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...