1Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 January 1796 (Adams Papers)
Jonathan Pindar, a pseudonym for St. George Tucker, published a “Salutatory Ode” in the Philadelphia
2From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 10 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
written by St. George Tucker under the pseudonym
3From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Brooke, 24 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Robert Brooke (1761?-1800), an attorney and former member of the House of Delegates from Spotsylvania County, served as governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796 and as state attorney general from 1796 to 1800 (St. George Tucker Brooke, “The Brooke Family,”
4To Alexander Hamilton from John Hopkins, 16 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The assumed debt above mentioned was subscribed originally in the name of James Brown in trust for William Short, and the public debt in his name in trust for St George Tucker; and on the 16th of January last this latter debt was transferred to the Credit of James Brown in trust for William Short, and the whole transferred to Mr Short on the 29th of April last. No other...
5To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 11 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
From St. George Tucker
6To Thomas Jefferson from Christoph Daniel Ebeling, 30 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
led him to consider dedicating the Virginia volume (the last one published) to TJ, but in the end he dedicated it to William Bentley, Samuel Miller, Samuel Latham Mitchill, and Henry St. George Tucker. Although not recorded in
7From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 29 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
, 29 Apr. 1793. St. George Tucker’s The Poems of St. George Tucker of Williamsburg, 1752–1827
8To James Madison from John Dawson, 13 April 1790 (Madison Papers)
St. George Tucker & Mr. Jones set out on the 9h: on their western circuit. They are to visit Morgan town & Winchester.St. George Tucker and Joseph Jones were state district court judges.
9To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1793 (Madison Papers)
anonymously published St. George Tucker’s “Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar” in thirteen installments from June through September 1793. The series was reprinted as a pamphlet in 1796 (
10From James Madison to James Monroe, 4 December 1794 (Madison Papers)
...at the University of Edinburgh and served in the Revolution. He represented Spotsylvania County in the House of Delegates, 1791–94. A Republican, he served as governor, 1794–96, and attorney general, 1796–1800, of Virginia (St. George Tucker Brooke, “The Brooke Family,”
11From James Madison to James Monroe, 27 March 1795 (Madison Papers)
Columbus [St. George Tucker],
12From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 22 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
); addressed: “The honble St. George Tucker Williamsburg”; franked, stamped, and postmarked.
13From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 16 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
: Virginia Miscellany); addressed: “Mr. St. George Tucker Professor of law Wm. & Mary College favored by Mr Edwards.”
14From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 15 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
To St. George Tucker
15From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
: Tucker-Coleman Collection); addressed: “The honble St. George Tucker. Richmond”; franked, stamped, and post-marked.
16To George Washington from John Page, 23 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
...and Mary. During the Revolution he rose from the rank of private to lieutenant colonel and served as a member of the Virginia executive council in 1783. No letter of recommendation from St. George Tucker has been found. Nelson was not among GW’s first appointments to judicial offices, but on 30 Nov. 1789 the president wrote to him offering the position of attorney for the Virginia...
17To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Virginia lawyer St. George Tucker (1752–1827), a Revolutionary War veteran, practiced law in the Petersburg area. In 1788 he became a judge of the Virginia general court and in 1790 a professor of law at the College of William and Mary....
18To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 1 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
St. George Tucker to GW, 24 April 1797
19Notes on St. George Tucker’s Measurements of the Natural Bridge, 9 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...bent for scientific investigation epitomized by the years of effort he devoted to the astronomical problem of the precession of the equinoxes (TJ to Jonathan Williams, 3 July 1796; Hans C. von Baeyer, “The Universe According to St. George Tucker,” St. George Tucker: Citizen of No Mean City
20[Diary entry: 31 December 1789] (Washington Papers)
...1779–82 and 1783–85. He was elected to Congress in 1789 and served until his resignation 14 Aug. 1790. Thomas Tudor Tucker (1745–1828) of South Carolina, born in Bermuda and a brother of St. George Tucker, had studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and served during the Revolution as a surgeon in the Continental Army. He was elected as a Federalist to the First and Second...
21[December 1789] (Washington Papers)
...1779–82 and 1783–85. He was elected to Congress in 1789 and served until his resignation 14 Aug. 1790. Thomas Tudor Tucker (1745–1828) of South Carolina, born in Bermuda and a brother of St. George Tucker, had studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and served during the Revolution as a surgeon in the Continental Army. He was elected as a Federalist to the First and Second...