (Wheaton), 3:46, 3:137, 3:157

An Oration, delivered in St. Philip's Church (Cheves), 3:61–62, 3:136–137

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

Oration delivered at Washington, July Fourth, 1809 (Barlow), 1:588, 1:590n

An Oration Delivered on 4th July, 1811, in commemoration of American Independence, before the '76 Association (Markley), 4:105, 4:106n

Orchidaceae, 1:436–437n

Orders in Council. See Great Britain: Orders in Council

O'Reilly, Alejandro

  • proclamation of, 3:175n, 3:547

Orense, bishop of. See Quevedo y Quintana, Pedro

Orleans Territory. See also Louisiana Territory

  • banks in, 2:121, 2:192
  • Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over
  • Claiborne, William Charles Coles
  • clerk in, 1:635, 1:642n
  • drainage plan, 2:372, 2:484
  • elections in, 2:443n
  • and Embargo, 2:444n
  • federal bench in, 2:211, 2:212
  • French refugees in, 1:203
  • indefensibility of, 4:133
  • Lafayette's land in, 1:270n, 1:529, 1:628
  • land claims in, 1:635–642
  • land commissioners in, 2:517, 2:518, 2:519
  • legislature of, 2:135, 2:159–160, 2:192, 2:355, 2:483, 2:484, 2:528, 2:657, 2:658n, 2:659n, 2:682, 3:25, 3:26–27n, 3:157–159, 3:258, 3:326, 3:344, 3:420, 3:498
  • militia of, 2:177, 2:178n
  • Monroe offered governorship of, 2:42–43, 2:44, 2:46n
  • slave insurrection in, 3:326, 3:344n
  • and statehood, 3:328, 3:344n
  • superior court of, 2:439, 2:440–444n, 2:450n
  • TJ on, 2:360
  • TJ on batture rights of, 3:153, 3:168
  • TJ's land grant proposal for, 2:258, 2:259
  • and yellow fever, 2:135–136, 2:356

Osage Indians, 1:520, 3:501

Osgood, David

  • A Discourse Delivered at Cambridge, 2:411, 2:412n
  • Hill's opinion of, 2:411

Osinski, Ludwik, 3:62n

Osnaburg (Oznaburg)

  • fabric, 1:315, 4:515
  • thread, 4:358

Ossian. See Macpherson, James

Oster, Martin

  • identified, 4:70n
  • letters from, 4:81–82, 4:166
  • letter to, 4:70
  • and Piernet's will, 3:466, 3:467, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:70, 4:81–82, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517

ostriches, 1:479

Otis, Harrison Gray

  • criticism of, 4:38n

Otis, Samuel Allyne

  • identified, 4:575n
  • letters from, 4:578, 4:588
  • letter to, 4:575
  • secretary of U.S. Senate, 1:535, 4:521, 4:522, 4:565, 4:575, 4:578, 4:581, 4:582, 4:588

Ottawa Indians, 4:181, 4:182n, 4:537

Otway, Thomas

  • The History and Fall of Caius Marius, 4:479, 4:480n

Oudinot, Nicolas Charles, Duc de Reggio, 1:371, 1:372

overseers. See also Bacon, Edmund; Freeman, John Holmes; Goodman, Jeremiah A.; Griffin, Burgess; Lilly, Gabriel; Montpellier, overseers at; Richardson, Richard

  • accounting practices of, 4:94
  • attempt to capture runaway slaves, 3:513, 3:612–613
  • crop share of, 2:27, 2:28, 2:230, 4:10, 4:342, 4:493–494, 4:515
  • crop share owed to, 4:493–494, 4:515
  • deliver letters for TJ, 2:328
  • deliver messages for TJ, 2:422
  • depart, 1:558
  • hired, 4:132, 4:133n, 4:307
  • hire slaves, 1:48n
  • list slave beds and blankets, 4:382–383
  • make contracts for sale of wheat, 4:165, 4:170–171, 4:184, 4:212
  • and nailery, 4:464, 4:465
  • pay rent to TJ, 1:137–138
  • plantation accounts of, 1:81n, 2:155, 3:196, 3:642, 3:643, 4:557n
  • plantation management by, 2:149–150, 2:279, 2:281n, 2:670, 3:180, 3:181n, 3:394, 4:386n, 4:543
  • positions for, 3:29, 3:276
  • and prizing of tobacco, 3:269, 3:457
  • report plantation activities, 1:180, 2:96–97
  • retrieve merino sheep for TJ, 2:666
  • and sale of tobacco to S. J. Harrison, 3:457, 3:561, 3:634, 3:639–640, 3:650, 4:422, 4:461, 4:515, 4:549
  • send tobacco to Richmond, 1:157n
  • TJ entrusts documents to, 2:330, 4:308
  • TJ's accounts with, 1:419–420, 4:12, 4:58n
  • TJ's instructions to, 2:232, 2:233n, 4:306–307, 4:379–382, 4:515, 4:526–527

Overton, John, 3:210n

Overton, Richard

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • TJ purchases land from, 4:386
  • vouches for Norris, 3:465

Overton, Samuel

  • identified, 3:209–210n
  • letter from, 3:xlvii, 3:209–210, 3:358 (illus.)
  • regarded as insane by TJ, 3:209

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

  • quoted by Birch, 4:391, 4:392n
  • quoted by Rush, 4:340

Owen, W.

  • Dictionary of Arts & Sciences, 1:581

Owens, Owen

  • witnesses agreement, 4:87

oxen

  • at Belmont, 3:170
  • as food, 4:362
  • and hides used in shoemaking, 4:362
  • mentioned, 3:371n
  • sent from Poplar Forest, 4:373
  • used in agriculture, 3:348, 3:349
  • used on batture, 2:546, 2:548

Oxford University, 2:565

oysters, 2:110–111

Oznaburg. See Osnaburg (Oznaburg)

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