28.  Watson’s ordinary, later Boyd’s Tavern, was located on land belonging to the Lewises of Buck Island on the Three Notched Road about twelve miles east of Charlottesville (Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, p. 32, 417 description begins Boynton Merrill, Jr., Jefferson’s Nephews: A Frontier Tragedy, Princeton, N.J., 1976 description ends ).

29.  Charles Clay had purchased Anna Scott Jefferson’s slave Eve and her children for £125–6–3, paying a total of £1,609–7 in depreciated currency (Fee Book: A. S. Jefferson account description begins Thomas Jefferson’s “Fee Book,” 1767-1774, containing entries pertaining to his law practice. Indexed. Miscellaneous accounts, 1764-1794. 187 bound quarto leaves. CSmH description ends ).

30.  Landy Lindsay kept an ordinary, formerly Lyle’s, in Fluvanna County about four miles east of present Palmyra (Fluvanna County Minute Book, 1777-1782, p. 37, Fluvanna County Courthouse, Palmyra, Va.; TJ MS Map description begins Thomas Jefferson sketch map of roads between Shadwell and Richmond, including taverns, residences, mileages, c. 1760-1784. ViU description ends ).

31.  William Mills Magruder kept an ordinary somewhere in Powhatan County on TJ’s route from the Skipwiths’ house in Cumberland County to Williamsburg (Powhatan County Court Order Book, 1772-1773, p. 397, Powhatan County Courthouse, Powhatan, Va.).

32. TJ had come to Williamsburg to meet with George Wythe to review their work on the revision of the laws of Virginia (Papers, ii, 317 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ; Malone, Jefferson, i, 261-3 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ).

33. An entertainment was held at the Raleigh Tavern on 22 Feb., George Washington’s birthday according to the Gregorian (New Style) calendar, adopted in 1752. He was born under the Julian (Old Style) calendar on 11 Feb. 1732 (Virginia Gazette [D], 26 Feb. 1779 description begins Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg, 1751-1780, and Richmond, 1780-1781). Abbreviations for publishers of the several newspapers of this name, frequently published concurrently, include: D & H (Dixon & Hunter), P & D (Purdie & Dixon), R (Rind) description ends ).

34. Another Acacia farnesiana from Green Spring (Betts, Garden Book, p. 86 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Philadelphia, 1944 description ends ).

35. Charcoal.

36. Baroness Frederika Charlotte Louise von Riedesel (1746-1808) was the wife of Friedrich Adolf von Riedesel (1738-1800), commanding general of the Brunswick troops in the German mercenary forces captured at Saratoga in 1777. More than 4,000 British and German soldiers had recently been moved to Albemarle County for internment at a spot four miles northwest of Charlottesville still called The Barracks. Officers were permitted to find quarters in the neighborhood. The Riedesels, who had arrived in mid-February, lived at Philip Mazzei’s Colle until their departure in August. They, their daughters, and members of the general’s staff met with a very friendly reception at Monticello and for a short time TJ enjoyed the society of these cultured and musical Europeans (Malone, Jefferson, i, 294-7 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ; Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution, ed. Marvin L. Brown, Jr. [Chapel Hill, N.C., 1965], p. 80-7). For TJ’s comments on the situation of the interned soldiers, most of whom remained in Albemarle County for two years, see TJ to Patrick Henry, 27 Mch. 1779.

37. Although there were, until July 1781, various laws against refusing paper money, Gabriel Jones did not accept payment of this debt in depreciated currency, which at this time was worth one-sixteenth of its pre-war value (see MB 30 June 1779). Over twenty years later, through the partisan columns of James T. Callender, Jones accused TJ of dishonorable conduct in attempting to pay the debt in paper currency, a practice that was not only legal but common in a period when hard money was scarce. TJ’s defenders brought out a point suppressed by Jones, that TJ had asked Jones’ daughter, Margaret (Mrs. John) Harvie, to tell him that if paper money was not acceptable TJ would repay Jones in hard currency as soon as it became available. Nicholas Lewis, acting for TJ, repaid the debt in full during TJ’s residence in Europe (TJ to Jones, 29 Apr. 1779; Isaac S. Harrell, Loyalism in Virginia [Durham, N.C., 1926], p. 79, 83, 114; Fee Book: “Statement of my debts when I went to Europe” description begins Thomas Jefferson’s “Fee Book,” 1767-1774, containing entries pertaining to his law practice. Indexed. Miscellaneous accounts, 1764-1794. 187 bound quarto leaves. CSmH description ends ; Nicholas Lewis account with TJ, 13 Dec. 1788, in Ledger, 1767-1770).

38. The operation was probably dry cupping, in which cupping-glasses are applied to a part of the body as counterirritants. This was long the standard treatment for pulmonary complaints, especially pleurisy. Lieutenant Hayer was perhaps the surgeon of the Brunswick regiment who lived with the Riedesels at Colle (Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution, ed. Marvin L. Brown, Jr. [Chapel Hill, N.C., 1965], p. 84).

39. According to the tax act of Jan. 1778 and a later amending act, the tax on money in hand on 1 May 1779 in excess of £5 was forty shillings per £100. The revoked continental bills issued 20 May 1777 and 11 Apr. 1778 were exempted. A further act of 1779 changed the date for determining the amount of money to be taxed to 20 July 1779. The tax on interest received on debts was two shillings per pound (Hening, Statutes, ix, 349-68, 547-52, x, 9-14 description begins William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, Richmond, 1809-1823, 13 vols. description ends ; MB 20 July 1779).

40.  Miike, whose name TJ also spelled Miegge and Michie, was probably an interned Hessian soldier.

41.  William Chisholm had succeeded Henry Cox as overseer at Elk Hill, where he remained until its occupation by the British troops under Cornwallis in the summer of 1781 (TJ to Nicholas Lewis, 11 July 1788).

42. This payment took place at Fairfields, John Bolling’s Goochland County residence (Fee Book: Anna Scott Jefferson account description begins Thomas Jefferson’s “Fee Book,” 1767-1774, containing entries pertaining to his law practice. Indexed. Miscellaneous accounts, 1764-1794. 187 bound quarto leaves. CSmH description ends ).

43. This session of the assembly, which had opened officially on 3 May, transacted business from 7 May to 26 June. TJ sat until his election as governor on 1 June. It is not known when he moved into the Governor’s Palace, but he was certainly living there in the fall of 1779, when he brought his family and household servants from Monticello to Williamsburg. One of these servants, the slave Isaac, recalled that TJ was living in rooms at the College of William and Mary when they arrived (Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 5 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends ).

44. TJ had failed in his effort to persuade Thomas Evans, factor of the British firm Farell & Jones, to accept the bonds of purchasers of his lands in payment of his share of the Wayles estate debt. He also failed in his next attempt to pay off this debt, by making two deposits into the Loan Office in accordance with the provisions of the Sequestration Act of 1777. Even before the British debt provision of this act was rendered invalid by the courts after the war, TJ relinquished any idea of liquidating the debt by these payments in paper currency and once again set about repaying his largest debt. In 1799 he was reimbursed by the Virginia treasury for the full hard currency value, plus interest, of his two paper deposits in the Loan Office (Papers, xv, 644-5 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ; TJ to William Jones, 5 Jan. 1787; MB 25 Nov. 1774, 19 Dec. 1778, 2 Feb. 1780, 29 Nov. 1799).

45. This payment was for a militia uniform for RJ (Fee Book: RJ account description begins Thomas Jefferson’s “Fee Book,” 1767-1774, containing entries pertaining to his law practice. Indexed. Miscellaneous accounts, 1764-1794. 187 bound quarto leaves. CSmH description ends ). William Armistead was state commissary of stores and, until June 1780, commissioner for the Continental loan office in Virginia (Papers, iii, 381-2 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ).

46. The revised code of laws, on which TJ, George Wythe, and Edmund Pendleton had been working for over two years, had been presented to the General Assembly on 18 June (TJ and George Wythe to Benjamin Harrison, 18 June 1779).

47. See MB 1 May 1779.

48. TJ’s annual salary as governor, at this time £4,500 in depreciated currency, was raised to £7,500 in Oct. 1779. In May 1780 it was changed to 60,000 pounds of tobacco and in May 1781 to £600 in hard currency (Hening, Statutes, x, 118, 219, 278-9, 432-3 description begins William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, Richmond, 1809-1823, 13 vols. description ends ).

49. TJ apparently stopped for the night at Carysbrook, the house belonging to Wilson Miles Cary in eastern Fluvanna County. It was located near the confluence of Cary Creek and the Rivanna River (TJ MS Map description begins Thomas Jefferson sketch map of roads between Shadwell and Richmond, including taverns, residences, mileages, c. 1760-1784. ViU description ends ; Fairfax Harrison, The Virginia Carys [New York, 1919], p. 99).

50. Many women had accompanied the Hessian troops since their departure from Europe (see Walter H. Blumenthal, Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution [Philadelphia, 1952]).

51. This and the following bond are part of the purchase price of £2,836–15 for the Judith’s Creek plantation, sold by TJ to James and Dudley Gatewood in June 1778. The tract included 1,850 acres in both Bedford and Amherst counties (Fee Book: Personal estate account description begins Thomas Jefferson’s “Fee Book,” 1767-1774, containing entries pertaining to his law practice. Indexed. Miscellaneous accounts, 1764-1794. 187 bound quarto leaves. CSmH description ends ; MB 15 Apr. 1775, cash accounts).

52.  Heinrich Gerlach (d. 1798) was a captain of engineers and quartermaster general of the Brunswick regiment interned at The Barracks (Memoirs, and Letters and Journals, of Major General Riedesel, trans. William L. Stone [Albany, 1868], ii, 213, 265).

53. Lieutenant Friedrich Christian Cleve (d. 1826) was General Riedesel’s adjutant (Memoirs of Riedesel, ii, 84, 203, 265).

54.  Duncan Rose, Petersburg merchant, was one of three members of the newly established Board of Trade (JHD, May 1779, p. 55 description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, 1827-1828. Cited by session. description ends ).

55.  Mary Cooke was a milliner in Williamsburg and after 1783 in Richmond.

56.  Michael McCarty was the sexton at Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg.

57. Blue-winged teals (Querquedula discors) and sora rails (Porzana caroliniana).

58. Seven-year-old Martha Jefferson was attending Sarah Hallam’s dancing school (see MB 15 Jan. 1780).

59.  Alexander Wylie, a barber associated with George Lafong, was TJ’s purveyor in Williamsburg and Richmond from 6 Oct. until the end of TJ’s service as governor. Wylie had charge of the removal of the official records to Richmond when it became the state capital in the spring of 1780 (MB 31 Dec. 1779; Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, ed. H. R. McIlwaine [Richmond, 1928], ii, 123).

60. Perhaps this was James Wray, Jr., who had been associated with the merchant James Cocke.