William Wardlaw (ca. 1766–1819) was a physician in Charlottesville who helped TJ give smallpox vaccinations in 1801. He moved thereafter to Richmond, where he became an apothecary and served on the Virginia Council of State, 1811–15 (PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 32 vols. description ends , 29:401; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:930n; CVSP description begins William P. Palmer and others, eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers . . . Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, 1875–93, 11 vols. description ends , 10:100; The Richmond Directory, Register and Almanac, for the Year 1819 [Richmond, 1819], 73; gravestone inscription, Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond; Richmond Commercial Compiler, 13 Oct. 1819).