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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jefferson, Thomas | Memorandum Books, 1767 | ≈1767-01-01 | ...other than the patentholder. The practice of paying quitrents was abolished in May 1779. See | |
| 2 | Jefferson, Thomas | Memorandum Books, 1774 | ≈1774-01-01 | law abolishing entails, which | |
| 3 | Jefferson, Thomas | Notes on the Progress of Certain Bills, [9–25 May 1774] | ≈1774-05-09 | ...in the light of his responsibility for the abolition of entails by the statute of 14 Oct... | |
| 4 | Jefferson, Thomas | Draft of Instructions to the Virginia Delegates in the … | ≈1774-07-01 | ...laws of the most salutary tendency. The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object... | |
| 5 | Jefferson, Thomas | I. First Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] | ≈1776-06-01 | > certainly secured by abolishing an office which all experience hath shewn to be inveterately... | |
| 6 | Jefferson, Thomas | II. Second Draft by Jefferson, [before 13 June 1776] | ≈1776-06-01 | ...punishments in other cases are hereby abolished: nor shall they have power to......abolish... | |
| 7 | Jefferson, Thomas | III. Third Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] | ≈1776-06-01 | ...liberty may be more certainly secured by abolishing an office which all experience hath shewn... | |
| 8 | Jefferson, Thomas | Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress, 7 … | ≈1776-06-07 | ...the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’... | |
| 9 | Jefferson, Thomas | III. Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the … | ≈1776-06-11 | ...the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’... | |
| 10 | Jefferson, Thomas | Pendleton, Edmund | From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 13 August … | 1776-08-13 | ...not the better for what we have hitherto abolished of the feudal system? Has not every... |