28.  Jupiter was taking fruit trees to Poplar Forest (Betts, Garden Book, p. 94 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Philadelphia, 1944 description ends ).

29.  François Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier (later Marquis) de Chastellux (1734-1788) was at Monticello from 13 to 17 Apr., on which date TJ accompanied him westward along the Three Notched Road for sixteen miles (Chastellux, Travels, ii, 390-6 description begins Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782 by the Marquis de Chastellux, ed. Howard C. Rice, Jr., Chapel Hill, N.C., 1963, 2 vols. description ends ).

30.  Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson, born at Monticello on 8 May, died of whooping cough at Eppington on 13 Oct. 1784, when her father was in France (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 ; Elizabeth W. Eppes to TJ, 13 Oct. 1784).

31. See John K. Read to TJ, 22 May 1782.

32.  Archibald Stuart (1757-1832) of Staunton, later a jurist and legislator, had been reading law under TJ. The taxes were for the land at the Natural Bridge.

33. Real and personal property tax lists for each Virginia county, beginning with the year 1782, survive in the Virginia State Library. The numerous minor variations between the official returns and TJ’s tax entries in MB have not been mentioned here.

34. See John Cook Wyllie, “The Second Mrs. Wayland: An Unpublished Jefferson Opinion on a Case in Equity,” American Journal of Legal History, ix (1965), 64-8.

35. TJ gave Monticello slave Scilla (b. 1762) and her four children to MJR and TMR in 1790 (Papers, xviii, 12 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ).

36. Martha Jefferson had been in failing health since the birth of her daughter Lucy in May. Never known for her robust health, she may have succumbed to the complications of childbearing; there is also a possibility that she was a victim of tuberculosis (see Gordon W. Jones and James A. Bear, Jr., “The Medical Side of Thomas Jefferson,” MS copy in Monticello Archives). For accounts of the death of TJ’s adored wife and his reaction to it, see Malone, Jefferson, i, 393-7 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ; Papers, vi, 196-200 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ; and Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 99-100 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends .

37. Francis and Elizabeth Wayles Eppes had moved about 1780 to Eppington, which is on the Appomattox River near the mouth of Winterpock Creek, about twelve miles west of Petersburg.

38. TJ sold the carriage horse Assaragoa in Boston in 1784 (Betts, Farm Book, p. 94-5 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Princeton, N.J., 1953 description ends ).

39. TJ’s sister Martha Carr and her six children had been living with him probably from some time in 1781 and TJ had undertaken the education of his oldest nephew, Peter Carr (1770-1815). He was now sending the eleven-year-old Samuel Carr (1771-1855) to the care of Dabney Carr’s brother, Overton Carr of Prince Georges County, Md. After his early education in Maryland, Sam Carr returned to Virginia and lived at Dunlora in Albemarle County (TJ to Overton Carr and to Thomas Stone, 16 Mch. 1782; Woods, Albemarle, p. 160 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ).

40. Elected to the House of Delegates in April, TJ had declined serving on account of his wife’s illness. The House ordered him to attend and he did so on 6 Nov. in the custody of the sergeant at arms. Two days later he was excused from further attendance (JHD, Oct. 1782, p. 4-5, 7-8 description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, 1827-1828. Cited by session. description ends ).

41. Curles, Richard Randolph’s Henrico County residence, lay on the James River about fifteen miles southeast of Richmond.

42. TJ had been at Archibald Cary’s Ampthill “attending on my family under inoculation.” While there he received and accepted a reappointment as commissioner for negotiating peace in Europe (TJ to Robert Livingston, 26 Nov. 1782; Livingston to TJ, 13 Nov. 1782).

43. TJ had purchased of Reuben Smith for £50 fifty acres on Byrd Creek, Goochland County, very close to his Elk Hill tract. Smith’s mother, Judith Smith the midwife, had a life tenancy in the fifty acres, which adjoined a further 312 acres TJ had recently bought from Edward Smith for £468. Payment to the Smiths was made during TJ’s absence in France and he sold both tracts with Elk Hill in 1793 (MB 1774, miscellaneous section; GoCDB, xiii, 207-8, 364; Papers, xvi, 94, xvii, 568 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ; Fee Book: “Statement of my debts when I went to Europe” 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 ).

44.  Wycoff’s was a Fauquier County ordinary three miles north of Norman’s ford on the Rappahannock River (MB 10 Sep. 1791).

45.  Thornton’s tavern was in Greenwich, Prince William County, about five miles southwest of present Haymarket (Scheel, Map of Fauquier County description begins Historical map, Fauquier County, surveyed and drawn by Eugene M. Scheel, Washington, D.C., 1974 description ends ; MB 9 Sep. 1791).

46. Newgate was present Centreville in Fairfax County.