1Memorandum Books, 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
Delivd. Sum. to Jas. Marks with directions what returns to make.Thomas Lucas (Amherst) v. Ambrose Rucker (Amh.). An ejmt. to be
2Memorandum Books, 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
John Stewart (Augusta) v. James Callison (Augusta). I was directed to enter this petn. some time ago, and did it, but it being still blank and so not chargeable I bring the memm. forward, to get rid of old books. So when necessary recur to rough memm. books 1770. Jan. 21. Carter Henry Harrison (Cumberld.) v. Benjamin Harrison (Chas. City). A suit in Canc. in Chas. City to be movd. to Gen. ct....
3Memorandum Books, 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
Wrote to J. Brown to enter in S. O.Anne Harris (Cumbld.) v. Thos. Jefferson & Martha ux. Writ of partition to divide 2400. as. of land in the parish of and county of Cumbld. which they hold together and undivided in tail under the will of Fr. Eppes.
4Memorandum Books, 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
Robert Biscoe (Cumberland). Send him an opinion on the case of John Muse’s children to whom he is father in law.Biscoe. Committed opn. to writing.
5Memorandum Books, 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
to bear expences of Colo. Harrison’s boy 10/. @ 3/6 which comes to £16–16.
6Memorandum Books, 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
Sold my writing table to Randolph Jefferson for £6.Anthony Winston has given bond to me as admr. of Mr. Skelton for £42. for the purchase of a horse which was £30. & 8 years interest.
7From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin, 13 August 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Thomas Shores is a native of Virginia, and having lately in conjunction with some others established a partnership for the purpose of carrying on a trade to Europe, he comes to France on behalf of his house to establish a proper mercantile correspondence. I am less acquainted with him than his partners whom I know to be able, punctual, and of great genius for trade; and...
8To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 21 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
, 2:27–29. Jefferson suggested applying for a loan from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who reportedly had a considerable hoard of crowns in his treasury. Philip Mazzei was recommended as a suitable agent to negotiate the loan. Jefferson also speculated upon the mystifying maneuvers of Howe, then threatening the shores of Virginia.
9From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 21 August 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 26. came safely to hand. I wish it were in my power to suggest any remedy for the evil you complain of. Tho’ did any occur, I should propose it to you with great diffidence. after knowing you had thought on the subject yourself. There is indeed a ...have come to your knolege, out of which perhaps some little good may be drawn. The borrowing money in Europe (or obtaining credit...
10Memorandum Books, 1778 (Jefferson Papers)
Sent by Warner Lewis to Francis Willis for the horse (Crab)Gave Elk-hill Tom to bear his expences 5/.
11From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 30 August 1778 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of June 16. and Aug. 10. came safely to hand. I am in great pain for the French fleet. Operations by land I have more confidence in. What are we to think of the handbill said to have been circulated by Mr. and published in our papers as certified by your brother? Is it genuine? If they really are coming to their senses at last, and it should be proposed to treat of peace, will not...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 8 December 1778 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I was much disappointed at not meeting with you here for many reasons: one or two of them I will explain to you. my partners in the having been unable to send for them in due time, the gentleman who had contracted with us to carry on the business chose to decline it. this prevented our sending at all: & considering our great distance from the Salt-waters, they seem now disposed to drop the...
13Memorandum Books, 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Pd. Ph. Mazzei for Jos. Neilson 25/.Gave my bond to P. Mazzei as security for Randolph Jefferson for paimt. of £146–4–6 on 4th. of Novemb. 1779. with intt. from 4th. Nov. 1778.
14To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of begging leave of your Excellency to forward the enclosed by the first flag which may happen to be going into New york. They are addressed to [a] good man in distress which I am sure will apologize with you for my asking your intervention. I am with the greatest respect your Excellencys mos. obdt & most hbl. servt...to Jefferson from West Point on 16 Aug.: “I have received...
15Memorandum Books, 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Recd. of Treasurer arrears of salary to Dec. 31. £1480–2.Pd. into Treasury in discharge of Mr. Wayles’s debt to Farrell & Jones £1666–13–8.
16From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 4 April 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
being to sail within about three weeks, I think it a safe opportunity of writing to you, and of sending you according to your desire the two bundles of papers indorsed ‘fogli da estrarne principj di governo libero’ &c. and ‘pamphlets, newspapers, fogli stampati,’ which with this letter will be addressed to the care of Penet & co. of Nantz. I have heard nothing certain of you since your... ...to...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 12 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 27. 1779 from Nantes came safely to hand on the 6th. of April last. The Fier Rodrique being not yet sailed, enabled me to answer it. Three copies of your duplicates and instructions were sent by different conveyances since you left us; so that we have great hopes they have come safe to hand: the present however being a very safe conveyance, another set will accompany this...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 31 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
. The intermediate ones 5. and 6. have not come to hand. An express now setting out to carry letters to the ship supposed to be on her departure leaves me leisure to say but little in answer to yours....are deeply felt by the people themselves, and the sentiment of making separate terms with England is so base that I verily beleive no man in America would venture to express such a one. It is...
19Memorandum Books, 1783 (Jefferson Papers)
Maryland & Pennsylva. currency 7/6 to the dollar.Pd. contribution to American Philosoph. society
20[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 11 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. Account of my transactions for him—how my own time filled up in his absence.” Not found.]
21Memorandum Books, 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Paid Mrs. Gheeseland to this day for myself £13–2–6. Note this is a guineaPd. for corn £2–16–3. Charge 14/1 of it to Colo. Monroe.
22To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1784 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday by mr. Maury your favor of Feb. 17. That which you mention to have written by post a few days before is not yet come to hand. I am induced to this quick reply to the former by an alarming paragraph in it, which is that Mazzei is coming to Annapolis. I tremble at the idea. I know he will be worse to me than a return of my double quotidian head-ach. There is a resolution...
23[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 28 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. My proceedings in his affairs—adjournment Congr.—will bear testimony if he can fix particular point—correspond.—communicated de Rieux’s arrival at Chas. T. and letter to me.” Not found. Derieux’s letter is that of 22 Feb. 1784, q.v.]
24[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 8 May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. Valedict.” Not found.]
25[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 1 July 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. That Bowdoin’s conversion of a sterlg. into currency debt was illegal—that Jefferson’s bond for £146–4–6 and Gillespy’s & Henderson’s for £100 having been so long kept by Bowdoin would be considered... as a money paiment—that the former was my brother’s affair—referred to N. Lewis and Key for papers and Garth for information.” Not found.]
26Memorandum Books, 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 31. to Feb. 6. viz.d for the ecu. This was for porter & cheese to my order.
27[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 12 May 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. Receipt of his of Dec. 1. Peace. Likely to form rational connection with Tuscany, but barren unless Tuscans carry on in own bottoms. Barbary states. Query if ask peace with sword or money. Ill health. Begin now to go out. My appointment. Send for Polly next spring. Patsy well. Mr. Short also, and at St. Germ.’s. Mr. Ad. goes to Lond. His son to America. Doradour. Mably dead....
28To John Jay from Thomas Jefferson (private), 23 August 1785 (Jay Papers)
I shall sometimes ask your permission to write you letters, not official but private. the present is of this kind, and is occasioned by the question proposed in yours of June 14 ‘Whether it would be useful to us to carry all
were we perfectly free to decide this question, I should reason as follows. we have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation.... ...to...to
29To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 4 September 1785 (Adams Papers)
On receipt of your favors of Aug. 18. & 23. I conferred with mr̃ Barclay on the measures necessary to be taken to set our treaty with the pyratical states into motion through his agency. supposing that we should begin with the emperor of Marocco, a letter to the emperor & instructions to mr̃ Barclay seemed necessary. I have therefore sketched such outlines for these as appear to me to be proper...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
You desire me to give you an idea of the Origin and Object of our court of Chancery, the Limits of it’s jurisdiction, and it’s Tendency to render property and liberty more or less secure in a country where that security is infinitely valued. The purpose for which you require this obliges me to be concise, as indeed does my situation here, where, as you know, I am without books which might...
31Jefferson’s Account of the Stanhope Affair, [1 November 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
according to the London state of it, candour obliges us to present to the eye of our readers, the same transaction as stated in depositions on oath taken by the order of that government in which it happened. Two citizens of Massachusets, of the names of Dunbar and Lowthorp, living near... one vessel to another and at length to the Mercury commanded by this Capt. Stanhope. He endeavored to force...
32Memorandum Books, 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
to the servants of the two Introducteurs des Ambassadeurs and of the Secretaire des Introducteurs 72f.Gave etrennes to the facteurs des gazettes @ 3f = 18f.
33[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 10 January 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
To Philip Mazzei
34I. Answers to DéMeunier’s First Queries, 24 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
1. On the original establishment of the several states, the civil code of England, from whence they had emigrated, was adopted. This of course could extend only to general laws, and not to those which were particular to certain places in England only. The circumstances of the new states obliged them to add some new laws which their special situation required, and even to change some of the...
35II. Proposed Confederation against the Barbary States, [ca. October 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
: TJ Papers, 36: 6239); in Italian, in the hand of Philip Mazzei; at head of text: “Proposizione per le Potenze che sono in guerra cogli Stati di Barberia.” Mazzei’s translation corresponds in all respects to the French text; it employs the word “Unione” for “Confederation.”...here and elsewhere, varies considerably in phraseology from that described in the notes to Document I. See especially...
36From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 8 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having this moment finished reading the New York papers, I send them to you. As soon as you are done with them I shall be glad to receive them again, as Mr. Short has not read them. Mr. and Mrs. Marmontel come to take a dinner with me the day after tomorrow. (Sunday.) I wish the good Countess D’Houdetot may be disengaged for that day and would be so friendly as to come also. We dine at three o’...
37Memorandum Books, 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
comes to 105₶–14 which is 18₶–6 a month = 12s a day.Pd. Petit 369₶–10 in part of the two last articles of 440₶–6 and 279₶–4. so there remains due to him 350₶.
38From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 16 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Will Mr. Mazzei be so good as to write to some friend in Italy to inform him whose translations into Italian of the above authors, are the best: and also to denote by the addition of the figures 1. 2. 3. &c. which are of the 1st. degree of merit, which are only 2d. rates, 3d. ra[tes] and which are the best of the...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 4 April 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...considerable merchants here. I delivered him your letter and he has shewn me all the attentions which the state of his mind would permit. A few days before my arrival his only son had eloped with jewels and money to the value of 40,000 livres, and I believe is not yet heard of. He speaks of you with friendship, and will be happy to see you on your way Southwardly. He has promised to make me...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 6 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...your favor of the 17th. April, on my return thither the 3d. inst. I now inclose the order you desire. I think I cannot be at Paris before the 15th. of June but shall make a point to be there at that time on account of the approaching Packet. I have made a little tour from Nice across the Alps at the Col de Tende, to Turin, thence thro’ the rice country of the Vercellese, Novarese, Milanese,...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 17 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
By these passages it would seem that the pictures of Americus Vespucius, of Columbus, of Magellan and Cortez exist at Florence. I should wish extremely to obtain copies of the two first, and even of the two last also, if not too expensive. Painters of high reputation are either above copying, or ask extravagant prices. But there are always men of good talents,... ...I would be willing to give...
42Memorandum Books, 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paid assistants on breakg. axle tree on road to Versailles 3₶.Pd. Court fees, to servts. of Introductors & secretary 72₶.
43From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 16 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Mazzei desires me to inclose his letter to you and to add my testimony to his of the necessities he is under. This I can do with truth, observing further that had I known of the sufferings he has gone through, they certainly should have been prevented. His situation really requires that his... ...resources to the utmost and give him the benefit of them for his relief. The fear that he has...
44John Paradise’s Power of Attorney to Nathaniel Burwell, 8 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...by these presents constitute and appoint Nathaniel Burwell esquire of Carter’s grove in the same county and commonwealth my lawful attorney for all my property in the said commonwealth, real and personal, in possession and in action, giving to him full power for me, and in my behalf, to superintend and direct the management of my said property, to sell or otherwise dispose of all parts...
45Memorandum Books, 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
by Amount of acct. Nov. 30—to Dec. 27.to cash Dec. 13. 12₶—19. 120₶—26. 6₶—30. 24₶
46From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 22d. of Jan. on which day I received yours of Dec. 31. and since that the other of Jan. 14. We have now received news from America down to the middle of December. They had then had no cold weather. All things relative to our new constitution were going on well. Federal Senators are N. Hampshire Presidt. Langdon and Bartlett, Massach. Strong and Dalton, Connect. Dr....
47From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 24 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
States general to the 17th. when the Tiers had declared the could furnish no indication of the impression that vote was likely to. The declaration prepared by Mr. Necker, while it censured in general the proceedings both of the Nobles and commons, announced the king’s views such as substantially to coincide with the commons. It was agreed to in council, as also that the seance royale should...to
48Passports Issued by Jefferson, 1785–1789, [September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
Philip Mazzei: TJ Papers, 51: 8681–3); docketed by TJ: “Passports given while I was in France.” This register was kept by TJ on two folded sheets of paper; entries were made from time to time (see below).
49Enclosure: Jefferson’s Diary of Philip Mazzei’s Affairs, 3 December 1789–22 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...in Wmsburg. He was very sick. He promised me as soon as he was well he would send me an exact state of Mr. Mazzie’s affairs in his hands. Mr. Wythe paid the price of his seal to W. Nelson.[Dec.] 9. Called on E. Randolph in Richmond. He thought he could give me a state of his proceedings on returning to his lodgings but having returned there he wrote me the note, which see.
50Memorandum Books, 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Sent by do. to Mr. Maury £6–5 for his first quarter. Note I had recd. £4–17 of this from my sister Carr being part of £6–5 she had recd. from Colo. N. Lewis for me.Pd. my note to Pet. Barnard for 7/6 Oct. 13. 1774.