1To George Washington from John Beatty, 26 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
). Goldson apparently returned to England after the war and published books on women’s reproductive health (1787) and the ineffectiveness of smallpox vaccination (1804).
2Memorandum Books, 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
with the first Jennerian smallpox vaccinations at ; Byrd S. Leavell, M. D., “Thomas Jefferson and Smallpox Vaccination,”
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Wardlaw, 25 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
William Wardlaw, a physician who lived in Charlottesville, helped TJ give smallpox vaccinations at Monticello in 1801. He moved to Richmond by 1810 and established himself as a druggist (
4To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Edward Gantt was a Georgetown physician with whom the president had discussed smallpox vaccination before leaving Washington. In early August Jefferson had six members of his own family inoculated against the disease (Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 Aug. 1801, and Gantt to Jefferson, 17 Aug. 1801 [
5To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Gantt, 17 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...1806, when he moved to Kentucky. A graduate of the College of New Jersey, Gantt obtained medical training at the University of Edinburgh and a medical degree at the University of Leiden. Gantt worked with TJ to introduce smallpox vaccination in Washington (
6From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
and gave a similar report on smallpox vaccination at Monticello, adding to his description of an “inoculated pustule” that it had a “narrow margin of inflammation.” TJ continued, “I send you herewith a vial in which are a needle & thread which have been...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
on smallpox vaccination, titled
8To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: in his 1802 treatise on smallpox vaccination, Waterhouse referred to colored engravings that he had received from Jenner and distributed to TJ and others showing cowpox at different stages (Waterhouse,
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 22 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
, 22, pt. 3 [1884], 212, 316); Elinor Meynell, “French Reactions to Jenner’s Discovery of Smallpox Vaccination: The Primary Sources,”
10To Thomas Jefferson from Moses Robinson, 17 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
made successful experiments with smallpox vaccinations in Vermont in 1800 and 1801. He relocated to Fayetteville, North Carolina, around 1805, where he was a prominent physician and civic leader until his death in 1857 (Abby Maria Hemenway, ed.,