1From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
...After the war, La Mothe remained in the Great Lakes region and served as an Indian interpreter...
...boundary of the U.S. on the Great Lakes and the western boundary on the Mississippi...
3From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
...streams and short portages to the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. See particularly
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 October 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...independence and liberty: Your Father over the great lake will take them by the hand,...
5Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
...of forts on the American shores of the Great Lakes; America’s resistance to paying debts...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Aaron Burr, 6 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...American Revolution and as an envoy to tribes in the Great Lakes region (
7To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 7 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...found are the last remains of the great lakes they formerly freequented. there are many...
8Henry Dearborn’s Report on the War Department, [12 May 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
on the Great Lakes, a brig called the
9To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 11 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...by those Mountains, and thuse formed a great Lake from thence to the Shawangunk mountain,...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Elkanah Watson, 1 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...advocated the construction of a canal from Albany to the Great Lakes (