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Pace, Edward, 1:462

Pacharetti. See Pajarete (wine)

Pacific (ship), 1:271, 1:284

Pacific Ocean, 1:443, 1:449, 1:449n, 5:202–5:203, 5:203–5:204n, 11:192, 15:288

Packet (ship), 10:133

Packman, Mr.

  • travels of, 11:305

Paeanius

  • translates Eutropii Breviarium Historiae Romanae (Eutropius), 10:233, 14:511

Paganel, Pierre

  • Essai historique et critique, 3:219–3:220, 3:562
  • identified, 3:221n
  • letters from, 3:219–3:221
  • letters to, 3:562–3:563

Page, Carter B.

  • and W. Byrd’s “History of the Dividing Line,” 12:371
  • and TJ’s bond, 5:483

Page, Edward Postlethwayt

  • identified, 15:583n
  • letter from, 15:580–15:584
  • worldview of, 15:580–15:582

Page, Elizabeth Burwell, 1:557, 1:634, 1:669, 1:670n

Page, Francis

  • recommended for collector of Yorktown, 1:77, 1:78n, 1:87

Page, Gregory, 3:191

Page, John (17431808)

  • correspondence of, 9:108, 9:109n, 10:264, 10:264n
  • death of, 4:35
  • family of, 1:78n, 3:276, 13:152
  • as governor of Va., 4:680, 4:683n, 5:236n
  • on P. Henry, 10:421
  • on R. H. Lee, 2:156
  • revolutionary leader, 7:411, 7:411, 7:548
  • and TJ’s newspapers, 1:469, 3:190–3:191, 3:569–3:570

Page, John (ca. 17991838)

  • identified, 13:152n
  • introduced to TJ, 13:152

Page, John (of Cumberland Co.)

  • and Central College subscription, 11:331, 12:551

Page, John Tayloe

  • employment for, 3:276, 3:423

Page, Lucy Gwynn, 3:276

Page, Mann (174981)

  • family of, 3:276
  • revolutionary leader, 7:411, 7:411, 7:548, 13:274

Page, Mann (17911850)

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 11:319
  • and Central College subscription, 11:323, 11:330, 13:161
  • and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 15:348

Page, Margaret Lowther (wife of John Page [1743–1808])

  • identified, 13:152n
  • introduces son, 13:152
  • letter from, 13:152
  • as widow, 3:569–3:570

Page, Maria, 3:276

Page, Mary Tayloe

  • identified, 3:276n
  • letters from, 3:276
  • letters to, 3:423–3:424
  • seeks appointment for son, 3:276, 3:423–3:424

Page, Samuel (Poplar Forest overseer)

  • share of crops, 2:27, 2:28, 2:96, 2:230

Page, William, 6:19

Page, William B.

  • and estate of W. Byrd, 15:250–15:251
  • witnesses document, 6:115+

Pagnini, Giuseppe Maria

  • translates Ἐπικτήτου Ἐγχειρίδιον. Manuale di Epitteto (Epictetus), 13:394, 13:413, 13:428, 13:428n, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 14:215

Pagowski, Jérome, 1:53n

Pahlen, Nicolas

  • visits Monticello, 3:532, 3:532n, 3:539, 3:563, 3:563n+, 3:567

Pahlen, Théodore, Count

  • Account of a Visit to Monticello, 3:563+
  • carries letter from Lafayette, 3:54, 3:211
  • forwards letters, 2:287, 2:487
  • and A. von Humboldt engraving, 2:310, 2:487, 3:503–3:504, 3:504n, 3:563
  • identified, 2:488–2:489n
  • letter of introduction for, 3:567
  • letters from, 2:487–2:489, 3:532
  • letters to, 2:512–2:513, 3:563
  • opinions of, 2:200n, 2:311, 2:513
  • Russian minister to U.S., 1:233, 1:329n, 1:537, 1:659n, 4:551
  • visits Monticello, 3:532, 3:539, 3:558n, 3:563, 3:563+, 3:567, 14:614

Pailherols, France

  • wine from, 10:170, 10:170, 10:307, 11:531

Pailliet, Jean Baptiste Joseph

  • Manuel de Droit Français, 14:222, 14:240

Paine, Capt. See Payne, Tarlton

Paine, Robert Treat (1731–1814)

  • J. Adams on, 6:183, 6:183, 8:148
  • death of, 8:135, 8:135n
  • and Declaration of Independence, 4:475, 6:137, 6:183, 6:183, 13:332, 14:227, 14:374
  • family of, 6:183
  • as member of Continental Congress, 6:183, 6:184n

Paine, Robert Treat (1770–98), 6:184n

Paine, Robert Treat (1773–1811)

  • The Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Robert Treat Paine, Jun., 6:183, 6:184n

Paine, Samuel

  • and TJ’s Richmond lot, 4:290

Paine, Seth

  • newspaper publisher, 7:519n

Paine, Thomas

  • J. Adams on, 5:184, 6:297, 7:480, 14:447–14:448
  • The Age of Reason, 12:554
  • Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly, 4:168n
  • Common Sense, 14:447–14:448
  • damnation of predicted, 13:569
  • in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 15:368n
  • J. Melish quotes, 5:626–5:627, 5:629n
  • mentioned, 6:255, 6:296
  • quoted, 12:377, 13:529, 13:529n
  • Rights of Man, 8:668, 14:145
  • TJ quotes, 1:512, 1:512n
  • TJ’s letters to, 6:8, 6:8, 6:47, 8:7n
  • writings of, 8:4, 8:6, 14:145

paint, 1:55n, 1:97, 11:142, 11:197–11:198

painting

  • study of, 7:639, 7:639, 7:687

paintings See also Jefferson, Thomas: Portraits

  • conservation of, 15:472–15:473
  • and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 10:38–10:39, 10:71, 10:71–10:72, 10:159–10:160, 10:258–10:259
  • by A. Hyde de Neuville, 12:li–12:lii, 12:348 (illus.)
  • by J. W. Jarvis, 3:625
  • lent by TJ, 8:136, 8:160, 8:195, 9:592, 11:266–11:267, 11:342, 11:387
  • at Monticello, 2:93, 8:xlvii, 8:234, 8:238–8:239, 8:239, 8:393, 10:398, 10:443, 15:472–15:473
  • owned by J. B. Moussier, 1:522
  • and C. W. Peale, 4:181–4:182, 12:xlix, 12:348 (illus.), 12:367–12:368, 12:368, 13:lii, 13:400 (illus.), 13:426, 13:426n, 13:539–13:540, 14:624–14:625
  • by J. Peale, 4:181
  • by Rembrandt Peale, 3:624–3:625, 4:181
  • by Raphael, 10:589, 10:589n
  • sale of, 10:512, 10:513n
  • by G. Stuart, 3:625, 13:345, 13:360, 14:liv, 14:466, 14:467n, 14:503, 14:504n, 15:338–15:339, 15:373, 15:439, 15:480, 15:480n, 15:488–15:489
  • by T. Sully, 3:625
  • by C. Thompson, 14:lii
  • by Titian, 4:181
  • by J. Trumbull, 10:615–10:616, 10:616n, 10:651–10:652, 10:653–10:654, 10:654–10:655, 11:3, 11:135, 11:145, 11:145, 11:166, 11:166, 12:282–12:283, 12:340, 13:liii, 13:158n, 13:328, 13:328n, 13:328–13:330, 13:330n, 13:331–13:333, 13:333n, 13:390, 13:400 (illus.), 13:472, 13:472n, 14:375, 14:377–14:378n, 14:464
  • by A. U. Wertmüller, 4:181
  • by B. West, 3:625, 4:181, 8:136, 8:160, 8:195, 9:592, 9:593n
  • by J. Wood, 12:li, 12:348 (illus.)

Pajarete (wine)

  • TJ on, 8:571, 8:571, 9:513, 12:30, 14:327, 14:327, 14:338, 14:338

Pakenham, Sir Edward Michael

  • British general, 8:264, 8:267n, 8:301n

Palacio Fajardo, Manuel

  • South American patriot, 9:271, 9:702

paleontology

  • and Institut de France, 1:xlviii, 1:100–1:101, 1:103–1:104, 1:187, 1:248–1:249, 1:250n, 1:510–1:511
  • mastodon jawbone, 1:xlviii, 1:380 (illus.)

Paleske, Charles Gottfried

  • identified, 4:160n
  • letters from, 4:160–4:161, 4:315–4:316, 5:468–5:469
  • letters to, 4:175
  • and Union Canal Company of Pa., 4:160, 4:175, 4:315–4:316, 5:468, 5:468–5:469n

Paley, William

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:480, 7:662
  • Natural Theology, 3:590, 3:590n

Palfray, Warwick, 14:546n

Palfrey, William, 14:376–14:377, 14:378n

Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph

  • Flore d’Oware et de Benin, en Afrique, 3:472n
  • identified, 3:472n
  • letters from, 3:465–3:473, 4:89–4:90, 4:517–4:518
  • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:465–3:469, 3:472n, 3:651, 3:652–3:653, 4:42, 4:68, 4:70, 4:81, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–5:118, 5:216, 5:216–5:217, 5:228, 5:333–5:335, 5:351

Palisot de Beauvois, Mary Ann Rouelle (Jean Rouelle’s widow; A. Palisot de Beauvois’s wife)

  • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466–3:467, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:42, 4:70, 4:81–4:82, 4:166, 5:99, 5:116–5:118, 5:216, 5:216–5:217, 5:228, 5:332–5:333, 5:333–5:335, 5:351, 5:378

Palladio, Andrea

  • TJ on, 9:500
  • works of, borrowed by TJ, 12:193, 12:227, 12:297
  • works of, models for University of Virginia construction, 14:446, 14:492–14:493
  • works of, owned by TJ, 9:502n, 12:193, 12:193n

Palladius

  • Rei rusticae, 2:82, 11:164, 11:164

Pallas, Peter Simon

  • edits Linguarum Totius Orbis Vocabularia comparativa, 9:373n, 12:249–12:250, 12:294, 12:296n

Pallas of Velletri (sculpture), 14:444

Palm, John

  • and Antient Plymouth Society, 1:58n, 1:59

Palmer, Aaron H., 1:518, 1:518n

Palmer, Carl Christian

  • Paulus und Gamaliel. Ein Beitrag zur aeltesten Christengeschichte, 11:307

Palmer, Charles

  • identified, 14:535–14:536n
  • as trustee of Smith & Riddle, 14:534, 14:535

Palmer, George

  • letter for, 10:487, 10:591
  • as printer, 6:77

Palmer, John, 3:385, 3:386n

Palmer, Thomas H.

  • Historical Register of the United States, 6:77n, 6:124, 8:260
  • identified, 5:650n
  • and letter for G. Palmer, 10:487, 10:591
  • letters from, 5:649–5:650, 6:77, 10:487
  • letters to, 5:667–5:668, 6:124, 10:591
  • and publication on constitutions, 5:649–5:650, 5:650n, 5:667–5:668
  • and subscribers for new periodical by, 6:77, 6:77n

Palmetto Society (Charleston), 6:250, 6:251n

Palus (wine), 9:513

Pamunkey River, 14:404n

Panama, Isthmus of, 12:169, 12:169n, 12:249, 12:630

Panégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (Pliny the Younger; trans. L. de Sacy), 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 13:394, 13:413, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 14:215

pangolin, 7:210

Pani (Pawnee) corn, 3:501, 3:502–3:503

Pannill, Samuel

  • and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:560, 14:13–14:14

pans, milk, 1:303, 15:451, 15:485, 15:485n

pantaloons, 11:450, 11:450

pantaloons, hose, 11:450, 12:257

Pantheon (Rome)

  • TJ admires, 13:96–13:97

The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods (F. A. Pomey; ed. and trans. A. Tooke), 14:444

panthers

  • skins of, 13:60, 13:62, 13:95
  • in Va., 11:631

pantographs, 14:lii, 14:167

Pantops (TJ’s estate)

  • J. W. Eppes to sell, 5:102–5:103, 5:171, 5:325, 5:347–5:348, 5:349–5:350n, 7:482–7:483
  • proposed exchange of portion of, 6:71–6:73, 6:129–6:130
  • and T. E. Randolph, 5:171–5:172, 5:325, 5:325–5:326, 5:347–5:348, 6:72, 6:130, 7:482
  • and T. J. Randolph, 5:102, 5:171–5:172
  • surveys of, 3:570–3:573
  • TJ proposes to buy, 5:102–5:103

Panza, Sancho (fictional character), 2:44–2:45, 2:46n

Paoli, Pasquale

  • compared to Napoleon, 7:477
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507

Papebroch, Daniel

  • Acta Sanctorum, 7:220, 8:559, 8:561, 8:562n
  • and Spanish Inquisition, 7:220

Papendick, George

  • The Stranger, 3:633n

paper See also stationery

  • in lost trunk, 1:153, 1:180, 1:205, 1:269, 1:284, 1:311
  • manufacture of, 7:73n
  • for printing, 8:629, 9:597, 10:458, 12:531, 13:417, 14:552
  • sandpaper, 12:454
  • TJ records consumption of, 7:602n
  • waste, 8:xlv–8:xlvi, 8:287–8:288, 8:289–8:290

paper mills

  • at Petersburg, Va., 1:489
  • in R.I., 8:146

Papin, Denis

  • and steamboats, 12:518

Paradis de Raymondis, Jean Zacharie

  • Traité élémentaire de Morale et du Bonheur, 6:510–6:511, 6:511n, 6:533, 6:597, 6:647, 7:286, 7:627, 12:534

Paradise, John

  • family of, 9:6–9:7, 9:230, 10:628, 10:629
  • and Greek language, 14:153
  • identified, 9:284–9:285n
  • marriage settlement of, 7:371, 7:373n, 9:230, 9:282–9:283, 9:283–9:284, 9:285n, 9:285, 9:322
  • TJ acts as agent for, 7:372, 9:230, 9:282–9:283, 9:285n

Paradise, Lucy Ludwell (John Paradise’s wife)

  • death of, 7:329, 7:370
  • estate of, 7:329–7:330, 7:371–7:372, 9:6–9:7, 9:230, 9:282–9:283, 9:322–9:323, 10:579–10:580, 10:580n, 10:628, 10:628, 10:629, 10:659, 10:660n, 10:664, 11:19, 11:19n, 11:59, 11:59, 11:66, 11:120, 11:146–11:147
  • family of, 7:329–7:330, 10:628
  • identified, 9:285n
  • marriage settlement of, 7:371, 7:373n, 9:7, 9:230, 9:282–9:283, 9:283–9:284, 9:285n, 9:285, 9:322, 11:146–11:147, 11:147n
  • TJ acts as agent for, 9:230, 9:282–9:283, 9:285n
  • trustees for, 7:329–7:330, 7:371–7:372

Paradise, Peter

  • and marriage settlement of J. Paradise and L. L. Paradise, 9:284, 9:284
  • as trustee of P. Ludwell’s daughters, 9:283, 9:284

Paradise Lost (J. Milton), 1:228–1:229n, 3:631, 3:633n, 5:585, 5:585n, 8:235, 8:358, 8:359n, 12:534, 12:545

Paragon (steamboat), 4:199

Parat, Romain

  • on collegiate education, 12:508–12:509
  • identified, 12:510n
  • as Latin scholar, 12:506, 12:508
  • letter from, 12:508–12:510
  • letter to accounted for, 12:510n
  • seeks teaching appointment, 12:506, 12:508–12:509

paregoric, 7:387

The Parent’s Assistant; or, Stories for Children (M. Edgeworth), 2:101, 2:193, 2:264, 3:122, 4:289

Parham, John

  • seeks employment at University of Virginia, 14:651–14:652

Paris See also Jackson, Henry (1778–1840)

  • banks in, 6:650, 6:650, 14:242
  • book prices in, 9:559, 14:452
  • cisterns in, 5:308
  • coutumes de (legal customs of), 3:47–3:48, 3:71, 3:130, 3:132, 3:236n, 4:643n
  • exchange rate at, 8:430, 8:438, 8:497
  • gnomon at, 15:287
  • guillotine used in, 8:551
  • hospitals in, 6:650
  • La Grille de Chaillot, 14:209
  • libraries in, 10:311
  • massacre of prisoners in, 8:689, 8:689n, 14:614, 14:615n
  • meal market of (La Halle au Blé), 8:314, 8:315n
  • meridian at, 15:287–15:288
  • newspapers, 8:449, 8:452, 8:452n, 10:161, 12:293, 13:459–13:460, 13:461n
  • Parlement de, 3:174n, 3:176n
  • poor relief in, 2:331
  • stone from, 15:586, 15:586
  • TJ on life in, 8:382
  • TJ’s book purchases in, 7:682
  • Treaty of (1763), 7:30, 7:32n, 9:479
  • Treaty of (1783), 7:455n, 8:269, 8:269n, 9:236, 9:575, 10:386, 10:387n, 13:603, 13:604n, 15:271
  • Treaty of (1803), 3:256, 9:478, 9:480n, 15:531, 15:532, 15:535n, 15:563, 15:565n
  • Treaty of (1814), 8:38n
  • Treaty of (1815), 9:388, 9:389–9:390n
  • U.S. consul at, 1:26, 1:207, 1:208n, 1:317, 1:536, 7:428–7:429n, 8:161–8:162, 8:162n, 8:291, 8:599–8:600, 8:607, 10:21, 10:22n

Parish, David

  • carries dispatches, 2:410
  • and iron and steel manufacture, 9:339
  • and Lafayette, 3:54, 3:105, 3:106, 3:212, 3:213, 3:314, 3:445, 3:446
  • purchases bills of exchange, 4:488
  • and E. Ross, 6:568–6:569n
  • subscribes to U.S. war loan, 6:600, 6:602n, 7:137

Parish, Elijah

  • mentioned, 8:343, 8:358, 8:359n, 9:79, 9:381, 9:383, 12:426
  • A Sermon, Preached at Boston, before his Excellency Christopher Gore, 3:75n, 3:156

Parish, John

  • and Lafayette, 2:14, 3:212, 3:446, 4:359, 4:649, 5:68–5:69, 5:213

Paris, in Eighteen Hundred And Two, and Eighteen Hundred And Fourteen (W. Shepherd), 8:628, 8:629n, 8:672, 9:122

Parker, Mr.

  • considered for appointment by TJ, 1:26

Parker, Daniel (of Paris)

  • on British debt, 3:199, 4:273
  • and design for plow, 1:233–1:234, 1:235n, 1:375, 1:538, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
  • and Fla. land scheme, 3:96
  • and Lafayette, 1:376, 2:16, 2:245, 3:54, 3:212, 3:314, 3:445, 5:213, 10:323
  • mentioned, 10:353
  • and merino sheep, 1:479, 1:538, 1:667, 3:342
  • paintings owned by, 7:341
  • sends dynamometer to TJ, 1:376
  • transmits letter to TJ, 7:505

Parker, Daniel (of War Department)

  • as adjutant and inspector general, 7:610n
  • reference for J. L. Edwards, 4:92
  • sends manuscripts to American Philosophical Society, 11:574, 11:574n

Parker, Edward

  • and American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589, 3:609
  • and Emporium of Arts & Sciences, 4:663n
  • identified, 3:589n
  • letters from, 3:589
  • letters from accounted for, 7:719
  • letters to, 3:609

Parker, Isaac, 8:376n

Parker, Jabez

  • purchases TJ’s flour, 13:285

Parker, James (17681837)

  • and Missouri question, 15:532, 15:533, 15:536n

Parker, James (of New Jersey)

  • and antislavery, 15:178

Parker, Sir Peter

  • British admiral, 6:250, 6:251n

Parker, Thomas

  • and Niagara Campaign, 5:533–5:542
  • recommended for military appointment, 4:529

Parker, Thomas B.

  • identified, 13:436–13:437n
  • letters from, 13:436–13:437, 14:223, 14:526–14:527, 14:612–14:613
  • letters to, 14:302–14:303, 14:582–14:583
  • and publication of TJ’s letter, 14:526, 14:582, 14:612
  • sends newspaper to TJ, 13:436
  • sends pamphlets to TJ, 14:223, 14:302, 14:582, 14:612–14:613

Parker, William

  • as Treasury Department clerk, 7:294, 7:294, 7:314, 7:441

Parkhurst, John

  • A Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament, 12:52

Parkinson, Richard

  • breeds Chinese pigs, 4:109, 4:110n
  • The Experienced Farmer, 4:110n

Parks, William, 1:370n

parlementaires, 1:128, 1:131n, 1:522

The Parlor Gardener (Cornelia Randolph), 3:635n

Parmantier, Nicholas Simon

  • identified, 10:634n
  • and Société Agricole et Manufacturière Française, 10:631–10:632, 10:635, 10:670

Parmentier, André, 10:230

Parmentier, Antoine Auguste

  • Aperçu des Résultats obtenus de la fabrication des Sirops et des Conserves de Raisins, 7:54, 7:54n
  • Recherches sur les Végétaux nourissans, 2:82
  • Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne, 2:82, 10:234, 10:237n, 11:164

Parny, Évariste de Forges de

  • writings of, 11:48, 11:49n, 11:201

Parr, Samuel

  • on classical scholarship, 9:84, 9:560
  • A free translation of the Preface to Bellendenus, containing animated strictures on the great political characters of the present time, 1:35
  • and University of Virginia faculty, 15:388
  • writings of, 15:338n

Parris, Albion Keith

  • U.S. representative from Mass., 9:42n

Parrott, Richard, 1:23n

parrot tulips, 5:358

parsnips, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38, 5:658

Parsons, Samuel Pleasants

  • drill, 7:246–7:247, 7:306
  • identified, 7:247n
  • letters from, 7:246–7:247
  • letters to, 7:306–7:307
  • as prison superintendent, 10:463

Parsons, Theophilus

  • criticized by B. Waterhouse, 6:37, 6:96–6:97, 6:100n
  • and Federalist party, 9:6
  • as judge, 8:376n

Parsons’ Cause

  • P. Henry and trial of, 7:493, 7:493–7:494, 7:496n, 7:546, 13:138, 13:138n

Part of the act to reduce into one the several acts concerning the Literary Fund (1819), 14:105

Partridge, Alden

  • and calculation of altitude, 9:9–9:10, 9:11–9:12, 9:71–9:72, 9:187, 9:188–9:193, 9:193–9:194, 9:193–9:194n, 9:241, 9:313–9:314, 11:51, 11:51–11:52, 12:341–12:343, 12:343–12:344, 12:491–12:492
  • identified, 9:10n
  • introduces B. O. Tyler, 11:217, 12:536
  • letter from, to J. Williams, 11:52–11:54
  • letters from, 9:9–9:10, 9:187–9:188, 9:238, 11:51–11:52, 11:217, 12:341–12:343, 12:491–12:493
  • letters to, 9:71–9:72, 9:313–9:317
  • meteorological observations, 9:10, 9:187–9:188, 9:238, 9:239–9:244, 9:313
  • and U.S. Military Academy, 3:95n
  • and United States Military Philosophical Society, 9:192n
  • and velocity of military projectiles, 11:51, 11:52–11:54, 11:54–11:55

partridge, red-legged, 1:479, 1:599

Partridge, William

  • identified, 3:223n
  • letters from, 3:221–3:223
  • letters to, 3:238–3:239
  • and publication on dyeing, 3:221–3:223, 3:238–3:239

partridges

  • TJ hunts, 15:138n

Party-Spirit Exposed, or Remarks on the Times (D. Fraser), 5:160, 5:160n, 10:111, 10:111, 10:187–10:188n

Pascagoula River, 3:265

Pascal, Blaise

  • and atmospheric pressure, 9:189
  • Les Provinciales, ou Lettres Ecrites , 10:14
  • Thoughts on Religion, and other curious Subjects, 7:386, 7:386n

Pascalis Ouviere, Felix Alexander

  • as editor of Medical Repository, 14:420
  • identified, 15:285–15:286n
  • letter from, 15:284–15:286
  • letter to, 15:314
  • and natural-history specimens for University of Virginia, 15:284–15:285, 15:314

Pasley, T. H.

  • identified, 10:316–10:317n
  • letter from, 10:316–10:317
  • on natural standard for weights and measures, 10:316

Pasor, George

  • Lexicon Græco-Latinum in Novum Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Testamentum, 12:52

Pasquier, Etienne Denis

  • as electoral candidate, 12:39

Passamaquoddy Bay, Me.

  • gold found at, 1:330

Passmore, Thomas, 14:192

pastel. See woad, blue

Pasteur, William (d. 1791)

  • family of, 1:67, 1:68n

Pasteur, William (17681823)

  • and Central College subscription, 11:325, 11:332

Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop of Baltimore, to the Roman Catholicks of Norfolk, Virginia (A. Maréchal), 15:315, 15:316, 15:317n, 15:335, 15:335

Paszkowski, Franciszek

  • identified, 13:355n
  • and T. Kosciuszko, 13:353–13:354
  • letter from, 13:353–13:355

Pate, Matthew

  • as Bedford Co. surveyor, 5:50n, 5:63, 5:465, 12:210, 12:261, 12:349, 13:12
  • identified, 5:465n
  • letter from accounted for, 12:261n
  • letters to, 5:465, 12:261
  • Survey of Tract Adjacent to Poplar Forest, 13:11–13:12

Patent Office, U.S. See also Thornton, William

  • appointments to, 10:545
  • congressional support of, 7:507
  • reports of, 6:226, 6:362, 7:487, 7:507
  • saved from British destruction, 7:669n

patents

  • of J. Baily, 6:456, 6:458n
  • of O. Barrett, 4:426, 4:512–4:513n, 4:592, 4:667, 5:181, 5:182n
  • of J. G. Baxter, 8:635n
  • of B. B. Bernard, 2:5, 2:5n, 2:36
  • of J. Bromwell, 14:539–14:540
  • of T. Bruff, 5:108, 8:97–8:98, 8:98n, 9:610
  • of A. Butler, 4:315, 4:315n
  • of R. Claiborne, 11:498–11:499, 11:500n
  • T. Cooper on, 7:258, 7:386
  • of R. Crosbie, 8:201, 8:202n
  • of N. Cutting, 11:60
  • G. Du Jareau on, 2:372–2:373, 2:665n
  • duration of, 7:110–7:113, 7:113n, 7:173n
  • of G. Easterly, 2:283n
  • in Europe, 8:547, 8:554–8:555, 8:605
  • of O. Evans, 4:468n, 6:353, 6:354n, 6:379, 6:380, 6:382, 6:385, 6:454, 6:454, 6:454n, 6:455, 6:455, 6:455, 6:456, 6:457–6:458n, 6:514, 7:106, 7:106n, 7:107–7:108, 7:109n, 7:110–7:113, 7:113n, 7:128–7:129, 7:131–7:133, 7:154n, 7:170–7:173, 7:386, 7:386n, 7:386n, 8:535, 8:536n, 13:128–13:129, 13:131, 13:131n
  • and G. Fitz, 2:458, 2:479
  • of H. Gallagher, 14:118, 14:118
  • of M. Garber, 2:458n
  • guidelines for issuing, 7:509, 7:510n, 8:412n, 10:184
  • of E. Hall, 12:375
  • of J. Hall, 8:43n, 8:367, 8:369n
  • of J. Hargreaves, 4:418n
  • of B. J. Harris, 5:291, 5:292n, 5:307–5:308
  • of D. Hartley, 5:307–5:308
  • of G. F. A. Hauto and S. H. Long, 7:232, 7:233n
  • of J. I. Hawkins and C. W. Peale, 2:xlii
  • of E. Herrick, 4:417n, 4:514n
  • of W. Janes, 7:405–7:406, 7:438, 7:486, 7:506–7:507, 7:507–7:508, 7:508, 7:523–7:524, 7:552–7:553, 7:568, 7:570, 8:161n, 8:195, 8:201, 9:602n
  • of B. Kugler, 10:179n
  • of J. Lee, 10:548n
  • of W. Lewis, 12:378, 12:380n, 13:5
  • lists of, 6:226, 6:282, 6:362, 8:160, 8:195, 8:196n, 8:253, 8:408, 8:408n, 9:592, 9:593n, 11:135, 11:136n
  • of C. Morneveck, 1:196n
  • number issued, 2:367
  • and S. P. Parsons, 7:246
  • patent law of 1793, 7:171–7:172, 7:173n, 7:510n, 10:279, 10:280n, 10:534
  • of D. Peacock, 4:219–4:220n
  • C. W. Peale on, 8:546, 8:547
  • of H. Pease, 4:220n
  • of E. Perkins, 4:104n
  • of J. Perkins, 11:374n
  • of D. Pettibone, 13:408, 13:409n, 13:409, 13:409n
  • of A. H. Quincy, 5:109–5:110
  • and reform of patent system, 10:544, 10:545, 10:586, 10:586n, 11:6
  • sought by B. J. Campbell, 9:564–9:565, 9:602n
  • sought by W. Kean, 13:154–13:155, 13:178–13:179
  • sought by D. McClure, 14:278, 14:279n
  • sought by J. Prout, 10:534–10:535
  • of H. G. Spafford, 1:106n, 7:274–7:275, 8:209, 8:209n, 8:271, 8:271n, 8:273, 8:274n, 8:350, 9:340n
  • of J. Staples, 5:93n
  • of A. Stewart, 9:593n
  • of J. L. Sullivan, 10:674, 10:675
  • TJ on patent agents, 7:552–7:553, 7:568, 9:601
  • TJ on patent rights, 7:128–7:129, 7:131–7:133, 7:606–7:607, 8:160, 8:367, 8:534–8:535, 8:605, 10:279
  • of F. Tudor, 5:492n
  • of C. Whitlow, 4:427, 4:427–4:428n, 4:667, 5:22
  • of P. Williamson, 8:97–8:98, 8:98n
  • of M. Withers, 8:534–8:535, 8:536n

Pathkiller (Cherokee Indian), 7:161

pathology

  • collegiate education in, 15:124n

Patrick, R. F.

  • letter from accounted for, 13:621

Patrick, Samuel

  • edits Clavis Homerica: sive Lexicon Vocabulorum Omnium, Quæ continentur in Homeri Iliade Et potissimâ parte Odysseæ (Homer), 11:205

Patriotic Bank of Washington

  • articles of association, 8:475

patronage

  • circular to office seekers, 1:30–1:31, 2:143n, 6:648
  • in Great Britain, 15:388
  • letters of application and recommendation from TJ, 1:77–1:78, 1:626–1:627, 2:179, 2:363–2:364, 2:416–2:417, 3:303, 4:164, 4:171–4:172, 4:186–4:187, 4:376, 4:458, 4:476–4:477, 4:482, 4:482–4:483, 4:516, 4:564–4:565, 5:9, 5:10–5:11, 5:11, 5:109, 5:299–5:300, 5:311, 5:313, 5:327, 5:359, 5:373, 5:373–5:374, 5:408–5:409, 5:417–5:418, 5:430–5:431, 5:435–5:436, 5:449, 5:495, 5:502, 5:586, 5:591, 5:645–5:646, 6:46, 6:63, 6:64, 6:211, 6:211, 6:288–6:289, 6:292, 6:396, 6:398, 6:399, 6:412, 7:203–7:204, 7:204, 7:240–7:241, 7:244, 7:364, 7:365, 7:366, 7:368–7:369, 7:370, 8:32, 8:124, 8:125n, 8:126–8:127, 8:128–8:129, 8:205–8:206, 8:244, 8:313–8:315, 8:537, 8:599–8:600, 8:600n, 8:606–8:607, 8:616, 8:616, 8:655–8:656, 9:412–9:413, 9:419, 9:446, 9:511, 9:521–9:522, 9:627–9:628, 10:318, 10:319, 10:438–10:439, 10:439–10:440, 10:441–10:442, 10:442, 10:447, 10:476–10:477, 10:496, 10:496, 10:519, 10:524–10:525, 10:525, 10:602–10:603, 10:612, 10:613, 10:653–10:654, 10:654–10:655, 11:364–11:365, 12:139–12:140, 12:148–12:149, 12:158–12:159, 12:185–12:186, 12:558–12:559, 13:244, 13:301–13:302, 13:511–13:512, 14:618–14:620, 14:641–14:642, 15:183, 15:206–15:207, 15:243, 15:330–15:331, 15:333, 15:441, 15:490
  • letters of application and recommendation to TJ, 1:14–1:15, 1:91–1:92, 1:167–1:168, 1:404–1:406, 1:464–1:465, 2:142–2:143, 2:211–2:212, 2:319–2:321, 2:383–2:384, 2:391, 2:423–2:424, 2:458–2:460, 2:500–2:501, 3:60–3:61, 3:249–3:250, 3:276, 3:345–3:346, 3:372–3:373, 3:523–3:524, 3:532–3:533, 3:645–3:647, 3:647, 3:649, 3:650, 3:651, 4:91–4:92, 4:274–4:275, 4:372, 4:468, 4:508n, 4:545–4:546, 4:623–4:624, 4:648, 5:36–5:38, 5:42–5:43, 5:70–5:71, 5:177–5:178, 5:286, 5:297, 5:300–5:301, 5:328, 5:398–5:399, 5:408, 5:456–5:457, 5:483–5:484, 6:27, 6:28–6:29, 6:29–6:30, 6:40–6:41, 6:42, 6:74, 6:113, 6:126–6:127, 6:170–6:171, 6:229, 6:268, 6:365, 6:503, 6:525, 6:546–6:547, 7:45–7:46, 7:48–7:49, 7:162–7:163, 7:165–7:166, 7:204–7:205, 7:213–7:214, 7:215, 7:229–7:230, 7:231–7:232, 7:232, 7:273–7:276, 7:280–7:281, 7:313–7:314, 7:365, 7:366n, 7:383, 7:566–7:567, 7:656–7:657, 7:668–7:669, 7:700–7:701, 8:9–8:10, 8:24–8:25, 8:32, 8:65–8:66, 8:124, 8:129, 8:161–8:162, 8:198–8:199, 8:205–8:206, 8:249–8:251, 8:597, 8:598, 8:601–8:602, 8:616, 8:639, 9:102, 9:126–9:128, 9:183–9:184, 9:194, 9:220–9:221, 9:235–9:237, 9:337–9:339, 9:408, 9:653–9:654, 10:18–10:19, 10:297–10:298, 10:332–10:335, 10:426–10:427, 10:433, 10:439, 10:447, 10:463–10:464, 10:566–10:567, 10:578, 10:612, 10:613n, 10:615–10:617, 10:618, 10:676–10:678, 11:253–11:254, 11:339–11:340, 11:357–11:358, 11:360–11:361, 11:376–11:377, 11:487–11:489, 11:508–11:514, 11:608, 11:657–11:658, 11:659–11:660, 12:17–12:18, 12:34, 12:36, 12:103–12:104, 12:104–12:105, 12:440, 12:477–12:480, 12:506–12:507, 12:508–12:510, 12:536, 12:537n, 12:553, 13:78, 13:122–13:123, 13:125, 13:128, 13:292, 13:399–13:400, 13:418–13:421, 13:429–13:430, 13:431–13:434, 13:450–13:455, 13:485–13:486, 13:493–13:494, 13:500–13:501, 13:513–13:514, 13:521–13:522, 13:543–13:544, 13:555–13:556, 13:569–13:571, 14:21–14:22, 14:76–14:77, 14:94–14:96, 14:97, 14:98–14:99, 14:112–14:113, 14:119, 14:122–14:123, 14:128–14:129, 14:139–14:140, 14:150–14:152, 14:152, 14:160–14:161, 14:169–14:170, 14:172, 14:174, 14:246, 14:269, 14:313–14:314, 14:315–14:316, 14:332–14:333, 14:388–14:389, 14:486, 14:501–14:502, 14:550–14:552, 14:557–14:558, 14:589–14:591, 14:597–14:598, 14:598–14:599, 14:622, 14:636–14:637, 15:14–15:15, 15:39–15:41, 15:65–15:66, 15:106–15:107, 15:145, 15:265–15:268, 15:275–15:276, 15:364–15:365, 15:412–15:413, 15:448, 15:467–15:468, 15:513–15:515
  • literary, 1:321–1:322
  • misuse of, 2:224, 2:236, 2:385
  • TJ on, 6:50, 6:161–6:162, 6:211, 15:244, 15:597–15:598

Patsy (TJ’s slave; b. 1810). See Fossett, Patsy (TJ’s slave; b. 1810)

Patsy (TJ’s slave; b. 1815). See Hern, Patsy (TJ’s slave; b. 1815)

Patterson, Capt., 2:453

Patterson, Mr.

  • acquaintance of Nicholas, 1:276, 2:495
  • and appointment of principal assessor, 6:443
  • and J. H. Cocke’s horse, 7:300, 7:301
  • and gypsum, 8:600

Patterson, Mr., 10:491

Patterson, Mrs. (of Buckingham Co.), 12:634, 12:635, 12:635

Patterson, Dorcas Spear, 3:526

Patterson, Edward, 3:534, 3:537n

Patterson, Elizabeth. See Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson

Patterson, John

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 11:319, 11:319, 12:99
  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:324, 11:330, 13:617, 15:98, 15:98
  • and fight between C. L. Bankhead and T. J. Randolph, 14:25–14:26
  • friendship with J. H. Cocke, 11:320
  • identified, 10:559n
  • letters from, 11:606, 13:558, 14:25–14:26
  • letters to, 10:559, 13:617–13:618
  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:587n
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • sends news of Baltimore, 11:606
  • sends works to TJ, 13:558, 13:558n, 13:617
  • TJ introduces G. Flower to, 10:559
  • and University of Virginia, 13:558, 13:617–13:618, 14:25, 15:97, 15:100

Patterson, Robert

  • and altitude calculations, 9:187
  • and American Philosophical Society, 1:152n, 1:482, 1:571–1:572, 3:41–3:42, 5:311, 6:59–6:60, 6:60n, 6:83, 6:516n, 7:437n, 7:446, 7:486, 8:101–8:102, 8:193, 8:194n, 13:67n, 14:133, 14:133n, 14:323
  • and artificial horizon, 3:448, 3:479–3:480, 5:92, 9:76–9:77, 9:77n, 9:125–9:126, 9:205–9:206, 9:275
  • and astronomical case clock, 4:xlv, 4:149, 4:167, 4:229–4:230, 5:471, 5:507, 5:558, 6:31, 6:59, 6:61, 6:82, 6:83, 6:117, 6:468n, 8:687, 9:76, 9:125–9:126, 9:126, 9:204, 9:273, 9:275, 9:359
  • and books for TJ, 5:442, 9:194, 9:340
  • describes gaslights, 10:177–10:179, 10:310
  • director of U.S. Mint, 1:330, 9:221, 14:313, 14:313, 15:325
  • and Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 3:589n
  • friendship with TJ, 1:201
  • and F. R. Hassler’s claim, 9:220–9:221, 9:273, 9:275, 15:275–15:276, 15:305
  • health of, 9:204
  • A. von Humboldt sends greetings to, 1:453n
  • identified, 1:193–1:194n
  • and instruction of M. Lewis, 6:424n, 9:705
  • and W. Lambert’s astronomical calculations, 4:637n, 5:311
  • letter from accounted for, 14:500n
  • letters from, 1:193–1:194, 1:330–1:331, 3:41–3:42, 3:447–3:448, 4:167, 4:230–4:231, 4:409–4:411, 5:471–5:473, 5:558–5:559, 6:31, 6:82–6:83, 8:687, 9:125–9:126, 9:194, 9:204–9:207, 9:220–9:221, 10:177–10:179, 10:578, 13:596, 14:100–14:101, 15:325
  • letters to, 1:482, 1:571–1:572, 3:431–3:432, 3:479–3:480, 4:147–4:149, 4:222–4:229, 4:229–4:230, 5:92–5:93, 5:311, 5:506–5:508, 6:59–6:60, 7:446, 7:486, 8:101–8:102, 9:76–9:77, 9:275, 10:630–10:631, 13:323, 14:7–14:8, 14:132–14:133, 14:501
  • letters to accounted for, 1:201n, 2:68n, 2:404n
  • letter to, from F. R. Hassler, 10:578–10:579
  • and D. McClure’s plotting table, 14:302
  • mentioned, 5:101n
  • and Nautical Almanac, 3:431–3:432, 3:447, 3:479, 8:144
  • and naval position for F. B. Taggart, 5:502, 5:503
  • and perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–5:l, 5:471–5:473, 5:506–5:507, 5:558–5:559, 5:559n
  • recommends E. Nulty, 14:323, 14:454
  • recommends son to TJ, 1:193
  • reputation in Paris, 2:48
  • and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:147–4:149, 4:167, 4:167n, 4:222–4:229, 4:409–4:411
  • and telescope, 13:323, 13:596, 14:6, 14:7, 14:270, 14:500, 14:501
  • and TJ’s religious beliefs, 10:542n, 10:650
  • A Treatise of Practical Arithmetic, intended for the Use of Schools; in two parts , 14:100, 14:132–14:133
  • and University of Virginia, 14:7–14:8
  • and watchmaker for Charlottesville, 6:83, 6:118, 10:578, 10:578n, 10:578–10:579, 10:630

Patterson, Robert Maskell

  • and American Philosophical Society, 12:455
  • and T. Cooper’s scientific collections, 14:127, 14:178, 14:568–14:569
  • family of, 1:194n
  • identified, 7:113–7:114n
  • introduced into Parisian society, 2:48, 2:49n, 2:162–2:163
  • letters from, 7:113–7:114, 8:122–8:123, 8:206–8:207, 12:390
  • letters of introduction from TJ, 1:193, 1:201–1:202, 1:331
  • letters to, 7:142, 8:102–8:103, 8:246–8:247, 12:469
  • as mathematician, 13:119
  • and perpetual-motion machine, 5:558–5:559
  • professorship of, 8:446, 8:449n, 12:134–12:135, 13:226, 13:233, 13:252, 13:255, 15:151
  • and rabies, 14:443n
  • as secretary of American Philosophical Society, 7:113, 7:142, 8:102, 8:122, 8:202, 8:206, 8:246–8:247, 12:390, 12:469
  • suggests standard of weight, 4:411
  • and translation of P. S. Du Pont de Nemours’s works, 4:327, 6:485, 9:617n, 9:617–9:618n, 9:618n, 9:619–9:620

Patterson, William, 3:526, 8:437

Patteson, Mr. R.

  • and R. Jefferson’s watch, 4:607

Patteson, Nelson

  • and antiquities of Tennessee, 15:619–15:620
  • identified, 15:620n
  • letter from, 15:619–15:621

Patteson, Reuben B., 8:563

Patton, Robert (d. 1826)

  • and books for TJ, 12:43, 12:235, 12:275, 12:312, 12:346
  • identified, 12:235n
  • letters from, 12:235, 12:346
  • letters to, 12:275–12:276, 12:312
  • TJ pays, 12:633

Patton, Robert (d. 1828), 14:465, 14:475

Patty (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Pau, France

  • schools in, 12:508

Paul. See Julius Paulus (Roman jurist)

Paul, Grand Duke (later Paul I, emperor of Russia), 10:589

Paul, Saint, 6:541, 7:195, 7:575, 7:582–7:583, 7:590n, 8:190, 15:539

Paulding, James Kirke

  • The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, 5:397, 5:397n, 6:110, 6:264, 6:644, 6:645n

Paulding, John

  • medal commemorating Revolutionary War service of, 9:91, 9:92n

Paulinia aurea. See goldenrain tree

Paulus und Gamaliel. Ein Beitrag zur aeltesten Christengeschichte (C. C. Palmer), 11:307

Pauly, Lewis Abraham

  • identified, 5:99–5:100n
  • letters from, 5:116–5:119, 5:228, 5:378
  • letters to, 5:99–5:100, 5:216–5:218, 5:351
  • and P. Piernet’s will, 3:466–3:467, 3:467, 4:68, 4:68n, 4:70, 4:81, 4:89, 4:166, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–5:119, 5:216, 5:216, 5:228, 5:332, 5:351, 5:378

Pauw, Jan Cornelius de

  • edits Quinti Calabri Prætermissorum ab Homero (Quintus Smyrnaeus), 15:26
  • Recherches philosophiques sur les américains, 1:521, 1:521n

Pavia, University of, 2:565

Pawnee corn. See Pani (Pawnee) corn

Pawnee Indians, 1:521, 1:556

Pawtucket, R.I.

  • cotton factories in, 2:99

Paxton, Charles

  • as Boston customs collector, 12:494, 12:495
  • correspondence of published, 6:258

Paxton, William

  • land of, 13:221, 13:221

Payerne, Francis, 1:222

Payne, Mary, 3:533n

Payne, Philip, 11:168

Payne, Tarlton

  • witnesses H. Marks’s will, 4:510

Payne, William (1732–1822), 14:337–14:338

Payne, William (1782–1858)

  • identified, 14:337–14:338n
  • and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 14:337
  • letter from, 14:337–14:338

Pazienza, Giuseppe Maria

  • auditor in Pisa, 9:645n

peace advocacy

  • and Massachusetts Peace Society, 12:108–12:109, 12:206–12:207, 12:554, 12:615
  • and N. Worcester, 9:104, 9:410–9:411, 10:500–10:501, 12:108–12:109, 15:50–15:51, 15:51n, 15:73
  • and privateeting

Peace-Republicans’ Manual (M. A. Hulshoff), 12:94–12:96, 12:276

peaches

  • black, 1:483
  • dried, 8:697, 13:581, 15:206, 15:208, 15:229, 15:230, 15:230
  • harvest of, 11:39, 12:619
  • lemon cling, 9:545
  • planted at Monticello, 3:455
  • at Poplar Forest, 8:697, 15:428
  • preserved, 15:229, 15:230n, 15:230n, 15:248, 15:281, 15:283
  • sent to TJ, 12:324, 14:632
  • stones of, 11:221
  • trees, 1:93, 2:107, 2:294n, 2:294, 2:313, 4:34, 4:141, 4:532, 8:71, 9:542, 12:618

Peachy, John Blair

  • and M. B. Andrews’s will, 9:94n

Peachy, Thomas Griffin

  • and M. B. Andrews’s will, 9:94n

Peacock, David

  • plows of, 4:219, 4:219–4:220n, 4:221, 4:487, 4:526, 8:57–8:58, 8:185

Peacock (sloop of war), 10:217, 10:231

Peake, Thomas

  • A Compendium of the Law of Evidence, 2:676, 2:677n

Peaks of Otter, Va.

  • altitude of, 8:696, 9:xliii, 9:18, 9:18, 9:27, 9:71, 9:72, 9:131, 9:144, 9:145, 9:148, 9:153, 9:154–9:156, 9:156–9:172, 9:173, 9:183, 9:187, 9:315–9:316, 11:51, 13:348, 13:385, 13:385n
  • bearing of, from Poplar Forest, 3:355
  • botanical study of, 9:27
  • latitude of, 9:18, 9:36, 9:36, 9:36–9:37n, 9:173, 13:385, 13:385n
  • property near, 9:147, 11:399
  • TJ’s Summary Comments on, 9:173–9:174
  • TJ visits, 8:696, 9:xliii, 9:18, 9:33, 9:33n, 9:122, 9:131, 9:144, 9:145, 9:153, 9:183, 9:313
  • used in surveying, 9:687–9:688

Peale, Anna Claypoole. See Duncan, Anna Claypoole Peale

Peale, Benjamin Franklin

  • advises C. W. Peale, 8:464
  • and machine construction, 7:81, 7:86n, 8:460–8:461, 8:464, 10:345
  • marriage of, 8:461

Peale, Charles Linnaeus

  • and machine construction, 8:460
  • makes razor strops, 15:523, 15:523n

Peale, Charles Willson

  • Address delivered by Charles W. Peale, to the Corporation and Citizens of Philadelphia, on The 18th Day of July, 1816, 10:308, 10:308, 10:311n, 11:372, 11:374n
  • on aging, 8:465
  • and agricultural fences, 7:80–7:81, 8:81, 9:282
  • as artist, 4:141, 8:463, 9:281–9:282, 9:386, 9:599, 10:204, 10:308, 10:308–10:309, 12:xlix, 12:367–12:368, 12:368, 12:481, 12:515, 12:516, 14:624–14:625
  • and T. Cooper’s scientific collections, 14:127
  • digs well, 8:80
  • depicts specimens from Lewis and Clark Expedition, 9:605, 9:605n, 9:704–9:705, 9:707n
  • and drill, 9:280–9:281
  • on dueling, 8:464–8:465
  • An Essay to promote Domestic Happiness, 4:531–4:532, 6:68–6:69, 6:70n
  • and expenses for T. J. Randolph, 1:41, 1:45, 1:70–1:71, 1:307–1:309, 1:455, 1:458, 1:467
  • and eyeglasses, 12:367–12:368, 12:481, 12:515–12:516
  • family of, 8:460–8:461, 8:462, 12:367, 12:368
  • and farming, 4:136–4:142, 4:179–4:181, 4:531, 4:532, 5:324–5:325, 8:81, 8:457–8:460, 8:462, 8:547–8:549, 11:157–11:158
  • and gardening, 4:93, 4:139, 4:180, 4:531, 5:323–5:324, 8:82, 8:462
  • and gaslights, 10:177–10:179, 10:179n, 10:180 (illus.), 10:181 (illus.), 10:310–10:311
  • greenhouse of, 8:457
  • health of, 4:139–4:140, 8:81, 11:157–11:158
  • and A. von Humboldt, 1:25n, 1:453n
  • identified, 1:45–1:46n
  • on importance of exercise, 8:82
  • and improved saw, 7:84–7:85, 11:158, 11:159n
  • and improved windmill pump, 8:80–8:81
  • invents fruit-picker, 8:548–8:549, 10:32
  • letters from, 1:70–1:71, 1:103–1:104, 1:307–1:310, 4:136–4:142, 4:179–4:182, 4:531–4:532, 5:323–5:325, 7:79–7:86, 8:80–8:83, 8:457–8:466, 8:545–8:549, 9:280–9:282, 10:203–10:204, 10:307–10:311, 10:344–10:345, 10:351–10:352, 11:157–11:159, 11:371–11:374, 12:367–12:369, 12:515–12:516, 13:426, 13:539–13:540, 14:624–14:625, 15:522–15:523
  • letters to, 1:45–1:46, 1:187, 1:458, 4:93–4:94, 6:68–6:70, 8:366–8:369, 8:534–8:536, 10:32–10:33, 10:326, 10:606–10:607, 11:198–11:199, 12:481, 14:591–14:592, 15:551
  • lodges T. J. Randolph, 1:101n, 1:104
  • on I. Lukens’s mechanical bell ringer, 10:344–10:345, 10:345 (illus.), 10:345, 10:352
  • makes dentures, 8:462, 11:158
  • and mastodon, 1:101n, 1:103–1:104, 1:187, 2:507
  • and milling machines, 7:82–7:84, 8:535
  • on modesty of Indians, 4:181
  • and paintings owned by TJ, 7:341
  • on patents, 8:546, 8:547
  • and Philadelphia Museum, 3:472n, 4:137–4:138, 4:181, 4:182n, 5:323, 5:324, 6:291, 7:152, 8:81, 8:461–8:462, 8:465n, 8:534, 8:545, 10:177–10:179, 10:179n, 10:180–10:181, 10:198, 10:203–10:204, 10:204n, 10:308, 10:309–10:310, 10:311n, 10:344, 10:397, 10:399, 11:158, 11:371–11:374, 11:374n, 12:348, 12:367–12:368, 12:481, 13:426, 13:540, 14:127
  • and plows, 4:137, 4:181, 8:458, 8:534, 9:599, 10:547, 12:481, 12:481, 12:516, 15:522–15:523, 15:551
  • and polygraph, 2:xlii, 4:182, 5:207, 8:535, 11:481, 11:571–11:572, 14:591, 14:624
  • portrait of T. Cooper, 12:xlix, 12:348 (illus.)
  • portrait of T. J. Randolph, 1:xlviii–1:xlix, 1:45, 1:46n, 1:380 (illus.)
  • portrait of W. Wirt, 13:lii, 13:400 (illus.)
  • portraits by, 13:426, 13:426n, 13:539–13:540, 13:540, 13:540n, 14:624
  • portraits of P. Randolph (ca. 1723–75) by, 10:199n
  • and razor strops, 15:523, 15:551
  • reflects on his life, 8:459, 8:462–8:463, 10:204, 10:308–10:309, 10:345, 11:157–11:158
  • The Retreat across the Delaware, 14:625
  • and textile manufacture, 8:545–8:546, 8:547, 8:547–8:548
  • TJ advises on agriculture, 6:69–6:70, 7:79–7:80, 8:535
  • TJ on machines of, 8:367–8:369, 8:535
  • on underground springs, 8:457
  • visits Washington, D.C., 13:lii, 13:426, 13:539–13:540
  • and watchmaker for Charlottesville, 10:203, 10:307–10:308, 10:326, 10:344, 10:345, 10:351–10:352, 10:392–10:393, 10:436–10:437, 10:606–10:607, 11:157, 11:198–11:199
  • on windmill sails, 8:458, 8:546–8:547, 14:624

Peale, Elizabeth DePeyster (Charles Willson Peale’s second wife)

  • estate of, 11:373, 11:374n

Peale, Eliza Greatrake (Benjamin Franklin Peale’s wife), 8:461

Peale, Hannah Moore (Charles Willson Peale’s third wife)

  • T. J. Randolph on, 1:458
  • sends greetings to M. J. Randolph, 1:71

Peale, James

  • copies Titian painting, 4:181

Peale, Rembrandt

  • as artist, 4:141, 4:181, 9:281, 9:386, 12:367
  • Baltimore museum of, 6:291, 6:291–6:292n, 6:374, 8:462, 10:179n
  • forwards minerals to TJ, 3:66n, 6:291, 6:373, 7:261, 7:262
  • and gaslights, 10:179n, 10:310, 10:310 (illus.), 10:310–10:311
  • identified, 4:357n
  • letters from, 6:291–6:292
  • letters to, 6:373–6:374
  • and paintings owned by TJ, 7:341
  • portrait of P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 2:xli, 2:380 (illus.)
  • portrait of TJ, 3:625n, 6:125, 6:148, 6:149n, 7:429
  • portraits of Europeans, 1:71, 1:71n, 1:104, 1:187, 1:309, 3:624–3:625
  • and Society of Artists of the United States, 4:356, 4:400
  • TJ invites to Monticello, 6:374

Peale, Rubens

  • and gardening, 5:323
  • and gaslights, 10:310
  • and pendulums, 7:85
  • and Philadelphia Museum, 4:137–4:138, 4:181, 4:531, 5:323, 8:461, 11:373

Peale, Titian Ramsay

  • and machine construction, 7:81, 7:86n, 8:460
  • as naturalist, 12:368

Pearney, John. See Pernier (Purney), John

pears, 3:190, 3:448, 4:561, 4:562

Pearson, Ephraim (ship captain), 11:398

Pearson, Eliphalet

  • and Andover Theological Seminary, 9:255, 9:379, 9:382
  • mentioned, 9:381, 9:383
  • A Sermon delivered in Boston before The American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry. Oct. 26, 1815, 9:255, 9:255, 9:257n, 9:379, 9:382

Pearson, George

  • A Translation of the Table of Chemical Nomenclature, 8:429, 8:430n

Pearson, Joseph

  • duel with J. G. Jackson, 2:53–2:54n, 3:533n

peas

  • dinner of, 6:110, 7:356, 8:454, 8:516, 10:74, 11:379
  • grown at Farmington, 1:157, 8:454, 14:271
  • grown at Monticello, 6:514, 8:305, 8:305, 11:39, 12:618
  • grown at Montpellier (Madison family estate), 11:39
  • grown at Poplar Forest, 4:379, 4:379, 6:486, 7:71, 8:69, 8:71, 8:516, 8:611, 8:611, 13:545, 13:566, 13:581, 13:604
  • Mazzei, 7:288
  • mentioned, 3:348, 3:501–3:502, 15:567n
  • Ravensworth, 6:86, 6:86n, 6:109, 6:139, 6:140n
  • Spanish, 13:278
  • TJ sends, 13:67, 13:80
  • TJ sends seeds, 5:658, 6:45

Pease, Horace

  • plows of, 4:219, 4:220n

Pease, Seth

  • identified, 1:216n
  • and W. Lambert’s calculations, 4:254, 4:262, 5:245–5:251
  • letters to, 1:216
  • postal official, 7:206, 7:236, 7:239, 9:508
  • surveyor of federal lands, 9:474
  • TJ appoints as surveyor, 7:206, 7:236
  • TJ recommends I. Lewis to, 1:181, 1:215, 1:216

pecans

  • planted at Monticello, 3:455
  • TJ orders via New Orleans, 1:80, 1:81n, 1:211n
  • TJ sends seeds, 2:103, 2:294n
  • TJ to plant, 1:631, 1:657

Pechin, William

  • payment to, 1:41
  • publishes TJ’s Notes on the State of Virginia, 2:173, 2:174n, 2:215–2:216

Peck, William

  • identified, 12:616n
  • letter from, 12:615–12:616
  • and Massachusetts Peace Society, 12:615

Peddock, Leonard, 5:595

Pedesclaux, Pierre, 3:237n, 3:478n, 3:485, 3:496–3:497, 5:85n

Pedlar (brig), 14:202

Pedro Alcántara de Toledo y Salm-Salm (Duke of Infantado), 3:342–3:343, 3:343n

Peintures des Vases Antiques (ed. D. Maisonneuve), 1:452, 1:453n, 1:482

Peirce, Isaac

  • Philadelphia publisher, 8:210

Pekin (ship), 1:331

Pekins, Joseph. See Perkins, Joseph

Pelham, William

  • identified, 1:217n
  • letters from, 1:216–1:217, 11:177
  • sends newspaper to TJ, 11:177
  • A System of Notation; Representing the Sounds of Alphabetical Characters, 1:216–1:217, 11:177

Pell, Mr.

  • letter from, 8:659
  • visits Monticello, 8:659

Pell, Mrs.

  • visits Monticello, 8:659

Pellet, Thomas A.

  • on British destruction in Washington, 8:57
  • letter from, 8:57
  • and U.S. atrocities in Canada, 8:57

Pelletier. See Mansuy Pelletier, Charles V.

Pelloutier, Simon

  • and climate change, 14:185, 14:186n
  • Histoire des Celtes, et particulierement des Gaulois et des Germains, 14:185

Pemberton, Mr.

  • recommended by C. Clay, 4:86n

Pemberton, Israel, 6:284

Pemberton, James, 2:158, 3:268, 3:269n

Pemberton, Thomas

  • and Central College subscription, 11:332

pen, metallic, 1:106

penal institutions, 1:383, 1:384n, 1:474n, 14:78

Pendleton, Edmund (17211803)

  • as administrator of J. Robinson’s estate, 15:556, 15:557n
  • biography of proposed, 8:619
  • as burgess, 8:644
  • family of, 1:200n
  • and P. Henry, 10:384, 10:421, 10:422, 10:423n, 10:488
  • on importance of limited government, 4:116, 4:117n
  • as member of Continental Congress, 4:601, 8:644
  • and revision of Va. laws, 1:381–1:382, 3:570, 5:136, 7:549, 11:133, 11:133n, 12:441, 14:456
  • and Stamp Act resolutions, 4:599, 8:642
  • TJ on, 5:136–5:137, 5:137n, 7:411, 7:411, 7:548
  • and Va. Committee of Correspondence, 9:369n

Pendleton, Edmund (1745–1827)

  • identified, 1:200n
  • letters from, 1:200
  • and B. Moore’s estate, 1:200, 1:339
  • and T. Nelson’s bonds, 3:426, 3:458

Pendleton, John L.

  • as Caroline Co. clerk, 8:397n

Pendleton, Philip Clayton

  • as University of Virginia commissioner, 13:182, 13:183, 13:222

Pendleton, William F.

  • as member of Va. Council of State, 15:435n, 15:435n

Pendleton, William Garland

  • attests document, 11:474n
  • and Central College subscription, 11:332

pendulum

  • ballistic, 11:51, 11:52n, 11:52–11:54
  • as basis for system of weights and measures, 4:147–4:148, 4:149n, 4:223–4:225, 4:226, 4:227, 4:228, 4:409–4:410, 10:316, 12:155
  • in clocks, 4:229–4:230, 6:82–6:83, 9:126, 9:204–9:205
  • innovations of, 7:85, 8:367, 8:463

Penet, D’Acosta freres & Compagnie (Bordeaux firm)

  • drafts on, 4:578, 4:625, 4:626

Penguin (schooner), 12:512

Penguin Island (Australia), 5:202–5:203

Pénières-Delors, Jean Augustin

  • introduced to TJ, 10:491

The Penitential Tyrant (T. Branagan), 8:450, 8:451n

penmanship

  • books on, 1:37
  • instructors of for University of Virginia, 13:419, 13:419, 13:555
  • TJ on, 2:335, 2:352
  • E. Trist on her own, 14:9n

Penn, Mrs.

  • visits Poplar Forest, 10:516

Penn, Edmund

  • and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:473n

Penn, Gabriel

  • identified, 8:10n
  • letter from, 8:9–8:10
  • seeks naval appointment, 8:9–8:10

Penn, James (1794–1870)

  • clerk for A. Robertson, 8:510–8:511, 8:511, 8:511, 9:52
  • identified, 8:510–8:511n
  • letters from, 8:510–8:511, 8:511, 9:52
  • letter to, 8:511

Penn, James (of New London, Va.)

  • and son’s candidacy for naval appointment, 8:9

Penn, John (of North Carolina)

  • signer of Declaration of Independence, 13:329, 14:524

Penn, John (of Pennsylvania), 2:221, 2:223n

Penn, Thomas, 2:223n, 9:348, 9:348n

Penn, William

  • religious beliefs of, 6:508, 8:189
  • territory of surveyed, 9:689

Pennington, Edward

  • and journals of M. Lewis, 9:467, 9:605, 9:605n

Pennington, William

  • as governor of N.J., 8:444n

Pennsylvania See also Bank of Pennsylvania

  • banks, local, 2:135, 2:181, 6:650
  • banks, national, 12:179
  • bridges in, 14:247
  • canals in, 4:160, 4:160–4:161n, 4:175, 4:315–4:316
  • courts in, 10:406–10:407
  • crops in, 11:482–11:483
  • elections in, 5:370n, 5:396–5:397, 11:597–11:598n, 11:647, 12:31, 12:47
  • exchange rates in, 14:170
  • flour from, 12:554
  • Hospital, 3:277, 3:279n
  • improvements in, 9:66
  • and internal improvements, 15:493, 15:493–15:494n
  • legislative resolutions, 1:90–1:91
  • legislature of, 4:181, 4:182n, 5:468, 5:468–5:469n, 5:558, 5:559n, 6:650, 7:111, 7:112, 7:113n, 8:461, 10:204, 10:204n, 10:387n, 10:406–10:407, 10:543, 10:543–10:544n, 11:411, 11:415–11:416, 12:565n, 15:359, 15:493, 15:493–15:494n
  • legislature of, purchases sheep, 1:18
  • mammoth bones found in, 2:507
  • maps of, 8:77n, 10:543, 10:543n, 10:543–10:544n, 15:359, 15:359n
  • marble from, 1:473
  • mills in, 8:460
  • moldboard of, 1:111, 1:252
  • Olmstead v. the Executrices of the late David Rittenhouse, 1:213–1:214
  • party politics in, 13:148–13:149
  • petition to legislature of, 6:650
  • Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n
  • Pittsburgh Republicans address TJ, 1:90, 1:91n
  • politics in, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:584, 3:595
  • Provincials in French and Indian War, 1:290
  • Quakers of, 2:124–2:125, 2:125n
  • Republicans in, TJ comments on, 1:236–1:237
  • sheep in, 1:18, 1:69n
  • and S. Snyder, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:601, 10:543–10:544n
  • statute taxing dogs, 1:17, 1:68–1:69, 4:161, 4:161n
  • supreme court of, 2:376, 2:377n, 10:387n
  • textile manufactories in, 8:547
  • Washington Co. Republicans, 1:4–1:6, 1:99–1:100
  • wheat harvest in, 2:496, 10:309
  • Whiskey Rebellion in, 2:385, 2:387n, 2:617

Pennsylvania, University of, 7:607–7:608, 7:608n, 8:318, 8:319, 8:321, 8:321, 8:323, 8:324, 8:327, 8:445–8:447, 8:449n, 8:564, 8:564n, 8:565n, 10:204, 10:545–10:546, 12:25, 12:27, 12:32, 12:134–12:135, 12:135–12:136, 12:152, 12:193, 12:195, 12:199, 12:200, 12:200, 12:237–12:238, 12:348n, 12:387, 12:389, 12:389–12:390n, 12:434, 12:435–12:436, 12:455, 12:490, 12:545, 12:620, 12:647–12:648, 13:45, 13:102, 13:102, 13:105n, 13:174, 13:174n, 13:226, 13:233, 13:249, 13:255, 13:255n, 13:269, 13:270, 13:284, 13:429, 13:430n, 13:518, 14:4, 14:5n, 14:80, 14:81, 14:125, 14:159, 14:313, 14:323, 15:74, 15:142n, 15:307, 15:341, 15:342n

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), 3:66n, 4:182, 5:166–5:167, 6:291, 7:262, 7:401, 7:443–7:444, 14:444

Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia newspaper), 8:621, 8:622n

Pennsylvania Hospital, 3:277, 3:279n, 9:605, 9:605n

Pennsylvania Land Office, 5:101n

Pennsylvania Magazine; or, American Monthly Museum, 4:152, 4:153n

Pennsylvania State House (Philadelphia; later Independence Hall), 12:282, 12:283n, 12:368, 13:426, 13:426n

Pensacola, W. Fla.

  • possession of, 3:281–3:282
  • seized by A. Jackson, 13:150–13:151, 13:151, 13:151n, 13:151n, 13:286n, 13:286, 13:414, 13:415n, 13:422, 13:424, 13:587, 14:23, 14:92, 14:466, 14:467n, 15:233

Pentland, Ephraim

  • editor of Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 4:372, 4:373n

pepper

  • bird, 5:364–5:365, 6:xliii, 6:66–6:67, 6:67, 6:81, 6:127–6:128, 6:187–6:188, 6:195–6:196, 6:252, 6:292, 6:377, 6:386 (illus.), 6:615, 7:326, 7:567, 7:568n
  • black, 1:31, 1:45, 1:368, 2:109, 4:211, 4:211, 6:345, 6:348, 14:420
  • cayenne, 4:102, 6:377–6:378, 6:378n
  • tabasco, 6:252, 6:252n
  • TJ purchases, 15:451

perambulator, 9:280, 9:282n

Peray. See Piré, Hippolyte Marie Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, comte de

Perceval, Spencer

  • assassination of, 5:68, 5:69n+, 5:156, 5:156n
  • “The Book!” or, The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (included in Book of Kings compiled by TJ; see also Book of Kings), 6:374, 6:374n, 6:413, 7:34, 7:36n, 7:270, 7:410, 7:410n, 7:500, 8:33, 8:240, 15:450, 15:452n
  • British chancellor of the exchequer, 1:285n
  • British prime minister, 1:658, 1:659n, 3:437, 4:271, 4:272, 4:586, 4:587, 5:293, 5:296, 7:40–7:41, 7:44n
  • parliamentary comments of, 4:539

perch, 5:604–5:605, 15:378, 15:378–15:379, 15:498–15:499, 15:510

Percival, John

  • seeks employment at University of Virginia, 14:195, 14:196n

Percivall, Joseph, 1:66

Percy, Mr.

  • and batture, 3:491

Percy, Fernando, 5:85n, 6:436

Perdido River, 3:177, 3:264, 3:326, 3:344n

Perdiguier, Jacques

  • museum of, 15:285, 15:286n

Péréfixe, Hardouin de Beaumont de

  • Histoire du Roy Henry Le Grand, 12:534, 13:342n, 13:359, 13:394, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561

Périer, Casimir Pierre

  • as electoral candidate, 12:39

Périon, Joachim

  • Conciones et Orationes ex Historicis Latinis Excerptæ, 7:458, 7:458n

perjury

  • and grand juries, 10:428–10:430, 10:497–10:499
  • TJ on, 10:428–10:430

Perkins, Benjamin

  • insolvency of, 14:218
  • store of, 8:79

Perkins, Elisha

  • medical invention of, 4:102, 4:104n

Perkins, Hardin

  • as executor of R. Jefferson’s will, 8:661–8:662, 9:32
  • identified, 8:661n
  • letter to, 8:661–8:662

Perkins, Jacob

  • fire engine of, 11:374, 11:374n

Perkins, John R.

  • and Central College subscription, 11:325, 11:332

Perkins, Joseph

  • militia service of, 7:161

Perkins, Samuel, 5:66

Perkins, Samuel G., 8:370, 8:371n

Perkins, Thomas

  • and C. Bellini estate, 12:267, 12:550, 12:578, 12:579, 12:581, 12:586
  • correspondence of, 15:542, 15:542
  • identified, 12:550n
  • letter from, 12:550
  • letters to, 12:586, 14:498–14:499
  • and stonecutters, 14:64, 14:64–14:65n, 14:475, 14:497, 14:498–14:499

Perkins, Thomas (ca. 1761–1836)

  • remittances to, 14:255–14:256, 14:532, 14:532

Pernambuco, Republic of

  • declares independence, 11:384, 11:384n

Pernety, Antoine Joseph, trans.

  • Cours de Mathématique (Wolff), 7:250, 7:253n

Pernier (Purney), John

  • account with M. Lewis, 2:34, 2:208–2:209, 2:364, 2:672, 2:673n, 3:49, 3:110
  • identified, 2:209n
  • letters from, 2:208–2:209
  • and M. Lewis’s death, 1:602, 1:603, 1:606, 1:607, 1:608n, 2:192, 2:209n
  • travel expenses paid, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:209n

Péron, François

  • biography of, 7:50
  • Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes, 5:463, 5:464n, 11:627, 11:628n

perpetual-motion machines

  • I. Lukens’s model of, 5:358 (illus.), 5:558–5:559, 5:559n
  • and R. Patterson, 5:471–5:473, 5:558–5:559
  • of C. Redheffer, 5:xlix–5:l, 5:358 (illus.), 5:471–5:473, 5:473n, 5:474, 5:506–5:507, 5:558, 5:559n
  • TJ on, 5:506–5:507

Perpignan wine. See Roussillon, France: wine from

Perrault, Claude

  • edits Abregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (Vitruvius), 6:381, 11:335, 11:352, 11:396, 11:456, 13:314n, 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 15:26

Perregaux, Laffitte & Compagnie (Paris firm)

  • and TJ’s lines of credit in France, 8:377, 8:571, 8:579, 8:586–8:587, 8:589, 8:627, 8:632, 8:633n, 8:670, 8:673, 9:152, 9:153n, 9:186, 9:209, 9:353, 9:492–9:493, 9:561n, 11:455, 11:533, 11:652, 12:110, 12:112

Perrin, John

  • A Grammar of the French Tongue, 5:557

perry

  • Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry (Knight), 1:582, 2:83

Perry, Mr. (farmer), 14:430

Perry, Charles (ship captain), 14:175, 14:325

Perry, Frances T. (John M. Perry’s wife)

  • identified, 11:467n
  • sells land to Central College–University of Virginia, 11:xlv, 11:315, 11:465–11:468, 15:liii, 15:353–15:356

Perry, Jesse

  • identified, 2:168n
  • letters to, 2:167–2:168
  • paid for work, 7:45, 7:45n
  • TJ seeks to hire, 2:167–2:168

Perry, John M.

  • account with TJ, 14:317, 14:472, 15:426
  • agreement with TJ, 2:169, 4:420–4:421, 4:465, 4:498, 4:509
  • as builder for Central College–University of Virginia, 11:400, 11:401, 11:463, 11:464n, 11:468–11:469, 11:471, 11:603, 12:xlix, 12:40, 13:64, 13:97, 13:399, 13:524, 14:171, 14:173, 14:187, 14:195, 14:195, 14:197, 14:390, 14:479, 14:487, 14:508, 14:641, 15:86, 15:87, 15:87, 15:89, 15:89, 15:90, 15:91, 15:93, 15:94, 15:94, 15:94, 15:94, 15:95, 15:95, 15:96, 15:96, 15:96, 15:96, 15:97, 15:97, 15:97, 15:97, 15:98, 15:99, 15:100, 15:103, 15:103, 15:103, 15:103, 15:103, 15:103, 15:559
  • and Central College cornerstone laying, 12:62, 12:67, 12:69
  • and Central College subscription, 11:323, 11:330, 13:162
  • family of, 2:168n, 12:56, 13:64
  • house of, 14:605, 14:640
  • identified, 1:192–1:193n
  • letter from, to N. Barksdale, 14:187–14:188
  • letters from, to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 14:171–14:172, 14:173
  • letters from, 11:400, 12:56, 13:64, 13:97, 13:524, 14:217, 14:508, 15:336
  • letters from accounted for, 1:193n, 4:510n
  • letters to, 1:192–1:193, 2:168–2:169, 4:498, 11:401–11:402
  • petition to General Assembly, 5:378–5:380
  • and plank for TJ, 1:192, 2:168–2:169
  • sawmill of, 14:173
  • sells land to Central College–University of Virginia, 11:xlv, 11:253, 11:315, 11:316, 11:316–11:317, 11:318–11:319, 11:344, 11:401, 11:463, 11:464n, 11:465–11:468, 11:468, 11:471, 13:365–13:366, 13:534, 13:534, 13:535n, 14:178–14:179, 14:217, 15:liii, 15:12–15:13, 15:13n, 15:22n, 15:85–15:86, 15:89, 15:90, 15:90, 15:93, 15:96, 15:98, 15:99, 15:101, 15:336, 15:353–15:356
  • and timber for University of Virginia, 14:40
  • TJ pays, 6:554n, 7:291n
  • TJ’s carpenter, 3:412, 5:92n

Perry, Oliver Hazard

  • American naval commander, 6:370, 6:645, 7:643
  • wins battle on Lake Erie, 6:524, 6:524n, 6:531, 6:546n, 7:11, 7:14, 7:56, 7:57n, 7:88, 7:89n, 7:530, 8:259, 8:263

Perry, Reuben

  • account with, 4:280, 6:162, 6:257, 7:44–7:45, 7:45n, 7:514, 8:63, 8:63n, 8:63, 13:112
  • and court summons, 5:381
  • family of, 2:168n
  • identified, 2:89n
  • letters from, 2:89, 3:513
  • letters from accounted for, 6:163n
  • letters to, 3:612–3:613, 4:620, 5:311, 5:338, 5:343, 5:485, 5:505, 7:514–7:515, 8:63
  • letters to accounted for, 2:89n, 6:163n
  • and plastering at Poplar Forest, 5:311, 5:343, 5:403, 5:545
  • purchases slave from TJ, 3:411–3:413, 3:513, 3:612–3:613, 3:613n, 4:620, 5:34
  • TJ’s carpenter, 2:89, 2:149, 3:412, 5:338, 5:485, 5:485, 5:488, 5:505, 6:107, 6:162, 6:257, 7:514
  • witnesses land conveyance, 3:369, 3:374

Perry, Sion (Syon)

  • militia service of, 7:161

Perry, Thomas

  • carries letter, 12:55, 12:56, 12:93
  • health of, 13:64

Perrygory, Moses

  • and Central College subscription, 11:330, 13:161

Perseverance (steamboat), 4:199

Persia

  • history of, 10:509, 11:363
  • religion in, 10:509

Persian language

  • works translated from, 11:351, 11:351n, 11:441
  • writings in, 8:6

persimmon trees, 7:52

Persius Flaccus, Aulus

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:661, 14:551
  • D. Junii Juvenalis et auli Persii Flacci Satyræ (Juvenal; ed. C. Schrevel), 9:455, 10:234
  • works of, 14:258

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799–1804. by Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland (trans. H. M. Williams), 10:243, 10:244n

Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik

  • and botanical classification, 7:210
  • Synopsis Methodica Fungorum, 13:342, 13:358, 13:494, 13:525
  • Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum, 1:437n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:596, 4:146, 7:626, 8:284, 8:285n, 8:319, 8:422, 10:234, 13:342, 13:342, 13:358, 13:494, 13:525

Peru

  • independence movement in, 10:373, 10:374

Peruvian bark. See cinchona (Peruvian bark)

Pesciolini, Ranieri

  • and P. Mazzei’s will, 9:675

Pescud, Edward

  • as newspaper editor, 12:42

Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich

  • educational system of, 3:39–3:40, 3:88, 10:390–10:391, 11:266n, 12:229
  • work by loaned to TJ, 8:429

Peter (J. Chamberlain’s slave), 4:15

Peter (J. B. Couch’s slave)

  • and lost trunk, 1:346, 1:347, 1:348

Peter (F. Smith’s slave), 6:378

Peter (TJ’s slave; b. 1770). See Hemmings, Peter (TJ’s slave; b. 1770)

Peter (TJ’s slave; b. 1815). See Fossett, Peter (TJ’s slave; b. 1815)

Peter I, king of Portugal

  • crowns I. de Castro, 9:326, 9:328n

Peter II, king of Aragon

  • and Albigensian heresy, 7:66

Peter, George, 3:324

Peter, Saint

  • painting of, 8:238

Peter & John Dollond (London firm)

  • and portable thermometer, 10:xlvii
  • TJ purchases telescope from, 4:237, 4:238n

“Peter Porcupine.” See Cobbett, William

Peters, Richard

  • Agricultural Enquiries on Plaister of Paris, 11:165
  • agricultural pursuits of, 9:598
  • A Discourse on Agriculture, 9:538, 9:540n, 9:600
  • and J. Hall’s agricultural improvements, 8:42
  • health of, 9:539, 9:598–9:599, 11:483
  • on history, 11:483–11:484
  • identified, 9:539–9:540n
  • as legal authority, 11:369
  • letter from accounted for, 11:215n
  • letters from, 9:598–9:601, 11:482–11:484
  • letters to, 9:538–9:540
  • and plows, 9:599–9:600, 11:172, 11:482
  • “On Sheep-killing Dogs,” 4:161, 4:161n
  • as president of Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1:133, 1:134n, 1:256+, 5:413, 9:600, 10:526, 10:527n, 11:172, 11:482
  • on sheep, 1:477, 2:380, 11:347, 11:348n

Petersburg, Va.

  • banks in, 8:19, 10:74, 12:139–12:140
  • boat carriage to Richmond, 15:554
  • fire in, 10:404, 10:404n, 12:42
  • markets in, 3:102, 3:104
  • paper produced in, 1:489
  • schools in, 6:269, 6:332, 6:334–6:335, 7:89, 12:42
  • and state university for Va., 13:189
  • unhealthy environment of, 8:609
  • and War of 1812, 7:670, 7:697–7:698, 12:42

Petersburg Academy, 12:42n

Petersburg Republican (newspaper), 12:41–12:42

Peter’s Mountain (Southwest Mountains)

  • altitude of, 9:316
  • surveying of, 9:687
  • TJ hunts on, 4:671

Peter the Hermit

  • J. Adams on, 5:12, 5:13n

Peticolas, Jane Pitford Braddick

  • visits Monticello, 15:48n

Petit, Adrien

  • as TJ’s servant, 14:li

The Petition of Daniel Pettibone, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States (D. Pettibone), 13:409, 13:409n

Petit’s Gap, Va.

  • on route to Natural Bridge, 8:697, 8:697n, 9:27, 9:35, 11:623

Pettibone, Daniel

  • identified, 13:409n
  • letters from, 13:408–13:409, 13:409
  • patents of, 13:408, 13:409n, 13:409, 13:409n
  • The Petition of Daniel Pettibone, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 13:409, 13:409n

petticoats, 11:450, 12:257

Pettigrew, Ebenezer

  • and wine for TJ, 11:238, 11:295–11:296, 11:300

Pettigrue, Theophilus

  • identified, 14:598n
  • letter from, 14:597–14:598
  • seeks employment at University of Virginia, 14:597

Pettit, Andrew, 14:442

Pettit, Charles, 14:442

Petty, Sir William

  • economic theory of, 6:593

Peuchet, Jacques

  • Statistique élémentaire de la France, 4:325–4:326, 4:326n, 5:436, 7:90

Peyrard, François

  • edits Cours de Mathématiques, à l’usage de la Marine et de l’Artillerie (É. Bézout), 10:235
  • translates Les Élémens de Géométrie d’Euclide (Euclid), 11:295, 11:297, 11:338, 11:352, 11:395, 11:397
  • translates Œuvres d’Archimède (Archimedes), 11:127, 11:152, 11:175, 11:193, 11:295, 11:297, 11:395

La Peyrouse (Kotzebue), 4:269, 4:274n

Peysson, Jean Claude Anthelme

  • Histoire de la fièvre jaune qui fut observée parmi les troupes françaises, en Espagne, en 1812, 10:147n
  • treats yellow fever victims, 10:135

Peyton, Mr.

  • and Central College, 12:137

Peyton, Bernard See also Green & Peyton (Richmond firm)

  • and Central College, 15:93, 15:94
  • and Central College subscription, 11:334, 13:98, 15:88
  • and corks for TJ, 14:37, 14:166–14:167, 14:175, 15:353
  • and correspondence for T. M. Randolph, 11:183, 11:204, 14:14–14:15
  • family of, 13:98
  • and fight between C. L. Bankhead and T. J. Randolph, 14:37
  • and fire at Monticello, 14:593
  • and flour for TJ’s friends, 15:487, 15:488n, 15:527–15:528
  • forwards goods for TJ, 12:481, 12:516, 12:528, 13:98, 13:140, 13:140n, 13:305, 13:326, 13:474, 14:222, 14:267, 14:273, 14:298, 14:351, 14:384, 14:434, 14:439, 14:447, 14:455, 14:467, 14:476, 14:493, 14:561, 14:570, 14:573, 14:576, 15:64, 15:108, 15:154, 15:181–15:182, 15:204
  • forwards letter to TJ, 12:208n
  • and goods for TJ, 8:12, 9:371, 9:371, 9:418, 11:193, 11:204, 11:260, 12:167, 12:182, 12:194, 12:261, 12:291, 12:372, 12:389, 12:516, 12:523–12:524, 12:527, 12:528, 12:543, 12:546–12:547, 12:550–12:551, 12:646, 13:33, 13:47, 13:47, 13:93, 13:99–13:100, 13:109, 13:143, 13:312, 13:314–13:315, 13:325, 13:349, 13:363, 13:530, 13:542, 13:557, 13:561, 13:588, 13:594, 13:616–13:617, 14:6, 14:37, 14:146, 14:175, 14:193, 14:215, 14:266, 14:267, 14:270, 14:286, 14:295, 14:366, 14:542, 14:573, 14:593, 15:20, 15:45, 15:46, 15:72, 15:108, 15:129, 15:155n, 15:174, 15:318, 15:334, 15:353, 15:488–15:489, 15:524, 15:554, 15:606
  • and gypsum for TJ, 9:542, 9:581–9:582, 9:582, 9:602–9:603, 9:603, 12:167, 12:167, 12:182, 13:582, 13:588, 13:594
  • identified, 6:51–6:52n
  • introduced by I. A. Coles, 6:51, 6:52n
  • introduced by TJ, 12:42–12:43, 12:44
  • introduces B. Beaven, 13:99
  • and introductions for W. C. Preston, 11:183–11:184, 11:199–11:200, 11:204, 11:261
  • and lease of Lego and Tufton, 12:304n
  • letters from, 9:418–9:419, 9:581–9:582, 9:602–9:603, 10:448, 11:183–11:184, 11:204, 11:260–11:261, 12:53, 12:182, 12:208n, 12:261, 12:516, 12:528, 12:543, 12:550–12:551, 13:93, 13:97–13:98, 13:99, 13:140, 13:143, 13:325–13:326, 13:349, 13:542, 13:594, 14:37, 14:175, 14:267, 14:270, 14:366–14:367, 14:447, 14:573–14:574, 15:19–15:20, 15:46, 15:64–15:65, 15:108
  • letters from accounted for, 14:447n, 15:108n, 15:245n, 15:261n, 15:472n, 15:528n, 15:594n, 15:597n, 15:602n
  • letters to, 7:356, 9:371–9:372, 9:542–9:543, 10:472, 11:193, 11:199–11:200, 12:167–12:168, 12:194, 12:481–12:482, 12:523–12:524, 12:546–12:547, 13:92, 13:109–13:110, 13:314–13:315, 13:588, 14:166–14:167, 14:542, 15:45, 15:49–15:50, 15:71–15:72, 15:203–15:204, 15:244–15:245, 15:260–15:261, 15:334, 15:353, 15:472, 15:487–15:488, 15:527–15:528
  • letters to accounted for, 11:184n, 11:261n, 12:53n, 13:349n
  • marriage of, 12:53
  • as merchant, 9:370–9:371, 9:371–9:372, 9:418, 9:541, 9:542, 9:581–9:582, 9:602–9:603, 10:448, 10:472, 12:30, 12:53, 12:148, 12:477, 13:618, 14:328–14:329, 15:71
  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:640, 15:19–15:20, 15:64, 15:65n
  • payments made for TJ, 11:20, 11:573n, 11:573n, 13:109
  • plans to visit Poplar Forest, 14:573, 14:593
  • and slater for Central College, 13:92, 13:97–13:98
  • TJ deeds Bedford Co. land to, 15:30–15:31, 15:36–15:38, 15:38n, 15:173, 15:196–15:197, 15:225, 15:226n, 15:246, 15:261, 15:261n, 15:282, 15:291
  • TJ invites to dine, 7:356
  • TJ invites to Monticello, 10:472
  • TJ recommends, 15:206–15:207, 15:244, 15:260
  • and TJ’s flour, 12:645, 13:285
  • and TJ’s health, 15:46
  • and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia, 15:20, 15:20, 15:45, 15:49–15:50, 15:64, 15:203–15:204, 15:334, 15:426, 15:470, 15:472
  • and TJ’s tobacco, 15:260–15:261, 15:334
  • and University of Virginia, 13:143, 13:594, 14:214, 14:243–14:244
  • visits Monticello, 14:593–14:594
  • and wine for TJ’s friends, 12:42–12:43, 12:44, 12:53, 13:302, 13:314, 13:325, 13:349, 13:372

Peyton, Craven

  • account with TJ, 1:470, 5:346, 5:420n, 5:421, 5:422–5:424, 5:426–5:428, 6:372, 6:544, 11:56–11:57, 11:58, 11:58, 11:263, 12:645, 13:430, 13:437, 15:283, 15:283, 15:457
  • and Central College subscription, 11:327n, 11:485, 11:485n, 11:486
  • and clover seed, 4:548, 4:557
  • and conveyance from C. L. Lewis, 7:535
  • conveys Henderson lands to TJ, 1:415n, 1:439–1:441, 1:453–1:454, 1:459–1:463, 6:198
  • and corn for TJ, 5:419, 5:425, 6:553, 7:225, 7:231, 9:152n, 11:214, 11:214, 12:54, 15:60
  • declaration concerning Henderson lands by TJ, 1:463
  • deed to from J. Henderson, 7:352, 7:352–7:353, 10:624, 10:624, 11:5, 11:5n
  • Deposition in Jefferson v. Michie, 7:672–7:675
  • dispute with Lewis family, 11:478, 11:478n, 11:479, 11:479n, 11:485, 11:486, 11:514–11:520, 11:520n, 11:520–11:521n, 11:538, 11:538–11:539, 11:542, 13:284
  • family of, 11:58, 11:478, 11:479, 12:54
  • and fight between C. L. Bankhead and T. J. Randolph, 14:17
  • and R. Grady, 3:625
  • grinds wheat, 1:109
  • and handles for TJ’s carriage, 7:360
  • and Henderson case, 1:415–1:416, 1:453–1:454, 3:594–3:595, 3:617–3:618, 4:401–4:402, 5:138–5:140, 5:147, 5:149–5:150, 5:157, 5:158–5:159, 5:193–5:196, 5:198n, 5:224, 5:275n, 5:364, 5:419–5:420, 5:651, 5:651n, 6:50–6:51, 6:78, 6:78, 6:79, 6:153, 6:196, 6:197, 6:197, 6:198, 6:198, 6:200, 6:201n, 6:201n, 6:201n, 6:315, 6:315, 6:316, 6:367, 6:472–6:473, 6:475, 6:475, 6:572, 6:573, 6:609–6:610, 6:611n, 7:117, 7:117, 7:118, 7:118n, 7:118–7:119, 7:351–7:352, 7:352–7:353, 7:677, 8:692–8:693, 8:693n, 10:621, 10:624, 10:624, 11:5, 11:15, 11:17, 11:19, 11:56–11:57, 11:58, 11:263
  • identified, 1:415n
  • Jefferson v. Michie, 5:149–5:150, 5:157, 5:158–5:159, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:477, 6:477, 6:478, 6:478, 6:479, 6:480, 6:480, 6:481–6:482n, 7:597, 7:634–7:635, 7:672–7:674, 9:3, 9:52–9:53, 11:209–11:210, 11:212–11:213
  • and lawsuit against I. R. Jefferson, 8:258, 8:258n
  • and lease of TJ’s land, 2:132, 2:133n
  • letter from to A. L. Duncan, 2:119
  • letters from, 1:415–1:416, 1:454, 10:624, 11:5, 11:58, 11:58, 11:214, 11:478, 11:479, 11:486, 11:538–11:539, 11:560, 12:54, 12:542, 13:284, 13:430, 15:60, 15:116, 15:207, 15:283
  • letters from accounted for, 2:133n, 3:243n, 4:641n, 5:346n, 6:367n, 6:372n, 7:118n, 7:352n, 7:535n, 7:675n, 9:483–9:484n, 13:430n, 13:437n, 14:37n
  • letters to, 1:439–1:441, 1:453–1:454, 1:470, 2:132–2:133, 3:242–3:243, 3:617–3:618, 5:346, 5:351, 5:419–5:420, 6:50–6:51, 6:367, 6:372, 7:351–7:352, 7:360, 7:535, 7:634–7:635, 10:624, 11:56–11:57, 11:214, 11:263, 11:379, 11:485, 11:514–11:521, 11:538, 11:542, 12:543, 13:437, 15:116–15:117, 15:207–15:208, 15:283, 15:457–15:458
  • letters to accounted for, 5:346n, 5:420n, 11:5n, 13:430n
  • letter to from B. H. Henderson, 3:594–3:595
  • offers to buy horse from TJ, 15:116, 15:117
  • offers to buy pork from TJ, 15:207, 15:207
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:117, 2:119, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 3:59–3:60, 3:186, 3:480, 3:481, 3:648, 4:640–4:641, 4:641–4:642, 5:350, 5:351, 5:409
  • and proposed duel with D. Michie, 5:150, 5:158–5:159, 6:479
  • and T. E. Randolph, 1:470, 3:334, 3:522
  • and T. J. Randolph, 14:37n
  • settles account for TJ, 9:482, 9:483
  • and shoemaker for TJ, 2:132, 2:132
  • slaves of, 3:90, 3:91, 3:93n, 3:242–3:243, 12:542, 13:430, 15:116, 15:116–15:117, 15:283
  • TJ invites to dine, 11:379
  • TJ makes payment for, 7:708, 8:652n
  • and TJ’s Shadwell mills, 12:542, 12:543
  • and visitors to Monticello, 11:560

Peyton, Harrison, 1:462, 2:119

Peyton, Jane Jefferson Lewis (TJ’s niece; Craven Peyton’s wife)

  • conveys Henderson lands to TJ, 1:441, 1:459–1:463
  • dispute with Lewis family, 11:514, 11:516, 11:516, 11:520n
  • family of, 1:415n
  • identified, 1:463n

Peyton, John

  • estate of, 2:117, 2:118, 2:119, 2:254, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 2:495, 3:59–3:60, 3:149, 3:186, 3:480, 3:481, 3:648–3:649, 4:48, 4:640–4:641, 4:641–4:642, 5:314, 5:351, 5:383
  • identified, 2:118–2:119n
  • Milton postmaster, 1:506n
  • receipt for effects of, 2:118–2:119
  • shoemaker employed by, 2:132, 2:132, 2:133n

Peyton, John Green

  • education of, 13:594

Peyton, John Howe

  • as attorney, 11:538–11:539
  • identified, 11:64n
  • and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 11:xlviii, 11:64, 11:68, 11:71, 11:121, 11:121, 14:399–14:401, 14:407, 14:422–14:423, 14:436, 14:436, 14:485, 14:493, 14:501, 14:514, 14:540–14:541, 15:153, 15:226–15:227, 15:289–15:290, 15:347, 15:416
  • letters from, 11:121, 14:540–14:541, 15:153, 15:226–15:228, 15:416–15:417
  • letters to, 11:64, 14:399–14:401, 14:422–14:423, 14:485, 15:289–15:290, 15:347
  • TJ’s debt to, 15:426

Peyton, Julia Amanda Green (Bernard Peyton’s wife)

  • sends greetings to TJ, 12:53

Peyton, Robert

  • identified, 2:119n
  • letter from to A. L. Duncan, 2:119
  • and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:117, 2:118, 2:119, 2:254, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 2:495, 3:59–3:60, 3:149, 3:186, 3:480, 3:481, 4:640, 4:641n, 4:641–4:642, 5:314, 5:383

Peyton, Susanna Smith Madison (John H. Peyton’s wife), 14:493

Peyton v. Henderson

  • court costs in, 6:338n
  • and H. Dance, 5:224
  • decision in, 4:401–4:402, 5:149, 6:473, 6:477, 6:477–6:478, 6:480, 6:572
  • depositions in, 6:200, 6:479, 6:480, 6:572, 6:609, 7:117, 7:672–7:675, 7:676–7:678, 8:692–8:693, 8:693n
  • and J. Henderson, 5:138–5:141, 5:224, 5:260–5:261, 6:153, 6:197, 6:472–6:473, 6:475
  • C. Peyton on, 5:261
  • TJ on C. Peyton’s role in, 6:572

Phædri Augusti Cæsaris Liberti Fabularum Æsopiarum Libri Quinque (Phaedrus; ed. P. Danet), 14:511

Phaedrus (ancient Roman fabulist)

  • Phædri Augusti Cæsaris Liberti Fabularum Æsopiarum Libri Quinque (ed. P. Danet), 14:511

Phaëthon (mythological character), 12:426

phaetons

  • of E. Randolph, 4:231–4:232n
  • taxes on, 7:xlv

Pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1:35

pharmacy

  • collegiate education in, 13:197, 13:217, 15:124n, 15:307
  • study of, 7:639, 7:639, 7:639, 7:640, 12:647
  • TJ on, 13:312, 15:182–15:183

Pharsalia (Lucan), 4:503, 4:506n

Phi Beta Kappa Society, 14:306, 14:307n, 14:433–14:434

Phidias (Greek sculptor), 10:589, 11:114, 11:114n

Phifer, John, 14:450

Philadelphia

  • Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 12:505, 13:52–13:53, 14:186–14:187n
  • Aurora, 4:56, 4:174, 4:174n, 6:83, 6:83n, 6:510, 7:282, 7:527, 7:554, 7:564–7:565, 8:435, 8:436n, 8:468, 8:469n, 10:79, 10:536, 10:652n, 11:13, 11:455, 11:456, 11:604, 11:648, 11:648n, 12:370n, 13:475, 15:307, 15:325, 15:342
  • banks, 1:458, 2:117, 6:649, 15:349n, 15:394
  • J. Barnes describes visit to, 7:470–7:471
  • Birch & Small (publishers), 1:18, 1:19n, 1:172n
  • builders’ prices in, 8:86, 12:157, 12:159, 12:196, 12:262, 12:264, 12:278, 12:278, 12:369, 12:397, 12:520, 13:539, 14:87, 14:119, 14:129, 14:138, 14:170, 14:173, 14:196n, 14:196n, 14:211, 14:212, 14:216, 14:385, 14:516, 14:520, 14:651, 14:651
  • Chestnut Street Theatre, 15:514, 15:515n
  • College of Physicians, 10:131–10:133
  • commerce at, 4:26
  • controversy over ownership of land in, 10:386, 10:387n, 10:406–10:407
  • Democratic Press, 8:5, 9:478, 9:480n, 13:383–13:384n, 14:125, 14:218, 15:301
  • directory, 6:220, 6:280, 7:286, 7:293n, 9:130
  • dogs taxed in, 1:68–1:69n
  • and domestic manufactures, 1:170–1:172, 8:284–8:285
  • and drinking water, 4:161n
  • Francis’s Hotel, 4:537
  • Franklin Gazette, 12:307–12:308, 12:309–12:310, 12:370
  • French immigrants in, 10:490
  • French merchants in, 8:430
  • gardens in, 8:615, 8:640, 14:325
  • Gazette of the United States, 2:92, 2:93n
  • and Genet riots, 6:254
  • Hope’s Philadelphia Price-Current and Commercial Record, 8:307, 8:629, 8:632n
  • houses designed in, 4:63–4:64
  • lawyers, 2:432
  • Linnean Society of, 1:663, 2:70
  • mayor’s office, 11:500
  • and medical education, 13:388
  • merchants in, 8:19, 8:430
  • monument to G. Washington in, 15:561
  • National Gazette, 1:113n
  • National Gazette and Literary Register, 13:465n, 13:467n, 15:566n
  • National Recorder, 15:373, 15:374n, 15:375n
  • newspapers in, 5:133, 5:133n, 6:83, 6:83n, 6:510, 6:599, 6:599n, 8:469, 8:621, 8:622n, 10:79, 10:536, 12:309, 12:310, 14:91, 14:216
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 3:66n, 4:182, 5:166–5:167, 6:291, 7:262, 7:401, 7:443–7:444, 14:444
  • The Picture of Philadelphia (J. Mease), 3:51n
  • Political and Commercial Register, 2:284, 2:285n
  • Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 3:95n, 3:577, 3:578n, 7:36, 7:37n, 7:104, 7:104, 7:105n, 9:709n, 14:125, 14:218
  • price of flour at, 3:518, 6:561
  • printers in, 3:189, 3:329–3:330, 3:449, 8:210
  • proposed relocation of U.S. capital to, 8:104, 8:104n
  • Relf’s Philadelphia Gazette, 7:299, 7:299n, 7:311, 8:532, 8:533n
  • religious zeal in, 10:262
  • reservoir and pumping station in, 8:81, 8:82n
  • scarlet fever outbreak in, 6:74
  • schools in, 12:508
  • science popular in, 2:375
  • and Society of Artists of the United States, 2:437, 3:624–3:625, 4:355–4:358, 4:398–4:400, 4:407, 4:459–4:460
  • and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:228
  • statehouse in, 8:461, 10:203–10:204, 10:204n, 12:282, 12:283n
  • steam engines in, 8:81, 8:82n
  • Universal Gazette, 1:30n, 1:30n
  • Walnut Street prison, 1:383, 1:384n
  • water committee of, 8:81, 8:82n
  • wool analyzed at, 2:39, 2:39n, 2:252, 2:492
  • yellow fever in, 1:185n, 6:254, 10:130–10:131, 10:131–10:133, 10:152

Philadelphia (ship), 1:33n

Philadelphia, USS (frigate), 6:206, 6:207n

Philadelphia Medical Society, 14:601

Philadelphia Museum See also Peale, Charles Willson

  • described, 1:46n
  • dinners at, 1:104n
  • gaslights in, 10:177–10:179, 10:179n, 10:180–10:181, 10:204, 10:310
  • lectures at, 7:152
  • lottery for, 8:545
  • and mammoth bones, 12:348
  • and mastodon, 1:104n, 1:187, 10:397, 10:399
  • mentioned, 1:45, 4:532, 5:324, 6:291, 8:81, 10:344
  • paintings in, 10:198, 12:xlix, 12:367–12:368, 12:368, 13:426
  • relocation to New York considered, 11:373–11:374
  • rent for, 8:461, 10:203–10:204, 10:204n, 10:308, 10:311n, 11:371–11:372
  • Rubens Peale manages, 4:137–4:138, 4:181, 4:531, 5:323, 8:461
  • sale of considered, 13:540
  • seeks public support, 8:461–8:462, 8:465n, 10:309–10:310, 10:311n, 12:368
  • TJ on, 8:534, 12:481

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture

  • addresses to, 9:600, 15:442, 15:442–15:443n
  • founding of, 10:527n
  • letter from, 10:526–10:527
  • and L. P. G. de Lormerie, 1:133, 1:256+, 5:550
  • members of, 5:435n, 8:42, 8:43n
  • Memoirs, 1:477, 1:479–1:480n, 2:220, 2:223n, 3:33, 4:161, 4:161n, 5:413, 5:416n, 5:432, 7:381, 7:382n, 7:492, 9:539n, 11:165, 11:347, 11:348n, 11:484n
  • and T. M. Randolph’s hillside plow, 11:172, 11:482, 11:484n
  • seeds sent to, 14:445
  • seeks information, 10:526

Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry, 14:446, 15:356, 15:356n

Philip (TJ’s slave; b. 1796)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:388, 12:303
  • at Poplar Forest, 7:71, 11:475, 11:475n
  • sells TJ a mink skin, 7:302n

Philip II, king of Macedon, 8:265, 10:552

Philip II, king of Spain

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Philip V, king of Spain

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Philip (Christian Evangelist), 7:589, 7:590n

Philip, Mr.

  • and Niagara Campaign, 5:540

Philippart, John

  • edits The Royal Military Calendar, 14:41
  • identified, 14:41–14:42n
  • letter forwarded to, 14:453, 15:569
  • letter from, 14:41–14:42, 15:199
  • letter to, 14:283–14:284
  • requests biographical materials, 14:41, 14:42n, 14:283–14:284, 15:199

Philippe II, duc d’Orléans

  • and paper currency, 6:586
  • regency of, 9:432, 9:434n

Philips, Josiah

  • bill of attainder against, 7:495, 7:496n, 7:548–7:549, 8:334–8:337, 8:337–8:338n, 8:483–8:484, 8:620, 8:620, 8:643–8:644, 10:xlvi, 10:438

Philips, Naphtali (newspaper publisher), 10:110, 10:112n, 10:185–10:186, 11:491

Philis (Chamberlain’s slave), 4:15

Phill. See Hubbard, Phill (TJ’s slave)

Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave)

  • as blacksmith, 12:349
  • delivers message, 7:268
  • orders goods for TJ, 12:362

Phill (TJ’s slave; 1742–1810)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 8:61

Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b. 1801)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:309, 8:61, 8:255

Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b. 1808)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:385, 4:385, 5:461, 6:308, 6:308, 8:62, 8:255

Phillip II, king of France

  • and 1550 edict, 3:175–3:176n

Phillips, John

  • The General History of Europe, contained in the Historical and Political Monthly Mercuries, 10:486

Phillips, John Robert

  • as cloth manufacturer, 12:408–12:409, 12:410n
  • criticizes U.S. politics, 12:409–12:410
  • identified, 12:410n
  • letter from, 12:408–12:410

Phillips, Robert

  • as cloth manufacturer, 12:408

Phillips, William

  • British general, 6:510, 6:510n

Phillips, William (17501827)

  • Mass. lieutenant governor, 9:4, 9:4

Phillips, William B.

  • as brickmason for University of Virginia, 14:163, 14:195, 14:214, 14:390, 14:479, 14:641, 15:3, 15:3, 15:3, 15:3, 15:97, 15:98, 15:98, 15:100, 15:102, 15:102, 15:102, 15:103
  • identified, 14:164n
  • letter from accounted for, 15:386n
  • letter from, to N. Barksdale, 14:163–14:165
  • letter to, 14:214
  • recommendations of, 14:164–14:165n

Phillis (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231–4:232n

Philo (Philo Judaeus), 5:183

philology

  • of Indian languages, 12:385–12:386
  • TJ on, 6:403–6:406
  • works on, 1:265, 1:267n, 1:652, 1:652n, 4:99

Philosophia Britannica (B. Martin), 7:626

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (I. Newton), 7:282, 14:168

Philosophical Arrangements (J. Harris), 15:337

Philosophical Essays (J. Ogilvie), 8:352–8:353, 8:354n

Philosophical Essays on Morals, Literature, and Politics (D. Hume), 12:438, 12:475, 12:480

The Philosophical Grammar; being a view of the Present State of Experimental Physiology, or Natural Philosophy (B. Martin), 1:581

The Philosophical Principles of the Science of Brewing (J. Richardson), 6:533, 6:597

The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke (Bolingbroke), 2:51

philosophy

  • J. Adams on, 15:337–15:338, 15:587–15:589
  • of language, 15:223–15:224
  • naturalism, 15:553
  • of the philosophes, 8:551, 8:552, 8:562
  • study of, 1:502, 7:637, 7:638, 7:640, 7:641
  • TJ on, 15:469–15:470

The Philosophy of Human Nature (J. Buchanan), 11:364, 11:382, 12:9

“The Philosophy of the Asiaticks” (W. Jones), 11:383, 11:384n

Philpotts, Oakley

  • purchases TJ’s tobacco, 4:593
  • and unpaid tobacco bill, 5:138, 6:356, 8:128, 8:157, 8:180, 8:180n

Phipps, Robert, 14:551n

phoenix (mythological creature), 12:443, 13:258

Phoenix, Alexander

  • identified, 4:491–4:492n
  • letters from, 4:489–4:492
  • seeks TJ’s aid, 4:489–4:492

Phoenix Insurance Company (N.Y. firm), 4:423

Physick, Philip Syng

  • correspondence of, 9:22–9:23
  • health of, 14:206
  • lectures of, 1:307
  • and medical treatment for TJ, 14:206, 14:230, 14:230–14:231, 14:231, 14:231, 14:232, 14:242, 14:243n, 14:319, 14:442n, 14:459, 14:489
  • as physician, 12:397, 13:486
  • as university professor, 12:389, 12:490

physics

  • barometric calculation of altitude, 9:9–9:10, 9:10n, 9:11, 9:12n, 9:71–9:72, 9:187, 9:188–9:192, 9:193, 9:313–9:315, 9:316–9:317n
  • books on, 7:282, 7:292, 8:429, 8:429, 12:112, 12:534, 13:476
  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:209, 13:214, 13:215n
  • light as an element, 13:549–13:554
  • study of, 7:480, 7:480, 7:638, 7:638, 7:639, 7:640, 7:641, 7:666, 7:686, 14:313, 15:589
  • TJ’s pamphlets on bound, 1:36, 1:38n, 8:629
  • velocity of military projectiles, 11:51–11:52, 11:52–11:54, 11:54–11:55

physiognotraces, 14:lii

physiology

  • bound pamphlets on, 13:456, 13:457n
  • collegiate education in, 13:209, 13:215n, 15:124n
  • study of, 7:663, 7:667, 7:667, 7:687, 8:668–8:669, 8:669n, 9:641, 12:332–12:333, 12:647

pianos, 9:xliv, 9:694, 9:696n, 13:555, 14:590

pickaxes, 2:546, 2:546, 2:547, 2:548

Pickens, Israel

  • constitutional amendment proposed by, 10:608, 10:611n

Pickering, John

  • An Essay on the Pronunciation of the Greek Language, 14:31, 14:153, 14:155, 14:536–14:537, 14:629, 14:647n, 15:54, 15:135
  • identified, 15:55n
  • letter to, 15:55
  • TJ’s letter on Greek pronunciation sent to, 14:190, 15:55

Pickering, Thomas

  • as builder for University of Virginia, 15:385, 15:386n
  • identified, 15:386n
  • letter from, 15:385–15:386

Pickering, Timothy

  • accused of conspiracy, 4:83, 4:628
  • and J. Adams, 11:267–11:268, 11:270n, 11:312, 13:70, 13:70n
  • and American Farmer, 15:360, 15:361n
  • and apples, 7:382n
  • correspondence of, 15:360, 15:361n, 15:418
  • criticized by J. Q. Adams, 4:435, 4:435n
  • criticized by B. Waterhouse, 5:641, 5:642n
  • as Federalist, 9:17, 14:145, 14:145–14:146n
  • and foreign relations, 2:70, 2:387, 3:502
  • mentioned, 5:126, 6:254, 6:298n
  • opposes H. A. S. Dearborn’s nomination, 1:78, 1:280, 1:301–1:302
  • and plan for New England secession, 5:13
  • possesses TJ-Canby letters, 6:447n, 6:509n
  • as postmaster general, 7:273, 7:669
  • and Congress’s purchase of TJ’s library, 7:680
  • as secretary of state, 3:262n, 3:638, 6:194, 6:194, 6:195n, 9:575, 9:575, 9:578n
  • and sheep, 11:347
  • and R. Smith’s removal from cabinet, 3:568
  • as U.S. representative from Mass., 11:61n
  • on G. Washington’s cabinet selections, 6:259, 6:259n

Picket, Albert & John W. (New York firm). See Albert & John W. Picket (New York firm)

Pickett, George C.

  • and Central College subscription, 11:332

pickles, 2:291

Pickmore, Francis

  • British naval officer, 11:661

Pictet, Marc Auguste

  • correspondence of, 11:539, 12:270
  • edits Bibliothèque Britannique, 11:444, 11:446n
  • edits Bibliothèque Universelle, 11:443, 11:444, 11:446n
  • and A. von Humboldt, 1:452
  • identified, 8:322–8:323n
  • letters from, 11:443–11:447, 15:166–15:169
  • letters to, 8:321–8:323, 9:419
  • proposed immigration to U.S. of, 8:326, 8:327n
  • reports on Delessert family, 15:167
  • reports on D. C. Terrell, 13:42, 15:166–15:167
  • TJ introduces B. S. Barton to, 8:321, 8:326
  • TJ introduces D. C. Terrell to, 9:419, 10:161, 11:443–11:444
  • and University of Virginia faculty, 13:617–13:618

Pictet de Rochemont, Charles

  • edits Bibliothèque Britannique, 11:444, 11:446n
  • edits Bibliothèque Universelle, 11:443, 11:444, 11:446n

The Picture of Philadelphia, giving an Account of its Origin (J. Mease), 3:51n, 4:186, 4:186n

Pieces Probantes, 2:439, 2:446n, 2:531, 2:532n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:233, 3:484, 3:484, 3:487n, 4:466

Piedmont, Italy

  • and Congress of Vienna, 15:52

Pierce, A., 12:409

Pierce, John, 1:227, 1:228n

Pierce, John (waterman)

  • transports goods to Richmond, 9:547

Pierce, William Leigh

  • on earthquakes, 4:573

Piernet, Pierre (Peter)

  • estate of, 3:466–3:469, 3:472n, 3:651, 3:652–3:653, 4:42, 4:43n, 4:70, 4:81–4:82, 4:89, 4:166, 4:166n, 4:517, 5:99, 5:116–5:118, 5:216, 5:228, 5:332–5:333, 5:333–5:335

Pierre Mages & Compagnie

  • identified, 11:657n
  • letter from, to S. Cathalan, 11:656–11:657
  • and wine for TJ, 9:323, 9:471–9:472, 11:653, 11:653–11:654, 11:656

Pierson, Mr. (of New York)

  • travels of, 11:305

Piers Plowman. See The Vision of Pierce Plowman (W. Langland)

pies

  • mince, 7:78
  • pumpkin, 10:187, 11:493, 12:651

Piggot, Robert (engraver), 10:199n

pigs

  • Chinese, 4:109, 4:110n
  • fodder for, 11:272, 14:585, 14:636, 15:70, 15:70, 15:70, 15:70
  • Guinea, 11:179
  • killed by dogs, 4:170, 6:511
  • killed by wildfires, 14:270
  • at Lego, 12:304
  • mentioned, 10:195
  • at Monticello, 8:158, 8:184, 13:134, 14:554, 15:11, 15:60
  • owned by J. Shoemaker, 1:451
  • owned by J. Walker, 3:359
  • at Poplar Forest, 2:96, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381–4:382, 5:545, 7:71, 8:71, 8:71, 8:72, 8:132, 8:158, 8:173, 8:174, 8:174n, 8:185, 8:611, 8:611, 9:562, 13:386, 13:545, 13:566, 13:566, 15:134, 15:208, 15:229, 15:230n, 15:282
  • sent by TJ, 15:159
  • stolen, 10:575
  • transportation of, 8:158, 8:184, 8:185, 9:562
  • at Tufton, 2:112, 4:414, 5:545–5:546, 12:304
  • value of, 4:15

Piguillém, Francisco

  • “De la Propiedad Contagiosa de la Calentura amarilla,” 10:129, 10:146n
  • Memoria sobre la Calentura Amarilla de las Américas, 10:129, 10:146n

Pike, Clarissa Brown (Zebulon M. Pike’s wife)

  • presents husband’s sidearms, 7:656

Pike, Nicolas

  • A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, 1:576, 4:244, 4:245n, 8:660, 12:534

Pike (steamboat), 13:255

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery

  • An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, 3:309, 3:309n, 4:354n, 4:445, 4:457n, 6:374, 6:413, 7:31, 11:574, 11:574, 11:574n, 13:100, 13:101, 13:107, 13:227, 13:228n
  • expeditions of, 13:105, 13:227, 13:227, 13:344, 13:359–13:360
  • and A. von Humboldt’s map, 4:352–4:353, 7:31
  • journal of, 11:574, 11:574n
  • mentioned, 3:149, 6:209, 6:525, 15:121
  • and War of 1812, 6:526–6:528, 6:528, 7:32n, 7:531, 7:656, 8:263, 10:186, 10:187, 11:494

“Pilenejo, Eritisco.” See Pagnini, Giuseppe Maria

Pilgrim (ship), 1:294

The Pilgrim’s Progress (J. Bunyan), 7:26

Pilkington, Matthew

  • dictionary of painters by, 7:563, 7:563

Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken (ed. R. Barron), 13:138, 13:138–13:139n

Pillet, René Martin

  • L’Angleterre Vue a Londres et dans ses Provinces, pendant un séjour de dix années, dont six comme prisonnier de guerre, 10:219–10:220, 10:220n, 10:247, 10:259

Pillnitz, Declaration of, 4:429, 4:430n, 7:298, 7:299–7:300n, 9:68, 9:69n, 9:345, 9:346, 9:376, 9:432, 9:484, 12:245

Pilot (brig), 9:470, 9:470, 9:569, 10:68, 11:531, 12:569n

Pinckney, Charles

  • correspondence with TJ published, 13:501, 13:502n
  • and domestic manufacturing, 4:343
  • family of, 13:318–13:319, 13:319n
  • health of, 10:363
  • and S. House, 1:475, 1:513
  • identified, 1:476n
  • letters from, 1:513–1:514, 4:342–4:343, 10:339
  • letters to, 1:475–1:476, 4:472, 10:363
  • and J. Madison, 1:513–1:514
  • and J. Monroe, 1:514, 10:339, 10:339n, 10:363
  • negotiates with Spain, 9:488n, 9:518, 9:658n
  • Observations to shew the propriety of the nomination of Colonel James Monroe, to the Presidency of the United States by the Caucus at Washington, 10:339, 10:339n, 10:363, 10:363n
  • and report of S.C. legislature, 4:342, 4:343n, 4:472
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
  • as U.S. representative from S.C., 13:318, 13:319n

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworthy

  • as Federalist, 13:318, 13:319n
  • as peace negotiator, 5:127n

Pinckney, Frances Henrietta, 1:514, 1:514n

Pinckney, Henry Laurens

  • 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, 13:157, 13:157–13:158n

Pinckney, Jonathan

  • and death of G. Jefferson, 5:258, 5:289–5:290

Pinckney, Mary Eleanor, 1:514, 1:514n

Pinckney, Thomas

  • as Federalist, 13:318, 13:319n
  • reports on TJ’s health, 13:395
  • War of 1812 service of, 7:162n

Pindar (Greek poet)

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:662
  • mentioned, 6:403
  • Pindari Carmina (ed. C. G. Heyne), 9:196, 9:197n
  • works of, 9:87

“Pindar, Peter.” See Wolcot, John

Pindari Carmina (Pindar; ed. C. G. Heyne), 9:196, 9:197n

Pinel, Philippe, 7:342n

pine trees, 1:478, 7:52, 8:194, 8:248

Pini, Andrea Tozzi (Elisabetta Mazzei Pini’s husband)

  • identified, 12:265n
  • letter from, 13:508–13:509
  • marriage of, 10:57, 10:415, 11:579, 11:646
  • and P. Mazzei’s estate, 12:265n, 12:268, 12:578, 13:508–13:509, 14:63, 14:63, 14:64n, 14:348–14:349, 14:628, 14:628n, 15:8, 15:10, 15:341, 15:395
  • and P. Mazzei’s will, 9:675

Pini, Antonio

  • and P. Mazzei’s will, 9:675

Pini, Elisabetta Mazzei (Philip Mazzei’s daughter; Andrea Pini’s wife)

  • copies letters from P. Mazzei, 7:697n, 7:697, 9:119n
  • described by father, 3:377
  • identified, 12:265n
  • letters from, 12:264–12:266, 13:508–13:509
  • marriage of, 10:57, 10:415, 11:579, 11:646
  • and P. Mazzei’s estate, 9:644, 9:669, 9:675, 10:272, 10:273, 10:476, 11:21, 11:249, 12:264–12:265, 12:268, 12:269n, 12:578, 12:584–12:585, 13:11, 13:11n, 13:252, 13:373, 13:508–13:509, 14:63, 14:63, 14:64n, 14:255, 14:256, 14:257, 14:319, 14:348–14:349, 14:628, 14:628n, 15:8, 15:10, 15:326, 15:341, 15:395, 15:426, 15:476
  • and P. Mazzei’s finances, 3:381n, 8:691, 9:126
  • TJ on, 3:576, 4:34, 4:35
  • TJ sends greetings to, 11:580

Pinkerton, John

  • A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages, 1:256n
  • Modern Atlas, 3:296
  • Modern Geography, 1:256, 1:256n, 1:576, 1:581, 7:626, 12:534

Pinkney, Charles

  • as secretary of U.S. legation in Russia, 13:79n, 13:125n

Pinkney, William

  • attends inspection of USS Washington, 10:94n
  • dispatches mentioned, 2:410, 2:419n, 2:470, 2:471n, 2:480, 2:530
  • and Embargo Act, 2:69, 2:70n
  • forwards letter to TJ, 1:124, 3:116–3:117
  • identified, 1:414n
  • letters from, 2:350–2:351, 3:116–3:117, 5:180
  • letters to, 1:414, 2:533–2:534
  • letters to mentioned, 2:544
  • as minister plenipotentiary to Russia and Naples, 9:516–9:517, 9:517n, 10:217, 11:122, 11:123n, 13:78
  • and Missouri question, 15:532
  • and J. Monroe, 1:414n
  • and Monroe-Pinkney Treaty, 1:169, 1:170n, 1:414n, 2:412n, 10:518, 10:519n
  • and Orders in Council, 1:271
  • returns to U.S., 3:577
  • supports Baltimore College, 13:451–13:452
  • TJ recommends A. McRae and J. Clarke to, 1:414
  • on TJ’s batture pamphlet, 5:180
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
  • as U.S. minister to Great Britain, 1:113, 1:118, 1:374, 1:409, 1:413, 1:423, 1:436–1:437n, 1:464, 1:518, 1:518n, 2:287, 2:325, 2:366, 2:418, 2:419n, 3:177, 3:245, 3:246n, 3:519, 3:519n, 3:568, 3:577, 3:600, 4:32, 4:234, 7:41, 7:41, 7:44n
  • visits Washington, 4:19

pinks, 3:353, 3:355n, 5:477, 5:477n, 5:553

Pintard, John

  • identified, 7:120n
  • letter from accounted for, 11:189n
  • letters from, 7:120n
  • letters to, 7:119–7:120
  • as recording secretary of New-York Historical Society, 7:119–7:120, 11:189

Pinto de Sousa Coutinho, Luís, chevalier de, 14:82–14:83

Pio, Louis

  • aided by Lafayette, 14:259–14:260, 14:260
  • on Circello, 10:353
  • health of, 14:259–14:260
  • identified, 10:355n
  • letter from, 10:353–10:355, 14:259–14:260
  • letter to, 11:435–11:436
  • misfortunes of, 10:353–10:354
  • TJ’s friendship with, 11:435–11:436, 14:259–14:260

Piombo, Sebastiano del. See Luciani, Sebastiano

Piomingo (Chickasaw chief), 14:136

pipes, tobacco, 8:109, 9:264

pipes, water

  • for University of Virginia, 13:534, 14:71, 14:131, 14:213, 14:390, 14:479–14:480, 14:636, 14:641–14:642, 14:653, 15:12, 15:12, 15:545

pippin. See Newtown pippin (Albemarle pippin)

Piré, Hippolyte Marie Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, comte de, 1:372

Pisa, Italy

  • TJ on, 8:326

Pisa, University of, 13:377, 13:377n

Pisistratus

  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:329

pistols

  • given as gift, 10:320–10:321, 10:357
  • used by TJ, 10:320–10:321

Pitkin, Timothy

  • A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States, 13:603

Pitman, John

  • identified, 4:306n
  • letters from, 4:305–4:306
  • letters to, 4:395–4:396
  • A Long Talk, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, on their anniversary, A.D. 1810: in Providence, 4:306n, 4:395–4:396
  • A Poem on the Social State and its Future Progress, 4:306n, 4:395–4:396
  • secretary of Republican meeting, 3:232n
  • sends pamphlets to TJ, 4:305–4:306, 4:395–4:396

Pitot, James, 2:243, 6:434–6:436, 6:437n

Pitt. See Chatham, John Pitt, 2d Earl of; Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of

Pitt, Joseph

  • as builder for University of Virginia, 15:386n, 15:386n

Pitt, William

  • as builder for University of Virginia, 15:385, 15:386n
  • identified, 15:386n
  • letter from, 15:385–15:386

Pitt, William (the Younger)

  • education of, 7:660
  • mentioned, 6:141
  • TJ on, 1:507, 10:550
  • TJ quotes, 5:303, 5:304n

Pitts, Mr. (Freemason)

  • and Central College cornerstone laying, 12:62, 12:64

Pittsburgh, Pa.

  • banks in, 15:277, 15:278n
  • builders’ prices in, 12:278, 12:520, 13:57, 13:612, 13:613n
  • glass factory at, 6:468
  • Republicans of, address TJ, 1:90, 1:91n
  • and steamboats, 7:56–7:57, 8:591

Pius VI, pope

  • and archbishop of Baltimore, 15:335, 15:335n

Pius VII, pope

  • and Inquisition, 8:490, 8:491n
  • and Napoleon, 2:7, 2:9n, 2:242, 7:539, 8:490
  • pontificate of, 9:673
  • and restoration of Italian monarchy, 9:672, 9:673n
  • TJ on, 8:490
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Pizarro, Mr. See García de León y Pizarro, José

plague

  • books on, 10:136, 10:147n
  • Oriental, 10:127, 10:131, 10:134
  • study of, 9:207, 10:132, 10:133, 10:136, 10:147n

A Plain, Elementary Explanation of the Nature and Cure of Disease (S. K. Jennings), 9:23, 9:25, 9:25–9:26n, 9:43

Planche, Joseph

  • Dictionnaire Grec-Français, composé sur l’ouvrage intitulé Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, de Henri Étienne, 13:342, 13:342, 13:343n, 13:358, 13:394, 13:394, 13:474, 13:474, 13:474, 13:476, 13:494, 13:561, 13:561, 14:215, 14:303, 15:133, 15:133, 15:160

planes (inclined), 14:167

planes (woodworking), 1:135, 1:136n, 9:223, 11:176, 12:454, 14:541

plane table

  • for U.S. Coast Survey, 9:222

A Plan of New Orleans & its Environs (J. L. Boqueta de Wosieri), 3:499, 3:500n

“Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans” (B. Lafon), 3:486, 3:488n

Plant, David, 14:648n

Plantage coronopus (Plantago coronopus). See buckhorn plantain

Plantagenet, HMS, 9:259

plantain

  • buckhorn, 5:550
  • treated as weed, 4:139
  • water, 1:57

Planter (brig), 13:443, 13:446, 13:446, 13:447n, 13:447n, 13:447, 13:448, 13:449, 13:564, 13:565, 13:585, 13:585, 13:606, 14:327

The Planter’s and Mariner’s Medical Companion (J. Ewell), 8:472, 8:472n, 8:672, 8:673n, 13:73n, 15:127n

plant geography See also botany

  • Essai sur la géographie des plantes (Humboldt), 1:265, 1:267n
  • forests, 1:131–1:134, 1:354, 3:33–3:34
  • J. H. McCulloh on, 12:189–12:191

plants See also botany; seeds; specific plant names

  • books on, 1:582, 2:82, 2:83, 2:132n, 2:680, 2:681n, 3:167, 3:181, 3:320–3:321, 3:322n, 3:561–3:562, 7:458, 15:600, 15:601n
  • bulbs, 4:497, 4:498n
  • catalogues of, 3:368, 3:368n
  • cultivated in France, 2:270, 10:215, 10:216
  • discovery of new, 4:426–4:428
  • eradication of weeds, 4:139, 4:142n, 4:180, 4:531, 14:249
  • forest management, 3:33–3:34
  • inoculation, 3:644–3:645
  • medicinal properties of, 1:56–1:57, 1:84, 1:84n, 3:419, 3:604, 5:30, 9:185, 13:248, 13:248, 13:312, 15:182–15:183, 15:281
  • Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 3:xlv–3:xlvi, 3:352–3:355, 3:358 (illus.)
  • requested from TJ, 8:21, 9:532
  • sensation in, 7:560, 7:560–7:561n
  • sent by TJ, 7:35, 9:533, 11:174–11:175, 11:219–11:220
  • sent by TJ to Poplar Forest, 9:562–9:563, 10:517–10:518
  • sent to TJ, 3:419, 3:448, 3:645, 4:523–4:524, 4:535, 4:557, 4:559, 4:561, 8:21, 8:121, 9:185, 10:215, 10:216, 10:536–10:537, 11:292, 15:308
  • specimens from Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2:90–2:91, 2:140, 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166, 7:34–7:35, 7:55, 9:704–9:705, 10:445, 10:445, 11:174
  • tares, 14:161
  • TJ orders, 1:51, 2:140, 4:496–4:497, 4:497–4:498
  • TJ requests, from Ireland, 3:294–3:295
  • and weather, 10:526, 12:618–12:619

plastering

  • at Central College, 12:262
  • of columns, 11:389
  • at Poplar Forest, 5:381–5:382, 5:403, 5:545, 14:595
  • at University of Virginia, 14:86, 14:87, 14:94, 14:95–14:96n, 14:97, 14:119, 14:184, 14:195
  • at U.S. Capitol, 12:641–12:642

plaster (plaister) of paris. See gypsum (plaster of paris)

plasters (medicinal), 7:387, 9:40, 9:40n, 13:486, 13:486n

Plater, George

  • family of, 7:574
  • governor of Md., 7:589n

Plato

  • J. Adams on, 4:474, 5:183, 5:184, 6:503, 6:504, 6:505, 7:74–7:75, 7:75, 7:75, 7:76–7:77, 7:478–7:480, 10:360, 12:82
  • dialogues of printed in Bibliotheque des Anciens Philosophes, 12:110, 12:582
  • lexicon of words used by, 9:276, 9:277n
  • Loix de Platon (trans. J. N. Grou), 12:112
  • mentioned, 7:24, 9:78, 11:383, 11:383, 12:163
  • Les Œuvres de Platon (trans. A. Dacier), 12:112
  • Opere di Platone (trans. D. Bembo), 9:394, 12:583, 15:24, 15:258
  • Platonis Philosophi quae Exstant, 14:510
  • La Republique de Platon, ou Dialogue sur la Justice (trans. J. N. Grou), 12:112
  • and Scottish philosophy, 3:277–3:278
  • Θουκυδίδου Πλάτωνος καὶ Λυσίου λόγοι ἐπιτάφιοι, 10:358
  • Σχόλια εἰς Πλάτωνα: Scholia in Platonem (ed. D. Ruhnken), 15:26
  • TJ on, 4:396, 7:453–7:454, 7:478, 15:163
  • trinity of, 7:218, 7:221n
  • writings of referenced, 15:68–15:69

Platonis Philosophi quae Exstant (Plato), 14:510

Plato Redivivus (H. Neville), 4:474, 4:476n

Platt, Jeremiah

  • identified, 9:430n
  • letter from, 9:429–9:430
  • seeks information on lumber in Va., 9:429–9:430

Platt, Jonas

  • as judge, 12:588

Plattsburgh, N.Y.

  • successful U.S. defense of, 8:84, 8:112n, 8:259

platypus, 7:152–7:153, 7:153n, 7:210, 11:368, 11:370n

Plautus, Titus Maccius

  • works of, 14:511

Playfair, John

  • biographical essay of on J. Hutton, 12:403
  • Dissertation Second: exhibiting a general view of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science, since the revival of letters in Europe, 12:107, 12:312, 12:313, 12:344, 12:345, 12:356, 12:402–12:403
  • as professor, 15:140

Playfair, William

  • A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain, 3:274, 3:275n
  • The Statistical Breviary, 9:60
  • TJ’s gift of a work by, 1:265, 1:267n

plays

  • sent to TJ, 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509, 15:612, 15:613n

The Plays of William Shakespeare (ed. S. Johnson), 9:88n

Pleasant, Thomas, 3:183

Pleasants, Mr., 5:121

Pleasants, James

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:327n, 11:332, 11:590–11:591, 11:650–11:651, 11:651n, 12:460, 12:510, 15:98
  • identified, 2:185n
  • letters from, 4:519–4:520, 11:650–11:651, 12:510
  • letters to, 2:184–2:185, 4:482–4:483, 11:590–11:592
  • letters to accounted for, 12:298n
  • recommends W. J. Harris, 4:91n, 4:172
  • and W. Ronald’s estate, 2:170n, 2:184, 3:155, 4:519–4:520
  • TJ forwards application to, 4:482–4:483, 4:519
  • TJ on, 4:172
  • as U.S. representative from Va., 7:214

Pleasants, James Brooke

  • identified, 10:563n
  • letter from, 10:561–10:563
  • on superiority of roads to canals, 10:561–10:563

Pleasants, James Jay

  • identified, 7:270n
  • as proxy for S. Pleasants, 7:270

Pleasants, Samuel

  • and books for TJ, 5:447, 5:455, 5:493, 6:122, 6:374, 6:412–6:413, 7:260, 7:270, 7:389–7:390n, 10:452
  • A Collection of all such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public and permanent nature, as are now in force, 3:146, 3:177, 5:245, 5:245n, 5:253, 5:278, 5:278n, 6:122, 7:260, 7:270, 7:270, 7:270, 10:452, 10:569, 10:572, 10:617, 14:412, 14:456, 15:211, 15:222n
  • and collection of Va. laws, 5:253, 5:278
  • identified, 5:253–5:254n
  • letters from, 5:278, 5:455, 5:493, 6:412–6:413, 7:270
  • letters from accounted for, 6:122n, 7:270n
  • letters to, 5:253–5:254, 5:447–5:448, 6:122, 6:374, 7:260
  • newspaper editor, 5:193
  • prints W.W. Hening, The Statutes at Large, 3:168, 3:169n
  • Richmond printer, 4:312, 6:32, 6:32n, 8:349, 8:399, 10:404n
  • Supplement, containing the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public and generally interesting nature, 12:502n

The Pleasing Preceptor; or Familiar Instructions in Natural History and Physics (G. U. A. Vieth), 12:534

Pleasonton, Stephen

  • State Dept. clerk, 7:499

The Pleasures of Contemplation (T. Branagan), 12:7, 12:474–12:475

The Pleasures of Hope (T. Campbell), 11:396

Les Plees del Coron (W. Stanford), 3:546

Pleiades (brig), 15:442, 15:442

pleurisy, 6:569, 14:44, 14:218–14:219

Pliny the Elder

  • J. Adams on, 11:269
  • Naturalis Historiæ, 3:546
  • and scientific classification, 7:209

Pliny the Younger

  • letters of, 14:258, 14:511
  • Lettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (trans. L. de Sacy), 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 13:394, 13:413, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 14:215
  • Panégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (trans. L. de Sacy), 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 13:394, 13:413, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 14:215

plotting table (surveying instrument), 14:278, 14:278–14:279n, 14:302

Πλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Plutarch; ed. A. Coray), 9:195, 9:197n, 9:455, 11:251, 11:296, 12:112, 14:510

Plowden, Francis

  • An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 1:580

plows See also drills (planting implements)

  • bar share, 5:326
  • Cary (Dagen; Connecticut), 4:219, 4:220n, 4:487
  • Guillaume, 1:20, 1:21n, 2:111, 2:176, 2:312, 2:332, 2:333, 5:273n
  • J. Hemmings makes, 13:581
  • mentioned, 2:112, 2:259, 6:344, 6:347, 8:132
  • D. Parker’s double, 1:538, 3:228, 3:245, 3:251
  • Peacock, 4:219, 4:219–4:220n, 4:221, 4:487, 4:526, 8:57–8:58, 8:185
  • C. W. Peale experiments with, 4:137, 4:181, 8:458, 9:599
  • Pease, 4:219, 4:220n
  • Pennsylvania moldboard, 1:111, 1:252
  • for Poplar Forest, 13:567
  • T. M. Randolph’s hillside, 9:539, 9:540n, 9:599, 11:162–11:163, 11:164n, 11:172, 11:245, 11:309–11:310, 11:311 (illus.), 11:347, 11:386, 11:482, 11:484n, 12:570, 13:356
  • repair of, 13:167, 13:169
  • sent to P. Mazzei, 3:375, 3:378
  • shovel, 15:86
  • J. Sinclair’s, 10:501, 10:547
  • superiority of American, 9:599, 9:599–9:600
  • TJ orders, 4:522, 7:346–7:347, 7:552n
  • TJ’s moldboard, 1:252, 1:252n, 2:111, 2:145, 2:176, 2:312–2:313, 2:326, 2:332–2:333, 2:334, 2:345, 3:563+, 4:137, 5:93, 5:94n, 7:346–7:347, 7:492, 8:367, 8:458, 8:534, 8:680, 10:427, 10:547–10:548, 11:382, 11:382n, 12:481, 12:481, 12:516, 12:516, 12:528, 12:571, 15:522–15:523, 15:551
  • used in agriculture, 8:10, 8:10, 8:185, 12:304, 12:304
  • J. Wood’s cast-iron, 10:427, 11:216, 11:462

Plumard, M.

  • and P. Derieux, 3:77
  • identified, 3:77n
  • letters from, 3:77

Plumard de Bellanger, Marie Françoise

  • assists P. Derieux, 3:77n, 3:395n, 6:337, 6:338n, 9:252, 9:253n, 10:202

Plumer, William

  • Address to the Clergy of New-England, on Their Opposition to the Rulers of the United States, 8:175, 8:229
  • and appointments, 10:556n
  • Governor’s Message, 14:391
  • gubernatorial addresses of, 10:205, 10:260, 10:556, 10:556n, 13:87, 13:87n, 13:101, 14:391
  • on Hartford Convention, 8:175
  • historical and biographical writings of, 2:347–2:348, 2:505–2:506, 8:174–8:175, 8:176n, 8:231, 13:24, 13:24n
  • identified, 2:348n
  • letters from, 2:347–2:349, 8:174–8:176, 10:205, 10:556, 13:87, 14:391
  • letters to, 2:505–2:506, 8:229–8:231, 10:260–10:261, 13:101
  • letter to, from S. Hale, 13:24
  • Message from His Excellency The Governor of New-Hampshire, To The Legislature, June 4, 1818, 13:87, 13:101
  • and N.H. politics, 13:25, 14:391n
  • requests works from TJ, 8:175
  • and uninhabited islands, 8:175, 8:229

plums

  • greengage, 8:548
  • harvesting of, 8:548
  • planted at Monticello, 3:455
  • trees, 9:542
  • worms feed on, 4:532

Plutarch

  • Lives, 7:662, 9:235n, 12:157n, 12:534, 13:26n
  • Lives (trans. J. & W. Langhorne), 1:580
  • mentioned, 6:542, 10:523
  • Πλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι (ed. A. Coray), 9:195, 9:197n, 9:455, 11:251, 11:296, 12:112, 14:510
  • quoted by Destutt de Tracy, 4:608, 4:611n
  • TJ quotes, 6:494, 6:498n, 6:591, 6:593n, 8:312, 9:95, 9:97n, 9:438, 9:438n

Pluymart, Joseph L.

  • robs bank, 15:278n

Plymley, Peter. See Smith, Sidney

pneumatics

  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:208, 13:214, 13:215n
  • study of, 7:638, 7:639, 7:663, 7:666, 7:686

Podensac (Podenac) (wine), 9:513

Podophyllum peltatum. See mayapple

Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (Voltaire), 7:560n

A Poem on the Social State and its Future Progress (J. Pitman), 4:306n, 4:395–4:396

“Poem on Thomas Jefferson” (C. Miner), 1:429–1:431

“Poem on Thomas Jefferson” (C. F. Welles), 1:431–1:433

“Poem on Thomas Jefferson’s Retirement” (P. Freneau), 1:226–1:229

Poems on Several Occasions (M. Prior), 9:432–9:433, 9:434n

Poems Written and Published during the American Revolutionary War (P. Freneau)

  • P. Freneau sends to TJ, 1:112, 1:113n
  • TJ’s subscription to, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334

Poesie (P. Metastasio), 7:455n

Poetæ Minores Græci (ed. R. Winterton), 10:234, 14:510

Poetical Chronology of Ancient and English History (R. Valpy), 12:313, 12:356

Poetical essays, on several subjects: containing various views of nature, interspersed with moral reflections (W. Barraclough), 15:558, 15:558–15:559n, 15:591

The Poetical Works (J. Milton), 8:581, 9:109

poetry See also books: of poetry

  • in America, 4:305, 6:297
  • dedicated to TJ, 6:464n
  • forwarded by TJ to American Philosophical Society, 4:147, 4:149n
  • memorization of, 4:131
  • on Monticello, 11:113–11:114
  • sent to TJ, 1:226–1:229, 1:322–1:327, 1:429–1:431, 1:431–1:433, 1:617–1:619, 2:400–2:401, 4:167, 4:286, 4:305, 4:306n, 4:392, 4:393n, 9:207, 9:343, 9:343n, 10:186–10:187, 11:113–11:114, 11:493–11:494, 12:650, 12:650–12:652, 15:368, 15:558, 15:558–15:559n, 15:591
  • study of, 14:257, 14:258
  • subscriptions to, sent to TJ, 1:225–1:226, 1:504n, 2:309, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
  • TJ on, 1:504, 1:509, 2:52, 2:336, 4:396, 4:466, 12:532
  • TJ orders, 4:201, 10:234, 12:583, 13:295
  • works of, bound for TJ, 1:36, 8:630
  • written at Monticello, 6:463

Poeyfarré, Juan, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

Poggiali, Gaetano

  • edits Delle Novelle di Franco Sacchetti Citadino Fiorentino, 13:39, 13:41n

Poindexter, Maj.

  • and Central College subscription, 11:651n

Poindexter, Dabney

  • bond of with TJ and J. A. Goodman, 8:157, 8:158n

Poindexter, George

  • appointment considered, 1:25
  • carries letter, 5:364–5:365, 6:26
  • identified, 6:27n
  • and seed for TJ, 6:26, 6:66

Poindexter, James

  • witnesses document, 8:158n

Poindexter, Samuel

  • land of, 5:487
  • witnesses document, 8:158n

Poindexter, Thomas, 3:254n

Poindexter, William Green

  • as Va. state senator, 9:361, 9:496, 12:382

Poinsett, Joel Roberts

  • European travels of, 2:467, 13:271
  • identified, 13:271–13:272n
  • introduced to TJ, 13:271
  • and South America, 13:271
  • visits Monticello, 13:271

Poinsinet de Sivry, Louis

  • translates Théatre d’Aristophane, avec les Fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (Aristophanes), 11:352, 11:397, 11:397, 11:456, 11:547, 11:592, 11:646, 12:153, 12:439

Poinsot, Peter

  • family of, 14:86, 14:388
  • identified, 11:475n
  • land grant to, 11:398–11:399, 11:472–11:473, 11:474–11:475n, 12:299, 12:318, 12:381, 12:414, 12:432, 12:456–12:457, 13:54, 13:273, 13:280, 13:427, 13:427n, 14:85–14:86, 14:389n
  • letter from accounted for, 14:86n
  • letters from, 11:472–11:475, 13:54–13:55, 13:280–13:282, 14:85–14:86, 14:388–14:389
  • letter to, 13:427
  • seeks consulship, 13:272–13:273, 13:280–13:281, 14:86, 14:388–14:389, 14:618
  • and TJ’s health, 14:86

Pointe Coupee, La.

  • Lafayette’s land at, 2:244, 2:418, 3:212, 3:445–3:446, 4:30, 4:649, 4:650, 5:69, 5:212–5:213, 5:213, 5:214, 7:541

Point of Honor (G. Cabell’s estate near Lynchburg), 5:28, 5:29n

Poirey, Joseph Léonard

  • identified, 4:527–4:528n
  • letters from accounted for, 4:527n, 9:719
  • letter to, 14:110–14:111
  • seeks compensation, 4:527n, 12:299–12:300, 12:300n, 12:355, 12:355n, 13:140, 13:141n, 13:414, 13:435, 13:593, 13:593n, 14:108, 14:110–14:111, 14:147, 14:147n, 14:198–14:199

Poitiaux, Michael Benoît

  • and package for TJ, 13:349

Poland

  • and Congress of Vienna, 15:52
  • government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16, 3:517n, 3:517n, 8:344, 9:346
  • history of, 1:35, 1:535, 4:56, 13:114, 13:115
  • M. A. Jullien on, 14:50
  • partitions of, 6:212, 6:212n, 7:298, 7:528, 8:575, 9:68, 9:90, 9:345, 9:347n, 9:432, 9:714–9:715, 9:716n, 12:230, 13:114, 13:115
  • scientific society in, 3:62, 7:56
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Polética, Pierre de

  • counselor of Russian legation, 3:189–3:190, 3:208, 14:614, 15:572n
  • identified, 14:342–14:343n
  • and T. Kosciuszko’s estate, 14:324, 14:341, 14:370, 14:425–14:426, 14:426–14:427, 14:444, 14:454, 14:454n, 14:482, 14:488, 15:210, 15:211n, 15:377, 15:377n
  • letter from, 14:341–14:343
  • letter to, 14:426–14:428
  • letter to, from J. Zajączek, 14:343–14:344
  • plans visit to Monticello, 14:342, 14:428, 14:444
  • as Russian minister plenipotentiary to U.S., 13:286n, 14:324, 14:341, 14:427–14:428, 14:614
  • A Sketch of the Internal Condition of the United States of America, 3:190n
  • visits Monticello, 3:532, 3:539, 3:563, 3:563n+, 3:567, 14:428, 14:488, 14:614

Polignac, Melchior de, 7:662

Political Arithmetic (T. Cooper), 6:583

Political Disquisitions (J. Burgh), 7:628

political economy

  • collegiate education in, 13:195, 13:214, 13:403, 15:40, 15:278
  • J. W. Eppes asks TJ for outline of, 6:312
  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 10:42–10:44
  • laws of, 14:145
  • as practiced in U.S., 8:489, 8:519, 9:336, 9:476n, 9:515, 14:452–14:453
  • study of, 7:5–7:6, 7:638, 7:640, 7:663, 7:667, 7:686, 10:329, 12:32, 12:124, 12:622, 15:278–15:279, 15:280n, 15:306
  • TJ on study of, 4:162, 9:517, 13:423, 13:588, 15:305–15:306
  • TJ’s note for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, 9:633–9:634, 10:65–10:66, 10:67, 13:421, 13:422n, 14:155
  • TJ’s title and prospectus for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, 9:630–9:633, 11:109–11:110, 11:110n, 11:619n, 14:115, 14:155
  • TJ’s letters on finance, 6:220–6:225, 6:490–6:497, 6:578–6:592, 7:133, 7:185, 7:230, 7:488, 7:510, 7:689, 7:714, 8:16, 8:16–8:17, 8:18, 8:27–8:29, 8:29–8:30, 8:31–8:32, 8:35, 8:44, 8:154, 8:164, 8:178, 8:206
  • and wartime finance, 7:653–7:655, 7:669–7:671, 7:689–7:691, 8:16–8:17, 8:31–8:32, 8:33n, 8:35, 8:36n, 8:42, 8:44, 8:52–8:53, 8:84, 8:108–8:109, 8:109–8:110, 8:163, 8:163–8:164, 8:164–8:165, 8:168, 8:177, 8:259–8:260, 8:265, 8:293
  • works on, 7:616, 7:617n, 7:628, 8:15–8:16, 8:33, 8:38, 8:40, 8:83, 8:105, 8:106, 8:164, 8:169n, 8:182–8:183, 8:253, 8:266, 8:293–8:294, 8:294n, 8:303, 8:308, 8:317, 8:564, 8:564n, 8:566, 8:630, 8:632n, 9:396, 9:497–9:498, 9:663–9:664, 10:61–10:62, 10:62n, 10:62–10:63, 10:66, 10:67, 10:120, 10:154, 10:154–10:155, 10:196, 10:196n, 10:239, 10:260, 10:290–10:291, 10:294, 10:327, 10:331n, 10:380, 10:452, 10:460, 10:479, 10:480, 10:550, 10:603, 10:618, 10:618, 10:625, 10:637–10:638, 10:649, 10:652, 10:652–10:653, 10:653n, 10:658, 10:659, 10:660n, 11:136, 11:136n, 11:356, 11:356n, 11:359–11:360, 11:573, 11:574n, 12:41, 12:41n, 12:153, 12:311, 12:430, 12:438, 12:480, 12:530, 12:622–12:623, 13:36–13:37, 13:322, 13:336, 13:336–13:337, 13:350–13:351, 13:408, 13:414, 13:439, 13:441, 13:442n, 13:476, 13:517–13:518, 13:520, 13:520, 13:529, 13:529n, 13:558, 13:564, 13:564n, 13:572, 13:572–13:573n, 13:573, 13:586, 13:586, 13:586n, 13:589, 13:590, 13:602–13:603, 13:603n, 13:615, 14:39, 14:60–14:61, 14:82–14:83, 14:93, 14:108, 14:114, 14:115, 14:116, 14:155, 14:190, 14:190, 14:215, 14:224

politics See also books: on politics; Federalist party; Republican party

  • books on government, 1:253–1:254, 7:628, 10:40, 10:44–10:45, 10:459–10:460, 10:550, 10:556–10:557, 10:557n, 10:564–10:565, 10:625, 12:398–12:399, 12:401n, 12:514
  • bound pamphlets on, 8:630, 12:89–12:90, 13:456, 13:456, 13:457n
  • collegiate education in government, 13:195, 13:214, 13:403
  • elections, 9:506, 9:507n, 9:563, 9:578, 10:66–10:67, 10:608, 10:611n, 11:412, 12:38–12:40, 12:450, 12:609, 12:615, 13:318, 13:319n, 13:450, 15:16
  • factionalism, 7:57–7:58, 7:200–7:201, 13:50, 14:147, 14:581, 14:581n, 14:603–14:604
  • federal system of government criticized, 9:150, 10:210–10:211, 15:16–15:18
  • D. Hume’s essay on political parties, 8:328, 8:328–8:329n
  • D. Fraser’s opinion on, 10:110–10:112, 10:185–10:186, 10:187–10:188n
  • Jacobinism, 8:150
  • Lafayette on European, 12:245–12:247
  • and legislative instructions, 4:113, 4:113n, 4:128–4:130
  • in Md., 4:151–4:152, 4:153n, 13:450–13:453
  • J. Melish’s opinion on, 8:152
  • in New England, 2:429–2:430, 2:533, 2:537–2:538, 3:28, 3:75, 3:553, 4:83, 4:612, 8:84, 8:135, 8:146–8:147, 8:286, 8:518, 8:614, 9:41
  • newspaper, 3:584, 3:595
  • in Pa., 3:584, 3:595, 12:47, 13:148–13:149, 13:150n
  • in R.I., 3:229–3:232, 3:257
  • in S.C., 4:342–4:343, 4:472
  • state of in U.S., 13:50, 13:544
  • study of, 7:480, 7:638, 7:640, 7:663, 7:667, 7:686, 8:341, 8:341, 8:342
  • terminology used in, 14:145, 14:146n
  • TJ avoids political debates, 10:314–10:315, 14:584, 15:18
  • TJ on his role in Va., 2:259, 3:507–3:508
  • TJ on Republican party unity, 3:508–3:509, 3:515, 3:563–3:564, 3:584, 3:586, 3:592–3:593, 3:595, 3:606
  • TJ on study of, 4:162
  • works on, bound for TJ, 1:36, 1:36, 1:36, 1:36, 1:36

Politics (Aristotle), 7:686

Les Politiqves d’Aristote … traduictes de Grec en François, par Loys le Roy dict Regivs (Aristotle), 3:546

The Politics of Connecticut (“Hamilton” [G. H. Richards]), 11:527, 11:527n

Pollard, R.

  • invited to dinner, 12:239
  • letter from, 12:239

Pollard, Richard

  • as agent for J. Maury
  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:333, 13:161, 13:168, 15:97, 15:281
  • and festivities for A. Jackson, 9:145, 9:147n
  • identified, 9:146n
  • letter from, 9:145–9:147
  • merchant, 12:50

Pollard, Robert

  • as character reference, 13:420n
  • as J. Maury’s agent, 15:261n, 15:334

Pollock, George, 2:446n, 3:486

Pollock, John

  • buys bark from TJ, 14:305, 14:431n, 15:431–15:432
  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:322, 11:330, 13:162, 15:98
  • debt to TJ, 14:431, 14:472, 14:487, 14:496, 14:497n, 14:498, 14:555, 14:586
  • identified, 15:432n
  • letter from, 15:431–15:432
  • letter to accounted for, 15:432n
  • payments to, 12:614n
  • pays TJ, 15:431
  • and University of Virginia, 15:97, 15:100

Pollock, Oliver

  • identified, 3:580n
  • letters from, 3:579–3:580, 4:267, 4:578–4:579
  • letters to, 3:605, 4:377–4:378, 4:625–4:626
  • and W. Robertson, 3:580–3:581
  • seeks reimbursement from Va., 3:579, 3:580, 3:605, 4:267, 4:377–4:378, 4:578–4:579, 4:625–4:626
  • To the Honourable the Legislature of Virginia. The Memorial of Oliver Pollock, of the State of Maryland, 4:267, 4:267n

Pollock, Thomas, 2:445n

Polly (M. Daingerfield’s slave), 3:112

Polly (TJ’s slave; b. 1810)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 8:62n

Polly (brig), 10:532, 10:532, 10:576

Polly, John

  • subject of anonymous letter to TJ, 3:225–3:226

polyanthus, 4:523

Πολυβίου Μεγαλοπολίτου Ἱστοριῶν τὰ σωζόμενα. Polybii Megalopolitani Historiarum Quidquid Superest (Polybius; ed. J. Schweighauser), 14:510

Polybius

  • The General History of Polybius (trans. Hampton), 1:580
  • Πολυβίου Μεγαλοπολίτου Ἱστοριῶν τὰ σωζόμενα. Polybii Megalopolitani Historiarum Quidquid Superest (ed. J. Schweighauser), 14:510
  • Ἱστοριῶν … Historiarum (trans. I. Casaubon; ed. J. Gronovius), 8:581, 9:109

Polydori Vergilii Historiae Anglicae (P. Vergil), 10:358

Polygala senega. See Seneca snakeroot

polygraph

  • and M. Boulton, 11:481
  • copies, 3:281–3:282, 12:363
  • description of, 1:46n, 2:xlii
  • and J. I. Hawkins, 6:560n, 8:545, 11:481, 14:591
  • illustration of, 2:380 (illus.)
  • B. H. Latrobe uses, 4:67, 5:207, 11:481, 11:571–11:572
  • at Monticello, 8:236, 11:535
  • paper for, 8:514, 8:672, 8:673n
  • and C. W. Peale, 1:307, 4:182, 5:207, 8:535, 11:481, 11:571, 14:591, 14:624
  • at Poplar Forest, 8:514, 14:591
  • repair of, 10:33
  • wood used for, 8:535, 8:545

Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets, And the Remains of the Antient Artists (J. Spence), 14:444

Pomeroy, Mr., 5:533

Pomey, François Antoine

  • The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods (ed. and trans. A. Tooke), 14:444

Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated (B. Langley), 2:82, 11:165

Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette, marquise de, 6:622

Pompei, Girolamo

  • as translator, 6:280n, 6:522, 6:541, 6:541, 6:551, 6:552n

Pompey the Great, 6:542, 6:542, 6:625, 7:24, 11:269, 12:21, 13:571

Pond, Capt. (ship captain), 8:452, 8:452n

Poniatowski, Joseph, 13:115

Pontanus, Jakob

  • edits Pub. Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (Ovid), 9:274, 9:275n, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639

Pontécoulant, Louis Gustave Doulcet, comte de, 8:558, 8:562n

Pontius Cominius

  • reputed Du Pont ancestor, 9:232, 9:235n

Poole, William, 10:4

Poor, Immanuel

  • as agent of Rivanna Company, 11:551, 11:554n, 11:556, 11:558n, 14:368, 14:372, 14:372, 14:373, 14:380, 14:393, 14:405, 14:423, 14:514, 14:540
  • and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 15:162
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Poor, Nathaniel P.

  • and sale of TJ’s retirement library, 9:218n

Pope, Alexander

  • J. Adams on, 10:589
  • and Cleanthes’s Hymn to Zeus, 6:521, 6:521
  • The Dunciad, 9:256, 9:257n
  • An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend. Epistle III, 9:432, 9:434n
  • Moral Essays, 4:391, 4:392n
  • quoted, 6:632, 6:633n, 8:114, 8:118n, 9:432, 9:434n, 10:7, 10:8n, 10:417, 11:268, 11:270n, 11:627, 11:628n, 12:161, 12:164n, 13:373, 13:373n
  • religious beliefs of, 6:521, 8:187
  • TJ purchases works of, 2:466
  • TJ quotes, 13:51, 13:51n
  • TJ recommends works of, 12:532, 12:534
  • translates The Iliad of Homer, 2:51, 8:298, 8:299n, 10:284, 10:286n, 10:417, 12:534
  • translates The Odyssey of Homer, 12:534
  • “The Universal Prayer,” 6:521
  • on women, 6:259, 6:259n

Pope, John

  • identified, 11:185n
  • introduces T. G. Watkins to TJ, 11:184–11:185
  • letter from, 11:184–11:185
  • letters to, 4:164
  • as U.S. senator, 4:113n, 4:129, 4:163, 4:164n

Pope, Joseph

  • inventor, 7:438–7:439, 7:439n

Pope, Nathaniel

  • family of, 13:24

Pope, William

  • and Central College subscription, 11:636
  • family of, 13:24
  • S. Hale visits, 13:24–13:25, 13:27
  • identified, 13:23n
  • introduces S. Hale, 13:22, 13:23n
  • letter from accounted for, 13:23n

poplar

  • Athenian, 3:353, 13:581
  • balsam, 3:353, 3:355, 9:533, 13:604
  • Lombardy, 1:192n, 3:353, 3:354, 11:218, 11:219, 13:581
  • lumber used at Poplar Forest, 8:612, 8:613, 13:387
  • tulip, 3:353
  • in Va., 11:624

Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate) See also Bear Creek plantation; Tomahawk plantation; Yancey, Joel (d. 1833)

  • acreage of, 4:387, 8:255
  • Agreement with Benjamin Johnson for Exchange of Poplar Forest Lands, 5:486–5:488
  • annual income of, 1:213, 5:400–5:402
  • asparagus grown at, 8:78
  • astronomical observations at, 3:361–3:367
  • architectural drawings of, 15:169, 15:170 (illus.), 15:171 (illus.)
  • attempted sale of part of, 2:77–2:78, 2:79–2:80, 3:64, 3:162, 3:163n, 3:186–3:188, 5:34–5:35
  • balustrade at, 9:148n
  • barns at, 6:488n, 8:174
  • beds and blankets for slaves at, 4:382–4:383, 5:33, 5:34, 5:460–5:463, 6:308–6:309, 7:71, 8:132, 8:158, 8:186, 8:186, 13:387, 15:230n, 15:247–15:248, 15:248n
  • builders at, 1:192n, 3:215, 3:412, 3:613, 7:xlvi, 7:380, 7:400, 8:10, 8:610, 8:613, 8:685, 8:697, 9:147, 9:148n, 9:304, 10:355, 14:541, 14:564, 14:566n, 14:584
  • butter for, 14:243
  • canal at, 14:589, 15:158, 15:162, 15:282, 15:306, 15:428, 15:474, 15:498, 15:608
  • carpentry at, 15:lii, 15:60, 15:61, 15:143, 15:154, 15:172, 15:174, 15:174, 15:206, 15:208, 15:209–15:210, 15:247, 15:257–15:258, 15:261, 15:264–15:265
  • cattle at, 7:71, 7:179, 8:72, 8:132, 8:173, 8:174, 8:520, 13:386
  • cellars at, 2:89, 13:545, 13:566
  • chimney backs for, 5:485, 5:485, 5:505, 6:109, 6:349, 6:350
  • chimney screens for, 5:485
  • clothing for slaves at, 6:308, 8:158, 8:185
  • clover grown at, 7:71, 7:179, 8:69, 8:70, 8:78, 8:520, 8:611, 8:611, 9:494, 9:505, 12:483
  • coopers at, 10:73–10:74, 10:74n, 10:355, 11:603
  • corn grown at, 2:96, 4:379, 4:380, 5:489, 6:486, 6:486, 7:71, 8:69, 8:70, 8:71, 8:72, 8:158, 8:542, 8:610, 8:611, 8:611, 8:697, 10:355, 10:389, 14:430, 14:596, 15:62, 15:134, 15:229, 15:282, 15:427, 15:428, 15:608–15:609
  • cotton used at, 8:97, 10:539, 13:109, 15:229
  • crops at, 14:53, 15:306, 15:457
  • and curtilage survey, 5:482, 5:489, 8:70
  • damaged by hail, 14:430–14:431, 14:443, 14:476, 14:494, 14:596, 14:649n
  • diet of slaves at, 8:72, 8:72, 8:610, 8:611
  • distilling at, 8:70
  • dogs at, 7:180
  • doors at, 13:545, 13:566, 15:143, 15:154, 15:172, 15:174, 15:206, 15:206, 15:209, 15:247, 15:257, 15:264–15:265
  • and F. W. Eppes, 6:71–6:73, 7:400, 7:482–7:483, 9:608, 12:590–12:591, 13:18
  • fertilizer used at, 8:520, 13:582
  • fish for, 2:423, 2:503, 5:33, 8:536, 10:157–10:158, 13:99, 14:321
  • flour from, 3:421, 3:518, 3:531, 3:561, 3:612, 4:10, 4:11, 4:86, 4:87, 4:165, 4:165–4:166n, 5:307, 5:340–5:341, 5:341n, 5:481–5:482, 5:488–5:489, 5:545, 5:576, 5:600, 5:656, 6:3, 6:487, 7:72, 7:94–7:95, 7:402, 8:70, 8:132, 8:186, 8:284, 8:390, 8:582, 9:133, 9:254, 9:313, 9:370, 9:493, 9:505, 9:562, 9:593–9:594, 9:594, 10:387–10:388, 10:388, 10:466, 10:539, 10:597, 10:617, 11:179, 11:207, 11:207, 11:236, 12:29, 12:349, 12:476, 12:538, 12:541, 12:556, 12:613, 12:632, 12:645, 13:141, 13:279, 13:323, 13:355–13:356, 13:356, 13:386, 13:459, 13:475, 13:492, 13:545, 13:566–13:567, 13:604, 14:7, 14:218, 14:220, 14:220, 14:244, 14:281, 14:326, 15:390, 15:391
  • furniture at, 1:44, 1:287, 1:319, 8:255, 8:256, 15:lii, 15:346 (illus.)
  • garden at, 4:381, 7:400, 14:430
  • glass for, 14:273, 14:274, 14:430, 14:430–14:431n, 14:439, 14:447, 14:476, 14:566, 14:648–14:649
  • grain for, 15:618
  • groceries for, 11:617, 15:172
  • gutters at, 15:4, 15:60, 15:209–15:210
  • gypsum used as fertilizer at, 8:520, 11:163, 12:349, 15:306
  • harpsichord at, 15:308–15:309, 15:378
  • harvest at, 10:73–10:74, 10:355, 11:475, 14:443
  • hemp grown at, 4:379, 4:380, 5:489, 6:486, 8:71, 10:32–10:33
  • hogs at, 2:96, 7:71, 8:71, 8:71, 8:72, 8:132, 8:158, 8:173, 8:174, 8:174n, 8:185, 8:611, 8:611, 9:562, 11:179, 13:386, 13:545, 13:566, 13:566, 14:636, 15:134, 15:208, 15:229, 15:230n, 15:282
  • horses at, 4:373, 4:381, 5:653, 5:653n, 7:124, 8:10, 8:70, 8:71, 8:71, 8:174, 8:174n, 8:520, 10:466, 14:114n, 14:564, 14:586
  • household manufacture at, 4:380, 4:515
  • invitations to visit, 6:451, 6:451, 6:648, 6:649, 8:68, 8:685, 11:619, 15:56, 15:107
  • latitude of, 3:361–3:367, 3:563+, 4:369, 9:245–9:246, 10:514–10:515
  • library at, 8:121, 8:140, 10:257, 10:257n, 11:628, 13:545, 13:566
  • livestock at, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:526, 6:366, 8:10, 8:174, 8:185, 10:597, 13:519
  • lumber for, 8:612, 8:613, 8:695–8:696, 9:505, 10:219n, 10:356, 11:207, 13:387, 14:541, 15:391, 15:392
  • main house at, 2:xliii, 2:380 (illus.), 6:71, 6:72, 6:129, 6:129, 6:162, 6:488n, 7:44, 7:482, 8:132, 8:185, 8:186, 8:256, 10:554, 10:555n, 10:570n, 11:626, 11:670, 12:198, 13:311n, 14:430–14:431, 14:542n, 14:595, 14:648–14:649
  • map of, 4:xlv, 4:370 (illus.)
  • medical care at, 7:387–7:388, 9:40, 11:497
  • merino sheep at, 5:600
  • mills at, 3:64, 3:162, 14:588–14:589, 15:61, 15:109–15:110, 15:110, 15:110, 15:111n, 15:112, 15:113, 15:113, 15:115, 15:115, 15:118, 15:158, 15:281, 15:608
  • mismanagement at, 2:149–2:150, 8:555
  • Napoleon rumored to intend visit to, 8:697
  • Notes on Benjamin Johnson’s Lands Adjacent to Poplar Forest, 5:475–5:476
  • Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 3:xlv–3:xlvi, 3:352–3:355, 3:358 (illus.)
  • Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest, 5:481–5:482
  • oat-grass grown at, 8:71, 8:520
  • oats grown at, 4:379, 8:69, 8:70, 8:542, 8:611, 14:430, 15:608–15:609
  • orchard at, 8:70
  • paint for, 11:197–11:198
  • peaches at, 8:697, 15:281, 15:428
  • peas grown at, 4:379, 4:379, 6:486, 6:486, 7:71, 8:69, 8:71, 8:516, 8:611, 8:611, 13:545, 13:566, 13:581, 13:604
  • plant nursery at, 8:132, 9:562–9:563, 9:563, 13:581
  • plastering at, 2:96, 2:149–2:150, 5:311, 5:338n, 5:381–5:382, 5:403, 5:457–5:458, 7:297, 7:380, 14:595, 15:22n
  • plowing at, 11:163, 11:164n
  • portion of offered as security, 4:584, 4:678, 15:30–15:31, 15:34–15:35, 15:36–15:37, 15:46–15:47, 15:48
  • provisions for carpenters at, 8:613
  • pumpkins grown at, 4:379, 8:70, 8:71, 8:611
  • M. J. Randolph visits, 10:388, 10:397, 10:420n, 10:420n, 10:492n
  • T. M. Randolph visits, 2:97
  • roads, 7:179, 7:430, 8:70, 8:132, 8:157–8:158, 12:203, 12:210–12:211, 12:212–12:213, 12:214, 12:215, 12:216, 12:217–12:219, 12:223
  • roof at, 15:4, 15:60, 15:143, 15:209–15:210, 15:247
  • round table for, 4:xlv, 4:307, 4:370 (illus.)
  • route from Natural Bridge to, 8:696, 8:697, 8:697n, 9:35, 9:450
  • rye grown at, 8:70
  • sheep at, 6:6, 8:71, 8:74, 8:185, 8:520, 13:386
  • skylight at, 14:431n, 14:542n, 14:648–14:649
  • slave dwellings at, 13:387
  • slaves at, 7:71, 7:124, 7:387, 8:70, 8:70–8:71, 8:173–8:174, 8:174, 8:185–8:186, 8:255, 8:697, 9:40, 9:215–9:216, 9:238, 9:494, 9:505, 9:562, 10:73–10:74, 10:74n, 10:355, 11:178, 11:179, 11:475, 11:475n, 11:546, 11:547, 11:573, 11:626, 11:626n, 12:198, 12:227, 12:228, 12:324, 12:349, 12:483, 12:538, 13:liii, 13:393, 13:567, 13:582, 14:114n, 14:218, 14:431n, 14:443, 14:476–14:477, 14:494, 14:541, 14:565–14:567, 14:574, 14:596, 14:632–14:633, 15:60, 15:138, 15:162, 15:282, 15:306, 15:608
  • slaves at listed, 4:384–4:386, 8:60–8:62, 8:63n, 8:72, 8:72n, 8:255
  • spinning at, 6:106, 6:107, 6:203, 9:713, 12:538, 15:229, 15:247, 15:257, 15:282, 15:428
  • springhouse at, 10:355
  • stables at, 8:132
  • stonework at, 7:297, 7:331, 7:380, 7:380n, 14:575, 14:617
  • sundial at, 4:96–4:98
  • superintendent of, 8:496, 8:501, 8:515, 8:515, 8:542, 8:555, 8:555n, 8:610–8:611, 8:613, 9:493–9:494, 9:505, 9:562–9:563, 11:178–11:179, 13:91, 13:518
  • surveys of, 4:279–4:280, 6:488, 6:488–6:489n, 12:209–12:211, 12:212–12:213, 12:214, 12:214–12:215, 12:216, 12:217, 12:217 (illus.), 12:217–12:218, 12:218 (illus.), 12:218, 12:219, 12:219 (illus.), 12:219n, 12:219–12:221, 12:221, 12:222, 12:222–12:223, 12:224 (illus.), 12:224–12:226, 12:228, 12:261, 12:337, 12:349, 13:12
  • taxes on, 8:10, 8:47, 8:63, 8:73, 8:73n, 8:73, 8:255–8:256, 8:256, 9:50, 9:51–9:52n, 9:562, 9:568, 9:594, 10:356, 10:597, 10:597n, 12:29, 13:356, 13:356n, 14:113, 14:114n, 14:220, 15:117, 15:130, 15:134, 15:138, 15:146–15:147, 15:154
  • threshing machine at, 14:588, 15:61, 15:110, 15:111n, 15:112, 15:114, 15:115, 15:117, 15:130
  • timothy grown at, 4:379, 6:486, 8:70, 8:611
  • TJ describes, 5:348–5:349, 7:482–7:483, 8:203–8:204, 10:32
  • TJ plans visits to, 3:30, 3:46, 3:67, 3:75, 3:86, 3:86, 3:154, 3:327–3:328, 3:328, 3:332, 3:334, 3:339, 3:421, 3:644, 4:11, 4:132, 5:9, 5:17, 5:336, 5:401–5:402, 5:417, 5:446, 5:448, 6:43, 6:66, 6:76, 6:84, 6:84, 6:85, 6:86–6:87, 6:88, 6:125, 6:132, 6:156, 6:203, 6:204, 6:214, 6:225, 6:285, 6:331, 6:366, 6:372+, 6:397, 6:398, 6:412, 6:429, 6:430, 6:442, 6:442, 6:445, 6:523, 6:594, 6:595, 6:595–6:596, 6:604, 6:605, 6:621, 6:635, 7:71, 7:135–7:136, 7:143, 7:297, 7:300, 7:301, 7:301, 7:305, 7:316, 7:321, 7:322, 7:355, 7:357–7:358, 7:358n, 7:360, 7:365, 7:369, 7:370, 7:647, 7:710, 8:10, 8:10–8:11, 8:22, 8:47, 8:54, 8:56, 8:185, 8:354, 8:359, 8:383, 8:387, 8:427, 8:433, 8:481, 8:481, 8:482, 8:490, 8:519, 8:610, 8:656, 8:660, 8:674, 8:676, 8:677, 8:697, 9:106, 9:524, 9:554, 9:562, 9:568, 9:601, 9:608, 9:639, 9:639, 9:641, 9:648, 9:663, 9:665, 10:35, 10:71, 10:73, 10:74, 10:125, 10:168, 10:314, 10:324, 10:326, 10:331, 10:335, 10:337, 10:351, 10:366, 10:388, 10:390, 10:393, 10:397, 10:420, 10:437, 10:442, 10:451, 10:452, 10:462, 10:465, 10:467, 10:470, 10:472, 10:477, 10:529, 10:567, 11:179, 11:207, 11:237, 11:262, 11:361–11:362, 11:427, 11:428, 11:439, 11:452, 11:458, 11:459, 11:460, 11:465, 11:485, 11:500, 11:549, 11:585, 11:586, 11:587, 11:593, 11:593–11:594, 12:5, 12:41, 12:56, 12:105, 12:113–12:114, 12:148, 12:168, 12:192, 12:261, 12:338, 12:435, 12:529–12:530, 12:530, 12:538, 12:541, 12:542, 12:547, 12:556, 12:563, 12:586, 12:610, 12:610, 12:612, 12:612, 12:613, 12:625, 13:36–13:37, 13:74, 13:92, 13:110, 13:117, 13:120, 13:166, 13:168, 13:279, 13:383, 13:581, 14:114, 14:184, 14:190, 14:210, 14:210, 14:211–14:212, 14:213, 14:214, 14:220, 14:221, 14:222, 14:279, 14:385, 14:390, 14:400, 14:442n, 14:443, 14:451, 14:468, 14:473, 14:476–14:477, 14:479, 14:482–14:483, 14:484, 14:487, 14:488, 14:489–14:490, 14:490, 14:492, 14:494, 14:495–14:496, 14:496, 14:501, 14:508, 14:512, 14:513–14:514, 14:514, 14:516, 14:518, 14:520, 14:525, 14:526, 14:528, 14:529, 14:532, 14:532, 14:546, 14:633n, 15:56, 15:71, 15:428, 15:474, 15:498, 15:525, 15:537, 15:541, 15:541, 15:552, 15:554, 15:562, 15:567n, 15:591, 15:607, 15:608, 15:609
  • TJ returns from, 2:33, 2:39, 2:50, 5:91, 5:94, 6:111, 6:116, 6:135, 6:155, 6:451, 6:486, 6:486n, 6:487, 6:487–6:488n, 7:100, 7:440, 7:448, 7:453, 8:55n, 8:74, 8:519, 8:569, 9:275, 9:276, 9:302, 9:702, 9:711, 10:59, 10:218, 10:256, 10:393, 10:420, 10:434, 10:436, 10:459, 10:462, 10:465, 10:516, 10:516, 10:538, 10:539, 10:540, 10:545, 10:546, 10:547, 10:549, 10:560, 10:569, 10:570, 10:576, 10:576, 10:577, 10:582, 10:584, 10:590, 10:591, 10:592, 10:594, 10:595, 10:598, 10:602, 10:606, 10:613, 11:290, 11:534, 12:29, 12:40, 12:100, 12:197, 12:273, 12:274, 12:297, 12:325, 12:332, 12:344, 12:657, 13:143, 14:245, 14:265, 14:266, 14:270, 14:272, 14:633, 14:635, 14:635, 14:642, 15:43, 15:48n, 15:53, 15:57, 15:59, 15:242n
  • and TJ’s debts, 2:260, 10:73
  • TJ sends for steers from, 4:526
  • TJ’s grandchildren visit, 10:183, 10:184n, 10:397, 10:420n, 10:491, 10:492n, 10:516–10:517, 10:517, 10:537, 10:546, 10:554, 10:555n, 10:570, 10:570n, 10:570–10:571, 11:626, 11:626–11:627, 11:628, 11:641, 11:669–11:670, 12:634–12:635, 13:175, 14:430–14:431n, 14:532n, 14:542, 14:549–14:550, 14:565–14:567, 14:597n, 14:631–14:633, 15:lii, 15:23n, 15:48n, 15:138n, 15:567n
  • TJ’s instructions for management of, 4:379–4:382, 8:69–8:72, 9:562–9:563
  • TJ visits, 1:519, 2:xliii, 2:50, 2:256, 2:314, 2:329, 2:408, 2:462, 2:464, 3:64, 3:102, 3:286, 3:316, 3:347, 3:351n, 3:397n, 4:5, 4:6n, 4:82, 4:86, 4:87, 4:90, 4:93, 4:94, 4:95, 4:98, 4:146, 4:183, 4:312, 4:346n, 4:429, 4:459, 4:460, 4:463, 4:584, 4:620, 4:650, 4:675, 4:676, 4:677, 4:679, 6:106–6:107, 6:225, 6:438, 6:483n, 6:497, 6:595n, 6:604n, 6:646, 7:178, 7:248, 7:382, 7:409–7:410, 7:410–7:411, 7:412, 7:433, 7:434, 7:450, 7:457, 7:518, 8:531, 8:555, 8:556, 8:565, 8:696, 8:697, 9:18, 9:33n, 9:37, 9:41, 9:49, 9:50, 9:59, 9:90, 9:129, 9:130, 9:130–9:131, 9:147, 9:153, 9:238, 9:250, 9:254, 9:276, 9:304, 9:308, 9:343, 9:345, 9:357, 10:32, 10:183, 10:314, 10:388, 10:389n, 10:393, 10:406, 10:491, 10:492n, 10:516, 10:516, 10:517, 10:518, 10:519, 10:521, 10:521, 10:539, 10:546, 10:548, 10:554, 10:555n, 10:570, 10:570–10:571, 10:576, 10:577, 10:582, 10:584, 10:592, 10:594, 10:595, 10:597, 10:598, 10:606, 10:610, 10:613, 10:665, 11:296, 11:453, 11:453n, 11:524, 11:571, 11:572n, 11:596, 11:610, 11:610, 11:610, 11:619, 11:626–11:627, 11:628, 11:641, 11:642, 11:646, 11:647, 11:648, 11:649, 11:659, 11:669–11:670, 12:8, 12:47, 12:198, 12:199, 12:203, 12:205, 12:209–12:210, 12:228, 12:239, 12:239–12:240, 12:240–12:241, 12:256, 12:261, 12:263, 12:273, 12:634–12:635, 13:14, 13:18, 13:93, 13:94, 13:94n, 13:244n, 13:311n, 13:311n, 14:224, 14:279, 14:280, 14:288, 14:521, 14:532n, 14:542, 14:549–14:550, 14:564, 14:565–14:566, 14:570–14:571, 14:573, 14:576, 14:577, 14:585, 14:591, 14:594, 14:595, 14:596–14:597, 14:613, 14:617, 14:618, 14:621, 14:626n, 14:627, 14:629, 14:631–14:633, 14:634, 14:635–14:636, 14:644, 14:645, 14:645, 14:646, 14:649n, 15:7, 15:9, 15:22, 15:59, 15:210
  • tobacco grown at, 1:157n, 2:27–2:28, 2:96, 2:217, 2:230, 3:375, 3:392, 3:420–3:421, 4:307, 4:373–4:374, 4:379, 4:381, 4:422, 4:461, 4:515, 4:516, 4:528, 4:555, 5:91, 5:92n, 5:132, 5:531, 5:545, 5:599, 6:203, 6:486, 6:544, 7:71, 7:124, 7:179, 7:263, 8:70, 8:70, 8:97, 8:132, 8:157, 8:158, 8:186, 8:203, 8:284, 8:284, 8:417, 8:542, 8:611, 8:697, 9:51, 9:133, 9:254, 9:313, 9:370, 9:493, 9:505, 9:505, 9:541, 9:562, 9:568, 9:568–9:569, 9:569, 9:593–9:594, 9:594, 9:604, 10:355, 10:539, 11:179, 11:207, 11:290, 11:380, 11:593, 12:29, 12:349, 12:476, 12:483, 12:541, 12:645, 12:657, 13:91, 13:91, 13:141, 13:386, 13:545, 13:567, 13:567, 13:567, 14:7, 14:113–14:114, 14:218, 14:220, 14:220, 14:244, 14:275, 14:281, 14:326, 14:353, 14:430, 14:473, 14:477, 14:494, 14:496, 14:498, 15:62, 15:118, 15:130, 15:130, 15:260–15:261, 15:261, 15:282, 15:334, 15:390, 15:391, 15:427, 15:474, 15:498, 15:498, 15:537, 15:552, 15:590, 15:608, 15:608–15:609, 15:609–15:610, 15:613, 15:618
  • trees at, 8:70, 8:613, 9:183n
  • visitors to, 5:26+, 6:94, 6:106, 8:132, 8:212, 8:512, 8:695, 9:147, 9:147, 9:148, 10:183, 10:184n, 10:324, 10:516, 10:554, 10:555n, 10:570, 11:596, 11:620, 11:624n, 11:625, 11:627, 12:198, 12:241, 13:132, 14:62n, 14:553, 15:14, 15:14n, 15:23n, 15:473–15:474, 15:498, 15:500, 15:537
  • weather at, 7:400, 9:51, 10:355, 11:207, 14:430, 14:550n, 14:596, 14:633n, 14:636, 15:311, 15:608–15:609
  • wheat grown at, 2:96, 2:217, 2:495, 3:392, 3:394, 3:420–3:421, 3:538, 4:86, 4:87, 4:94, 4:95, 4:165, 4:165–4:166n, 4:170–4:171, 4:184, 4:307–4:308, 4:341–4:342, 4:373, 4:379, 5:340–5:341, 5:470–5:471, 5:475, 5:481–5:482, 6:331, 6:486, 6:544, 7:94–7:95, 7:400, 7:461, 8:10, 8:69, 8:70, 8:70, 8:71, 8:132, 8:158, 8:173, 8:174n, 8:186, 8:186n, 8:203, 8:284, 8:417, 8:542, 8:610, 8:611, 8:697, 9:51, 9:313, 9:505, 9:594, 9:604, 10:355, 10:466, 11:207, 12:483, 12:556, 12:613, 13:566, 13:567, 14:430, 14:494, 14:596, 15:118, 15:134, 15:158, 15:229, 15:282, 15:427, 15:474, 15:608–15:609
  • windows at, 15:143, 15:172, 15:174, 15:206, 15:208, 15:209, 15:229, 15:247, 15:247, 15:257, 15:264–15:265
  • wing of offices at, 6:71, 7:xlvi, 7:380n, 7:380n, 7:434 (illus.), 7:482, 7:483n, 8:10
  • Overseers at (See also Darnil (Darnell; Darniel; Darnold), Nimrod; Goodman, Jeremiah Augustus; Griffin, Burgess; Miller, Robert (overseer); Miller, William J. (overseer); Morris, Zachariah)
    • accommodations for, 8:204
    • accounting practices of, 4:94
    • competency of, 8:610–8:611, 9:254, 10:168, 12:556, 13:581–13:582
    • crop share of, 2:27, 2:28, 2:230, 2:230n, 4:342
    • hired, 4:132, 4:133n, 4:307, 8:493n, 9:34, 9:34n
    • list slave beds and blankets, 4:382–4:383
    • make contracts for sale of wheat, 4:165, 4:170–4:171, 4:184, 4:212, 5:482n
    • plantation management by, 2:149–2:150, 4:386n, 5:488–5:490, 5:663, 9:594
    • and prizing of tobacco, 3:269, 3:457, 8:70
    • report plantation activities, 1:180, 2:96–2:97
    • 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, 5:531, 5:545, 5:600, 5:638, 6:4, 6:5, 6:24–6:25, 6:25–6:26
    • send tobacco to Richmond, 1:157n, 7:179, 8:132, 10:617
    • TJ entrusts documents to, 2:328, 2:330, 4:308, 10:73
    • TJ seeks replacement for, 8:203–8:204, 8:432–8:433, 8:493, 8:496, 8:542, 8:555, 8:611, 9:604, 9:604n
    • TJ’s instructions to, 2:232, 2:233n, 4:379–4:382, 4:515–4:516, 4:526–4:527, 5:31, 5:600, 6:486–6:487, 7:71, 7:124, 7:179–7:180, 7:263, 8:10–8:11, 8:78, 8:132, 8:157–8:158, 8:184–8:186, 8:610–8:611, 10:73–10:74, 13:545
    • wages for, 8:204, 9:99, 9:99n, 9:216n, 10:73, 12:324

poppy, oil, 2:270, 2:271

Porée, Jean Baptiste

  • conveys book to TJ, 1:674, 2:353, 2:405
  • identified, 2:354n
  • letters from, 2:353–2:354
  • letters to, 2:405

pork

  • at Belmont estate, 3:170–3:171
  • for Central College, 15:93, 15:95
  • consumed, 10:187, 11:493
  • for R. Durrett, 5:418
  • as pay, 1:419, 1:421, 4:143, 6:304, 12:242, 12:324, 12:357
  • price of, 8:307
  • as rent, 12:302
  • for slaves, 8:184–8:185, 12:324, 13:566
  • supply of, 1:451, 5:545–5:546, 12:302, 12:324, 15:207, 15:207, 15:229, 15:230n
  • toll on, 5:379
  • transported to and from Poplar Forest, 10:597, 12:324, 13:519, 13:545, 13:566, 13:604, 15:248, 15:281, 15:282, 15:311, 15:311, 15:311
  • at Tufton, 2:112, 2:371

Porson, Richard

  • classical scholar, 9:86

port (wine), 8:232, 9:263, 9:313, 9:324, 9:325, 9:366, 9:402, 9:474, 9:602, 9:659, 10:247, 10:313, 10:313n, 10:335, 10:351, 11:246, 14:327, 14:328, 14:338, 14:338

Portalis, Jean Etienne Marie

  • Projet de Code Civil, 3:132, 3:135n

Port Dover, Upper Canada

  • burned by U.S. forces, 8:217

Porter, David

  • circular sent to, 11:595
  • friendship with J. S. Skinner, 15:360
  • identified, 1:444n
  • Journal of a Cruize made to the Pacific Ocean, 8:672
  • letters from, 1:443–1:445
  • naval service of, 7:502n, 7:642–7:643, 10:94n
  • C. W. Peale paints, 13:540
  • Plan for a Voyage of Discovery to the Northwest Coast of America, 1:445–1:449

Porter, Jane

  • The Scottish Chiefs, 7:65, 8:626, 8:626n

Porter, John

  • claim for compensation, 1:583–1:584, 1:625, 1:644, 8:494–8:495
  • identified, 1:644–1:645n
  • health of, 8:494
  • letter from, 8:494–8:495
  • letters from accounted for, 1:584n
  • letters to, 1:644–1:645

Porter, Letitia Breckinridge

  • friendship with TJ, 13:543, 13:599

Porter, Peter

  • and Central College subscription, 11:330, 13:161

Porter, Peter Buell

  • identified, 3:333n
  • letters from, 3:333
  • letters from accounted for, 3:460n
  • letters to, 3:437
  • and Niagara Campaign, 5:536–5:540
  • as quartermaster general, 5:410–5:411, 7:656
  • and Report of the Commissioners, 3:460n
  • sends gypsum, 3:333, 3:437
  • and War of 1812, 7:405, 10:186, 10:187, 11:494, 15:121

Porter, Ralph (ship captain), 10:274–10:275, 10:411, 10:416

Porter, Timothy Dwight

  • and American Geological Society, 15:460–15:461, 15:489
  • identified, 15:461n
  • letter from, 15:460–15:461
  • letter to, 15:489

Porterfield, Robert

  • commands troops, 7:632

Porteus, Beilby

  • A Summary of the Principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation, 3:590, 3:590n, 4:674, 4:674n, 5:98n, 6:15, 6:61

Port Folio

  • bound for TJ, 13:368, 13:449, 14:165, 14:166n, 14:200
  • C. Caldwell as editor of, 7:317–7:318, 7:319n, 7:328–7:329, 7:410–7:412
  • T. Cooper writes for, 7:560, 7:657, 8:12, 8:447, 8:449n
  • H. Hall as publisher of, 12:552
  • publishes account of M. Lewis’s death, 7:63, 7:64n
  • reviews J. Melish’s work, 5:628–5:629, 5:630n
  • and Storia della Guerra dell’ Independenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (C. G. G. Botta), 14:49, 14:120, 14:120–14:121n
  • TJ asked to write for, 7:317–7:318
  • TJ subscribes to, 7:410–7:411, 7:561, 10:19, 10:20n, 11:541, 11:599–11:600, 12:552

portmanteaus, 14:245n

Portobello (TJ’s property)

  • TJ’s patent of, 4:386

Port Royal, Va.

  • proposed bank for, 10:660n

Portsmouth, Va.

  • unusual atmospheric phenomenon reported from, 6:340–6:341
  • Washington Tavern, 6:341

Port Talbot, Upper Canada

  • U.S. attack on, 8:217

Portugal

  • and Brazil, 8:503, 8:508n, 10:328, 11:355, 11:384n
  • and colonization of slaves, 3:319
  • earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n
  • education in, 15:74
  • French designs on, 2:274
  • health in, 4:361
  • merino sheep arrive from, 4:40
  • military operations in, 2:166, 2:233, 2:667
  • minister plenipotentiary from, 10:124–10:125, 10:125n, 10:155–10:156, 14:615n
  • politics in, 12:245
  • relations with Great Britain, 2:275, 2:277n, 4:337, 4:587
  • relations with Spain, 9:516
  • TJ orders wine from, 8:571, 8:571, 8:662, 9:77, 9:98, 9:133, 9:313, 9:324, 9:325n
  • U.S. consulship in, 4:185, 4:212, 4:218–4:219
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:505

Portuguese language

  • study of, 13:238

Post, Jotham

  • opposes purchase of TJ’s library, 8:26n

Post, Stephen, 10:152

Post, Willis

  • boat pilot, 9:558

Post, Wright, 12:573n

posterity

  • TJ on, 5:166, 6:233, 6:234

Posthumous Works (Frederick II, king of Prussia; trans. T. Holcroft), 9:709n

Postlethwayt, Malachy

  • and economic theory, 6:593
  • The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, 12:156, 12:157n

postmaster general, U.S. See Granger, Gideon: as postmaster general; Meigs, Return Jonathan (ca. 1765–1825): as postmaster general; Pickering, Timothy: as postmaster general

Post Office, U.S.

  • accusations against employees of, 14:182–14:183n
  • appointment of postmasters, 7:239–7:240, 9:653–9:654, 15:183, 15:206–15:207
  • clerks at, 14:182, 14:182–14:183n
  • contracts with, 1:139–1:140, 1:350–1:352
  • 1810 act, 3:147–3:148
  • funds of, 1:407, 1:421
  • List of Post Offices in the United States, including all established before December 31st, 1807, 1:514, 1:514n
  • and mail service, 8:172, 8:415, 9:50, 9:317, 9:324, 10:351, 10:390, 12:83, 12:199, 12:239–12:240, 14:478, 14:501, 14:564, 14:575, 14:575–14:576, 14:602, 14:644, 15:369
  • and post roads, 1:350–1:352, 7:347, 9:474–9:476, 9:507–9:508, 9:510n, 13:81
  • 1799 Act, 3:147–3:148
  • and H. G. Spafford’s Gazeteer, 6:449–6:450
  • Table of Post Offices in the United States, 4:10, 4:112–4:113
  • TJ requests local schedule, 1:506, 1:514
  • and Va. post offices, 2:169, 2:178–2:179, 2:269, 2:333, 2:535, 3:102–3:104, 3:147–3:148, 6:644, 8:63, 8:376, 8:420, 8:420n, 8:425, 8:426n, 8:432, 8:566, 10:351, 10:390, 12:193, 13:128, 13:146

potash, 4:8

potatoes, 1:157, 1:196–1:197, 2:38, 3:348, 4:141, 4:180, 4:531, 7:308, 9:229–9:230, 11:221, 11:272, 11:272, 11:272–11:273, 11:309, 12:255, 12:302, 12:354, 13:612, 14:246, 15:93, 15:360, 15:361n

potato oats, 5:657, 5:658n

Potawatomi Indians, 8:151

Pothier, Robert Joseph

  • Anciennes loix des François, 3:130–3:131, 3:175n, 3:546
  • Traité du droit de domaine de propriété, 3:174n

Potocki, Jean

  • identified, 3:44n
  • letters from, 3:43–3:44
  • letters to, 3:618
  • letters to forwarded, 4:99
  • Principes de Chronologie, pour les Temps Antérieurs aux Olympiades, 2:467, 2:468n, 3:43, 3:44n, 3:115, 3:434, 3:456, 3:618, 8:235–8:236
  • writings of, 2:467

Potomac River

  • and British troop movements, 7:642, 7:643
  • causeway on, 14:580
  • establishment of steamboats on, 6:62
  • ice on, 13:520
  • locks on, 11:563, 11:565n
  • lottery to improve navigation on, 4:288
  • mentioned, 3:238–3:239, 5:215
  • and navigation, 11:84n, 12:521, 14:402, 14:403, 14:412
  • surveying of, 9:686, 9:686–9:687, 9:689, 12:52
  • variant spellings of, 8:179

Potoski, Count. See Potocki, Jean

pots

  • coffee, 4:231–4:232n, 8:393, 8:485, 8:486
  • iron, 15:86
  • kettles, 8:113+, 12:340, 12:526
  • for slaves, 8:70–8:71, 8:186

Potter, John (Archbishop of Canterbury)

  • Archæologia Græca: or the Antiquities of Greece, 10:358, 14:258, 15:504, 15:594
  • as classical scholar, 7:662, 9:84

Potter, John (mathematician)

  • A System of Practical Mathematics, 7:250, 7:253n, 9:107, 9:229n, 10:357, 10:386

Potter, Nathaniel

  • identified, 13:580–13:581n
  • letter to, 13:580–13:581
  • A Memoir on Contagion, more especially as it respects the Yellow Fever, 13:558, 13:558n, 13:580, 13:581n, 13:617

Potter, Robert

  • translates The Tragedies of Æschylus (Aeschylus), 15:490, 15:491n, 15:503, 15:594
  • translates The Tragedies of Euripides (Euripides), 15:490, 15:503–15:504, 15:594, 15:607
  • translates The Tragedies of Sophocles (Sophocles), 15:159, 15:159n, 15:504, 15:594

Potter, Tom, 3:474

Potter, Walter See also Fitzwhylsonn & Potter (Richmond firm)

  • and Edinburgh Review, 3:599
  • identified, 3:599n

Potts, Isaac, 2:223

Potts, Richard (17531808)

  • family of, 13:450–13:451, 13:454n

Potts, Richard (17861865)

  • education of, 13:454n

Potts, Robert Beckles

  • education of, 13:454n

Potts, William (17421817)

  • family of, 13:450–13:451, 13:454n

Potts, William (ca. 17861818)

  • education of, 13:454n

Pougens, Félix Joseph Marie Alexandre

  • Dictionnaire de Médecine-Pratique et de Chirurgie, 13:562

Pouncey’s tract (TJ’s property), 1:488n, 4:387

P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera (Ovid; ed. P. Burnam), 9:646n

Powell, Mr.

  • and Va. Senate, 12:286

Powell, Alfred H.

  • and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:592
  • as Va. state senator, 10:295n, 10:660n

Powell, Cuthbert

  • as Va. state senator, 10:659, 10:660n

Powell, Samuel

  • U.S. representative from Tenn., 9:186n

Power, J., 2:84

Power, Thomas

  • correspondence with J. Wilkinson, 4:398, 4:398n

The Power of Religion on the Mind, in Retirement, Affliction, and At the Approach of Death (L. Murray), 8:388, 8:672

Powers, Larkin

  • as carpenter for TJ, 12:242, 13:120, 13:120, 13:169, 13:169n, 13:476n
  • TJ pays, 13:142n

Powhatan Court House, Va., 3:103, 3:104n, 3:148, 3:148, 3:164

Poydras, Julien Lalande

  • Adresse au Conseil Legislatif du Territoire d’Orleans, 2:682, 4:466
  • affidavit on batture, 3:483, 3:486–3:487n, 3:497
  • and batture controversy, 2:427, 2:435, 2:436n, 2:463, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 2:682, 3:25, 3:26n, 3:204, 3:483, 3:487n, 5:85n
  • and J. Dawson’s application, 4:648
  • Orleans territorial delegate, 1:179, 1:180n
  • Speech of Julien Poydras, Esq. the Delegate of the Territory of Orleans, in support of the right of the public to the Batture, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:483
  • and TJ’s Proceedings, 5:392

Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo Andrea

  • Russian minister at Paris, 13:415, 13:416n, 14:343

pozzolana (volcanic ash), 8:166, 8:402, 8:403n

Practical Piety (H. More), 5:98n, 7:586, 7:590n

A Practical Treatise of Husbandry (H. L. Duhamel du Monceau), 2:82, 6:380, 11:164

A Practical Treatise of The Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates (E. B. Sugden), 6:477

A Practical Treatise on Dyeing, and Callicoe Printing (T. Cooper), 2:377n

The Practice of the Court of Chancery (J. Harrison), 8:388, 8:672, 11:97n, 11:97n

Pradelle (Pradel), Alexandrina de la Chaise, 2:523, 3:489

Pradelle (Pradel), Jean, 2:523, 2:524, 2:525, 3:489

Pradt, Dominique Dufour, baron de

  • J. Q. Adams on, 12:89–12:90, 12:154
  • Histoire de l’Ambassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812, 12:90, 12:92n
  • Mémoires Historiques sur la Révolution d’Espagne, 12:90, 12:92n
  • Récit Historique sur la Restauration de la Royauté en France, le 31 Mars 1814, 11:601n, 12:9, 12:10n, 12:46, 12:81–12:82, 12:89, 12:90, 12:92n, 12:154
  • works of, 12:154

Pragmatics of Attaliata. See Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis (Leunclavius)

Pratt, Benjamin, 12:495

Preble, Edward

  • U.S. naval commander, 6:216

Preble, Henry, 3:212, 3:445, 5:213

Precedents of proceedings in the House of Commons (J. Hatsell), 4:400–4:401, 4:464, 4:464n, 7:628

The Preceptor (R. Dodsley), 7:480, 7:481n

Précis Historique de la Maladie qui a régné dans l’Andalousie en 1800 (J. N. Berthe), 10:129, 10:130, 10:146n

Précis sur les instituts d’éducation de M. de Fellenberg, établis a Hofwil, auprès de Berne (M. A. Jullien), 12:229–12:230, 12:232n

Preignac (wine), 9:513

A Preliminary Essay, on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa (T. Branagan), 8:450, 8:451n

Prenanthes serpentaria. See lion’s foot

Prentiss, Charles

  • purported author of The Trial: Calvin and Hopkins versus the Bible and Common Sense (“A Lover of the Truth”), 14:223, 14:302, 14:526, 14:582, 14:612–14:613

Prentiss, William

  • identified, 15:446n
  • letter from, 15:444–15:446
  • Memorandum on Establishing a School, 15:447–15:448
  • on rural education in Va., 15:444–15:446, 15:447–15:448

Presbyterians

  • in Charlottesville, 13:341
  • clergy, 15:128
  • and education, 12:284–12:285, 12:458, 12:501, 14:14, 15:447, 15:491
  • mentioned, 11:363
  • TJ on, 9:379, 9:380n, 9:380–9:381, 9:382, 9:712, 15:466–15:467, 15:525–15:526, 15:539–15:540
  • and TJ’s election, 13:450

Prescott, William

  • J. Adams on, 8:135

President, USS (frigate)

  • carries mammoth bones, 1:509
  • 1815 capture of, 8:264, 8:267n
  • encounter with HMS Lille Belt, 3:638, 3:639n

President’s House

  • alterations by Madisons, 1:53
  • description of, 1:199–1:200
  • during TJ’s presidency, 1:29n, 1:29+, 1:55–1:56, 8:592
  • furniture for, 12:235n
  • gutters at, 9:500–9:501
  • inventory of, 1:42, 1:43n, 1:76, 1:155, 1:155, 1:156n
  • and T. Kosciuszko’s profile of TJ, 2:39, 2:39–2:40n, 2:106
  • J. Melish meets TJ at, 4:424n
  • mentioned, 2:225, 2:338n, 3:536, 5:109, 5:178n, 12:346, 15:497
  • pictures of, 8:xlvii
  • presidential portraits, 2:127
  • reconstruction and repairs to, 8:592, 8:592, 8:596n, 12:466, 12:466n, 12:521
  • roof of, 11:432, 11:587
  • sitting room clock at, 1:85, 1:96
  • stew stoves at, 1:76
  • TJ’s belongings at, 3:581–3:582, 4:49, 4:51–4:52, 4:193, 4:219, 4:221
  • visitors to, 9:234n, 9:234n, 9:531, 9:553, 9:666
  • and War of 1812, 7:653, 8:5, 10:442

Pressed Shot Factory (T. Bruff), 5:107–5:108n

presses, cast-iron, 2:302

Preston, Francis

  • family of, 11:184, 13:512n
  • identified, 13:485–13:486n
  • letter from, 13:485–13:486
  • letter to, 13:510
  • seeks letters of introduction for son, 13:510
  • as U.S. representative from Va., 11:197n
  • as Va. state senator, 10:660n, 12:317, 13:515
  • visits Monticello, 13:485

Preston, James Patton

  • American military commander, 7:610n
  • and appointments, 13:58–13:59, 13:66, 13:180
  • and Central College, 12:326, 12:329, 14:70, 14:72, 14:79, 14:105
  • Central College Board of Visitors’ report to, 12:256, 12:263, 12:271, 12:286, 12:292, 12:297–12:298, 12:298, 12:299, 12:301, 12:305, 12:306, 12:306, 12:307, 12:325, 12:326–12:330, 12:363, 12:381, 12:383n, 12:403–12:404, 12:412n, 14:515, 14:518
  • and commissioners for University of Virginia, 13:lii, 13:132–13:133, 13:133n, 13:133n
  • as governor of Va., 11:474n, 12:611n, 13:liii, 13:58–13:59, 13:66, 13:512n, 15:251–15:252
  • identified, 12:330n
  • letters from, 13:58–13:59, 14:74
  • letters from accounted for, 13:133n, 13:133n
  • letters to, 13:66, 13:132–13:133, 14:123–14:124, 15:251–15:252
  • recommended for military appointment, 4:529
  • and University of Virginia, 14:29, 14:34–14:35, 14:35, 14:47, 14:74, 14:74–14:75, 14:90, 14:123, 14:124, 14:176, 15:251–15:252
  • and Va. Literary Fund, 12:502n, 14:105, 14:124, 15:82–15:85, 15:85n, 15:251–15:252
  • visits Monticello, 13:325

Preston, John (ca. 1755–1842)

  • identified, 10:336–10:337n
  • letters from, 10:336–10:337, 10:338
  • letter to, 10:338
  • submits manuscript to TJ, 10:338
  • visits Charlottesville, 10:336
  • writes Lancasterian textbooks, 10:336, 10:338

Preston, John (d. 1827)

  • family of, 15:242n
  • as treasurer of Va., 15:346n, 15:352, 15:352n, 15:399, 15:456
  • and Va. Literary Fund, 12:502n

Preston, John (of Richmond)

  • and W. C. Nicholas’s debts, 14:587n

Preston, John Bowker

  • studies at Charlottesville Academy, 15:141, 15:242n

Preston, Robert

  • visits Paris, 15:446

Preston, Thomas Lewis, 6:20–6:21

Preston, William Campbell

  • and G. W. Blaettermann, 14:251, 14:346
  • identified, 11:184n
  • introduced to TJ, 11:183–11:184, 11:204
  • TJ introduces, 11:196, 11:196–11:197, 11:197, 11:199–11:200, 11:261, 13:485, 13:510, 13:511–13:512, 13:512n, 15:303

Prévost, Antoine François

  • Œuvres choisies de l’Abbé Prévost, 9:355n
  • translates Lettres de Cicéron a M. Brutus, et de M. Brutus a Ciceron (Brutus; Cicero; ed. Goujon), 9:354, 9:420, 12:112, 14:511, 15:258
  • translates Lettres de Ciceron, Qu’on nomme vulgairement Familières (Cicero; ed. Goujon), 9:354, 9:354, 9:355n, 9:420, 9:420, 12:112, 14:511, 15:258

Prevost, George

  • governor-in-chief of British North America, 5:320–5:321, 6:529, 6:641n, 6:645, 6:645–6:646n, 7:13n, 8:112n, 8:219, 8:221, 8:264

Prévost, Pierre

  • translates Les Tragédies d’Euripide (Euripides), 11:179, 11:193, 12:153, 12:439, 13:596

Prevot de la Janné, 3:546

Price, Andrew, 2:446n, 3:486

Price, Chandler

  • identified, 5:37–5:38n
  • letters from, 5:36–5:38
  • recommends A. Stewart, 5:36–5:37, 5:81

Price, Joseph

  • manages W. Short’s Indian Camp estate, 3:438, 4:59–4:60, 4:197–4:198, 6:87, 7:592
  • rents part of Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 3:198, 3:272–3:273, 3:275, 3:622, 4:198, 5:363, 5:570n

Price, Mrs. (Joseph Price’s wife)

  • land tenure of, 4:198
  • sells geese, 5:5, 5:6n

Price, Richard (British author and philosopher)

  • correspondence of, 9:175, 9:176, 9:176n, 9:176n, 9:346
  • introduces D. Stewart to TJ, 15:470n
  • Observations on Reversionary Payments; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in Old Age … and on The National Debt , 6:497, 6:498n
  • Sermons on the Christian Doctrine, 12:313, 12:356
  • as theologian and moral philosopher, 6:145–6:146, 6:146, 6:227, 6:296, 6:502, 6:503, 6:503, 6:504, 6:624
  • and Turgot, 4:22, 4:24n, 6:288n
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503

Price, Richard (of Milton)

  • Deposition of in Jefferson v. Michie, 7:676–7:678
  • as gardener, 6:45
  • and Henderson estate, 6:76, 6:81, 6:198, 6:198, 6:199, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:200, 6:201n, 6:201n, 6:479, 6:480, 6:480, 6:573–6:574n, 7:634, 7:676–7:678
  • and Highland–Indian Camp boundary dispute, 8:567, 8:567–8:568, 9:289–9:290, 9:357, 9:362
  • identified, 7:678n
  • Jefferson v. Michie, 7:597, 7:676–7:678

Price, William

  • as magistrate, 14:588n
  • and Va. Land Office, 4:309n

Prichard, William

  • and P. Freneau’s poetry subscription, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296, 3:334
  • identified, 3:243–3:244n
  • letters from, 3:296–3:297, 5:254
  • letters to, 3:243–3:244, 3:334, 5:222–5:223
  • and TJ’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 4:401, 5:222, 5:254

Priddy, John, 1:246n, 14:361

Pride, James, 2:84

The Pride of Britannia Humbled (T. Branagan), 8:450–8:451

Pride of China. See chinaberry (Pride of China)

Priestley, James

  • as educator, 13:451

Priestley, Joseph

  • J. Adams on, 6:145–6:146, 6:146, 6:236–6:237, 6:302, 6:317–6:319, 7:25, 7:26, 7:74–7:77, 8:551, 8:552, 8:682
  • and Alexander I, 8:671
  • An Appeal to the serious and candid Professors of Christianity, 12:313, 12:356
  • B. S. Barton’s essay on, 8:423n
  • and Cleanthes, 6:520, 6:521, 6:521, 6:540, 6:542
  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:480, 7:658, 7:662, 7:667
  • A Comparison of the Institutions of Moses with those of the Hindoos and Other Ancient Nations, 7:218–7:220, 7:220, 7:221, 7:221n, 10:424, 10:424–10:425, 10:508
  • and T. Cooper, 6:318, 6:318, 6:318
  • correspondence with T. Lindsey, 6:146, 6:233, 6:278, 6:278, 6:300, 6:317–6:318, 6:367–6:368, 8:553, 8:553–8:554n, 8:658
  • correspondence with G. Logan, 8:671, 8:671n
  • death of, 6:318, 6:319n
  • A Description of a System of Biography, 8:472, 8:672
  • Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, 6:302, 6:440
  • The Doctrines of Heathen Philosophy, compared with those of Revelation, 6:204, 6:317–6:318, 6:318, 6:319n, 6:367, 6:368, 6:368n, 6:439, 6:441, 6:471, 6:499, 6:499–6:500, 6:510, 6:520, 7:74, 7:148, 7:286, 7:293n
  • An Essay on the First Principles of Government, 7:628, 9:436
  • on B. Franklin, 11:375
  • A Harmony of the Evangelists, 10:357
  • An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, 6:302, 6:440, 7:627, 8:682
  • History of the Corruptions of Christianity, 1:581, 6:302, 6:440, 7:627
  • Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood, 1:119, 1:121–1:122n, 7:224, 7:225n
  • Letters to The Jews; inviting them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianity, 9:651–9:652, 9:652n
  • library and scientific apparatus of, 6:598, 7:128, 10:357–10:358, 10:386, 10:465
  • Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the year 1795, written by himself, 14:461, 14:463n, 15:140, 15:436–15:437n, 15:553
  • mentioned, 1:674, 2:489, 5:276, 6:227, 6:624, 8:668, 11:383, 11:383, 14:460
  • mineral collection of, 2:376
  • and prophecy, 4:484
  • religious beliefs of, 6:193, 6:300, 6:300, 11:367, 15:164, 15:436–15:437n
  • Socrates and Jesus Compared, 6:204, 6:317, 6:318, 6:367
  • TJ’s correspondence with, 6:146, 6:180, 6:181, 6:191, 6:193, 6:204, 6:228, 6:233, 6:233, 6:237, 6:278, 6:286, 6:298, 6:298, 6:299, 6:438, 6:439, 6:439, 6:444, 8:658, 9:596n, 10:381
  • on Unitarianism, 6:438
  • on university courses, 1:592, 1:593n
  • A view of the principles and conduct of the Protestant dissenters, with respect to the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of England, 1:581

Prieur, Denis, 3:234n

Prieur de la Côte-d’Or. See Duvernois, Claude Antoine Prieur

prime meridian, 1:54–1:55n, 1:275–1:276, 1:356–1:358, 1:359n, 1:489–1:498, 1:511–1:512, 1:534, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–2:338, 2:398–2:399, 2:541, 2:566, 3:285, 5:245, 5:251n, 9:681, 9:691, 15:288

The Primitives of the Greek Tongue (A. Arnauld, C. Lancelot, and P. Nicole), 10:358, 12:313, 12:356

Prince (TJ’s slave; b. 1804)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:386, 5:462, 6:308, 6:309, 8:61, 8:255

Prince, Isaac

  • ill fortune of, 3:588, 4:3, 4:3n

Prince, James, 2:135, 2:182, 3:559, 3:587–3:588

Prince, John

  • seeds sent to, 11:171

Princess of Wales. See Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Princess of Wales

Princeton, N.J.

  • J. Trumbull’s painting of battle of, 10:615, 13:332, 13:332

Princeton University. See New Jersey, College of (later Princeton University)

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (R. Hakluyt), 8:581, 9:109

Principes de Chronologie, pour les Temps Antérieurs aux Olympiades (J. Potocki), 2:467, 2:468n, 3:43, 3:44n, 3:115, 3:434, 3:456, 3:618, 8:235–8:236

Principes Logiques, ou Recueil de Faits relatifs a l’Intelligence Humaine (Destutt de Tracy), 10:460, 10:550, 10:603–10:604, 11:359, 12:345, 12:403, 12:487, 12:528–12:529, 12:622, 12:656

Principes raisonnés d’agriculture (a trans. of Grundsätze der rationellen Landwirthschaft) (Thaer), 6:17, 6:18n

The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation (F. Home), 2:82, 11:164

Principles of Equity (H. H. Kames), 7:628

The Principles of Health, [Elements of Hygiene] (É. Tourtelle; trans. G. Williamson), 1:597n, 14:507, 14:529–14:530

Pringle, Mr., 3:84

Pringle, Sir John

  • as physician, 13:462

printing

  • and antimony, 1:18, 1:283, 1:315–1:316
  • colonial policies on, 7:140, 7:141n
  • lithography, 9:667, 14:446
  • movable type, 10:364n, 14:556, 14:556n
  • presses, 13:416, 13:417 (illus.), 14:556
  • stereotyping, 10:370, 10:371, 10:482n

prints See also maps

  • collection of for sale, 11:402–11:403, 11:404n
  • of Declaration of Independence, 15:liii, 15:346 (illus.), 15:479–15:480, 15:480n
  • of the Louvre, 15:454
  • of Natural Bridge, 11:xlvii–11:xlviii, 11:232 (illus.)
  • sent to TJ, 15:454
  • of TJ, 14:284
  • TJ on, 12:340–12:341

Prior, Matthew

  • An English Padlock, 7:480, 7:481n
  • Poems on Several Occasions, 9:432–9:433, 9:434n

Prior, Thomas, 14:551n

Prior Documents. See A Collection of Interesting, Authentic Papers, relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America

Priscilla (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. (ed. W. T. Franklin), 11:255, 11:255n, 13:371, 13:517

privateering

  • proposals to abolish, 15:50–15:51, 15:51n, 15:73, 15:73n

A Private Letter to the Individual Members of Congress (B. H. Latrobe), 3:537n

The Private Life of Lewis XV (trans. J. O. Justamond), 7:664

privies, 3:353, 3:354, 3:355n, 15:264, 15:264n

Proceedings and Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson)

  • corrected by TJ, 13:223n
  • distributed by TJ, 13:510, 13:527, 13:529, 13:544, 13:546, 13:558, 13:564, 13:564n, 13:568n, 13:579, 13:589, 13:593, 13:615, 14:276, 15:303, 15:304n
  • printed, 13:407n, 13:441, 13:471, 13:472–13:473

The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. in the Colony of Virginia, On Monday, the 6th of May, 1776, 9:405, 9:406n

The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston (Thomas Jefferson) See also statement on the batture case (Thomas Jefferson)

  • J. Adams on, 5:3, 5:11–5:12
  • Greek used in, 3:547n
  • W. Pinkney on, 5:180
  • printer’s errors in, 6:628, 6:628n, 7:95–7:96, 7:242
  • published, 4:292, 4:520, 11:70
  • reprint of, 6:627, 6:627–6:628, 7:95–7:96, 7:96n, 7:241–7:242, 7:242n
  • and riverine inundations, 3:46n, 3:135n
  • R. Rush on, 6:236
  • sent to Congress, 4:565, 4:575, 4:578, 4:581, 4:582, 4:585, 4:588
  • sent to J. Madison and his cabinet, 4:574, 4:586, 4:624, 4:664
  • sent to TJ, 4:565, 4:575, 4:581, 4:582
  • sent to TJ’s lawyers, 4:594, 4:595, 4:596, 4:597, 4:605, 4:606, 4:616, 4:624, 4:646
  • L. W. Tazewell on, 5:45–5:47
  • title page, 4:xliii, 4:370 (illus.)
  • TJ distributes remaining copies, 4:624–4:625, 4:631, 4:631–4:632, 4:632, 4:637, 4:639, 4:639, 4:640, 4:642, 4:642, 4:643, 4:671, 5:6, 5:27, 5:106, 5:180, 5:219, 5:392, 5:548, 7:175
  • TJ researches, 2:657, 3:176n
  • TJ revises, 5:8–5:9n
  • E. Trist on, 5:111–5:113

Proclamation of 1763, 1:335

Pro Cluentio (Cicero), 10:206, 10:209n

Procrustes (mythological character), 13:480

Procter, Henry

  • British military commander, 6:529, 7:226, 8:221, 8:263

Proctor, Joseph B.

  • identified, 7:491–7:492n
  • TJ pays, 7:491, 7:491n

“A Progress to the Mines” (W. Byrd [1674–1744]), 12:372n

Projet de Code Civil (Portalis), 3:132, 3:135n

Prolegomena ad Homerum (F. A. Wolf), 9:86–9:87

Prometheus (mythological character), 12:461

Prony, Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de

  • Nouvelle Architecture Hydraulique, 6:381–6:382, 7:386

Proofs of the Corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson (D. Clark), 3:265, 3:323, 3:325n, 3:440, 3:519, 3:519n, 3:543

The Propagation and Botanical Arrangements of Plants and Trees (J. Abercrombie), 10:357

Propertius, Sextus, 7:661

Proposals by Redwood Fisher, for printing by subscription, the American Artist’s Manual, or Dictionary of Practical Knowledge (E. Cutbush), 5:633, 5:633n, 5:661

Proposals, For Publishing, By Subscription, An Original Work, entitled “The Biographical Compendium, and Patriot’s Mirror” (D. Fraser), 15:368, 15:368n

Proposals, for Publishing by Subscription, The History of the War in Louisiana & West Florida (Latour), 9:103, 9:103n, 9:128–9:129

Proposals for publishing, by subscription, The Works of Alexander James Dallas (G. Dallas), 11:153, 11:153–11:154n, 11:180–11:181

A Proposed Memorial to the Congress of the United States (J. Gallison), 15:51n, 15:73

Propositions for Amending the Constitution of the United States (J. Hillhouse)

  • J. Adams on, 5:12–5:13, 5:13–5:14n

Prosodia: sive Institutionum Linguæ Latina (M. Alvares), 14:276, 14:351

Prospectus for Publishing by Subscription, A Map of the State of Louisiana, with a part of the State of Mississippi and Alabama Territory (M. Ludlow), 11:615, 11:616–11:617n

Prospectus of a National Institution, to be established in the United States (J. Barlow), 4:24n, 5:615–5:616, 5:617n, 5:620

Prospectus of a new monthly publication: the Massachusetts Garden, 1:671–1:673

Prospectus of a Statistical and Historical Account of the United States of America (D. B. Warden), 11:619, 11:619n

Prosperity (ship), 10:494, 11:531

Prosser, Thomas H., 14:588n

Prost de Royer, Antoine François

  • Dictionnaire de jurisprudence et des arrêts, 3:174n, 3:175n

protractor, 4:98, 4:341

Proud, Robert

  • The History of Pennsylvania in North America, 1:581

Prout, John

  • agricultural improvement of, 10:532–10:535
  • letter from, 10:532–10:535
  • seeks patent, 10:534–10:535

Provenchere de Villiers, Pierre

  • identified, 2:129n
  • letters from accounted for, 2:129n
  • letter to, 2:128–2:129
  • TJ forwards letter to, 1:612, 1:613n, 2:128–2:129

Providence Gazette (R.I. newspaper), 8:622n

Les Provinciales, ou Lettres Ecrites (B. Pascal), 10:14

Prunner, Leonardo de

  • identified, 2:298n
  • letters from, 2:297–2:298
  • sends Sardinian minerals to TJ, 2:297, 2:299, 2:391, 2:391n, 4:4, 6:84

Prussia

  • and Congress of Vienna, 7:528–7:529, 9:91n, 9:218n, 11:540, 11:541n, 15:52
  • and Declaration of Pillnitz, 4:430n
  • A. Gallatin on, 9:202
  • and Napoleon, 9:137–9:138
  • and partitions of Poland, 6:212, 6:212n, 7:298, 9:345, 9:347n, 14:50
  • relations with Austria, 9:347
  • relations with Great Britain, 2:275
  • relations with Spain, 9:347
  • U.S. consuls at, 3:60–3:61
  • U.S. treaty with (1785), 15:50, 15:73, 15:73, 15:73n
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503, 4:505, 4:507, 4:507

Pryor, John C.

  • letters from, 7:45–7:46
  • seeks position as tax collector, 7:45

Pryor, Nicholas Ballow

  • delivers letter, 4:183, 4:184n
  • family of, 5:653n
  • identified, 5:300–5:301n
  • letters from, 5:300–5:301
  • letters to, 5:328
  • seeks military appointment, 5:300–5:301, 5:327, 5:328

Pryor, Susan B., 5:653, 5:653n, 9:489–9:490n

Pryor, Zachariah B.

  • letter from accounted for, 9:32, 9:33n

Prysot (Prisot), Sir John

  • as chief justice of the court of common pleas, 7:147–7:148, 7:150n, 7:150n

Psyche (Molière), 10:359

Psyche (mythological character), 10:589

psychology

  • TJ on, 14:470–14:471
  • works on, 14:432–14:433, 14:470–14:471

psychology, experimental

  • and human perception, 9:635–9:637, 9:638n

Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)

  • État des étoiles fixes au second siecle, par Claude Ptolemée, comparé a la position des mêmes étoiles en 1786 (H. Montignot), 10:233

Ptolemy I, king of Egypt, 6:542

Public Advertiser (New York newspaper)

  • editors of, 10:333–10:334, 10:335n
  • publishes P. Freneau poem, 1:226–1:229
  • supports Republican party, 10:333–10:334

Public Characters

  • TJ’s biography in, 9:459, 9:459n, 10:38, 10:39n, 10:114–10:117, 14:283, 14:285

public health See also health; hygiene; medicine

  • fumigation of foreign correspondence, 15:326, 15:327n
  • quarantines, 10:119, 10:119n, 10:132
  • regulations concerning, 10:129, 10:131, 10:132

Pub. Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (Ovid; ed. J. Pontanus), 9:274, 9:275n, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639

Pucci, Giulio Ferdinando

  • archivist in Florence, 9:291n, 9:292–9:293

Pufendorf, Samuel von

  • as legal authority, 11:368
  • mentioned, 9:90
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Pullen, Randall (ship captain), 15:63, 15:120

Puller, Christopher, 2:455

pulleys, 14:167

Pumfrey, John, 3:599n

Pumfrey & Fitzwhylsonn (Richmond firm), 3:599n

Pumham, Aaron (Punkapog sachem), 5:184–5:185

Pumham, Moses, 5:184–5:185

pumping machines, 12:376

pumpkins

  • as livestock feed, 7:263, 7:282, 8:71, 8:71, 8:611
  • pies, 12:651
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:379, 8:70, 8:71, 8:611
  • seeds for TJ, 7:263, 7:282, 7:307–7:308

punch

  • lemon acid for, 7:594, 7:602
  • served at Monticello, 10:74
  • syrup of, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:154

Punic language

  • roots of Gaelic, 7:560, 7:561n

Punkapog Indians, 5:184–5:185, 5:186n

Purchas, Samuel

  • Purchas his Pilgrimes, 8:581

Purchas his Pilgrimes (S. Purchas), 8:581

Purdie, Alexander, 1:381

Purney, John. See Pernier (Purney), John

purses, 11:625

Pursh, Frederick

  • Flora Americæ Septentrionalis, 2:91n, 9:339n
  • and plant drawings, 2:90, 2:91n, 2:140

Purviance, Samuel, 1:140, 1:361–1:362n, 1:515, 9:671, 9:673n

Purviance, William Young, 9:671, 9:673n

Purvis, John

  • A Complete Collection of all the Lavvs of Virginia now in force, 1:404, 1:404n

Putnam, Israel

  • British attempt to capture, 6:446, 6:446–6:447n

putty, 6:344, 6:348

Puy de Dôme (volcano), 9:134

Pyke, Alexander

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

Pyrenees, Treaty of (1659)

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506

Pyrläus, Johann Christoph

  • and Indians, 9:65, 9:67n

Pythagoras

  • J. Adams on, 5:185n, 6:299, 7:75, 7:75–7:76, 7:76, 7:76–7:77
  • and beans, 7:218, 7:221n
  • mentioned, 6:439, 11:383, 12:442
  • and numerology, 15:581, 15:584n
  • trinity of, 7:218, 7:221n

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