1From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Barraud, 15 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...of a medicine shop in Norfolk. He first practiced in Williamsburg, where he served as physician to the public hospital for the insane during the late 1790s and was closely acquainted with St. George Tucker and Bishop James Madison. Moving to Norfolk in 1799, he took charge of the marine hospital there, but was replaced by navy surgeon George Balfour in 1801 as a cost-cutting...
2To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 12 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the melancholy office of communicating to you the departure of our inestimable friend Mr Page, last Evening. He will, at his own particular request, be privately interred this Evening. He died without a struggle. I am with the greatest respect & esteem, Sir, your most obedt. Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
3To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 26 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
From St. George Tucker
4To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 23 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the pleasure to inform you that the Affair respecting the family of our deceased friend is completed, as nearly according to his wishes, as my memory would serve to direct me. It was done in a manner which gave an additional proof of the goodness of Heart of all the parties. There is reason to believe that the Affair got wind through the indiscreet zeal & communicative temper of a...
5To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. Inst. was duely recieved, and has been considered with the Attention due to your friendship & Confidence, which you may rely on not being abused. I waited until I could avail myself of public rumour before I Should venture to mention the Circumstance you allude to. The Spirit of 76. furnish’d the opportunity last week: I have now the satisfactory hope of recommending a...
6To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 5 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of our common, and inestimable friend Mr. Page, I beg leave to offer you his most grateful Acknowledgements, for your most friendly and consolatory Letter, and generous offer, therein contained of the 6th. of last month from Monticello. I am charged by him to express his Sense of your goodness & friendship in the strongest terms, and to tell you, that on the Bed of Sickness, and...
7To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 5 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
From St. George Tucker
8To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 21 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I postponed acknowledging the reciept of your favor of the 13th. until I should have an opportunity of giving you a satisfactory detail of what I had done towards the fulfilment of your most friendly intentions & wishes, in favor of the family of our departed friend. A Circumstance which happened this Evening has determined me in some measure to depart from that Intention. I shall notice it in...
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A native of Bermuda and a kinsman of St. George Tucker,
10To Thomas Jefferson from Harry Innes, 13 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
, 14 [1916], 37–8). He also secured recommendations from Benjamin Howard, Joseph Crockett, and Humphrey Marshall in his unsuccessful bid for the Indiana judgeship (Howard to St. George Tucker, 6 Dec. 1802, probably enclosed in Tucker to TJ, Williamsburg, 13 Jan. 1803, which is recorded in
11To Thomas Jefferson from Margaret Page, 23 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...in 1790. They resided in Williamsburg and Rosewell and had eight children, including one born earlier in the summer of 1802. She and her husband wrote and exchanged poems with other members of a Williamsburg literary circle that included St. George Tucker. She collaborated with her husband on the joint publication of a privately printed work,
12To Thomas Jefferson from Bishop James Madison, 15 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
: a duel between two students at the College of William and Mary that resulted in their expulsion. The Federalist press recounted an ensuing protest by members of the student body, vandalism to the local church and St. George Tucker’s house, and Tucker’s alleged resignation as professor. The cause of the
13From Thomas Jefferson to Bishop James Madison, 9 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
be retained as physician for the marine hospital at Norfolk. Barraud, with a letter of introduction from St. George Tucker, had called at Monticello in August 1797 (
14To James Madison from St. George Tucker, 5 September 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From St. George Tucker
15From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
St. George Tucker to TJ, 5 Sep.
16From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 17 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
of this state. if he be one you had meditated to retain, look to a letter from St. George Tucker to mr Stoddart, & another to the late President. both probably in the navy office.—I inclose you a letter from mr Sayre, stating a purchase in Long island of very ill aspect. if we have any...
17From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 3 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
St. George Tucker’s
18From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
What I now write is confidential for yourself, at least that it comes from me. I inform you with sincere grief that the Senate has negatived the nomination of mr Harrison. on what particular ground I am not informed. I learned that two objections would be made 1. the emploiment of mr Taylor a federalist in the office. 2. it had become known or understood that mr Harrison meant to make a...
19From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Approaching now the end of my administration, I have thought it just to cease making any new appointments to office which can possibly be put off to the 4th. of March, in order that my successor may select his own tools. the appointment which has been the subject of a correspondence between us not ending till the 3d. of March, must of course lie over. knowing the dispositions of my successor...
20From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 5. and one of Sep. 30. from mrs Page on the same subject, came both to my hands on the 8th. not knowing the situation in which this might find mr or mrs Page I have thought it best to address it to you with a commission for mr Harrison inclosed. I would wish you to say to mr Taylor that I am justly sensible of his honorable proposition in behalf of my friend, and that in...
21I. Observations on the Common Law and Hardin’s Case, 11 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
: TJ here cites St. George Tucker’s pamphlet,