10381Enclosure: Chiles Terrell’s Discussion of Due East and West Lines, [by 20 May 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
Boundary Lines. As we were the first to set the mathematicians by the ears, by giving place to a...
10382Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received a letter from my Son in Richm d transmitting the purport of one you have had...
10383Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Miller, 14 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed packet was directed to mr Dabney Terril under the belief that it would find him in...
10384Thomas Jefferson to John H. Peyton, 14 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your brother Col o Bernard Peyton informed me that he had a friend, mr Greene , going immediately...
10385Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I read your letter of the 19 th July with pleasure, and though at first disappointed, I cannot...
10386Thomas G. Watkins to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
It was by the merest accident, when travelling to the south some years ago for M rs Watkins ’...
10387Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In crafting his response to James Fishback’s letter of 5 June 1809, Jefferson completed a draft...
10388Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
James Madison was on poor terms with James Monroe after the latter’s abortive bid for the...
10389Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In composing his response to William Baldwin’s letter of 7 Jan. 1810 , Jefferson completed a...
10390Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Using the French manuscript that he received from the author in 1809, Jefferson undertook to see...
10391Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
The material printed below documents the failure of Edward Livingston’s attempt to make Jefferson...
10392Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
By the latter part of the 1790s Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had become bitter political...
10393Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In the summer of 1805 William Wirt asked Jefferson to supply him with information for a...
10394Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Craven Peyton for Purchase of Henderson Lands, 14 July 1801 to 7 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Craven Peyton in account for Henderson’s lands, with Th: J. D r
10395Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Craven Peyton for Corn, 28 January 1804 to 25 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Craven Peyton on a contract for corn in acc t with Th: Jefferson D r
10396Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson had long advocated sending an American-sponsored expedition to explore the...
10397Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
On 12 Jan. 1803 the Virginia General Assembly passed “An Act to establish an academy in the...
10398Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Having learned through the newspapers of the British destruction on 24 Aug. 1814 of the...
10399Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In composing his response to Peter H. Wendover ’s letter of 30 Jan. 1815 , Jefferson completed a...
10400Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In composing a letter to his boyhood friend James Maury , a longtime expatriate serving as United...
10401Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In the latter part of 1815 Jefferson made two lengthy visits to his Bedford County estate, Poplar...
10402Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Following his September visit to Bedford County and surrounding areas with José Corrêa da Serra...
10403Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
While drafting his 10 Jan. 1816 response to Horatio G. Spafford’s letter of 25 Dec. 1815 ,...
10404Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia adopted its first written constitution by a unanimous vote on 29 June 1776 at a...
10405Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In 1806 an act of the Virginia General Assembly established the Rivanna Company in order to...
10406Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
The bill establishing Central College became law on 14 Feb. 1816, and on 25 Mar. of that year...
10407Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
On or about 13 Aug. 1817 Jefferson set out from Poplar Forest to visit Natural Bridge with his...
10408Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Following the chartering of Central College early in 1816, the purchase the next summer of land...
10409Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
During a monthlong visit to Poplar Forest , 19 Nov.–20 Dec. 1817, Jefferson attempted to clarify...
10410Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Early in his tenure as secretary of state, Jefferson began to preserve his reactions to national...