1From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, [ca. October 1763] (Jefferson Papers)
(1837), 305, where it was printed with four other letters to William Fleming “from the papers of a deceased revolutionary patriot, once a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia”—presumably Fleming.
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 20 March 1764 (Jefferson Papers)
To William Fleming
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 19 May 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
(The Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia, 1946). Addressed: “To Mr. William Fleming at Mount-pleasant.” Endorsed: “Thos. Jefferson.”: Dabney Carr, TJ’s brother-in-law, had died on 16 May; TJ wrote an epitaph for his tombstone at Monticello and subscribed it as from “Thomas Jefferson, who of all men living, loved him most”; Carr’s widow and children later came to live with TJ (
4Memorandum Books, 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
’s friend, the burgess and jurist William Fleming (1736-1824). It was located on the are: “T.I.”: Thomas Jefferson; “S.W.”:
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 1 July 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
(Thomas Gildnease, Claremore, Oklahoma). Addressed and franked: “To Mr. William Fleming Williamsburgh. free Th: Jefferson.”
6From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 8 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
To William Fleming
7From Thomas Jefferson to Col. William Fleming, 7 August 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Col. William Fleming, county lieutenant of Botetourt, had been appointed one of three commissioners to superintend defense of the southwestern frontier; see
8From Thomas Jefferson to the County Lieutenant of Botetourt, 24 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
...(not recorded in Swem’s “Va. Bibliog.”), with handwritten additions (see textual notes below); signed by TJ. Addressed: “The County [Lieu]tenant of Botetourt.” The lieutenant of Botetourt co. was presumably still William Fleming, appointed in 1776.
9From Thomas Jefferson to John O’Bannon, 14 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
is puzzling. From April 12 to April 25, excluding Sundays, the Council met every day and was attended by TJ, David Jameson, William Fleming, George Webb, and Jacquelin Ambler. Webb was not present on Saturday, 14 Apr., but the Council met that day and transacted business. A probable explanation is that O’Bannon’s letter did not arrive until after...
10From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 13 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
); in a clerk’s hand, with one insertion in the text, signature, and address in TJ’s hand; addressed: “The honble William Fleming Botetourt”; endorsed: “Received May 19 12 oClock.”
11From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Lewis, 13 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
. This letter is identical with TJ’s letter to William Fleming, preceding.
12From Thomas Jefferson to Col. William Fleming, 9 June 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
To Col. William Fleming
13From 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.
14From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Rose, 2 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
: Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., Paul Carrington, and William Fleming recently had remarried, or were engaged to, women much younger than themselves (
15From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 19 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To William Fleming
16From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Lyons, 26 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
TJ to William Fleming, 19 Sep.
17Memorandum Books, 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
; James A. Bear, Jr., “Thomas Jefferson’s Silver,” TJ to William Fleming, 24 July 1809
18Thomas Jefferson to David Copeland, 25 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
estate. William Fleming was named as defendant because his father
19Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 24 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
William Fleming (ca. 1735–1824), attorney and judge, was a classmate of TJ’s at the
20Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 28 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
To William Fleming
21Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 5 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
should have said they were written by William Fleming, and should have written that he shewed them to William Fleming, is to me incomprehensible. there was no William Fleming then, but the judge now living, whom nobody will ever suspect of taking the lead in rebellion. I am certain