1Memorandum Books, 1767 (Jefferson Papers)
...other than the patentholder. The practice of paying quitrents was abolished in May 1779. See
2Memorandum Books, 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
law abolishing entails, which
3Notes on the Progress of Certain Bills, [9–25 May 1774] (Jefferson Papers)
...in the light of his responsibility for the abolition of entails by the statute of 14 Oct...
4Draft of Instructions to the Virginia Delegates in the Continental Congress (MS Text of A Summary View, &c.), [July … (Jefferson Papers)
...laws of the most salutary tendency. The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object...
5I. First Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
> certainly secured by abolishing an office which all experience hath shewn to be inveterately...
6II. Second Draft by Jefferson, [before 13 June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
...punishments in other cases are hereby abolished: nor shall they have power to......abolish...
7III. Third Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
...liberty may be more certainly secured by abolishing an office which all experience hath shewn...
8Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress, 7 June–1 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’...
9III. Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence, 11 June–4 July 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 13 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...not the better for what we have hitherto abolished of the feudal system? Has not every...
11Memorandum Books, 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
.... 1777, one year after passage of his own bill abolishing entails (
122. Jefferson’s Notes of English Statutes, 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...belong to L. of judicial proceedings. but may be abolished.
13Notes concerning the Right of Removal from Office, [1780] (Jefferson Papers)
...and after the Boards of War and Trade were abolished in June 1780. TJ became familiar with the...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 31 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
.... The period too which will intervene between abolishing an old and establishing a new system...
15Jefferson’s Notes from Condorcet on Slavery (Jefferson Papers)
...That the slavery of negroes should be abolished, and that their masters have no right to...
16To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
...Jefferson, related how he had sought to have the society abolished and how he had failed (see
17From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 16 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...which are entertained on that score‥‥ Abolish the General Meetings altogether, as unnecessary;...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 3 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...were an exclusion of hereditary honours, and an abolition of slavery. When the true act shall...
19From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 December 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...our ports without yielding us the same in theirs. The abolition of the ...abolish farm...
...to wrecks of the sea shall be entirely abolished with respect to the subjects or citizens of...
21To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson with a Draft Anglo-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, 8 … (Adams Papers)
...to wrecks of the sea shall be entirely abolished, with respect to the subjects or Citizens...
22Franklin and Jefferson to Adams, with Proposed Treaty with Great Britain, 8 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...to wrecks of the sea shall be entirely abolished, with respect to the subjects or citizens...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Vergennes, 15 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...endorsed in part: “The propositions of Mr. Jefferson to abolish the Tobacco Farm.” Entry in
24From Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 20 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...as a member of the American committee to abolish the tobacco monopoly of the farmers-general....
25From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, with Enclosure, 27 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...to you my proposition to the Court to abolish the monopoly of it in their farm;...
26IV. Jefferson’s Observations on DéMeunier’s Manuscript, 22 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Pa. 226. 1. 11. “Qu’on abolisse les privileges du clergé.” This privilege originally allowed to...
27From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 8 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...continuance of the reduction, and even for an abolition of all duties. The Committee, of the...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...men, protecting religious freedom, abolishing sanguinary punishments, reforming and improving...
29From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 23 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...These occasions will continually occur. Tho the abolition of the monopoly of our tobaccoes...
30From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 18 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...say, would seem to imply that I had asked the abolition of Mr. Morris’s contract. I never did;...
31From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 21 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...of course never settled at all; of the abolition of the Corvées; reformation of the Gabelles;...
32Jefferson’s Observations on Calonne’s Letter Concerning American Trade, [ca. 3 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
...to the importation of our fish oils, to abolish the Droits de fabrication, it is presumed...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 28 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...course of justice, I look forward to the abolition of all credit as the only other remedy...
34From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 6 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...you will perceive that I again press the abolition of the farm of this article. The...
35From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 14 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...done a great deal of good here. Various abolitions of abusive laws, have taken place and...
36From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 9 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...to me that the duties promised to be abolished by the king were only those due to... ...abolish...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Montmorin, with Enclosure, 6 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...emigration once seize those people, perhaps an abolition of all duty might then come too...
38From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 15 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...the press, they have reserved a power of abolishing trials by jury in civil cases, they...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Brissot de Warville, 11 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...me of becoming a member of the society for the abolition of the slave trade. You ...abolition...
40From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, with Enclosure, 23 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...1. the criminal law is reformed, by abolishing Examination on the Sellette, which, like our...
41From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 3 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...if the king can of his own authority abolish bad and erect good institutions co-eval with...
42From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
.... Two only must be fundamentally condemned; the abolishing, in so great a degree, of the...
43To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1788 (Madison Papers)
...of religion in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and...
44From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 31 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...of religion in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and...
45From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 12 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...right of taxing the nation without their consent abandoned, corvées abolished, torture
46From Thomas Jefferson to Rabaut de St. Etienne, 3 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...on the part of the king, the abolition of pecuniary privileges offered by the privileged...
47Draft of a Charter of Rights, 3 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...privileges and exemptions enjoyed by any description of persons are abolished.
48From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 19 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...training. The antient police of the city is abolished by the authority of the people, the...
49From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 5 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...ended at two hours after midnight, abolishing serfdom in every form, all pecuniary...
50To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
...other part of their plan. However they will abolish the parliaments, and establish an order of...