2551Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on William Wirt’s Biography of Patrick Henry, [ca. 29 September 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
page 92. there is one circumstance in my letter here quoted which may not perhaps be exactly correct, to wit, whether Gov r Livingston produced Jay ’s draught in the House of Congress , or in the Committee to which Lee ’s draught was recommitted? the latter seems most agreeable to usage; and lest I should have erred in this particular, I have so modified the quotation as to adapt it to either...
2552Thomas Jefferson: Analysis of Weather Memorandum Book, January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
1817. January. Having been stationary at home since Mar. 1809. with opportunity and leisure to keep a meteorological diary, with a good degree of exactness, this has been done: and, extracting from it a term of seven years compleat, to wit from Jan. 1. 1810. to Dec. 31. 1816. I proceed to analyse it in the various ways, and to deduce the general results which are of principal effect in the...
2553Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of His Taxable Property in Albemarle County, 1 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A list of taxable property of the subscriber in Albemarle Feb. 1. 1817. 5. white tythes . 79. slaves of 16. years old & upwards 9. d o of 12. years old & not 16. 31. horses and mules. 1. gigg 1. 4-wheeled carriage (a Landau) MS ( MHi ); written entirely in TJ’s hand on verso of portion of a reused address cover from Joseph C. Cabell
2554Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Bedford and Campbell County Property Subject to State Tax, 11 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Property in Bedford and Campbell taxed by the State. D C 46. slaves of 12. years old & upwards. @ 80. cents D C 36. 80 of 9. years and under 12. @ 50
2555Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Recommended Books, [ca. 4 October 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
History Diodorus Siculus . Justin Herodotus by Littlebury 2. v. 8 vo Thucydides by Smith . 2. v. 4 to [perhaps there may be an 8 vo edition] Xenophon ’s Hellenics.
2556Will of Anne Scott Marks, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In the name of God Amen. I Anne S. Marks late of the county of Louisa , now of Albemarle , being in health of body and mind, making make the following disposition of my estate real and personal after my death. First it is my will that all the debts wh with which I am chargeable either on my own account or as executrice of my late husband Hastings Marks , be paid out of my whole estate. then I...
2557Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William Bentley, 26 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Copy of the statement of paiments furnished by Col o Bentley . ‘the following paiments have been made to mr Hanson , as p r statement given by him to the Commissioners, & by one of them to me. £ s d 1797. Aug. 5 . then rec d through the hands of
2558Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Rent Claims of the Heirs of Bennett Henderson, [by 30 December 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Some Notes on the claim of rents by Frances , Lucy & Nancy C. Henderson . The loss I have sustained by this purchase amounts to the whole value of the lands. it is a fair object in me then to save as much of that loss as I possibly can; it is justifiable to avail myself of every principle of law or equity, which can protect me, and a candid judge, either in law or equity, would give me the...
2559Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Conversation with Henry Dearborn, 7 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
1815. Oct. 7. Gen l Dearborne informs me that the plaister of Paris is brought from the head of the Bay of Funday , where it extends all along the coast Windsor is the nearest town. the price pd to the proprietor for the stone is a quarter dollar a ton; and it is quarried & brought to the water edge for three quarter dollars a ton, so that it costs at the water edge a dollar a ton. MS ( DLC );...
2560Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Albemarle County Property Subject to Federal Tax, 14 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
A list of the property of the subscriber in the county of Albemarle liable to the taxes imposed by Congress at their session of 1814–15. 5640. acres of land, including 400. a s on Hardware belonging to himself, Hudson & others. 2. slaves above 60. years of age 9. d o between 50. & 60. 9.
2561Deposition by James Lewis, with Queries Posed by Thomas Jefferson and David Michie, 1 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Albemarle County to wit— The deposition of James Lewis taken at the house of John Watson in the town of Milton which is agreed between David Michie and Thomas Jefferson on the 1 t of July 1812 shall have the same effect in any subsequent difference or litigation as if it had been taken in perpetual memorial of the testimony of the said Lewis by a bill in Chancery exhibited by the said Jefferson
2562Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Patrick Henry, [before 12 April 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
My acquaintance with mr Henry commenced in the winter of 1759–60. on my way to the college I passed the Christmas holidays at Col o Dandridge’s in Hanover , to whom mr Henry was a near neighbor. during the festivity of the season I met him in society every day, and we became well acquainted, altho’ I was much his junior, being then in my 17 th year, & he a married man. the spring following he...
2563Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest, [ca. 1 December 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
Mary Bradley Exec of Absalom Bradley } 1808. Jan. 23. to 114½ a s
2564Memorandum Books, 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 3. Charge John Perry 40. bushels of wheat delivd. him by McGehee on my order, at the agreed price of 9/. 6. Hhd. xp. 2.D. 7. Jerry exp. to Bedford 3.D. 8. Gave my note to George Gilmer for 120.D. for two mules paiable within the first week of April. Gave E. Bacon to pay Dettor for beef 23.17. 12.
2565Bill of Complaint in Jefferson v. Michie, 16 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
To the worshipful the County Court of Albemarle Setting in Chancery, the bill of Complaint of Thomas Jefferson humbly sheweth—that Bennett Henderson late of the County of Albemarle being in his lifetime seized and possessed in fee simple of a tract of Land in the same County lying on the South side of the Rivanna river and around the town of Milton died intestate leaving a widow Elizabeth...
2566Thomas Jefferson’s List of Slave Vaccinations, April–May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
1816. Vaccinations . April } Edy ’s James May Maria Patsy { Betsy Peter Fanny ’s Ellen. Jenny Sally ’s
2567Agreement with William Ballard, 18 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
William Ballard engages himself to serve Thomas Jefferson as an overseer at his place called Tufton during the year ensuing, to commence the 1 st day of December next and faithfully to do his duty in that capacity: and the sd Thomas Jefferson agrees to find him six hundred weight of pork, corn bread sufficient for himself & family, and a barrel of flour, and moreover to allow him sixty five...
2568Thomas Jefferson’s Labeled Diagrams Related to Calculations of Altitude of the Peaks of Otter, [ca. 10–17 November 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
to obtain the altitude a.b. from 2. stations c. & d. each in the plane of the axis of a mountain a.b. and themselves on an inclined plane. a. the apex, or summit of the mountain. a.b. it’s Axis. b. it’s base in the level of a river. c. the plane of the instrument at it’s 1 st station. d. it’s plane at it’s 2 d station. c.d. the inclined plane measured. de. the same continued to the axis at e....
2569Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Monticello Plantings, 16 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
almonds apples Taliafer d o apricots cherries
2570Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on Correspondence with James Wilkinson, 6 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I. II. III. Notes 1. Sep. 1. (a) my
2571Joseph Slaughter’s Survey of the Poplar Forest Curtilage, 5 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Beginning at a the South branch of Tomahawk on Stake near a Blaze Made on a Small ash tree N o 5 W 132 poles to Stake on the North West Side of the main Tomahawk Creek thenc N 85 E 80 poles to Stake thence S 5 E 112 poles to Stake on the Bank of the South Branch and a Small Maple Blazed thence up the Same as it Meanders N 89 W S 52 west the Distance about Eaqueal up the Same To the Begining —.
2572Memorandum Books, 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 5. Hhd. exp. 1. 6. Recd. a pr. of millstones 4 f. 1.I. diam. from the blue ridge. Jerem. Yancey for the stone 5.
2573Thomas Jefferson’s Agreement to Convey Bedford County Lands to Charles L. Bankhead, 29 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas Thomas Man n Randolph & Martha his wife by due conveyance from myself were seised in fee Simple of a parcell of Land in the County of Bedford , part of my tract of land called Poplar Forest , containing as conjectured by protraction but not known by actual Survey 1000 Acres of which parcel the said Thomas M. & Martha have conveyed to Anne Moseley 840 Acres being the part on the West...
2574Thomas Jefferson’s Summary Comments on the Peaks of Otter, [before 2 December 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
PEAKS OF OTTER. We are indebted to an obliging friend in Bedford for the following nice Geometrical calculations. We believe they were made by Mr. Jefferson , who is now at his seat in Poplar Forest .—[ Lynchburg Press . ] The height of the Peaks of Otter deemed the highest mountains (from their base) of this state, and amongst the highest in the United States , which has hitherto been a...
2575Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on James Bowdoin’s Letter, 18 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Bowdoin’s letter of May 1. 1807 with Ch. M. Somers’ affidavit as to the negociation for 3. millions of a s of land in the Floridas between Omeely ,
2576Thomas Jefferson’s Deposition Regarding Randolph Jefferson’s Estate, 15 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The deposition of Thomas Jefferson of Albemarle aged seventy two years, taken by consent of parties in a controversy depending in the Superior court of the district of Buckingham between M. B. Jefferson the widow of Randolph Jefferson of the county of Buckingham lately deceased of the one part, and Thomas Jefferson , Robert Lewis Jefferson , Field Jefferson , Randolph Jefferson
2577Thomas Jefferson’s Calculations of Latitudes of the Sharp Peak of Otter and Natural Bridge, 18 September–10 November … (Jefferson Papers)
1815. Sep. 18 . Sharp peak of Otter ° ′ ″ 1815. Sep. 20 . Natural bridge . ° ′
2578Memorandum Books, 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 1. Hhd. exp. 5.D. Bought a horse, a Bedford, of Pleasant German, for which I am to give him my note for 100.D. payable in a year. The horse was 6. y. old last spring, bright bay, with a blaze face, right hind foot white. 3. Hhd. exp. 4.D. 5. Recd. from D. Higginbotham 20.D. balance of the draught entd. Dec. 26. 7. Recd. from P. Gibson 100.D. Drew on do. in favr. Th:J. Randolph for...
2579Thomas Jefferson’s Draft Bill to Create Central College and Amend the 1796 Public Schools Act, [ca. 18 November 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
An Act for establishing a College in the county of Albemarle and for amending the act for establishing public schools. Be it enacted by the General assembly that there shall be established in the county of Albemarle , at the place which has been, or shall be established selected by the trustees of Albemarle Academy , and in lieu of such academy , an institution for the education of youth, to...
2580List of Batture-Related Papers Requested from Wiliam C. C. Claiborne, [ca. 1 August 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
Wanting in the case of the batture. (copy deliv d to Gov r Claiborne ) Edict of 1664. granting to the West India company the islands & terra firma of America & other countries. cited by mr Derbigny pa. 26 . Ordonnance des eaux et forets de 1669 . Louis XVI XIV
2581Thomas Jefferson’s Observations at Monticello Related to Calculation of Latitude, 11 October 1815–31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
date Merid. Alt. by circle same halved merid. Alt. from horizon difference ⊕ error of instrum. 1815. ° ′ ″ ° ′ ″ ° ′ ″ ° ′
2582“A” (Thomas Jefferson) to the Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 13 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A writer in the National Intelligencer of Feb. 24 ., who signs himself B , is endeavoring to shelter under the cloak of Gen l Washington , the present enterprise of the Senate to wrest from the H. of Representatives the power, given them by the constitution, of participating with the Senate in the establishment & continuance of laws on specified subjects. their aim is, by associating an Indian...
2583Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Account with Jonathan & Isaac Shoemaker, [ca. 8 June 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Mess rs Shoemakers in Account with Th: Jefferson on a contract for offal I was, by agreement, to have the offal of my crop of wheat at 2/6 for every barrel of flour, or every 5. bushels of wheat, which is 50/ for every hundred bushels of wheat. I delivered 2047 bush.–55 ℔ the usual allowance of offal for 100. bushels of wheat, is 6. bushels of Midlings, 12 bushels of shipstuff , & 30. bushels...
2584Thomas Jefferson’s Account with John H. Craven, [after 9 May 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
John H. Craven in acc t with Th:J. 1809. To rent for this year 350– 0– 0 To amount of appraisem t at beginn g of lease 261– 10– 0 To nail account from Dec. 19. 07
2585Thomas Jefferson’s List of Landholdings and Monticello Slaves, [ca. 1811–1812] (Jefferson Papers)
1000 . a. s pat d 1735. 1743. Abram. 27 ½ purch d from N. Lewis 49.
2586Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Agreement with John Harvie, [ca. 17 February 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Harvey’s sale of Belmont to Taylor is at 12½ D £3–15 p r acre. his deeds & patents call for about 2300. a s but a survey he had made makes but about 2000. a s . he is to recieve 2000 £ in July & 1000 £ a year after till the whole is paid the whole will be from 7500.£ to 8625 £ to obtain this price he gave up stock & rent of about £500. value as he supposes. Rogers is to fix this value, &...
2587Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, 21 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
1815. Feb. 21 . a very large stalled beef killed Feb. 7. lasts till now, to wit, a fortnight. MS ( MHi ); entirely in TJ’s hand; subjoined to his Notes on Household Consumption, 3 June 1809–23 Oct. 1811 , printed above at the latter date. stalled : confined or fattened in a stall ( OED James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary , 2d ed.,...
2588Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Ivy Creek Lands, 14 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
1809. Nov. 14. lands on Ivy creek to wit Tullas ’s 374. a s & Stith ’s 100. a s Campbell James Martin who lives adjoining them, thinks, Stith ’s worth 15.D. p r acre & both together worth 10.D. p r
2589Thomas Jefferson’s Agreement with Thomas Eston Randolph & Company, 19 September 1816, with Thomas Jefferson’s Note, 18 … (Jefferson Papers)
Shadwell Mill 19 th Sept r 1816 —We agree to deliver to the order of Tho s Jefferson Esq r Six hundred bushels of Shipstuff at eighteen-pence ⅌er bushel to be deducted from the first quarters Rent—and to be deliver’d viz t 200 bushels in the second week of October next,—200—on the 1 st Nov
2590Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Craven Peyton for his Lease of Shadwell, 15 October 1800 to 22 May 1802, [ca. … (Jefferson Papers)
Craven Peyton in acc t for lease of Shadwell with Th: Jefferson D r 1800. Oct. 15. To one year’s rent of Shadwell due this day £48– 0–0 1801. Oct.
2591Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Abstract of Marriage Settlement of John Paradise and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, [after 10 May … (Jefferson Papers)
Extracts from marriage settlement. Parties Date. May 10. 1769. Parties John Paradise esq. son of Peter Paradise 1 st part. Peter Paradise 2 d part. Lucy Ludwell 3 d part.
2592Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Renting Natural Bridge for Manufacture of Shot, [ca. November 1814] [document added in … (Jefferson Papers)
Natural bridge . principles for renting for shot manufact y a shot tower of 160.f. height costs 7000.D. the Natural bridge , & it’s adjacent banks being more than 200 f. high, will require a building of not more than 1000.D. to wit to hold the furnace, kettles or cisterns E t c this is a saving then of 6000.D. in each site, which gives the measure of the value of each site, and belongs fairly...
2593Thomas Jefferson’s Essay on New England Religious Intolerance (Draft), [ca. 10 January 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
you judge truly that I am not afraid of the priests. they have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying & slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West, and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to the...
2594Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Likeness of Christopher Columbus, [ca. 28 August 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
Note by Th:J. The 1 st vol. of Debry was printed in 1590. & the 2 d to which the preface is here given, was printed in 1595. it was between these two dates then that the copy [exemplar] of the portrait which had been taken by order of the king & Queen , and of which his son made the miniature here exhibited, was given by his friend who recieved it from the painter himself [i.e. the copyist.]...
2595Thomas Jefferson’s Census of Inhabitants and Supplies at Monticello, 8 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
1810. Aug. 1. Census. Monticello Bacon’s M c Gehee’s Goodman’s Cardin’s Starke’s Total free white males { to 10. years of age 4 3 3 1
2596Notes on a Conversation with James Steptoe, [ca. 12 May 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
Stith’s entry why lost? mr Steptoe ’s informn Bedford c ty erected in 1752 Ben Howard was clerk , lived in Buckingham , exercised by deputy & never came here Isham Talbot was his deputy & also deputy surveyor
2597John Watson’s Writ to Summon a Jury regarding Land Seized by David Michie, 23 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Albemarle county to wit. Whereas Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county aforesaid hath this day complained upon oath before me John Watson a justice of peace for the sd county that on the 23 d day of July 1812 David Michie of the said County — forcibly entered into one tenement or tract of land containing fifteen acres lying on the
2598Enclosure: Payment Plan for Money Due from John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Value of 2020 acres land at £3.15 the acre £7575. 0. 0 Valuation by M rsrs Higginbotham and Watson £682 Rent transferred 250
2599Thomas Jefferson’s Corrections to Biography in Public Characters, [ca. 3 June 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
pa. 220. line 3. born Apr. 2. 1743. 12. as Minister plenipot y in July 1784. & returned Dec. 1789. 221. at bottom. if I have had any merit as a member of our legislature it was in drawing and introducing the following laws , some of which were adopted when proposed & some afterwards. 1. a law forbidding the future importation of slaves.
2600Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on his Library at the Time of Sale, [by 18 April 1815] (Summary) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : TJ probably began preparing these notes after receiving his library catalogue back from Samuel H. Smith on or about 16 Mar. 1815. Work on it was well advanced by 28 Mar., and he completed it no later than 18 Apr. 1815 ( Smith to TJ, 11 Mar. 1815 ; TJ to Joseph Milligan, 28 Mar. 1815 ; TJ to Alexander J. Dallas, 18 Apr. 1815 ). The notes consist of four sections: (1) “Additions to...