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oak

  • American, 8:245
  • cork, 2:140, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n, 5:438, 5:560
  • holm, 1:594
  • F. A. Michaux on, 5:7, 5:8n, 7:52, 8:248, 8:363
  • in Va., 11:624

Oak Hill (J. Monroe’s Loudoun Co. estate)

  • construction of, 11:273–11:274, 11:273–11:274, 11:274n
  • sale of, 7:487, 7:488n, 15:568
  • visits to, 15:105

Oakley, Charles

  • secretary of British legation to U.S., 1:154, 1:156n, 1:418, 1:516

oats

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:348, 3:351n
  • for Central College–University of Virginia, 15:93, 15:96, 15:100
  • from J. H. Craven, 2:371
  • as crop, 6:133, 7:461, 8:305, 8:366, 12:354, 15:11
  • damaged by drought, 2:417, 2:491, 2:496, 4:32, 6:210
  • as fodder, 8:268n, 9:562, 11:272, 12:197, 12:242
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:379, 8:69, 8:70, 8:542, 8:611, 14:430, 15:608–15:609
  • potato, 5:657, 5:658n
  • price of, 8:268n, 8:592
  • purchased by TJ, 1:3, 8:79, 8:79n, 10:118n, 10:168, 14:295n, 14:317, 14:317, 14:472
  • as rent, 12:302
  • seed, 2:93, 5:384, 12:302, 13:75

Oberlin, Jeremias Jakob

  • edits C. Cornelii Taciti opera (Tacitus), 9:196, 9:455, 10:212, 10:531, 11:205, 11:296, 11:414, 11:414, 12:356, 14:511

Oberling. See Oberlin, Jeremias Jakob

Oberthür, Franz

  • edits Flavii Iosephi Hebraei Opera Omnia Graece et Latine (Josephus), 10:233, 13:476

oboe (hautboy), 9:694, 9:696n

O’Brien, Richard, 1:479, 1:480n

Observationes siderum habitae Pisis in specula academica (J. A. Slop von Cadenberg), 6:75, 6:84, 6:84n

Observations (H. Banks), 3:296

“Observations concerning the Fly-Weevil, that destroys the Wheat” (L. Carter), 8:643, 8:645n

Observations on Infidelity (Cerus), 2:124–2:125, 2:125n, 2:125n

Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations (D. Hartley), 3:277–3:278, 3:304, 7:385, 7:386n

Observations on Modern Gardening (T. Whately), 12:534, 13:96, 13:97n

Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals (W. Roscoe), 14:78

Observations on Reversionary Payments; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in Old Age … and on The National Debt (R. Price), 6:497, 6:498n

Observations on Robin’s Travels in Louisiana (D. B. Warden), 3:557, 3:558n

“Observations on the annual Passage of Herrings” (J. Gilpin), 5:602, 5:604n

Observations on the Climate in Different Parts of America (H. Williamson), 2:71, 2:71–2:72n

Observations on the Geology of the United States of America (W. Maclure), 12:165–12:166

Observations on the influence of soil and climate upon wool (R. Bakewell), 1:479, 1:480n, 3:263, 3:264n

Observations on the Laws Governing the Communication of Contagious Diseases (D. Hosack), 8:467, 8:468n, 10:133–10:134, 10:147n

Observations on the Pernicious Practice of the Law (B. Austin), 9:249, 9:249n, 9:333

Observations sur la culture du coton (Rohr), 2:83

Observations sur la Relation de la Campagne de 1815, Publiée par le Général Gourgaud (E. Grouchy), 15:232, 15:256, 15:257n

Observations sur “L’art de faire le vin” (J. F. Charpentier de Cossigny), 1:35

Observations sur les Affections Catarrhales (P. J. G. Cabanis), 13:342, 13:358, 13:394, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 14:232, 14:461

Observations sur le Systême Actuel d’Instruction Publique (Destutt de Tracy), 9:442, 9:443n, 11:359

Observations to shew the propriety of the nomination of Colonel James Monroe, to the Presidency of the United States by the Caucus at Washington (C. Pinckney), 10:339, 10:339n, 10:363, 10:363n

Observer (Baltimore newspaper), 4:336, 4:338n

The Observer (British periodical), 7:665

obsidian, 2:299, 2:299

Occoquan River, 14:402, 14:403, 14:412–14:413

occultism

  • and Freemasonry, 13:267n
  • Notes on Occult Knowledge (R. Miller), 13:257–13:269

Ocean (brig), 10:170, 10:171, 10:172n, 10:411, 11:531

oceanography

  • observations of marine life, 11:190, 11:191
  • R. Turner’s theories on, 10:564

Ocellus (Greek philosopher)

  • writings attributed to, 6:439, 6:440–6:441n, 6:562, 6:567n, 7:75, 7:148, 9:528, 12:112

Ocellus Lucanus, De la Nature de l’Univers (trans. C. Batteux), 12:112

Ocellus Lucanus en Grec et en François (J. B. Boyer), 7:75, 7:78n, 7:148, 8:553, 8:553n, 10:14, 12:112, 12:444

Ocheltree, Mrs.

  • family of, 12:394
  • Rockbridge Co. land of, 11:629, 12:394

Ocheltree, James

  • heirs of, 14:248
  • Rockbridge Co. land of, 12:174, 12:311, 12:338, 12:394

O’Connor, Arthur

  • delivers letters, 4:326

O’Connor, Thomas

  • as editor of Globe, 14:424
  • identified, 14:424n
  • letter from, 14:424

octant

  • for U.S. Coast Survey, 9:223, 9:225n
  • use of, 9:206, 9:207n

Oddy, John Jepson

  • A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain, 3:274, 3:275n

“An Ode in Imitation of Alcæus” (W. Jones)

  • quoted by TJ, 10:88, 10:90n

“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (T. Gray), 2:477, 2:478–2:479n, 15:136, 15:137n

Odes (Horace), 14:257, 14:551

“Ode to Thomas Jefferson” (S. G. Tucker), 1:617–1:619

Odobenus rosmarus. See walrus

odometers, 11:504, 11:506n, 13:81, 13:81n

Odyssea Græce et Latine (Homer), 3:546

Odysseus, 15:149

Odyssey (Homer)

  • mentioned, 8:121, 11:414
  • miniature edition of, 10:260, 10:260n
  • The Odyssey of Homer (trans. A. Pope), 12:534
  • TJ cites, 8:617, 8:617n, 8:658, 8:659n
  • TJ orders, 12:583, 13:293

Oeiras. See Oeyras (Oeiras) wine

Oelsner, Konrad Engelbert

  • identified, 5:617n
  • Obituary Notice for Joel Barlow, 5:612, 5:614–5:617, 5:618–5:621, 6:515, 6:516n, 7:525, 10:46

Oemler, Augustus Gottlieb

  • delivers letter, 4:146
  • introduced to TJ, 3:596

Oeuvres (J. Bacquet), 3:174–3:175n

Oeuvres (R. Choppin), 3:174n

Œuvres (C. Henrys), 3:174n

Œuvres (Renusson), 3:130–3:131, 3:174n, 3:546

Oeuvres (A. R. J. Turgot), 1:202n, 1:263, 1:264n, 1:584–1:585, 1:592, 1:632, 1:667, 1:668n, 2:39, 3:516, 4:22–4:23, 4:24n, 4:125, 4:126–4:127n, 7:7, 7:9n

Œuvres choisies de l’Abbé Prévost (A. F. Prévost), 9:355n

Œuvres Complètes de Xénophon (Xenophon; trans. J. B. Gail), 12:583, 13:293, 13:293, 13:294n

Œuvres Complettes (C. A. Hélvetius), 7:414, 7:415–7:416n, 7:455n

Œuvres complettes de Dêmosthene et d’Eschine (Demosthenes; Aeschines; trans. A. Auger), 7:259

Oeuvres Complettes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse (Frederick II), 1:580

Œuvres Complettes d’Isocrate (Isocrates; trans. A. Auger), 7:259

Œuvres d’Archimède (trans. F. Peyrard), 11:127, 11:152, 11:175, 11:193, 11:295, 11:297, 11:395

Les Œuvres de Platon (Plato; trans. A. Dacier), 12:112

Oeuvres de Salluste (Sallust; trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle), 13:342, 13:358, 13:394, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561

Oeuvres de Séneque le philosophe (Seneca; trans. N. de La Grange), 10:233, 10:236–10:237n, 12:534, 14:511

Oeuvres d’Horace (Horace; ed. A. Dacier), 10:235, 13:537, 14:511

Oeuvres Philosophiques de Cicéron (Cicero; Didot edition), 9:354, 9:420, 12:112

Oeyras (Oeiras) wine, 3:240, 3:241n

Offa, king of the Mercians

  • laws of, 7:125, 7:147

Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress (G. Washington), 14:193, 14:265, 14:286

Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning: or the Partitions of Sciences (F. Bacon), 8:473, 8:475n, 9:xliv–9:xlv

Of the Importance of Religious Opinions (J. Necker), 7:588–7:590, 7:590n

Of Wisdom (P. Charron; trans. G. Stanhope), 12:534

Ogden, Aaron

  • refuses military appointment, 6:528

Ogden, Samuel G., 1:578n

Ogilvie, James

  • Albemarle Co. school of, 3:632n
  • on American progress, 3:631
  • and G. W. Blaettermann, 14:251, 14:345, 14:347–14:348
  • as Earl of Findlater, 7:560
  • on education, 9:443n
  • forwards newspaper prospectus, 4:276–4:277
  • identified, 3:632–3:633n
  • introduces C. Clarke, 8:113
  • as lecturer, 4:72–4:74, 4:75, 4:113, 4:276–4:277
  • letters from, 3:630–3:633, 4:276–4:277, 7:514, 8:113–8:114, 8:352–8:354
  • letter from, to G. Ticknor, 14:347–14:348
  • letters to, 4:72–4:74
  • and memoir of C. B. Brown, 3:632
  • on neology, 7:514
  • offers assistance to TJ, 8:113–8:114
  • Philosophical Essays, 8:352–8:353, 8:354n
  • rhetoric class of, 8:352–8:353, 8:354n
  • unconventional views of, 7:258
  • visits Monticello, 7:635, 7:649–7:650, 8:113

Ogle, Capt., 5:514

Oglesby, Jacob

  • financial transactions of, 9:483, 14:307

Oglesby, Mary C., 6:45n

O’Hara, Arthur Harper

  • identified, 13:158n
  • letter from, 13:157–13:159
  • and Seventy-Six Association, 13:157

Ohio

  • antiquities from, 13:82, 13:82–13:83, 13:83n, 13:83n, 13:83n
  • banks in, 12:179
  • books on, 9:526, 9:526n, 9:647, 13:82
  • maps of, 8:77n
  • migration to, 2:344, 2:345, 7:93
  • newspapers, 11:177, 11:177n
  • senator from, 1:643n
  • state legislature, 1:380
  • TJ on, 2:359
  • and Treaty of Ghent (1814), 8:329n
  • troops from, 5:319–5:320, 5:336

Ohio (steamboat), 13:255

Ohio River

  • connection with James River, 15:400, 15:400–15:401n, 15:492, 15:493n, 15:539, 15:585, 15:587n
  • fish of, 3:92
  • as geographical boundary, 9:689, 9:690, 13:611
  • mentioned, 12:492
  • and steamboats, 7:56, 8:591, 13:254

oil

  • castor, 5:669, 6:345, 14:554, 14:567n
  • ceremonial use of, 12:61, 12:62, 12:62, 12:64, 12:64, 12:65, 12:70
  • linseed, 5:33, 5:379, 15:473
  • as lubricant, 15:257
  • olive, 1:84n, 1:188, 1:188, 1:257, 1:366, 1:366, 3:545, 4:210, 4:686, 9:198, 11:407, 11:653, 11:653, 12:205, 12:374, 12:580, 13:447, 13:448n, 13:565, 13:576–13:577, 13:585, 13:606, 13:607, 14:329, 15:120
  • poppy, 2:270, 2:271
  • salad, 1:31, 1:161, 2:335, 2:392, 2:438, 3:434
  • sesame, 1:84n, 1:212, 3:636–3:637, 4:7, 4:39–4:40
  • spermaceti, 1:31
  • sweet, 15:262
  • for TJ, 5:92, 7:710, 7:716–7:717, 9:541–9:542, 14:626, 15:262, 15:300, 15:313, 15:559
  • turpentine, 3:442, 3:453, 3:512–3:513, 3:518, 5:676, 8:81, 15:473
  • used in medicine, 4:102, 15:46

okra, 4:180

Old, James

  • as Albemarle Co. justice, 13:276n, 13:276n
  • and Jefferson v. Michie, 6:576n, 7:675, 7:678
  • and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 14:422, 15:348, 15:348
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254

Olden Barneveld, N.Y.

  • location of, 10:36, 10:122n

Oldham, James

  • as builder for University of Virginia, 13:524, 13:539, 14:40, 14:172, 14:195, 14:197, 14:211–14:212, 14:212, 14:446, 15:98, 15:98, 15:98, 15:100, 15:102, 15:102, 15:559
  • and hardware for TJ, 11:548, 11:548, 11:588–11:589, 12:552, 12:633
  • health of, 14:197
  • identified, 3:520n
  • introduces Y. Smith, 14:40
  • letter from, to N. Barksdale, 14:172
  • letters from, 3:575, 3:588, 8:21, 8:142–8:143, 11:588–11:589, 13:95–13:96, 13:524, 14:40–14:41, 14:197, 14:446
  • letters to, 3:520, 7:712, 11:307, 11:548, 12:552, 13:539, 14:211–14:212
  • moves to Missouri, 13:95–13:96, 13:524, 13:539
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
  • TJ recommends, 9:501
  • and window glass, 3:518, 3:520, 3:550, 3:575, 3:588, 7:710, 7:712, 7:717, 8:21, 8:142–8:143, 11:307
  • and wood, 11:307, 11:548, 14:40

Oldmixon, John, 10:589

The Olive Branch: or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic (M. Carey), 8:198, 8:198n, 8:248, 9:40–9:41, 9:41n, 9:41n, 9:58–9:59, 9:74–9:75, 9:75n, 9:217, 9:218n, 10:481n, 10:518, 10:519n, 12:291

Oliveira Fernandes, John Francisco

  • and Catholic church, 11:27–11:28, 15:315–15:316, 15:317n
  • health of, 10:313
  • identified, 9:263–9:264n
  • Letter, Addressed to the Most Reverend Leonard Neale, Arch Bishop of Baltimore, 11:28, 11:28n, 11:28n, 11:63, 11:63–11:64n
  • letters from, 9:324–9:326, 9:366, 9:659–9:660, 10:219–10:220, 10:313, 10:351, 11:27–11:28
  • letters to, 9:263–9:264, 9:401–9:402, 9:602, 10:247, 10:335, 11:63–11:64
  • letter to, from J. de Monteverde, 9:660–9:661
  • as physician, 9:325, 12:612, 12:656
  • plans visit to Monticello, 10:351
  • sends book to TJ, 10:219–10:220
  • TJ invites to visit Monticello, 9:263, 9:325, 10:335
  • and wine for TJ, 9:263, 9:313, 9:324–9:325, 9:325, 9:366, 9:370, 9:401–9:402, 9:449, 9:499, 9:594, 9:602, 9:659, 9:660, 10:219, 10:246, 10:247, 10:247, 10:313, 10:335, 10:351

Oliver, Andrew

  • correspondence of published, 6:258, 6:259
  • mentioned, 6:258, 7:217

Oliver, Julius

  • identified, 15:63–15:64n
  • invoice from, 15:119, 15:120–15:121, 15:284
  • letters from, 15:63–15:64, 15:119
  • relationship with S. Cathalan, 1:312, 1:313n, 11:654, 15:63, 15:65–15:66
  • as U.S. chancellor at Marseille, 15:63, 15:65
  • and wine for TJ, 15:63, 15:119, 15:120, 15:195, 15:195, 15:262, 15:284

olives

  • cultivation of, 11:168, 11:168n, 11:345, 11:345
  • oil, 1:84n, 1:188, 1:188, 1:257, 1:366, 1:366, 3:545, 4:210, 4:686, 11:407, 11:653, 11:653, 12:205, 12:374, 12:580, 13:447, 13:448n, 13:565, 13:576–13:577, 13:585, 13:606, 13:607, 14:626, 15:120
  • seeds, 2:271, 2:271
  • sent to TJ, 1:313n, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 4:220, 4:487
  • trees, 5:560, 5:561n, 9:198–9:199, 10:217, 10:218n, 13:15

Olivet, Pierre Joseph Thoulier d’

  • translates Cicero, 9:354, 9:420

Olmec Indians, 6:328

Olmstead v. the Executrices of the late David Rittenhouse, 1:213–1:214

Olney Hymns, in Three Books (J. Newton), 10:651n

Omar bin Muhammad, dey of Algiers, 10:216, 10:218n, 10:286, 10:286n

Ombrosi, Jacopo (Giacomo)

  • and wine for TJ, 10:416

O’Mealy, Michael, 3:96

Ὁμήρου Ἰλιὰς καὶ εἰς Αὐτὴν Σχόλια τῶν Παλαιῶν. Homeri Ilias, et Veterum in Eam Scholia (Homer; ed. Didymus Chalcenterus), 9:196, 9:455

Onandaga County, N.Y., 3:333

Oneale, Mr. (ship owner), 4:215

O’Neal, John L.

  • as assignee, 11:573n

onions

  • hanging (Egyptian onion; tree onion), 10:517
  • mentioned, 12:651
  • wild, 14:161

Onís y González, Frederica de Merkleiny (Luis de Onís y González Vara López y Gómez’s wife), 1:411, 7:328, 7:394

Onís y González Vara López y Gómez, Luis de

  • identified, 1:602n
  • letters from, 1:601–1:602, 7:291–7:292, 7:390–7:398, 11:377–11:378
  • letters to, 1:651, 7:326–7:328, 11:428
  • minister plenipotentiary of Spain, 1:410–1:411, 1:604, 1:632, 1:658, 2:33, 9:388–9:389, 9:390n, 9:516, 9:517n, 13:150–13:151, 13:151n, 13:587, 13:587, 13:587, 13:587–13:588n, 13:588n, 15:105, 15:106, 15:106n, 15:568, 15:568n
  • negotiations with U.S. government, 9:388–9:389, 9:478–9:480, 9:516, 11:122, 13:609, 13:610–13:611, 13:612n
  • sends pamphlet to TJ, 11:377, 11:377n, 11:428
  • and Spanish constitution, 7:291, 7:326–7:328, 7:390–7:394
  • Yznardy introduces, 1:410–1:411, 1:601–1:602, 1:651

On Literary Composition (Dionysius of Halicarnassus), 6:277

On National Government (G. Ensor), 10:556–10:557, 10:557n, 10:564–10:565, 10:625

Ontario, USS (sloop of war), 11:662, 13:300n, 14:312

On the Crown (Demosthenes), 14:258, 14:551

“On the Eclipse of the Sun of Sept. 17, 1811” (N. Bowditch), 8:455, 8:456n

“On the Geological Formation of the Natural Bridge of Virginia” (F. W. Gilmer), 9:26n

On the Importance of Assisting Young Men of Piety and Talents in Obtaining an Education for the Gospel Ministry (L. Beecher), 9:255, 9:255, 9:255–9:256, 9:257n, 9:257n, 9:378, 9:378–9:379, 9:379n, 9:381, 9:381n, 9:381–9:382, 9:383

On the Mammoth or Fossil Elephant, Found in the Ice, at the Mouth of the River Lena, in Siberia (Tilesius von Tilenau), 2:510n

“On the Motion of a Pendulum” (N. Bowditch), 8:455, 8:456n

On the Origin and Vicissitudes of Literature, Science and Art, and their Influence on the Present State of Society (W. Roscoe), 14:78

On the Origin, Nature, Progress and Influence of Consular Establishments (D. B. Warden), 5:437, 5:437–5:438n, 7:350, 7:350–7:351n, 8:36

On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation (D. Ricardo), 13:572, 13:572–13:573n, 13:573, 13:586, 13:586

On the Sublime (“Longinus”), 14:258, 14:551

“On the Utility of Thermometrical Observations at Sea” (Masson), 3:95n

opals, wax, 2:299

Opelousas District, Orleans Territory, 1:635–1:642, 9:584–9:585, 9:585–9:587n

Opera. Interpretatione et Notis (Virgil; Delphin edition; ed. C. de La Rue), 8:660, 9:274, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639, 13:33, 13:33, 13:47, 13:47

Opera Omnia Graece et Latine (Dionysius of Halicarnassus; eds. H. Estienne, J. J. Reiske, and others), 8:581, 8:582n, 9:109, 14:510, 15:26

Opera Omnia Graece et Latine (Dionysius of Halicarnassus; trans. E. Spelman), 1:580

Opera Omnia Quæ Extant (Suetonius; ed. A. Babelon), 1:580, 14:511

Opere di Platone (Plato; trans. D. Bembo), 9:394, 12:583, 15:258

“Ophellot de La Pause, Henri.” See Delisle de Sales, Jean Baptiste Claude

Ophrys loeselii (Loesel’s twayblade), 12:611n

Opie, Amelia, 7:665

Opinion de M. de Broglie Sur la Loi d’amnistie portée par les Ministres de Sa Majesté à la Chambre des Pairs le 9 janvier 1816 (Broglie), 9:377, 9:377n

The Opinion of Judge Cooper, on the Effect of a Sentence of a Foreign Court of Admiralty (T. Cooper), 2:376, 2:377n, 2:480, 2:489, 2:491, 2:668

Opinion on a Project for Removing the Obstructions to a Ship Navigation to Georgetown, Col. (B. H. Latrobe), 12:521

Opinion on the case of the alluvion land or batture, near New-Orleans (Du Ponceau), 5:45, 5:47n

Opinion sur la Contagion de la Fièvre Jaune (V. F. Bally), 10:130, 10:135, 10:147n

opium

  • medicinal, 4:102, 9:44, 10:106, 10:107n, 14:30
  • mentioned, 6:188
  • used to commit suicide, 6:293

Oporto, vin d’. See port (wine)

opossum, 7:210, 7:211n, 8:422–8:423n, 11:367–11:368, 11:370n

optics

  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:209, 13:214, 13:215n
  • study of, 7:638, 7:639, 7:663, 7:666, 7:686, 12:515

Oram, James

  • identified, 9:525n
  • letter to, 9:525
  • payment to, 9:414n, 9:414n
  • sends prospectus to TJ, 9:525

orange (tree), 1:631–1:632

orange, wild (tree), 8:21

Orange County, Va.

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n

Orange Court House (Orange Co.)

  • and J. Madison, 1:328, 1:359
  • mentioned, 8:290
  • TJ’s merino sheep sent to, 2:366, 2:409, 2:418, 2:490, 2:492, 2:512
  • TJ stops at, 1:52n

oranges, 10:xlvi

Orange Society of Ireland, 5:641, 5:642n

Oratio Dominica … Nimirum, Plus Centum Linguis, Versionibus, aut Characteribus Reddita & Expressa, 10:357

An Oration. A Project For the Civilization of the Indians of North America (A. Clark), 11:393, 11:394n

An Oration delivered at Mr. Harvey’s, Spring Garden, before a Very Numerous Meeting of Democratic Citizens, July 4, 1812 (C. J. Ingersoll), 5:225–5:226

An Oration, Delivered, at the County Court-House, Philadelphia, on the Forty-Second Anniversary of American Independence (S. Jackson), 13:148, 13:149n

Oration delivered at Washington, July Fourth, 1809 (J. Barlow), 1:588, 1:590n

An Oration, Delivered before the Tammany Society (H. Wheaton), 3:46, 3:137, 3:157

An Oration, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order … 1815 (S. Berrian), 8:614, 8:615n

An Oration, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, of Brookhaven, (L.I.) (B. F. Thompson), 4:53, 4:54n, 4:76

An Oration, delivered before the Washington Society, in Boston, on the Fourth of July, 1816 (A. Ware), 10:340, 10:341n, 10:341

An Oration, delivered in St. Michael’s Church, before the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina, on the Fourth of July, 1812 (W. Crafts), 5:284, 5:285n

An Oration, delivered in St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, South-Carolina; on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, 1815 (C. R. Greene), 8:586n

An Oration, delivered in St. Philip’s Church (L. Cheves), 3:61–3:62, 3:136–3:137

An Oration, delivered in St. Philip’s Church, before the inhabitants of Charleston, South-Carolina; on Friday, the Fourth of July, 1817, in commemoration of American Independence (B. Elliott), 11:528, 11:529n, 11:582

An Oration, Delivered, In St. Philip’s Church … On the 5th Day of July, 1819 (T. D. Condy), 14:572, 15:53

An Oration delivered in the First Presbyterian Church in the Town of Lexington, Ky. (J. Fishback), 10:394–10:395

An Oration, delivered in the hall of the House of Representatives (R. Rush), 5:259, 5:259n, 5:286–5:287

An Oration, Delivered in the Third Episcopal Church, before the Inhabitants of Charleston, South-Carolina, On the 4th March, 1815, in commemoration of the adoption of the Federal Constitution (J. B. White), 8:315

An Oration, delivered July 5, 1819, In the Chamber of the House of Representatives (R. B. Lee), 14:581–14:582, 14:603

An Oration Delivered on 4th July, 1811, in commemoration of American Independence, before the ’76 Association (B. A. Markley), 4:105, 4:106n, 4:175+

An Oration, delivered on the Fourth of July, 1816, In St. Michael’s Church, S. C. by appointment of the ’76 Association (W. Lance), 11:530n

An Oration, delivered on the 17th March, 1817, before the Shamrock Friendly Association of New-York (A. Pyke), 11:204–11:205n

An Oration, delivered in St. Michael’s Church, before an assemblage of the inhabitants of Charleston, South-Carolina; On the Fourth of July, 1818. In Commemoration of American Independence (H. L. Pinckney), 13:157, 13:157–13:158n

Oration on the Inauguration of the Federal Constitution (B. Elliott), 6:88–6:89, 6:89n, 6:124–6:125

An Oration, Pronounced at Alfred, on the 4th of July, 1815 (J. Holmes), 8:648–8:649, 8:649–8:650n, 9:4, 9:6n, 9:41–9:42, 9:78

An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1810, before the “Bunker-Hill Association” (D. W. Lincoln), 2:504, 2:505n, 2:666

An Oration, Pronounced at Lexington, Mass. (J. T. Austin), 8:585–8:586, 8:614, 9:4, 9:6n, 9:78

Oration pronounced by Samuel H. Smith, Esquire (S. H. Smith), 6:428, 6:429n, 6:444

Oratio Pro M. Marcello (Cicero; ed. F. A. Wolf), 9:87

Oratorum Graecorum, quorum princeps est Demosthenes (Demosthenes; ed. J. J. Reiske), 9:196, 9:456, 10:234, 14:510

oratory

  • books on, 7:629–7:630
  • collegiate education in, 12:3, 12:76
  • study of, 7:638, 7:641

Orbis Sensualium Pictus (J. A. Komenský [Comenius]; trans. C. Hoole), 14:276, 14:351

orchard grass

  • seeds, 10:517, 11:336

Ord, George

  • as editor, 13:105–13:106, 13:106n, 13:306–13:307, 13:344
  • travels of, 12:368

Orders in Council. See Great Britain: Orders in Council

Ordinances Passed at a General Convention of Delegates and Representatives, From the several Counties and Corporations of Virginia, Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the 6th of May, Anno Dom: 1776, 9:405, 9:406n

Ordway, John

  • journal of, 12:636, 12:637, 12:637–12:638n, 12:638n

O’Reilly, Alejandro

  • proclamation of, 3:175n, 3:546

Orense, bishop of. See Quevedo y Quintana, Pedro, bishop of Orense

Organ, John

  • identified, 12:211n
  • and survey of Poplar Forest, 12:209–12:211, 12:212–12:213, 12:218, 12:219–12:220, 12:228

Origen

  • Commentaria in Sacram Scripturam (ed. P. D. Huet), 12:447
  • Hexaplorum Origenis (ed. K. F. Bahrdt), 12:582, 13:295

Original correspondence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Mad. La Tour de Franqueville and M. Du Peyrou (J. J. Rousseau), 7:389

Origine de Tous les Cultes: ou, Religion Universelle (C. Dupuis), 10:424–10:425, 10:459, 10:507, 10:508, 10:509, 10:573, 10:573, 10:573, 10:584n, 10:587, 10:604

Orleans (brig), 14:628

Orléans, Duchess d’. See Maria Amalia Teresa, duchesse d’Orléans

Orléans, Louis Charles d’ See Beaujolais, Louis Charles d’Orléans

Orléans, Louis Philippe. See Montpensier, Antoine Philippe d’Orléans

Orléans, Louis Philippe, duc d’, 10:608

Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d’

  • guillotined, 9:575, 9:578n

Orleans (steamboat), 13:254

Orleans Territory See also Claiborne, William Charles Coles; Louisiana (Spanish and French colony); Louisiana (state); Louisiana Territory

  • banks in, 2:121, 2:192
  • clerk in, 1:635, 1:642n
  • drainage plan, 2:372, 2:484
  • elections in, 2:443n
  • and Embargo, 2:444n, 14:583
  • federal bench in, 2:211, 2:212
  • French refugees in, 1:203
  • indefensibility of, 4:133
  • Lafayette’s land in, 1:270n, 1:529, 1:628
  • land claims in, 1:635–1:642, 9:584–9:585, 9:585–9:587n
  • land commissioners in, 2:517, 2:518, 2:519, 3:27n, 9:584–9:585, 9:585–9:587n, 9:587n
  • laws governing, 3:325
  • legislature of, 2:135, 2:159–2:160, 2:192, 2:355, 2:483, 2:484, 2:528, 2:657, 2:658n, 2:659n, 2:682, 3:25, 3:26–3:27n, 3:157–3:158, 3:258, 3:326, 3:344, 3:344n, 3:420, 3:498
  • militia of, 2:177, 2:178n
  • J. Monroe offered governorship of, 2:42–2:43, 2:44, 2:46n
  • secretary of, 14:583
  • slave insurrection in, 3:326, 3:326n, 3:344n
  • and statehood, 3:328, 3:328n, 3:344n
  • superior court of, 2:439, 2:440–2:444n, 2:450n
  • TJ on, 2:360
  • TJ on batture rights of, 3:153, 3:168
  • TJ’s land grant proposal for, 2:258, 2:259
  • and yellow fever, 2:135–2:136, 2:356

Ormond, John

  • and gunpowder for TJ, 14:213

Ornithorhyncus. See platypus

Orosius, Paulus

  • The Anglo-Saxon Version, From the Historian Orosius. By Ælfred the Great, 8:236, 8:237n
  • works of, 8:234

Orr, John D., 7:286

Orr, Thomas Lee

  • identified, 7:286n
  • introduced to TJ, 7:286
  • as student of L. H. Girardin, 7:286

Orvault, Marie Armand de Guerry de Maubreuil, marquis d’

  • Lettre Intéressante adressee à S. A. R. le Prince Régent d’Angleterre, 15:574, 15:574–15:575n, 15:598–15:599
  • Lettre Intéressante adressée à son excellence, le comte Bathurst, ministre des colonies Britanniques, 15:574, 15:574–15:575n, 15:598–15:599

Orvieto (wine), 12:578, 13:252

Osage Indians, 1:520, 3:501, 13:227

Osage orange (bow-wood), 7:287, 7:288n, 7:321, 7:326

Osborn, Samuel L.

  • identified, 11:572n
  • letter from, 11:572
  • letter to, 11:663–11:664
  • praises TJ, 11:572, 11:663

Osborne (Osborn), Richard

  • identified, 13:159n
  • letter from, 13:157–13:159
  • and Seventy-Six Association, 13:157

Osgood, H. & R. H. (Baltimore firm). See H. & R. H. Osgood (Baltimore firm)

Osgood, David

  • A Discourse Delivered at Cambridge, 2:411, 2:412n
  • A. Hill’s opinion of, 2:411
  • mentioned, 8:343, 8:343n, 8:358, 8:359n, 9:79, 9:381, 9:383, 12:426

Osinski, Ludwik, 3:62n

Osmond, René Eustache, marquis d’

  • as French minister to Great Britain, 13:425, 13:425n

Osnaburg (Oznabrig)

  • fabric, 1:315, 4:515, 5:33, 5:385, 6:347, 6:349n, 9:301, 15:485
  • thread, 4:358, 6:345

ospreys, 14:161

Ossian. See Macpherson, James

Ostenaco (Outacity; Outassetè) (Cherokee chief), 5:124, 5:125n

Oster, Martin

  • identified, 4:70n
  • letters from, 4:81–4:82, 4:166, 5:332–5:333
  • letters to, 4:70, 5:216
  • letter to from L. W. Tazewell, 5:333–5:335
  • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466, 3:467–3:468, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:70, 4:81–4:82, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–5:118, 5:216, 5:216–5:217, 5:228, 5:332–5:333, 5:333–5:335, 5:378

ostrich, 1:479

Otey, Isaac

  • as sheriff of Bedford Co., 8:73, 8:73n

Othello (brig), 10:415n, 10:476

Otis, Asa

  • and failure of Smith & Riddle, 14:534
  • identified, 14:534–14:535n

Otis, Asa & Joseph (Richmond firm). See Asa & Joseph Otis (Richmond firm)

Otis, Bass

  • and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 11:203
  • drawing of Minerva, 14:444–14:445, 14:528–14:529
  • identified, 10:90–10:91n
  • portrait of O. Evans, 7:xliii, 7:434 (illus.)
  • portrait of TJ, 6:149n, 7:xliii, 10:xlv, 10:38, 10:71, 10:71, 10:90n, 10:198, 10:240 (illus.), 10:258, 10:259n, 10:274, 10:493, 14:444, 15:liii
  • portraits of D. and J. Madison, 10:198, 10:199n, 10:258, 10:259n
  • visits Monticello, 10:38, 10:71, 10:71, 10:80, 10:90
  • C. Wistar introduces to TJ, 10:90

Otis, Harrison Gray

  • criticism of, 4:38n, 5:641, 6:37
  • Federalist legislator, 9:217, 12:497, 12:591

Otis, James

  • correspondence of, 13:575, 13:618–13:619
  • family of, 12:497
  • health of, 12:497
  • The Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts (W. Tudor), 13:575, 13:576n, 13:618–13:619
  • and origin of American Revolution, 12:494–12:495, 12:496, 12:497, 12:531n, 14:340, 14:373
  • proposed biographical essay on, 12:493
  • writings of, 14:190, 14:191n

Otis, Samuel Allyne

  • death of, 10:360
  • identified, 4:575n
  • letters from, 4:578, 4:588
  • letters to, 4:575
  • secretary of U.S. Senate, 1:535, 4:521–4:522, 4:565, 4:575, 4:578, 4:581, 4:582, 4:588
  • TJ on, 10:609

Otis, Dunlop & Company (Richmond firm), 14:455, 14:494, 14:505–14:506

Ottawa Indians, 4:181, 4:182n, 4:537

Otway, Thomas

  • The History and Fall of Caius Marius, 4:479, 4:480n

Oudinot, Nicolas Charles, Duc de Reggio, 1:371, 1:372

Ould, Robert

  • educator, 9:502–9:503, 9:503, 9:529–9:530
  • identified, 9:503n
  • letter from, 9:502–9:503
  • letter to, 9:529–9:530
  • sends book to TJ, 9:502, 9:503n, 9:529

Ouseley, Sir Gore, 10:317

Outassetè. See Ostenaco (Outacity; Outassetè) (Cherokee chief)

Outlines of An Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind (Condorcet), 6:302, 7:627, 8:552, 8:553n

Overbury, Samuel

  • letters from accounted for, 7:719

overseers See also Bacon, Edmund; Bishop, Jonathan; Darnil (Darnell; Darniel; Darnold), Nimrod; Freeman, John Holmes; Goodman, Jeremiah Augustus; Griffin, Burgess; Lilly, Gabriel; Miller, Robert; Monticello: Overseers at; Montpellier: overseers at; Poplar Forest: Overseers at; Richardson, Richard; White, Jacob W.; Wilson, John A.; Yancey, Joel (d. 1833)

  • accommodations for, 8:204
  • accounting practices of, 4:94
  • attempt to capture runaway slaves, 3:513, 3:612–3:613, 3:613n, 11:438–11:439, 11:522
  • crop share of, 2:27, 2:28, 2:230, 2:230n, 4:10–4:11, 4:342, 4:493–4:494, 4:515, 8:173, 8:186n
  • depart, 1:558, 8:610–8:611, 9:99, 9:99n
  • hire slaves, 1:48n
  • hiring of, 4:132, 4:133n, 4:307, 8:203–8:204, 8:432–8:433, 8:493, 8:496, 8:542, 8:555, 9:34, 9:34n
  • at Lego, 9:604n, 10:387, 10:388n, 12:167n, 13:476n
  • list slave beds and blankets, 4:382–4:383, 5:463n
  • make contracts for sale of wheat, 4:165, 4:170–4:171, 4:184, 4:212
  • and nailery, 4:464–4:465
  • pay rent to TJ, 1:137
  • plantation accounts of, 1:81n, 2:155, 3:196, 3:642, 3:643, 4:557n
  • plantation management by, 2:149–2:150, 2:279, 2:281n, 2:670, 3:180, 3:181n, 3:394, 4:386n, 4:543, 5:6n, 5:488–5:490
  • at Poplar Forest, 5:31, 5:306–5:307, 5:482, 5:482n, 5:488–5:490, 5:600, 5:663, 7:179–7:180
  • positions for, 3:29, 3:276
  • and prizing of tobacco, 3:269, 3:457, 8:70
  • report plantation activities, 1:180, 2:96–2:97
  • retrieve merino sheep for TJ, 2:666
  • and sale of tobacco to S. J. Harrison, 3:457, 3:561, 3:634, 3:639–3:640, 3:650, 4:422, 4:461, 4:515, 4:549
  • send tobacco to Richmond, 1:157n, 8:132
  • TJ entrusts documents to, 2:328, 2:330, 2:422, 4:308
  • TJ on, 8:643, 9:604, 9:604n, 12:556
  • TJ’s accounts with, 1:419–1:420, 4:12, 4:58n, 9:105
  • TJ’s instructions to, 2:232, 2:233n, 4:306–4:307, 4:379–4:382, 4:515–4:516, 4:526–4:527, 5:31, 5:488–5:490, 7:179–7:180, 8:10–8:11, 8:69–8:72, 8:78, 8:132, 8:157–8:158, 8:184–8:186, 9:147, 10:388–10:389
  • at Tufton, 8:611, 8:611n, 9:604n, 12:272, 12:272n, 14:213n
  • at Varina (T. M. Randolph’s Henrico Co. estate), 14:161
  • wages for, 8:204, 12:272, 13:134

Overton, James

  • creditor of C. L. Bankhead, 8:394

Overton, John

  • family of, 3:210n
  • A Vindication of the Measures of the President and His Commanding Generals, in the Commencement and Termination of the Seminole War, 15:234n, 15:567n

Overton, Richard

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
  • TJ purchases land from, 4:386
  • vouches for O. Norris, 3:465

Overton, Samuel

  • identified, 3:209–3:210n
  • letters from, 3:xlvii, 3:209–3:210, 3:358 (illus.)
  • regarded as insane by TJ, 3:209n

Ovid

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:661, 7:685
  • Metamorphoses, 7:661, 8:670, 8:685, 9:274, 9:464, 10:191, 10:192n, 12:439, 13:317, 13:317n, 14:511, 15:149, 15:150n
  • Minellius Anglicanus, sive Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (ed. N. Bailey), 9:464, 9:538, 9:639
  • P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera (ed. P. Burmann), 9:646n
  • Pub. Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (ed. J. Pontanus), 9:274, 9:275n, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639
  • quoted, 4:340, 4:391, 4:392n, 7:582, 7:590n, 10:191, 10:192n, 12:334, 12:442, 12:444, 13:479, 13:482n, 15:149, 15:150n
  • works of bound for TJ, 8:630, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639

Owen, Thomas

  • edits Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus; 180506), 8:57n, 11:164

Owen, W.

  • Dictionary of Arts & Sciences, 1:582

Owens, Owen

  • witnesses agreement, 4:87

oxen

  • at Belmont, 3:170–3:171
  • blood of, 9:466, 9:468n, 9:468n, 9:468n
  • as draft animals, 12:304, 12:304, 12:563, 13:534
  • fodder for, 11:171–11:172, 11:272, 14:180, 15:70
  • as food, 4:362
  • and hides used in shoemaking, 4:362
  • mentioned, 3:371n
  • sent from Poplar Forest, 4:373
  • price of, 8:307
  • TJ purchases, 6:306n
  • used in agriculture, 3:348, 3:349, 7:80, 8:10, 8:70, 8:72
  • used in brickmaking, 14:238
  • used on batture, 2:546, 2:548
  • yokes for, 14:179

Oxford, University of, 2:565, 7:659, 7:666n, 12:238, 12:573, 12:647, 14:219, 15:388–15:389

Oxford Iron Works (Campbell Co. firm), 5:485, 5:485, 5:485n, 5:505, 6:350, 6:568n

Oxley, John

  • Philadelphia lands of, 10:387n

Oxley, William

  • Philadelphia lands of, 10:387n

oysters, 2:110–2:111, 11:653, 13:612, 14:230–14:231, 15:300

Oznabrig. See Osnaburg (Oznabrig)

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