1From Thomas Jefferson to John Henry Sherburne, 18 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not in my power to inform you of the precise time of the death of Commodore P. Jones. I cannot ascertain even the year. but that being known any file of Newspapers of the date would surely settle it. S. Harrison Smith’s paper, for example, which had a good index would probably announce his death, or any of the periodical publicns of the time. of his journal containing an account of his...