The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 47
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 47

6 July to 19 November 1805

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 47

6 July to 19 November 1805

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A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson continues his pattern of returning home to Monticello for the summer months. He makes a brief visit to Poplar Forest in Bedford County to plan the development of that property. James Hubbard, a young enslaved worker at Monticello, escapes but is captured in Fairfax County. Another slave who has fled, James Hemings, rejects efforts to persuade him to return and disappears. Receiving news of the end of the conflict with Tripoli, Jefferson states that although it is "a small war in fact, it is big in principle." He devotes much of his attention to relations with Spain. He considers alliance with Great Britain to force a resolution with Spain, then chooses instead to negotiate with France for the purchase of Florida and settlement of matters in dispute with Spain. He drafts bills to organize the militia by age and create a naval militia. Specimens sent by Lewis and Clark arrive. Jefferson calculates that the United States has recently acquired cessions of well over 9 million acres of land from Native Americans. He meets with visiting Creek leaders. Answering a query, Jefferson states that Patrick Henry was "the greatest orator that ever lived" but "avaritious & rotten hearted."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Editorial Method and Apparatus
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Jefferson Chronology
  8. From Thomas Appleton
  9. From William C. C. Claiborne
  10. From DeWitt Clinton
  11. To Dorcas Osgood Marble Dearborn
  12. To Lewis Deblois
  13. To William Jarvis
  14. To Dolley Payne Todd Madison
  15. To Edward Preble
  16. To Anne Cary Randolph
  17. From John Rhea
  18. To Robert Williams
  19. To Caspar Wistar
  20. To Nathaniel Ellicott
  21. From Philippe Reibelt
  22. From William C. C. Claiborne
  23. Invoice from Benjamin King
  24. Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
  25. From Stephen White
  26. From William Dunbar
  27. From Donald Fraser
  28. From Albert Gallatin
  29. From George Jefferson
  30. From Robert Smith
  31. From Caesar Rodney Wilson
  32. To William C. C. Claiborne
  33. To Albert Gallatin
  34. To Reuben Lewis
  35. To Dolley Payne Todd Madison
  36. To James Oldham
  37. From Jean Baptiste Petry
  38. To Ellen Wayles Randolph
  39. To Philippe Reibelt
  40. From Philippe Reibelt
  41. To Margaret Bayard Smith
  42. From Louis de Tousard
  43. From Tadeusz Kosciuszko
  44. From Edward Johnston
  45. From Anne Cary Randolph
  46. From Martha Jefferson Randolph
  47. From Robert Smith
  48. From Elizabeth G. Tart and Sarah Amelia Bampfield
  49. From Thomas Hall
  50. To Jones & Howell
  51. From John Hamilton Moore
  52. To Charles Willson Peale
  53. From Joseph Yznardi, Sr.
  54. Memorandum for John Barnes
  55. To Charles Buxton
  56. To DeWitt Clinton
  57. From Thomas Freeman
  58. To George Jefferson
  59. Invoice from Rosanna McKenney
  60. To Philippe Reibelt
  61. From Edward Rowse
  62. From William Tatham
  63. From Robert Williams
  64. To William C. C. Claiborne
  65. From William C. C. Claiborne
  66. To Henry Dearborn
  67. To Gideon Granger
  68. To John Lenthall
  69. From William Martin
  70. From Thomas Munroe
  71. Specifications for Work at President’s House and Capitol
  72. To Louis de Tousard
  73. To Jonathan Williams
  74. From John Barnes
  75. Petition of Christopher Church, with Jefferson’s Order
  76. From Albert Gallatin
  77. From Jones & Howell
  78. From Robert Morrison
  79. From William Pryce
  80. From Philippe Reibelt
  81. From George Jefferson
  82. From Jourdan
  83. From James Oldham
  84. From Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis
  85. From Ellen Wayles Randolph
  86. From William Bentley
  87. From Robert Brent
  88. From Jacob Crowninshield
  89. From Gideon Granger
  90. From Benjamin H. Latrobe
  91. From Pierre Chouteau
  92. To John Barnes
  93. From Henry Dearborn
  94. From John Thomson Mason
  95. From Philip Mazzei
  96. To James Oldham
  97. Petition of Robert Rankin, with Jefferson’s Order
  98. From Daniel Strobel, Jr.
  99. From Joseph Anderson
  100. To Albert Gallatin
  101. To Gibson & Jefferson
  102. To David Howell
  103. Notes on Lease to Eli Alexander
  104. From Charles Buxton
  105. From William C. C. Claiborne
  106. From Henry Dearborn
  107. From John Gardiner
  108. From Michael Leib
  109. From James Madison
  110. From Jean Baptiste Petry
  111. From John Richman
  112. To Robert Brent
  113. From David Gelston
  114. To Gideon Granger
  115. From Gideon Granger
  116. To James Madison
  117. From James Oldham
  118. From Samuel Harrison Smith
  119. To Bowling Clark
  120. From James Madison
  121. From Philip Mazzei
  122. From Albert Picket
  123. From Philippe Reibelt
  124. From William Wirt
  125. From John Barnes
  126. To Henry Dearborn
  127. From John Erving
  128. From JoĂŁo, Prince Regent of Portugal
  129. To James Madison
  130. From Philip Mazzei
  131. From Henry Meigs
  132. From Ledyard Seymour
  133. From Joseph Dougherty
  134. From Elizabeth G. Tart and Sarah Amelia Bampfield
  135. From Jacob Wagner
  136. From Henry Dearborn
  137. From John Guiho de Kerlegand
  138. From Jacob Wagner
  139. From Daniel Fisher of New York
  140. From Albert Gallatin
  141. From Levi Lincoln
  142. From Edward Preble
  143. From William Lambert
  144. From Martinus van Marum
  145. From William Jarvis
  146. From John McMenamy
  147. Statement of Account with James Cheetham
  148. From James Madison
  149. From William C. C. Claiborne
  150. To Henry Dearborn
  151. To David Gelston
  152. To Gideon Granger
  153. From William Jones
  154. From Jacob Wagner
  155. From Joel Barlow
  156. From Bowling Clark
  157. To James Madison
  158. Notes on Letter to Gibson & Jefferson
  159. To Edward Rowse
  160. To William Wirt
  161. From Ahmad Qaramanli
  162. From Jonathan Williams
  163. From John Bracken
  164. From Robert Brent
  165. From Dominick A. Hall
  166. From Levett Harris
  167. From John Page
  168. From Joshua Pike
  169. From Edmund Randolph
  170. From P. & C. Roche
  171. From Edward Rowse
  172. From William Tatham
  173. From John Vaughan
  174. To John Breckinridge
  175. From Henry Dearborn
  176. To Albert Gallatin
  177. To James Madison
  178. To Robert Smith
  179. From Thomas Appleton
  180. Peter Carr’s Nailery Account
  181. Petition of Thomas Nevitt, with Jefferson’s Order
  182. To Charles Burrall
  183. From Stephen Cathalan, Jr.
  184. To Albert Gallatin
  185. From Antonio Garcia Herreros
  186. From James Madison
  187. From Thomas Newton, Jr.
  188. To John Page
  189. From John Sibley
  190. To Jacob Wagner
  191. Inquest on Shadwell Milldam
  192. From Nathan Lufborough
  193. From William B. Underwood
  194. From Robert Williams
  195. To John Barnes
  196. From James Leander Cathcart
  197. To Joseph Dougherty
  198. To Daniel Fisher of New York
  199. To William Lambert
  200. To Michael Leib
  201. From Étienne Lemaire
  202. To Albert Picket
  203. To P. & C. Roche
  204. From Elizabeth G. Tart and Sarah Amelia Bampfield
  205. From David Howell
  206. From George Jefferson
  207. To Joel Barlow
  208. To Robert Brent
  209. From Peter Lenox
  210. From George White
  211. From John Barnes
  212. From Henry Dearborn
  213. From J. P. P. Derieux
  214. To John Harvie
  215. From Samuel Latham Mitchill
  216. To John Vaughan
  217. To Henry Dearborn
  218. From Joseph Dougherty
  219. From Simon Harris
  220. To Craven Peyton
  221. To Edmund Randolph
  222. From James Simons
  223. From Tarhe and Others
  224. From William Eustis
  225. From Albert Gallatin
  226. To Étienne Lemaire
  227. To James Madison
  228. To Robert Smith
  229. To Antonio Garcia Herreros
  230. To William Short
  231. To George White
  232. From Henry Dearborn
  233. To William Bentley
  234. To Jacob Crowninshield
  235. From Gideon Granger
  236. Address of the Indiana Territory General Assembly
  237. From James McDowell and Others
  238. To John Stark
  239. From Alexander I, Emperor of Russia
  240. From George Jefferson
  241. From Étienne Lemaire
  242. From James Madison
  243. From Joshua Prout
  244. From Albert Gallatin
  245. From Robert Smith
  246. From Samuel Latham Mitchill
  247. To Henry Dearborn
  248. From Richard Folwell
  249. To Peter Lenox
  250. To John Barnes
  251. From Henry Dearborn
  252. From Thomas Ewell
  253. To Albert Gallatin
  254. From Albert Gallatin
  255. From Zachariah Hall
  256. To Jones & Howell
  257. From Joseph de Mendoza y RĂ­os
  258. From Anonymous
  259. From Albert Gallatin
  260. To Gideon Granger
  261. To James Madison
  262. To Jacob Crowninshield
  263. To Henry Dearborn
  264. To Albert Gallatin
  265. To David Robinson
  266. To Robert Smith
  267. From Robert Smith
  268. To John Strode
  269. From Thomas L. Winthrop
  270. From Leroy Anderson
  271. To James Madison
  272. From Lucy Ludwell Paradise
  273. From John Sibley
  274. From John Martin Baker
  275. From John Barnes
  276. From Abraham Bradley, Jr.
  277. From Thomas Carnes
  278. From Jacob Crowninshield
  279. From Samuel R. Demaree
  280. From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
  281. From Polly Logwood
  282. From William Henry Harrison
  283. To Thomas Ewell
  284. To Albert Gallatin
  285. To Robert Smith
  286. From Robert Smith
  287. To Abraham Bradley, Jr.
  288. From Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis
  289. From Benjamin H. Latrobe
  290. To James McDowell and Others
  291. From William Short
  292. From Robert Smith
  293. Assessment of Postal Route from Francis Abraham
  294. From Alexis Daudet
  295. From James Madison
  296. From Ahmad Qaramanli
  297. From Robert Smith
  298. From Joel Barlow
  299. From John Barnes
  300. Petition for William Alcorn
  301. Notes on Locks and Hinges
  302. From Larkin Smith
  303. From Robert Smith
  304. From Thomas Worthington
  305. From Henry Dearborn
  306. From Craven Peyton
  307. From Jacob Wagner
  308. To George Jefferson
  309. To Robert Smith
  310. To Leroy Anderson
  311. From Daniel Bradley
  312. Memorial of Thomas Harris of Virginia
  313. From Joshua J. Moore
  314. To Larkin Smith
  315. From Robert Smith
  316. From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
  317. To Benjamin H. Latrobe
  318. To Samuel Latham Mitchill
  319. From Edmund Randolph
  320. From Ruelle
  321. From Francis Taliaferro Brooke
  322. From Robert Smith
  323. From Thomas Ewell
  324. From George Jefferson
  325. From Nicholas Madgett
  326. From Robert Smith
  327. From John Barnes
  328. From William C. C. Claiborne
  329. From Jacob Crowninshield
  330. From “Shiloh”
  331. To Jacob Crowninshield
  332. From Albert Gallatin
  333. To George Jefferson
  334. From Philip Mazzei
  335. From Margaret Page
  336. From Albert Gallatin
  337. To Jacob Crowninshield
  338. From Silas Halsey
  339. From Benjamin H. Latrobe
  340. From James Walker
  341. From Joseph Forster
  342. From James Madison
  343. From Charles Willson Peale
  344. From William A. Burwell
  345. To James Madison
  346. From William Wirt
  347. From Jacob Wagner
  348. To Abraham Bradley, Jr.
  349. To Albert Gallatin
  350. To George Jefferson
  351. From Meriwether Jones
  352. Color Plates
  353. To James Madison
  354. From John Moody
  355. To Robert Smith
  356. To Markes Vandewall
  357. To John Barnes
  358. To Joshua J. Moore
  359. To Lucy Ludwell Paradise
  360. To Joshua Prout
  361. From Robert Smith
  362. To Joshua Barney
  363. To William A. Burwell
  364. To Isaac A. Coles
  365. From Friedrich Johann Jacobsen
  366. To George Jefferson
  367. From Wilson Cary Nicholas
  368. To Wilson Cary Nicholas
  369. From William Short
  370. From Thomas Worthington
  371. From William Lee
  372. From the Author of “Rab & Jane”
  373. From Andrew Jackson
  374. From Bishop James Madison
  375. From Paul Hamilton
  376. From Joshua Barney
  377. From George Jefferson
  378. From William Montgomery
  379. From James Monroe
  380. From Caldcleugh & Thomas
  381. Endorsement of a Hydraulic Ram
  382. To John Moody
  383. From Thomas Appleton
  384. Memorandum of Tasks for James Dinsmore
  385. From James Holland
  386. From George Jefferson
  387. From James Madison
  388. Statement of Account with Mrs. John March
  389. From Thomas Paine
  390. From Thomas W. Peyton
  391. From Alexander Wilson
  392. Notes on Personal Finance
  393. Plan for the Grounds at Monticello
  394. From Philippe Reibelt
  395. From Washington Boyd
  396. Notes on Foreign Affairs
  397. From Milesius Thomas Kirk
  398. From James Madison
  399. Notes on Letters Received by the War Department
  400. From Philippe Reibelt
  401. Petition from the Western Missionary Society
  402. To Justus Erich Bollmann
  403. To Daniel Bradley
  404. From Daniel Bradley
  405. From Andrew Ellicott
  406. From James Monroe
  407. From James Oldham
  408. To Charles Willson Peale
  409. From William Dunbar
  410. From Albert Gallatin
  411. To Charles Willson Peale
  412. From Abraham Bishop
  413. From Robert Brent
  414. From William C. C. Claiborne
  415. From Maria Cosway
  416. To George Jefferson
  417. From William Kilty and William Cranch, with Jefferson’s Order
  418. From Hannah Lowe
  419. From Daniel R. Preston
  420. From Philip Turner
  421. From James Walker
  422. To Albert Gallatin
  423. From William Jarvis
  424. To James Madison
  425. From Rosetta Stevenson
  426. From Rachel Cunningham
  427. From Walter Key
  428. To Louise Françoise Felix Reibelt
  429. To Philippe Reibelt
  430. To Martha Jefferson Randolph
  431. From Robert Mills
  432. From John Vaughan
  433. From Robert Gamble
  434. To James Oldham
  435. From Philippe Reibelt, with Jefferson’s Note
  436. From Caesar A. Rodney
  437. Notes from James Dinsmore on Architectural Ornaments
  438. To Justus Erich Bollmann
  439. From Justus Erich Bollmann
  440. To Christian VII, King of Denmark
  441. From William C. C. Claiborne
  442. To JoĂŁo, Prince Regent of Portugal
  443. To Walter Key
  444. From James Madison
  445. To George Price & Co.
  446. From Robert Smith
  447. From Samuel Smith
  448. To James Walker
  449. From Elizabeth Allicocke
  450. From Albert Gallatin
  451. From Oliver Whipple
  452. From William Emerson
  453. To Albert Gallatin
  454. To Philip Turner
  455. From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
  456. From James Madison
  457. To Philippe Reibelt
  458. From James Madison
  459. From John J. May
  460. From Gaspard Quinard
  461. From Samuel Bryan
  462. To David Gelston
  463. From Benjamin H. Latrobe
  464. To Charles Willson Peale
  465. To Philippe Reibelt
  466. From Henry Dearborn
  467. Estimates of Men Eligible for Militia
  468. From William Lee
  469. From Charles Willson Peale
  470. To Martha Jefferson Randolph
  471. From Philippe Reibelt
  472. From Thomas Tingey
  473. From James Wilkinson
  474. From William C. C. Claiborne
  475. To Henry Dearborn
  476. To Albert Gallatin
  477. From James Hughs
  478. To James Madison
  479. To Caesar A. Rodney
  480. From Philippe Reibelt
  481. To Robert Smith
  482. To Andrew Ellicott
  483. From George Fox Janney
  484. To George Jefferson
  485. To Wilson Cary Nicholas
  486. From James Oldham
  487. From Robert Alexander, Adam Lindsay, and William Prout, with Jefferson’s Note
  488. From Thomas Ewell
  489. From George Jefferson
  490. From Meriwether Jones
  491. From John Jordan
  492. From Martha Jefferson Randolph
  493. Petition of Jacob Scott, Jacob Ayers, and John Ayers
  494. To Madame de Tessé
  495. To William Patterson
  496. To Robert Purviance
  497. To Thomas Ewell
  498. From William Jarvis
  499. Proclamation Designating Site for Public Market
  500. To James Currie
  501. From Thomas Main
  502. From James Oldham
  503. From William Tatham
  504. From Albert Gallatin
  505. From William Hamilton
  506. From John O’Neill
  507. From Philippe Reibelt
  508. From Samuel Smith
  509. From William Tatham
  510. From Isaac Briggs
  511. From William C. C. Claiborne
  512. To James Dinsmore
  513. To George Jefferson
  514. From George Jefferson
  515. To George W. Erving
  516. From Henry Ingle
  517. To Dolley Payne Todd Madison
  518. From James Monroe
  519. To Samuel Smith
  520. From John Stark
  521. From James Walker
  522. From Stephen Cathalan, Jr.
  523. From David Gelston
  524. From William Kilty
  525. To William McIntosh, Alexander Cornells, and Others
  526. From Robert Purviance
  527. From Christopher Towill
  528. To Albert Gallatin
  529. From Albert Gallatin
  530. From William McIntosh, Alexander Cornells, and Others
  531. Naval and Land Militia Enrollment Estimates
  532. From Charles Willson Peale
  533. To Philippe Reibelt
  534. From Mary Batting
  535. From Samuel Brown
  536. From Peter Freneau
  537. From George Jefferson
  538. Memorial of the Louisiana Territory Grand Jury
  539. From Philip Mazzei
  540. From Philippe Reibelt
  541. From Elias Rogers
  542. To Henry Dearborn
  543. From Albert Gallatin
  544. From Francis Green
  545. From John B. C. Lucas
  546. From Samuel Smith
  547. From William C. C. Claiborne
  548. To Albert Gallatin
  549. To William Hamilton
  550. To Jones & Howell
  551. From Levi Lincoln
  552. From Philippe Reibelt
  553. From Caesar A. Rodney
  554. Washington School Subscription Receipt
  555. From James Wilkinson
  556. From Stephen Cathalan, Jr.
  557. Memorandum from Henry Dearborn
  558. From Richard Dobson
  559. To John Hoomes Freeman
  560. From David Gelston
  561. To George Jefferson
  562. To Martha Jefferson Randolph
  563. From Elizabeth Dandridge Chamberlayne
  564. From George Richardson Todd
  565. From Thomas Ewell
  566. To Hewes & Miller
  567. To Matthew Maury
  568. To Samuel Mifflin
  569. From J. P. G. Muhlenberg
  570. To John Taggart
  571. From William Wilson & Sons
  572. From Samuel Brown
  573. From William Dunbar
  574. From Thomas Freeman
  575. From Ichabod Goodwin and Others
  576. From Elizabeth Bache Harwood
  577. From Charles Willson Peale
  578. From Ellen Wayles Randolph
  579. From Hewes & Miller
  580. From George Jefferson
  581. From the Orleans Territory House of Representatives
  582. From Robert Purviance
  583. From Robert Smith
  584. From Frederick S. Guion
  585. From William Henry Harrison
  586. From Jones & Howell
  587. Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
  588. Notes on Reports from John Sibley
  589. From Craven Peyton
  590. From Philippe Reibelt
  591. From Jacob Wagner
  592. From William C. C. Claiborne
  593. To Charles Willson Peale
  594. To Samuel Smith
  595. Bill for Establishing a Naval Militia
  596. Bill for Organizing the Militia
  597. From Alexis Daudet
  598. To John Hoomes Freeman
  599. To George Jefferson
  600. To John Jordan
  601. To Keller & Forman
  602. To John B. Magruder
  603. From the Orleans Territory House of Representatives
  604. From Thomas Paine
  605. To George Price & Co.
  606. From Philippe Reibelt
  607. To James Walker
  608. From Tadeusz Kosciuszko
  609. From Albert Gallatin
  610. Notes on Personal Finance
  611. From Samuel Smith
  612. To Thomas Freeman
  613. To Albert Gallatin
  614. From Thomas W. Maury
  615. To James Oldham
  616. To Robert Patterson
  617. To Philippe Reibelt
  618. From John Taggart
  619. From Benjamin Smith Barton
  620. From Thomas Branagan
  621. From Joseph Crockett
  622. From Philip Mazzei
  623. From Thomas Appleton
  624. From “B. C.”
  625. From Hugh Holmes
  626. From Thomas Main
  627. From Alexander S. Outlaw
  628. From Robert Smith
  629. From Philip Turner
  630. Expenditures for Land Cessions
  631. From William Heath
  632. From Thomas Munroe
  633. Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
  634. Orders to Commanding Officer at Natchitoches
  635. Proposal for a Treaty with Spain
  636. From Philippe Reibelt
  637. Appendix I: List of Appointments
  638. Appendix II: Dinners by Date
  639. Appendix III: Letters Not Printed in Full
  640. Appendix IV: Letters Not Found
  641. Index