1From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 27 December 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Among those born on the north side of the Tweed with whom TJ had been more or less intimately associated in various important activities having to do with republicanism were William Fleming, John Paul Jones, James Wilson, and John Witherspoon. TJ may have thought of them as Americans, and to have made the present allusion to apply only to inhabitants of Scotland.