45. Three of Bennett Henderson’s heirs, who had not been of age when Craven Peyton first bought up their shares of the estate for TJ, had declared the original deeds invalid and appointed William D. Meriwether to act for them to obtain restitution. Arbiters Dabney and Peter Minor awarded these minor heirs $766.80 in back rent for TJ’s fifteen-year occupation of their lands, which TJ then had to buy back at an additional cost of $1,500 (MB 14 July 1801, 20 July 1817; Award, 25 Jan. 1817, ViU).

46. This is the obelisk clock acquired in 1791. The white marble clock may be the French columnar mantel clock now at Monticello (MB 31 Oct. 1791).

47. Here and at 31 Mch. TJ paid New York bookseller J. Louis Fernagus de Gelone for a French description of the reflecting circle of Borda, French editions of the tragedies of Euripides and the works of Archimedes and Hippocrates, and Antonio de Solis, Historia de la Conquista de Mexico (TJ to Fernagus, 17 Feb., 6, 7, and 31 Mch. 1817; Fernagus to TJ, 25 Feb., 15 Mch. 1817; Library Catalogue, 1829, Nos. 116, 181, 379, 411, 757 description begins Catalogue: President Jefferson’s Library, Washington, D.C., 1829 description ends ). For subsequent purchases see TJ-Fernagus de Gelone correspondence.

48. TJR’s former schoolmate Valentine Wood Southall (d. 1861), an attorney and later very prominent citizen of Charlottesville, was TJ’s source of cash for the rest of the year (Woods, Albemarle, p. 317-18; Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 87-8 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ).

49.  John A. Wilson was overseer at Tufton in 1817.

50. TJ visited Robert Rives at Oak Ridge, about two miles beyond present Shipman in Nelson County.

51. Richard Powell kept an Amherst County ordinary (Amherst County Personal Property List, 1816, 1817, Vi).

52. The Millers were overseers under Joel Yancey at Poplar Forest, William Miller at the Tomahawk plantation in 1816 and 1817, and Robert Miller at Bear Creek from 1816 through 1821. Both received an annual wage of £50.

53. Colonel G. Hutchins Burton of Halifax, N.C., had sent TJ this cask of two-year-old Scuppernong. TJ had ordered this American wine, made from a white variety of the native Muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia), after tasting it at JWE’s table at Millbrook in December. He thought it “exquisite,” as long as it was preserved from the “barbarous practice” of adulteration with brandy, and continued to purchase it regularly (JWE to TJ, 28 Apr. 1817; TJ to William Johnson, 10 May 1817; TJ to Thomas Coxe, 3 June 1823).

54. TJ sent a new catalogue of desired books to Parisian booksellers De Bures frères, who had supplied a portion of the catalogue sent to George Ticknor in 1815 (MB 5 July 1815; TJ to De Bures frères, 6 June 1817; future shipments from De Bures frères are identified in correspondence and De Bures invoices in MHi). TJ ordered from Stephen Cathalan assorted Mediterranean foodstuffs, one hundred gallons of Roussillon de Rivesalte, two hundred bottles of Bellet, and one hundred bottles of Ledanon, a port-like wine from near the Pont du Gard which TJ had enjoyed at Cathalan’s house in 1787 (TJ to Cathalan, 6 June 1817; Cathalan to TJ, 4 June 1816; TJ to James Monroe, 8 Apr. 1817; MB 1 Mch. 1818).

55. Major Oliver Towles, Jr., kept a tavern at the corner of present Main and Twelfth streets, Lynchburg (Chambers, Lynchburg, p. 517 description begins S. Allen Chambers, Jr., Lynchburg: An Architectural History, Charlottesville, Va., 1981 description ends ; Cabell, Sketches of Lynchburg, p. 312-15 description begins Margaret C. Cabell, Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, Va., 1854 description ends ; Lynchburg Press, 27 Apr. 1821).

56. For $2,300 Martin Dawson purchased 256 acres in the southern part of the 1162½-acre tract TJ had bought from the heirs of Bennett Henderson (MB 14 July 1801; AlCDB, xxi, 146-7 description begins Albemarle County Deed Books, Albemarle County Courthouse, Charlottesville, Va. description ends ).

57.  Eli Alexander had bought up the shares, totalling 340 acres, of three of Bennett Henderson’s heirs to the lands around the town of Milton. In exchange for $1,500 and 25¼ acres in the southern part of his Henderson tract, TJ received from Alexander 278¼ acres of these shares, including important lots on the Rivanna River. This transaction, which was in effect a second purchase of land TJ had already paid for twelve years earlier, marked the final consolidation of TJ’s title to his Milton land acquisitions, always excepting the disputed mill site lot (MB 14 July 1801, 7 Feb. 1817; AlCDB, xxi, 166-7).

58. Dr. John C. Ragland was a Charlottesville physician (Woods, Albemarle, p. 242-3 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ).

59. TJ made his annual visit to James Madison at Montpelier the occasion of a meeting of the Board of Visitors of Central College (TJ to Madison, 23 July 1817).

60. Actually $6,342.21. Because of the war TJ had been unable to remit to Italy the proceeds of the sale of Philip Mazzei’s lot in Richmond in 1813. Considering investment in banks or government loans undesirable, he lent the money to himself at the six percent legal rate of interest. This is TJ’s first interest payment to Mazzei’s heirs, Andrea and Elisabetta Pini, and for the rest of his life he annually remitted $444, six percent interest on the adjusted principal of $7,400. It was only in 1840 that TJR settled this debt, on which TJ was never able to make a payment of principal (TJ to Mazzei, 29 Dec. 1813; Malone, Jefferson, vi, 509-10 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ).

61. TJ had apparently been subscribing to the Port Folio, the preeminent American literary periodical of the early nineteenth century, only since 1814, long after the reign of its founder and anti-Jeffersonian editor Joseph Dennie. John Elihu Hall was at this time editor of this Philadelphia monthly, as well as of the American Law Journal, which appeared irregularly as a quarterly from 1810 to 1817 and resurfaced briefly in 1821 as the Journal of Jurisprudence (TJ to Peter Cottom, 7 May 1816; Harrison Hall to TJ, 17 July 1817; TJ to Hall, 6 Aug. 1817; Mott, American Magazines, i, 154, 223-46 description begins Frank L. Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1741-1850, New York, 1930, 2 vols. description ends ; Edgar, American Magazines, p. 95-6, 217-20 description begins Neal L. Edgar, A History and Bibliography of American Magazines 1810-1820, Metuchen, N.J., 1975 description ends ; Library Catalogue, 1829, Nos. 591, 921 description begins Catalogue: President Jefferson’s Library, Washington, D.C., 1829 description ends ).

62. This date, and those through 23 Aug., are TJ’s corrections of his original entries, 8 through 22 Aug. He thus was a day behind for most of the month. This error is also reflected in TJ’s “Summary Journal of Letters” (DLC).

63.  Patrick Henry was a free Negro who, in return for keeping off trespassers, was allowed to live on and cultivate the Natural Bridge tract (TJ to William Caruthers, 11 June 1817).

64.  John (b. 1800), son of Foreman James and Cretia, lived at Monticello with his family until 1819, when TJ gave him to TJR. He was a carter and a carder in the textile factory.

65. Thus in MS.

66.  Joseph Antrim, whom TJ thought the finest plasterer in Virginia, later was responsible for the plastering at the University of Virginia (TJ to Hugh Chisholm, 31 Aug. 1817; TJ letter of recommendation for Antrim, 25 Sep. 1824).

67. The American Magazine, a Monthly Miscellany, appeared in Albany, N.Y., from June 1815 to May 1816. Horatio Gates Spafford edited this aptly subtitled periodical (Edgar, American Magazines, p. 96-7 description begins Neal L. Edgar, A History and Bibliography of American Magazines 1810-1820, Metuchen, N.J., 1975 description ends ).

68. In April Joseph Coleman and six other Albemarle County citizens had been named “viewers of the road” in connection with TJ and TJR’s petition to change the route of the Three Notched Road east from Charlottesville. TJ, who hoped for a decision at the November court, wrote the viewers requesting that they assemble in time to make their report by 6 Oct. They favored the new route and in Sep. 1818 the old route from Charlottesville to Lewis’ ferry and Moore’s ford (near present Route 250 crossing of Rivanna River) and through Pantops, Lego, and Shadwell, was officially discontinued. The new public road, which TJ and TMR had recently completed, went from Charlottesville to Secretary’s ford, then along the north bank of the Rivanna, past the Shadwell mills, to the mouth of Chapel (now Barn) Branch just above Milton (TJ to Coleman et al., 1 Oct. 1817; MB 1772, miscellaneous memoranda, note 44, 2 Apr. 1813; AlCCOB, 1816-1817, p. 238-9, 411, 447 description begins Albemarle County Court Order Books, Albemarle County Courthouse, Charlottesville, Va. description ends ; 1818-1819, p. 150; Copy court order and related TJ memoranda, 8 Apr. 1817, ViU; Manuscript map of proposed changes, c. 1817, and TJ map of Charlottesville and Milton, c. 1817, ViU:EHR).

69.  Joseph Delaplaine, Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters (Philadelphia, 1815-1816; Library Catalogue, 1829, No. 139 description begins Catalogue: President Jefferson’s Library, Washington, D.C., 1829 description ends ). The many letters on the subject of this work between TJ, who was treated in the first number, and Philadelphia author and publisher Delaplaine (1777-1824) are in DLC.

70.  Thompson Gooch was overseer at Lego in 1816 and 1817.

71. While at Poplar Forest TJ was engaged “from sunrise to sunset with a surveyor in running round my lines, which have never before been run round” (TJ to MJR, 29 Nov. 1817).

72. Prominent Lynchburg physician Dr. Thomas Humphreys sold medicine, paints, and groceries at his store in “Tate’s Brick Row” near the center of town (Cabell, Sketches of Lynchburg, p. 298-301 description begins Margaret C. Cabell, Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, Va., 1854 description ends ; Lynchburg Press, 4 Apr. 1817).