46521Notes on Navy Appropriations for 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
6. frigates & 1. schooner in commission including repairs & contingencies } 476,874.86...
46522Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson had long advocated sending an American-sponsored expedition to explore the...
46523Editorial Note: Report on Copper Coinage (Jefferson Papers)
On Wednesday, 7 Apr. 1790, a “member from South Carolina presented to the House a letter...
46524Editorial Note: Cabinet Opinions on the Resolutions Concerning Arrearages in Soldiers’ Pay (Jefferson Papers)
This, as Alexander Hamilton stated, was “a case of inconsiderable magnitude.” In respect to the...
46525List of Appointments, with Notes by Gallatin and Jefferson (Jefferson Papers)
August 2 Commissions 25— George Wentworth Surveyor for the District of Portsmouth and Inspector...
46526Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
As the 1818–19 legislative session approached, Jefferson and his allies prepared to submit to the...
46527IV. Italian Translation of Extract, 24 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Dopo che ci lasciaste il nostro aspetto politico ha cambiato sorprendentemente. In luogo di quel...
46528Editorial Note: The Northwest Territory (Jefferson Papers)
If a poor man … should ask of me, where shall I go in order to live more at my ease, without the...
46529Enclosure: List of Books Sent to Jefferson, 5 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Note sur la 1re. Caisse des Livres envoyès à Mr. Le President Jefferson. Doll. Histoire nat. des...
46530Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
On 1 Sept. 1821 Jefferson ’s much younger friend, the Harvard University professor George Ticknor...
46531Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Between 6 Jan. and 29 July 1821, Jefferson overcame his oft-expressed aversion to writing about...
46532Drafting the Annual Message to Congress: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
At the close of the first session of the Seventh Congress in May 1802, the House of...
46533Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
On or about 13 Aug. 1817 Jefferson set out from Poplar Forest to visit Natural Bridge with his...
46534Editorial Note: The Article on the United States in the Encyclopédie Méthodique (Jefferson Papers)
On 25 Oct. 1786 William Short wrote to William Nelson: “You speak of the Encyclopedia. It will be...
46535Enclosure: List of Candidates for Attorney General, 2 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A list of such charactors as have occured to me as candidates for the appointment of Attorney...
46536Editorial Note: Drafting the Annual Message to Congress (Jefferson Papers)
Article 2, Section 3, of the Constitution specifies that the president “shall from time to time...
46537Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Letter to John Adams (Jefferson Papers)
Anticipating an administration headed by John Adams with himself as vice president, Jefferson...
46538Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In crafting his response to James Fishback’s letter of 5 June 1809, Jefferson completed a draft...
46539Editorial Note: Reply to a Cherokee Delegation, 3 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On Tuesday, 30 June 1801, “a Deputation from the Cherokee Nation of Indians on behalf of the said...
46540Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 8 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
1804. Oct. 8. Present the 4. Secretaries. Yrujo’s and C. Pinckney’s communicns submitted....
46541Petition of Thomas Jefferson and Others to the Virginia General Assembly, [before 13 December 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
To The General Assembly of Virginia , the Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the...
46542Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
James Madison was on poor terms with James Monroe after the latter’s abortive bid for the...
46543Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Opinion on the Treaties with France (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson’s carefully qualified opinion in favor of the continued validity of the 1778...
46544Editorial Note: The Case of Mace Freeland (Jefferson Papers)
This case, along with others that came to him during 1782, reveals Jefferson as turning seriously...
46545Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
By the latter part of the 1790s Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had become bitter political...
46546Jefferson’s Translation of Extracts from Destutt de Tracy’s Reflections on Montesqueiu’s First Twelve Books, [ca. 12 … (Jefferson Papers)
Extracts from the author’s r R eflections on Montesquieu’s 12. first books. ‘I have divided...
46547Madison on “The Earth Belongs to the Living” (Jefferson Papers)
I. TEXT AS RECEIVED BY JEFFERSON, 1790 II. TEXT AS REVISED BY MADISON LATE IN LIFE EDITORIAL NOTE...
46548Sentence in the Court-Martial of John Spence: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
I. HENRY DEARBORN’S PRELIMINARY DRAFT [10 MCH. 1802] II. HENRY DEARBORN’S SECOND DRAFT, WITH...
46549Editorial Note: Documents Relating to the 1796 Campaign for Electors in Virginia (Jefferson Papers)
While Jefferson’s correspondence makes no mention of the Virginia campaign for presidential...
46550Editorial Note: Notes on Resolution of American Debts to British Creditors, 13 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Article 6 of the Jay Treaty provided for a bilateral commission to settle Americans’...
46551Tench Coxe’s Reflections on Cotton, 11 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Cotton of the U.S. Every fact and reflexion upon the subject of cotton , enhances its importance...
46552Editorial Note: Conference with Black Hoof, 5 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Early in January, during the visit to Washington by the delegation of Miami, Potawatomi, and Wea...
46553Editorial Note: Fixing the Seat of Government (Jefferson Papers)
Adams’ observation, apt at the time and prophetic of what was to come, was made during the...
46554Editorial Note: The Declaration of Independence (Jefferson Papers)
A full analysis of the many textual changes made in the Declaration of Independence from the time...
46555Memorial from the District of Columbia Commissioners, 4 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Memorial of the Commissioners appointed by virtue of an Act of Congress, entituled “an act...
46556Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In composing his response to William Baldwin’s letter of 7 Jan. 1810 , Jefferson completed a...
46557Editorial Note: The Petition of Thomas Johnson (Jefferson Papers)
The documents brought together in this grouping require special comment. The issue with which...
46558Editorial Note: Notes on American Medals Struck in France (Jefferson Papers)
Among the several attributes of sovereignty that Congress assumed during the period of...
46559Notes on Indian Affairs, Tripoli, and Great Britain, 8 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
1805. Indian affairs. Jan. 8. ✓ Sac murderer pardon him. Osages. their mill to be built. the...
46560Editorial Note: Bill to Establish a Government for the Territory of Columbia (Jefferson Papers)
The Residence Act of 1790 gave Congress until 1800, when the government moved to the Federal...
46561Editorial Note: The “Anas” (Jefferson Papers)
The following is the earliest document in the compilation made by TJ that has come to be known by...
46562Editorial Note: Presentation of the “Mammoth Cheese” (Jefferson Papers)
On New Year’s Day, 1802, Jefferson stood in the doorway of the President’s House to receive a...
46563Enclosure: Legislative Council Recommendations, 17 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Persons recommended by Governor Claiborne for members of the Legislative Council of the Orleans...
46564Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
John A. Dix was a young aide-de-camp to Major General Jacob Brown when they traveled to Virginia...
46565Description of the Physiognotrace (Jefferson Papers)
Explanation of Mr. Jno. I. Hawkins Physiognotrace A is a board that mooves up and down in the...
46566Notes on a Conversation with Andrew Ellicott, 23 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
1801 June 23. Andrew Ellicot tells me that in a conversn last summer with Majr. William Jackson...
46567Editorial Note: Tench Coxe Seeks Office as Comptroller of the Treasury (Jefferson Papers)
In his pioneering work The Federalists , Leonard D. White, an able scholar in the field of...
46568Executive Order on Revenue Districts, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An Order Of the President of the United States— making certain Alterations in the Districts...
46569The Boundaries of Louisiana: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
The geographic limits of the purchase of Louisiana were ill-defined. Although Jefferson could...
46570Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Value of Lots in Beverley Town (Westham), [ca. 22 May 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
my lots in Beverly town N os 57. 107. 108. 151 1751. June 5. cost 86/ each what worth at 6. p.c....