Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead (1791–1826), TJ’s eldest grandchild and the daughter of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph, was born at Monticello. On 19 Sept. 1808 she married Charles Lewis Bankhead, the son of Mary Warner Lewis Bankhead and one of TJ’s closest friends, John Bankhead. Three sons and a daughter from this union reached adulthood. In 1811 the Bankheads purchased Carlton, an 800-acre farm adjacent to Monticello. Charles Bankhead proved to be alcoholic, abusive, and improvident. Trustees managed his estate after 1815, when TJ sought to ease a financial crisis by adding 130 acres to the couple’s holdings. Ann Bankhead died of complications following childbirth five months before TJ and was buried in the family graveyard at Monticello (Shackelford, Descendants, 1:67–75; John Vogt and T. William Kethley Jr., Albemarle County Marriages, 1780–1853 [1991], 2:602; Elizabeth Trist to Catharine Wistar Bache, 7 May 1811 [PPAmP: Catharine Wistar Bache Papers]; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1269–70; TJ to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 11 Feb. 1826; Richmond Enquirer, 23 Feb. 1826).

cape jessamine: cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides) is an evergreen shrub with large, fragrant, waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves (Hortus Third description begins Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, and the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada, 1976 description ends , 495). calycanthuses: Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus) is an aromatic shrub with fragrant flowers (Hortus Third description begins Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, and the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada, 1976 description ends , 207). silk trees: Albizia Julibrissin, or mimosa tree, was an ornamental plant introduced to gardens because of its attractive and fragrant pom-pom-like flowers and fernlike foliage (Betts, Garden Book, 396; Hortus Third description begins Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, and the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada, 1976 description ends , 45). canada martagons: probably Lilium canadense (Canada lily), a common lily of the eastern United States with yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown (Hortus Third description begins Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, and the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada, 1976 description ends , 662).

coke littleton: a standard, challenging treatise for aspiring lawyers was Sir Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: or a Commentary upon Littleton (4th ed., London, 1639; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 1781). Bankhead’s younger sister mary Jefferson Randolph was evidently visiting her.

A letter from Bankhead to TJ of 2 Feb. 1810, not found, is recorded in SJL as received from Port Royal in Caroline County on 15 Feb. 1810.