Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series - Comprehensive Cumulative Index (Vols. 1-4)

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Sabine River, 3:328

Saboureux de La Bonnetrie, Charles François

Traduction d'Anciens Ouvrages Latins relatifs à l'Agriculture et à la Médicine Vétérinaire, avec des Notes, 2:82

Sac Indians, 2:57

saddles, 1:3, 2:118, 2:121

sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia), 2:272

St. George wine (Agiorgitiko), 3:505

St. Jean, Maria

and batture controversy, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

St. Pierre. See Castel, Charles Irénée, abbé de Saint-Pierre

Saint Augustine, W. Fla., 3:281–282

Saint Domingue

blacks in, 1:589
refugees from, 1:450, 1:622, 1:624n
trade with U.S., 1:160, 1:517n

Sainte Geneviève Church (Paris; later the Panthéon), 4:474

Sainte Marie, Batture. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

Saint Hilaire, Louis Vincent Joseph Le Blond, comte de, 1:371, 1:372

Saint-John's-wort (Hypericum), 4:139

Saint-Lambert, Jean François de, 1:121, 1:122n

Saint Louis

maps of, 3:418, 3:616

St. Mary, Church of (Baltimore), 1:450–451

St. Mary's, Ga., 1:509, 1:510

St. Mary's Academy (Baltimore), 1:450–451

Saint Paul's Cathedral (London), 4:474

Saint Peter's Basilica (Rome), 4:474

Saint Petersburg

conveyance to and from, 3:434, 3:616–617, 3:627
U.S. consul at, 1:38, 1:61n, 1:65

Saint Sophia Cathedral (Kiev), 4:474

Saint-Sulpice, Raymond Gaspard de Bonardi, comte de, 1:372

salad oil, 1:31, 1:161, 2:335, 2:392, 2:438, 3:420–421, 3:434, 3:545

sal amoniac (ammonium chloride)

for copper utensils, 1:467, 3:183, 3:200

Salcedo, Manuel María de, 2:443n

Salem Register (Mass. newspaper), 1:50n

Salix alba var. vitellina (golden willow tree), 3:353, 3:354

Salkeld, William

Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: with some special cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, 3:547

Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)

Crispi Opera Omnia (trans. Gordon), 1:580
orations in writings of, 2:153

Sally (Sal) (TJ's slave; b. 1777)

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

Sally (ship), 1:84, 3:63, 3:245n

Sally (TJ's slave; b. 1797). See Hubbard, Sally (TJ's slave)

Sally (TJ's slave; b. 1773). See Hemings, Sally (TJ's slave)

Sally (TJ's slave; b. 1788). See Hubbard, Sarah (Sally)

Sally (TJ's slave; b. 1792)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Salmonds. See Sammons, James

Salmons. See Sammons, James

salsify, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38

salsify, Missouri (wild salsify), 3:150, 3:166

salt

consumed by sheep, 1:478, 2:379
furnaces, 4:8
as medicine, 4:102, 4:381
stored at Washington, 4:27
TJ acquires, 1:77, 3:301
U.S. tax on, 3:560, 3:566, 4:529

salted fish, 1:115n, 1:176, 1:268, 1:279

saltpeter, 1:367, 1:506, 3:155

Salvage, Benjamin F.

letter from, 3:649
seeks employment, 3:649

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

Sammons, James

letter from accounted for, 2:314n
paid for masonry work, 2:313, 2:314n, 3:301, 3:643
stonemason, 4:4
TJ pays, 4:557n

Sampson, Mr.

and Short's land, 4:268

Sampson (slave)

hired from Daingerfields, 3:112

Sampson, William

letter from accounted for, 1:78n
and Warden, 3:539, 3:557

Sampson (ship), 1:80, 1:81n, 1:210

Samuel (Chamberlain's slave), 4:15

Samuel (Hebrew prophet), 2:583, 2:584

Sanco (TJ's slave; b. 1797). See Davis, Sancho (TJ's slave)

Sandy (TJ's slave; b. 1807)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Sanford, Capt., 1:509

Sanford, Clark

essay on Peruvian bark (cinchona), 4:18n

San Francisco, 1:446

Sangrado, Dr.

fictional character, 4:162, 4:163n

Sangster's (Songster's) ordinary (Fairfax Co.), 1:52n

Sanguisorba (burnet), 4:379, 4:487, 4:515, 4:522, 4:526, 4:530

Sanskrit language

works on, 4:99

Santee canal, 2:507

Sarah Maria (brig), 4:173n

Sardinia

minerals from, sent to TJ, 2:297, 2:299, 2:391, 3:524, 4:4
royal museum in, 2:297
in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:507n
Victor Emmanuel I, 2:391n

Sargeant, Ezra

and Edinburgh Review, 4:367, 4:485
identified, 4:478n
letters from, 4:485, 4:565
letters to, 4:477–478, 4:521–522, 4:581
prints batture pamphlet, 4:477–478, 4:485, 4:520n, 4:521–522, 4:565, 4:574, 4:575, 4:581, 4:582, 4:xliii
TJ pays, 4:580, 4:581

Sartori, Charles, 3:646

Sartori, John Baptiste, 2:109, 2:110n

sassafras, 4:102

Satterwhite, Rachel

letter from accounted for, 1:68n
seeks TJ's aid, 1:68n

saucers, 4:477

Saul, Joseph, 2:255

Saul, king of Israel, 2:583

Saunders, Joseph, 1:66

Saunders, Samuel H.

An Easy First Book for Children; or The First Part of the Rhyming Spelling Book, 2:306–308
letter from, 2:306–308

Saunderson, Nicholas

The Method of Fluxions, 1:576

Saurin, Bernard Joseph, 3:9, 3:13, 3:17, 3:89n

Saurin, Jacques

Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux, 2:322n

Savage, William Henry, 2:544, 3:615n

Savary, Anne Jean Marie René, duc de Rovigo

French minister of police, 4:271

Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 2:44, 2:46n

Say, Jean Baptiste

economic theories of, 4:439, 4:440, 4:448

scab

infects TJ's sheep, 3:176–177, 3:442
remedies for, 3:453

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

scaly bark hickory (Juglans squamosa; Missouri scaly bark), 1:657

scarlet clover (Trifolium incarnatum), 2:271, 2:272

Scarronides: or, Virgile Travestie (Cotton), 2:466

Schnebly, Jacob, 1:27

Scholfield, Arthur

and Herrick's spinning machine, 4:572n

schools and colleges

Albemarle Academy, 3:540n
in Albemarle Co., 1:82n, 3:501, 3:540n, 4:493
American, 2:565
Ann Smith Academy (Lexington), 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201
British, 2:565
Cambridge University, 2:565, 4:427
Carr's Albemarle Co. school, 3:501, 3:540n
Central College (Charlottesville), 1:65n, 1:193n
College of William and Mary, 2:384, 2:534–535, 2:551, 2:671, 4:107–108, 4:162, 4:235, 4:236n, 4:246, 4:344, 4:369, 4:598
East Tennessee College, 2:266–267, 2:268n, 2:365–366
Edgehill School, 3:635n
Frederick Academy (Md.), 2:173, 2:174n
Georgetown College, 4:289
Girardin's academy (Richmond), 1:520, 1:557, 1:633, 1:634–635, 2:27, 2:95, 2:110, 2:116, 2:134, 2:171, 2:172, 2:295, 2:438, 2:536, 2:564
Harvard University, 4:196, 4:473
Jefferson College (Pa.), 1:4–6, 4:372
Manchester Academy (Va.), 2:134n
military, proposed by Kosciuszko, 1:206, 1:207n
Ogilvie's Albemarle Co. school, 3:632n
Oxford University, 2:565
Pestalozzi system, 3:40
St. Mary's Academy (Baltimore), 1:450–451
Spring Hill School (Mich. Terr.), 1:7, 1:660–662, 2:55–57, 2:58n, 3:369–371
Stephensburg Academy (Frederick Co.), 1:566–567, 2:147, 2:148n
and TJ's plans for a university in Va., 1:592
United States Military Academy (West Point), 1:23n, 2:258, 2:261n
University of Berlin, 4:354n
University of Bologna, 2:565
University of Edinburgh, 2:565, 4:427
University of Glasgow, 2:172, 2:174n
University of Medicine at Montpellier, 4:189, 4:190n
University of Pavia, 2:565
University of Virginia (Charlottesville), 1:136n, 1:191n, 1:466n, 1:474
Washington Academy (Lexington), 1:367, 1:368n
for women, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n

Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp (Austrian ambassador), 1:117, 1:121n

Scientific dialogues, intended for the instruction of young people (Joyce)

bound by Milligan, 1:36
reprint of, 4:401, 4:560
TJ cites, 1:482, 1:483n
TJ loans, 2:51
TJ recommends, 1:581
TJ requests, 1:332–333, 1:384, 2:101, 2:264, 3:122, 4:201, 4:288

scientific instruments

artificial horizon, 4:167, 4:369
astronomical, 3:480
equatorial, 4:237, 4:238n, 4:369
in lost trunk, 1:153, 1:347
navigational, 3:447–448
pendulum, 4:147–148, 4:149n, 4:223–224, 4:226, 4:227, 4:228, 4:409, 4:410
protractor, 4:341
sextant, 4:369, 4:370n
telescope, 3:480, 4:237, 4:238n, 4:676
theodolite, 4:369

Scilla (TJ's slave; b. 1794). See Gillette, Scilla (TJ's slave)

Sciurus (squirrel), 4:535

Scotland

conditions in, 4:360–361
constitution of, 2:215
emigration from, 1:238, 2:202, 2:289, 2:290
plants from, 4:535, 4:557
University of Edinburgh, 2:565

Scott, Mr. (Samuel Scott's son), 2:323

Scott, Alexander, 1:23n, 1:516

Scott, Andrew

letter from accounted for, 3:245n

Scott, Charles A.

identified, 3:371n
letter to, 3:371
mentioned, 3:214n
mill of, 3:371, 3:420–421

Scott, Daniel (fl. 1753), 3:432

Scott, Daniel (d. 1851)

identified, 3:214n
letter from, 3:224–225
letter to, 3:214
sells corn to TJ, 3:214, 3:224–225

Scott, James

finds stolen papers, 1:269, 1:284
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Scott, John C.

and Dougherty, 1:320, 1:321n, 2:432

Scott, John Washington, 1:504n

Scott, Joseph

and batture controversy, 2:395, 2:396n
death of, 3:249
identified, 2:364n
letter from accounted for, 2:405n
letter to, 2:363–364
The New and Universal Gazetteer: or, Modern Geographical Dictionary, 1:581
TJ recommends Yancey to, 2:363

Scott, Samuel

Bill of Complaint in Scott v. Jefferson and Harrison, 4:680–684
identified, 4:683n
letter from accounted for, 2:232, 2:233n
TJ's land dispute with, 2:96–97, 2:148–149, 2:232, 2:233n, 2:303, 2:322–323, 2:324n, 2:326, 2:327–328, 3:640, 4:308–309, 4:549, 4:583–585, 4:647, 4:677–678, 4:679, 4:680–684

Scott, Sir Walter

poetry of, 4:201–202, 4:561

Scott, Thomas

Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, 2:321–322, 2:337, 2:349
Theological works, 2:321

Scott v. Jefferson and Harrison. See also Scott, Samuel, TJ's land dispute with

Scott's bill of complaint in, 4:680–684

Sea, Mr.

and H. Marks's estate, 4:510, 4:511, 4:512n

Seabrook, Richard, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459, 1:616

sea kale (Crambe maritima), 3:439, 3:440n, 4:497, 4:498

Séances des Écoles Normales, recueillies par des Sténographes et revues par les Professeurs, 1:37

Seaton, William, 2:671n

Sebrell, Nicholas, 1:616

Secale cereale (rye), 3:65, 3:171, 3:348, 3:351n. See rye (Secale cereale)

Secretary's Ford (Albemarle Co.)

and Rivanna Company, 3:141, 3:144, 3:192, 3:286

sedition law, 1:278

seed press

described, 1:xlviii, 1:390, 1:400n
picture of TJ's, 1:380 (illus.)
vials for, 1:190, 1:191n, 1:245, 1:308, 1:309n

seeds

acacia, 1:555
anemone, double, 4:497, 4:498
auricula, 4:497, 4:498
barley, 4:562
black cotton, 1:258, 1:259–260n
burnet, 4:487, 4:515, 4:522, 4:526, 4:530
cabbage, 2:90
canary seed (Phalaris canariensis), 2:271
carnation, 4:497, 4:498
cauliflower, 2:90
clover, 3:180, 3:184, 3:194, 3:448, 3:456, 4:518, 4:525, 4:526, 4:548, 4:557
corn, 2:334
cotton, 1:666
eggplant, 4:497, 4:498
Egyptian grass, 1:555, 2:301, 2:302
flax, 2:371
green cottonseed, 1:82, 1:258, 1:259–260n
hay rye, 3:65
hemp, 2:371
lettuce, 4:527
from McMahon, 3:439–440
mignonette, 4:497, 4:498
millet, 2:335
muskmelon, 3:473, 3:501, 3:503n
oat, 2:93
oat grass, 3:461
parsnip, 1:157
rutabaga, 2:481, 2:543
sea kale, 4:497, 4:498
sent by TJ, 2:302, 3:454, 3:502, 3:544–545, 4:498, 4:523
sent to TJ, 1:141, 2:162, 2:270, 2:271–272, 2:301–302, 2:310, 2:506, 2:536, 2:543, 2:669, 3:41, 3:65, 3:98–99, 3:419, 3:583, 3:604–605, 3:614, 3:629, 4:34, 4:84, 4:85n, 4:363, 4:497–498, 4:534, 4:559, 4:565–566, 4:569, 4:621
sesame, 1:84, 1:105, 1:198, 1:211–212, 1:436–437n, 1:555, 1:667, 2:301, 3:225, 3:368, 3:453–454, 3:454, 3:502, 3:545, 3:636–637, 4:7, 4:39–40
sprout kale, 4:562
sweet acacia (Acacia Farnesiana), 2:301, 2:302
timothy, 3:454, 3:456, 3:460, 4:77, 4:156, 4:157n, 4:194, 4:236
turnip, 4:363
wintermelon, 2:302

Selby, Skeffington

indentified, 3:426–427n
letter from, 3:426–427
letter to, 3:457–458
and Nelson's bonds, 3:426, 3:457–458

Selden, Miles, 1:25

Senate, U.S. See also Otis, Samuel Allyne

and appointment of foreigners, 3:443
and Bank of the United States, 4:113, 4:128–129
and batture controversy, 3:203–205
chamber of, 1:473, 1:475n, 1:595, 3:534, 3:535, 3:556
clerk of, 1:535
Congress, U.S.
doorkeeper election, 4:124, 4:163, 4:164, 4:171
and Embargo of 1812, 4:586–587, 4:588n
and Gallatin-Smith feud, 2:430
mentioned, 2:570
messages from TJ, 1:643n
orders Duane's prosecution, 2:412n
and public works, 2:213–214, 2:589, 2:614
rejects Short's nomination, 1:38
resolution concerning Jackson, 2:70
Samuel Smith's reelection to, 1:515–516
supports Fulton's torpedo, 2:250, 2:251n, 2:301

Seneca

A New Translation of the Morals of Seneca (trans. Bennet), 1:576

Seneca Indians, 2:59, 2:175

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (Sterne), 4:85

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

sermons

sent to TJ, 3:75n, 3:156, 3:431, 3:456–457

Serres, Olivier de

Le Théâtre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs, 1:35, 1:581, 2:82

Sérurier, Louis Barbé Charles

French minister to U.S., 4:54n

Serveto (Servetus), Miguel

Van der Kemp's work on, 4:614

sesame (benne; Sesamum indicum)

Bradbury on, 1:436–437n
and Harris, 1:84, 1:211–212
and Milledge, 1:667, 3:636–637, 4:39–40
oil, 4:7, 4:39–40
Spafford requests from TJ, 1:105, 1:198
TJ cultivates, 4:7
TJ receives seeds of, 1:555, 2:301, 2:302, 3:225
TJ sends seeds of, 3:454, 3:502, 3:545
and Wallace, 3:368

sesame oil, 1:84n, 1:212, 3:636–637

Sesamum indicum (benne; sesame). See sesame

Seventy-Six Association (Charleston)

identified, 4:107n
letter from, 4:105–107
letter to accounted for, 4:107n
oration forwarded to TJ, 4:105–107

sextant, 4:369, 4:370n

Seybert, Adam

and domestic manufactures, 1:170–172
Humboldt sends regards to, 1:435n
identified, 1:172n
letter from, 1:170–172

Shackelford, Benjamin, 1:52n

Shackelford, Lyne

estate of, 3:36–37, 3:195, 3:250, 3:270, 3:283–284, 3:367–368, 3:529, 4:9

Shackelford, Richard

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
rents land from Short, 4:197

Shackleford, Zachariah

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

shad

compared to carp, 4:629
compared to paddlefish, 3:92
TJ orders, 2:109
TJ sends to M. Wills, 4:668
white, 1:368

Shadwell (TJ's estate)

acreage of, 4:387
border of, 3:572n
dispute over lease of, 2:85–86, 2:150–151, 2:198–199, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:277–282, 2:286–287, 2:294
overseers at, 1:137–138n
rent due on, 2:421–422

Shadwell Mill

breach of dam at, 3:204–205, 3:218, 3:300
builders at, 1:192n
Chandler seeks work at, 4:495, 4:590
flour from, 2:269, 2:292, 2:300, 4:548–549
improvements to, 2:670, 3:293, 3:359, 3:521, 3:527, 4:50, 4:51, 4:144–146, 4:200–201, 4:661–662
lease of, 1:488n, 3:464–465, 3:581, 3:614
location of, 4:6n
managed by McKinney, 4:183n, 4:233, 4:374n
McKinney recommended for, 2:383
mill wheels at, 4:51
mismanagement at, 1:108–110, 1:139n, 1:139–140, 1:282–283, 2:292, 3:51–52, 3:111, 3:156–157, 3:184, 3:644
rent for, 1:407, 1:408, 1:421–422, 1:451–452
rent from, 4:183, 4:233
and Rivanna Company, 3:161, 3:191, 3:192, 3:216–217, 3:287, 3:421–422, 3:527
and sawmill, 3:293, 3:520–521, 4:50, 4:51
Shoemaker, Isaac
Shoemaker, Jonathan
and T. M. Randolph, 4:6, 4:183n, 4:374n, 4:548
TJ's insurance for, 1:218–219, 1:417, 1:625–626, 1:659–660, 2:29

Shakespeare, William

plays of, 1:412

Sharp, Granville, 3:268, 3:269n

Sharpe, Robert

TJ buys land from, 4:387

Sharpless, Blakey, 1:256n

Shattuck, George Cheyne

identified, 1:51n
letter to, 1:50–51
Three Dissertations on Boylston Prize Questions for the Years 1806 and 1807, 1:50–51

Shawnee Indians, 4:485n

Sheaff, Henry, 2:221

Shearman (Sherman), Martin, 1:616

sheep

barbary, 2:252, 2:379, 2:380, 2:457, 2:492, 3:190, 3:637, 4:637, 4:638n
on Belmont estate, 3:170
broadtail, 1:465–466, 1:477, 4:638n
Cape, 1:477, 1:599
Chew's breed, 2:380
Churro, 1:18, 1:19n, 3:637
and dogs, 4:161, 4:170, 4:346–347
Dougherty acquires for TJ, 1:153, 1:464, 1:465–466, 1:467, 1:476–477, 1:486
Essay on Sheep (Livingston), 1:667, 1:668n, 3:63, 3:64n
fodder for, 2:271, 2:543
Green mountain, 1:667
Humphreys's, 2:431
Iceland ram, 1:320, 1:596, 1:666, 3:637
merino (See merino sheep)
mutton, 4:362
in Pa., 1:18, 1:69n
at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:381
raised in Ga., 4:40
raised in S.C., 2:218, 4:40
raised in Va., 1:238–239, 1:240n, 4:346, 4:428
scab in TJ's, 3:176–177, 3:442, 3:453, 4:61, 4:62
skin of Rocky Mountain, 1:327–328, 1:510
Spanish, 1:16, 1:320, 3:176–177
Sprigg's breed, 2:380
TJ's advice sought on, 2:202

Sheffey, Daniel

Va. congressman, 4:475, 4:476n

Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of, 3:79

Shekell, Cephus (Cephas)

letter of introduction for, 3:651

Shelton, Samuel

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Shelton, William A.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Shenandoah River

lottery to improve navigation on, 4:288

shepherd dogs. See dogs

Shepherd (TJ's slave; b. 1782)

on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Shepherd (TJ's slave; b. 1809)

on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:385, 4:386

Sheridan, Thomas

A Course of Lectures on Elocution, 1:576

Sherman, Mr. See Shearman (Sherman), Martin

Sherwin, Henry

Mathematical Tables, 4:148, 4:149n

Shiner, D.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Shoemaker, Isaac

and debt to Lukens, 4:571, 4:619
extorts money from father, 4:619
identified, 1:139n
letter to, 1:138–139
and mismanagement of Shadwell Mill, 1:108–109, 1:110n, 1:138–139, 1:139–140, 1:282, 2:292, 3:51–52, 3:157, 3:464–465, 3:644
and postal route, 1:353
TJ's account with, 3:300–302, 3:317–318, 3:640–643
Trist on, 4:573, 4:574n

Shoemaker, Jonathan

asks TJ to endorse bill, 2:95
identified, 1:109–110n
letter from accounted for, 2:670n
letters from, 1:139–140, 1:256, 1:407, 1:451–452, 2:269, 2:300, 2:393
letters to, 1:108–110, 1:282–283, 1:364, 1:421–422, 2:95, 2:199, 2:342–343, 2:660–661, 2:670
and mismanagement of Shadwell Mill, 1:108–109, 1:139–140, 1:282–283, 3:51–52, 3:111, 3:156–157, 3:184, 3:464–465, 3:528, 3:531, 3:614, 3:644
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
rent due from, 1:353, 1:364, 1:408, 1:421–422, 1:422, 1:451–452
seeks abatement in rent, 1:407, 1:421–422
sells mill near Washington, D.C., 1:256
ships flour to Richmond, 2:269, 2:292, 2:300, 3:111–112, 3:135, 3:154, 3:181, 3:301, 3:302, 3:318, 3:371, 3:612
son extorts money from, 4:619
TJ's account with, 2:199, 2:300, 2:313–314, 2:342–3, 2:393, 2:660–661, 3:300–302, 3:317–318, 3:373, 3:640–643, 4:495
Trist on, 4:573, 4:574n

Shoemaker, Lukens, 2:393

shoes, 3:202

Short, William

abandons marriage plans, 3:197, 3:200n
advocates unrestricted commerce, 1:119–120, 1:359–360, 3:274, 3:275n
Armstrong carries letters of, 1:115, 1:120
awaits instructions, 1:117, 1:331
conveys news to and from French acquaintances, 1:173, 1:537
correspondence with TJ, 1:182n
and diplomatic outfit, 1:61, 1:85, 1:118, 1:232–233, 1:235n
forwards pamphlet to Adams, 3:198, 3:274
on France, 3:197, 4:269–271
and Gallatin, 4:61n
on Great Britain, 4:269–273
identified, 1:39n
Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 3:198, 3:272–273, 3:275, 3:438, 3:621–622, 3:644, 4:5–6, 4:59–60, 4:197–198, 4:268, 4:273, 4:274, 4:675
investments of, 1:32n
and Lafayette, 3:447
letter from accounted for, 1:329n
letter of credence for, 1:328, 1:343–344, 1:359, 1:658, 1:659n
letters from, 1:115–122, 1:229–235, 2:200, 2:475–479, 3:197–200, 3:272–375, 4:268–274
letters from accounted for, 3:106–107n, 3:438n, 3:623n, 4:61n, 4:199n, 4:676n
letters to, 1:38–39, 3:106–107, 3:438, 3:621–623, 4:59–61, 4:197–199, 4:674–676
letter to mentioned, 2:257, 2:268
on living abroad, 4:269–270
and Madison, 2:33, 2:200n, 2:477
mentioned, 1:433, 3:620
and merino sheep, 3:198
and Moreau's proposed visit to Monticello, 4:674–675
nomination of, rejected, 1:38, 1:39n, 1:229–230, 1:231, 1:375, 1:659n
on prospect of war with Great Britain, 4:272–273
recess appointment to Saint Petersburg, 1:65
returns to U.S., 2:200, 2:288, 2:410, 2:475–476, 2:477, 3:89
sends certificates to TJ, 2:477–478, 2:479n, 3:29–30, 3:89, 3:106, 3:197
tenants of, 3:622, 4:197–198, 4:675
Tessé on, 2:311, 4:323
TJ on, 3:504
on war in Spain and Portugal, 4:271

A Short and Easie Method with Deists (Leslie), 3:590

Shorter, Jack

accompanies TJ to Monticello, 1:59, 1:60n
delivers letters, 1:85, 1:153
as hosteler, 1:3, 1:60n
paid by TJ, 1:41–42n

shovels, 2:546, 2:547, 2:548

Siberia

frozen mammoth found in, 2:507

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

Sicard, Roch Ambroise Cucurron

Théorie des Signes, 1:662

Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount

British prime minister, 3:79, 3:298, 4:670, 4:671n

Sidney, Algernon

British patriot, 2:385, 2:387n, 4:470
read by J. Adams, 4:474
in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:503

Sidney (S. H. Smith's Washington estate), 3:76

Le Siècle de Louis XIV (Voltaire), 1:580

Siegfried, Carl Ludwig (Charles Lewis)

identified, 3:61n
letter from, 3:60–61
seeks appointment, 3:60–61

Siegfried, Charlotte Frazer (Carl Ludwig Siegfried's wife), 3:60

Sierre Leone Company, 3:319, 3:320n

Las Siete Partidas (Alfonso X), 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:546

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

silk grass (Adam's needle; bear grass; Yucca filmanetosa), 3:353

silk manufacturing

in Europe, 1:341, 1:342n, 1:355, 1:412–413, 1:424, 1:425n, 1:472
in U.S., 4:85

silk plant (Boehmeria nivea; China grass; Chinese silk plant; ramie), 3:343

silk tree (Albizia Julibrissin; mimosa tree), 1:631, 2:103, 2:104n

Silver, William (master of schooner Jachin)

carries goods, 4:215, 4:220

silver nitrate. See lunar caustic (silver nitrate)

silver ore

found at Jefferson Co., Va. (now W. Va.), 3:647–648
Sardinian specimen, 2:299

Silvestre, Augustin François

agricultural report of, 2:83
cottonseed sent by TJ, 1:258, 1:596
identified, 1:259n
letterhead of, 1:xlviii, 1:380 (illus.)
letter of to Provenchere mentioned, 2:129
letters from, 1:258–260, 1:611–613
Mémoire de la Société d'agriculture, 1:258, 1:259n, 1:611–612, 1:629, 1:630n
Rapport sur les Travaux de la Société d'Agriculture du Département de la Seine, 1:612, 1:613n

"A Simile" (Pindar), 1:538n

Simmons, Joshua

letter from, 4:77
seeks loan from TJ, 4:77

Simmons, William

War Department accountant, 3:324, 3:450

Simms, Charles

collector at Alexandria, 4:215, 4:219, 4:220, 4:487, 4:529
identified, 4:221n
letter from, 4:487
letter to, 4:220–221

Simonds, Jonas, 2:304

Simpson, Thomas

A treatise of algebra, 1:576

Simson, Robert

The Elements of Euclid, 1:576, 1:650

Sinclair, Sir John

An Essay on Longevity, 4:140, 4:142n

Siren. See Syren (sloop)

Situation de l'Angleterre en 1811 (Montgaillard), 4:672

Sixteen Introductory Lectures (B. Rush), 4:87

Sixteen Introductory Lectures (Rush), 3:277, 3:279n, 3:304

60th Royal American Regiment, 1:290

Skelton, Bathurst

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304–305, 1:362, 1:363, 1:591, 1:608, 2:129, 2:130n, 2:141, 2:142, 2:396, 2:397, 2:403, 2:407, 2:424, 2:425, 2:433, 2:434, 2:447, 2:464, 2:465–466, 3:84–86

Skelton, Elizabeth Lomax (Reuben Skelton's wife), 2:84, 2:85n, 2:123, 2:447

Skelton, James

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 2:447, 3:84–85

Skelton, John, 1:305n, 2:397, 3:44, 3:85

Skelton, Lucy. See Gilliam, Lucy Skelton

Skelton, Meriwether, 2:425, 3:85

Skelton, Reuben

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:305n, 1:644, 2:33, 2:83–84, 2:85, 2:122–123, 2:141, 2:142, 2:256, 2:396, 2:447, 3:84–86

Skelton, Sally, 1:305n

Skelton family, 1:305n, 1:364

Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana (Stoddard), 3:291–292

Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Wirt)

TJ provides information for, 2:155–156, 2:314, 4:599, 4:600, 4:604n, 4:605n
TJ's opinion of, 4:596n

Sketches on Rotations of Crops, and other Rural Matters (Bordley), 2:82

Sketches & Propositions (Banks), 3:296

A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain (Oddy and Playfair), 3:274, 3:275n

Sketch of a Plan and Method of Education (Neef), 4:661

A Sketch of the Internal Condition of the United States of America (Poletika), 3:190n

A Sketch of the Saxon Heptarchy (Caines), 3:522

Skipwith, Anne Wayles (TJ's sister-in-law; Henry Skipwith's wife), 1:339n

Skipwith, Fulwar, 1:26, 2:339n

Skipwith, Henry (TJ's brother-in-law)

and Banister's estate, 3:183, 3:210–211
and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304, 1:305, 1:306, 1:331, 1:339, 1:362, 1:363, 1:364–365, 2:369, 2:674–675, 3:44, 3:86
and Hanbury's executors, 3:195
identified, 1:339n
letters from, 1:339, 3:183
letters to, 1:364–365, 2:335–336, 3:210–211
and Short's land, 4:268, 4:274n
TJ sends millet seed to, 2:335
as Wayles's executor, 2:142n, 2:369, 2:540

Slate Mills (Culpeper, now Rappahannock Co., Va.), 3:184

Slaughter, Mr. See Slaydyen, Arther

Slaughter, Joseph, 2:237, 2:238n, 3:188n, 3:392

surveys Bear Creek lands, 4:318n

slavery

and African colonization, 3:267–269, 3:318–320
books on, 1:33, 3:522n
dangers of, 4:337, 4:338n
Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:328, 4:444
TJ on, 2:382n, 4:157
TJ's policies concerning, 2:158

slaves

blankets and beds for, 4:99, 4:382–384
Chamberlain's, 4:15
Churchman favors bettering condition of, 2:382
clothing for, 4:343, 4:515
clothing of, 1:420, 1:666–667
Couch's, 1:346–348
and dogs, 4:349n
dwellings of, 1:388, 4:380
E. Randolph's, 4:231n
enumeration of, 3:202
families of, 3:180–181, 3:610n
freed, 3:269n
fugitive, 3:319, 3:411–413, 3:612–613, 4:620
German Coast insurrection, 3:326, 3:344n
and H. Marks's estate, 4:510, 4:511
health of, 1:354, 1:416
hired by TJ, 1:48n, 2:41, 2:661, 3:36–37, 3:55, 3:111–112, 3:250, 3:270, 3:283, 3:302, 3:529, 4:81, 4:142, 4:183, 4:217–218, 4:556
Humboldt on, 1:264, 1:267n
incarceration of Brown's, 2:284
of J. W. Eppes, 1:156n, 1:321
in Kentucky, 3:92, 3:242–243
Kosciuszko's plan to free and educate, 2:260, 2:261n
Lafayette's attempt to emancipate, 2:11
law prohibiting importation of, 1:624n
management of, 3:276
master's duty to, 4:157
medical treatment for, 3:196, 3:270, 3:283–284, 3:367–368, 4:9, 4:381
Mitchell's, 2:262
at Monticello during meals, 1:399n
mortality of, 3:180–181
prisoners of war sold as, 4:361
requested by Dougherty, 1:321
run away, 2:443n
and skilled trades, 1:388
sold, 2:433, 4:620
- by J. Peyton, 3:186
supplies for, 4:28
TJ attempts to buy, 4:397
TJ buys, 2:403, 2:424–425, 2:464
TJ lists, 4:384–8, 4:xliv
TJ orders flogging of, 4:620
TJ sells, 2:217, 3:411–413, 3:513, 3:648–649
trained in French cooking, 1:162, 1:188, 1:189n
valuation of, 3:529
Virginia statute regarding, 1:622, 1:624n
and work plans for Poplar Forest, 4:379, 4:380, 4:381

slave trade

and Great Britain, 3:513–514
in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506
works on, 3:522n

Slaydyen, Arther

and H. Marks's estate, 4:511

Small, Abraham

and book prospectus, 3:296n
and domestic manufactures, 1:170–172
identified, 1:172n
letter from, 1:170–172
publishing firm, 1:18, 1:19n

Small, William

TJ's mentor, 4:369

smallmouth black bass (Micropterus dolomieu), 4:651n

smallpox

vaccinations, 1:300n, 2:88, 3:183n, 4:495

Smart, Thomas, 3:151, 3:316, 3:546

Smilie (Smiley), John, 1:361

Smith, Mr. (of Richmond): considered for appointment by TJ, 1:25

Smith, Abigail Adams (J. Adams's daughter; William Stephens Smith's wife)

health of, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:486
recognizes TJ's handwriting, 4:473

Smith, Adam

economic theories of, 4:439, 4:440, 4:448
The Wealth of Nations, 4:448
The Wealth of Nations, 2:592

Smith, Ann

academy in Lexington, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201

Smith, Bernard

identified, 3:511n
letter from, 3:510–511
letter to, 3:615
oration by, 3:510–511, 3:615

Smith, Caroline (J. Adams's granddaughter)

J. Adams on, 4:475

Smith, Gilbert H. (captain of Sampson), 1:210

Smith, Henry, 3:230

Smith, J. H.

letter from, 4:661
seeks TJ's opinion on education, 4:661

Smith, James E.

accused of corruption, 4:174n

Smith, James Edward, 1:164n, 1:437n, 3:263–264

Smith, John (1750–1836)

and Chinese pigs, 4:109
identified, 1:586n
letter to, 1:585–586
Mills introduced to, 2:437, 2:438n
and oat grass, 1:585–586
and Winchester, Va., newspaper, 2:120

Smith, John (1752–1816)

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

Smith, John (chief clerk of War Department)

and batture controversy, 2:426
and commission for H. A. S. Dearborn, 1:78, 1:280, 1:301
letter from accounted for, 1:571n
and Spring Hill School, 1:660

Smith, John (J. Adams's grandson)

J. Adams on, 4:475

Smith, John (of Albemarle Co.)

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Smith, John (of Tennessee)

and lead mines, 4:8

Smith, John (senator from Ohio), 1:643n

Smith, John Rhea

and American Philosophical Society, 1:572n, 4:167n

Smith, John Spear

as secretary of legation to Russia, 1:360–361, 1:378, 1:379, 1:385–386, 1:402, 2:466, 3:115–116

Smith, John Witherspoon

certifies documents, 2:443n, 2:444n

Smith, Jonathan

cashier of Bank of Pennsylvania, 4:18n, 4:488, 4:489n
letters to accounted for, 1:408n, 3:284n, 4:18n

Smith, Jonathan Bayard Harrison, 3:76

Smith, Joseph Emerson

and Bunker Hill Association, 2:504–505, 2:666
identified, 2:505n
letter from, 2:504–505
letter to, 2:666

Smith, Julia Harrison, 1:390, 1:397n, 1:434

Smith, Larkin

collector at Norfolk, 4:363, 4:364n
and garden seeds for TJ, 4:534, 4:559, 4:569
identified, 1:88n
letters from, 1:87–88, 1:108, 4:534
letters to, 1:136–137, 4:569
sends foreign intelligence, 1:108
thanks TJ, 1:87–88, 1:136–137
TJ on, 4:569

Smith, Margaret Bayard (Samuel H. Smith's wife)

comments on Dougherty, 1:3n
describes TJ's study, 2:xli
The Diversions of Sidney, 1:10n
identified, 1:10n
invited to visit Monticello, 2:670
letter to, 1:29
on Madison's inauguration, 1:8–1:10
Monticello visit described, 1:386–401
receives geranium from TJ, 1:29
sends greetings to TJ, 1:435, 3:76, 3:272
TJ gives seeds to, 2:302n
TJ sends greetings to, 1:410
visits Monticello, 1:386–401, 1:410, 1:434–435
A Winter in Washington: or, Memoirs of the Seymour Family, 1:10n, 1:397n

Smith, Margaret (Robert Smith's wife), 1:340

Smith, Munson

postmaster at Schaghticoke, N.Y., 4:588, 4:673

Smith, Robert

and batture controversy, 2:427, 2:429, 2:439, 2:444n, 2:449, 2:450–451n, 2:452, 2:511, 2:568, 3:109, 3:248n, 3:316, 3:424
congratulates TJ, 1:345
declines mission to Russia, 3:519
dismissed as secretary of state, 3:567–568, 3:574, 3:575n, 3:595, 3:600, 3:606, 3:608, 3:622–623, 3:638, 3:639n
and Erskine, 1:168, 1:170n, 1:409, 2:540n
family (See Smith family (of Baltimore))
feud with Gallatin, 1:340n, 1:598, 1:599n, 2:146, 2:177, 2:224, 2:225n, 2:235, 2:272, 2:430
identified, 1:340n
investigated by congressional committee, 1:361, 1:362n
and Jackson, 2:34–35n
and Lee's medal, 2:104, 2:253
letters from, 1:345, 2:439, 2:449, 3:147, 3:260, 3:608
letters to, 1:340, 2:429, 3:109–110, 3:595
Robert Smith's Address to the People of the United States, 1:340n, 3:110n, 3:595, 3:608n, 4:21, 4:31, 4:109
secretary of state, 1:20, 1:38, 1:113, 1:155, 1:232, 1:335, 1:402, 1:464, 1:518, 1:616, 1:632, 1:643, 2:173, 2:174n, 2:419n, 2:463, 2:471n, 2:540n, 2:544, 2:665n, 3:61n, 3:260, 3:442, 3:475–478, 3:543n, 3:602, 3:608, 3:615, 4:33n
secretary of the navy, 1:340, 1:649–650, 3:602, 3:603n
and Short's diplomatic expenses, 1:232–233
TJ on, 2:272
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
and TJ's statement on the batture case, 3:109–110, 3:118, 3:147, 3:152
TJ thanks, 1:340
and Warden, 3:260

Smith, Robert Nelson

carries package to TJ, 4:493, 4:499
identified, 4:500n
letter of introduction for, from T. W. Maury, 4:499

Smith, S., & Buchanan (mercantile firm), 1:362n

Smith, Samuel (historian)

The History of the Colony of Nova Caesaria, or New-Jersey, 1:581

Smith, Samuel (of Maryland)

Dearborn on, 3:553
family (See Smith family (of Baltimore))
identified, 1:361n
letter from, 1:360–362, 4:171
and letter of introduction for son, 1:360–361, 1:377–378, 1:379, 1:385–386, 1:402
letters to, 1:377–378, 1:402, 4:164
mentioned, 2:466
and reelection to Senate, 1:515–516
and sesame seed for TJ, 4:40
as U.S. senator, 1:232, 4:163, 4:164n, 4:171
and Warden, 3:251, 3:260

Smith, Samuel (of Pennsylvania)

identified, 1:335n
letter from accounted for, 1:335n
letter to, 1:335–336
and Lowry pardon, 1:335, 1:340, 1:345

Smith, Samuel Harrison

editor of National Intelligencer, 1:349, 2:470, 2:471n
family of, 1:10n
identified, 1:30n
letter from accounted for, 1:12n
letters from, 1:72, 1:434–435, 3:76, 3:272
letters to, 1:30, 1:410, 2:670–671
prints circular for TJ, 1:30
Remarks on Education, 1:30n
retires from printing business, 3:76
sends papers to TJ, 3:272
TJ's account with, 2:670, 2:671n
and TJ's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 4:397, 4:401n, 4:430
transmits Fothergill tract, 1:72
visits Monticello, 1:386–401, 1:410, 1:434–435

Smith, Sidney

Letters on The Subject of The Catholics, 2:161

Smith, Silas H.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Smith, Susan Harrison, 1:390, 1:397n, 1:434

Smith, Thomas

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
recommended for military appointment, 4:529

Smith, Thomas Peters, 2:375, 2:377n

Smith, William (1711–87)

The History of the Peloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides, 1:580

Smith, William (1728–93)

The History of the Province of New-York, 1:580

Smith, William (J. Adams's grandson)

J. Adams on, 4:475

Smith, William (of New York)

on conspiracy to kill TJ, 1:425–428
letter from, 1:425–428

Smith, William Stephens

as farmer, 4:390, 4:391n
military talents of, 4:390, 4:486
removed from office, 1:578

Smith family (of Baltimore)

anti-administration activities of, 3:542, 3:550, 3:553

Smithers (Smuthers; Smythers), Michael

and lost trunk, 1:348

snakes

rattle, 1:660, 2:36, 4:536
remedy for bite, 1:57–58

snap beans, 3:501–503

Snowball (guelder rose; Viburnum opulus), 3:354

snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), 4:524, 4:525n

snuff (prepared tobacco), 1:147–152

Snyder, Simon

governor of Pa., 1:213–214n, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:601, 4:160

soap, 3:202, 4:102

Société d'agriculture du département de la Seine

approves TJ's moldboard, 1:252
books by, 1:35, 1:258, 1:259n
and cottonseed from TJ, 1:258, 1:259–260n, 1:596
members of, 4:319
Mémoires, 1:35, 1:37, 1:258, 1:259n, 1:611–612, 1:629, 1:630n, 2:83, 2:536
and moldboard plows, 2:111, 2:312, 2:332
sends plow to TJ, 1:21n, 2:111, 2:312, 2:332

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 3:269n

Society of Artists of the United States

constitution of, 2:437, 2:438n, 4:356
exhibition of, 3:625n
identified, 4:357–358n
Latrobe speaks to, 3:624
and TJ, 2:438n, 4:355–358, 4:398–400, 4:407, 4:459–460, 4:644

Society of Friends. See Quakers

Society of United Irishmen, 1:141n, 1:465n

Sokolnicki, Michel, 2:39n

A Solemn Warning To All Dwellers Upon the Earth (Hughes), 4:483, 4:484n

Soler, Juan Pablo, 2:480n

Solomon, king of Israel, 2:584

Solomon (TJ's slave; b. 1794)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Solon

quoted by Destutt de Tracy, 4:608, 4:611n
TJ quotes, 4:604, 4:605n

Somers, Charles M., 3:96

Someruelos, Salvador de Muro y Salazar, marqués de, 3:265

Somerville, John Southey, Lord

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

Songster's ordinary. See Sangster's (Songster's) ordinary (Fairfax Co.)

Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1:515, 1:517n

Sorghum vulgare (bicolor)

grain grown by T. M. Randolph, 1:436–437n

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

South America

Duane tours, 3:xlvi

South Carolina

and domestic manufacturing, 4:343
mammoth bones found in, 2:507
sheep raising in, 2:218, 4:40
and U.S. foreign affairs, 4:342–343, 4:472

South Carolina College

catalogue of, 1:112

Southwest Mountains

and grape cultivation, 4:177

Southwest Mountain tract (Albemarle Co.)

dispute over ownership, 2:101–102, 2:103n, 2:114, 2:137–139, 2:206–208, 2:227, 2:228–229, 2:347, 2:362–363
Harvie pays TJ for, 4:555n

spades, 2:546, 2:547, 2:548

Spafford, Horatio Gates

A Gazetteer of the State of New-York, 2:144n
General Geography, and Rudiments of Useful Knowledge, 1:105–106, 1:196–199, 2:143, 2:144n
identified, 1:106n
letters from, 1:105–106, 2:143–145, 3:112–114
letter to, 1:196–199
proposes to compile U.S. gazetteer, 2:144n
seeks financial assistance, 2:144–145n

American property seized in, 2:162, 2:342
and British army against the French, 1:108
clergy of, 4:282–283
climate of, 2:165
colonies of, 4:359
constitution of, 1:470–471, 1:577, 4:282
consul at N.Y. (See Stoughton, Thomas, Spanish consul at N.Y.)
and E. Fla., 4:284n, 4:665n
edicts of, 3:175n
expedition against the Bahamas, 4:286
exploration of Northwest Coast, 1:447, 1:448
language (See Spanish language, letters in, from)
laws of, 2:471, 2:678, 3:52–53, 3:71, 3:160–161, 3:175n, 4:282, 4:477, 4:643n
and Louisiana, 3:281–282, 3:282–283
merino sheep in, 3:342, 3:343n
merino sheep procured from, 2:3–4, 2:31–32, 2:165–166, 2:246, 2:481n, 2:667
and raising of horses and sheep, 1:478
relations with Great Britain, 2:275, 2:602, 4:337, 4:587
resists Napoleonic rule, 1:160, 1:344, 2:7, 2:166, 2:233, 2:242, 2:246–247, 2:274, 2:275, 2:379–380, 4:56–57, 4:271
Spanish sheep, 1:16, 1:320
and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:222–223
status of Florida and Cuba, 1:154
Supreme Junta, 2:33, 2:35n, 2:246–248, 4:284n
taxes, 4:111
TJ on, 1:20
and Treaty of Paris (1803), 3:256
U.S. minister to, 3:96
and U.S., 1:632–633, 2:248
and U.S. land claims, 1:636, 1:639, 1:641
in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:501, 4:502, 4:505–506, 4:507n, 4:508n
and W. Fla., 3:265, 3:282, 3:326, 3:327, 3:344, 3:501–503, 4:284n

Spalding, Lyman

Bill of Mortality for Portsmouth, 3:373–374
identified, 3:374n
letter from, 3:373–374
letter from accounted for, 3:374n

Spanish language

B. S. Barton's offer to send TJ work in, 1:556
letters in, from
- Foronda, 1:470–471, 1:604–606, 4:282–284
- Yznardy, 1:410–411, 4:111–112
TJ on study of, 4:162

spearworts (buttercup; lesser celandine; ranunculus; water crowfoots), 3:545

The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. before the House of Commons (Brougham), 1:35

Speech of Julien Poydras, Esq. the Delegate of the Territory of Orleans, in support of the right of the public to the Batture (Poydras), 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:483

The Speech of Samuel Chew, Esq (Chew), 4:152, 4:153n

Speech of W. G. D. Worthington, Esq. a Member of the General Assembly of Maryland . . . on Brent's Resolutions (Worthington), 2:196, 2:251

Spelman, Edward, trans.

Cyrus's Expedition into Persia, and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks (The Anabasis; Xenophon), 1:580
Opera Omni Graece et Latine, 1:580

Spence, William

Britain Independent of Commerce: or, Proofs, Deducted from an Investigation into the True Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1:35

Spencer, Lieut., 2:534n

spermaceti oil, 1:31

spices

allspice, 1:45
black pepper, 1:31, 1:41, 1:368, 2:109, 4:210
cinnamon, 1:31, 1:45, 1:368, 2:109
cloves, 1:44, 2:109, 4:211
gingerroot, 4:211, 4:212n
mace, 1:368, 2:109, 4:211
nutmeg, 1:44, 1:368, 2:109

Alexander Spiers, John Bowman, & Company. See Wilson, Thomas

Spiers & Company (Scottish firm). See Wilson, Thomas

spinning billys, 4:426

spinning jennys, 1:313, 1:524–525, 1:591, 1:661, 4:143, 4:417, 4:418n, 4:426, 4:428, 4:637, 4:667

spinning machines

described, 4:417–418, 4:424–425, 4:425–426, 4:512–513, 4:571–572, 4:592
TJ orders, 4:514, 4:544, 4:579–580, 4:588, 4:589, 4:591, 4:637, 4:666–667

spinning wheels, 4:362, 4:380, 4:417, 4:425

spirit of hartshorn. See ammonia (spirit of hartshorn)

Spirit of Laws. See Esprit des Lois (Montesquieu)

Spirit of 'Seventy-Six (Richmond newspaper), 1:93

Spitzenburg apple (Esopus Spitzenburg), 3:448n, 3:455

spoons, 4:231n

Sprague, Joseph

and meeting of Essex Co. Republicans, 1:86n

Sprigg, Osborn

identified, 3:651n
letter from, 3:651
recommends Shekell, 3:651
sheep of, 2:380

Sprigg, William, 2:443n

Spring, Samuel

Two Sermons, Addressed to the Second Congregational Society in Newburyport, 1:138

Spring Hill School (Indian training school, Mich. Terr.), 1:7, 1:660–662, 2:55–57, 2:58n, 3:369–371, 3:543

springs

salt, 3:333
sweet, 3:295
therapeutic, 1:191–192, 1:451, 3:162
warm, 1:191–192

springs, mineral. See also Warm Springs (Bath Co.)

therapeutic, 4:107

sprout kale (Brassica sempervirens), 4:498, 4:523, 4:561, 4:562

squash, 1:170

Squire (R. Jefferson's slave), 2:60

squirrels (Sciurus), 4:535

stable

brooms, 1:3
insurance for, 1:317–318
padlocks for, 1:303

Stadler, John

attempts to secure land grant, 2:87, 2:88n, 2:133

Staël-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine de

Corinne ou l'Italie, 1:35

Stake, John

Revolutionary War service of, 4:623, 4:624n

Stake, John S.

identified, 4:624n
letter from, 4:623–624
seeks military appointment, 4:623

Stamford. See Stanford, Sir William

Stamp Act (1765)

resolutions opposing, 4:599–600

Stanford, Sir William

Les Plees del Coron, 3:547

Stanhope, Philip Dormer, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The Economy of Human Life, 3:50n
quoted by Rush, 1:184

Stanley, Thomas

The History of Philosophy, 1:580

Stannard (TJ's slave; b. 1809)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Staps, Frederick, 2:7, 2:9n

star-jasmine (Jasminum officinale), 1:631–632

Starke, James

and 1810 census, 3:202

Starke, Mrs. (boardinghouse keeper in Richmond), 1:670

star madreporite, 2:299

Staszic, Stanislaw, 3:62n

State Department, U.S.

and batture controversy, 2:427, 2:429, 2:435, 2:439, 2:440–446n, 2:449, 2:450–451n, 2:452, 2:516, 2:568, 3:482–488, 4:595
books of, 3:638
"Chronological Series of Facts relative to Louisiana," 3:281, 3:282–283, 3:292, 3:297, 3:327, 3:328n
clerks at, 2:142 (See also Graham, John)
forwards letters, 2:256, 2:536, 2:544, 3:424, 3:615, 3:627, 4:19, 4:99, 4:462, 4:668
letter of credence for Short, 1:328, 1:343–344, 1:359, 1:658, 1:659n
and Louisiana boundaries, 3:281, 3:282–283
and patents, 2:665n
receives books for TJ, 4:586
receives packet for TJ, 1:408
Smith, Robert

Statement of Facts in the Batture Case (Thomas Jefferson), 3:270–271, 3:290, 3:481–488, 3:489–499

statement on the batture case (Thomas Jefferson), 3:42, 3:70–73, 3:109–110, 3:123–124, 3:130–134, 3:147, 3:152–153, 3:176n, 3:201, 3:290, 3:317, 3:326, 3:498n. See also The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi (Thomas Jefferson)

composition of, 4:291n, 4:xliii
copies of returned to TJ, 4:466, 4:482, 4:492–493, 4:567–568
map for, 4:xliv
publication of encouraged, 4:311, 4:393–394
TJ arranges for publication of, 4:477–478, 4:485, 4:520n, 4:521–522
TJ decides to publish, 4:367–368, 4:431, 4:520n

Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks (Hales), 2:82

stationery

letter paper, 1:332, 1:347, 1:384, 1:489
made from mulberry bark, 2:404n
of Moussier, 1:380 (illus.)
of Silvestre, 1:380 (illus.)

Statistique élémentaire de la France (Peuchet), 4:325, 4:326n

The Statutes at Large (English, 1706), 3:547

Statutes at Large (Hening)

publication of, 1:158–159n, 1:333–334, 1:489, 1:619–620, 3:169n
TJ endorses, 2:30, 2:50

steamboats

list of N.Y., 4:199–200, 4:235

steam power, 1:648–649

Stedman, Ebenezer

identified, 2:352n
letter from, 2:352
sends opposition material to TJ, 2:352

Steele, John

forwards seeds to TJ, 2:506
identified, 2:506–507n
letter from, 2:506–507

Steevens, George

and edition of Shakespeare, 1:412n

Stephani (Stepani). See Estienne, Henri

Stephen, James, 3:79

Stephensburg Academy (Frederick Co.)

request for donation to, 1:566–567, 2:147, 2:148n

Stephenson, Clotworthy

claim on U.S. by, 1:601, 1:649–650
identified, 1:601n
letter from, 1:601
letter to, 1:649–650

Stephenson, Samuel Martin

and fiorin grass, 3:339–340, 4:187, 4:364
"The History of the Linen Manufacture," 3:280n, 3:309
identified, 4:187–188n
letter from, 4:187–188

Stephen (TJ's slave; b. 1794)

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

Steptoe, James

clerk of Bedford Co., 3:188, 3:374, 4:318n
identified, 2:6–7n
invited to dinner, 4:86
and Ivy Creek tract, 2:6
letters to, 2:6–7, 2:79–80
TJ introduces T. M. Randolph to, 2:79–80

Steptoe, William

as doctor, 4:381

Sterne, Laurence

allusions to, 4:85
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 4:85n

Stevens, Edward

Revolutionary War papers of, 4:468

Stevens, W.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Stevenson, Mr., 1:79

Stevenson, Andrew

and meeting of Richmond citizens, 1:611n

Stevenson, George Pitt

and gypsum for TJ, 2:205, 2:226

Stewart, Dugald

criticizes Hartley, 3:277–278
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1:576

Stewart, John

described as a pedestrian, 4:689
letter from accounted for, 4:689

Stewart, William

blacksmith at Monticello, 1:419

Sthreshly, Robert B.

and Short's land, 4:59–60, 4:61n, 4:675
visits Monticello, 4:675

Stith, Elizabeth, 1:68n

Stith, Judith Randolph, 3:433n

Stith, Mary

identified, 3:433n
letter from, 3:458
letter to, 3:432–433
and limestone survey, 3:432–433, 3:458
TJ's childhood friend, 3:433, 3:458

Stith, Richard

and Ivy Creek tract, 1:670–671, 2:6, 2:97, 2:232, 2:322, 2:327, 4:308, 4:682

Stith, William, 3:432, 3:433

Stith tract (Bedford Co.), 1:670–671

Stockdale, John

publisher of Notes on the State of Virginia, 1:588

stockings, 3:202

Stoddard, Amos

identified, 3:291n
letter to, 3:291–292
Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana, 3:291–292

Stoddert. See Stoddard, Amos

Stoici Philosophi Encheiridion item (Epictetus), 1:576

Stone, William J.

and Fluvanna Co. land, 3:179, 3:211
identified, 3:179n
letter from, 3:179
letter to, 3:211

Storia Antica del Messico (Clavigero), 1:196, 1:198n

Storia della guerra dell' Independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America (Botta), 2:161–162, 2:529, 2:536, 3:41, 3:98

Story, Joseph

and repeal of Embargo Act, 2:533, 2:534n, 2:537, 3:28
and Supreme Court appointment, 3:126, 3:166, 3:178

Stoughton, Thomas, Spanish consul at N.Y., 1:578, 1:604

Stout, Isaiah, 1:462, 1:572n

Stout, John

identified, 1:572n
letter from, 1:572
TJ loans books to, 1:572
witnesses conveyance, 1:462

stoves

stew, 1:122, 3:530
Swedish, 1:122n, 3:609, 4:191–192, 4:215–216, 4:232–233, 4:560

Strahan, William, trans.

Les Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel, 3:160, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:547

Strange, John

Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, 3:134, 3:135n, 3:152

The Stranger (Kotzebue; trans. Papendick), 3:633n

straw, 2:371, 3:65, 3:171

strawberries

Alpine, 2:481, 2:482n, 2:543, 3:353, 4:34, 4:561, 4:562
Chili (Fragaria chiloensis), 2:140, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498, 4:523
Hudson, 2:140, 3:439, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498, 4:523, 4:561
Mazzei sends seeds, 3:377, 4:34
Peale cultivates, 4:139
white, 3:353

Strickland, William, 1:21n, 4:33

Strode, John

identified, 2:384n
letter from, 2:383–384
recommends McKinney, 2:383
and Slate Mills, 3:184

Stuart, Archibald

and Derieux, 3:295, 3:481, 3:511, 3:576
identified, 2:93–94n
letter from accounted for, 4:157n
letters from, 2:93–94, 3:511, 4:194
letters to, 3:295, 3:481, 4:77–79, 4:156–157, 4:236–237
recommends Warrell, 2:93
sends butter to TJ, 4:194, 4:236
sends oat seed to TJ, 1:585, 2:93
and timothy seed for TJ, 4:77, 4:156, 4:236
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Stuart, Eleanor Briscoe (Archibald Stuart's wife)

and butter for TJ, 4:236

Stuart, Gilbert

artistic career of, 4:xlvi
Latrobe's opinion of, 3:625
portrait of J. Adams, 4:370 (illus.), 4:xlvi

stucco, 1:195–196

stylograph, 1:182n, 2:xlii, 2:380 (illus.)

subscriptions

book, 2:167, 2:337, 3:50–51, 3:137, 3:221–223, 3:238–239, 3:291–292, 3:431, 3:456–457, 3:552, 3:578, 3:589, 3:599, 3:609, 4:365, 4:408, 4:409, 4:558–559, 4:663, 4:685
newspaper, 1:48, 1:49, 1:50n, 1:85, 1:96, 1:107, 1:214, 2:174, 2:175n, 2:670, 2:671n, 4:56, 4:92, 4:127–128, 4:130–131, 4:177–178, 4:633
to pay McClure's debts, 4:169, 4:209, 4:618–9
poetry, 1:225–226, 1:504n, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296

Suburb Saint Mary. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

Succordy (slave), 4:231n

succory (Cichorium intybus; chicory), 4:19, 4:33

Suckey (TJ's slave; b. 1771)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:386

Suckey (TJ's slave; b. 1796)

on Monticello slave list, 4:388

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

Sucky (TJ's slave; b. 1806). See Gillette, Sucky (TJ's slave)

Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus)

Opera Omnia Quae Extant, 1:580

Suffrein, Mr.

family of, 2:15

sugar

brown, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211
cane, 2:556
European, 4:85
loaf, 1:31, 1:44, 1:222, 2:221, 4:210, 4:211
manufacture of, 3:522n
maple, 1:657
in medicine, 4:381
muscovado, 1:31, 1:44
plantation, 2:136
refined, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109
smuggling of, 1:439
stored in Washington, 4:27

suicide

and Du Jareau, 2:375n
and Isham and Lilburne Lewis, 1:168n
and Meriwether Lewis, 1:436n, 1:602–603, 1:606–608, 1:632, 1:668, 2:30, 2:35, 2:42, 2:44, 2:121, 2:191–192, 2:208, 2:209n
and Ogilvie, 3:632n
and Steadman, 2:352n

sulfur

medicinal uses of, 4:62, 4:102

Sullivan, George

identified, 1:525n
letter from, 1:524–525
letter to, 1:591
and spinning machine, 1:524–525, 1:591

Sullivan, James

The History of Land Titles in Massachusetts, 3:125

Sullivan, John L., 1:524, 1:525

Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de

in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:501, 4:504

Sully, Thomas

identified, 4:356–357n
Latrobe praises, 3:625
letters from, 4:355–358, 4:398–400
letters to, 4:407, 4:459–460
portrait of B. Rush, 4:370 (illus.), 4:xlv–xlvi
and Society of Artists of the United States, 4:355–358, 4:398–400, 4:407, 4:459–460, 4:644, 4:646n

"Sulphate of lime of Onondago, State of New-York" (Warden), 3:333n

sulphur, 2:257, 2:261n

A Summary of the Principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation (Porteus), 3:590, 4:674

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Thomas Jefferson), 1:486, 1:487n, 1:539, 1:569–570

Sumter (Sumpter), Thomas, 3:501

sun

altitude of, 3:448
annular eclipse of 1811 observed, 4:188, 4:195, 4:196–197n, 4:235, 4:237–239, 4:246, 4:263, 4:368, 4:369, 4:403, 4:407
and astronomical calculations, 1:489–498, 3:361–367
and calculation of longitude, 4:247–266, 4:275–276, 4:368, 4:402–406, 4:407–408
eclipse of, 2:61
grapes scorched by, 2:222, 2:293
TJ's biblical allusion to, 3:579

sun brier, 1:56

sundials

and corncob capital base, 1:473, 1:475n
at Poplar Forest, 4:96–98

Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, 1:415n

Supreme Court, U.S.

appointments to, 1:49n
and batture controversy, 2:441n, 2:454–455
establishment of, 4:302–303n
justices examine invention, 1:195–196
and Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:291n
and Marshall, 4:302n
and prize cases, 2:376, 2:377n, 2:480
replacement for Cushing, 3:118, 3:124, 3:126–127, 3:151, 3:165–166, 3:178, 3:182, 3:246, 4:100
TJ on, 3:124, 3:165, 3:182

surveying

and artificial horizon, 3:448, 4:167, 4:369
and Bear Creek lands, 4:279–280
Borda's circle, 4:369, 4:370n
and chain, 4:341
compass for, 2:152, 4:341
occupation of, 1:215, 1:216, 2:344
and protractor, 4:341
TJ provides training in, 1:181–182, 1:215n, 1:650

Susquehanna Canal

lottery, 4:391

Susquehanna River

acts to improve navigation on, 4:161n
grapes grown along, 2:223
mammoth bones found in, 2:507

Suter, Mrs.

Washington boardinghouse of, 3:539–540

Süverman, John Christoph

identified, 2:364–365n
letters from, 2:364–365, 2:672–673
letter to, 3:110
and Pernier, 2:364, 2:672–673, 3:49, 3:110

Suwarow (ship), 2:475

Swan Tavern (Richmond)

TJ lodges at, 1:591, 1:614n, 1:615

Swanwick, John

bankruptcy of, 1:129, 1:131n

Swartwout, Samuel, 3:324

Sweden

election of king in, 3:105, 3:106n
government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16, 3:468
relations with Great Britain, 2:275
in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504, 4:507n

Swedish turnip. See rutabaga (Brassica napus napobrassica; Swedish turnip)

sweet acacia (Acacia Farnesiana), 1:555, 1:631–632, 2:301, 2:302

sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa; European chestnut), 1:594n, 3:503, 4:322–323, 4:497, 4:498

Swift, Zephaniah

The laws of the United States of America, 2:521

Swink, George

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Switzerland

democracy in, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15
financial system of, 2:584
in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502, 4:504

Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest-Trees (Evelyn), 2:82

Syme & Pearson (Hanover, Va. firm), 2:433

Symphoricarpos albus (snowberry), 4:524, 4:525n

Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum (Persoon), 3:167, 3:181, 3:596, 4:146

Syren (sloop)

carries dispatches, 1:183, 1:452
quarantined in France, 1:373, 1:374, 1:376

Syria

Napoleon fails to conquer, 2:274, 2:277n

syrup

of punch, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:154
of vinegar, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:190, 1:222, 1:257

Systema Naturæ (Linnaeus), 4:536, 4:667

A System of Notation: Representing the Sounds of Alphabetical Characters (Pelham), 1:216–217

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