61. TJ was receiving rent for the Governor’s lands, also called the Paspahegh lands, which had been set aside in 1618 for the use of the governors of the colony. These 3,000 acres in James City County, between Jamestown and the Chickahominy River, were transferred to the College of William and Mary in 1784 (Lyon G. Tyler, The Cradle of the Republic [Richmond, 1906], p. 232; Hening, Statutes, xi, 405-7 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 ). For the 123 barrels of corn received by TJ as governor for the Paspahegh lands, see also MB 26 Jan., 2, 3, 15 Feb., and 28 Dec. 1780.

62. According to the TJ Index, 1779-1782 description begins Thomas Jefferson manuscript indexes for the Memorandum Books, 1767-1826, bound with them, except for 1773 (unlocated), 1776-1778 and 1779-1782 (ViU) description ends , London was one of James Wray’s workmen or slaves.

63.  William Lee (1739-1795), whose Green Spring property adjoined the Governor’s (Paspahegh) lands, resided in Europe until 1783.

64.  Giovannini da Prato, one of the farmers brought from Italy by Philip Mazzei, had left Colle in the service of the Riedesels in 1779, but returned to Virginia after being refused entry at New York (TJ to Mazzei, 4 Apr. 1780). TJ then employed him in an unknown capacity in his household in Williamsburg and Richmond. By 1782 Giovannini, described by TJ as “sober, industrious and honest,” was working as a gardener at Monticello. He settled in Albemarle County, but by 1799 was “sickly and miserably poor” (TJ to TMR, 2 Sep. 1793; TJ to Charles Bellini, 24 Apr. 1799).

65.  Richard Hogg’s tavern was on the corner of present Main and Fifteenth streets, Richmond (Ward and Greer, Richmond During Revolution, p. 51 description begins Harry M. Ward and Harold E. Greer, Jr., Richmond during the Revolution, 1775-1783, Charlottesville, Va., 1977 description ends ).

66. Patrick Henry’s uncle Anthony Winston lived at this time at Hunting Tower in the southeastern corner of Buckingham County (Virginia Gazette [D], 1 Aug. 1777 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 ; Revolutionary Virginia, ii, 339-40 description begins Revolutionary Virginia: The Road to Independence, ed. Robert L. Scribner and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1973-, 7 vols. description ends ).

67. Byrd Creek, Goochland County.

68.  Archibald Cary’s Ampthill was on the James River about eight miles south of Richmond in Chesterfield County (Fairfax Harrison, The Virginia Carys [New York, 1919], p. 85, 91-3; Waterman, Mansions of Virginia, p. 212-15 description begins Thomas Tileston Waterman, The Mansions of Virginia, 1706-1776, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1946 description ends ).

69. TJ was at the foundry near Westham in Henrico County (MB 7 Feb. 1775, cash accounts). For his efforts to establish a state foundry, see TJ to Benjamin Harrison, 30 Oct. 1779, and “Bill for Establishing a Manufactory of Arms,” Papers, iii, 125-47.

70.  John Francis Mercer (1759-1821), son of John Mercer of Marlborough, Stafford County, had read law with TJ for the past year (Papers, iii, 262) description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends . For TJ’s appraisal of Mercer, his colleague in Congress in Annapolis in 1783 and 1784, see TJ to James Madison, 25 Apr. 1784.

71. Shalloon in the eighteenth century was a twilled worsted fabric with a single warp made in England and France (Fairchild’s Dictionary of Textiles, p. 547 description begins Isabel B. Wingate, Fairchild’s Dictionary of Textiles, 6th ed., New York, 1979 description ends ).

72. With the removal of the government to Richmond, TJ took up residence in a wooden house on Shockoe Hill belonging to his uncle by marriage Thomas Turpin. The year’s rent was paid by the state and does not appear in MB. This house was probably located just south of the present governor’s mansion, near the junction of Twelfth and Franklin streets (Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 6 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends ; Turpin to TJ, 22 Dec. 1780; Edward Dumbauld, “Jefferson’s Residence in Richmond,” VMHB, lx [1952], 323-6; Ward and Greer, Richmond During Revolution, p. 47 description begins Harry M. Ward and Harold E. Greer, Jr., Richmond during the Revolution, 1775-1783, Charlottesville, Va., 1977 description ends ).

73.  Jonathan Clarke was senior commissary of the Convention troops interned at Charlottesville (Clarke to TJ, 8 Jan. 1781).

74.  Charles Irving was a factor for Henderson, McCaul & Co. (formerly Kippen & Co.). He had managed their store in southern Albemarle County since the end of 1768 (Virginia Gazette [P & D], 1 Dec. 1768 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 ; Alexander Brown, The Cabells and Their Kin [Boston, 1895], p. 91-2).

75. TJ was elected governor for a second term on 1 June.

76. Souchong tea.

77. The markings on the hogsheads stand for “Thomas Jefferson Chisholm’s”, “Thomas Jefferson Poplar Forest,” and “Thomas Jefferson Monticello.”

78.  Charles Kerr was overseer for TJ’s Willis Creek property in Cumberland County (Papers, vi, 224-5 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ).

79. The hard currency value of TJ’s two Loan Office deposits for Anna Scott Jefferson was £38–18–11. She presumably received this sum from the treasury at some later date and her £200 inheritance was received from TJ in the form of slaves at the time of her marriage to Hastings Marks in 1787 (Fee Book: Anna 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 ).

80. These wagons were impressed according to the terms of the May 1780 act providing aid to the Continental Army in South Carolina (Hening, Statutes, x, 221-6 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 ). The wagon and horses driven by TJ’s slave Phill were lost at the battle of Camden in August (MB 7 Apr. 1781; TJ to Edward Stevens, 15 Sep. 1780).

81.  John Dixon and partner Thomas Nicolson had moved their Virginia Gazette 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 from Williamsburg to Richmond, where the first issue was published on 9 May 1780.

82. The pulp of Tamarindus indica was used as a relish or medicinally as an astringent or a laxative.

83.  James Hubbard (b. 1743) was a slave waterman and hogkeeper inherited from John Wayles.

84.  John James Beckley (1757-1807) was at this time a practicing attorney and clerk of the House of Delegates. This staunch Jeffersonian, whom TJ called “the ablest clerk in the U.S.,” served as clerk of the United States House of Representatives, except for a four-year intermission, from 1789 until his death. TJ appointed him first librarian of Congress in 1802 (Edmund and Dorothy S. Berkeley, “ ‘The Ablest Clerk in the U.S.’: John James Beckley,” VMHB, lxx [1962], 434-46).

85. This payment was for two quarter casks of an unidentified wine. The entry is written in the left margin beside the 8 to 31 Oct. entries. As neither Rose nor Nathan appear in the TJ Index, 1779-1782 description begins Thomas Jefferson manuscript indexes for the Memorandum Books, 1767-1826, bound with them, except for 1773 (unlocated), 1776-1778 and 1779-1782 (ViU) description ends , for this page, TJ may have made this entry in 1783, when he was corresponding with Nathan about this transaction (TJ to Nathan, 18 May 1783).

Simon Nathan, at this time a purchasing agent for the Virginia troops, was later involved in a protracted dispute with the state of Virginia over western bills of exchange accepted by TJ as governor (TJ to Nathan, 9 June 1780; Papers, vi, 321-4 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ).

86.  Lucy Elizabeth died 15 Apr. 1781 (Prayer Book description begins The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1752, bound with A New Version of the Psalms of David, London, 1751, with pages bearing manuscript Jefferson family vital statistics, ViU. These are reproduced in facsimile in Thomas Jefferson’s Prayer Book, ed. John Cook Wyllie, Charlottesville, Va., 1952 description ends ).

87.  Nicholas Gautier was a silversmith formerly of Norfolk and Portsmouth (Cutten, Silversmiths, p. 126 description begins George Barton Cutten, The Silversmiths of Virginia, Richmond, 1952 description ends ).

88. Rigdum Funnidos was the fun-loving Lord in Waiting in Henry Carey’s burlesque of 1734, Chrononhotonthologos.