The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16

November 1789 to July 1790

Thomas Jefferson, Julian P. Boyd, Julian Boyd

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780691045481
• eBook ISBN:
  9780691185224
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This volume brings Jefferson back to the U.S. from France, to become the first American Secretary of State, and marks the beginning of Jefferson's work in the Cabinet with Alexander Hamilton.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• FOREWORD
• GUIDE TO EDITORIAL APPARATUS
• CONTENTS
• Account of a sailor calling himself Archibald Ross, 564
• Account of the mutiny on the Bounty, 275
• Adams, John, letter to, 283 (note)
• Addresses of welcome and responses thereto: Albemarle citizens, 177
• Addresses of welcome and responses thereto: Albemarle citizens, 178
• Albemarle citizens, address of welcome and response, "The Holy Cause of Freedom," 167-80
• Alden, Roger, memorandum of, 471 (note)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, certificate of Jefferson's election to membership, 112 (note)
• Anderson, James, letter from, 391, with enclosure
• Anderson, Nathaniel, letter from, [196] (note)
• Appointments, Jefferson's opinion on the powers of the Senate respecting diplomatic, 378
• Arrearages in soldiers' pay, cabinet opinions concerning resolutions on, 455-70
• Autun, Bishop of, Jefferson's notes on propositions of, concerning a universal standard of weights and measures, 669 (note)
• Bancroft, Edward, letter to, [86] (note)
• Barclay, Thomas, letters from, 320 (note)
• Barclay, Thomas, letters from, 471
• Barnes, Joseph, letters from, 590,
• Barnes, Joseph, letters from, 591 (note)
• Barrett, Nathaniel, letters to and from, 102
• Barrett, Nathaniel, letters to and from, 102 (note)
• The Bee, or universal literary intelligencer, prospectus for, 391, (note)
• Bellanger, Madame Plumard de, letter to, 298
• Bellini, Charles, letter to, 485
• Bethune-Charost, letter from, 39
• Biddle, Charles, letter to, from Sharp Delany, 563 (note)
• Bingham, William, letter from, 591 (note)
• Blackden, Samuel, letter from, 247
• Blair, Archibald, letter to, 82
• Bolling, John, letters to, 157
• Bolling, John, letters to, 207
• Bond, Phineas, letter from, 83
• Boonen Graves & William Crafts, letter from, 324 (note)
• Botidour, Mlle., letter from, to Martha Jefferson, [135] (note)
• Boudinot, Elias, letter to, 581
• Bourne, Sylvanus, letters from, 264,
• Bourne, Sylvanus, letters from, [265] (note);
• Bounty, account of the mutiny on the, 275
• Boyd, Archibald, letter from, to Walter Boyd, [312] (note)
• Boyd, Walter, letter to, 311
• Brehan, Madame de, letter from, 424
• Brown, James, letter from, 38
• Brown, John, affidavit of, 354 (note)
• Brown, William, letters to, 349,
• Brown, William, letters to, [350] (note),
• Brown, William, letters to, 486 (note)
• Bruce, Robert and Peter, letter to, 279 (note)
• Bryan, Anderson, letter from, 93
• Buchanan, George, letter from, 487 (note)
• Burges, J. B., letter from and to Gouverneur Morris, 535 (note)
• Burke, Edmund, extract from the speech of, 260
• Butler, Pierce, receipt by, 325 (note)
• Caractus, pedigree of [192] ( note)
• Carmichael, William, letters to, 329
• Carmichael, William, letters to, 450
• Carr, Martha Jefferson, letter to, 138
• Carr, Peter, letters from, 205
• Carr, Peter, letters from, 393
• Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, letter to, 486 (note)
• Carter, Charles, letter from, 21
• Cary, Wilson Miles, letter from, 549 (note)
• Chalon, letter to, from the Farmers-General, 18
• Chalut and Arnoux, the Abbes, letter to, 305
• Church, Angelica Schuyler, letter to, 549
• Clay, the Rev. Charles, letter to, 129
• Coffyn, Francis, letter to, 223 (note)
• Coinage, copper, documents concerning, 335-49
• Colvard, Benjamin, letter from, [309] (note)
• Commercial policy, documents on American, 513-30
• Consular Convention of 1788, instrument of ratification of, 87 (note)
• Copying press, drawing of [324] (note)
• Corny, Madame de, letter to, 289
• Cosway, Maria, letter from, 312
• Coxe, Tench, letters from, 531
• Craigie, Andrew, letter from, 264 (note)
• Cruse, Englehart, letter from, to George Washington, 413 (note)
• Cuthbert, William, letters from, 566 (note)
• Cutting, John Brown, letters from, 251
• Cutting, John Brown, letters from, 262
• Cutting, John Brown, letters from, [415] (note)
• Cutting, John Brown, letters from, [509] (note)
• Cutting, Nathaniel, letter from, 205
• Davies, William John, affidavit concerning escaped slaves, 451 (note)
• Davis, Augustine, letter from, 52
• Decius's letters on the opposition to the new constitution in Virginia, 141 (note)
• Delamotte, letter from, 17
• Delany, Sharp, letter from, to Charles Biddle, 563 (note)
• De Lormerie, letters from, 433,
• De Lormerie, letters from,, 434 (note)
• De Pio, letter from, 230
• Derieux, J. P. P., letters from, 42
• Derieux, J. P. P., letters from, 192
• Diodati, letter to, 295
• Diplomats, foreign, Jefferson's policy on presents to, documents concerning, 356-68
• Dohrman, Arnold Henry, letter to, [308] (note)
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 28,
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 90
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, [223] (note)
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 236
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, [237] (note)
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 263
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, [325] (note)
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 382
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 406
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 565
• Donald, Alexander, letters from, 591
• Dowse, Edward, letter from, 286 (note)
• Dumas, C. W. F., official dispatches of, 193
• Dumas, C. W. F., official dispatches of, 94 (note)
• Dumas, C. W. F., official dispatches of, 265
• Dumas, C. W. F., official dispatches of, 411
• Dumas, C. W. F., official dispatches of, 415
• Dumas, C. W. F., official dispatches of, 442
• Dunbar, John, letter to, 30
• The Earth belongs to the living; See Madison on "The earth belongs to the living"
• Eliza, ship, sea letter to, 284 (note)
• Enville, Madame d', letter to, 290
• Eppes, Elizabeth Wayles, letter from, 209 (note)
• Eppes, Francis, letters from, [209] (note)
• Eppes, Francis, letters from, 447
• Estaing, Comte d', letter from, to George Washington, 555
• Farmers-General, letter from, to Chalon, 18
• Federal offices in North Carolina and the Southwest Territory, list of recommendations for, 476
• Fenno's Gazette of the United States, documents concerning Jefferson's alliance with, 237-62
• Fitzhugh, William, letter from, 223 (note)
• Floridablanca, Conde de, letter of credence to, 330 (note)
• Forrest & Stoddert, letter from, 428
• Forrest, Uriah, letter from, 429 (note)
• Franklin, Benjamin, letter from, 326, with enclosure
• Franklin, William Temple, letters from, 36
• Franklin, William Temple, letters from, 364
• memorandum concerning etrennes by, 358
• Franks, David S., letter from, 158
• Garland, [John], letter to, 482 (note)
• Garth, 'Thomas, letter to, 209
• Gautier, Jean Antoine, letter from, 363 (note)
• Gem, Richard, letter to, 297
• Georgia land grants, Jefferson's opinion on certain, 406
• Giles, William B., letter from, [22] (note)
• Giles, William B., letter from, 23
• Gilmer, George, letter from, 433
• Grand, Ferdinand, letters to, 298
• Grand, Ferdinand, letters to, 368
• Griffin, Cyrus, letters from, 14
• Hamilton, Alexander, letters from, 353
• Hamilton, Alexander, letters from, 369 (note)
• Hamilton, Alexander, letters from, 472 (note)
• Hamilton, Alexander, letters from, 479
• Hamilton, Alexander, letters from, 511
• Hancock, John, letter from and to, 563 (note)
• Harvie, John, Jr., letter from, 136
• Haskell, Edward, certificate to, 24 (note)
• Hay, William, letter from, [92] (note)
• Hazard, Ebenezer, letter from, 188
• Henderson, McCaul & Co., bonds from Jefferson to, 212 (note)
• Hopkinson, Francis, letters from, 422
• Hopkinson, Francis, letters from, 581
• Houdetot, Madame d', letter to, 292
• Howell, David, letters from, 451
• Humphreys, David, letter from, 66
• Hunter, William Jr., address to Jefferson as Mayor of Alexandria, 224
• Izard, Ralph, letter to, 376 (note)
• [Jamieson, Neil], letter from, to Josiah Parker, 523
• Jay, John, letter from, 20
• Jefferson, Elizabeth, account with estate of, [192] (note)
• Jefferson, John, letter from, 87
• Jefferson, John Garland, letter to, 480
• Jefferson, Mary, letters from, 384
• Jefferson, Mary, letters from, 435
• Jefferson, Martha, letter to, from Mlle. Botidour, [135] (note)
• Jefferson, Randolph, letter to, 194
• Jefferson, Thomas, addresses of welcome to, by Virginia house ofdelegates and senate, with replies, 11
• Jefferson, Thomas, addresses of welcome to, by Virginia house ofdelegates and senate, with replies, 12
• Jones, John Coffin, letter from, 397
• Jones, Joseph, letter from, 182 (note)
• Joy, Benjamin, sea letter to, 284 (note)
• Joy, George, letter to, 284
• Kemp, John, letter from, 580
• Kerr, Charles, account with, [212] (note)
• Lafayette, letters to, 292
• Lafayette, letters to, 376
• Lafayette, Madame de, letter to, 295
• La Luzerne, letter to, 394
• La Rochefoucauld d'Enville, letters to, 296
• La Rochefoucauld d'Enville, letters to, 377
• Laurens, Henry, letter to, [283] (note)
• Leak, Walter, copy of plat of survey by, 100 (note)
• Lear, Tobias, letter from, 554, with enclosure
• Lee, Henry, letter from, [386] (note)
• Leeds, Duke of, letters from and to Gouverneur Morris, 535 (note)
• Leroy & Bayard, letter to, 296
• Leslie, Robert, letter from, 588
• Le Veillard, letter to, 306
• Lewis, Charles Lilburne, letter from [192] (note)
• Lewis, Mary Randolph, letter to, 93
• Lewis, Mary Walker, letter from, 492 (note)
• Lewis, Nicholas, letters to, 99 (note)
• Lewis, Nicholas, letters to, 210
• Lewis, Nicholas, letters to, 411
• Lewis, Nicholas, letters to, 482
• Lewis, Nicholas, letters to, 492
• Lewis, Nicholas, letters to, 599
• Lewis, Robert, letter from, 94
• Lindsay, William, letter from, to the secretary of the treasury, 353 (note)
• Louis XVI, letter to, from George Washington, 314
• Lyle, James, letter from, [109] (note)
• Lyle, James, letter from, [212] (note)
• McCaul, Alexander, letter from, 109
• McHenry, James, letter from, 413 (note)
• Madison on "The Earth Belongs to the Living," 146-54
• Madison, James, letters from, 125
• Madison, James, letters from, 147
• Madison, James, letters from, 151
• Madison, James, letters from, 166
• Madison, James, letters from, 183
• Madison, James, letters from, 213
• Madison, James, letters from, [287] (note)
• Madison, the Rev. James, letter to, 82 (note)
• Marriage settlement for Martha Jefferson, 189
• Mason, George, letter from, 232
• Massachusetts, letter from governor of, 563 (note)
• Maury, the Rev. Matthew, letter to, 88
• Mazzei, Philip, letter to, 307
• Medals struck in France, See Notes on American medals
• Melchior, Friedrich, Baron von Grimm, memorandum on etrennes, 359
• Merchants, mode of business between English and southern, 528
• Mifflin, Thomas, letter from, 563 (note)
• Mitchell, John H., letter from, to Thomas Tudor Tucker, 342
• Monroe, James, letters from, 110
• Monroe, James, letters from, 432
• Monroe, James, letters from, 478
• Monroe, James, letters from, 596
• Monticello, list of silver left at, 196 (note)
• Montmorin, letters to, 313
• Montmorin, letters to, 314
• Morris, Gouverneur, letter from, 328
• Morris, Thomas, letter from, [97] (note)
• Moustier, letters from, 100
• Moustier, letters from, 422
• Mullins, Henry, letter from, [196] (note)
• Myers, Moses, letter to, from David Plunket, 354 (note)
• Nicholas, John, Jr., letter from, 139. See also, Decius's letters on the opposition to the new constitution in Virginia, 141-5
• Nicholas, John, Sr., letter from, [116] (note)
• Nivison, John, letter from, to Josiah Parker, 354 (note)
• North Carolina and the Southwest Territory, recommendations for federal offices in, 476
• Notes on American medals struck in France, documents concerning, 53-78: Editorial note, 53
• O'Bryen, Richard, letter from, 20
• Offices, list of persons recommended for, in North Carolina and SouthwestTerritory, 476
• Otis, Samuel A., letter from, 588 (note)
• Otto, Louis Guillaume, letter from, 354
• Paine, Thomas, letter from, to George Washington, 531 (note)
• Paradise, John, letter from, 294
• Paradise, Lucy Ludwell, letters from, 137
• Paradise, Lucy Ludwell, letters from, 138 (note)
• Paradise, Lucy Ludwell, letters from, 196
• Paradise, Lucy Ludwell, letters from, 198
• Paradise, Lucy Ludwell, letters from, 294 (note)
• Paradise, Lucy Ludwell, letters from, 446
• Parker, Josiah, letter to, from John Nivison, 354 (note)
• letter to, from [Neil Jamieson], 523
• Pennsylvania, president of, letters to, 281
• Pennsylvania, president of, letters to, 562, with enclosures
• Peters, Richard, letter from, 538
• Petry, Jean Baptiste, letter from, 52
• Piattoli, the Abbe, letter from, 214
• Pinckney, Charles, letter from, 563 (note)
• Platt, Richard, letter from, 24
• Pleasants, James B., letter from, 412
• Plunket, David, letter from, to Moses Myers, 354 (note)
• Poggi, Anthony C., and John Trumbull, receipt by, 550 (note)
• Poplar Forest, plat survey of, 190
• Presents to foreign diplomats. See Diplomats, foreign, Jefferson's policy on presents to
• Proclamation of the Consular Convention of 1788, 327
• Ramsay, David, letter from, 332
• Randall, P. R., letters from, 226
• Randall, P. R., letters from, 226 (note)
• Randolph, David Meade, letter from, 509
• Randolph, Edmund, letter from, 13
• Randolph, Martha Jefferson, letter from, 384
• Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr., letters from, 370
• Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr., letters from, 409
• Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr., letters from, 441
• Randolph, Thomas Mann, Sr., letters from, 135
• Randolph, Thomas Mann, Sr., letters from, 155] (note)
• Rayneval, letter to, 315
• Remsen, Henry, letter to, 310
• Rittenhouse, David, letters from, 545
• Rittenhouse, David, letters from, 567
• Rittenhouse, David, letters from, 594
• Ross, Archibald, account of a sailor calling himself, 564
• Rush, Benjamin, letter from, 411
• Russell, Thomas, letter to, 494, with enclosure
• Rutledge, Edward, letters from, 389
• Rutledge, Edward, letters from, 544
• Rutledge, John, Jr., letters from, 266
• Rutledge, John, Jr., letters from, 413
• Rutledge, John, Jr., letters from, 426
• Rutledge, John, Jr., letters from, [428] (note)
• Sarly, Jacob, letter from, 39
• Seabrook, Nicholas B., letter from, [82] (note)
• Seeds, list of, desired by Madame d'Enville, 503
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 3
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 4 (note)
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 5 (note)
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 6 (note)
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 7 (note)
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 32
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 40
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 49
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 79
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 86
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 103
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 119
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 162
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 165 (note)
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 199
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 219
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 234
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 267
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 279
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 301
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 333
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 371
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 400
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 419
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 425
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 430
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 436
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 504
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 570
• Short, William, official dispatches from, 586
• Sinclair, Sir John, letter from, 389
• Skipwith, Fulwar, letters from, 90
• Skipwith, Fulwar, letters from, 561 (note)
• Skipwith, Henry, letters to, 16
• Skipwith, Henry, letters to, 51
• Smith, Meriwether, letter from, 155
• Smith, William, letter from, 547
• Soldiers' pay, Cabinet opinions on the resolutions concerning arrearages of, 455
• South Carolina, letter from governor of, 563 (note)
• Steele, John, letters from, 471 (note)
• Tatham, William, letters from, 9
• Tatham, William, letters from, 185
• Tessé, Madame de, letters to, 226
• Tessé, Madame de, letters to, 378
• Tolozan, letter to, [388] (note)
• Thompson, Benjamin, letters from, 282
• Thompson, Benjamin, letters from, 282 (note)
• Thompson, George, letter from, 510
• Trumbull, John, and Anthony C. Poggi, receipt by, 550 (note)
• Tucker, Thomas Tudor, letter to, from John H. Mitchell, 342
• United States:
• Vacher, John Francis, letter from, 309
• Van der Kemp, Francis Adrian, letter to, 285
• Vaughan, Benjamin, letter from, 274,
• with enclosed account of the mutiny on the Bounty, 275
• Vernes &: Cie., letter from, 97 (note)
• Vernes, Jacob, letters from, 94
• Vernes, Jacob, letters from, [97] (note)
• Vernes, Jacob, letters from, 116
• Vernes, Jacob, letters from, 188
• with enclosure of prices current, Bordeaux; letter from, to the secretary of state, 97 (note)
• Viar, José Ignacio de, letter from, 473 (note)
• Virginia house of delegates, address of welcome by, [11] (note), reply, 11
• Virginia senate, address of welcome by, 11, and reply, 12
• Walker, John, letter from, [157] (note)
• Walker, Thomas, letters from, 114, 479;
• Walton, George, letter from, to John Jay, 451 (note)
• Waring, William, plan for a uniform system of weights and measures, 619
• Washington, George, letters from, 8
• Washington, George, letters from, 116
• Washington, George, letters from, 531
• Watson, David, letters from and to, 212 (note)
• Webb, George, Jr., letter from, [94] (note)
• Weights and measures, documents concerning report on, 602-75
• Willard, Joseph, letter from, 111, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Willis, Francis, Jr., letter from, 165
• Wilson, Stephen, letter from, to William Smith, 548 (note)
• Wolcott, Oliver, letter from, to Alexander Hamilton, 472 (note)
• Wyley, Alexander, letter from, [388] (note)
• Wythe, George, letter from, 368, with enclosure from James Ferguson's Tables and tracts
• Yazoo. See Georgia land grants, Jefferson's opinion on, 406
• Zariny, Joseph, letter from, 13