Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series - Comprehensive Cumulative Index (Vols. 1-5)

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Pace, Edward, 1:462

Pacific (ship), 1:271, 1:284

Pacific Ocean, 1:443, 1:449, 5:202–203, 5:203–204n

padlocks, 1:302–303

Paganel, Pierre

Essai historique et critique, 3:219–221, 3:562
identified, 3:221n
letter from, 3:219–221
letter to, 3:562–563

Page, Carter B.

and TJ’s bond, 5:483

Page, Elizabeth Burwell, 1:557, 1:634, 1:669, 1:670n

Page, Francis

recommended for collector of Yorktown, 1:77, 1:78n, 1:87

Page, Gregory, 3:191

Page, John

death of, 4:35
family of, 1:78n, 3:276
as governor of Va., 4:680, 4:683n, 5:236n
on R. H. Lee, 2:156
and TJ’s newspapers, 1:469, 3:190–191, 3:569–570

Page, John Tayloe

employment for, 3:276, 3:423

Page, Lucy Gwynn, 3:276

Page, Mann, 3:276

Page, Margaret Lowther (John Page’s wife), 3:570

Page, Maria, 3:276

Page, Mary Tayloe

identified, 3:276n
letter from, 3:276
letter to, 3:423–424
seeks appointment for son, 3:276, 3:423–424

Page, Samuel (Poplar Forest overseer)

share of crops, 2:27, 2:28, 2:96, 2:230

Pagowski, Jérome, 1:53n

Pahlen, Nicolas, 3:532, 3:539, 3:563, 3:567

Pahlen, Théodore, Count

carries letter from Lafayette, 3:54, 3:211
forwards letters, 2:287, 2:487
and A. von Humboldt engraving, 2:310, 2:487, 3:503, 3:504n, 3:563
identified, 2:488–489n
letter of introduction for, 3:567
letters from, 2:487–489, 3:532
letters to, 2:512–513, 3:563
opinions of, 2:200n, 2:311, 2:513
Russian minister to U.S., 1:233, 1:329n, 1:537, 1:659n, 4:551
visits Monticello, 3:532, 3:539, 3:558n, 3:563, 3:567

Paine, Capt. See Payne, Tarlton

Paine, Robert Treat

signer of Declaration of Independence, 4:475

Paine, Samuel

and TJ’s Richmond lot, 4:290

Paine, Thomas

J. Adams on, 5:184
Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly, 4:168n
J. Melish quotes, 5:626–627, 5:629n
TJ quotes, 1:512

paint, 1:55n, 1:97

paintings, 1:522, 1:523–524n, 2:39–40n, 2:93, 2:106, 2:127, 3:624–625, 4:181

paleontology

and Institut de France, 1:xlviii, 1:100–101, 1:103–104, 1:187, 1:248–249, 1:250n, 1:510–511
mastodon jawbone, 1:xlviii, 1:380 (illus.)

Paleske, Charles Gottfried

identified, 4:160n
letters from, 4:160–161, 4:315–316, 5:468–469
letter to, 4:175
and Union Canal Company of Pa., 4:160, 4:175, 4:315–316, 5:468, 5:468–469n

Paley, William

Natural Theology, 3:590

Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph

Flore d’Oware et de Benin, en Afrique, 3:472n
identified, 3:472n
letters from, 3:465–473, 4:89–90, 4:517–518
and P. Piernet’s will, 3:465–469, 3:472n, 3:651–653, 4:42, 4:68, 4:70, 4:81, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:216, 5:216–217, 5:228, 5:333–335, 5:351

Palisot de Beauvois, Mary Ann Rouelle (widow of Jean Rouelle and wife of A. Palisot de Beauvois)

and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:42, 4:70, 4:82, 4:166, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:216, 5:216–217, 5:228, 5:332–333, 5:333–335, 5:351, 5:378

Palladius

Rei rusticae, 2:82

Palm, John

and Antient Plymouth Society, 1:58n, 1:59

Palmer, Aaron H., 1:518

Palmer, John, 3:385, 3:386n

Palmer, Thomas H.

identified, 5:650n
letter from, 5:649–650
letter to, 5:667–668
and publication on constitutions, 5:649–650, 5:650n, 5:667–668

Pani (Pawnee) corn, 3:501, 3:502

Panicum maximum (Guinea grass), 5:364–365

pans, milk, 1:303

Pantops (TJ’s estate)

J. W. Eppes to sell, 5:102–103, 5:171, 5:325, 5:347–348, 5:349–350n
surveys of, 3:570–573
and T. E. Randolph, 5:171–172, 5:325, 5:325–326, 5:347–348
and T. J. Randolph, 5:102, 5:171–172
TJ proposes to buy, 5:102–103

Panza, Sancho (fictional character), 2:44, 2:46n

Paoli, Pasquale

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

Papaver somniferum (oil poppy), 2:270, 2:271

Papendick, George

The Stranger, 3:633n

paper. See also stationery

in lost trunk, 1:153, 1:180, 1:205, 1:269, 1:284, 1:311

paper mills

at Petersburg, Va., 1:489

Paradise Lost (Milton), 1:228–229n, 3:631, 3:633n, 5:585, 5:585n

Paragon (steamboat), 4:199

The Parent’s Assistant; or, Stories for Children (Edgeworth), 2:101, 2:193, 2:264, 3:122, 4:289

Paris

cisterns in, 5:308
coutumes de (legal customs of), 3:47–48, 3:71, 3:130, 3:132, 3:236n, 4:643n
Parlement de, 3:174n, 3:176n
poor relief in, 2:331
Treaty of (1803), 3:256–257
U.S. consul at, 1:26, 1:207, 1:208n, 1:317, 1:536

Parish, David

carries dispatches, 2:410
and Lafayette, 3:54, 3:105, 3:106, 3:212, 3:213, 3:314, 3:445, 3:446
purchases bills of exchange, 4:488

Parish, Elijah

A Sermon, Preached at Boston, before his Excellency Christopher Gore, 3:75n, 3:156

Parish, John

and Lafayette, 2:14, 3:212, 3:446, 4:359, 4:649, 5:68–69, 5:213

Parker, Mr.

considered for appointment by TJ, 1:26

Parker, Daniel (of Paris)

on British debt, 3:199, 4:273
and design for plow, 1:233–234, 1:235n, 1:375, 1:538, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
and Fla. land scheme, 3:96
and Lafayette, 1:376, 2:16, 2:245, 3:54, 3:212, 3:314, 3:445, 5:213
and merino sheep, 1:479, 1:538, 1:667, 3:342
sends dynamometer to TJ, 1:376

Parker, Daniel (of War Department)

reference for J. L. Edwards, 4:92

Parker, Edward

and American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589, 3:609
and Emporium of Arts & Sciences, 4:663n
identified, 3:589n
letter from, 3:589
letter to, 3:609

Parker, Thomas

and Niagara Campaign, 5:533–542
recommended for military appointment, 4:529

Parkinson, Richard

breeds Chinese pigs, 4:109, 4:110n
The Experienced Farmer, 4:110n

Parks, William, 1:370n

parlementaires, 1:128, 1:131n, 1:522

The Parlor Gardener (Cornelia Randolph), 3:635n

Parmentier, Antoine Auguste

Recherches sur les Végétaux nourissans, 2:82
Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne, 2:82

Parr, Samuel

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

Parrott, Richard, 1:23n

parrot tulips, 5:358

parsnips, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38, 5:658

Partridge, Alden, 3:95n

partridge, red-legged, 1:479, 1:599

Partridge, William

identified, 3:223n
letter from, 3:221–223
letter to, 3:238–239
and publication on dyeing, 3:221–223, 3:238–239

Pascagoula River, 3:265

Passamaquoddy Bay, Me.

gold found at, 1:330

pastel (Isatis tinctoria; woad), 3:461–462

Du Pastel, de l’indigotier (Lasteyrie), 3:461–462

Pasteur, William, 1:67, 1:68n

Pate, Matthew

as Bedford Co. surveyor, 5:50n, 5:63, 5:465
identified, 5:465n
letter to, 5:465

patents

of O. Barrett, 4:426, 4:512, 4:512–513n, 4:592, 4:667, 5:181, 5:182n
of B. B. Bernard, 2:5, 2:36
of T. Bruff, 5:108
of A. Butler, 4:315
G. Du Jareau on, 2:372–373, 2:665n
of G. Easterly, 2:283n
of O. Evans, 4:468n
and G. Fitz, 2:458, 2:479
of M. Garber, 2:458n
of J. Hargreaves, 4:418n
of B. J. Harris, 5:291, 5:292n, 5:307–308
of D. Hartley, 5:307–308
of J. I. Hawkins and C. W. Peale, 2:xlii
of E. Herrick, 4:417n, 4:514n
of C. Morneveck, 1:196n
number issued, 2:367
of D. Peacock, 4:219n
of H. Pease, 4:220n
of E. Perkins, 4:104n
of A. H. Quincy, 5:109–110
of H. G. Spafford, 1:106n
of J. Staples, 5:93n
of F. Tudor, 5:492n
of C. Whitlow, 4:427, 4:427–428n, 4:667, 5:22

patronage

circular to office seekers, 1:30–31, 2:143n
letters of application and recommendation from TJ, 1:77–78, 1:626–627, 2:179, 2:363–364, 2:416–417, 3:303, 4:164, 4:171–172, 4:186–187, 4:376, 4:458, 4:476–477, 4:482–483, 4:516, 4:564–565, 5:9, 5:10–11, 5:11, 5:109, 5:299–300, 5:311, 5:313, 5:327, 5:359, 5:373, 5:373–374, 5:408–409, 5:417–418, 5:430–431, 5:435–436, 5:449, 5:495, 5:502, 5:586, 5:591, 5:645–646
letters of application and recommendation to TJ, 1:14–15, 1:91–92, 1:167–168, 1:404–406, 1:464–465, 2:142–143, 2:211–212, 2:319–321, 2:383–384, 2:391, 2:423–424, 2:458–460, 2:500–501, 3:60–61, 3:249–250, 3:276, 3:345–346, 3:372–373, 3:523–524, 3:532–533, 3:645–647, 3:647, 3:649, 3:650, 3:651, 4:91, 4:274–275, 4:372, 4:468, 4:508n, 4:545–546, 4:623, 4:648, 5:36–38, 5:42–43, 5:70–71, 5:177–178, 5:286, 5:297, 5:300–301, 5:328, 5:398–399, 5:408, 5:456–457, 5:483–484
literary, 1:321–322
misuse of, 2:224, 2:236, 2:385

Patterson, Capt., 2:453

Patterson, Mr.

acquaintance of Nicholas, 1:276, 2:495

Patterson, Dorcas Spear, 3:526

Patterson, Edward, 3:534, 3:537n

Patterson, John

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Patterson, Robert

and American Philosophical Society, 1:152n, 1:482, 1:571–572, 3:41–42, 5:311
and artificial horizon, 3:448, 3:479–480, 5:92
and astronomical case clock, 4:xlv, 4:149, 4:167, 4:229–230, 5:471, 5:507, 5:558
and books for TJ, 5:442
director of the Mint, 1:330
and Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589n
friendship with TJ, 1:201
A. von Humboldt sends greetings to, 1:453n
identified, 1:193–194n
and W. Lambert’s astronomical calculations, 4:637n, 5:311
letters from, 1:193–194, 1:330–331, 3:41–42, 3:447–448, 4:167, 4:230–231, 4:409–411, 5:471–473, 5:558–559
letters to, 1:482, 1:571–572, 3:431–432, 3:479–480, 4:147–149, 4:222–229, 4:229–230, 5:92–93, 5:311, 5:506–508
letters to accounted for, 1:201n, 2:68n, 2:404n
mentioned, 5:101n
and Nautical Almanac, 3:431–432, 3:447, 3:479
and naval position for F. B. Taggart, 5:502, 5:503
and perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–l, 5:471–473, 5:506–507, 5:558–559, 5:559n
recommends son to TJ, 1:193
reputation in Paris, 2:48
and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:147–149, 4:167, 4:222–229, 4:409–411

Patterson, Robert Maskell

family of, 1:194n
introduced into Parisian society, 2:48, 2:49n, 2:162–163
letters of introduction from TJ, 1:193, 1:201–202, 1:331
and perpetual-motion machine, 5:558–559
suggests standard of weight, 4:411
and translation of P. S. Du Pont de Nemours’s works, 4:327

Patterson, William, 3:526

Patteson, Mr. R.

and R. Jefferson’s watch, 4:607

Paul. See Julius Paulus (Roman jurist)

Paulding, James Kirke

The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, 5:397, 5:397n

Paulinia aurea (goldenrain tree; Koelreuteria paniculata), 1:272, 1:274n, 1:594n, 3:503

Pauly, Lewis Abraham

identified, 5:99–100n
letters from, 5:116–119, 5:228, 5:378
letters to, 5:99–100, 5:216–218, 5:351
and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466, 3:467, 4:68, 4:70, 4:81, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–119, 5:216, 5:216, 5:228, 5:332, 5:351, 5:378

Pauw, Cornelius de

Recherches philosophiques sur les américains, 1:521

Pavia, University of, 2:565

Pawnee corn. See Pani (Pawnee) corn

Pawnee Indians, 1:521, 1:556

Pawtucket, R.I.

cotton factories in, 2:99

Payerne, Francis, 1:222

Payne, Mary, 3:533n

Payne, Tarlton

witnesses H. Marks’s will, 4:510

peaches

black, 1:483
planted at Monticello, 3:455
trees, 1:93, 2:107, 2:294n, 2:294, 2:313, 4:34, 4:141, 4:532

Peacock, David

plows of, 4:219–220, 4:221, 4:487, 4:526

Peake, Thomas

A Compendium of the Law of Evidence, 2:676, 2:677n

Peaks of Otter, Va., 3:354

Peale, Charles Willson

An Essay to promote Domestic Happiness, 4:531–532
and expenses for T. J. Randolph, 1:41, 1:45, 1:70–71, 1:307–309, 1:455, 1:458, 1:467
and farming, 4:136–142, 4:179–181, 4:531, 4:532, 5:324–325
and gardening, 4:93, 4:139, 4:180, 4:531, 5:323–324
health of, 4:140
and A. von Humboldt, 1:25n, 1:453n
identified, 1:45–46n
invents polygraph, 4:xlii, 5:207
letters from, 1:70–71, 1:103–104, 1:307–310, 4:136–142, 4:179–182, 4:531–532, 5:323–325
letters to, 1:45–46, 1:187, 1:458, 4:93–94
lodges T. J. Randolph, 1:101n, 1:104
and mastodon, 1:101n, 1:103–104, 1:187, 2:507
on modesty of Indians, 4:181–182
paints portraits, 4:141
and Philadelphia Museum, 3:472n, 4:137–138, 4:181, 4:182n, 5:323, 5:324
and plows, 4:137, 4:180
polygraph of, 4:182
portrait of T. J. Randolph, 1:xlviii–xlix, 1:45, 1:46n, 1:380 (illus.)

Peale, Hannah Moore (Charles Willson Peale’s wife)

T. J. Randolph on, 1:458
sends greetings to M. J. Randolph, 1:71

Peale, James

copies Titian painting, 4:181

Peale, Rembrandt

forwards minerals to TJ, 3:66n
identified, 4:357n
portrait of P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 2:xli, 2:380 (illus.)
portrait of TJ, 3:625n
and portrait painting, 4:141, 4:181
portraits of Europeans, 1:71, 1:104, 1:187, 1:309, 3:624–625
and Society of Artists of the United States, 4:356, 4:400

Peale, Rubens

and gardening, 5:323
and Philadelphia Museum, 4:138, 4:181, 4:531, 5:323

Pearney, John. See Pernier (Purney), John

pears, 3:190, 3:448, 4:561, 4:562

Pearson, Joseph

duel with J. G. Jackson, 2:53–54n, 3:533n

peas

as crop, 3:348, 3:351n, 3:502
grown at Poplar Forest, 4:379
TJ sends seeds, 5:658

Pease, Horace

plows of, 4:219, 4:220n

Pease, Seth

identified, 1:216n
and W. Lambert’s calculations, 4:254, 4:262, 5:245–251
letter to, 1:216
TJ recommends I. Lewis to, 1:181, 1:215, 1:216

pecans

planted at Monticello, 3:455
TJ orders via New Orleans, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n
TJ sends seeds, 2:103, 2:294n
TJ to plant, 1:631, 1:657

Pechin, William

payment to, 1:41n
publishes Notes on the State of Virginia, 2:173, 2:174n, 2:215–216

Peddock, Leonard, 5:595

Pedesclaux, Pierre, 3:237n, 3:478n, 3:485, 3:496, 5:85n

Pedro Alcántara de Toledo y Salm-Salm (Duke of Infantado), 3:342–343

Peintures des Vases Antiques (ed. Maisonneuve), 1:452, 1:453n, 1:482

Pekin (ship), 1:331

Pelham, William

identified, 1:217n
letter from, 1:216–217
A System of Notation; Representing the Sounds of Alphabetical Characters, 1:216–217

Pelletier. See Mansuy Pelletier, Charles V

Pemberton, Mr.

recommended by C. Clay, 4:86n

Pemberton, James, 2:158, 3:268, 3:269n

pen, metallic, 1:106

penal institutions, 1:383, 1:384n, 1:474n

Pendleton, Edmund (1721–1803)

family of, 1:200n
on importance of limited government, 4:116, 4:117n
as member of Continental Congress, 4:601
and revision of Va. laws, 1:381–382, 3:570, 5:136
and Stamp Act resolutions, 4:599
TJ on, 5:136–137, 5:137n

Pendleton, Edmund (1745–1827)

identified, 1:200n
letter from, 1:200
and B. Moore’s estate, 1:200, 1:339
and T. Nelson’s bonds, 3:426, 3:458

pendulum

as basis for system of weights and measures, 4:147–148, 4:149n, 4:223–224, 4:226, 4:227, 4:228, 4:409, 4:410
in clocks, 4:229–230

Penet, D’Acosta freres & Compagnie (Bordeaux firm)

drafts on, 4:578, 4:625, 4:626

Penguin (Australia), 5:202–203

penmanship

books on, 1:37
TJ on, 2:335, 2:352

Penn, John, 2:221, 2:223n

Penn, Thomas, 2:223n

Pennsylvania. See also Bank of Pennsylvania

Academy of the Fine Arts, 3:66n
banks, local, 2:135, 2:181
canals in, 4:160–161, 4:175, 4:315–316
elections in, 5:370n, 5:396–397
Hospital, 3:277, 3:279n
legislative resolutions, 1:90–91
legislature of, 4:181, 4:182n, 5:468, 5:468–469n, 5:558, 5:559n
legislature of, purchases sheep, 1:18
mammoth bones found in, 2:507
marble from, 1:473
moldboard of, 1:111, 1:252
Olmstead v. the Executrices of the late David Rittenhouse, 1:213–214
Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n
Pittsburgh Republicans address TJ, 1:90, 1:91n
politics in, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:584, 3:595
Provincials in French and Indian War, 1:290
Quakers of, 2:124–125
Republicans in, TJ comments on, 1:236–237
sheep in, 1:18, 1:69n
and S. Snyder, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:601
statute taxing dogs, 1:17, 1:68–69, 4:161
supreme court of, 2:376, 2:377n
Washington Co. Republicans, 1:4–6, 1:99–100
wheat harvest in, 2:496
Whiskey Rebellion in, 2:385, 2:387n, 2:617

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), 3:66n, 4:182, 5:166–167

Pennsylvania Hospital, 3:277, 3:279n

Pennsylvania Land Office, 5:101n

Pennsylvania Magazine; or, American Monthly Museum, 4:152, 4:153n

Pensacola, W. Fla., 3:281–382

Pentland, Ephraim

editor of Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n

pepper

black, 1:31, 1:45, 1:368, 2:109, 4:211
cayenne, 5:364–365

Peray. See Piré, Hippolyte Marie Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, comte de

Perceval, Spencer

assassination of, 5:68, 5:69n, 5:156, 5:156n
British chancellor of the exchequer, 1:285n
British prime minister, 1:658, 1:659n, 3:437, 4:271, 4:272, 4:586, 4:587, 5:293, 5:296
parliamentary comments of, 4:539

perch, 5:604–605

Percivall, Joseph, 1:66

Percy, Mr.

and batture, 3:491

Percy, Fernando, 5:85n

Perdido River, 3:177, 3:264, 3:326, 3:344n

Perkins, Elisha

medical invention of, 4:102, 4:104n

Perkins, Samuel, 5:66

Pernier (Purney), John

account with M. Lewis, 2:34, 2:208–209, 2:364, 2:672, 2:673n, 3:49, 3:110
identified, 2:209n
letter from, 2:208–209
and M. Lewis’s death, 1:602, 1:603, 1:606, 1:607, 1:608n, 2:192, 2:209n
travel expenses paid, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:209n

Péron, François

Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes, 5:463, 5:464n

perpetual-motion machines

I. Lukens’s model of, 5:358 (illus.), 5:558–559, 5:559n
and R. Patterson, 5:471–473, 5:558–559
of C. Redheffer, 5:xlix–l, 5:358 (illus.), 5:471–473, 5:473n, 5:474 (illus.), 5:506–507, 5:558, 5:559n
TJ on, 5:506–507

Perrin, John

A Grammar of the French Tongue, 5:557

perry

Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry (Knight), 1:581, 2:83

Perry, Jesse

identified, 2:168n
letter to, 2:167–168
TJ seeks to hire, 2:167–168

Perry, John M.

agreement with TJ, 2:169, 4:420, 4:421, 4:465, 4:498, 4:509
family of, 2:168n
identified, 1:192–193n
letters from accounted for, 1:193n, 4:510n
letters to, 1:192–193, 2:168–169, 4:498
petition to General Assembly, 5:378–380
and plank for TJ, 1:192, 2:168–169
TJ’s carpenter, 3:412, 5:92n

Perry, Reuben

account with, 4:280
and court summons, 5:381
family of, 2:168n
identified, 2:89n
letters from, 2:89, 3:513
letters to, 3:612–613, 4:620, 5:311, 5:338, 5:343, 5:485, 5:505
letter to accounted for, 2:89n
and plastering at Poplar Forest, 5:311, 5:343, 5:403, 5:545
purchases slave from TJ, 3:411–413, 3:513, 3:612–613, 4:620, 5:34
TJ’s carpenter, 2:89, 2:149, 3:412, 5:338, 5:485, 5:485, 5:488, 5:505
witnesses land conveyance, 3:369, 3:374

Perseverance (steamboat), 4:199

Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik

Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum, 1:437n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:596, 4:146

Peruvian bark (cinchona)

C. Sanford’s essay on, 4:18n, 5:670n

Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 3:39–40, 3:88

Peter (J. Chamberlain’s slave), 4:15

Peter (J. B. Couch’s slave)

and lost trunk, 1:346, 1:347, 1:348

Peter (TJ’s slave; b. 1770). See Hemmings, Peter (TJ’s slave)

Peter, George, 3:324

Peters, Richard

on breeding sheep, 1:477, 2:380
as president of Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1:133, 1:134n, 5:413
“On Sheep-killing Dogs,” 4:161

Petersburg, Va.

markets in, 3:102, 3:104
paper produced in, 1:489

Peter’s Mountain (Southwest Mountains)

TJ hunts on, 4:671

Peter the Hermit

J. Adams on, 5:12, 5:13n

Peuchet, Jacques

Statistique élémentaire de la France, 4:325, 4:326n, 5:436

Peyton, Craven

account with TJ, 1:470, 5:346, 5:420n, 5:421, 5:422–424, 5:426–428
and clover seed, 4:548, 4:557
conveys Henderson lands to TJ, 1:415n, 1:439–441, 1:453–454, 1:459–463
corn contract with TJ, 5:419, 5:425
declaration concerning Henderson lands by TJ, 1:463
and R. Grady, 3:625
grinds wheat, 1:109
and Henderson case, 1:415–416, 1:453–454, 3:594–595, 3:617–618, 4:401–402, 5:138–140, 5:147, 5:149–150, 5:157, 5:158–159, 5:193–196, 5:198n, 5:224, 5:275n, 5:364, 5:419–420, 5:651, 5:651n
identified, 1:415n
Jefferson v. Michie, 5:149–150, 5:157, 5:158–159
and lease of TJ’s land, 2:132, 2:133n
letter from B. H. Henderson to, 3:594–595
letters from, 1:415–416, 1:454
letters from accounted for, 2:133n, 3:243n, 4:641n, 5:346n
letters to, 1:439–441, 1:453–454, 1:470, 2:132–133, 3:242–243, 3:617–618, 5:346, 5:351, 5:419–420
letters to accounted for, 5:346n, 5:420n
letter to A. L. Duncan from, 2:119
and Lewis family, 3:90, 3:91, 3:93n, 3:242–243
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:117, 2:119, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 3:59, 3:186, 3:480–481, 3:648–649, 4:640–641, 4:641–642, 5:350, 5:351, 5:409
and proposed duel with D. Michie, 5:150, 5:158–159
and T. E. Randolph, 1:470, 3:334, 3:522–523
and shoemaker for TJ, 2:132

Peyton, Harrison, 1:462, 2:119

Peyton, Jane Jefferson Lewis (Craven Peyton’s wife)

conveys Henderson lands to TJ, 1:441, 1:459–463
family of, 1:415n
identified, 1:463n

Peyton, John

estate of, 2:117, 2:118, 2:119, 2:254, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 2:495, 3:59–60, 3:149, 3:186, 3:480–481, 3:648–649, 4:48, 4:640–641, 4:641–642, 5:314, 5:351, 5:383
identified, 2:118–119n
Milton postmaster, 1:506n
receipt for effects of, 2:118–119
shoemaker employed by, 2:132, 2:133n

Peyton, Robert

identified, 2:119n
letter to A. L. Duncan from, 2:119
and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:117, 2:118, 2:119, 2:254, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 2:495, 3:59–60, 3:149, 3:186, 3:480–481, 4:640, 4:641, 4:641n, 4:642n, 5:314, 5:383

Peyton v. Henderson

and H. Dance, 5:224
decision in, 4:401–402, 5:149
and J. Henderson, 5:138–141, 5:224, 5:260–261
C. Peyton on, 5:261

phaetons

of E. Randolph, 4:231n

Phalaris canariensis (canary seed), 2:271

Pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1:35

Pharsalia (Lucan), 4:503, 4:506n

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

Philadelphia

Aurora, 4:56, 4:174
banks, 1:458, 2:117
Birch & Small (publishers), 1:18, 1:19n, 1:172n
commerce at, 4:26
dogs taxed in, 1:69n
and domestic manufactures, 1:170–172
and drinking water, 4:161n
Francis’s Hotel, 4:537
Gazette of the United States, 2:92, 2:93n
houses designed in, 4:63–64
lawyers, 2:432
Linnean Society of, 1:663, 2:70
Museum, 1:45, 1:46n, 1:104n, 1:187, 3:472n, 4:137–138, 4:181, 4:182n, 4:531, 4:532, 5:323, 5:324
National Gazette, 1:113n
newspapers in, 5:133, 5:133n
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 3, 66n, 4:182
The Picture of Philadelphia (Mease), 3:51n
Political and Commercial Register, 2:284, 2:285n
Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 3:95n, 3:577, 3:578n
price of flour at, 3:518
printers in, 3:189, 3:329–330, 3:449
science popular in, 2:375
and Society of Artists of the United States, 2:437, 3:624–625, 4:355–358, 4:398–400, 4:407, 4:459–460
and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:228
Universal Gazette, 1:30n
Walnut Street prison, 1:383, 1:384n
wool analyzed at, 2:39, 2:252, 2:492
yellow fever epidemic (1793), 1:185n

Philadelphia (ship), 1:33n

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture

and L. P. G. de Lormerie, 1:133, 5:550
members of, 5:435n
Memoirs, 1:477, 1:479–480n, 2:220, 2:223n, 3:33, 4:161, 5:413, 5:416n, 5:432

Philip (TJ’s slave; b. 1796). See Evans, Philip (TJ’s slave)

Philip, Mr.

and Niagara Campaign, 5:540

Philip II, king of Spain

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Philip V, king of Spain

in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Philis (Chamberlain’s slave), 4:15

Phill. See Hubbard, Phill (TJ’s slave)

Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b. 1801)

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

Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b. 1808)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:385, 5:461

Phillip II, king of France

and 1550 edict, 3:175n

Phillis (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231n

Philo (Philo Judaeus), 5:183

philology

works on, 1:265, 1:267n, 1:652n, 4:99

The Philosophical Grammar; being a view of the Present State of Experimental Physiology, or Natural Philosophy (Martin), 1:581

The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke (Bolingbroke), 2:51

philosophy

natural philosophy, 4:162
study of, 1:502

Philpotts, Oakley

purchases TJ’s tobacco, 4:593
and unpaid tobacco bill, 5:138

Phoenix, Alexander

identified, 4:491–492n
letter from, 4:489–492
seeks TJ’s aid, 4:489–492

Phoenix Insurance Company (N.Y. firm), 4:423

Physick, Philip Syng, 1:307

physics

TJ’s pamphlets on bound, 1:36, 1:38n

pickaxes, 2:546, 2:547, 2:548

Pickering, Timothy

accused of conspiracy, 4:83, 4:628
criticized by J. Q. Adams, 4:435
criticized by B. Waterhouse, 5:641, 5:642n
and foreign relations, 2:70, 2:387, 3:502
mentioned, 5:126
opposes H. A. S. Dearborn’s nomination, 1:78, 1:280, 1:301–302
and plan for New England secession, 5:13
as secretary of state, 3:262n, 3:638
and R. Smith’s removal from cabinet, 3:568

pickles, 2:291

Pictet, Marc Auguste, 1:452

The Picture of Philadelphia, giving an Account of its Origin (Mease), 3:51n, 4:186

Pieces Probantes, 2:439, 2:446n, 2:531, 2:532n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:233, 3:484, 3:487n, 4:466

Pierce, John, 1:227, 1:228n

Pierce, William Leigh

on earthquakes, 4:573

Piernet, Pierre (Peter)

estate of, 3:466–469, 3:472n, 3:651–653, 4:42, 4:43n, 4:70, 4:81–82, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–118, 5:216, 5:228, 5:332–333, 5:333–335

Piers Plowman. See The Vision of Pierce Plowman (Langland)

pigs

Chinese, 4:109, 4:110n
killed by dogs, 4:170
at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:382
at Tufton, 4:414

Pike, Nicolas

A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, 1:576, 4:244, 4:245n

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, 3:309, 4:354n, 4:445, 4:457n
and A. von Humboldt’s map, 4:352–353
mentioned, 3:149

Pilgrim (ship), 1:294

Pillnitz, Declaration of, 4:429, 4:430n

Pinckney, Charles

and domestic manufacturing, 4:343
and S. House, 1:475, 1:513
identified, 1:476n
letters from, 1:513–514, 4:342–343
letters to, 1:475–476, 4:472
and J. Madison, 1:513–514
and J. Monroe, 1:514
and report of S.C. legislature, 4:342, 4:343n, 4:472
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworthy, 5:127n

Pinckney, Frances Henrietta, 1:514

Pinckney, Jonathan

and death of G. Jefferson, 5:258, 5:289–290

Pinckney, Mary Eleanor, 1:514

Pinckney, Thomas, 1:39n

pincushion flower (mourning bride; Scabiosa), 3:645

Pindar, Peter [John Wolcot]

“A Simile”, 1:538n

pine planking, 1:192

Pinkerton, John

A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages, 1:256n
Modern Atlas, 3:296
Modern Geography, 1:256, 1:576n, 1:581

Pinkney, William

dispatches mentioned, 2:410, 2:419n, 2:470, 2:471n, 2:480, 2:530
and Embargo Act, 2:69, 2:70n
forwards letter to TJ, 1:124, 3:116
identified, 1:414n
letters from, 2:350–351, 3:116–117, 5:180
letters to, 1:414, 2:533–534
letter to mentioned, 2:544
and J. Monroe, 1:414n
and Monroe-Pinkney Treaty, 1:169, 1:170n, 1:414n, 2:412n
and Orders in Council, 1:271
returns to U.S., 3:577–578
TJ recommends A. McRae and J. Clarke to, 1:414
on TJ’s batture pamphlet, 5:180
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
U.S. minister to Great Britain, 1:113, 1:118, 1:374, 1:409, 1:413, 1:423, 1:436–437n, 1:464, 1:518, 2:287, 2:325, 2:366, 2:418, 2:419n, 3:177, 3:245, 3:246n, 3:519, 3:568, 3:577, 3:600, 4:32, 4:234
visits Washington, 4:19

pinks (dianthus), 3:353, 3:355n, 5:477, 5:477n, 5:553

pippin. See Albemarle pippin (Newtown pippin)

Piré, Hippolyte Marie Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, comte de, 1:372

Pisistratus

P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:329

Pitman, John

identified, 4:306n
letter from, 4:305–306
letter to, 4:395–396
A Long Talk, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, on their anniversary, A.D. 1810: in Providence, 4:306n, 4:395–396
A Poem on the Social State and its Future Progress, 4:306n, 4:395–396
secretary of Republican meeting, 3:232n
sends pamphlets to TJ, 4:305–306, 4:395–396

Pitot, James, 2:243

Pitt, William (the younger)

TJ quotes, 5:303, 5:304n
TJ on, 1:507

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Republicans of, address TJ, 1:90, 1:91n

Pius VII, pope

and Napoleon, 2:7, 2:9n, 2:242
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

planes, 1:135–136

A Plan of New Orleans & its Environs (Boqueta de Wosieri), 3:499, 3:500n

“Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans” (Lafon), 3:486, 3:488n

Plantago coronopus (buckhorn plantain; corne de cerf; hart’s horn), 5:550

Plantago major (plantain), 4:139

plantain (Plantago major). See also water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)

buckhorn, 5:550
treated as weed, 4:139

plant geography. See also botany

Essai sur la géographie des plantes (Humboldt), 1:265, 1:267n
forests, 1:131–134, 1:354, 3:33–34

plants. See also botany; seeds; specific plant names

books on, 1:582, 2:82, 2:83, 2:132n, 2:680, 2:681n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:321, 3:322n, 3:561–562
bulbs, 4:497, 4:498
catalogues of, 3:368
cultivated in France, 2:270
discovered by Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:90–91, 2:140, 3:150, 3:166
discovery of new, 4:426–428
eradication of weeds, 4:139, 4:142n, 4:180, 4:531
forest management, 3:33–34
inoculation, 3:644–645
medicinal properties of, 1:56–57, 1:84, 3:419, 3:604, 5:30
Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 3:xlv–xlvii, 3:352–355, 3:358 (illus.)
sent to TJ, 3:418, 3:448, 3:645, 4:523–524, 4:535, 4:557, 4:559, 4:561
TJ orders, 1:51, 2:140, 4:496–498
TJ requests, from Ireland, 3:294–295

plaster (plaister) of paris. See gypsum (plaster of paris)

plastering

at Poplar Forest, 5:381–382, 5:403, 5:545

Plato

J. Adams on, 4:474, 5:183, 5:184
and Scottish philosophy, 3:277–278
TJ on, 4:396

Plato Redivivus (Neville), 4:474, 4:476n

play

sent to TJ, 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509

Playfair, William

A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain, 3:274, 3:275n
TJ's gift of a work by, 1:265, 1:267n

Pleasant, Thomas, 3:183

Pleasants, Mr., 5:121

Pleasants, James

identified, 2:185n
letter from, 4:519–520
letters to, 2:184–185, 4:482–483
recommends W. J. Harris, 4:91n, 4:172
and W. Ronald’s estate, 2:170n, 2:184, 3:155, 4:519–520
TJ forwards application to, 4:482–483, 4:519
TJ on, 4:172

Pleasants, Samuel

and books for TJ, 5:447, 5:455, 5:493
A Collection of all such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public and permanent nature, as are now in force, 3:146n, 3:168, 3:169n, 3:177, 5:245, 5:245n, 5:253, 5:278, 5:278n
and collection of Va. laws, 5:253, 5:278
identified, 5:253–254n
letters from, 5:278, 5:455, 5:493
letters to, 5:253–254, 5:447–448
newspaper editor, 5:193
Richmond printer, 4:312

Les Plees del Coron (Stanford), 3:547

Plinius Secundis, Caius

Naturalis Historiæ, 3:547

Plowden, Francis

An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 1:580

plows

bar share, 5:326
Cary (Dagen; Connecticut), 4:219, 4:220n, 4:487
Guillaume, 1:20, 1:21n, 2:111, 2:176, 2:312, 2:332, 2:333, 5:273n
mentioned, 2:112, 2:259
moldboard designed by TJ, 1:252, 4:137
D. Parker’s double, 1:538, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
Peacock, 4:219–220, 4:221, 4:487, 4:526
C. W. Peale experiments with, 4:137, 4:180
Pease, 4:219, 4:220n
Pennsylvania moldboard, 1:111, 1:252
sent to P. Mazzei, 3:375, 3:378
TJ orders, 4:522
TJ’s moldboard, 2:111, 2:145, 2:176, 2:312–313, 2:326, 2:332–333, 2:334, 2:345, 5:93, 5:94n

Plumard, M.

and P. Derieux, 3:77
identified, 3:77n
letter from, 3:77

Plumard de Bellanger, Marie Françoise, 3:77n

Plumer, William

historical writings of, 2:347–349, 2:505–506
identified, 2:348n
letter from, 2:347–349
letter to, 2:505–506

plums

planted at Monticello, 3:455
worms feed on, 4:532

Plutarch

Lives (trans. J. & W. Langhorne), 1:580
quoted by Destutt de Tracy, 4:608, 4:611n

Plymley, Peter. See Smith, Sidney

A Poem on the Social State and its Future Progress (Pitman), 4:306n, 4:395–396

“Poem on Thomas Jefferson” (Miner), 1:429–431

“Poem on Thomas Jefferson” (Welles), 1:431–433

“Poem on Thomas Jefferson’s Retirement” (Freneau), 1:226–229

Poems Written and Published during the American Revolutionary War (Freneau)

P. Freneau sends to TJ, 1:112, 1:113n
TJ’s subscription to, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334

poetry

in America, 4:305
forwarded by TJ to American Philosophical Society, 4:147, 4:149n
memorization of, 4:131
sent to TJ, 1:226–229, 1:322–327, 1:429–431, 1:431–433, 1:617–619, 2:400–401, 4:167, 4:286, 4:305, 4:306n, 4:392, 4:393n
subscriptions to, sent to TJ, 1:225–226, 1:504n, 2:309, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
TJ on, 1:504, 1:509, 2:52, 2:336, 4:396, 4:466
TJ orders, 4:201, 4:202n
works on, bound for TJ, 1:36

poet’s jessamine (Jasminum officinale; white jessamine), 3:354, 3:355n

Poeyfarré, Juan, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

Poindexter, George

appointment considered, 1:25
carries letter, 5:364–365

Poindexter, Samuel, 5:487

Poindexter, Thomas, 3:254n

Point of Honor (G. Cabell’s estate near Lynchburg), 5:28, 5:29n

Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 2:467

Pointe Coupee, La.

Lafayette’s land at, 2:244, 2:418, 3:212, 3:445–446, 4:30, 4:649, 4:650, 5:69, 5:212–213, 5:213, 5:214

Poirey, Joseph Léonard

identified, 4:527–528n
letters from accounted for, 4:527n
seeks compensation, 4:527n

Poland

government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16, 3:517n
history of, 1:35, 1:535, 4:56
scientific society in, 3:62
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Poletika, Petr Ivanovich

counselor of Russian legation, 3:189–190, 3:208
A Sketch of the Internal Condition of the United States of America, 3:190n
visits Monticello, 3:532, 3:539, 3:563, 3:567

political economy

TJ on study of, 4:162

politics. See also Federalist party; Republican party

books on, 5:223–224
books on government, 1:253–254
and legislative instructions, 4:113, 4:128–129
in Md., 4:151–152, 4:153n
in New England, 2:429–430, 2:533, 2:537–538, 3:28, 3:75, 3:553, 4:83, 4:612
newspaper, 3:584, 3:595
in Penn., 3:584, 3:595
in R.I., 3:229–232, 3:257
in S.C., 4:342–343, 4:472
TJ on his role in Va., 2:259, 3:507–508
TJ on Republican party unity, 3:508–509, 3:515, 3:563–564, 3:584, 3:586, 3:592–593, 3:595, 3:606
TJ on study of, 4:162
works on, bound for TJ, 1:36

Les Politiqves d’Aristote . . . traduictes de Grec en François, par Loys le Roy dict Regivs (Aristotle), 3:547

Pollock, George, 2:446n, 3:486

Pollock, Oliver

To the Honourable the Legislature of Virginia. The Memorial of Oliver Pollock, of the State of Maryland, 4:267
identified, 3:580n
letters from, 3:579–580, 4:267, 4:578–579
letters to, 3:605, 4:377–378, 4:625–626
and W. Robertson, 3:580–581
seeks reimbursement from Va., 3:579–581, 3:605, 4:267, 4:377–378, 4:578–579, 4:625–626

Pollock, Thomas, 2:445n

Polly (M. Daingerfield’s slave), 3:112

Polly, John

subject of anonymous letter to TJ, 3:225–226

polyanthus (Primula X polyantha), 4:523

Polybius

The General History of Polybius (trans. Hampton), 1:580

polygraph

copies, 3:281–282
description of, 1:46n, 2:xlii
illustration of, 2:380 (illus.)
B. H. Latrobe uses, 4:67, 5:207
and C. W. Peale, 1:307, 4:182, 5:207

Pomeroy, Mr., 5:533

Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated (Langley), 2:82

Poor, Immanuel

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Pope, Alexander

The Iliad of Homer, 2:51
Moral Essays, 4:391, 4:392n
TJ purchases works of, 2:466

Pope, John

letter to, 4:164
as U.S. senator, 4:113n, 4:129, 4:163, 4:164n

poplar

Athenian, 3:353
balsam, 3:353, 3:355
Lombardy, 1:192n, 3:353, 3:354
tulip, 3:353

Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate). See also Bear Creek plantation; Tomahawk plantation

acreage of, 4:387
Agreement with Benjamin Johnson for Exchange of Poplar Forest Lands, 5:486–488
annual income of, 1:213, 5:400–402
astronomical observations at, 3:361–367
attempted sale of part of, 2:77–78, 2:79–80, 3:64, 3:162, 3:163n, 3:186–188, 5:34–35
beds and blankets for slaves at, 4:382–383, 5:33, 5:34, 5:460–463
builders at, 1:192n, 3:215, 3:412, 3:613
cellars at, 2:89
chimney backs for, 5:485, 5:485, 5:505
chimney screens for, 5:485
corn grown at, 2:96, 4:379, 4:380, 5:489
and curtilage survey, 5:482, 5:489
fish for, 2:423, 2:503, 5:33
flour from, 3:421, 3:518, 3:531, 3:561, 3:612, 4:10, 4:11, 4:86–87, 4:165–166, 4:241–242, 5:307, 5:340–341, 5:341n, 5:481–482, 5:488–489, 5:545, 5:576, 5:600, 5:656
furniture for, 1:44, 1:287, 1:319
garden at, 4:381
hemp grown at, 4:379, 4:380, 5:489
hogs at, 2:96
horses at, 4:373, 4:381, 5:653, 5:653n
household manufacture at, 4:380, 4:515
latitude of, 3:361–367, 4:369
livestock at, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:526
main house at, 2:xliii, 2:380 (illus.)
map of, 4:xlv, 4:370 (illus.)
merino sheep at, 5:600
mills at, 3:64, 3:162
mismanagement at, 2:149–150
Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest, 5:475–476
Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 3:xlv–xlvii, 3:352–355, 3:358 (illus.)
Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest, 5:481–482
oats grown at, 4:379
peas grown at, 4:379
plastering at, 2:96, 2:149–150, 5:311, 5:338n, 5:381–382, 5:403, 5:457–458
portion of offered as security, 4:584, 4:678
pumpkins grown at, 4:379
T. M. Randolph visits, 2:97
round table for, 4:xlv, 4:307, 4:370 (illus.)
slaves at listed, 4:384–386
sundial at, 4:96–98
surveys of, 4:279–280
timothy grown at, 4:379
TJ describes, 5:348–349
TJ plans visit to, 3:30, 3:46, 3:67, 3:75, 3:86, 3:154, 3:327–328, 3:332, 3:334, 3:339, 3:421, 3:644, 4:11, 4:132, 5:9, 5:17, 5:401–402, 5:417, 5:446, 5:448
TJ returns from, 2:33, 2:39, 2:50, 5:91, 5:94
and TJ’s debts, 2:260
TJ sends for steers from, 4:526
TJ’s instructions for management of, 4:379–382
TJ visits, 1:519, 2:xliii, 2:50, 2:256, 2:314, 2:329, 2:408, 2:462, 2:464, 3:64, 3:102, 3:286, 3:316, 3:347, 3:351n, 3:397n, 4:5, 4:6n, 4:82, 4:86, 4:87, 4:90, 4:94, 4:95, 4:98, 4:146, 4:183, 4:312, 4:346n, 4:429, 4:459, 4:460, 4:463, 4:584, 4:620, 4:650, 4:675, 4:676, 4:677, 4:679
tobacco grown at, 1:157n, 2:27–28, 2:96, 2:217, 2:230, 3:375, 3:392, 3:420, 4:307, 4:373, 4:379, 4:381, 4:422, 4:461, 4:515, 4:516, 4:528, 4:555, 5:91, 5:92n, 5:132, 5:531, 5:545, 5:599
wheat grown at, 2:96, 2:217, 2:495, 3:392, 3:394, 3:420–421, 3:538, 4:86–87, 4:87, 4:94, 4:95, 4:165–166, 4:170–171, 4:184, 4:307–308, 4:341–342, 4:373, 4:379, 5:340–341, 5:470–471, 5:475, 5:481–482
Overseers at. (See also Goodman, Jeremiah A.; Griffin, Burgess; Morris, Zachariah)

accounting practices of, 4:94
crop share of, 2:27, 2:28, 2:230, 4:342
hired, 4:132, 4:133n, 4:307
list slave beds and blankets, 4:382–383
make contracts for sale of wheat, 4:165, 4:170–171, 4:184, 4:212, 5:482n
plantation management by, 2:149–150, 4:386n, 5:488–490, 5:663
and prizing of tobacco, 3:269, 3:457
report plantation activities, 1:180, 2:96–97
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, 5:531, 5:545, 5:600, 5:638
send tobacco to Richmond, 1:157n
TJ entrusts documents to, 2:328, 2:330, 4:308
TJ’s instructions to, 2:232, 2:233n, 4:379–382, 4:515, 4:526–527, 5:31, 5:600

poppy, oil (Papaver somniferum), 2:270, 2:271

Porcupine, Peter. See Cobbett, William

Porée, Jean Baptiste

conveys book to TJ, 1:674, 2:353, 2:405
identified, 2:354n
letter from, 2:353–354
letter to, 2:405

pork

at Belmont estate, 3:170–171
for R. Durrett, 5:418
received as pay, 1:419, 1:421n, 4:143
supply of, 1:451, 5:545–546
toll on, 5:379
at Tufton, 2:112, 2:371

Portalis, Jean Etienne Marie

Projet de Code Civil, 3:132, 3:135n

porter (beer), 3:241–242, 3:252, 4:630

Porter, David

identified, 1:444n
letter from, 1:443–445
Plan for a Voyage of Discovery to the Northwest Coast of America, 1:445–449

Porter, John

claim for compensation, 1:583–584, 1:625, 1:644
identified, 1:644–645n
letter from accounted for, 1:584n
letter to, 1:644–645

Porter, Peter Buell

identified, 3:333n
letter from, 3:333
letter from accounted for, 3:460n
letter to, 3:437
and Niagara Campaign, 5:536–540
as quartermaster general, 5:410–411
and Report of the Commissioners, 3:460n
sends gypsum, 3:333, 3:437

Porteus, Beilby

A Summary of the Principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation, 3:590, 4:674, 5:98n

Port Folio

reviews J. Melish’s work, 5:628–629, 5:630n

Portobello (TJ’s property)

TJ’s patent of, 4:386

Portugal

and colonization of slaves, 3:319
earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n
French designs on, 2:274
health in, 4:361
merino sheep arrive from, 4:40
military operations in, 2:166, 2:233, 2:667
relations with Great Britain, 2:275, 2:277n, 4:337, 4:587
U.S. consulship in, 4:185, 4:212, 4:219
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

posterity

TJ on, 5:166

postmaster general, U.S. See Granger, Gideon: postmaster general

Post Office, U.S.

contracts with, 1:139–140, 1:350–352
1810 act, 3:147–148
funds of, 1:407, 1:421
List of Post Offices in the United States, including all established before December 31st, 1807, 1:514
and post road, 1:350–352
1799 Act, 3:147–148
Table of Post Offices in the United States, 4:10, 4:112–113
TJ requests local schedule, 1:506, 1:514
and Va. post offices, 2:169, 2:178–179, 2:269, 2:333, 2:535, 3:102–104, 3:147–148

potash, 4:8

potatoes, 1:157, 1:196–197, 2:38, 3:348, 4:141, 4:180, 4:531

potato oats, 5:657, 5:658n

Pothier, Robert Joseph

Anciennes loix des François, 3:130–131, 3:175n, 3:546
Traité du droit de domaine de propriété, 3:174n

Potocki, Jean

identified, 3:44n
letter from, 3:43–44
letter to, 3:618
letter to forwarded, 4:99
Principes de Chronologie, pour les Temps Antérieurs aux Olympiades, 2:467, 2:468n, 3:43–44, 3:115, 3:434, 3:456, 3:618
writings of, 2:467

Potomac River

lottery to improve navigation on, 4:288
mentioned, 3:238–239, 5:215

Potoski, Count. See Potocki, Jean

pots, coffee, 4:231n

Potter, Tom, 3:474

Potter, Walter. See also Fitzwhylsonn & Potter (Richmond firm)

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

Potts, Isaac, 2:223

Pouncey’s tract (TJ’s property), 1:488n, 4:387

Power, J., 2:84

Power, Thomas

correspondence with J. Wilkinson, 4:398

Powhatan Court House, Va., 3:103, 3:104n, 3:148, 3:164

Poydras, Julien Lalande

Adresse au Conseil Legislatif du Territoire d’Orleans, 2:682, 4:466
affidavit on batture, 3:483, 3:486–487n, 3:497
and batture controversy, 2:427, 2:435, 2:436n, 2:463, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 2:682, 3:25, 3:26n, 3:204, 3:483, 3:487n, 5:85n
and J. Dawson’s application, 4:648
Orleans territorial delegate, 1:179, 1:180n
Speech of Julien Poydras, Esq. the Delegate of the Territory of Orleans, in support of the right of the public to the Batture, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:483
and TJ’s Proceedings, 5:392

Practical Piety; or, The Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life (More), 5:98n

A Practical Treatise of Husbandry (Duhamel du Monceau), 2:82

A Practical Treatise on Dyeing, and Callicoe Printing (Cooper), 2:377n

Pradelle (Pradel), Alexandrina de la Chaise, 2:523, 3:489

Pradelle (Pradel), Jean, 2:523, 2:524, 2:525, 3:489

Pragmatics of Attaliata. See Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis (Leunclavius)

Preble, Henry, 3:212, 3:445, 5:213

Precedents of proceedings in the House of Commons (Hatsell), 4:400–401, 4:464

Prenanthes serpentaria (lion’s foot)

as snakebite remedy, 1:58n

President (ship)

carries mammoth bones, 1:509
encounter with HMS Lille Belt, 3:638, 3:639n

President’s House

alterations by Madisons, 1:53
description of, 1:199–200
inventory of, 1:42, 1:43n, 1:76, 1:155, 1:156n
and T. Kosciuszko’s profiles of TJ, 2:39–40, 2:106
J. Melish meets TJ at, 4:424n
mentioned, 2:225, 2:338n, 3:536, 5:109, 5:178n
presidential portraits, 2:127
sitting room clock at, 1:85, 1:96
stew stoves at, 1:76
TJ’s belongings at, 3:581, 4:49, 4:52, 4:193, 4:219, 4:221
during TJ’s presidency, 1:29n, 1:55–56

Pressed Shot Factory (Bruff), 5:107–108n

presses, cast-iron, 2:302

Preston, James

recommended for military appointment, 4:529

Prevost, George

governor in chief of British North America, 5:320–321

Prevot de la Janné, 3:546

Price, Andrew, 2:446n, 3:486

Price, Chandler

identified, 5:37–38n
letter from, 5:36–38
recommends A. Stewart, 5:36–37, 5:81

Price, Joseph

manages W. Short’s Indian Camp estate, 3:438, 4:59, 4:197–198
rents part of Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 3:198, 3:272–273, 3:275, 3:622, 4:198, 5:363, 5:570n

Price, Mrs. (Joseph Price’s wife)

land tenure of, 4:198
sells geese, 5:5, 5:6n

Price, Richard

and Turgot, 4:22, 4:24n
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503

Price, William

and Va. Land Office, 4:309n

Prichard, William

and P. Freneau’s poetry subscription, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
identified, 3:243–244n
letter from, 3:296–297, 5:254
letters to, 3:243–244, 3:334, 5:222–223
and TJ’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 4:401, 5:222, 5:254

Priddy, John, 1:246n

Pride, James, 2:84

Priestley, Joseph

History of the Corruptions of Christianity, 1:581
Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood, 1:119, 1:121–122n
mentioned, 1:674, 2:489, 5:276
mineral collection of, 2:376
and prophecy, 4:484
on university courses, 1:592, 1:593n
A view of the principles and conduct of the Protestant dissenters, with respect to the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of England, 1:581

Prieur, Denis, 3:234n

Prieur de la Côte-d’Or. See Duvernois, Claude Antoine Prieur

prime meridian, 1:54–55n, 1:275–276, 1:356–358, 1:359n, 1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–338, 2:398–9, 2:541, 2:566, 3:285, 5:245, 5:251n

Primula auricula (auricula), 4:497, 4:498, 4:523, 5:477, 5:477n, 5:553

Primula X polyantha (polyanthus), 4:523

Prince, Isaac

ill fortune of, 3:588, 4:3n

Prince, James, 2:135, 2:182, 3:559, 3:587–588

Prince (TJ’s slave; b. 1804)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:386, 5:462

Principes de Chronologie, pour les Temps Antérieurs aux Olympiades (Potocki), 2:467, 2:468n, 3:43–44, 3:115, 3:434, 3:456, 3:618

The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation (Home), 2:82

The Principles of Health: Elements of hygiene (Williamson), 1:597n

Pringle, Mr., 3:84

printing

and antimony, 1:18, 1:283, 1:315–316

A Private Letter to the Individual Members of Congress (Latrobe), 3:537

privies, 3:353, 3:354, 3:355n

The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston (Thomas Jefferson). See also statement on the batture case (Thomas Jefferson)

J. Adams on, 5:3, 5:11–12
Greek used in, 3:547n
mentioned, 4:292n, 4:520n
W. Pinkney on, 5:180
and riverine inundations, 3:46n, 3:135n
sent to Congress, 4:565, 4:575, 4:578, 4:581, 4:582, 4:585, 4:588
sent to J. Madison and his cabinet, 4:574, 4:586, 4:624, 4:664
sent to TJ, 4:565, 4:575, 4:581, 4:582
sent to TJ’s lawyers, 4:594, 4:595, 4:596, 4:597, 4:605, 4:606, 4:616, 4:624, 4:646
L. W. Tazewell on, 5:45–47
title page, 4:xliii, 4:370 (illus.)
TJ distributes remaining copies, 4:624–625, 4:631–632, 4:632, 4:637, 4:639, 4:640, 4:642, 4:643, 4:671, 5:6, 5:27, 5:106, 5:180, 5:219, 5:392, 5:548
TJ researches, 2:657, 3:176n
TJ revises, 5:8–9n
E. Trist on, 5:111–113

Proclamation of 1763, 1:335

Projet de Code Civil (Portalis), 3:132, 3:135n

Proofs of the Corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson (Clark), 3:265, 3:323, 3:325n, 3:440, 3:519, 3:543

Proposals by Redwood Fisher, for printing by subscription, the American Artist’s Manual, or Dictionary of Practical Knowledge (Cutbush), 5:633, 5:633n, 5:661

Propositions for Amending the Constitution of the United States (Hillhouse)

J. Adams on, 5:12–13, 5:13–14n

Prospectus of a National Institution, to be established in the United States (Barlow), 4:24n, 5:615–616, 5:617n, 5:620

Prospectus of a new monthly publication: the Massachusetts Garden, 1:671–673

Prost de Royer, Antoine François

Dictionnaire de jurisprudence et des arrêts, 3:174n, 3:175n

protractor, 4:98, 4:341

Proud, Robert

The History of Pennsylvania in North America, 1:581

Provenchere de Villiers, Pierre

identified, 2:129n
letter from accounted for, 2:129n
letter to, 2:128–129
TJ forwards letter to, 1:612, 1:613n, 2:128–129

Prunner, Leonardo de

identified, 2:298n
letter from, 2:297–298
sends Sardinian minerals to TJ, 2:297, 2:299, 2:391, 4:4

Prunus cerasus (Carnation cherry; sour cherry), 3:644

Prussia

and Declaration of Pillnitz, 4:430n
relations with Great Britain, 2:275
U.S. consuls at, 3:60–61
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503, 4:505, 4:507n

Pryor, Nicholas Ballow

delivers letter, 4:183, 4:184n
family of, 5:653n
identified, 5:300–301n
letter from, 5:300–301
letter to, 5:328
seeks military appointment, 5:300–301, 5:327, 5:328

Pryor, Susan B., 5:653, 5:653n

Public Advertiser (N.Y. newspaper)

publishes P. Freneau poem, 1:226–229

Pufendorf, Samuel von

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

Puller, Christopher, 2:455

Pumfrey, John, 3:599n

Pumfrey & Fitzwhylsonn (Richmond firm), 3:599n

Pumham, Aaron (Punkapog sachem), 5:184–185

Pumham, Moses, 5:184–185

pumpkins, 4:379

punch

syrup of, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:154

Punkapog Indians, 5:184–185, 5:186n

Purdie, Alexander, 1:381

Purney, John. See Pernier (Purney), John

Pursh, Frederick

Flora Americæ Septentrionalis, 2:91n
and plant drawings, 2:90, 2:91n, 2:140

Purviance, Samuel, 1:140, 1:362n, 1:515

Purvis, John

A Complete Collection of all the Lavvs of Virginia now in force, 1:404

Pyrenees, Treaty of (1659)

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

Pythagoras, 5:185n

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