22. Writing that he would “as lieve be out of bread as oil,” TJ had ordered ten gallons of olive oil and other groceries from Joseph Mussi (TJ to Mussi, 17 Sep. 1794).

23.  Robert Snelson operated the Milton store of Robert Rives & Co., later Brown, Rives & Co. (see note 32 below).

24. The increasing fuel demands of the nailery probably prompted TJ to begin producing charcoal at Monticello. Jacob Silknitter was the coalburner until 1797, after which time TJ’s own slaves burned the coal kilns and were rewarded by premiums for efficiency (Betts, Farm Book, p. 454 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Princeton, N.J., 1953 description ends ; Nailery accounts, 1794-1796, in Ledger 1767-1770).

25. The hired slaves were Essex, Isaac, Patrick, and Peter (Farm Book, p. 49 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s “Farm Book,” 1774-1826. Reproduced in facsimile in Betts, Farm Book. MHi description ends ).

26.  James Kinsolving (d. 1829), who lived about eleven miles west of Charlottesville on Mechum’s River, had bought TJ’s slave Dinah (b. 1761) and her younger children for £139–15. TJ had to bring suit against Kinsolving for payment (Woods, Albemarle, p. 247 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ; TJ to RJ, 25 Sep. 1792; TMR to TJ, 24 Jan. 1793; AlCCOB, 1793-95, p. 210, 1795-98, p. 346 description begins Albemarle County Court Order Books, Albemarle County Courthouse, Charlottesville, Va. description ends ).

27. TJ had evidently first met Philadelphia grocer and tea merchant John Barnes (1730-1826) on his visit to that city in 1766. Almost thirty years passed before his need for tea caused him to renew their acquaintance in 1794 by a letter from which grew a long-term financial relationship and a lifelong friendship. From 1795 to 1809 and occasionally thereafter Barnes acted as TJ’s private banker and commission agent in Philadelphia and then Washington, while continuing to supply him with tea and groceries. When the federal government moved in 1800, Barnes followed, settling in Georgetown and actively engaging in business, cultural, and philanthropic activities. In 1802 TJ wrote of Barnes, describing him as “the most punctual and assiduous man in business I ever knew”: “After an acquaintance with him of 40. years, I can pronounce him in point of fidelity as to any trust whatever, worthy of unbounded confidence. There is not a man on earth to whom I would sooner trust money untold. He is an accurate accountant, of a temper incapable of being ruffled, and full of humanity” (TJ to Barnes, 9 Oct. 1794; TJ to Peter Muhlenberg, 10 Oct. 1802, 30 June 1803; Cordelia Jackson, “John Barnes, A Forgotten Philanthropist of Georgetown,” CHS Records, vii [1904], 39-48).

28.  James Muir and David Hyde were bookbinders in Pewter Platter Alley, Philadelphia (Brown, Philadelphia Book Trade, p. 87 description begins H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, A Directory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in Philadelphia to 1820, New York, 1950 description ends ).

29.  Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), the president’s nephew, was at this time practicing law in Richmond. He was appointed a Supreme Court justice in 1798. For TJ’s comments on his reputation as a lawyer, see TJ to TMR, 26 Feb. 1795.

30. The north attic, which was over the dining room of the first Monticello house, was probably dismantled in 1796, when TJ’s demolition and remodelling operations began.

31. Parenthetical phrase was probably added when TJ compiled the index for the 1791-1803 Memorandum Books after 1803.

32. One of the stores of prominent Nelson County merchant Robert Rives (1762-1845) was at Milton. He and James Brown of Richmond were partners in the commission house of Brown, Rives & Co. until Brown’s financial failure during the War of 1812. Rives had married Margaret Jordan Cabell and was the father of William C. Rives (Alexander Brown, The Cabells and Their Kin [Boston, 1895], p. 217-26).

33.  William Wardlaw, who had recently moved to Charlottesville, was the “skilful” physician who in 1801 assisted TJ with the first Jennerian smallpox vaccinations at Monticello (AlCDB, xi, 262 description begins Albemarle County Deed Books, Albemarle County Courthouse, Charlottesville, Va. description ends ; TJ to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 Aug. 1801; Byrd S. Leavell, M. D., “Thomas Jefferson and Smallpox Vaccination,” Transactions of the American Clinical & Climatological Association, lxxxviii [1976], 119-27).

34. TJ sold to Archibald Stuart thirty-five legal titles, listed on the verso of his letter of 23 May 1795 to Stuart. Some of these books have recently been returned to Monticello (Curator’s Report 1974, p. 8-10; 1975, p. 12-13 description begins Report of the Curator to the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Charlottesville, Va., 1958- description ends ).

35. MJR and TMR were on their way to the Sweet Springs in present Monroe County, West Virginia, when their daughter Ellen Wayles Randolph, born 30 Aug. 1794, died of undetermined causes at Staunton. They continued their journey to the springs, which effected TMR’s almost complete recovery from the poor health he had been suffering from since 1794 (Prayer Book; TJ to TMR and to Archibald Stuart, 26 July 1795; TJ to James Madison, 21 Sep. 1795).

36.  Lucy Henry Wood (d. 1826), sister of Patrick Henry and widow of Valentine Wood, lived with her family about seven miles southeast of Monticello on the south side of the Rivanna River at Buck Island Creek. TJ hired a number of slaves from her children for his Monticello building operations (Woods, Albemarle, p. 347 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ; MB 1 Jan. 1796).

37. TJ was trying to prevent the heirs of Bennett Henderson from raising their dam on the Rivanna River at Milton and thus flooding his Shadwell mill seat. Following a decree in his favor in 1799, TJ had the Henderson dam demolished in 1803 (TJ to Bushrod Washington, 23 Sep. 1795; TJ to TMR, 22 June 1803; Decree, 1 Oct. 1799, DLC; Court record, Peyton v. Henderson, p. 13, ViU).

38.  Henry Banks had brought a suit in chancery against TJ as former governor of Virginia for compensation for the loss of several vessels belonging to Hunter, Banks & Co. that were impressed for public service by the state in 1781 and lost in action. Although TJ was assured by Governor Robert Brooke that, as only a nominal defendant, he would not be liable for any of the expenses of defense, TJ asked Bushrod Washington to take any legal action to have his name withdrawn as a party to the suit (TJ to Brooke, 24 May 1795; Brooke to TJ, 4 Sep. 1795; TJ to Washington, 1 Oct. 1795; Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia, ed. George Reese [Richmond, 1967], iv, 190).

39.  Joseph Jones Monroe (d. 1824), James Monroe’s improvident younger brother, lived and practiced law in Albemarle County (Ammon, Monroe, p. 85, 291; Woods, Albemarle, p. 281 description begins Harry Ammon, James Monroe, New York, 1971. description ends ).

40. Here TJ credited Kinsolving with a £16–18–2 payment, while on 2 Nov. he recorded it as £16–8–2.

41. Succeeding Eli Alexander, William Page was overseer of TJ’s farms on the north side of the Rivanna River in 1796 and 1797. In 1798 and 1799 he oversaw the laborers building TJ’s Shadwell canal.