
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
About this book
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
- Cover
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Method and Apparatus
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Jefferson Chronology
- From Thomas Appleton
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- From DeWitt Clinton
- To Dorcas Osgood Marble Dearborn
- To Lewis Deblois
- To William Jarvis
- To Dolley Payne Todd Madison
- To Edward Preble
- To Anne Cary Randolph
- From John Rhea
- To Robert Williams
- To Caspar Wistar
- To Nathaniel Ellicott
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- Invoice from Benjamin King
- Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
- From Stephen White
- From William Dunbar
- From Donald Fraser
- From Albert Gallatin
- From George Jefferson
- From Robert Smith
- From Caesar Rodney Wilson
- To William C. C. Claiborne
- To Albert Gallatin
- To Reuben Lewis
- To Dolley Payne Todd Madison
- To James Oldham
- From Jean Baptiste Petry
- To Ellen Wayles Randolph
- To Philippe Reibelt
- From Philippe Reibelt
- To Margaret Bayard Smith
- From Louis de Tousard
- From Tadeusz Kosciuszko
- From Edward Johnston
- From Anne Cary Randolph
- From Martha Jefferson Randolph
- From Robert Smith
- From Elizabeth G. Tart and Sarah Amelia Bampfield
- From Thomas Hall
- To Jones & Howell
- From John Hamilton Moore
- To Charles Willson Peale
- From Joseph Yznardi, Sr.
- Memorandum for John Barnes
- To Charles Buxton
- To DeWitt Clinton
- From Thomas Freeman
- To George Jefferson
- Invoice from Rosanna McKenney
- To Philippe Reibelt
- From Edward Rowse
- From William Tatham
- From Robert Williams
- To William C. C. Claiborne
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- To Henry Dearborn
- To Gideon Granger
- To John Lenthall
- From William Martin
- From Thomas Munroe
- Specifications for Work at Presidentâs House and Capitol
- To Louis de Tousard
- To Jonathan Williams
- From John Barnes
- Petition of Christopher Church, with Jeffersonâs Order
- From Albert Gallatin
- From Jones & Howell
- From Robert Morrison
- From William Pryce
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From George Jefferson
- From Jourdan
- From James Oldham
- From Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis
- From Ellen Wayles Randolph
- From William Bentley
- From Robert Brent
- From Jacob Crowninshield
- From Gideon Granger
- From Benjamin H. Latrobe
- From Pierre Chouteau
- To John Barnes
- From Henry Dearborn
- From John Thomson Mason
- From Philip Mazzei
- To James Oldham
- Petition of Robert Rankin, with Jeffersonâs Order
- From Daniel Strobel, Jr.
- From Joseph Anderson
- To Albert Gallatin
- To Gibson & Jefferson
- To David Howell
- Notes on Lease to Eli Alexander
- From Charles Buxton
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- From Henry Dearborn
- From John Gardiner
- From Michael Leib
- From James Madison
- From Jean Baptiste Petry
- From John Richman
- To Robert Brent
- From David Gelston
- To Gideon Granger
- From Gideon Granger
- To James Madison
- From James Oldham
- From Samuel Harrison Smith
- To Bowling Clark
- From James Madison
- From Philip Mazzei
- From Albert Picket
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From William Wirt
- From John Barnes
- To Henry Dearborn
- From John Erving
- From JoĂŁo, Prince Regent of Portugal
- To James Madison
- From Philip Mazzei
- From Henry Meigs
- From Ledyard Seymour
- From Joseph Dougherty
- From Elizabeth G. Tart and Sarah Amelia Bampfield
- From Jacob Wagner
- From Henry Dearborn
- From John Guiho de Kerlegand
- From Jacob Wagner
- From Daniel Fisher of New York
- From Albert Gallatin
- From Levi Lincoln
- From Edward Preble
- From William Lambert
- From Martinus van Marum
- From William Jarvis
- From John McMenamy
- Statement of Account with James Cheetham
- From James Madison
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- To Henry Dearborn
- To David Gelston
- To Gideon Granger
- From William Jones
- From Jacob Wagner
- From Joel Barlow
- From Bowling Clark
- To James Madison
- Notes on Letter to Gibson & Jefferson
- To Edward Rowse
- To William Wirt
- From Ahmad Qaramanli
- From Jonathan Williams
- From John Bracken
- From Robert Brent
- From Dominick A. Hall
- From Levett Harris
- From John Page
- From Joshua Pike
- From Edmund Randolph
- From P. & C. Roche
- From Edward Rowse
- From William Tatham
- From John Vaughan
- To John Breckinridge
- From Henry Dearborn
- To Albert Gallatin
- To James Madison
- To Robert Smith
- From Thomas Appleton
- Peter Carrâs Nailery Account
- Petition of Thomas Nevitt, with Jeffersonâs Order
- To Charles Burrall
- From Stephen Cathalan, Jr.
- To Albert Gallatin
- From Antonio Garcia Herreros
- From James Madison
- From Thomas Newton, Jr.
- To John Page
- From John Sibley
- To Jacob Wagner
- Inquest on Shadwell Milldam
- From Nathan Lufborough
- From William B. Underwood
- From Robert Williams
- To John Barnes
- From James Leander Cathcart
- To Joseph Dougherty
- To Daniel Fisher of New York
- To William Lambert
- To Michael Leib
- From Ătienne Lemaire
- To Albert Picket
- To P. & C. Roche
- From Elizabeth G. Tart and Sarah Amelia Bampfield
- From David Howell
- From George Jefferson
- To Joel Barlow
- To Robert Brent
- From Peter Lenox
- From George White
- From John Barnes
- From Henry Dearborn
- From J. P. P. Derieux
- To John Harvie
- From Samuel Latham Mitchill
- To John Vaughan
- To Henry Dearborn
- From Joseph Dougherty
- From Simon Harris
- To Craven Peyton
- To Edmund Randolph
- From James Simons
- From Tarhe and Others
- From William Eustis
- From Albert Gallatin
- To Ătienne Lemaire
- To James Madison
- To Robert Smith
- To Antonio Garcia Herreros
- To William Short
- To George White
- From Henry Dearborn
- To William Bentley
- To Jacob Crowninshield
- From Gideon Granger
- Address of the Indiana Territory General Assembly
- From James McDowell and Others
- To John Stark
- From Alexander I, Emperor of Russia
- From George Jefferson
- From Ătienne Lemaire
- From James Madison
- From Joshua Prout
- From Albert Gallatin
- From Robert Smith
- From Samuel Latham Mitchill
- To Henry Dearborn
- From Richard Folwell
- To Peter Lenox
- To John Barnes
- From Henry Dearborn
- From Thomas Ewell
- To Albert Gallatin
- From Albert Gallatin
- From Zachariah Hall
- To Jones & Howell
- From Joseph de Mendoza y RĂos
- From Anonymous
- From Albert Gallatin
- To Gideon Granger
- To James Madison
- To Jacob Crowninshield
- To Henry Dearborn
- To Albert Gallatin
- To David Robinson
- To Robert Smith
- From Robert Smith
- To John Strode
- From Thomas L. Winthrop
- From Leroy Anderson
- To James Madison
- From Lucy Ludwell Paradise
- From John Sibley
- From John Martin Baker
- From John Barnes
- From Abraham Bradley, Jr.
- From Thomas Carnes
- From Jacob Crowninshield
- From Samuel R. Demaree
- From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
- From Polly Logwood
- From William Henry Harrison
- To Thomas Ewell
- To Albert Gallatin
- To Robert Smith
- From Robert Smith
- To Abraham Bradley, Jr.
- From Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis
- From Benjamin H. Latrobe
- To James McDowell and Others
- From William Short
- From Robert Smith
- Assessment of Postal Route from Francis Abraham
- From Alexis Daudet
- From James Madison
- From Ahmad Qaramanli
- From Robert Smith
- From Joel Barlow
- From John Barnes
- Petition for William Alcorn
- Notes on Locks and Hinges
- From Larkin Smith
- From Robert Smith
- From Thomas Worthington
- From Henry Dearborn
- From Craven Peyton
- From Jacob Wagner
- To George Jefferson
- To Robert Smith
- To Leroy Anderson
- From Daniel Bradley
- Memorial of Thomas Harris of Virginia
- From Joshua J. Moore
- To Larkin Smith
- From Robert Smith
- From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
- To Benjamin H. Latrobe
- To Samuel Latham Mitchill
- From Edmund Randolph
- From Ruelle
- From Francis Taliaferro Brooke
- From Robert Smith
- From Thomas Ewell
- From George Jefferson
- From Nicholas Madgett
- From Robert Smith
- From John Barnes
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- From Jacob Crowninshield
- From âShilohâ
- To Jacob Crowninshield
- From Albert Gallatin
- To George Jefferson
- From Philip Mazzei
- From Margaret Page
- From Albert Gallatin
- To Jacob Crowninshield
- From Silas Halsey
- From Benjamin H. Latrobe
- From James Walker
- From Joseph Forster
- From James Madison
- From Charles Willson Peale
- From William A. Burwell
- To James Madison
- From William Wirt
- From Jacob Wagner
- To Abraham Bradley, Jr.
- To Albert Gallatin
- To George Jefferson
- From Meriwether Jones
- Color Plates
- To James Madison
- From John Moody
- To Robert Smith
- To Markes Vandewall
- To John Barnes
- To Joshua J. Moore
- To Lucy Ludwell Paradise
- To Joshua Prout
- From Robert Smith
- To Joshua Barney
- To William A. Burwell
- To Isaac A. Coles
- From Friedrich Johann Jacobsen
- To George Jefferson
- From Wilson Cary Nicholas
- To Wilson Cary Nicholas
- From William Short
- From Thomas Worthington
- From William Lee
- From the Author of âRab & Janeâ
- From Andrew Jackson
- From Bishop James Madison
- From Paul Hamilton
- From Joshua Barney
- From George Jefferson
- From William Montgomery
- From James Monroe
- From Caldcleugh & Thomas
- Endorsement of a Hydraulic Ram
- To John Moody
- From Thomas Appleton
- Memorandum of Tasks for James Dinsmore
- From James Holland
- From George Jefferson
- From James Madison
- Statement of Account with Mrs. John March
- From Thomas Paine
- From Thomas W. Peyton
- From Alexander Wilson
- Notes on Personal Finance
- Plan for the Grounds at Monticello
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From Washington Boyd
- Notes on Foreign Affairs
- From Milesius Thomas Kirk
- From James Madison
- Notes on Letters Received by the War Department
- From Philippe Reibelt
- Petition from the Western Missionary Society
- To Justus Erich Bollmann
- To Daniel Bradley
- From Daniel Bradley
- From Andrew Ellicott
- From James Monroe
- From James Oldham
- To Charles Willson Peale
- From William Dunbar
- From Albert Gallatin
- To Charles Willson Peale
- From Abraham Bishop
- From Robert Brent
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- From Maria Cosway
- To George Jefferson
- From William Kilty and William Cranch, with Jeffersonâs Order
- From Hannah Lowe
- From Daniel R. Preston
- From Philip Turner
- From James Walker
- To Albert Gallatin
- From William Jarvis
- To James Madison
- From Rosetta Stevenson
- From Rachel Cunningham
- From Walter Key
- To Louise Françoise Felix Reibelt
- To Philippe Reibelt
- To Martha Jefferson Randolph
- From Robert Mills
- From John Vaughan
- From Robert Gamble
- To James Oldham
- From Philippe Reibelt, with Jeffersonâs Note
- From Caesar A. Rodney
- Notes from James Dinsmore on Architectural Ornaments
- To Justus Erich Bollmann
- From Justus Erich Bollmann
- To Christian VII, King of Denmark
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- To JoĂŁo, Prince Regent of Portugal
- To Walter Key
- From James Madison
- To George Price & Co.
- From Robert Smith
- From Samuel Smith
- To James Walker
- From Elizabeth Allicocke
- From Albert Gallatin
- From Oliver Whipple
- From William Emerson
- To Albert Gallatin
- To Philip Turner
- From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
- From James Madison
- To Philippe Reibelt
- From James Madison
- From John J. May
- From Gaspard Quinard
- From Samuel Bryan
- To David Gelston
- From Benjamin H. Latrobe
- To Charles Willson Peale
- To Philippe Reibelt
- From Henry Dearborn
- Estimates of Men Eligible for Militia
- From William Lee
- From Charles Willson Peale
- To Martha Jefferson Randolph
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From Thomas Tingey
- From James Wilkinson
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- To Henry Dearborn
- To Albert Gallatin
- From James Hughs
- To James Madison
- To Caesar A. Rodney
- From Philippe Reibelt
- To Robert Smith
- To Andrew Ellicott
- From George Fox Janney
- To George Jefferson
- To Wilson Cary Nicholas
- From James Oldham
- From Robert Alexander, Adam Lindsay, and William Prout, with Jeffersonâs Note
- From Thomas Ewell
- From George Jefferson
- From Meriwether Jones
- From John Jordan
- From Martha Jefferson Randolph
- Petition of Jacob Scott, Jacob Ayers, and John Ayers
- To Madame de Tessé
- To William Patterson
- To Robert Purviance
- To Thomas Ewell
- From William Jarvis
- Proclamation Designating Site for Public Market
- To James Currie
- From Thomas Main
- From James Oldham
- From William Tatham
- From Albert Gallatin
- From William Hamilton
- From John OâNeill
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From Samuel Smith
- From William Tatham
- From Isaac Briggs
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- To James Dinsmore
- To George Jefferson
- From George Jefferson
- To George W. Erving
- From Henry Ingle
- To Dolley Payne Todd Madison
- From James Monroe
- To Samuel Smith
- From John Stark
- From James Walker
- From Stephen Cathalan, Jr.
- From David Gelston
- From William Kilty
- To William McIntosh, Alexander Cornells, and Others
- From Robert Purviance
- From Christopher Towill
- To Albert Gallatin
- From Albert Gallatin
- From William McIntosh, Alexander Cornells, and Others
- Naval and Land Militia Enrollment Estimates
- From Charles Willson Peale
- To Philippe Reibelt
- From Mary Batting
- From Samuel Brown
- From Peter Freneau
- From George Jefferson
- Memorial of the Louisiana Territory Grand Jury
- From Philip Mazzei
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From Elias Rogers
- To Henry Dearborn
- From Albert Gallatin
- From Francis Green
- From John B. C. Lucas
- From Samuel Smith
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- To Albert Gallatin
- To William Hamilton
- To Jones & Howell
- From Levi Lincoln
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From Caesar A. Rodney
- Washington School Subscription Receipt
- From James Wilkinson
- From Stephen Cathalan, Jr.
- Memorandum from Henry Dearborn
- From Richard Dobson
- To John Hoomes Freeman
- From David Gelston
- To George Jefferson
- To Martha Jefferson Randolph
- From Elizabeth Dandridge Chamberlayne
- From George Richardson Todd
- From Thomas Ewell
- To Hewes & Miller
- To Matthew Maury
- To Samuel Mifflin
- From J. P. G. Muhlenberg
- To John Taggart
- From William Wilson & Sons
- From Samuel Brown
- From William Dunbar
- From Thomas Freeman
- From Ichabod Goodwin and Others
- From Elizabeth Bache Harwood
- From Charles Willson Peale
- From Ellen Wayles Randolph
- From Hewes & Miller
- From George Jefferson
- From the Orleans Territory House of Representatives
- From Robert Purviance
- From Robert Smith
- From Frederick S. Guion
- From William Henry Harrison
- From Jones & Howell
- Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
- Notes on Reports from John Sibley
- From Craven Peyton
- From Philippe Reibelt
- From Jacob Wagner
- From William C. C. Claiborne
- To Charles Willson Peale
- To Samuel Smith
- Bill for Establishing a Naval Militia
- Bill for Organizing the Militia
- From Alexis Daudet
- To John Hoomes Freeman
- To George Jefferson
- To John Jordan
- To Keller & Forman
- To John B. Magruder
- From the Orleans Territory House of Representatives
- From Thomas Paine
- To George Price & Co.
- From Philippe Reibelt
- To James Walker
- From Tadeusz Kosciuszko
- From Albert Gallatin
- Notes on Personal Finance
- From Samuel Smith
- To Thomas Freeman
- To Albert Gallatin
- From Thomas W. Maury
- To James Oldham
- To Robert Patterson
- To Philippe Reibelt
- From John Taggart
- From Benjamin Smith Barton
- From Thomas Branagan
- From Joseph Crockett
- From Philip Mazzei
- From Thomas Appleton
- From âB. C.â
- From Hugh Holmes
- From Thomas Main
- From Alexander S. Outlaw
- From Robert Smith
- From Philip Turner
- Expenditures for Land Cessions
- From William Heath
- From Thomas Munroe
- Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
- Orders to Commanding Officer at Natchitoches
- Proposal for a Treaty with Spain
- From Philippe Reibelt
- Appendix I: List of Appointments
- Appendix II: Dinners by Date
- Appendix III: Letters Not Printed in Full
- Appendix IV: Letters Not Found
- Index