1From Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 4 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
, 149–51, 183–5, 187–220. For TJ’s actions, see Petition to the Virginia House of Delegates, at 3 Aug. 1797.
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Strode, 14 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...the war he continued in iron founding and arms manufacture, and also owned several mills. When traveling in the 1790s and after, TJ would often stop over at Strode’s Culpeper County residence, Fleetwood. Strode served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1810–12 (
3From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
. For second enclosure, see Editorial Note and Document I of group of documents on petition to Virginia House of Delegates printed immediately below.
4I. Petition to the Virginia House of Delegates, [on or before 3 August 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
I. Petition to the Virginia House of Delegates
5II. Revised Petition to the Virginia House of Delegates, [7 August–7 September 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
II. Revised Petition to the Virginia House of Delegates
6To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1798 (Madison Papers)
...petition in the 1797 session of the Virginia General Assembly and the threat of persecution embodied in the newly enacted Sedition Law led him to draft the enclosed petition on the election of jurors. The petition was presented to the Virginia House of Delegates on 24 Dec. 1798 from several citizens of Albemarle County but was not acted upon (
7Petition to the General Assembly of Virginia, [2 or 3 November 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
This petition calling for the election of jurors is a successor to one TJ drafted in 1797 for the Virginia House of Delegates, in response to the grand jury presentment against Virginia Representative Samuel J. Cabell for criticizing federal policies in a letter to his constituents. The 1797 document defended the right of representatives to communicate freely with their constituents and...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 14 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
won election to the Virginia House of Delegates but died on 6 June before the meeting of the assembly (
9From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 18 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
...author, who had read law under his supervision: “Vanity and ambition seem to be the ruling passions of this young man and as his objects are impure, so also are his means.” The Virginia House of Delegates adopted the instructions on 17 Dec. 1782 and the Senate concurred on the 23d. Mercer, who had first come to the legislature in the autumn of 1782, won election as one of the delegates...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Carter Bassett Harrison, 16 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
A lawyer, Carter Bassett Harrison (d. 1808) sat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses, 1793–99, and had served in the Virginia House of Delegates. His brother Benjamin Harrison, Jr., who died during 1799, had tended to William Short’s financial affairs for a period in the 1780s during Short’s absence in Europe. Another brother was William Henry Harrison (