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Vail & Rogers (Richmond firm), 4:487

Valcarcel, Placido Lorenzo Gonzales de, 2:480n

Valicourt, Mr., 2:118

Valin, René Josué

  • Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine, 2:657, 2:658n, 3:547

Van Berckel, Pieter Johan

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

Van der Capellen tot den Pol, Joan Derk, baron

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

Van der Kemp, Francis Adrian

  • and copper use by ancients, 4:614
  • essays on natural history by, 4:614
  • identified, 4:501n
  • letters from, 4:500–501, 4:613–615
  • letter to, 4:570–571
  • and proposed book, 4:500, 4:501–508, 4:570–571, 4:613–615
  • and R. R. Livingston, 4:500, 4:501n, 4:507n, 4:614
  • Synopsis of a Proposed Book, 4:501–508

Van Eupen, Pierre

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:505

vanilla

  • TJ orders, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:190
  • ways to serve, 1:188

Van Ness, John P., 3:537n

Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 2:503n

Van Spaendonck, Gerard, 2:308

Van Winkle, C. S.

  • prints book, 4:672n

varnish, 1:419

Varnum, George Washington

  • identified, 3:544n
  • letter from, 3:543–544
  • on public expenditures, 3:544

Varnum, Joseph B.

  • letter to, 4:164
  • and Newburyport collectorship, 1:25
  • speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, 2:107n
  • as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n

Varro

  • Rei rusticae, 2:82

Vater, Johann Severin

  • identified, 1:652n
  • letter forwarded to, 4:99
  • letter from, 1:651–652
  • letter to, 3:615–616
  • Untersuchungen über Amerika's Bevölkerung aus dem alten Kontinente, 1:651–652, 2:467, 3:150, 3:166, 3:615

Vattel, Emmerich de

  • Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains, 3:159, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:546
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Vaughan, Benjamin, 2:338n

Vaughan, John

  • forwards packages to Cooper, 2:376
  • Humboldt sends greetings to, 1:453n
  • identified, 1:453n
  • letters from, 1:452–453, 1:455
  • letter to, 1:482–483
  • librarian of American Philosophical Society, 1:452–453, 1:455, 1:482, 3:321, 3:322n

Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas

  • Analysis of Green Tobacco, 1:142–146, 1:482
  • Analysis of Prepared Tobacco, 1:147–152, 1:482
  • identified, 1:146n
  • Warden translates experiments of, 1:142–152, 1:482, 1:668–669

veal, 2:371

Vecelli, Tiziano. See Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)

Les Veilles de Saint-Augustin, Évêque d'Hippone (Gazzera), 1:522, 1:523n

Veltenair, Christian

  • identified, 3:650n
  • letter of introduction for, 3:650

Venable, Abraham

  • and bank loan, 1:181n, 1:302, 1:318, 1:344, 2:234, 2:314

venetian blinds, 3:520

Venezuela

  • and Great Britain, 3:177–178

Venice

  • oligarchy of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15

Venus

  • Titian's painting of copied, 4:181

Vergennes, Charles Gravier de

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

Vermont

  • and canals, 2:674
  • Republicans in, 3:28

Vertot, René Aubert de

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506n

Vessié, Jean, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

Vest, Charles

  • document to be left with, 2:294
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254
  • TJ on, 1:505–506
  • witnesses land conveyance, 4:288

Vesuvius (volcano), 2:551

Vettori, Pietro

  • Trattato di Piero Vettori delle lodi e della coltivazione degli ulivi, 2:82

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

La Victoire (ship), 2:13

Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy, king of Sicily and Sardinia-Piedmont

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Victor Amadeus III, king of Sardinia

  • TJ on, 2:276

Victor Emmanuel I, king of Sardinia, 2:391n

vicuña, 1:479, 1:599

A view of the physical, moral, and immoral effects of certain liquors (B. Rush), 4:17

A view of the principles and conduct of the Protestant dissenters, with respect to the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of England (Priestley), 1:581

Views of Louisiana (Brackenridge), 4:7, 4:8n

Vigano, Giuseppe Timpanari, 3:381n

Vigna unguiculata (asparagus bean), 3:454, 3:456, 3:501–502

The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (Castell), 1:390, 1:397n

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

Vince, Samuel, 1:357, 1:492

Vincennes, Ind. Territory

  • American capture of, 4:378

A Vindication of the Religion of Mr. Jefferson (Knox), 2:173, 2:174n, 2:215–216

vinegar

  • syrup, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:190, 1:222, 1:257

Vinnius, Arnoldus

  • commentary on Justinian's Corpus juris civilis, 2:677
  • D. Justiniani sacratissimi principis, 3:48, 3:175n
  • Jurisprudentiæ Contractæ sive Partitionum Juris Civilis Libri IV, 3:175n, 3:546

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

  • Armstrong quotes, 1:538
  • Eclogues, 1:345n, 3:370, 3:371n
  • McCoy alludes to, 1:326, 1:327
  • TJ on, 4:396

Virginia

  • Act for establishing Religious Freedom, 1:384n, 1:487
  • antislavery in, 3:267–269, 3:318, 3:319
  • Bank (See Bank of Virginia)
  • Central College (Charlottesville)
  • charters, early, 1:620
  • climate compared to Spain, 2:165
  • and colonization of freed slaves, 3:319, 3:320n
  • congressional districts in, 3:473–474
  • constitution, Gaines's proposed revision of, 4:118–123
  • constitution of (1776), 4:415, 4:416n, 4:433
  • Convention of 1776, 4:293, 4:297n
  • Council of State, 3:579–580, 3:605, 4:122, 4:135n, 4:415, 4:416n, 4:432–434
  • Court of Appeals, 4:401–402
  • and education, 2:384–385, 2:458, 2:535
  • elections in, 1:168
  • General Assembly, 1:242, 1:245n, 2:97, 2:98, 2:213, 2:384, 2:387, 3:194n, 3:253–254, 3:266, 3:286–288, 3:319, 3:320n, 3:322–323, 3:332–333, 3:468, 3:472n, 4:122–123, 4:135n, 4:161, 4:170, 4:346–349, 4:566, 4:567, 4:569n
  • General Court, 2:84, 2:85
  • governor, 4:122, 4:415, 4:416n, 4:432–434, 4:485–486, 4:585
  • historiography of, 1:619
  • history (See The History of Virginia)
  • House of Burgesses, 4:598–600
  • insurance in (See Mutual Assurance Society)
  • land claims of veterans from, 4:134–135, 4:176, 4:566–567, 4:568–569n, 4:585
  • law in, 1:334, 1:369–370, 1:381–383, 1:403–404, 1:404, 1:469, 1:472–473, 1:488–489, 1:570, 2:30, 2:50, 3:190–191
  • laws of, 4:123, 4:293, 4:294, 4:296–297n, 4:300–301
  • limestone in, 3:432–433, 3:458
  • and madder cultivation, 3:288–289, 3:326–327
  • mammoth bones found in, 2:507, 4:43
  • Manufactory of Arms, 1:614–615
  • maps of, 1:xliv–xlv, 1:251n, 4:369–370, 4:xlii–xliii
  • markets in, 3:102–104
  • military nominations from, 4:529
  • post offices in, 2:169, 2:178–179, 2:269, 2:333, 2:535
  • quarries in, 3:64, 3:162
  • Republicans in, 3:266, 3:322, 3:332–333, 3:585, 3:591, 3:593n
  • revision of laws, 1:381–383, 1:384n
  • riverbeds, 1792 act on, 3:287, 3:288n, 3:303
  • riverbeds, 1802 act on, 3:287, 3:288n, 3:303
  • river names, 4:146
  • seal of, 1:345n
  • search for Dutch-language accounts of, 2:502–503, 2:511, 2:567
  • sheep raising in, 4:346, 4:428
  • silver ore in, 3:647–648
  • snowfall in, 2:70–71, 3:392, 3:394, 3:437
  • soil of, 4:84–85, 4:177
  • State Penitentiary, 1:474n
  • statutes, historiography of, 1:334, 1:381–384, 1:489
  • statutes on legal pleadings, 2:545
  • statutes prohibiting bringing slaves into, 1:622, 1:624n
  • suitability for viticulture, 4:84–85, 4:176–177, 4:419–420
  • TJ as governor of, 4:377–378, 4:432, 4:434n, 4:468, 4:546, 4:568n, 4:602, 4:626
  • TJ drafts constitution for, 2:381, 2:383n
  • TJ on economy, 3:102–104
  • TJ on his role in politics, 3:507–508
  • TJ on powers of governor, 4:432–434, 4:485–486
  • TJ's collection of laws of, 1:158–159, 1:334, 1:381, 3:190–191, 3:569–570, 3:636
  • TJ's collection of newspapers, 3:190–191, 4:467
  • TJ to provide merino sheep to, 2:388–390, 2:409, 2:413, 2:418, 2:431, 2:457, 2:490–491, 2:492, 2:496n
  • treasury of, 2:74, 2:94
  • University (See Virginia, University of (Charlottesville))

Virginia, University of (Charlottesville). See also Central College (Charlottesville)

  • as academical village, 2:366n
  • builders at, 3:67–68n, 3:520n
  • building materials for, 2:201n
  • and Cocke, 3:xlvii, 3:136n
  • design of, 1:466n, 1:474n
  • land for, 2:282n
  • professorships at, 2:96n, 2:152n, 2:377n
  • Rotunda at, 2:438n
  • site of, 2:94n
  • visitors of, 1:191n, 2:490n

Virginia Abolition Society, 3:269n

Virginia Argus (Richmond newspaper)

  • advertisement in, 1:290, 1:291n
  • prints TJ's correspondence, 2:50n

Virginia Convention of 1774

  • TJ as member of, 1:486

Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg), 3:191n

The Virginian Orator (Birch, comp.), 4:286, 4:287n, 4:391, 4:396, 4:518–519, 4:562–563

Virginia (TJ's slave; b. 1793)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

The Vision of Pierce Plowman (Langland), 1:390, 1:397n

Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum (Nepos), 1:580

viticulture, 1:586–587, 4:84–85, 4:176–177, 4:419–420

"Vocabulaire de la Langue des Miamis" (Volney), 1:652

Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine Anglais et Français (Lescallier), 1:36, 1:184n

Voigt, Henry

  • family of, 4:167
  • identified, 3:83–84n
  • letter to, 3:83–84
  • and watch for Carr, 3:83

Voigt, Thomas

  • and TJ's astronomical case clock, 4:167, 4:229–230, 4:230, 4:xlv

Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de

  • Leçons d'Histoire, 1:580
  • Spafford's proposed work on, 1:106n
  • Tableau du Climat et du Sol des États-Unis d'Amérique, 1:197, 1:198–199n, 1:652n, 2:143
  • "Vocabulaire de la Langue des Miamis," 1:652

Voltaire, François Marie Arouet

  • Histoire de l'empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand, 1:580
  • The History of Charles XII, 1:580
  • quoted by Rush, 1:185
  • Le Siècle de Louis XIV, 1:580

Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent (Humboldt), 1:25n, 1:37, 1:267n, 1:482, 3:447n, 3:554, 3:555n

Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland, 1:24–25n, 1:455

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

Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce (Barthélemy), 1:580, 1:582n

A Voyage Round The World (Beresford), 1:445–446, 1:449n

Voyages aux Indes Orientales et en Afrique, pour l'Observation des Longitudes en Mer (Rochon), 4:676n

Voyages dans l'intérieur de la Louisiane (Robin), 3:557, 3:558n

Voyages from Montreal (Mackenzie), 1:443, 1:444–445n

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (Cook), 1:445, 1:446, 1:449n

Vrolik, Gerardus

  • identified, 1:195n
  • letter from, 1:194–195
  • letter to, 2:354–355

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