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Sabine River, 3:328

Saboureux de La Bonnetrie, Charles François

Traduction d’Anciens Ouvrages Latins relatifs à l’Agriculture et à la Médecine Vétérinaire, avec des Notes, 2:82, 11:164, 12:112

Sacchetti, Franco

Delle Novelle di Franco Sacchetti Citadino Fiorentino (ed. G. Poggiali), 13:39, 13:41n

Sac Indians, 2:57

Sackets Harbor, N.Y.

British threat to, 8:18, 8:18n, 8:44

saddles, 1:3, 2:118, 2:121, 13:518

sage

TJ grows, 7:116

sainfoin, 2:272, 5:560, 11:170–11:171, 11:171–11:172, 11:302, 11:336, 11:337, 11:353, 11:378, 11:577, 11:580–11:581n, 13:75, 15:326–15:327, 15:578, 15:578–15:579n, 15:601, 15:602n

Saint Augustine, W. Fla., 3:281–3:282

Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre, 8:551, 9:175, 9:257

St. Bris (wine), 9:513

St. Clair, Arthur

military service of, 7:692, 7:693n
as president of Confederation Congress, 9:115, 9:119n

Saint Croix (Danish West Indies)

W. S. Jacobs on, 14:99

Saint Davids, Upper Canada

burned by U.S. forces, 8:217

St. Denis, Louis Juchereau de

and French Louisiana, 9:445, 9:518, 9:518n

Saint Domingue

blacks in, 1:589, 7:533
refugees from, 1:450, 1:622–1:623, 1:624n
revolution in, 9:150
trade with U.S., 1:160, 1:517n

Sainte Croix, Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph Guilhem de Clermont Lodève, baron de

and authenticity of Homer’s works, 9:86

Sainte Geneviève Church (Paris; later the Panthéon), 4:474

Sainte Marie, Batture. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

St. George wine. See Agiorgitiko (St. George) (wine)

Saint Helena (island)

Napoleon’s exile on, 10:655, 11:498, 11:500n, 13:158n, 15:574–15:575n

Saint Hilaire, Louis Vincent Joseph Le Blond, comte de, 1:371, 1:372

St. Jean, Maria

and batture controversy, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

St. John, Oliver

English chief justice, 6:302

St. John Baker, Anthony, 5:267n

Saint John’s College (Annapolis), 13:451, 13:454n

Saint-John’s-wort, 4:139

Saint-Lambert, Jean François de, 1:121, 1:122n

Saint Lawrence River

as geographical boundary, 12:385
natural history of, 7:357
and War of 1812, 7:14

St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (W. Godwin), 6:464n

Saint Louis

construction in, 13:95, 13:524
maps of, 3:418, 3:616

St. Louis Missouri Fur Company

failure of, 10:445

St. Lucar. See Sanlúcar (wine)

Saint Marks, W. Fla., 14:23, 14:92

St. Mary, Church of (Baltimore), 1:450, 1:450–1:451n

St. Mary’s, Ga., 1:509, 1:510

Saint Mary’s College (Baltimore), 1:450, 1:450–1:451n, 12:478, 13:451, 13:452, 13:455n

Saint-Maur, Nicolas François Dupré

mortality tables of, 6:225n, 12:361n

Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de

career of, 7:xliv–7:xlv
engraving of J. Breckinridge, 14:lii–14:liii, 14:250 (illus.)
engraving of P. Carr, 7:xliv–7:xlv, 7:434 (illus.)
engraving of P. Gibson, 5:xlix, 5:358 (illus.)

St. Michaels (brig), 11:661

Saint Paul Island (South Indian Ocean), 5:202–5:203

Saint Paul’s Cathedral (London), 4:474, 15:553, 15:553–15:554n

Saint Peter’s Basilica (Rome), 4:474, 9:432

Saint Petersburg

conveyance to and from, 3:434, 3:616–3:617, 3:627
U.S. consul at, 1:38–1:39, 1:61n, 1:65, 13:118–13:119, 13:145

St. Pierre. See Castel, Charles Irénée, abbé de Saint-Pierre

Saint-Pierre, Jacques Bernardin Henri de

Études de la Nature, 7:26, 7:27n

Saint Sophia Cathedral (Kiev), 4:474

Saint-Sulpice, Raymond Gaspard de Bonardi, comte de, 1:372

Saint Thomas (Danish West Indies)

U.S. consulship at, 13:122–13:123, 13:123n, 14:98–14:99

Salaberry, Charles de, 6:645–6:646n

Saladin (Muslim sultan), 7:66

salad oil, 1:31, 1:161, 2:335, 2:392, 2:438, 3:421, 3:434, 3:545

sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride)

for copper utensils, 1:467, 1:467, 3:183, 3:200
medicinal use of, 13:73, 13:73n, 13:73n

Salcedo, Manuel María de, 2:443n

Salcedo, Nemesio

and Louisiana Territory, 9:658, 9:658n

Salem Mercury (Mass. newspaper), 11:273n

Salem Register (Mass. newspaper), 1:50n

Salimbeni, Madame

and L. Leroy, 12:478

Salkeld, William

Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench: with some special cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, 3:546

Sallust

J. Adams on, 11:269
Conspiracy of Catiline, 14:257
Crispi Opera Omnia (trans. T. Gordon), 1:580, 6:93, 12:534
History of the Jugurthine War, 14:257
mentioned, 6:402, 14:614
Oeuvres de Sallust (trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle), 13:342, 13:358, 13:394, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561
orations of, 2:153
study of, 7:661
TJ on, 7:373, 7:447
TJ quotes, 6:402, 6:407n
tyrants condemned in works of, 6:53
works of, 14:510, 14:551

Sally (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Sally (TJ’s slave)

medical care of, 7:387, 10:106, 10:107

Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1773). See Hemings, Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1773)

Sally (Sal) (TJ’s slave; b. 1777)

and child rearing, 13:605
death of child of, 15:427
family of, 13:567, 13:567n, 14:476
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 5:462, 6:308, 6:308, 6:308, 6:309, 6:309, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:62, 8:62, 8:62, 8:62, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255
spinner, 4:379

Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1788). See Hubbard, Sarah (Sally) (TJ’s slave; b. 1788)

Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1792)

given to T. J. Randolph, 6:36
on Monticello slave lists, 4:388

Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1797). See Hubbard, Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1812). See Goodman, Sally (TJ’s slave; b. 1812)

Sally (ship), 1:84, 3:63, 3:245n

salmon, 5:601–5:602, 5:604–5:605

Salmon, William (of Bedford Co.)

deputy sheriff, 8:256n
TJ pays taxes to, 9:50, 9:51, 9:51–9:52n

Salmon, William (of Goochland Co.)

and Central College subscription, 11:332

Salmonds. See Sammons, James

Salmons. See Sammons, James

salsify, 1:157, 2:37, 2:38, 2:38, 5:489, 5:490, 5:658

salsify, Missouri (wild salsify), 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166

sal soda (sodium carbonate), 14:466

salt

alleged mountain of, 5:640–5:641, 5:642n, 5:682, 5:682–5:683n, 6:39, 8:5, 10:305, 10:307n
consumed by sheep, 1:478, 2:379
furnaces, 4:8
given to slaves, 6:487, 7:124, 7:180
imported, 10:215
manufacturing, 5:77, 5:77n, 12:375–12:376, 12:377–12:379, 12:486, 13:6, 13:6n, 13:35
medicinal use of, 4:102, 4:381, 6:343, 6:347, 6:349n, 14:466
mentioned, 6:187, 6:195, 8:109, 14:245n
for militia, 7:649
price of, 7:124, 7:180, 8:63, 8:105, 8:109
sent to TJ, 15:134–15:135
shipment of, 13:10
stored at Washington, 4:27
TJ acquires, 1:77, 3:301, 6:343, 6:344, 6:344, 6:344, 6:345, 6:345, 6:346, 6:347, 6:347, 6:347, 6:348, 6:348, 7:180, 8:67, 8:68, 8:72, 8:95, 8:95n, 8:132, 8:132, 8:174, 8:184
U.S. tax on, 3:560, 3:566, 4:529, 4:529n

saltpeter, 1:367, 1:506, 3:155, 5:38–5:39n, 5:511, 5:553–5:554, 6:345, 6:345, 6:346, 9:509, 11:625, 11:630

Salvage, Benjamin F.

letters from, 3:649
seeks employment, 3:649

Salvandy, Narcisse Achille de

La Coalition et La France, 15:51–15:52, 15:52n

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

Samatan, Amable, 9:573n+, 12:499

Samatan, Emile, 9:573n+

Samatan, Eulalie Cathalan. See Cathalan, Eulalie Marthe (Stephen Cathalan’s daughter)

Samatan, Louis, 9:573n+

Sammons, James

letters from accounted for, 2:314n
paid for masonry work, 2:313–2:314, 2:314n, 3:301, 3:301, 3:643
stonemason, 4:4
TJ pays, 4:557n, 5:92n, 5:121, 5:298

Sample, Mr., 5:118

Sampson (ship), 1:80, 1:81n, 1:210

Sampson (slave)

hired from Daingerfields, 3:112

Sampson, Mr.

and W. Short’s land, 4:268

Sampson, Richard

Albemarle Co. land of, 12:596
and Central College subscription, 11:332
and proposed Albemarle Co. road, 10:581, 10:581–10:582, 10:582n, 10:582, 11:243, 11:244n, 12:58, 12:58, 13:275

Sampson, W. H., 14:151

Sampson, William

Address of the American Society for the encouragement of Domestic Manufactures, 10:645–10:646, 10:652–10:653, 10:653n, 11:23–11:24, 11:24–11:25n, 11:136, 11:136n
and American Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures, 10:652–10:653, 10:653n, 11:136, 11:136n
and books for TJ, 10:556–10:557, 10:557n, 10:564–10:565, 10:625
and Essay on the Necessity of Improving Our National Forces (W. T. W. Tone), 14:415–14:416, 14:491, 14:531, 14:584
identified, 10:557n
letters from, 10:556–10:557, 10:564–10:565, 10:652–10:653, 11:111–11:112, 14:415–14:416, 14:531
letters from accounted for, 1:78n
letters to, 10:625, 11:23–11:25, 14:491–14:492, 14:584
Memoirs, 8:388, 8:672
publishes letter from TJ, 11:111
and D. B. Warden, 3:539, 3:557

Samson (Old Testament figure), 7:582

Samuel (J. Chamberlain’s slave), 4:15

Samuel (Hebrew prophet), 2:583, 2:584, 6:542

Samuel & James Leitch (Charlottesville firm)

agent for TJ, 3:200
letters from, 3:242, 6:40
letters from accounted for, 4:400n
letters to, 4:400, 6:341
and nails, 3:242
procures groceries for TJ, 6:40, 6:341
TJ’s account with, 4:400, 5:409, 6:337, 6:338n, 6:431, 6:431, 6:431n

Sancho (Sanco) (TJ’s slave; b. 1797). See Davis, Sancho (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

Sanchuniathon (Phoenician author), 6:298, 7:76

San Concordio, Bartolomeo da

Ammaestramenti degli Antichi, 13:39, 13:41n

sand, 5:382, 8:253n, 8:402, 12:239, 12:266, 12:629, 12:629, 12:630, 14:87, 14:161n, 14:163, 14:187, 14:390

Sander, Nicholas

J. Adams on, 11:268

Sanders, Daniel Clarke, 11:6, 11:6n

Sanders, David, 5:339

Sanders, Lewis

and agricultural improvement, 12:255n

Sanderson, John

academy of, 12:508

Sanderson, Joseph McClellan

Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, 13:477–13:478, 13:478n
identified, 13:478n
letter from, 13:477–13:478

Sanderson & Ward (Baltimore firm)

as print sellers, 13:478n

sandpaper, 12:454

Sandidge, Joseph

hires out slaves to Central College–University of Virginia, 15:86

Sandy (TJ’s slave; b. 1807)

on Monticello slave lists, 4:388, 12:303
proposed sale of, 13:437, 13:437n

Sandy (TJ’s slave; b. 1813)

on Monticello slave lists, 12:303
at Poplar Forest, 11:178, 11:179n
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 6:308, 6:310n, 6:310, 8:62, 8:255

Sanford, Capt., 1:509

Sanford, Clark

essay on Peruvian bark (cinchona), 4:18n, 5:670n

San Francisco, 1:446

Sangrado, Dr.

fictional character, 4:162, 4:163n, 7:223, 7:225n

Sangster, Thomas, 5:534

Sangster’s (Songster’s) Ordinary (Fairfax Co.), 1:52n, 1:52n, 8:290

San Ildefonso, Treaty of (1800), 9:478–9:479, 9:488n

San Lorenzo, Treaty of (1795), 13:150–13:151, 15:382n

Sanlúcar (wine), 9:513

Sanskrit language

study of, 7:480
works on, 4:99
writings in, 8:3

Santa Vibiana (ship), 10:128

Santee canal, 2:507

Sanxay, James

Lexicon Aristophanicum, Græco-Anglicum, 14:221–14:222, 14:240, 14:266, 14:351, 14:423, 14:467–14:468, 14:505

Sapieha, Anna, 13:115

Sappho

mentioned, 6:403

Sarah (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Sarah Maria (brig), 4:173n

Saratoga, N.Y.

British surrender at, 13:115, 15:408
J. Trumbull’s painting of British surrender at, 10:616n

Sardinia

minerals from, sent to TJ, 2:297, 2:299, 2:391, 3:524, 4:4, 6:84, 6:163
Nice returned to, 12:277
royal museum in, 2:297
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507
Victor Emmanuel I, 2:391n, 13:316

Sargeant, Ezra

and Edinburgh Review, 4:367, 4:367n, 4:485, 7:367, 10:453n
identified, 4:478n
letters from, 4:485, 4:565
letters to, 4:477–4:478, 4:521–4:522, 4:581, 5:151
printer, 5:372n
prints batture pamphlet, 4:xliii, 4:477–4:478, 4:485, 4:520, 4:521–4:522, 4:565, 4:565n, 4:574, 4:575, 4:581, 4:582, 5:219, 5:219, 5:224n, 7:95
TJ pays, 4:580, 4:581, 5:132, 5:151, 5:298

Sargent, Leonard

identified, 8:60n
letter from, 8:59–8:60
requests catalogue of TJ’s books, 8:59–8:60

Sarjeant, Henry

and water-raising machine, 8:196n

Sarpi, Paolo

J. Adams on, 15:298, 15:299n

Sartori, Charles, 3:646

Sartori, John Baptiste, 2:109, 2:110n

sassafras, 4:102

Sasserno, Joseph Victor Adolphus

consulship for, 9:472, 9:473n, 9:570, 9:573, 9:574n, 11:246–11:247, 11:406, 11:406–11:407, 11:653–11:654, 11:655, 11:657n, 11:657–11:658, 12:104, 12:104n, 12:226, 12:276–12:277, 12:373–12:374, 12:459, 12:459n, 12:500, 12:502–12:503, 12:568, 12:580, 12:586, 13:9, 13:240–13:241, 13:245–13:246, 13:301–13:302, 13:308, 13:316–13:317, 13:444, 14:134, 14:150, 14:388, 15:77
identified, 11:655n
letter from, to S. Cathalan, 11:655
letters from, 13:245–13:246, 13:316–13:317, 14:134–14:136, 15:76–15:78
letters to, 12:502–12:503, 12:586–12:587, 14:338–14:339
on Nice, 14:134
and wine, 11:246, 11:405, 11:653, 12:580, 12:586–12:587, 13:240, 13:241, 13:246, 13:308, 13:316, 14:327, 14:329, 14:338–14:339, 14:626, 15:63, 15:76–15:77, 15:118, 15:119, 15:119, 15:186, 15:195

Sasserno, Victor

death of, 9:210, 9:323, 9:421, 9:470, 9:471, 9:472, 12:502–12:503, 13:301
desires consular appointment, 8:572, 8:572n
family of, 9:471, 9:569, 9:570, 9:573, 11:657, 11:658n, 12:276, 13:301–13:302
sends wine to TJ, 8:571, 9:421, 9:573n, 11:246
TJ on, 12:502
TJ visits, 14:338

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

Satterwhite, Rachel

letters from accounted for, 1:68n
seeks TJ’s aid, 1:68n

Saturn (planet), 15:580

satyrs, 12:443

saucers, 4:477

Saucy Jack (brig), 10:411, 10:475, 11:131, 11:131, 11:171

Sauganash. See Caldwell, Billy (Sauganash)

Saul, king of Israel, 2:583, 14:419

Saul, Joseph

and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:255
sends greetings to TJ, 8:140

Saunders, A. D.

invention of, 10:184, 10:279
letter from, 10:184–10:185
letter to, 10:279–10:280

Saunders, James W.

and Central College subscription, 11:324, 11:330

Saunders, Joseph, 1:66

Saunders, Robert

and C. Bellini estate, 9:123, 9:123, 9:136, 9:290–9:292, 9:297, 9:490, 9:491–9:492, 9:530, 12:581, 12:586
and College of William and Mary, 12:45
identified, 9:123–9:124n
letters from, 9:136, 9:490
letters to, 9:123–9:124, 9:290–9:292, 9:530

Saunders, Robert Hyde

identified, 11:342n
letter from, 11:341–11:342
letter to, 11:469–11:470
and lightning rods, 11:341–11:342, 11:469–11:470
property of, 11:341, 11:342n

Saunders, Samuel H.

An Easy First Book for Children; or The First Part of the Rhyming Spelling Book, 2:306–2:308
letters from, 2:306–2:308

Saunders, Tarlton

purchases TJ’s flour, 8:477, 8:492

Saunders, William

identified, 5:395n
overseer for C. Clark, 5:395

Saunderson, Nicholas

blindness of, 11:359
The Elements of Algebra, 14:193
The Method of Fluxions, 1:576

Saurin, Bernard Joseph, 3:9, 3:13, 3:17, 3:89n

Saurin, Jacques

Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux, 2:322n

Sauternes (wine), 9:209, 9:513

Sauvages de Lacroix, François Boissier de

and nosology, 11:367

Savage, James

identified, 8:156n
letter from, 8:156–8:157
letter to, 8:252
State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, 8:156, 8:157n, 8:252, 12:400

Savage, William Henry

as U.S. agent at Jamaica, 2:544, 3:615n, 5:37, 5:38n

Savary, Anne Jean Marie René, duc de Rovigo

French minister of police, 4:271

Savery, Thomas

steam engine of, 9:302, 9:304n, 12:518

Savil, Elisha

as J. Adams’s physician, 6:501

savory (herb)

summer, 15:429
winter, 15:429

Savu (Sunda Islands), 5:202–5:203

sawmills

compared to hemp brake, 6:452
horse-drawn, 2:553, 2:556
at Monticello, 3:293, 3:520–3:521, 4:50, 4:51, 5:130n, 5:133, 5:311, 6:xliii–6:xliv, 6:85, 6:88, 6:125, 6:203, 6:214, 6:331, 6:386 (illus.), 6:452, 8:367–8:368, 8:393, 14:588, 15:290
J. M. Perry’s, 14:173
at Poplar Forest, 14:588, 15:111n, 15:111n, 15:113, 15:114, 15:115
E. Ross’s, 7:32
and water level, 10:449
work done for TJ at, 7:461, 8:612, 8:695–8:696, 10:356, 15:607

saws

crosscut, 5:133
handsaws, 12:li, 14:541
patented by A. Stewart, 9:592–9:593, 9:593n
C. W. Peale’s sawing machine, 7:84–7:85, 11:158, 11:159n

Sawyer, Herbert

and HMS Guerriere, 7:465, 7:467n

sawyers (beetles), 11:39, 12:619

Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 2:44–2:45, 2:46n

Saxony

and Congress of Vienna, 9:90, 9:138

Say, Horace Emile

American travels of, 7:417, 7:421n, 7:598, 8:303

Say, Jean Baptiste

Catéchisme d’Économie Politique, 10:196, 10:196n
Catechism of Political Economy (trans. J. Richter), 10:196, 10:196n, 10:239
considers immigrating to U.S., 7:417–7:418, 7:598–7:599, 8:167–8:168, 8:183, 8:303–8:304, 8:307, 8:317, 8:320, 11:355–11:356
economic theories of, 4:439, 4:440, 4:448, 5:577, 6:53, 8:294, 13:573
identified, 7:420n
letters from, 7:416–7:421, 7:598–7:600
letters to, 8:303–8:308, 11:355–11:356
T. Lyman introduced to, 11:356, 11:357
recommends D. B. Warden, 7:506
and H. E. Say’s travels in U.S., 7:417, 8:303
spinning factory of, 7:416, 8:167, 8:167, 8:304
G. Ticknor carries letter for, 9:560
Traité d’Économie Politique, 6:596, 7:5–7:6, 7:176, 7:416–7:417, 7:420n, 7:598, 7:599, 7:628, 8:169n, 8:303, 8:308, 8:361, 8:362n, 8:630, 8:632n, 9:396, 9:396n, 9:497–9:498, 9:498n, 9:517, 9:517n, 9:631, 10:195–10:196, 10:239, 10:294, 10:331n, 10:659, 10:660n, 11:356, 11:356n
works of, 9:543, 9:664, 15:306

Say, Thomas

as scientist, 13:249, 13:249–13:250n, 13:253, 13:280
travels of, 12:368

scab

infects TJ’s sheep, 3:176–3:177, 3:442, 5:80, 5:448
remedies for, 3:453, 5:181, 5:182n

scales

for U.S. Coast Survey, 9:223

Scapula, Johann

Lexicon Græco-Latinum, 12:206, 12:206n, 14:193, 14:221, 14:240, 14:265, 14:266, 14:286

Scarborough, Richard Lumley, 2d Earl of, 8:276

scarlet clover, 2:271, 2:272

scarlet fever, 6:74

Scarron, Paul, 6:623, 6:627n

Scarronides: or, Virgile Travestie (C. Cotton), 2:466

Schaefer, Gottfried Heinrich

edits Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσῆος Ἱστοριῶν (Herodotus), 11:414–11:415

Schaeffer, Frederick Christian

identified, 15:310n
letter from, 15:310
letter to, 15:322
sends Report to the Managers of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in New-York; by Their Committee on Idleness and Sources of Employment, 15:310, 15:310n, 15:322

Schaer, Rodolph (Rodolf Schär)

identified, 14:168–14:169n
letter from, 14:167–14:169
letter to, 14:200
offers books, minerals, and scientific instruments to University of Virginia, 14:167–14:168, 14:200

Scheele, Carl Wilhelm

pharmacist and chemist, 9:633

Scheffer, Charles Arnold

works of, 12:452n, 13:55

Schenk, Cornelius

and P. Derieux’s debts, 9:253n

Scheuchzer, Johann J.

and barometric calculation of altitude, 9:314, 9:316–9:317n

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von

popularity of, 9:84

schist

calcareous, 9:667

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von

and authenticity of Homer’s works, 9:86–9:87

Schlegel, Friedrich von

and authenticity of Homer’s works, 9:86–9:87
translates Shakespeare, 9:84

Schnebly, Jacob, 1:27

Schneider, Johann Gottlob

edits Scriptorum Rei Rusticae Veterum Latinorum, 12:112
edits Xenophontis quae exstant Opera, Graece & Latine, ex editionibus Schneideri et Zeunii (Xenophon), 14:222, 14:240, 15:258

Schoharie County, N.Y.

and agriculture, 10:662
commerce and manufacturing in, 10:662–10:663
courts in, 10:662, 10:663, 10:663
and education, 10:662, 10:663
history of, 10:662
judges of, 10:663
population of, 10:661
proposed institute for, 10:660–10:661, 10:661, 10:662–10:663
religion and morality in, 10:662
sheriff of, 10:663

Scholfield, Arthur

and E. Herrick’s spinning machine, 4:572n

Σχόλια εἰς Πλάτωνα: Scholia in Platonem (Plato; ed. D. Ruhnken), 15:26

Σχόλια τῶν πάνυ δοκίμων εἰς ἑπτὰ τραγῳδίας τοῦ Εὐριπίδου, συλλεγέντα ἐκ διαφόρων παλαιῶν βίβλων καὶ συναρμολογηθέντα παρὰ Ἀρσενίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου μονεμβασίας. Scholia In Septem Evripidis Tragœdias ex antiquis exemplaribus ab Arsenio archiepo monebasie collecta, & nunc primu in lucem edita (Euripides; ed. A. Apostolios), 14:193, 14:265, 14:286

Schönbrunn, Treaty of (1809), 2:9n

schools and colleges See also Albemarle Academy; Central College; Charlottesville Academy; United States Military Academy (West Point, N.Y.); Virginia, University of; William and Mary, College of

and admission of African-Americans, 14:264
in Albemarle Co., 1:82n, 3:501, 3:540n, 4:493, 6:73, 6:130, 6:131, 8:92–8:93, 8:624, 8:646, 9:396–9:397, 9:713, 15:383n
American, 2:565
Andover Theological Seminary, 9:255, 9:257n, 9:379, 9:379, 9:382, 9:382
Ann Smith Academy (Lexington), 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201
Asbury College (Baltimore), 13:452, 13:455n, 14:103
Baltimore College, 13:451–13:453, 13:454–13:455n
Bowdoin College, 5:165n, 7:65, 15:532, 15:535–15:536n
British, 2:565
Cambridge University, 2:565, 4:427, 7:659, 7:686, 7:688n, 12:238, 12:573, 12:647
F. Carr’s Albemarle Co. school, 12:435, 12:436
P. Carr’s Albemarle Co. school, 3:501, 3:540n
classical, 13:457, 15:387
College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), 10:449, 10:545, 10:546n, 13:396, 13:450–13:451, 13:454n
College of Physicians and Surgeons (later part of Columbia University), 15:370–15:371, 15:371n
Columbia College (later Columbia University), 9:297–9:298, 9:298n
Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, 9:656n
Cumberland College (Nashville, Tenn.), 13:451
Dartmouth College, 10:205n, 10:383, 10:383n, 10:556n, 12:188, 12:189n, 12:344
C. de Montcarel’s Richmond school, 13:418–13:419, 13:419, 13:420–13:421n
M. Derieux’s Petersburg school, 6:270, 6:334–6:335
Dickinson College, 6:598–6:599, 8:609, 8:609, 12:25, 12:134–12:135, 14:126, 14:127, 15:436
East Tennessee College, 2:266–2:267, 2:268n, 2:365–2:366
Edgehill School, 3:635n
elementary, 12:10–12:15, 12:15, 12:85, 12:114–12:117, 12:126, 12:201, 12:285, 12:287, 12:289, 12:318, 12:357–12:361, 12:381–12:382, 12:449, 12:467, 12:501n, 14:132
Eton College (England), 12:238
C. Everette’s Albemarle Co. school, 6:426
Frederick Academy (Md.), 2:173, 2:174n, 13:450–13:451, 13:454n
Fryeburg Academy (Me.), 9:264–9:266, 9:267n, 9:375
in Geneva, Switzerland, 9:419, 9:620, 10:161, 10:312, 11:443–11:444, 12:85
Georgetown College (later Georgetown University), 4:289, 11:390, 11:391n, 12:252, 12:281–12:282, 12:435, 12:435, 12:463, 12:464–12:465, 12:590–12:591
L. H. Girardin’s academy (Richmond), 1:520, 1:557, 1:633, 1:634–1:635, 2:27, 2:95, 2:110, 2:116, 2:134, 2:171, 2:172, 2:295, 2:438, 2:564
L. H. Girardin’s Albemarle Co. school, 6:73, 6:73, 6:130
Hampden-Sydney College, 9:379n, 12:132n, 12:437n, 13:590, 15:401n
Hampton Academy, 14:550
Harrow School (England), 12:238
Harvard University, 4:196, 4:473, 8:283, 8:283n, 8:378, 8:378n, 9:255, 9:257n, 9:379, 9:381, 9:382, 9:383, 13:138, 13:238, 14:32, 14:536, 15:142, 15:142n, 15:302, 15:304n, 15:324–15:325n, 15:345, 15:345n
in Hingham (Mass.), 6:279
influence of clergy at, 8:609–8:610, 12:151, 14:101–14:102, 14:103, 14:104n
Jefferson College (Pa.), 1:4–1:6, 4:372
King’s College (later part of the University of Aberdeen), 13:138, 13:139n
literary and fraternal societies at, 14:306, 14:307n, 14:433–14:434
Lycée de Pau (Pau, France), 12:508
in Lynchburg, 6:64, 6:130–6:131, 6:451, 6:451, 8:585, 10:672, 11:18–11:19, 11:49, 11:59, 11:112–11:113, 11:175, 11:233–11:234, 11:261, 11:292
Manchester Academy (Va.), 2:134n
M. Maury’s Albemarle Co. school, 6:426
military, 1:206, 1:207n, 8:344–8:345, 10:609, 12:23
National Institution for the Deaf-Mute (Bordeaux, France), 9:654–9:655, 9:655
national technology school proposed, 9:297–9:298, 9:298n, 9:339, 9:344, 9:378, 10:544, 10:586, 10:586n, 11:6
national university proposed, 9:600
of New England, 9:331, 10:449
New London Academy, 9:608, 9:712–9:713, 9:714n, 10:59n, 10:72–10:73, 10:183, 10:184n, 10:356n, 11:280, 12:435, 12:436, 12:465, 12:529, 12:591, 12:612, 13:17, 13:18, 13:175, 13:292, 13:321, 13:457, 13:483
New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 9:656n, 14:312, 15:600
J. Ogilvie’s Albemarle Co. school, 3:632n
Oxford University, 2:565, 7:659, 7:666n, 12:238, 12:573, 12:647, 14:219
and Pestalozzi educational system, 3:39–3:40, 11:263–11:264, 11:266n
in Petersburg, 6:269, 6:332, 6:334–6:335
Petersburg Academy, 12:42n
in Philadelphia, 12:508
in Richmond, 10:664, 10:672, 11:18–11:19, 11:49, 11:59, 11:112–11:113, 11:175, 11:233–11:234, 11:261, 11:292
J. Robertson’s Albemarle Co. school, 6:73, 6:131, 8:624
Saint John’s College (Annapolis), 13:451, 13:454n
Saint Mary’s College (Baltimore), 1:450, 1:450–1:451n, 12:478, 13:451, 13:452, 13:455n
Sorbonne, 9:175, 9:176n, 9:346
South Carolina College (later University of South Carolina), 8:352–8:353, 8:609–8:610, 8:610n, 12:643, 14:101, 14:102, 14:103, 15:291, 15:341, 15:386, 15:387, 15:516, 15:553, 15:565–15:566, 15:603
Spring Hill School (Mich. Terr.), 1:7, 1:660–1:662, 2:55–2:57, 2:58n, 3:369–3:370
Staunton Academy, 14:183–14:184, 14:188, 14:210, 14:210, 14:268, 14:280, 14:281
Stephensburg Academy (Frederick Co.), 1:566–1:567, 2:147, 2:148n
technical, 7:639–7:640, 7:687
textbooks for, 8:294, 8:482, 8:482n, 8:640, 8:670, 10:294, 10:336, 10:338, 12:507, 14:51, 14:100, 14:132–14:133, 14:143, 14:200, 14:203
TJ sends works to, 13:476
and TJ’s plans for a university, 1:592, 7:636–7:641, 9:396–9:397, 12:467
Transylvania University (Lexington, Ky.), 12:404, 14:126, 14:589–14:590, 15:29, 15:41, 15:122–15:123, 15:149–15:150, 15:150n, 15:155, 15:234, 15:344–15:345
Trinity College (Dublin), 12:4, 12:238, 12:648, 14:517, 14:519, 14:550–14:551
Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.), 15:275, 15:275
Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, 9:379n
University of Berlin, 4:354n
University of Bologna, 2:565
University of Edinburgh, 2:565, 4:427, 9:644, 12:201, 12:238, 12:307, 14:618
University of Georgia (Athens), 5:297, 5:297–5:298n, 15:321
University of Glasgow, 2:172, 2:174n, 13:453
University of Göttingen, 9:86, 9:88n, 9:186, 9:195, 9:403–9:404, 9:561n
University of Medicine at Montpellier, 4:189, 4:190n
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9:714n
University of Pavia, 2:565
University of Pennsylvania, 6:468, 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, 13:105n, 13:174, 13:174n, 13:226, 13:233, 13:249, 13:255, 13:255n, 13:269, 13:270, 13:429, 13:430n, 13:518, 14:4, 14:5n, 14:80, 14:81, 14:125, 14:159, 15:74, 15:142n, 15:307, 15:341
University of Vermont, 8:111
J. Waddell’s Albemarle Co. school, 6:426
Washington Academy (later Washington and Lee University), 1:367, 1:367–1:368n, 9:507n, 12:233, 12:539, 13:590
Washington College (Chestertown, Md.), 13:454n
Washington College (later Washington and Lee University), 9:506, 9:507n, 9:712, 9:714n, 12:132n, 12:284, 12:382, 12:437n, 12:539, 12:540n, 13:180–13:181, 14:106, 14:107n, 15:401n
Westminster School (London), 12:238
Westtown School (West Chester, Pa.), 9:540, 9:541n
Willson’s school at Milton, Va., 8:624
Winchester College (England), 12:238
for women, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 12:406–12:407, 12:407n, 14:103, 14:208, 14:261
Yale University, 9:379, 9:381, 9:382, 9:383, 15:323, 15:324

Schrader, Dame

letters from accounted for, 5:352n

Schramm, Johann Michael, 5:273n

Schrevel, Cornelius

edits Q. Curtii Rufi, Historia Alexandri Magni (Q. Curtius Rufus), 14:510
edits D. Junii Juvenalis et auli Persii Flacci Satyræ (Juvenal; Persius), 9:455, 10:234
Lexicon Manuale Græco-Latinum et Latino-Græcum, 8:660, 10:358

Schulze, Gottlob Ernst

philosophy professor, 9:86, 9:88n

Schuring, Jan

as publisher, 13:40

Schütz, Christian Gottfried

edits Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt ac Deperditarum Fragmenta (Aeschylus), 9:196, 9:455, 10:212, 10:531, 11:414, 14:510, 15:491n

Schuyler, Peter Philip

and Niagara Campaign, 5:540

Schuyler, Philip

family of, 5:42, 5:43
as general, 13:114
as member of Continental Congress, 13:333n

Schuylkill Navigation Company, 15:493, 15:494n, 15:494n

Schuylkill Permanent Bridge, 14:247

Schuylkill River

navigation of, 15:493, 15:493

Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp (Austrian ambassador and general), 1:117, 1:121n, 6:637n

Schweighaeuser, Johannes

edits Ἀππιανοῦ Ἀλεξανδρέως Ῥωμαϊκῶν Ἱστοριῶν τὰ Σωζόμενα Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum quæ supersunt (Appian), 12:583, 13:295, 14:510
edits Herodoti Musae sive Historiarum Libri IX (Herodotus), 9:195, 9:455, 10:213, 11:414–11:415, 11:632, 12:203, 12:583, 13:295, 14:510
edits Πολυβίου Μεγαλοπολίτου Ἱστοριῶν τὰ σωζόμενα. Polybii Megalopolitani Historiarum Quidquid Superest (Polybius), 14:510

sciatica, 8:442

science See also specific disciplines

advancement of in N.Y., 8:347–8:348, 10:546
and classical languages, 14:629, 14:630–14:631
and divine revelation, 13:546–13:548, 13:548, 14:316
experimental psychology, 9:635–9:637, 9:638n
knowledge of in U.S., 8:519, 10:287–10:288n
and religion, 14:234–14:237, 15:525–15:526
TJ’s knowledge of, 10:542

Scientific Dialogues, intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People (J. Joyce)

bound by J. Milligan, 1:36, 12:153, 12:439
reprint of, 4:401, 4:560
TJ cites, 1:482, 1:483n
TJ loans, 2:51
TJ recommends, 1:581, 7:626, 12:534
TJ requests, 1:332–1:333, 1:384, 2:101, 2:264, 3:122, 4:201, 4:288–4:289, 9:274, 9:275n, 15:391n

scientific instruments See also surveying

alidades, 9:222
artificial horizon, 4:167, 4:167n, 4:369, 9:76–9:77, 9:77n, 9:125–9:126, 9:205–9:206, 9:222, 9:222, 9:222, 9:275
astronomical, 3:480, 14:229
balances, hydrostatic, 14:167
ballistic pendulum, 11:51, 11:52n, 11:52–11:54
barometers, 9:239–9:243, 9:313–9:315, 9:642–9:643, 9:689, 11:51, 11:51–11:52, 13:348
barometers, mountain, 9:224, 9:225n, 12:341–12:342, 12:343–12:344, 12:491–12:492
calorimotors, 14:186–14:187n
capstans, 14:167
chronometers, 9:223, 9:223, 9:224, 9:224, 9:224
circumferentors, 9:xliii–9:xliv, 9:344 (illus.), 9:622, 9:622n, 9:643, 9:685–9:686
cobwebs used with, 9:223, 9:225n
compasses, beam, 9:225
compasses, proportional, 9:225
dynameters, 9:225
electricity machines, 14:167
equatorials, 4:237, 4:238n, 4:369, 9:680–9:681, 9:691–9:692, 15:288
levers, 14:167
in lost trunk, 1:153, 1:347, 1:347
lunettes, 5:507, 7:53
magnets, 9:224
meterological, 5:xlviii
micrometers, 7:139, 7:139n, 9:224, 9:225n
microscopes, 9:108, 12:446, 14:167
mirrors, 13:5–13:6
navigational, 3:448
octants, 9:206, 9:207n, 9:223, 9:225n
pantographs, 14:lii, 14:167
pendulums, 4:147–4:148, 4:149n, 4:223–4:225, 4:226, 4:227, 4:228, 4:409–4:410, 6:82–6:83, 8:367, 8:463, 9:126, 9:204–9:205
physiognotraces, 14:lii
planes (inclined), 14:167
plane tables, 9:222
protractors, 4:341
pulleys, 14:167
pumps, air, 14:127, 14:167
quadrants, 13:348
reflecting circles, 9:222, 9:222, 9:689, 9:691, 9:691–9:692
scales, 9:223
screws, 14:167
sextants, 4:369, 4:370n, 9:37n, 9:76, 9:125, 9:156, 9:206, 9:207n, 9:415, 9:508, 9:508, 9:622, 9:643, 9:643, 9:689, 10:289, 10:324, 11:50, 11:112, 13:385, 14:561, 14:595, 15:464n
specula, 9:76, 9:77n
spirit levels, 9:76, 9:205, 9:205, 9:222, 9:222, 9:222, 9:224, 9:225, 11:55
sundials, 4:96–4:98, 10:xlvii, 10:240 (illus.), 10:350, 10:350 (illus.), 10:350, 10:351n (illus.), 11:174, 11:176, 11:432
telescopes, 3:480, 4:237, 4:238n, 4:238n, 4:676, 5:507, 5:508n, 7:139, 9:224, 9:224, 9:224, 9:224, 9:224, 9:224, 9:688, 11:50, 11:625, 13:323, 13:596, 14:6, 14:7, 14:167, 14:270, 14:500, 15:288
theodolites, 4:369, 9:xliii, 9:xliii–9:xliv, 9:82, 9:153, 9:157, 9:168, 9:171n, 9:221, 9:222, 9:222, 9:315, 9:344 (illus.), 9:344 (illus.), 9:622, 9:643, 9:688–9:689, 11:544, 13:385
thermometers, 8:214, 8:304, 9:224, 9:224, 9:239–9:243, 9:689, 10:xlvii, 10:240 (illus.), 10:320, 11:34, 12:343–12:344, 12:352, 12:353, 12:353, 12:491–12:492, 12:574–12:575, 12:618, 12:619, 14:313, 14:550n, 14:594, 14:596, 14:597n, 14:633n, 15:343–15:344
transit instruments, 9:223, 15:287
for University of Virginia, 14:167, 14:200, 15:275, 15:304, 15:305, 15:319, 15:321
for U.S. Coast Survey, 9:126, 9:220–9:221, 9:221n, 9:221–9:225, 9:275, 15:304, 15:305, 15:319, 15:320, 15:321, 15:321n, 15:367
wedges, 14:167
wheels and axles, 14:167

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

Scilla (TJ’s slave; b. 1794). See Gillette, Scilla (TJ’s slave; b. 1794)

Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius, 6:641–6:642n, 7:24, 8:276

Sciurus. See squirrels

scotch broom, 6:7, 6:7, 6:7n, 14:387–14:388, 14:451, 15:15

Scotchtown (Bath Co.)

tavern at, 13:230, 13:231, 13:232

Scotland

Acts of Union (1707)
agriculture in, 12:255
conditions in, 4:360–4:361
constitution of, 2:215
emigration from, 1:238, 2:201–2:202, 2:289, 2:289, 2:290
plants from, 4:535, 4:557
University of Edinburgh, 2:565

Scott, Mr.

and plank for TJ, 5:663

Scott, Mr. (Samuel Scott’s son), 2:323

Scott, Alexander, 1:23n, 1:516, 6:415n

Scott, Andrew

letters from accounted for, 3:245n

Scott, Beverly Roy

identified, 5:408n
seeks naval appointment, 5:408, 5:408–5:409
and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:243

Scott, Charles

death of, 7:10, 7:87
governor of Ky., 6:177n

Scott, Charles A.

and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:325, 11:332, 15:98
as commissioner in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 15:268, 15:269n, 15:347, 15:348, 15:348, 15:416
identified, 3:371n
letters to, 3:371
mentioned, 3:214n
mill of, 3:371, 3:420–3:421
purchases land from R. Jefferson, 8:400
Slate River ferry of, 5:658, 6:213, 6:213

Scott, Daniel (fl. 1753), 3:432

Scott, Daniel (d. 1851)

identified, 3:214n
letters from, 3:224–3:225
letters to, 3:214
sells corn to TJ, 3:214, 3:224–3:225, 3:225n

Scott, James

finds stolen papers, 1:269, 1:284
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349, 5:378–5:380

Scott, John (1782–1861)

and Missouri question, 15:564, 15:565n

Scott, John (of Albemarle Co.)

and Central College subscription, 11:323, 11:330

Scott, John C.

and J. Dougherty, 1:320, 1:321n, 2:432

Scott, John Washington, 1:504n

Scott, Joseph

and anecdote about P. Henry, 10:384
and batture controversy, 2:395, 2:396n
death of, 3:249
identified, 2:364n
letters from accounted for, 2:405n
letters to, 2:363–2:364
TJ recommends Yancey to, 2:363

Scott, Joseph T.

The New and Universal Gazetteer: or, Modern Geographical Dictionary, 1:581

Scott, Luther

as U.S. Army officer, 10:433

Scott, Robert G.

and establishment of University of Virginia, 14:13
identified, 12:290n
letter to, from J. C. Cabell, 12:288–12:290
as member of Va. Council of State, 15:435n, 15:435n
as Va. legislator, 12:285, 12:286–12:287, 12:288n, 12:288–12:290, 12:381, 12:383n, 12:388n, 12:413, 12:414n, 12:432, 12:449, 12:489n

Scott, Samuel

Bill of Complaint in Scott v. Jefferson and Harrison, 4:680–4:684, 5:35n
family of, 5:243, 5:408, 5:408n, 5:408
identified, 4:683n
intemperance alleged, 5:39, 5:239, 5:243
letters from accounted for, 2:232, 2:232–2:233n
litigiousness alleged, 5:239, 5:243, 5:361
TJ’s land dispute with, 2:96–2:97, 2:148–2:149, 2:232, 2:233n, 2:303, 2:303, 2:322–2:323, 2:324n, 2:326, 2:327, 2:327–2:328, 3:640, 4:308–4:309, 4:549, 4:583–4:585, 4:647, 4:677–4:678, 4:679, 4:680–4:684, 5:39–5:40, 5:40–5:41, 5:48–5:50, 5:50n, 5:61–5:62, 5:62–5:63, 5:87, 5:89–5:90, 5:90–5:91, 5:161–5:162, 5:210–5:211, 5:239, 5:242–5:243, 5:245, 5:263, 5:287, 5:338, 5:339, 5:339–5:340, 5:341, 5:342–5:343, 5:361, 6:332, 6:332n, 6:351, 8:285, 8:328, 8:333, 8:351, 8:417, 8:418n

Scott, Thomas

on biblical book of Daniel, 7:36–7:37
Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, 2:321, 2:321–2:322n, 2:337, 2:349, 7:36–7:37, 7:195
Theological works, 2:321

Scott, Sir Walter

The Antiquary, 11:630, 11:630n
poetry of, 4:201, 4:201–4:202n, 4:561

Scott, Winfield

as American military commander, 7:524–7:525, 7:525n, 8:263–8:264, 8:443, 10:94n, 10:187
on French political situation, 9:388, 9:390–9:391, 9:391–9:392
identified, 9:392–9:393n
letter from, to J. Monroe, 9:390–9:393
meets Lafayette, 9:69
on U.S. relations with Spain, 9:391, 9:444

The Scottish Chiefs (J. Porter), 7:65, 8:626, 8:626n

Scott v. Jefferson and Harrison See also Scott, Samuel: TJ’s land dispute with

case dismissed, 8:328, 8:333
court costs in, 6:338n, 8:328, 8:333, 8:351, 8:351, 8:417, 8:418n
S. Scott’s bill of complaint in, 4:680–4:684, 5:35n
TJ prepares for chancery case, 5:xlvii–5:xlviii, 5:32–5:33, 5:34–5:35, 5:35n, 5:48–5:50, 5:61–5:62, 5:63–5:64, 5:90–5:91, 5:161–5:162, 5:230–5:236, 5:264, 5:282–5:284, 5:287, 5:287–5:288, 5:337, 5:337, 5:338, 5:339, 5:339–5:340, 5:342–5:343, 5:358 (illus.), 5:361
TJ’s Answer to Bill of Complaint, 5:230–5:236
TJ’s Notes on Evidence, 5:229

Scotus. See Duns Scotus, John

screws, 14:167, 15:206

Scriptorum de Jure Nautico et Maritimo Fasciculus (F. Stypmann, R. Kuricke, J. Loccenius, and J. G. Heineccius), 8:387, 8:387–8:388n

Scriptorum Rei Rusticae Veterum Latinorum (ed. J. G. Schneider), 12:112

A Scriptural View of the Character, Causes, and Ends of the Present War (A. McLeod), 8:228, 8:228, 8:340–8:341, 8:344, 8:344, 11:159

sculpture See also Jefferson, Thomas: Portraits

P. Cardelli’s busts, 14:liii–14:liv, 14:246, 14:250 (illus.), 14:522, 15:27–15:28
W. J. Coffee’s terra-cotta busts, 12:li, 12:lii, 12:348 (illus.), 12:348 (illus.), 12:571–12:572, 12:572, 12:586, 12:625, 12:626n, 13:49, 13:49n, 13:344, 15:318, 15:318, 15:334, 15:474
of A. Jackson, 15:li, 15:346 (illus.), 15:362, 15:363, 15:363n, 15:383
at the Louvre, 14:444
at Monticello, 3:563+, 15:li–15:lii, 15:383, 15:383n
professional education in, 7:639, 7:687
for U.S. Capitol, 12:520, 12:641, 12:641, 12:642, 14:246
use of gypsum in, 12:541–12:542
of G. Washington, 8:161, 8:162n, 8:577–8:578, 9:128, 9:332–9:333, 9:333n, 9:350, 9:384–9:386, 9:387n+, 9:671, 10:412–10:413, 10:414–10:415, 10:415n, 10:476, 11:171, 15:561

scuppernong (wine), 11:50, 11:156, 11:175, 11:218, 11:219, 11:237, 11:238, 11:292, 11:295–11:296, 11:300, 11:302, 11:345, 13:126–13:127, 13:173, 13:277, 13:283, 13:287, 13:577, 14:76, 14:141, 14:520, 14:561

scurvy

treatments for, 5:30, 5:550–5:551

scurvy grass, 5:550–5:551

Scutellaria lateriflora. See skullcap

scythe, 7:83

Sea, Mr.

and H. Marks’s estate, 4:510, 4:511, 4:512n, 5:95–5:96, 5:96n

Sea Lion (schooner), 11:397n

Seabrook, John

identified, 8:198n
letter from, 8:196–8:198
and TJ’s religious beliefs, 8:196–8:198

Seabrook, Richard, 1:440, 1:454, 1:454, 1:459, 1:460, 5:422

Seabury, Edmund, 10:235, 10:235n, 15:26

Seaman, Walter, 12:142n

Séances des Écoles Normales, recueillies par des Sténographes et revues par les Professeurs, 1:37

Sears, Mr. (in Paris), 7:490

Sears, David

visits French empress, 7:490

Sears, Miriam Mason (David Sears’s wife)

visits French empress, 7:490

The Seasons (J. Thomson), 12:534

Seaton, William Winston

and Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 11:144n
editor of Washington National Intelligencer, 2:671n, 9:641, 13:469, 13:469n, 14:525n
identified, 6:506n

Sebastian, king of Portugal

and E. Aram’s murder trial, 7:377

Sebrell, Nicholas, 1:616

The Second Annual Report of the American Society for colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States, 14:577–14:578, 15:57

The Second Crisis of America (A. C. Mitchell), 8:564, 8:564n, 8:608, 8:608n

Second Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses (T. Law), 7:342, 7:342n, 7:412, 7:468n

Second Voyage Dans L’Intérieur De L’Afrique, Par Le Cap De Bonne-Espérance, Dans Les Années 1783, 84 et 85 (F. Le Vaillant), 7:389

Secretary’s Ford (Albemarle Co.)

and Rivanna Company, 3:141, 3:144, 3:192, 3:286, 11:76, 11:78, 11:90, 11:93n, 11:550, 11:551, 12:596, 12:597, 14:362, 14:363–14:364, 14:408, 14:417
road at, 10:581–10:582, 10:582, 10:583, 10:667, 10:667, 11:119, 11:243, 11:243, 11:244n, 11:244n, 11:244, 11:245, 12:58, 12:58, 13:275

The Secret History of the Court And Reign of Charles The Second. By A Member Of His Privy Council, 7:389

“The Secret History of the Line” (W. Byrd [1674–1744]), 10:470, 10:470n, 11:21–11:22, 11:125–11:126, 11:206, 11:239, 11:426, 11:450–11:451, 11:477, 11:524, 11:524n, 11:574, 11:574n, 12:168–12:169, 12:169n, 12:236, 12:257, 12:294, 12:371–12:372, 12:390–12:391, 12:392

Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, from the first meeting thereof to the dissolution of the Confederation, by the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, 14:293

Sedgwick, Theodore

Federalist legislator, 6:194, 6:254
as judge, 8:376n

sedition law, 1:278, 7:236–7:237

seeds

anemone, double, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n
artichoke roots, 11:179
auricula, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n
barley, 4:562, 5:384, 15:156
bean, 6:44–6:45, 7:326, 13:519, 13:599
black cotton, 1:258, 1:259–1:260n
brought from the West by M. Lewis, 6:152
burnet, 4:487, 4:515, 4:522, 4:526, 4:530
cabbage, 2:90, 5:384, 6:7, 6:44, 6:86, 8:258, 8:272, 11:221
canary seed, 2:271
cantaloupe, 3:473, 3:501, 3:503n
carnation, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n
cauliflower, 2:90
chicory (succory), 11:308–11:309, 11:310n, 13:303, 13:361, 13:438
clover, 3:180, 3:184, 3:194, 3:448, 3:456, 4:518, 4:525, 4:525, 4:526, 4:548, 4:557, 5:324, 8:367, 8:459–8:460, 8:520, 8:535, 9:494, 12:304, 12:614n, 14:256, 14:628
E. W. R. Coolidge’s, 12:635n
cork, 5:438, 5:560
corn, 2:334
cotton, 1:666, 12:547, 12:551
cucumber, 6:214
distributed by M. J. Randolph, 9:533, 9:608
eggplant, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n
Egyptian grass, 1:555, 2:301, 2:302
for Elgin Botanic Garden, 9:369–9:370, 10:239–10:240, 12:477, 12:481
flax, 2:371, 8:460, 10:548n, 15:327
gorse (whin), 14:299
grass, 6:26, 6:66, 6:67, 6:81, 6:128, 12:255
green cottonseed, 1:82, 1:258, 1:259–1:260n
gum arabic tree, 7:16, 7:16n
hemp, 2:371, 15:326, 15:476
holly, 10:293
kale, 5:384, 6:44, 6:86
kale, sea, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n, 13:325, 15:137, 15:152, 15:398
kale, sprout, 4:562, 6:7, 6:44, 6:86, 8:272, 9:532, 11:151, 11:174–11:175, 13:111
lentil, 13:278
lettuce, 4:527, 5:31, 8:258, 8:272
from B. McMahon, 3:439, 3:440n
melon, 10:317, 10:346, 14:312
mignonette, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n
millet, 2:335
oat, 2:93, 5:384, 12:302, 13:75
oat-grass, 3:460–3:461
orchard grass, 10:517, 11:336
parsnip, 1:157
pea, 6:45, 6:514, 7:288, 13:278, 13:545, 13:566, 13:581, 13:604
peach stones, 11:221
pepper, 5:364–5:365, 6:66–6:67, 6:67, 6:81, 6:127, 6:187, 6:195, 6:196, 6:615, 7:326
for Poplar Forest garden, 15:172
pumpkin, 7:263, 7:282, 7:307–7:308
and reproduction, 12:442
from J. Ronaldson, 5:369–5:370, 6:7n
rutabaga, 2:481, 2:543, 13:75, 13:111, 14:180, 14:231, 14:243, 14:249–14:250, 14:460, 14:461
rye, 3:65, 8:74, 13:75
sainfoin, 11:170–11:171, 11:171–11:172, 11:302, 11:336, 11:337, 11:353, 11:378, 11:577, 11:580–11:581n, 13:75, 15:326–15:327, 15:601, 15:602n
scotch broom, 6:7, 14:387–14:388, 14:451, 15:15
sent by TJ, 2:302, 3:454, 3:454, 3:454, 3:502–3:503, 3:544–3:545, 4:498, 4:523, 5:490, 5:553, 5:653, 5:658, 6:44–6:45, 6:196, 6:615, 7:31, 7:90, 7:332, 8:615, 8:615–8:616, 8:640, 9:532–9:533, 9:533, 10:239–10:240, 10:287, 10:517, 11:151, 11:183, 12:477, 12:481, 12:516, 12:528, 13:111, 13:303, 14:92, 14:99, 14:325, 14:499, 15:398
sent to M. J. Randolph, 7:16, 11:639
sent to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 14:445
sent to TJ, 1:141, 2:162, 2:270, 2:271–2:272, 2:301–2:302, 2:310, 2:506, 2:536, 2:543, 2:669, 3:41, 3:65, 3:98–3:99, 3:419, 3:583, 3:604, 3:604, 3:614, 3:629, 4:34, 4:84, 4:85n, 4:363, 4:497–4:498, 4:534, 4:559, 4:565–4:566, 4:569, 4:621, 6:26, 6:45, 6:66–6:67, 6:81, 6:152, 6:195, 6:196, 6:615, 7:16, 7:54–7:55, 7:90, 7:90, 7:263, 7:282, 7:307–7:308, 7:326, 7:349, 7:634, 8:74, 8:420, 8:590, 8:615, 8:615, 9:102, 9:229–9:230, 9:262–9:263, 9:333, 9:369–9:370, 9:404, 10:89, 10:212, 10:239–10:240, 10:263, 10:317, 10:346, 11:170–11:171, 11:263, 12:477, 12:482, 13:77–13:78, 13:85, 13:94, 13:131, 13:140, 13:141, 13:165, 13:278, 13:307, 13:315, 14:175, 14:202, 14:243, 14:249, 14:256, 14:312, 14:325, 14:460, 14:461, 14:499, 15:117, 15:156, 15:157, 15:326–15:327, 15:341, 15:348, 15:369, 15:476, 15:485, 15:501, 15:547, 15:554
sesame, 1:84, 1:105, 1:198, 1:211–1:212, 1:436–1:437n, 1:555, 1:667, 2:301, 3:225, 3:368, 3:454, 3:454, 3:502, 3:545, 3:636–3:637, 4:7, 4:39–4:40, 6:382, 6:514, 14:18
Spanish broom, 9:533
squash, 14:312
sweet acacia, 1:555, 2:301, 2:302
sweet potato, 8:680
timothy, 3:454, 3:456, 3:460–3:461, 4:77, 4:156, 4:156, 4:157n, 4:194, 4:236
tobacco, 7:31, 13:438
tomato, 7:332
turnip, 4:363, 5:384, 6:514, 10:89, 10:212, 10:263
watermelon, 14:202
wheat, 8:158, 8:173, 8:174n, 13:75, 13:75, 13:77, 13:77, 13:77, 13:77–13:78, 13:94, 15:156, 15:327, 15:476
wintermelon, 2:302
yellow cotton, 14:256, 14:628

seed stand

in TJ’s closet, 1:390, 1:400n
vials for, 1:190, 1:191n, 1:245, 1:308, 1:309n

Seelah (Celer; TJ’s horse), 5:497, 5:497n, 5:498n

Ségur, Louis Philippe, comte de

Abrégé de l’Histoire Universelle, ancienne et moderne, a l’Usage de la Jeunesse, 12:534–12:535n
Tableau Historique et Politique de l’Europe, depuis 1786 jusqu’en 1796, 10:234, 10:237n

Seixas, Gershom Mendes

death of, 10:367n

Séjournant, Nicolas de

Nouveau Dictionnaire Espagnol-François et Latin, 12:535n

Selby, John (ship captain), 10:91, 10:92n, 10:274, 10:411, 10:416

Selby, Skeffington

identified, 3:426–3:427n
letters from, 3:426–3:427
letters to, 3:457–3:458
and T. Nelson’s bonds, 3:426, 3:457–3:458

Selden, John

English jurist, 6:302

Selden, Miles (d. 1811)

considered for appointment by TJ, 1:25
and P. Mazzei’s property, 5:598, 6:115+

Selden, Samuel

Revolutionary War service of, 15:193

Select American Biography (W. Barton), 7:398–7:400, 7:446–7:447, 7:511

Select Essays of Dio Chrysostom (ed. and trans. G. Wakefield), 12:183

Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematics (T. Simpson), 5:417, 7:458, 7:458n, 8:481–8:482, 8:482n

Selecti ex Luciano Dialogi Quidam (Lucian; ed. J. Stock), 14:551

A Selection of the Patriotic Addresses, to the President of the United States. together with The President’s Answers (ed. W. Austin), 12:514, 13:33, 13:47

Selections of a Father for the Use of His Children. In Prose and Verse (I. Gomez), 15:495, 15:495n, 15:496n, 15:526

Selkirk, Alexander, 10:169

Selkirk, Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of

family of, 15:470n

Sellers, Coleman

and fire engines, 11:374

Sellers, Nathan

and corn sieve, 7:79–7:80
and perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–5:l, 5:559n

Selma, Fernando

engraver, 7:563

Seminole Indians, 5:651–5:652, 6:67–6:68, 6:112, 6:113n, 13:286n, 14:28, 14:92, 14:92n, 14:111n, 14:279, 15:233

Semple, James

and College of William and Mary, 5:469, 12:135
and faculty position for J. Meigs, 5:373–5:374
identified, 5:374n
letters from, 5:469–5:470
letters to, 5:373–5:374

Sempronius (fictional character)

TJ compared to, 7:312, 7:312n+

Senate, U.S. See also Congress, U.S.; Otis, Samuel Allyne

J. Adams on, 6:624
and Anglo-American trade bill, 12:591, 12:592n
and appointment of foreigners, 3:443, 9:358, 9:358n, 9:446
and appointments, 8:45, 8:141, 8:153, 8:206n, 11:146n, 12:485, 13:289
and Bank of U.S., 4:113, 4:113n, 4:128–4:130
and bankruptcy, 15:514–15:515, 15:515n
and batture controversy, 3:203–3:204
bribery case of 1795, 12:398–12:399
certifies elections, 6:185n
chamber of, 1:473, 1:475n, 1:595, 3:534, 3:535, 3:556, 10:510, 10:615, 11:480
and Cherokee Indians, 7:164, 7:200, 7:200n
clerical salaries in, 8:115
clerk of, 1:535
Committee on Military Affairs, 8:67n, 8:443n
and declaration of war, 5:142n, 5:220
doorkeeper election, 4:124, 4:163, 4:164n, 4:171, 11:182, 11:182n, 11:214
and Embargo of 1812, 4:586–4:587, 4:588n
and O. Evans’s patent machinery, 6:454, 6:454n
and Gallatin-Smith feud, 2:430
and A. Gallatin’s nomination, 6:105n, 6:202–6:203, 6:241, 6:241, 6:313
and inauguration of J. Monroe, 11:14–11:15, 11:15n
journals of, 8:631, 12:398, 12:400
mentioned, 2:570, 6:563, 8:20n, 8:175, 8:406–8:407, 9:700, 12:368, 12:497, 12:640n
messages from TJ, 1:643n
and Missouri question, 15:364, 15:364n, 15:409, 15:409n, 15:434, 15:434n, 15:443–15:444, 15:444, 15:444n, 15:460n
and national debt, 8:110, 8:111n
and office of postmaster general, 7:197n
orders W. Duane’s prosecution, 2:412n
petitions to, 10:636n
Public Lands Committee, 10:636n
and public works, 2:213–2:214, 2:589, 2:613–2:614, 11:122, 11:123n, 11:410–11:411, 12:252
and purchase of TJ’s library, 7:679–7:680, 7:680, 8:26, 8:36, 9:409, 9:409–9:410n
ratifies Treaty of Ghent (1814), 8:268, 8:269n, 8:269
rejects W. Short’s nomination, 1:38
resolution concerning Jackson, 2:70n
and J. Russell’s nomination, 6:240, 6:241, 6:241, 6:242, 6:242n
S. Smith’s reelection to, 1:515–1:516
supports R. Fulton’s torpedo, 2:250, 2:251n, 2:301
and term limits, 6:68, 6:432, 6:518, 14:145–14:146n
and trade licenses, 5:636, 5:637n
treaty powers of, 6:433n, 9:548–9:550, 9:550–9:551n, 9:551–9:552n, 10:518, 15:18
and U.S. Military Academy, 15:341–15:342, 15:342n
and weights and measures, 12:90, 12:92n, 12:155

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Seneca the Elder)

M. Annaei Senecae Rhetoris Opera, 10:233

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Seneca the Younger)

J. Adams on, 11:269
De Consolatione ad Helviam, 10:276, 10:277n
mentioned, 6:299, 6:542, 7:447
A New Translation of the Morals of Seneca (trans. Bennet), 1:576
Oeuvres de Séneque le philosophe (trans. N. de La Grange), 10:233, 10:236–10:237n, 12:534, 14:511
writings of, 7:627
TJ on, 15:163

Seneca Indians, 2:59, 2:175

Seneca snakeroot (Polygala senega), 9:40, 9:40n

Senegal

and Société Coloniale Philanthropique de la Sénégambie, 11:255, 11:256n, 11:457, 11:501
and wine, 13:16, 13:443

Sentelet, Jean Ferdinand, 10:230

Senter, Isaac, 5:64, 5:67n

Senter, Nathaniel Greene Montague

identified, 5:67n
letters from, 5:64–5:68, 5:398–5:399, 5:407–5:408
letters to, 5:218, 5:429–5:430
and New Orleans charitable society, 5:65, 5:218
seeks military appointment, 5:398–5:399, 5:399n, 5:407, 5:430
“Travels in the Western Country,” 5:407, 5:407n
travel writings of, 5:64–5:65, 5:68n, 5:218, 5:407–5:408, 5:429

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (L. Sterne), 4:85n

Sentinel of the Valley (Woodstock, Va., newspaper)

publishes TJ’s letters, 10:221

Seppia, Giuseppe del

family of, 9:673

Seppia, Luigi del

witnesses will, 9:673

Septuaginta Interpretum (ed. J. E. Grabe), 12:582, 13:293, 13:295

Serapis, HMS

medal commemorating capture of, 9:54

Sergeant, John

as U.S. representative from Pa., 15:238n

Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, 6:254, 7:217

A Sermon delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Jared Sparks (W. E. Channing), 14:612–14:613

A Sermon delivered in Boston before The American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry. Oct. 26, 1815 (E. Pearson), 9:255, 9:255, 9:257n, 9:379, 9:382

A Sermon, Preached at Boston, before his Excellency Christopher Gore (E. Parish), 3:75n, 3:156

sermons

clergyman tried for comments made during, 1:277, 1:278n
pamphlet of bound for TJ, 8:630
preached in Charlottesville, 9:48, 9:112
recommended by TJ, 7:627
sent to E. W. R. Coolidge, 10:528
sent to TJ, 1:138, 2:411–2:412, 3:75n, 3:156, 3:431, 3:456–3:457, 4:230, 4:231n, 7:198–7:199, 7:199n, 8:228, 8:228, 10:366, 11:159, 11:159n, 12:356, 12:576
TJ recommends, 12:534

Sermons (L. Bourdaloue), 7:627, 12:534

Sermons (J. B. Massillon), 7:627, 12:534

Sermons by The late Rev. Mr. Sterne (L. Sterne), 8:388, 12:534

Sermons, chiefly on particular occasions (A. Alison), 12:534

Sermons on Particular Occasions (J. Freeman), 10:528

Sermons on the Christian Doctrine (R. Price), 12:313, 12:356

Serres, Olivier de

mentioned, 11:162
Le Théâtre d’Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs, 1:35, 1:581, 2:82, 7:626, 11:164

Serrier, Michel Raymond

as physician, 13:443

Sérurier, Louis Barbé Charles

as French minister to U.S., 4:54, 4:55n, 6:637, 7:98–7:99, 7:99n, 10:69
and L. P. G. de Lormerie’s passage, 5:432–5:433, 6:102

servants, indentured

opinions on, 11:305

Serveto (Servetus), Miguel

execution of, 15:539–15:540, 15:603
F. A. Van der Kemp’s work on, 4:614, 10:121, 10:122n, 11:138, 11:139n

sesame (benne; benni)

J. Bradbury on, 1:436–1:437n
cultivation of, 11:345
and C. Harris, 1:84, 1:211–1:212
and J. Milledge, 1:667, 3:636–3:637, 4:39–4:40
oil, 1:84n, 1:212, 3:636–3:637, 4:7, 4:39–4:40
seeds of requested from TJ, 14:18
H. G. Spafford requests from TJ, 1:105, 1:198
TJ cultivates, 4:7, 6:382, 6:514
TJ receives seeds of, 1:555, 2:301, 2:302, 3:225
TJ sends seeds of, 3:454, 3:454, 3:502, 3:545
and J. W. Wallace, 3:368

Sesamum indicum. See sesame (benne; benni)

Sète. See Cette (Sète), France

Seventy-Six Association (Charleston, S.C.)

forwards orations, 4:105–4:107, 4:175+, 6:88, 6:90n, 6:124–6:125, 8:315, 11:528–11:529, 11:529n, 11:530n, 11:582, 13:157, 14:572, 15:53
identified, 4:107n
letters from, 4:105–4:107, 6:88–6:90, 8:315–8:316, 11:528–11:530, 13:157–13:159
letters to, 4:175+, 6:124–6:125, 11:582
letters to accounted for, 4:107n
toasts of sent to TJ, 7:459, 7:459n, 13:130n

Seven Years’ War

TJ’s recollections of, 7:30, 7:32n, 10:269

Several Discourses preached at the Temple Church (T. Sherlock), 12:534

Seville, Spain

yellow fever in, 10:128, 10:129

Sewall, Jonathan, 6:258

Sewall, Samuel, 8:376n

Sewall, Stephen

as judge, 12:494

Sewall, Thomas

“Experiments and Observations on Cutaneous Absorption,” 15:501, 15:502n
“Extract of an Inaugural Dissertation on the Functions and Diseases of the Pancreas,” 15:501, 15:502n
identified, 14:312n
introduced to TJ, 14:312
letter from, 15:501–15:502
letter to, 15:528
plans to visit Monticello, 14:312, 15:501, 15:528
requests letter of introduction from TJ, 15:502, 15:528
and seeds for TJ, 15:501

sextant

for surveying, 9:508, 9:508, 9:622, 9:643, 9:643, 9:689, 10:289, 10:324, 11:50, 11:112, 14:561, 14:595, 15:464n
TJ uses, 4:369, 4:370n, 9:37n, 9:156, 9:415, 13:385
uses of, 9:76, 9:125, 9:206, 9:207n

Seybert, Adam

congressional Joint Library Committee member, 8:14
and T. Cooper’s mineral collection, 12:238
and domestic manufactures, 1:170–1:172
A. von Humboldt sends regards to, 1:453n
identified, 1:172n
letters from, 1:170–1:172
Statistical Annals, 13:603

Seymour, Dr.

and tobacco treatments, 5:669

Seymour, Henry

and Lafayette’s La. lands, 5:68–5:69, 5:69n

Shaaff (Shoaff), John Thomas

physician of J. Madison, 6:241

Shackelford, Benjamin

correspondence with W. P. Newby, 8:357n
Culpeper C.H. tavern keeper, 1:52n, 5:572n
forwards correspondence for TJ, 5:571–5:572, 5:573, 7:157n, 8:357
identified, 5:572n
letters from, 5:571–5:572, 8:357
letters to accounted for, 5:572n, 8:204n

Shackelford, Lyne

estate of, 3:36–3:37, 3:196, 3:250, 3:270, 3:283–3:284, 3:367–3:368, 3:529, 4:9, 4:9n

Shackelford, Richard

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
rents land from W. Short, 4:197

Shackleford, Zachariah

and Central College subscription, 11:326, 11:330, 13:162
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

shad

compared to carp, 4:629
compared to paddlefish, 3:92
given to TJ, 11:344
mentioned, 6:132, 6:132, 6:134, 14:161
observations on, 11:39
sent from Poplar Forest, 15:229, 15:230n, 15:248, 15:311
TJ purchases, 2:109, 5:155, 5:164, 7:321, 7:332, 7:333n, 7:448, 7:448, 11:337, 11:337n, 13:99, 14:321, 14:542, 14:573, 15:591–15:592
TJ sends to M. Wills, 4:668
white, 1:369
works on, 5:601–5:602, 5:604–5:605

Shadwell (TJ’s estate)

account for lease to C. Peyton, 5:419, 5:421, 5:423
acreage of, 4:387
border of, 3:572–3:573n
cemetery at, 11:566
dispute over lease of, 2:85–2:86, 2:150–2:151, 2:198–2:199, 2:200, 2:212–2:213, 2:239–2:240, 2:240, 2:277–2:281, 2:281, 2:282, 2:286, 2:286–2:287, 2:294
fire at, 9:690
flour from, 14:211
overseers at, 1:137–1:138n
raspberries at, 11:624
rent due on, 2:421–2:422, 2:422n
TJ conveys part of to T. J. Randolph, 6:35–6:36, 6:416
TJ inherits, 11:72

Shadwell mills See also Shoemaker, Isaac; Shoemaker, Jonathan; Thomas M. Randolph & Company

builders at, 1:192n, 13:476n, 14:360
canal at, 10:347–10:348, 10:614, 11:102, 11:348–11:350, 12:243, 12:543, 12:593–12:594, 12:595, 12:596–12:597, 12:598, 12:599, 12:601, 12:601, 12:601–12:602, 12:603, 12:604, 14:357–14:358, 14:359–14:366, 14:381, 14:405–14:406, 14:407–14:409, 14:410–14:411, 14:417, 14:422, 14:485, 14:501, 14:541, 14:554, 15:11, 15:44, 15:216–15:221, 15:228 (illus.)
J. B. Chandler seeks work at, 4:495, 4:590
dam at, 3:204–3:205, 3:218, 3:300, 3:300, 8:236, 8:241, 11:102, 11:104, 12:594, 12:597, 12:597–12:598, 12:599, 12:601, 12:602–12:603, 12:603, 14:407–14:408, 14:410–14:411, 14:417, 14:422, 14:541, 14:554, 14:585, 15:11, 15:216–15:221
J. Eliason wishes to rent, 6:91, 6:118, 6:123, 6:149–6:150, 6:166
O. Evans’s machinery installed at, 6:384–6:385
flour from, 2:269, 2:292, 2:300, 4:548–4:549, 8:207, 8:582, 9:99, 9:547, 9:547–9:548n, 9:665, 10:181–10:182, 10:183, 10:396, 10:435, 10:472, 10:474–10:475, 10:478, 11:290, 11:459, 12:139, 12:476, 13:13–13:14, 13:18, 13:120, 13:141, 13:355–13:356, 14:50, 14:213, 14:244, 14:272, 14:275, 14:415, 14:468, 14:469, 15:109, 15:243–15:244, 15:332
flour mill at, 6:xliii, 6:386 (illus.), 8:624, 8:625n, 9:498–9:499, 9:546–9:547, 10:167, 10:348, 12:542, 12:543, 12:547–12:548, 13:116, 13:277, 14:356, 14:359, 14:360–14:365, 14:394, 14:399, 14:405, 14:554, 14:585, 14:585, 14:602, 15:11
improvements to, 2:670, 3:293, 3:359, 3:521, 3:527, 4:50, 4:51, 4:144, 4:144–4:145, 4:145–4:146, 4:200–4:201, 4:661–4:662, 6:634, 11:72–11:75, 13:116, 13:120
interim millers at during War of 1812, 6:428n, 6:620
land reserved for use of, 6:35
lease of, 1:488n, 3:464–3:465, 3:581, 3:614, 6:149–6:150, 8:205n, 10:167, 10:168, 10:396, 10:472, 10:474–10:475, 11:185–11:186, 14:392
location of, 4:6n
McKinney recommended for, 2:383
managed by J. McKinney, 4:183, 4:183n, 4:233, 4:374n, 5:120–5:121, 8:204–8:205, 8:205n
manufacturing mill at, 11:348–11:350, 14:360–14:361, 14:364, 15:228, 15:228
mentioned, 1:579
mill wheels at, 4:51
mismanagement at, 1:108–1:110, 1:139n, 1:139–1:140, 1:282–1:283, 2:292, 3:51–3:52, 3:111, 3:156–3:157, 3:184, 3:644
and T. E. Randolph, 8:204–8:205, 8:205n, 8:625n, 9:99, 9:133, 9:312–9:313, 9:313n, 9:415, 9:498–9:499, 9:546–9:547, 9:547, 9:547–9:548n, 9:567–9:568, 9:665, 10:118, 10:167, 10:168, 10:181–10:182, 10:183, 10:396, 10:472, 10:474–10:475, 10:478, 11:168–11:169, 11:185–11:186, 11:194–11:195, 11:210–11:211, 11:213, 11:459, 13:13–13:14, 13:116, 14:468, 14:468–14:469, 14:473, 15:433, 15:552, 15:552n
and T. M. Randolph, 4:6, 4:6n, 4:183, 4:183n, 4:374n, 4:548, 5:120–5:121, 5:228, 5:499, 5:517, 5:530, 5:570–5:571, 5:575, 5:591n, 5:671, 6:91, 6:118, 6:123, 6:149–6:150, 6:166, 6:430, 6:620, 8:204–8:205, 8:205n, 8:205n, 8:625n, 9:99, 9:133, 9:312–9:313, 9:313n, 9:498–9:499, 9:546–9:547, 9:547, 9:547–9:548n, 9:567–9:568, 10:167, 10:168, 14:392–14:394, 14:398
rent for, 1:407, 1:408, 1:421–1:422, 1:451–1:452, 4:183, 4:233, 5:400–5:402, 5:671, 8:204–8:205, 8:205n, 8:207, 8:284, 8:624, 8:625n, 9:99, 9:133, 9:272–9:273, 9:499, 9:665, 10:167, 10:168, 10:181–10:182, 10:183, 10:396, 10:472, 10:475, 11:168–11:169, 11:185–11:186, 11:194–11:195, 11:210–11:211, 11:213, 11:380, 11:459, 12:29, 12:139, 12:476, 12:644, 12:645, 13:322, 14:316, 14:317, 14:468, 14:469, 14:472, 14:473, 14:571, 15:433, 15:471, 15:518, 15:544, 15:544, 15:544–15:545
repairs to, 5:307n, 6:620, 11:169, 12:547, 12:563, 14:361, 14:365, 15:331, 15:334, 15:607, 15:607n
and Rivanna Company, 3:161, 3:191, 3:192, 3:216–3:218, 3:287, 3:421–3:422, 3:527, 5:517, 5:529, 6:596, 6:629, 6:629, 6:634–6:635, 10:347–10:348, 10:369, 10:369, 11:64, 11:69, 11:99, 11:100–11:101, 11:101–11:102, 11:550–11:554, 11:555, 11:556–11:558, 12:593, 12:594–12:595, 12:596, 12:596–12:597, 14:356, 14:357–14:358, 14:359–14:366, 14:381, 14:392–14:394, 14:396, 14:397–14:399, 14:400–14:401, 14:405–14:406, 14:417, 14:485, 14:501, 14:541, 15:227, 15:228n, 15:268–15:269, 15:347, 15:348
road at, 12:48, 13:276n
sale of, 6:xliii
taxes on, 8:393
TJ’s drawing of mills and canal at, 15:228 (illus.)
TJ’s insurance for, 1:218–1:219, 1:417, 1:417n, 1:625–1:626, 1:659–1:660, 2:29, 13:34
TJ visits, 8:240
and toll mill, 1:626, 1:626, 5:120–5:121, 6:430, 10:597, 12:543, 12:547, 14:360, 14:361, 14:363–14:364, 14:365, 14:395, 14:585, 15:11, 15:228
W. Tompkin’s drawing and measurements of, 14:418–14:419
waterwheel at, 12:543

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3d Earl of

works of, 8:49

Shakers

books on, 8:469, 8:469n
civil status of, 11:411, 11:412n, 11:415–11:416

Shakespeare, William

characters of, 11:624n, 11:628
in collegiate curriculum, 7:664
The Comedy of Errors referenced, 6:517, 6:517n
Hamlet referenced, 5:581, 5:582n, 6:98, 6:100n, 6:128, 6:129n, 7:258, 7:259n, 7:711, 7:712n, 10:588, 10:589n, 13:499, 13:500n
S. Johnson’s edition of, 9:88n
King Lear referenced, 6:14, 6:16n
Macbeth referenced, 7:478, 7:481n, 10:5, 10:8n
Measure for Measure referenced, 6:517, 6:517n
The Merchant of Venice referenced by TJ, 8:525, 8:527n
and neology, 9:633
Othello referenced, 7:403, 7:405n, 7:557, 7:560n, 9:101, 9:101n, 11:483, 11:484n
Richard III referenced, 14:45, 14:546
Romeo and Juliet referenced, 5:484, 5:484n, 6:227, 6:228n, 9:596, 9:597n
The Tempest referenced by TJ, 6:591, 6:593n
TJ recommends, 7:629, 12:532, 12:534
translated by F. von Schlegel, 9:84
works of, 1:412, 1:412n, 14:185

Shaler, William

as consul general at Algiers, 10:217, 10:218n, 11:122, 11:123n, 11:534n, 12:473, 14:599, 15:66, 15:196
forwards papers to TJ, 7:505–7:506
and trunk for TJ, 7:505, 8:36, 8:245, 8:420

Shannon, HMS (frigate), 6:251n, 9:331n

Sharp, Mr.

corn crop of, 9:151
sells oxen to TJ, 6:306n

Sharp, Granville, 3:268, 3:269n

Sharp, Leander J., 8:448

Sharpe, Robert

TJ buys land from, 4:387

Shattuck, George Cheyne

identified, 1:51n
letters to, 1:50–1:51
Three Dissertations on Boylston Prize Questions for the Years 1806 and 1807, 1:50–1:51, 1:51n

Shaw, Mr. (stonemason), 8:592

Shaw, George

and classification of animals, 7:152

Shaw, John (1750–1824)

edits Apollonii Rhodii Argonauticorum libri quatuor (Apollonius Rhodius), 10:234

Shaw, John (1773–1823)

and J. M. Baker, 12:473, 12:474n
commands American squadron in Mediterranean, 10:119, 10:216, 11:509, 11:662

Shaw, Joseph

as classics tutor, 14:126

Shaw, Thomas

Travels, or Observations relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, 6:380, 6:380, 6:380–6:381, 6:381

Shaw, William Smith

conveys letters to and from TJ, 13:529, 13:530n, 13:615
identified, 13:530n
introduces G. Ticknor, 8:148, 8:149n
letter to, from E. T. Channing, 13:529–13:530
mentioned, 13:588

shawls, 15:452

Shawnee Indians, 4:485n, 8:151, 8:552, 12:296n

Shaw’s Tavern (Bath Co.), 13:230, 13:231, 13:232

Shays’s Rebellion, 6:254, 6:256n, 6:287, 12:377, 12:426

Sheafe, Edmund Quincy (ship captain), 14:85

Sheaff, Henry

health of, 9:98, 9:130
identified, 8:662n
letter from, 9:98
letters to, 8:662, 9:77, 9:130
and wine for TJ, 2:221, 8:662, 9:77, 9:98, 9:130

Sheaff, J.

as proxy for H. Sheaff, 9:98

Sheaffe, Sir Roger Hale

British general, 8:219

Shearman (Sherman), Martin, 1:616

Shecut, John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge

address cover from, 7:xliv, 7:434 (illus.)
and Antiquarian Society of Charleston, 6:179, 6:180n, 6:251, 6:376–6:377, 6:483
critique of Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, 6:377
desires secretaryship, 8:24, 8:24–8:25, 8:25n
An Essay on the Prevailing, or Yellow-Fever, of 1817, 12:253–12:254, 12:292–12:293
family of, 7:566–7:567
Flora Carolinæensis, 6:252, 6:252n, 6:378, 6:615, 7:566
identified, 6:179–6:180n
letters from, 6:179–6:180, 6:376–6:378, 7:565–7:568, 8:24–8:25, 12:253–12:254
letters to, 6:251–6:252, 7:700–7:701, 12:292–12:293
medical theories of, 7:565–7:567, 7:700, 8:24, 8:24–8:25
seeks TJ’s publication subsidy, 7:565–7:567, 7:700–7:701
TJ sends bird pepper to, 6:252, 6:377, 6:615, 7:567, 7:568n

sheep See also merino sheep

Barbary, 2:252, 2:379, 2:380, 2:457, 2:492, 3:190, 3:637, 4:637, 4:638n, 6:6
on Belmont estate, 3:170
broadtail, 1:465–1:466, 1:477, 4:638n, 11:347, 11:348n, 11:430–11:431, 11:431n
Cape, 1:477, 1:599
Chew’s breed, 2:380
and chicory (succory) cultivation, 13:438
Churro, 1:18, 1:19n
C. Clark’s, 5:395
and dogs, 4:161, 4:170, 4:346–4:349, 6:6, 6:31–6:32, 6:369–6:370, 6:511, 7:13, 8:272
J. Dougherty acquires for TJ, 1:153, 1:464, 1:465–1:466, 1:467, 1:476–1:477, 1:486
Essay on Sheep (Livingston), 1:667, 1:668n, 3:63, 3:64n
fodder for, 2:271, 2:543, 8:71, 8:158, 11:171–11:172, 14:180, 15:70
Green mountain, 1:667
D. Humphreys’s, 2:431, 2:431, 5:496, 6:504
Iceland ram, 1:320, 1:596, 1:666, 3:637
lamb, 14:383
at Lego, 12:304
mentioned, 10:664n
mutton, 4:362, 8:307, 11:240
in Pa., 1:18, 1:69n
C. W. Peale considers raising, 7:81
at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:381, 5:31, 6:6, 8:71, 8:74, 8:185, 8:520, 13:386
price of, 8:307
profitability of raising, 9:616
raised in Ga., 4:40
raised in S.C., 2:218, 4:40
raised in Va., 1:238–1:239, 1:240n, 4:346, 4:428
rams, 6:215, 10:398, 15:159
as rent, 12:302
scab in TJ’s, 3:176–3:177, 3:442, 3:453, 4:61, 4:62, 5:448
shears for, 6:347
skin of Rocky Mountain, 1:327–1:328, 1:510
Spanish, 1:16, 1:320, 3:176–3:177, 5:198–5:199, 6:6–6:7, 6:31, 6:31, 11:430–11:431
O. Sprigg’s breed, 2:380
TJ’s advice sought on, 2:202
at Tufton, 12:304

Sheffey, Daniel

as attorney, 11:538, 11:538–11:539, 11:539n
criticizes J. Adams, 5:4
and O. Evans’s petition to Congress, 7:113n
and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 11:668, 12:605n, 14:514, 15:416, 15:416–15:417n
as U.S. representative from Va., 4:475, 4:476n

Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of, 3:79

Shekell (Sheckle, Sheckles, Shekel), Cephus (Cephas, Sephus)

letters of introduction for, 3:651
rents Henderson lands, 5:419, 5:426, 5:426

Shelby, Isaac

as commander of Ky. militia, 6:370, 8:263
declines appointment as secretary of war, 11:146, 11:146n
as governor of Ky., 5:644, 5:644n
Revolutionary War service of, 6:370, 6:371n

Shelden, Daniel

as U.S. Treasury clerk, 8:437, 8:438n

Sheldon, Daniel

as secretary of U.S. legation in Paris, 13:445, 13:568, 14:228, 14:229n

shellfish

in Va., 14:562

shells, 14:168

Shelton, Joseph

and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:333, 15:97

Shelton, Nelson T.

and Central College subscription, 11:326, 11:330

Shelton, Samuel

business partnership of, 5:93n
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Shelton, William A.

and Central College subscription, 11:326, 11:330
petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Shenandoah River

navigation of, 4:288, 14:402, 14:403, 14:412–14:413

Shenandoah Valley

“Cohees” as nickname for residents of, 8:232
settlement of, 8:643

Shepherd (TJ’s slave; b. 1782)

illness of, 14:555, 14:585
as laborer, 15:11
on Monticello slave lists, 4:387

Shepherd (TJ’s slave; b. 1809)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:385, 4:386, 5:462, 6:308, 8:62, 8:255, 13:387

Shepherd, William

Paris, in Eighteen Hundred And Two, and Eighteen Hundred And Fourteen, 8:628, 8:629n, 8:672, 9:122

shepherd dogs. See dogs

shepherd’s purse (plant), 14:161

Sheppard, William

A Grand Abridgment of the Common and Statute Law of England, 7:147, 7:148

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 7:660

Sheridan, Thomas

A Course of Lectures on Elocution, 1:576, 7:629

Sherlock, Thomas

Several Discourses preached at the Temple Church, 12:534

Sherman, Mr. See Shearman (Sherman), Martin

Sherman, Roger

and Declaration of Independence, 13:331, 13:390, 14:290–14:291

sherry (wine), 8:571, 8:662, 9:77, 9:98, 9:313, 9:324, 9:513

Sherwin, Henry

Mathematical Tables, 4:148, 4:149n

Sheys, James (Jacobus) Bryant

identified, 14:29n
and A. Jackson’s W. Fla. campaign, 14:28, 14:29n
letter from, 14:28–14:29

Shields, William C.

publisher of Daily Compiler and Richmond Commercial Register, 7:450n

Shifflet, Mr.

boats of transport goods, 9:547

Shiflett, Joel

as juror, 5:279, 5:279
witnesses warrant, 5:280

Shiner, D.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Shippen, William

as educator, 15:307

Shirman, William

letters from, 7:331
letters to, 7:297, 7:448–7:449
and stonework at Monticello, 7:297, 7:331, 7:448–7:449
and stonework at Poplar Forest, 7:297, 7:331

shirting (textile), 6:348, 9:303, 9:303, 9:566, 9:597, 12:538, 15:229, 15:247

Shoaff, Dr. See Shaaff (Shoaff), John Thomas

Shoemaker, Isaac

and debt to S. Lukens, 4:571, 4:619
extorts money from father, 4:619
identified, 1:139n
letters to, 1:138–1:139
and mismanagement of Shadwell Mill, 1:108–1:109, 1:110n, 1:138–1:139, 1:139–1:140, 1:282, 2:292, 3:51–3:52, 3:156–3:157, 3:464–3:465, 3:644, 5:483–5:484
and postal route, 1:353
rent due from, 8:204
TJ’s account with, 3:300–3:302, 3:317–3:318, 3:640–3:642, 3:642–3:643
E. Trist on, 4:573, 4:574n

Shoemaker, Jonathan

asks TJ to endorse bill, 2:95
identified, 1:109–1:110n
letters from, 1:139–1:140, 1:256, 1:407, 1:451–1:452, 2:269, 2:300, 2:393
letters from accounted for, 2:670n
letters to, 1:108–1:110, 1:282–1:283, 1:364, 1:421–1:422, 2:95, 2:199, 2:342–2:343, 2:660–2:661, 2:670
mentioned, 5:527
and mismanagement of Shadwell Mill, 1:108–1:109, 1:139–1:140, 1:282–1:283, 3:51–3:52, 3:111, 3:156–3:157, 3:184, 3:464–3:465, 3:528, 3:531, 3:614, 3:644, 5:483–5:484
petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
rent due from, 1:353, 1:353, 1:364, 1:408, 1:421–1:422, 1:422, 1:451–1:452, 8:204
seeks abatement in rent, 1:407, 1:421–1:422
sells mill near Washington, 1:256, 5:484
as Shadwell mill tenant, 11:551–11:552, 11:554n, 11:555, 11:556–11:557, 14:357, 14:392, 14:398, 14:405
ships flour to Richmond, 2:269, 2:292, 2:300, 3:111–3:112, 3:135, 3:154, 3:181, 3:301, 3:302, 3:318, 3:371, 3:612
son extorts money from, 4:619
TJ’s account with, 2:199, 2:300, 2:313–2:314, 2:342–2:343, 2:393, 2:660–2:661, 3:300–3:302, 3:317–3:318, 3:373, 3:640–3:642, 3:642–3:643, 4:495, 5:120
E. Trist on, 4:573, 4:574n

Shoemaker, Lukens, 2:393

shoes

brushes for, 12:362
mentioned, 14:271, 15:95
sabots, 7:332
for slaves, 3:202
TJ’s, 8:234, 8:241–8:242, 10:555n, 12:31, 12:31n

Short, William

advocates unrestricted commerce, 1:119–1:120, 1:359–1:360, 3:274, 3:275n
J. Armstrong carries letters of, 1:115, 1:120
awaits instructions, 1:117, 1:331
on Baltimore, 14:614
on banks, 7:223
J. Barnes’s visit with, 7:469–7:470, 7:471–7:472, 7:472n
on books, 13:396–13:397, 13:488, 14:614–14:615
and bust of Condorcet, 15:149, 15:150n
and Central College, 12:103, 12:187
as chargé d’affaires, 7:137–7:138, 7:139n
compensation for diplomatic service, 15:557n
conveys news to and from French acquaintances, 1:173, 1:537
and T. Cooper, 14:322–14:323, 14:323–14:324, 14:324n
and J. Corrêa da Serra, 6:87, 6:155–6:156, 6:204, 6:274, 6:605–6:606, 6:606, 7:139, 7:224–7:225, 7:287, 7:301, 7:403, 8:53, 14:454n, 14:613–14:614, 15:253–15:254, 15:491–15:492
correspondence with G. Harrison, 8:490n
correspondence with TJ, 1:234
criticizes A. J. Dallas, 9:321–9:322
and F. C. A. Delamotte, 9:319–9:320, 9:358, 9:648, 9:693, 10:9–10:10, 10:21–10:22, 12:187, 14:512, 15:148
and diplomatic outfit, 1:61, 1:85, 1:118, 1:232–1:233, 1:235n, 5:362–5:364
on education, 7:223
on European affairs, 8:557
and Epicurus, 15:149, 15:163–15:164, 15:252–15:253
financial situation of, 8:52, 8:53, 8:109–8:110
and fire at Monticello, 14:321–14:322, 14:454n, 14:488
forwards pamphlet to J. Adams, 3:198, 3:274
forwards publications to TJ, 5:473, 5:473n, 5:500n, 7:505
on France, 3:197, 4:269–4:271, 7:224, 7:224–7:225, 7:403–7:404, 8:330–8:331, 10:22, 12:56–12:57, 13:397, 13:397n
and A. Gallatin, 4:61n
on Great Britain, 4:269–4:273, 7:224, 8:51
and E. Grouchy, 10:531, 12:56–12:57, 12:102, 12:105, 12:113–12:114
health of, 6:276–6:277, 8:330, 8:332, 8:688, 8:688–8:689, 15:149
hopes to visit TJ, 7:225, 8:688–8:689, 15:562–15:563
and J. G. Hyde de Neuville, 5:405
identified, 1:39n
on immigration, 10:254–10:255
on importation of slaves, 10:255
and Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 3:198, 3:272–3:273, 3:275, 3:438, 3:621–3:622, 3:644, 4:5–4:6, 4:59–4:60, 4:197–4:198, 4:268, 4:273–4:274, 4:675, 5:239–5:240, 5:264–5:265, 5:364n, 5:399–5:402, 5:407n, 5:443–5:444, 5:446, 5:506, 5:567, 5:568–5:570, 5:573, 5:596, 5:622–5:623, 5:623–5:624n, 5:624–5:625, 6:86, 6:87–6:88n, 6:204, 6:274, 6:522–6:523, 6:523n, 6:575, 6:604, 6:604–6:605, 7:70–7:71, 7:136, 7:157, 7:157n, 7:159, 7:166–7:168, 7:169n, 7:197–7:198, 7:212–7:213, 7:271, 7:405, 7:487, 7:510, 7:511n, 7:591–7:592, 7:594–7:595, 7:655, 8:50–8:51, 8:107, 8:129, 8:332, 8:382, 8:428–8:429, 8:556, 8:567–8:568, 8:588, 8:598, 8:687–8:688, 9:319, 9:357, 9:362, 9:388, 9:488, 9:519, 9:519, 9:519–9:520, 9:648, 9:649n, 9:661, 9:662, 9:693, 10:9, 10:11n, 10:21, 10:253, 10:315, 10:464, 10:465n, 10:529, 11:245, 11:457, 11:500–11:501, 12:102–12:103, 12:186–12:187, 12:301
and internal improvements, 15:492–15:493
investments of, 1:32n, 7:136–7:138, 13:488, 13:489n
and Lafayette, 3:447, 5:215n
lands of near Norfolk (Green Sea lands), 10:529, 13:37–13:38, 13:38–13:39n, 13:38–13:39n, 13:73–13:74, 13:74n
letter carried by servant of, 14:453
letter of credence for, 1:328, 1:343–1:344, 1:359, 1:658, 1:659n
letters from, 1:115–1:122, 1:229–1:235, 2:200, 2:475–2:479, 3:197–3:200, 3:272–3:275, 4:268–4:274, 6:274–6:277, 7:135–7:139, 7:223–7:225, 7:402–7:405, 8:50–8:53, 8:330–8:332, 8:556–8:557, 8:687–8:689, 9:319–9:322, 9:693–9:696, 10:9–10:11, 10:21–10:22, 10:253–10:255, 10:529–10:531, 11:500–11:503, 12:56–12:57, 12:113–12:114, 12:186–12:187, 13:37–13:39, 13:395–13:397, 13:487–13:489, 14:321–14:325, 14:453–14:454, 14:613–14:616, 15:148–15:150, 15:252–15:255, 15:491–15:494, 15:562–15:565
letters from accounted for, 1:329n, 3:107n, 3:438n, 3:623n, 4:60–4:61n, 4:199n, 4:676n, 5:402n, 5:447n, 5:506n, 5:624n, 6:87n, 6:88n+, 6:277n, 6:606n, 7:213n, 7:225n, 7:272n, 7:593n, 8:429n, 8:490–8:491n, 9:322n, 9:520n, 9:648–9:649n
letters to, 1:38–1:39, 3:106–3:107, 3:438, 3:621–3:623, 4:59–4:61, 4:197–4:199, 4:674–4:676, 5:362–5:364, 5:399–5:402, 5:446–5:447, 5:505–5:506, 5:622–5:624, 6:86–6:88, 6:155–6:156, 6:204–6:206, 6:604–6:606, 7:166–7:169, 7:212–7:213, 7:271–7:272, 7:366, 7:591–7:593, 8:107–8:111, 8:382–8:383, 8:428–8:429, 8:490–8:491, 8:567–8:568, 9:357–9:358, 9:519–9:520, 9:648–9:649, 9:661, 10:314–10:315, 10:464–10:465, 11:457–11:458, 12:102–12:103, 13:73–13:74, 13:383–13:384, 13:510–13:511, 14:488–14:489, 15:162–15:165, 15:538–15:541
letters to mentioned, 2:257, 2:257n, 2:268
on living abroad, 4:269–4:270
and J. Madison, 2:33, 2:200n, 2:477, 2:477, 6:275, 6:276, 7:223, 8:51–8:52, 8:331, 10:22, 10:22n
on marriage, 3:197, 3:200n, 7:403, 8:332
and medals for Revolutionary War service, 15:292
mentioned, 1:433, 3:620, 5:189, 11:454
on merchants, 15:254–15:255
and merino sheep, 3:198
and Missouri question, 15:254, 15:492, 15:540, 15:563–15:565
on J. Monroe, 7:224, 8:50, 10:21–10:22, 11:502–11:503, 12:57
J. Monroe on, 7:197
and J. Moreau’s proposed visit to Monticello, 4:674–4:675, 5:363, 6:87
on Napoleon, 8:51, 8:689
on newspapers, 8:52, 9:321, 10:254
nomination of, rejected, 1:38, 1:39n, 1:229–1:230, 1:231, 1:375, 1:659n
and payments to TJ, 9:359, 9:514, 9:552
Philadelphia residence of, 9:605
plans to visit France, 8:53, 8:110, 8:490, 8:557
and P. de Polética, 14:324, 14:454, 14:454n, 14:488
on presidency, 9:695–9:696
on prospect of war with Great Britain, 4:272–4:273
publication of correspondence with TJ, 13:383–13:384n, 13:487, 13:546, 13:557, 13:557n
recess appointment to Saint Petersburg, 1:65
on republicanism in U.S., 8:689
returns to U.S., 2:200, 2:200n, 2:288, 2:410, 2:475–2:476, 2:477, 3:89, 10:22, 10:22n
and revision of Va. constitution, 10:529–10:530
and W. C. Rives, 7:402, 7:591
and sale of TJ’s library, 8:331–8:332
sends certificates to TJ, 2:477–2:478, 2:479n, 3:29–3:30, 3:89, 3:106, 3:197
sends greetings to Monticello, 14:232
tenants of, 3:622, 4:197–4:198, 4:675
Madame de Tessé on, 2:311, 4:323
TJ introduces W. C. Rives to, 7:366
TJ invites to Monticello, 3:198, 7:213, 8:568, 14:488, 14:613, 15:164, 15:540
TJ makes payment for, 7:708
TJ on, 3:504, 7:35
TJ rejects request from, 8:490
TJ represents, 15:557n
TJ’s debt to, 7:166–7:168, 7:680, 8:331–8:332, 8:382, 8:426, 8:427, 8:428, 8:434, 8:451, 8:483, 8:556, 9:320, 9:322n, 9:357
and TJ’s health, 13:383–13:384n, 13:395–13:396, 13:487, 13:488, 13:510–13:511, 14:512, 14:615, 15:148–15:149, 15:162–15:163, 15:541
on TJ’s influence over J. Madison, 6:275, 7:223
and TJ’s syllabus on Jesus’s doctrines, 15:491, 15:538–15:539, 15:562
travels of, 8:50, 8:556, 8:687, 14:613, 14:614–14:615, 15:149
and University of Virginia, 13:396, 13:487–13:488, 13:511, 14:322–14:324, 14:453–14:454, 14:454n, 14:488–14:489, 14:614, 15:149–15:150, 15:491, 15:563
urges TJ to write memoir, 9:695, 10:10–10:11, 10:254, 15:254, 15:493
on visitors to Philadelphia, 9:693–9:695
visits Monticello, 8:331, 8:332n, 13:488, 13:489n
D. B. Warden sends publications through, 8:36, 8:291, 8:420
on war in Spain and Portugal, 4:271
on War of 1812, 6:275, 6:276, 7:223–7:224, 8:51–8:52, 8:52–8:53, 8:330, 8:331, 9:320–9:321
and watch chain and seal, 6:338, 6:339n, 6:467

Short Account of the Origin of Steam Boats (W. Thornton), 8:195

A Short and Easie Method with Deists (C. Leslie), 3:590, 3:590n

Shorter, John (Jack)

accompanies TJ to Monticello, 1:59, 1:60n
assistance provided to, 14:26, 14:26n
delivers letters, 1:85, 1:153
family of, 14:26
health of, 14:26
as hosteler, 1:3, 1:60n
identified, 14:26n
TJ pays, 1:41–1:42

A Short History of the Nature and Consequences of Excise Laws (J. T. Callender), 9:217, 9:218n

A Short Introduction to English Grammar (R. Lowth), 12:534

A Short Introduction To Moral Philosophy (F. Hutcheson), 7:458, 7:458n, 7:627

A Short Statement of some important facts, relative to the late election of a Mathematical Professor in the University of Edinburgh (D. Stewart), 15:140

shot

purchased by TJ, 9:301

shot manufacturing, 5:107, 5:108, 8:96, 8:96n, 8:97–8:98, 8:113+, 8:119–8:120, 8:120–8:121, 8:257, 8:281–8:282, 8:308–8:309, 8:347, 9:610, 10:454, 10:520, 10:555, 11:177n, 11:642, 12:340, 12:525, 12:525–12:526, 12:544

Shotwell, William See also Shotwell & Kinder (New York firm)

identified, 7:73n

Shotwell & Kinder (New York firm)

identified, 7:73n
letters from, 7:72–7:73
letters to, 7:191–7:192
and Taurino cloth, 7:72–7:73, 7:73n, 7:191

shovels, 2:546, 2:546, 2:547, 2:548, 15:86

Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Sir George Augustus William

mathematician, 9:642

Siau, Pierre

and P. Poinsot’s land grant, 11:472

Siberia

frozen mammoth found in, 2:507, 5:572

Sibley, John

and B. de La Harpe manuscript, 9:658n

Siblong, Col. See le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

Sicard, Roch Ambroise Cucurron

and education of the deaf and mute, 10:39
Théorie des Signes, 1:662, 1:662n

Sicily

wine from, 9:513

Sickels, Garret, 6:526n

Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount

British prime minister, 3:79, 3:298, 4:670, 4:671n, 10:282
and peace negotiations, 8:380–8:381

Sidney (S. H. Smith’s Washington estate), 3:76, 3:76n

Sidney, Algernon

British patriot, 2:385, 2:387n, 4:470, 6:296
read by J. Adams, 4:474
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503

Le Siècle de Louis XIV (Voltaire), 1:580

Siegfried, Carl Ludwig (Charles Lewis)

identified, 3:61n
letters from, 3:60–3:61
seeks appointment, 3:60–3:61

Siegfried, Charlotte Frazer (Carl Ludwig Siegfried’s wife), 3:60

Sierre Leone Company, 3:319, 3:320n

Las Siete Partidas (Alfonso X), 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:546

Las siete partidas del sabio rey Don Alonso el Nono (G. López), 3:175n, 3:176n

sifters

for slaves, 8:71
used to spread fertilizer, 10:534

Sigaud de Lafond, Joseph Aignan

writings of, 14:168

Sigler, John

militia service of, 7:161

silk

substitutes for, 5:439, 5:560
TJ orders, 6:345, 6:345, 9:565

silk manufacturing

in Europe, 1:341, 1:342n, 1:355, 1:412–1:413, 1:424, 1:425n, 1:472, 5:473
in U.S., 4:85, 5:439, 12:257

silk plant, 3:343, 3:343n

silk tree, 1:631, 2:104n

Silkworm (brig), 10:91

Silliman, Benjamin

and American Geological Society, 14:648, 15:56
and American Journal of Science, 12:626, 12:627n, 13:82, 13:82, 13:83n, 13:310, 13:327, 15:357
as geologist, 15:324n
identified, 12:626–12:627n
letter from, 14:648
letter from accounted for, 12:627n
letters to, 12:626–12:627, 15:56
as university professor, 14:126

Silsbee, Nathaniel

as character reference, 13:4

silver

coffeepots, 8:393
cups, 8:235, 8:237n, 8:393, 12:54, 12:54
currency, 8:16, 14:66
eyeglass frames, 8:192n
for firearms, 12:454
plated, 8:485, 8:486, 14:587n
smiths, 11:413, 11:548–11:549, 11:604–11:605
used for Revolutionary War medals, 15:292
watches, 8:393, 8:485, 10:578

silver bells, 11:175, 11:175n

Silver, William (master of schooner Jachin )

carries goods, 4:215, 4:220

silver nitrate. See lunar caustic (silver nitrate)

silver ore

found at Jefferson Co., Va. (now W. Va.), 3:647–3:648
in N.Y., 8:209n
Sardinian specimen, 2:299

Silvestre, Augustin François

agricultural report of, 2:83
cottonseed sent by TJ, 1:258, 1:596
identified, 1:259n
letter from to Provenchere mentioned, 2:128–2:129, 2:129n
letterhead of, 1:xlviii, 1:380 (illus.)
letters from, 1:258–1:260, 1:611–1:613, 15:145–15:146
Mémoires de la Société d’agriculture, 1:258, 1:259n, 1:611–1:612, 1:629, 1:630n, 15:145
Notice Biographique sur M. Dupont (Pierre-Samuel), 15:146n
Notice Biographique sur M. Moreau de Saint-Méry, 15:146n
Rapport sur les Travaux de la Société d’Agriculture du Département de la Seine, 1:612, 1:613n

Simcoe, John Graves

Revolutionary War service of, 15:191

Simeon (New Testament figure), 10:504

“A Simile” (Pindar), 1:538n

Simington (schooner), 9:660n

Simington, Robert

identified, 11:447n
letter to, 11:447
sends books to TJ, 11:274, 11:447

Simmons, Joshua

letters from, 4:77
seeks loan from TJ, 4:77

Simmons, William

War Department accountant, 3:324, 3:450

Simms, Charles

as collector at Alexandria, 4:215, 4:219, 4:220, 4:487, 4:529, 5:561, 5:671, 9:570, 9:573n, 10:75, 10:112–10:113, 10:193, 10:218, 10:219n, 10:229–10:230, 11:406, 11:407n, 12:346, 12:566, 13:14, 13:16n, 13:171, 13:253, 13:254n, 13:345, 13:443, 13:445n, 14:256, 15:117, 15:117n
and goods for TJ, 10:112–10:113, 10:127, 12:515, 13:345
identified, 4:221n
letters from, 4:487, 10:75
letters to, 4:220–4:221, 10:112–10:113, 10:127, 10:229–10:230, 12:515, 13:171, 13:345
mayor of Alexandria, 7:644, 7:644n, 7:648

Simms, William Douglass

as deputy collector at Alexandria, 10:113n, 10:193–10:194, 10:219n, 11:406, 11:407n, 11:531, 13:253, 13:253, 13:277, 13:277n, 15:117, 15:135, 15:157, 15:157n
forwards wine to TJ, 10:193–10:194, 10:229, 13:253, 13:253, 15:117
identified, 10:194n
letter from accounted for, 12:515n
letters from, 10:193–10:194, 13:253–13:254, 15:117
letter to, 15:135

Simnel (Symnel), Lambert

and E. Aram’s murder trial, 7:377

Simolin, Ivan M.

and J. Ledyard (1751–89) expedition, 6:420

Simon, Theodor

translates Janua Linguarum Reserata (J. A. Komenský), 8:482, 8:482n

Simon de Nantua, ou le Marchand Forain (L. P. de Jussieu), 15:26, 15:465

Simonds, Jonas, 2:304

Simons, Edward Peter

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

Simplicius of Cilicia

Epicteti Stoici Philosophi Enchiridion: Unà cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Quibus adjiciuntur hac Editione Simplicii Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti. Item Arriani Commentariorum de Epicteti Disputationibus, Lib. IV (ed. H. Wolf), 14:510
writings of, 6:317

Simpson, James

petition of, 13:504–13:505, 13:505–13:506n, 13:533, 13:614
as U.S. consul at Gibraltar and Tangier, 13:504–13:505, 13:533, 13:533n

Simpson, Thomas

The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions, 5:416, 5:442, 5:443n, 5:501, 6:157, 7:286, 9:192
Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematics, 5:417, 7:458, 7:458n, 8:481–8:482, 8:482n
A treatise of algebra, 1:576

Simson, Robert

The Elements of Euclid, 1:576, 1:650, 7:250, 7:253n, 13:476, 14:102

Sinbad (fictional character), 12:652

Sinclair, Sir John

The Code of Agriculture, 11:381–11:382, 11:382, 11:382n, 15:465
The Code of Health and Longevity, 9:143, 9:144n, 9:144n+, 10:280
An Essay on Longevity, 4:140, 4:142n
and flax specimen, 10:501, 10:547
friendship with G. Logan, 9:709, 10:501
identified, 9:144n
letters from, 9:143–9:144, 11:381–11:382
letter to, 10:280–10:283
and melon seeds, 10:317
“Mildew in Wheat,” 9:144n+
and Orders in Council, 7:41, 7:44n
and peace negotiations, 8:381
and peace with Great Britain, 10:501
plow of, 10:501, 10:547
sends prospectus to TJ, 9:143, 9:144n, 10:280, 11:382
sends wool to TJ, 10:547
The Statistical Account of Scotland, 14:562–14:563n
TJ on, 10:280, 10:282–10:283
and TJ’s moldboard plow, 12:571

Sine Qua Non (ship), 8:452, 8:452, 8:452n

The Sine Qua Non: A Map of the United States (J. Melish), 8:75–8:76, 8:77n, 8:78n, 8:133

Singellton, William

identified, 11:529n
letter from, 11:528–11:530
letter to, 11:582
and Seventy-Six Association, 11:528–11:529, 11:582

Singleton, Rebecca Coles (Isaac A. Coles’s sister), 8:21, 8:21n

Sinton, William, 5:570n

Siren. See Syren (sloop)

Siro (brig), 13:241, 13:241, 13:241n, 13:443

Sismondi, Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de

J. Adams reads, 11:268, 11:313
Histoire des Républiques Italiennes du moyen âge, 10:234, 11:308, 11:308n, 11:313, 11:409, 15:258
writings of, 15:75

Situation de l’Angleterre en 1811 (Montgaillard), 4:672, 4:672n

A Six Months Tour through the North of England (A. Young), 6:280

Sixteen Introductory Lectures (B. Rush), 3:277, 3:279n, 3:304, 4:87

60th Royal American Regiment, 1:290

A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales (A. Young), 6:280

Skelton, Bathurst

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304–1:305, 1:362, 1:363, 1:591, 1:608, 2:129, 2:130n, 2:141, 2:142, 2:396, 2:397, 2:397, 2:403, 2:407, 2:424, 2:425, 2:433, 2:434, 2:447, 2:464–2:465, 2:465–2:466, 3:84–3:86, 7:99, 7:99n, 7:174
and lottery for W. Byrd (1728–77), 12:487

Skelton, Elizabeth Lomax (Reuben Skelton’s wife), 2:84, 2:85n, 2:122–2:123, 2:447

Skelton, James

buys lot in Westham, 8:171n
and Gilliam v. Fleming, 2:447, 3:84–3:85

Skelton, John, 1:305n, 2:397, 3:44, 3:85

Skelton, Lucy. See Gilliam, Lucy Skelton

Skelton, Meriwether, 2:425, 2:425, 3:85, 12:487

Skelton, Reuben

and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:305n, 1:644, 2:33, 2:83–2:84, 2:85, 2:122–2:123, 2:141, 2:142, 2:256, 2:396, 2:447, 3:84–3:86

Skelton, Sally, 1:305n

Skelton family, 1:305n, 1:364

Sketches & Propositions (H. Banks), 3:296

Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana (A. Stoddard), 3:291, 3:291–3:292n, 5:683n, 6:39

“Sketches of Louisiana” (H. Steel), 12:627, 12:628n

Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (W. Wirt)

and bill of attainder against J. Philips, 10:438n
and D. Carr (1743–73), 9:219–9:220, 9:220n, 9:407, 10:406, 10:434
and T. Cooper, 12:44
criticism of, 13:274–13:275, 13:275n
draft chapters of sent to TJ, 10:315–10:316, 10:337, 10:346–10:347, 10:365–10:366, 10:384, 10:408, 10:419–10:420, 10:431, 10:437–10:438, 10:487–10:488
opinions on, 13:lii
and origin of American Revolution, 12:493, 12:496, 12:496–12:497, 12:517–12:518, 12:531n, 12:549n, 13:48, 14:288, 14:289, 14:373
preface to, 13:24
published by J. Webster, 10:346–10:347, 10:347, 10:347n
and E. Randolph’s manuscript on Va. history, 8:620n
sent to TJ, 12:l, 12:322, 12:348 (illus.)
TJ on, 4:596, 10:365–10:366, 10:523–10:524, 12:l
TJ provides information for, 2:155–2:156, 2:314, 4:599, 4:600, 4:604n, 4:605, 7:551, 8:140, 8:619–8:621, 8:621, 10:365–10:366, 10:406, 10:421–10:423, 10:423n, 10:434

Sketches of the Naval History of the United States (T. Clark), 6:146, 6:165, 6:167, 6:167–6:168n, 6:206–6:207, 6:289

Sketches of the Principles of Government (N. Chipman), 7:628, 9:436, 12:514, 13:33, 13:47

Sketches on Rotations of Crops, and other Rural Matters (J. B. Bordley), 2:82

A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain (J. J. Oddy and W. Playfair), 3:274, 3:275n

Sketch of a Plan and Method of Education (J. Neef), 4:661

“A Sketch of the Creek Country, in the years 1798 and 1799” (B. Hawkins), 9:121, 9:383–9:384, 9:384n, 9:453, 14:132n

A Sketch of the Internal Condition of the United States of America (P. de Polética), 3:190n

Sketch of the Internal Improvements already made by Pennsylvania (S. Breck), 13:174, 13:174n

Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter, LL. D. (J. Story), 10:75, 10:75n, 10:173

“Sketch of the Life of Servetus” (F. A. Van der Kemp), 10:121, 10:122n, 11:138, 11:139n

A Sketch of the Saxon Heptarchy (C. Caines), 3:522n

Skidmore’s Ferry

on route to Natural Bridge, 9:35

Skinner, Elizabeth Glenn Davies

visits D. Porter, 15:360

Skinner, John Stuart

and American Farmer, 14:537, 15:359–15:361, 15:418n, 15:578
disparages Louis XVIII, 10:484n
identified, 15:361n
letters from, 15:359–15:361, 15:578–15:579
letters to, 15:417–15:418, 15:601–15:602
and parmesan cheese, 15:360, 15:361n, 15:417–15:418, 15:418n
as publisher, 15:465
and sainfoin, 15:578, 15:578–15:579n, 15:601
sends works to TJ, 15:360, 15:361n

Skipwith, Anne Wayles (TJ’s sister-in-law; Henry Skipwith’s wife), 1:339n

Skipwith, Fulwar

commercial agent at Paris, 2:339n
as consul general at Paris, 1:26, 8:600, 8:600n, 8:607, 13:431–13:432
and dispute with I. C. Barnet, 5:464n
and T. Kosciuszko’s will, 12:314–12:315n
as La. state senator, 8:295–8:296

Skipwith, George N.

and Central College subscription, 11:331, 12:472, 12:551

Skipwith, Henry (TJ’s brother-in-law)

acquires land through marriage, 6:130
attends dinners honoring TJ, 1:608+, 1:615+
and J. Banister’s estate, 3:183, 3:210–3:211
and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304, 1:305, 1:306, 1:331, 1:339, 1:362, 1:363, 1:364–1:365, 2:369, 2:674–2:675, 3:44, 3:86
and O. Hanbury’s executors, 3:195
identified, 1:339n
letters from, 1:339, 3:183
letters to, 1:364–1:365, 2:335–2:336, 3:210–3:211
and W. Short’s land, 4:268, 4:274n
TJ sends millet seed to, 2:335
and trusteeship of P. Ludwell’s daughters, 7:329
as J. Wayles’s executor, 2:142n, 2:369, 2:540, 5:210, 5:287

Skipwith, William

and Central College subscription, 11:331

skullcap (herb)

and rabies, 15:281, 15:281n

slate, 13:92, 13:92, 13:97–13:98, 13:99, 13:117, 15:93

Slate Mills (Culpeper, now Rappahannock Co., Va.), 3:184

Slate River, 14:403, 14:412

Slaughter, Mr. See Slaydyen, Arther

Slaughter, John

and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:325, 11:330, 15:97
identified, 12:49n
letter to, 12:48–12:50
and proposed Albemarle Co. road, 11:243, 12:48, 12:57–12:58, 13:275

Slaughter, Joseph

and C. L. Bankhead, 5:56–5:57
considered by TJ for employment, 8:496, 8:501
employs A. Hepburn, 15:617
identified, 5:57n
leases Bedford Co. land, 2:237, 2:238n
letters from, 5:339
letters to, 5:56–5:57, 5:338, 6:488–6:489
mentioned, 3:392
surveys Bedford Co. land for TJ, 3:188n, 4:318n
surveys Poplar Forest curtilage, 5:482–5:483, 5:489, 8:70
surveys TJ’s Tomahawk plantation, 6:488, 6:488–6:489n
TJ buys horse from, 10:539n
and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:62, 5:338, 5:339
witnesses documents, 5:488n

Slaughter, Philip

and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:560, 14:13
as University of Virginia commissioner, 13:182, 13:183, 13:223

slavery See also Missouri question; slaves

books on, 1:33, 1:33n, 3:522n, 3:522n, 8:442, 8:450, 8:451n
and colonization, 3:267–3:269, 3:318–3:320, 11:7–11:8, 11:8–11:12, 11:60–11:61, 11:501, 14:11, 14:577–14:578
dangers of, 4:337, 4:338n, 10:76–10:79, 10:79n
effects on society of, 10:41–10:42, 11:9–11:10
and emancipation proposals, 7:503–7:504, 7:604, 7:702–7:704, 8:454–8:455, 10:76–10:79, 10:79n, 10:159n, 11:7–11:8, 11:8–11:12, 11:60–11:61
and free-labor stores, 12:554
Madame de Staël Holstein on, 9:326
P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:328, 4:444
and miscegenation, 8:310–8:311, 8:374–8:375
in North Africa, 13:504, 13:504, 13:505, 13:506n, 13:614, 13:614n
opposition to, 8:364, 8:365n, 8:450, 8:451n, 10:76–10:79, 14:378–14:379, 15:75–15:76, 15:176, 15:177n, 15:177–15:178, 15:380n
C. Peyton on, 15:116, 15:116–15:117
TJ on, 2:382, 3:647+, 4:157, 7:603–7:605, 7:651–7:652, 7:703, 8:311, 8:442, 8:454–8:455, 10:76, 10:79n, 10:159n, 10:368, 11:60–11:61, 15:116–15:117
TJ’s policies concerning, 2:158, 8:384n

slaves See also slavery; specific entries for Virginia plantations

accused of murder, 14:494, 14:596
accused of theft, 13:518, 13:581
E. Bacon’s, 14:509
of Bankheads, 8:395
J. Barbour’s, 13:25
J. Barnes’s, 14:69, 14:70
beaten, 13:518
behavior of, 11:626, 11:626n, 12:227, 12:349, 12:483, 15:116, 15:147
C. Bellini’s, 9:113, 9:291, 9:293, 9:490, 9:491, 9:491, 9:491
blankets and beds for, 4:99, 4:382–4:383, 5:33, 5:34, 5:460–5:463, 6:308–6:309, 6:310, 7:71, 8:68, 8:71, 8:132, 8:158, 8:186, 8:186, 13:386, 13:387, 15:230n, 15:247–15:248, 15:248n
and brewing, 6:507n, 8:438–8:439, 8:439n, 8:565, 9:4, 9:4n, 10:340, 10:462, 11:189, 11:189n, 11:216, 11:216n, 15:527, 15:527n
J. C. Cabell’s, 8:317–8:318, 13:334
as carpenters, 15:60, 15:61, 15:143, 15:154, 15:172, 15:174, 15:174, 15:209–15:210, 15:247, 15:257–15:258, 15:264–15:265, 15:331
J. Chamberlain’s, 4:15
and child labor, 5:31, 5:187, 5:446, 8:634, 8:635
and child rearing, 13:582, 13:605
Christmas travels permitted, 8:132, 13:518
G. Churchman favors bettering condition of, 2:382
clothing for, 4:343, 4:515, 5:307, 5:446, 5:470, 6:308, 6:309, 6:310, 7:191, 8:68, 8:158, 8:185, 8:368, 8:380, 8:570, 9:303, 9:303, 9:562, 12:301, 15:95, 15:134, 15:229, 15:230n, 15:247, 15:248n, 15:282, 15:312, 15:313, 15:450–15:451
clothing of, 1:420, 1:666–1:667, 7:187
E. Coles’s plan for emancipation of, 7:503–7:504, 7:603–7:605, 7:702–7:704
at College of William and Mary, 9:490
construction workers at Central College–University of Virginia, 15:86, 15:89, 15:90, 15:91, 15:94, 15:94, 15:94, 15:94, 15:95, 15:95, 15:95, 15:100
as cooks, 13:557
corn for, 6:181–6:182, 6:366, 6:605, 8:72, 8:158, 8:610, 8:611, 11:547
cost of hire, 8:307
J. B. Couch’s, 1:346–1:348
death of, 3:180–3:181, 13:567, 13:605, 13:605, 14:476, 14:477n, 14:494, 14:567n
and dogs, 4:349n
as drivers, 11:559
dwellings of, 1:388, 4:380, 5:489, 8:70, 8:71, 8:173–8:174, 8:185, 8:185–8:186, 8:265, 13:387, 15:87, 15:282
enumeration of, 3:202, 8:392, 8:485
of J. W. Eppes, 1:156n, 1:321, 1:321n, 10:600, 10:673, 11:14, 11:174, 11:292
errands by, 11:337, 11:365, 11:617, 12:54, 12:54, 12:261, 12:292, 12:297, 12:298, 14:372, 14:554, 14:637, 15:366n, 15:431, 15:432n
families of, 3:180–3:181, 3:610–3:611n
flour for, 6:487, 8:610
food for, 15:70
and food preparation, 8:697
freed, 3:269n
fugitive, 2:443n, 3:319, 3:411–3:413, 3:612–3:613, 3:613n, 4:620, 5:5, 6:331, 11:438–11:439, 11:439n, 11:522, 15:116, 15:130, 15:147, 15:158, 15:162, 15:391, 15:427
German Coast insurrection, 3:326, 3:326n, 3:344n
as gifts, 6:36
hats for, 7:71, 7:124
health of, 1:354, 1:416, 7:387, 8:636, 9:40, 9:238, 9:238n, 9:494, 9:505, 9:567, 10:105–10:107, 10:355, 12:7, 13:582, 13:605, 14:218, 14:443, 14:476, 14:477n, 14:494, 14:554, 14:555, 14:565–14:567, 14:574, 14:585, 14:596, 15:61, 15:282, 15:427–15:428, 15:608
hired by TJ, 1:48n, 2:41, 2:661, 3:36–3:37, 3:55, 3:111–3:112, 3:250, 3:270, 3:283, 3:302, 3:529, 4:81, 4:142, 4:183, 4:217–4:218, 4:556, 6:306n, 6:314
hogs for, 8:72, 13:386, 13:566
holidays for, 8:158, 8:158n
and horses, 15:609
A. von Humboldt on, 1:265, 1:267n, 1:267n
T. Humphreys’s plan for emancipation of, 11:7–11:8, 11:8–11:12, 11:60–11:61
importation of, 1:624n, 10:255, 10:255n
incarceration of, 2:284, 15:158, 15:174
of R. Jefferson, 8:400, 8:400
T. Kosciuszko’s plan to emancipate and educate, 2:260, 2:261n, 13:154, 13:156, 14:130, 14:228, 14:426, 14:482, 15:180
in Ky., 3:92, 3:242–3:243
and labor-saving devices, 7:83
Lafayette’s attempt to emancipate, 2:11
and lease of Lego and Tufton, 12:301, 12:302, 12:303, 12:304n
letters from, 13:liii, 13:393–13:394, 13:400 (illus.), 15:lii, 15:60–15:61, 15:143, 15:172, 15:209–15:210, 15:257–15:258, 15:264–15:265, 15:346 (illus.)
letters to, 15:206, 15:247
J. Madison’s, 10:403n, 10:443
make plows, 15:551
management of, 3:276, 8:173–8:174, 8:174, 12:227, 13:582, 15:130, 15:147
and H. Marks’s estate, 4:510, 4:511, 5:96, 7:518
master’s duty to, 4:157, 15:116
medical treatment for, 3:196, 3:270, 3:283–3:284, 3:367–3:368, 4:9, 4:9, 4:381, 9:505, 9:567, 10:105–10:107, 11:497, 13:567, 14:218, 14:494, 14:596, 15:438–15:439
and military service, 7:533, 7:534n
J. Mitchell’s, 2:262
at Monticello, 1:399, 8:234, 8:241, 10:403n, 10:600, 10:610, 10:647, 12:192n, 12:197, 12:227, 12:349, 12:483, 14:261
W. C. Nicholas’s, 14:587n
offered to University of Virginia, 13:221, 13:223–13:224n
order goods for TJ, 15:450
patriotism of, 7:533
C. Peyton’s, 12:542, 13:430, 15:116, 15:116–15:117, 15:283
J. Peyton sells, 3:186, 3:186
pork for, 8:184–8:185, 12:324
pots for, 8:70–8:71, 8:186
price of, 15:463
prisoners of war compared to, 4:361–4:362
E. Randolph’s, 4:231–4:232n
T. E. Randolph’s, 13:116
T. M. Randolph’s, 8:609, 8:609n, 14:361, 14:391, 14:394, 14:394, 14:396, 14:398–14:399, 15:46
representation of under U.S. Constitution, 10:368, 10:369n
requested by J. Dougherty, 1:321
salt for, 6:487, 7:124, 7:180
sifters for, 8:71
and skilled trades, 1:388, 10:355
spinning by, 6:214, 6:215, 6:282, 6:285–6:286, 6:363, 6:366, 12:538, 15:428
supplies for, 3:647+, 4:28, 5:489, 7:180, 7:181n
Tangier Island refuge for, 8:318, 8:318n
tavern charges for, 9:19, 9:19, 9:19, 9:19, 9:19, 9:20, 9:20, 9:21
taxes on, 7:708, 7:708, 8:63n, 8:255, 8:256, 8:392, 8:485, 9:51–9:52n, 9:430, 11:44, 12:301, 12:415, 14:114n
and textile manufacturing, 5:268–5:269, 5:663, 7:240–7:241, 8:634, 8:635
TJ attempts to buy, 4:397
TJ buys, 2:403, 2:424–2:425, 2:464
TJ lists, 4:xliv, 4:384–4:386, 4:386–4:388, 8:60–8:62, 8:62n, 8:72, 8:72n, 8:255, 12:303
TJ orders flogging of, 4:620
TJ’s debts to, 15:425, 15:425
TJ sells, 2:217, 3:411–3:413, 3:513, 3:648, 4:620, 9:215–9:216, 11:546, 11:547, 11:573, 13:430, 13:437n, 15:138, 15:162, 15:283
trained in French cooking, 1:162, 1:188, 1:189n
transport goods, 12:324, 15:27, 15:46, 15:154
travels of, 7:71, 8:610, 9:494, 10:300, 10:300n, 10:517, 10:517–10:518, 10:536, 10:570, 10:597, 11:178, 11:207, 11:207, 12:192, 12:197, 12:227, 12:349, 12:538, 14:476–14:477, 14:541, 14:555, 14:635–14:636, 15:261, 15:282–15:283
vaccinated, 9:717–9:718, 9:718n
valuation of, 3:529, 11:194
valued for childbearing, 13:582
Va. statute regarding, 1:622, 1:624n
J. Wayles buys, 2:433
W. Wood’s, 15:455
and work plans for Poplar Forest, 4:379–4:382, 5:31, 5:489–5:490, 5:545, 5:593, 8:610, 11:179, 11:475, 15:306
wrestle, 9:567

slave trade

and Great Britain, 3:513–3:514, 11:61n, 15:380n
U.S. abolition of, 6:512, 15:531, 15:535n
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506
works on, 3:522n, 3:522n, 10:265, 10:265–10:266n

Slaydyen, Arther

and H. Marks’s estate, 4:511, 5:18n, 5:73

Slaydyen, Lucy

and H. Marks’s estate, 5:18n, 5:73

Sloan, James

financial reverses of, 8:43, 8:104
political views of, 8:43, 8:104, 8:104n
supports relocation of U.S. capital, 8:104, 8:104n

Sloan, James (ca. 1786–1819)

identified, 13:75n
letters from, 13:75, 13:125
letters to, 13:96–13:97, 13:146–13:147
Rambles in Italy; in the Years 1816.…17. By an American, 13:75, 13:75n, 13:96–13:97, 13:476
seeks letter of recommendation, 13:125, 13:146–13:147

Sloan, John

as newspaper editor, 12:32n

Sloan & Wise (Chambersburg firm)

identified, 12:32n
letter from, 12:31–12:32
letter to, 12:47
publishes false TJ quotes, 12:31–12:32, 12:47

Sloo, Thomas

as land-claims commissioner, 7:93–7:94, 7:94n

Slop von Cadenberg, Joseph Anton

Observationes siderum habitae Pisis in specula academica, 6:75, 6:84, 6:84n

Small, Abraham

The American Speaker, 7:331–7:332, 7:332n, 7:373–7:374, 7:374n, 7:378n, 7:630
and book prospectus, 3:296–3:297n
and domestic manufactures, 1:170–1:172
identified, 7:332n
letters from, 1:170–1:172, 7:331–7:332
letters to, 7:373–7:374
as publisher, 1:18, 1:19n, 1:172n, 13:89, 13:89, 13:90, 14:166, 14:183
seeks TJ’s advice, 7:331–7:332

Small, William

TJ’s mentor, 4:369, 8:200

Small, William (ship captain), 11:653

smallpox

origins of, 10:127
vaccinations, 1:300n, 2:88, 3:183n, 4:495, 9:78, 9:256, 9:717–9:718, 9:718n, 12:564, 12:564–12:565n, 12:577, 14:461, 14:462–14:463n

Smart, Thomas, 3:151, 3:151n, 3:316, 3:546, 3:546, 3:546

Smilie (Smiley), John, 1:361

Smith, Dr.

and letter for J. L. Henderson, 7:345

Smith, Dr.

gives map to TJ, 9:689

Smith, Mr.

delivers letter, 14:5n

Smith, Mr. (of Albemarle Co.)

and proposed Albemarle Co. road, 11:244, 11:245, 11:245

Smith, Mr. (author)

work of on distilling, 8:388

Smith, Mr. (at Hunter’s Ordinary)

family of, 12:634–12:635

Smith, Mr. (in Paris), 7:490

Smith, Mr. (of Richmond)

considered for appointment by TJ, 1:25

Smith, Mr. (of Staunton)

house of, 13:380–13:381

Smith, Mr. (of Virginia)

C. Peyton bargains with, 13:430

Smith, Abigail Adams (John Adams’s daughter; William Stephens Smith’s wife)

A. Adams on, 6:517
death of, 6:387–6:388, 6:388n
health of, 4:390, 4:391n, 4:486, 6:388, 6:516–6:517
recognizes TJ’s handwriting, 4:473

Smith, Adam

on bank in Hamburg, 6:649, 6:649n
economic theories of, 4:439, 4:440, 4:448, 5:577, 6:582–6:586, 8:168, 8:294, 13:573n, 13:573, 15:278–15:279, 15:306
and education, 13:515
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 13:177, 13:177n
The Wealth of Nations, 2:592, 4:448, 5:52–5:53, 5:56n, 6:53, 6:497, 6:498n, 6:582–6:586, 6:593n, 6:593, 7:6, 7:6n, 7:176, 9:631, 10:331n
works of, 9:517, 9:543, 14:82–14:83

Smith, Andrew

and glass for TJ, 14:439, 14:447, 14:472, 14:476, 14:493–14:494, 14:505–14:506, 14:533
identified, 14:439–14:440n
letters from, 14:439–14:440, 14:493–14:494, 14:533–14:534
letter to, 14:505–14:506
as partner in Smith & Riddle, 11:112n, 11:137n, 14:439, 14:493, 14:533, 14:535
TJ’s debt to, 15:425

Smith, Ann

academy in Lexington, Va., 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201

Smith, Bernard

identified, 3:511n
letters from, 3:510–3:511
letters to, 3:615
oration by, 3:510–3:511, 3:615

Smith, C. H.

as artist, 11:115n

Smith, Caroline (John Adams’s granddaughter)

J. Adams on, 4:475
as J. Adams’s amanuensis, 6:627n
and mother’s death, 6:387, 6:388n

Smith, Cary Ann Nicholas (John Spear Smith’s wife; Wilson Cary Nicholas’s daughter)

family of, 11:627n

Smith, Charles (ship captain), 11:170

Smith, Clement

as bank cashier, 9:587, 10:94, 10:94, 10:638–10:639

Smith, Daniel

surveyor, 9:690, 9:690, 9:692n, 14:136, 15:621, 15:622n, 15:622n, 15:622–15:623n

Smith, Francis

letters from, 6:378
letters to, 6:413
and H. Marks’s estate, 5:428, 6:135, 6:378, 6:413

Smith, Franklin Gillette

identified, 13:416n
letter from, 13:416
printing press design of, 13:416, 13:417–13:418

Smith, George S.

and Central College subscription, 11:332

Smith, Gilbert H. (captain of Sampson ), 1:210

Smith, Henry, 3:230

Smith, J. H.

letters from, 4:661
seeks TJ’s opinion on education, 4:661

Smith, James (of Baltimore)

identified, 12:564n
letter from, 12:564–12:565
letter to, 12:577
and proposed National Vaccine Institution, 12:564, 12:564–12:565n, 12:577

Smith, James (of New York)

letter from, 11:234–11:236
and New-York Historical Society, 11:234–11:235

Smith, James (of Pennsylvania)

signer of Declaration of Independence, 13:329, 14:292

Smith, James E.

accused of corruption, 4:174n

Smith, James Edward

as botanist, 1:164n, 1:437n, 3:263–3:264, 5:276, 9:337, 9:338n
English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 10:287, 10:288n

Smith, John (ca. 1580–1631)

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, 5:508–5:509, 15:452–15:453n

Smith, John (1750–1836)

and Chinese pigs, 4:109
family of, 7:204
identified, 1:586n
letters to, 1:585–1:586
R. Mills introduced to, 2:437, 2:438n
and oat-grass, 1:585–1:586
and Winchester newspaper, 2:120

Smith, John (1752–1816)

letters to, 4:164
as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n

Smith, John (John Adams’s grandson)

J. Adams on, 4:475
and mother’s death, 6:387

Smith, John (of Albemarle Co.)

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Smith, John (chief clerk of War Department)

and batture controversy, 2:426
and commission for H. A. S. Dearborn, 1:78, 1:280, 1:301
letters from accounted for, 1:571n
and Spring Hill School, 1:660

Smith, John (of England)

and E. Aram’s murder trial, 7:378, 7:378

Smith, John (senator from Ohio), 1:643n

Smith, John (of Tennessee)

and lead mines, 4:8

Smith, John Augustine

T. Cooper on, 12:490
and medical professorship at University of Virginia, 14:601
mentioned, 12:74n
as president of College of William and Mary, 8:317, 9:396, 9:396n, 9:396n, 9:435–9:436, 10:294, 12:25–12:27, 12:545, 12:647
and writings of J. B. Say, 10:294, 10:659

Smith, John C.

as governor of Conn., 8:444n

Smith, John H.

Chesterfield Co. landowner, 8:146n

Smith, John Hill

and festivities for A. Jackson, 9:145, 9:147n
identified, 9:146n
letter from, 9:145–9:147

Smith, John K.

and Lafayette’s land patents, 5:212–5:213, 5:215n

Smith, John M., 5:652

Smith, John Rhea

and American Philosophical Society, 1:572n, 4:167n

Smith, John Spear

family of, 11:627n
as secretary of legation to Russia, 1:360–1:361, 1:378, 1:379, 1:385–1:386, 1:402, 2:466, 3:115–3:116

Smith, John Witherspoon

certifies documents, 2:443n, 2:444n, 5:85–5:86n, 5:86n, 5:86–5:87n

Smith, Jonathan

cashier of Bank of Pennsylvania, 4:18n, 4:488, 4:489n, 5:374, 5:381n, 6:546, 7:381, 7:381n
letters to accounted for, 1:408n, 3:284n, 4:18n, 5:381n

Smith, Jonathan Bayard Harrison, 3:76, 3:76n

Smith, Jordan

Chesterfield Co. landowner, 8:146n

Smith, Joseph (of Augusta Co.), 14:587n, 14:588n

Smith, Joseph Allen

and astronomical observations, 6:75, 6:84n

Smith, Joseph Emerson

and Bunker Hill Association, 2:504–2:505, 2:666
identified, 2:505n
letters from, 2:504–2:505
letters to, 2:666

Smith, Julia Harrison, 1:390, 1:397n, 1:434

Smith, Larkin

collector at Norfolk, 4:363, 4:364n
and garden seeds for TJ, 4:534, 4:559, 4:569
identified, 1:88n
letters from, 1:87–1:88, 1:108, 4:534
letters to, 1:136–1:137, 4:569
sends foreign intelligence, 1:108
thanks TJ, 1:87–1:88, 1:136–1:137
TJ on, 4:569

Smith, Louisa Catharine (John Adams’s niece)

as J. Adams’s amanuensis, 6:627n, 14:311n, 14:448n, 14:546n, 14:563n, 15:181n, 15:235n, 15:273n, 15:338n, 15:410n, 15:470n, 15:589n

Smith, Lucy Franklin Read Jones

identified, 6:127n
letters from, 6:126–6:127
letters to, 6:161–6:162
and son W. F. Jones, 6:126, 6:161–6:162

Smith, Margaret (Robert Smith’s wife), 1:340

Smith, Margaret Bayard (Samuel Harrison Smith’s wife)

and E. W. R. Coolidge, 10:262–10:263
describes TJ’s study, 2:xli
The Diversions of Sidney, 1:10n
on J. Dougherty, 1:3–1:4n
and geranium from TJ, 1:29, 1:29+
on growth of religious zeal, 10:262
identified, 1:10n
invited to visit Monticello, 6:399
letters from, 1:29+, 10:261–10:263
letters to, 1:29, 10:300–10:301
on J. Madison’s inauguration, 1:8–1:10
Monticello visit described by, 1:386–1:401, 10:261–10:262
preference for rural life, 6:399, 6:461
sends greetings to TJ, 1:435, 3:76, 3:272, 6:428, 6:462, 8:524
TJ gives seeds to, 2:302n
TJ sends greetings to, 1:410, 6:399, 6:444, 7:681, 8:476
and TJ’s religious beliefs, 10:262, 10:262, 10:300–10:301
visits Monticello, 1:386–1:401, 1:410, 1:434–1:435, 2:670
visits New York City, 10:262
A Winter in Washington: or, Memoirs of the Seymour Family, 1:10n, 1:397n

Smith, Mary Mansfield. See Nicholas, Mary Mansfield Smith

Smith, Munson

postmaster at Schaghticoke, N.Y., 4:588, 4:673

Smith, Peter

magnolia tree of, 7:122

Smith, Peter F.

Chesterfield Co. landowner, 8:146n
buys TJ’s tobacco, 10:37

Smith, P. F.

buys TJ’s tobacco, 9:569

Smith, Ralph, 12:461, 12:462n

Smith, Richard

as cashier of office of discount and deposit, 11:539

Smith, Robert See also Smith family (of Baltimore)

and batture controversy, 2:427, 2:429, 2:439, 2:444n, 2:449, 2:450n, 2:452, 2:511, 2:568, 3:109, 3:248n, 3:316, 3:424
congratulates TJ, 1:345
declines mission to Russia, 3:519
dismissed as secretary of state, 3:567–3:568, 3:568, 3:574, 3:575n, 3:595, 3:600, 3:606, 3:608, 3:622–3:623, 3:638, 3:639n, 5:646–5:647, 5:684
and D. M. Erskine, 1:168, 1:170n, 1:409, 2:540n
identified, 1:340n
investigated by congressional committee, 1:361, 1:361–1:362n
and F. J. Jackson, 2:34–2:35n
and H. Lee’s medal, 2:104, 2:253
letters from, 1:345, 2:439, 2:449, 3:147, 3:260, 3:608
letters to, 1:340, 2:429, 3:109–3:110, 3:475–3:476, 3:595
opposes A. Gallatin, 1:340n, 1:598, 1:599n, 2:146, 2:177, 2:224, 2:225n, 2:235, 2:272, 2:430
Robert Smith’s Address to the People of the United States, 1:340n, 3:110n, 3:595, 3:608n, 4:21, 4:31, 4:109
secretary of state, 1:20, 1:38, 1:113, 1:155, 1:232, 1:335, 1:402, 1:464, 1:518, 1:518n, 1:626, 1:632, 1:643, 2:173, 2:174n, 2:419n, 2:463, 2:471n, 2:540n, 2:544, 2:665n, 3:61n, 3:260, 3:442, 3:475–3:476, 3:476–3:478, 3:543n, 3:602, 3:608, 3:615, 4:33n, 9:570, 9:574
secretary of the navy, 1:340, 1:649–1:650, 3:602, 3:604n
and W. Short’s diplomatic expenses, 1:232–1:233
TJ on, 2:272
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624
and TJ’s statement on the batture case, 3:109–3:110, 3:118, 3:147, 3:152
TJ thanks, 1:340
and D. B. Warden, 3:260

Smith, Robert Nelson

carries package to TJ, 4:493, 4:499
identified, 4:500n
letter of introduction for, from T. W. Maury, 4:499

Smith, S., & Buchanan (Baltimore firm). See S. Smith & Buchanan (Baltimore firm)

Smith, Samuel (historian)

The History of the Colony of Nova Caesaria, or New-Jersey, 1:581

Smith, Samuel (of Maryland) See also Smith family (of Baltimore)

and consular appointment, 8:597, 8:597n, 8:598, 8:617
H. Dearborn on, 3:553
family of, 5:659n, 12:149, 12:149n
identified, 1:361n
introduces E. Bond, 5:524, 5:526n
and letter of introduction for son, 1:360–1:361, 1:377–1:378, 1:379, 1:385–1:386, 1:402
letters from, 1:360–1:362, 4:171, 8:598
letters to, 1:377–1:378, 1:402, 4:164, 8:617
as major general, 7:656n
mentioned, 2:466, 9:671
and reelection to Senate, 1:515–1:516
and sesame seed for TJ, 4:40
and R. Smith’s dismissal, 5:647, 5:648n
as U.S. senator, 1:232, 4:163, 4:164n, 4:171, 6:202, 6:241, 7:310–7:311, 7:312n
and D. B. Warden, 3:251, 3:260

Smith, Samuel (of Pennsylvania)

identified, 1:335n
letters from accounted for, 1:335n
letters to, 1:335–1:336
and Miss. Territory appointment, 5:493, 5:494n
and pardon of Lowrys, 1:335, 1:335n, 1:340, 1:345

Smith, Samuel (of Tennessee), 7:161

Smith, Samuel Harrison

and appointments, 6:399, 6:461
on British destruction in Washington, 8:13–8:14
as commissioner of the revenue, 6:365, 6:365n, 6:396, 6:399, 6:461, 7:679–7:680, 7:681, 7:681–7:683, 7:692–7:693, 7:699–7:700
editor of National Intelligencer, 1:349–1:350, 2:470, 2:471n, 6:505
family of, 1:10n
identified, 1:30n
letters from, 1:72, 1:434–1:435, 3:76, 3:272, 6:428–6:429, 6:461–6:462, 8:13–8:15, 8:26, 8:36, 8:39–8:40, 8:214, 8:270, 8:333, 8:369, 8:524
letters from accounted for, 1:12n
letters to, 1:30, 1:410, 2:670–2:671, 6:399, 6:444, 7:xlv–7:xlvi, 7:434 (illus.), 7:681, 7:681–7:684, 8:22, 8:55–8:57, 8:213, 8:288–8:289, 8:476
on Napoleon, 8:524
and naval expansion, 6:429n, 6:444, 6:462
on New Orleans, 8:270
Oration pronounced by Samuel H. Smith, Esquire, 6:428, 6:429n, 6:444
on peace with Great Britain, 8:270
portrait of, 8:xlv, 8:272 (illus.)
prints circular for TJ, 1:30, 6:648
as publisher, 12:438
Remarks on Education, 1:30n
reports on weather, 8:214
retires from printing business, 3:76
and sale of TJ’s library to Congress, 7:xlv–7:xlvi, 7:679–7:680, 7:681, 7:681–7:683, 7:692–7:693, 7:699–7:700, 8:xlv, 8:14, 8:16, 8:22, 8:26, 8:36, 8:39–8:40, 8:54, 8:55–8:57, 8:59, 8:83, 8:213, 8:214, 8:270, 8:288–8:289, 8:369, 8:373, 8:428, 8:476, 8:524
sends papers to TJ, 3:272
supports internal improvements, 6:429n, 6:462
tax proposed by, 9:217
TJ invites to Monticello, 3:76, 6:399, 8:476, 8:524
TJ’s account with, 2:670, 2:671n, 6:399, 6:461–6:462, 6:560, 6:648, 6:648n
and TJ’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 4:397, 4:401n, 4:430
transmits A. Fothergill pamphlet, 1:72
and transportation of TJ’s library, 8:270, 8:287, 8:287–8:288, 8:289, 8:333, 8:339
visits Monticello, 1:386–1:401, 1:410, 1:434–1:435, 10:261–10:262

Smith, Silas H.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Smith, Susan Harrison, 1:390, 1:397n, 1:434

Smith, Sydney

Letters on The Subject of The Catholics, 2:161, 2:161n

Smith, Thomas

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
recommended for military appointment, 4:529

Smith, Thomas (ca. 1792–1865)

identified, 8:509n
introduced to TJ, 8:509
visits Monticello, 8:509

Smith, Thomas (of Fredericksburg)

seeks employment at University of Virginia, 14:169–14:170, 14:195

Smith, Thomas (of Tennessee)

militia service of, 7:161

Smith, Thomas Loughton

identified, 11:529–11:530n
letter from, 11:528–11:530
letter to, 11:582
and Seventy-Six Association, 11:528–11:529, 11:582

Smith, Thomas Peters, 2:375, 2:377n

Smith, William (1711–87)

The History of the Peloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides, 1:580
translates Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime (“Longinus”), 14:200

Smith, William (1728–93)

The History of the Province of New-York, 1:581

Smith, William (John Adams’s grandson)

J. Adams on, 4:475

Smith, William (English politician)

and bill for relief of antitrinitarians, 6:500, 6:502n

Smith, William (of New York)

on conspiracy to kill TJ, 1:425–1:427
letters from, 1:425–1:428

Smith, William Loughton

and assumption of Revolutionary War debts, 12:423
citizenship of, 8:526, 8:528n, 15:18, 15:19n
W. Duane on, 5:635, 5:636–5:637n

Smith, William P.

as justice of the peace, 15:38n

Smith, William Stephens

as farmer, 4:390, 4:391n
military talents of, 4:390, 4:486
removed from office, 1:578, 1:578n
and wife’s death, 6:387

Smith, Yeamans, 14:40

Smith & Riddle (Richmond firm) See also Smith, Andrew

buys TJ’s flour, 9:708, 10:37, 14:211
and glass for TJ, 11:112, 11:137, 14:273–14:274, 14:317, 14:434, 14:435, 14:439, 14:455, 14:493, 14:533
and glass for University of Virginia, 14:434, 14:533
identified, 11:112n
insolvency of, 14:435, 14:439, 14:475, 14:493, 14:494, 14:533, 14:534–14:535, 14:535–14:536
letter from, 11:137
letters to, 11:112, 14:273–14:274, 14:435
and remittances to T. Kosciuszko, 10:296, 10:297n, 10:567, 10:568, 10:599, 10:639, 10:641, 10:641–10:642

Smithers (Smuthers; Smythers), Michael

and lost trunk, 1:348

Smith family (of Baltimore)

anti-administration activities of, 3:542, 3:550, 3:550n, 3:553

Smiths & Morrison (New Orleans firm)

and J. Peyton’s estate, 5:314, 5:350, 5:383

Smith T, John

and Burr conspiracy, 5:4, 5:4n

Smollett, Tobias George

Continuation of the Complete History of England, 15:569, 15:572n
writings of, 7:664

Smyth, Alexander

military appointments, 5:610, 5:610n
and Niagara Campaign, 5:410, 5:411n, 5:493, 5:532–5:545, 5:684, 5:685n, 6:172, 6:527
TJ on, 5:610

Smyth, David William

A Gazetteer of the Province of Upper Canada, 5:581, 5:582, 5:582n
Map of Upper Canada, 5:581, 5:582, 5:582n

Smyth, James Carmichael

An Account of the Experiment made … on board the Union Hospital Ship, 10:136, 10:147n

Smyth, John B.

as clerk for W. Duane, 9:439, 9:439n, 10:652n, 11:13
letter from, 9:439

snakes

A Memoir concerning … Various Species of Serpents (B. S. Barton), 8:422, 8:422–8:423n
rattle, 1:660, 2:36, 4:536, 11:631
remedy for bite, 1:57, 1:58n

snap beans, 3:501–3:502, 5:658, 6:44–6:45, 6:487, 15:567n

Snoddy, John, 5:81n

Snow, David

captain of brig Polly, 10:532, 10:532, 10:576

Snow, Gideon, 5:514

snowberry, 4:524, 4:525n, 5:382, 7:35, 11:174, 11:220

Snowden (R. Jefferson’s Buckingham Co. estate)

fire at, 9:489, 9:489–9:490n, 9:489–9:490n
harvest at, 8:564
TJ plans visit to, 6:132, 6:214, 6:285, 6:366, 6:487

snuff (prepared tobacco), 1:147–1:152, 14:611

Snyder, Simon

death of, 15:235
as governor of Pa., 1:213–1:214n, 3:563, 3:564n, 3:601, 4:160, 8:665, 9:482, 9:482n, 10:543–10:544n
potential Republican vice-presidential nominee, 9:563

soap, 3:202, 4:102, 12:324, 13:566, 13:581, 15:311, 15:313, 15:322

soapstone, 5:38, 5:38–5:39n, 5:39n, 5:109–5:110, 5:167–5:168

Società Italiana delle scienze, 6:468, 6:469n

Société Agricole et Manufacturière Française

identified, 10:633n
letter from, 10:631–10:634
minutes of a meeting of, 10:635–10:637
seeks land grant, 10:491, 10:632, 10:635, 10:636–10:637n, 10:670, 12:19
social contract of, 10:631–10:632, 10:635, 10:670–10:671

Société d’agriculture du département de la Seine

books by, 1:35, 1:258, 1:259n
and cottonseed from TJ, 1:258, 1:259–1:260n, 1:596
and L. P. G. de Lormerie, 1:256+
members of, 4:319–4:320, 8:680
Mémoires, 1:35, 1:37, 1:258, 1:259n, 1:611–1:612, 1:629, 1:630n, 2:83, 2:83, 2:536, 15:145
and moldboard plows, 1:252, 1:252n, 2:111, 2:312, 2:332, 7:492, 8:680
sends plow to TJ, 1:21n, 2:111, 2:312, 2:332

Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, 5:612, 8:421

Société Hollandoise des Sciences

program of, 10:364, 10:364n, 10:394

Société Philomathique de Paris

members of, 9:326n

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 3:269n

Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 15:310, 15:310n, 15:322

Society for the Promotion of Universal and Permanent Peace, 12:108

Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts in the State of New-York

and H. G. Spafford, 8:283, 8:283n
and Taurino cloth, 7:73n
I. H. Tiffany on, 10:661

Society of Antiquaries of London

transactions of, 5:513, 5:514–5:515n

Society of Artists of the United States See also Columbian Society of Artists

constitution of, 2:437, 2:438n, 4:356
exhibition of, 3:625n, 5:114, 7:401, 7:443–7:444
identified, 4:357–4:358n
B. H. Latrobe speaks to, 3:624
and TJ, 2:438n, 4:355–4:358, 4:398–4:400, 4:407, 4:459–4:460, 4:644, 5:114, 5:166–5:167

Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

transactions of, 5:513–5:514, 5:514–5:515n

Society of Friends. See Quakers

Society of Teachers of the City of New-York for Benevolent and Literary Purposes, 14:27

Society of the Cincinnati

and Central College, 12:170, 12:208, 12:233, 12:263, 12:284, 12:458
eagles (badges) for, 12:430
and French Revolutionary War veterans, 12:430
identified, 12:208–12:209n
and F. W. von Steuben, 12:419, 12:430, 12:431n
Va. members of, 12:98, 12:99n
and G. Washington, 12:419–12:420, 12:429–12:430, 12:430, 12:431n

Society of United Irishmen, 1:141n, 1:465n

Socrates

anecdote about, 11:491n
daemon of, 6:550, 6:551–6:552n, 7:77
death of, 10:360
mentioned, 6:299, 7:24, 12:163
TJ on, 7:454, 13:29, 15:163
writings about, 10:360

Socrates and Jesus Compared (J. Priestley), 6:204, 6:317, 6:318, 6:367

Il Sogno di Scipione (P. Metastasio), 11:229–11:230, 11:231–11:232n

Sokolnicki, Michel, 2:39n

A Solemn Review of the Custom of War (N. Worcester), 9:105n, 9:410, 9:411n

A Solemn Warning To All Dwellers Upon the Earth (N. Hughes), 4:483, 4:484n, 5:12

Soler, Juan Pablo, 2:480n

Solís y Rivadeneira, Antonio de

Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, poblacion, y Progresos de la America Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España, 11:179, 11:193, 11:395
on Native American mounds, 6:326, 6:326–6:327

Solomon (TJ’s slave; b. 1794)

on Monticello slave lists, 4:388, 12:303
travels to Poplar Forest, 7:71

Solomon (TJ’s slave; b. 1814)

on Poplar Forest slave lists, 8:62, 8:255

Solomon (king of Israel), 2:584, 6:520, 6:542, 6:563, 6:567n, 6:623, 7:23, 7:574, 15:580, 15:580, 15:582, 15:583n

Solon

mentioned, 10:671, 15:171–15:172
quoted by Destutt de Tracy, 4:608, 4:611n
quoted by P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 9:613, 9:616n, 9:702, 9:702n
referenced by TJ, 12:154, 12:157n
TJ quotes, 4:604, 4:605n

Some Causes of Popular Poverty (C. C. Blatchly), 12:7n

Some Cursory Observations on the Ordinary Construction of Wheel-Carriages (H. G. Spafford), 8:209, 8:211, 8:271, 8:271n, 8:273, 8:273, 8:280, 8:470, 8:471n

Some Memorandums, by which it is attempted to be shewn that An Improved Model may be adopted in the Construction of Ships (F. Tudor), 5:491, 5:491n

Somers, Charles M., 3:96

Someruelos, Salvador de Muro y Salazar, marqués de, 3:265

Somerville, John Southey, Lord

Observations on the influence of soil and climate upon wool (Bakewell), 1:479, 1:480n

Somerville, William C.

conveys letter, 15:477n

Sommers, John Withingham

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

Somner, William

glossary of, in Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores X (R. Twysden), 7:127
Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum, 6:406, 6:407n, 10:358, 10:465

Somnium Scipionis (Cicero), 7:627, 11:232n

Songster’s Ordinary. See Sangster’s (Songster’s) Ordinary (Fairfax Co.)

Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert

edits Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere (G. L. L. Buffon), 14:387, 14:388n, 14:451
Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, 7:389

Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1:515, 1:517n

Sophocles

Antigone, 14:551
authenticity of works of, 9:87
in collegiate curriculum, 7:659, 7:662
Electra, 14:551
Αἱ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους τραγῳδίαι ἑπτά. Sophoclis Tragoediæ Septem (ed. T. Johnson), 10:234, 10:237n, 14:510
Oedipus at Colonus, 14:551
Oedipus Tyrannus, 14:551
Philoctetes, 14:551
Trachiniae, 14:551
The Tragedies of Sophocles (trans. R. Potter), 15:159, 15:159n, 15:504, 15:594
The Tragedies of Sophocles, from the Greek (trans. T. Francklin), 15:43, 15:43, 15:65
works of, 13:596, 13:608, 14:258

Sorbonne, 9:175, 9:176n, 9:346

sorghum, 1:436–1:437n, 15:327, 15:327n

Sorghum vulgare (bicolor)

grain grown by T. M. Randolph, 1:436–1:437n

Sorini, Dr.

family of, 9:674

Sorini, Carolina Volpe

and P. Mazzei’s will, 9:674

sorrel, 5:550–5:551, 10:532

The Sorrows of Werter: A German Story (J. W. von Goethe), 9:84, 9:88n

Σουίδας. Suidæ Lexicon (ed. L. Küster), 8:581, 9:108

Soule, Micah (ship captain), 15:11n

Soult, Nicolas Jean de Dieu

as French minister of war, 8:138, 8:139n
rejoins Napoleon, 8:452
yellow fever among troops of, 10:135–10:136

Southall, Valentine Wood

and Central College cornerstone laying, 12:36–12:37, 12:40–12:41, 12:45, 12:54, 12:54, 12:61, 12:62, 12:67, 12:70
and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:330, 13:162, 15:97, 15:97
identified, 11:173n
letters from, 11:172–11:173, 11:453, 12:36–12:37, 12:45, 12:140, 12:198, 14:543
letter to, 12:40–12:41
and proposed Albemarle Co. road, 11:172–11:173
requests letters of introduction, 12:198
as revenue collector, 9:511n, 10:476–10:477, 10:602
as secretary of Central College Board of Visitors, 11:316, 11:318n, 11:319, 11:565
and TJ’s bank loan, 14:543
TJ’s debt to, 11:380, 11:421, 11:421n, 11:451, 11:453, 11:464–11:465, 11:593, 11:605, 12:139, 12:140, 12:614, 12:644, 12:656
travels of, 12:198
visits Monticello, 11:327n
witnesses documents, 15:33n, 15:35

South America See also United Provinces of South America

J. Adams on, 12:405
clergy of, 10:375
constitutions in, 7:476
W. Duane tours, 3:xlvi
immigrants to, 11:255, 11:457–11:458
and European powers, 9:89, 9:444–9:445, 12:247–12:248, 13:286, 13:415, 13:586–13:587
Indian antiquities of, 6:322–6:328
as market for U.S. goods, 9:426, 9:476n, 9:515
miscegenation in
people and climate of, 13:235
republics in, 8:503, 8:503, 8:508n, 9:231, 9:271, 9:327, 9:391, 9:611–9:612, 9:615–9:616n, 9:699, 9:702, 10:161, 10:285, 10:328, 11:135, 11:384, 11:384n, 11:410, 11:412n, 12:247–12:248, 12:251–12:252, 12:621, 13:130, 13:151, 13:151n, 13:158n, 13:235, 13:300n, 13:310–13:311, 13:415, 15:296, 15:568, 15:569n
sugar from, 9:57, 9:269, 9:272, 9:286, 9:318, 9:324
TJ on commerce with, 9:444–9:445
TJ on independence movement in, 10:373–10:375, 11:354–11:355, 11:434, 13:48–13:49, 13:286, 13:310–13:311, 15:314–15:315
TJ on political organization of, 9:445, 9:699, 10:374–10:375
U.S. commission to, 13:150, 13:235, 13:236n, 15:296, 15:372
works on, 15:296, 15:314–15:315, 15:315n, 15:372

South Carolina

colleges in, 8:352–8:353, 8:354n, 8:609–8:610, 8:610n
cotton grown in, 10:547
currency, 8:79
and domestic manufacturing, 4:343
Federalists in, 5:285, 5:393, 5:681, 13:318–13:319
learned societies in, 6:179, 6:180n, 6:251, 6:376–6:377, 6:378n, 6:483, 6:561
legislature, 6:179, 15:565–15:566, 15:603
mammoth bones found in, 2:507
mountains in, 5:101
olive trees cultivated in, 10:217, 10:218n
plants in, 8:21
Republicans in, 5:303, 5:329, 5:332, 5:355, 5:393, 6:317, 6:611, 6:636, 13:318–13:319
and Revolutionary War, 14:572n
sheep raising in, 2:218, 4:40
and support for War of 1812, 5:329–5:330n, 5:546–5:547, 5:547n
and U.S. foreign affairs, 4:342–4:343, 4:472

South Carolina College (later University of South Carolina)

catalogue of, 1:112
and classical schools, 15:387
faculty at, 8:352–8:353, 8:353, 8:609–8:610, 14:102, 15:291, 15:321–15:322, 15:341, 15:386, 15:387, 15:442, 15:516, 15:565–15:566, 15:603
influence of clergy at, 8:609–8:610, 14:101, 14:103, 15:553
president of, 8:353, 8:354n, 12:643
rhetoric class at, 8:352–8:353, 8:354n
trustees of, 14:103, 15:553

South End Church (Boston), 12:404

Southey, Robert

The Life of Nelson, 8:22, 8:23n, 8:671
Wat Tyler, 11:384, 11:384n

Southgate, J. & W. (Norfolk firm). See J. & W. Southgate (Norfolk firm)

South Sea bubble, 9:329, 9:331n, 9:353, 9:407, 9:561n

Southwark, England

public meeting at, 10:574, 10:575n

Southwest Mountains

altitude of, 9:316
described, 11:628
and grape cultivation, 4:177
Monticello mountain part of, 15:404–15:405
and Rivanna River, 11:83, 11:90, 11:550, 15:214, 15:289
view from Monticello, 15:405

Southwest Mountain tract (Albemarle Co.)

dispute over ownership, 2:101–2:102, 2:103n, 2:114, 2:137–2:139, 2:206–2:208, 2:227, 2:228–2:229, 2:347, 2:362–2:363
J. Harvie pays TJ for, 4:555n, 8:96–8:97

Southwick, Solomon

and Albany Register, 5:319n, 5:354n

Sowerby, James

English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 10:287, 10:288n

spades, 2:546, 2:546, 2:547, 2:548, 6:346, 15:86, 15:86

Spafford, Elizabeth Clark Hewitt (Horatio G. Spafford’s wife)

health of, 8:271
reports weather conditions, 8:106
sends greetings to TJ, 7:314
travels of, 7:275

Spafford, Horatio Gates

and boat and ship building, 9:555
apologizes to TJ, 7:264
collects minerals, ores, and fossils, 8:209, 8:209n
copyrights of, 7:273
desires to publish TJ letter, 10:544, 10:595
as editor of American Magazine, 8:470, 8:470, 8:470–8:471n, 8:488, 9:183, 9:184n, 9:297–9:298, 9:298n, 9:339, 9:340n, 9:344, 9:344n, 9:378, 10:544, 10:545, 10:545n, 10:586, 10:586n, 10:595, 11:5–11:6, 11:6n, 11:278, 11:279n, 11:659, 11:659n, 12:51
education of, 6:449
essay on philosophical science by, 10:544, 10:545n
family of, 7:273, 7:275, 7:314, 8:271
as farmer, 13:75–13:76, 13:111
and franking privilege, 6:449, 6:450n
A Gazetteer of the State of New-York, 2:144n, 6:352, 6:352–6:353n, 6:400, 6:400n, 6:449, 6:450, 6:450, 6:450n, 6:450n, 7:57, 7:169, 7:169n, 7:248, 7:264, 7:273, 8:209n, 8:416, 10:544, 10:544, 15:106–15:107
General Geography, and Rudiments of Useful Knowledge, 1:105, 1:106n, 1:196–1:199, 2:143, 2:144n, 6:352
health of, 15:106
identified, 1:106n
inventions of, 7:274–7:275, 7:275, 7:275, 7:313–7:314, 7:322, 8:209, 8:209n, 8:211, 8:271, 8:271n, 8:273, 8:274n, 8:280–8:281, 8:281 (illus.), 8:350, 8:367, 8:369n, 8:414–8:416, 8:463, 8:470, 8:471n, 8:488, 11:6, 11:496
and iron and steel production, 9:339–9:340, 9:340n
on lawyers, 7:273
letters from, 1:105–1:106, 2:143–2:145, 3:112–3:114, 6:352–6:353, 6:449–6:450, 7:57–7:58, 7:169, 7:264, 7:273–7:276, 7:313–7:314, 7:668–7:669, 8:106–8:107, 8:208–8:209, 8:211, 8:271, 8:273–8:274, 8:282–8:283, 8:413–8:416, 8:470–8:471, 9:183–9:184, 9:194, 9:297–9:298, 9:339–9:340, 10:544–10:545, 10:586, 11:5–11:6, 11:254, 11:266, 11:495–11:496, 13:75–13:76, 14:203, 15:106–15:107
letters to, 1:196–1:199, 6:400, 7:248–7:249, 7:322–7:323, 8:143, 8:280–8:281, 8:350, 8:488, 9:276, 9:343–9:344, 10:595, 13:111, 14:284–14:286
and J. Madison, 6:450, 6:450n, 7:275, 7:313, 7:314n, 7:668–7:669, 7:669n, 8:106, 9:184, 9:194, 9:274, 9:276, 9:297, 9:298n, 9:344, 11:6, 11:62, 11:121
The Mother-In-Law: or Memoirs of Madam de Morville, 10:545, 10:545n, 11:254, 11:254n, 11:266
moves to Pa., 11:495–11:496, 13:75–13:76, 15:106
national technology school proposed by, 9:297–9:298, 9:298n, 9:339, 9:344, 9:344n, 9:378, 10:544, 10:586, 10:586n, 11:6
and patents and patent system, 7:274–7:275, 8:209, 8:209n, 8:271, 8:271n, 8:273, 8:274n, 8:350, 9:339–9:340, 9:340n, 10:544, 10:545, 10:586, 10:586n, 11:6
proposed biography of TJ by, 14:203, 14:284–14:285
and proposed geographical department, 6:449
proposed history of N.Y. by, 6:352
proposed U.S. gazetteer by, 2:144n, 6:449, 6:450, 6:450n
proposed Va. gazetteer by, 9:344n, 10:544, 10:595, 11:5
proposes biography of Count Rumford, 8:283
Quaker beliefs of, 7:669n
on religion in America, 10:586
requests memento from TJ, 8:211
and seeds, 13:75–13:76, 13:111
seeks appointment, 7:273–7:274, 7:313, 7:668–7:669, 9:184, 9:194, 9:274, 9:276, 10:545, 15:106–15:107
seeks financial assistance, 2:144–2:145n
seeks government patronage, 6:449, 6:449
and Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts in the State of New-York, 8:283, 8:283n
Some Cursory Observations on the Ordinary Construction of Wheel-Carriages, 8:209, 8:211, 8:271, 8:271n, 8:273, 8:273, 8:280, 8:470, 8:471n
and term limits, 7:273, 7:322
on TJ, 14:203
TJ abridges letter to, 9:344n, 9:378, 9:378–9:379, 9:381n, 9:381–9:383
TJ regrets canceled visit of, 8:143
TJ sends engraving to, 8:281
visits Washington, 7:275, 7:313, 7:313–7:314, 8:106, 8:106, 9:339
and War of 1812, 7:57–7:58, 7:273–7:274, 8:271, 8:283
and S. Williams, 8:282–8:283
wishes to visit TJ, 6:352, 6:352, 6:400, 7:274, 7:275, 7:275, 7:313, 7:313–7:314, 7:322, 8:106, 8:211

and Adams-Onís Treaty (1819), 14:340, 14:466, 14:467n, 14:503, 14:581n, 15:105, 15:106n, 15:568, 15:572–15:573n, 15:594–15:595, 15:615
American property seized in, 2:162, 2:162n, 2:342
aristocracy in, 7:327, 7:391–7:392
barilla from, 14:466
barley from, 15:528n
census in, 9:440, 9:441n
claims against, 12:142
clergy of, 4:282–4:283, 7:390
climate of, 2:165–2:166
colonies of, 4:359, 7:50–7:51, 7:327–7:328, 7:392–7:394, 7:398n, 8:503, 8:503, 8:508n, 9:89, 9:150, 9:426, 9:444–9:445, 9:516, 9:611–9:612, 9:615–9:616n, 9:699, 10:161, 10:285, 10:328, 10:373–10:375, 11:354–11:355, 11:410, 11:412n, 11:434, 12:247–12:248, 12:251–12:252, 12:271, 12:405, 13:48–13:49, 13:151, 13:151n, 13:300n, 14:503, 15:568, 15:569n
constitution of, 1:470–1:471, 1:577, 4:282, 7:291, 7:292n, 7:304, 7:326–7:327, 7:390–7:391, 7:398n, 7:451n, 7:476, 8:263, 8:340n, 9:701–9:702, 9:702n
Cortes of, 5:19–5:20, 5:21n, 7:390–7:394, 7:450, 9:701, 10:44
edicts of, 3:175–3:176n
education in, 7:391, 9:701–9:702
and E. Fla., 4:284n, 4:665n, 9:516, 15:105, 15:106n
electoral policy in, 7:327, 7:328n, 7:391–7:392, 10:44
expedition against the Bahamas, 4:286, 4:286n
exploration of Northwest Coast, 1:447, 1:448
freedom of the press in, 7:391
Inquisition in, 7:220, 7:390–7:391, 8:490, 8:491n
and Isthmus of Panama, 12:169
and La., 3:281–3:282, 3:282–3:283, 9:478–9:480, 9:487–9:488n, 9:488n, 9:516, 9:518, 9:658n, 12:156, 12:249, 12:294–12:295, 12:331, 15:563
laws of, 2:471, 2:678, 3:52–3:53, 3:71, 3:160–3:161, 3:175n, 4:282, 4:477, 4:643n
merino sheep and wool from, 1:16, 1:320, 2:3–2:4, 2:31–2:32, 2:165–2:166, 2:246, 2:480, 2:480n, 2:481, 2:667, 3:342–3:343, 3:343n, 5:198–5:199, 13:67
Napoleonic policy in, 9:68
news of, 15:485
and partition of Poland, 9:345
politics in, 8:138, 8:339, 8:340n, 8:630, 12:245
and raising of horses and sheep, 1:478
Real Jardín Botánico, 15:156, 15:156–15:157n, 15:157n, 15:157n
relations with Algiers, 9:17
relations with Austria, 9:347
relations with Great Britain, 2:275, 2:602, 4:337, 4:587, 7:20
relations with Prussia, 9:347
religion in, 7:327, 7:390–7:391
resists Napoleonic rule, 1:108, 1:160, 1:344, 2:7, 2:166, 2:233, 2:242, 2:246–2:247, 2:274, 2:275, 2:379–2:380, 4:56–4:57, 4:271, 6:359–6:360, 7:23n, 7:327, 9:346
and standards of weights, measures, and coinage, 4:222–4:223
status of Florida and Cuba, 1:154, 14:503
Supreme Junta, 2:33, 2:35n, 2:246–2:247, 4:284n
taxes, 4:111
TJ on, 1:20, 7:50–7:51, 7:326–7:328, 7:390, 7:391, 7:392, 7:450, 8:540, 9:444–9:446, 9:701–9:702, 10:373, 13:315n
and Treaty of Paris (1803), 3:256
and U.S., 1:632–1:633, 2:248, 7:50–7:51, 8:156–8:157n, 8:339, 8:540, 9:388–9:389, 9:390n, 9:391, 9:444–9:446, 9:516, 9:517n, 11:122, 11:219n, 11:410, 11:412n, 12:142, 12:251–12:252, 12:271, 12:459, 12:460n, 13:130, 13:150–13:151, 13:286n, 13:286, 13:415, 13:424, 13:586–13:587, 13:609, 13:610–13:611, 13:612n, 14:23–14:24, 14:30, 14:111–14:112n, 14:112n, 14:503, 15:381, 15:382n, 15:568, 15:615–15:617
U.S. consuls to, 8:601
and U.S. land claims, 1:635–1:636, 1:639, 1:641, 7:42–7:43, 9:585, 15:594–15:595
U.S. minister to, 3:96, 13:237
U.S. treaty with (1802), 15:568, 15:568–15:569n
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:501, 4:502, 4:505–4:506, 4:507, 4:508
and W. Fla., 3:265, 3:282, 3:326, 3:327, 3:344, 3:601–3:603, 3:603–3:604n, 4:284n, 9:388–9:389
works on, 13:369, 14:166, 15:340
yellow fever in, 10:128–10:131, 10:134–10:136, 10:136, 10:137, 15:326, 15:327n

Spalding, Lyman

Bill of Mortality for Portsmouth, 3:373–3:374
A History of the Introduction and Use of Scutellaria Lateriflora, (Scullcap,) as a Remedy for Preventing and Curing Hydrophobia, 15:281, 15:281n
identified, 3:374n
letters from, 3:373–3:374, 12:573
letters from accounted for, 3:374n
letter to, 15:281
and national pharmacopoeia, 12:573

Spanish language

applicants to teach at University of Virginia, 15:448
collegiate education in, 12:3, 12:120, 13:195, 13:214, 13:402
dictionaries of, 10:235, 11:335, 12:535n, 13:369, 14:166, 15:340
grammar of, 8:630
letters in, from
- V. de Foronda, 1:470–1:471, 1:604–1:606, 4:282–4:284, 5:19–5:21, 6:80–6:81
- J. Yznardy, 1:410–1:411, 4:111–4:112
study of, 10:672, 10:672, 11:233, 11:261, 12:252, 12:282, 13:237, 13:238, 13:238, 13:239, 13:537, 14:151, 14:251, 14:438, 14:566n, 15:239
TJ on study of, 4:162–4:163, 9:608, 11:14, 11:18–11:19, 11:112, 11:175, 11:252, 13:196, 13:216
works in, 1:556, 11:179, 11:193, 11:395, 12:622, 12:635n

Spargella, John Baptiste

and engravings for TJ, 8:209–8:210, 8:254
identified, 8:210n
letter from, 8:209–8:210
letter to, 8:254

Spark, Thomas

edits Ζωσίμου κόμητος καὶ ἀποφισκοσυνηγόρου Ἱστορίας νέας βίβλοι ἕξ. Zosimi Comitis & Exadvocati Fisci, Historiæ Novæ Libri Sex, Notis Illustrati (Zosimus), 10:233

Spark, USS (brig), 11:509, 11:534n

Sparks, Jared

identified, 12:189n
and J. Ledyard (1751–89), 12:188–12:189, 12:280–12:281
letters from, 12:188–12:189
letters to, 12:280–12:281

Spartan (brig), 15:11n

Spartan (schooner), 15:299

Species Plantarum (K. L. Willdenow), 8:429, 8:430n

The Spectator, 7:665, 12:534, 15:508n

specula, 9:76, 9:77n

Spedding, James

and water-raising machine, 8:196n

Speece, Mr.

and survey of Poplar Forest, 12:210–12:211

Speech of Gideon Granger, Esq. delivered before a Convention of the People of Ontario County, N.Y. Jan. 8, 1817, on the subject of a Canal from Lake Erie to Hudson’s River (G. Granger), 11:219n, 11:259

The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. before the House of Commons (H. P. Brougham), 1:35

Speech of His Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (E. Gerry)

sent to TJ, 5:6, 5:7n

Speech of Julien Poydras, Esq. the Delegate of the Territory of Orleans, in support of the right of the public to the Batture (J. L. Poydras), 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:483

The Speech of Samuel Chew, Esq (S. Chew), 4:152–4:153, 4:153n

Speech of W. G. D. Worthington, Esq. a Member of the General Assembly of Maryland … on Brent’s Resolutions (W. G. D. Worthington), 2:196, 2:251

Speed, Dr.

recommended to TJ, 14:151, 14:199, 14:438

A Spelling Book of the English Language; or The American Tutor’s Assistant (E. F. Marshall), 15:401, 15:401n, 15:402n

Spelman, Edward, trans.

Cyrus’s Expedition into Persia, and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks (The Anabasis; Xenophon), 1:580
Opera Omni Graece et Latine, 1:580

Spelman, Sir Henry

Glossarium Archaiologicum, 7:127

Spence, Joseph

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

Spence, William

Britain Independent of Commerce: or, Proofs, Deducted from an Investigation into the True Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1:35

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

Spencer, Lieut., 2:534n

Spencer, Mr.

and Niagara Campaign, 5:541

Spencer, Ambrose

identified, 10:569n
introduces J. B. Stuart to TJ, 10:568–10:569
letter from, 10:568–10:569

Spenser, Edmund

English poet, 9:633

spermaceti oil, 1:31

Speyer, John

forwards letters to TJ, 5:451, 5:454, 6:281
identified, 5:454n
letters from, 5:454
U.S. consul, 6:147, 6:148n, 6:240, 6:281

sphere (astronomical instrument), 14:229

Sphinx, 12:443

Sphynx (brig), 10:57

spices See also salt

allspice, 1:45, 6:348
cinnamon, 1:31, 1:44, 1:368, 2:109, 15:71
cloves, 1:44, 2:109, 4:211, 15:71
ginger root, 4:211, 4:212n, 15:71
imported, 9:476n, 12:553
mace, 1:368, 2:109, 4:211, 15:71
nutmeg, 1:44, 1:368, 2:109, 6:343, 6:348, 15:71, 15:451
pepper, 15:451
pepper, bird, 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
pepper, black, 1:31, 1:45, 1:368, 2:109, 4:211, 4:211, 6:345, 6:348, 14:420
tabasco, 6:252
vanilla, 1:161, 1:188, 1:188, 1:188, 1:190, 1:190, 14:li, 14:250 (illus.), 14:442n, 14:489–14:490, 15:441

Spiers, Alexander, John Bowman, & Company (Glasgow firm). See Wilson, Thomas

Spiers & Company (Glasgow firm). See Wilson, Thomas

spinach

at Poplar Forest, 5:489
seed, 5:384, 5:658

spinning machines See also machines; manufacturing; textiles

of B. Allison, 8:547, 10:32, 10:33n
of J. G. Baxter, 8:554
billys, 4:426
in cotton factories, 9:534
W. Cranch buys, 5:21–5:22, 5:22, 5:181, 5:182n
described, 4:169, 4:417–4:418, 4:424–4:425, 4:425–4:426, 4:512–4:513, 4:558, 4:571–4:572, 4:592, 4:673, 5:151–5:154, 5:187, 5:207–5:208, 5:209, 5:241–5:242, 5:312, 5:560, 6:9, 7:558, 8:634–8:635
jennies, 1:313, 1:524–1:525, 1:591, 1:661, 4:143, 4:417, 4:418n, 4:426, 4:428, 4:637, 4:667, 5:202, 5:384, 5:446, 5:562–5:563, 6:107, 6:132, 6:134, 6:140, 6:203, 6:214, 6:214, 6:285, 6:285–6:286, 6:366, 6:487, 6:559, 6:559, 7:240, 7:325, 7:570, 7:593, 8:535, 8:605, 8:368, 8:464, 8:634–8:635, 10:32
at Poplar Forest, 6:106, 6:107, 6:203, 15:229, 15:247, 15:257, 15:265
sent to TJ, 5:23, 5:24, 5:145, 5:181, 5:182n, 5:211
TJ on, 5:562–5:563, 7:13–7:14, 7:54, 7:88, 7:92, 7:406, 8:535, 8:605
TJ orders, 4:514, 4:544, 4:579–4:580, 4:588, 4:589, 4:591, 4:637, 4:666–4:667, 5:80, 5:92, 5:131–5:132, 5:134, 5:141, 5:142–5:143, 5:148, 5:175, 5:201–5:202, 5:220, 5:316, 6:559
wheels, 4:362, 4:380, 4:417, 4:425

Spinoza, Baruch

writings of, 8:4

Spiraea ulmaria (meadowsweet), 12:611n

spirit level

instructions for use of, 9:205
made by F. R. Hassler, 9:205
for U.S. Coast Survey, 9:222, 9:222, 9:222, 9:224, 9:225
use of, 9:76, 11:55

spirit of hartshorn. See ammonia (spirit of hartshorn)

Spirit of Laws. See Esprit des Lois (Montesquieu)

Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (Richmond newspaper), 1:93

spirits (alcohol), 6:347, 6:501, 7:180, 11:293, 12:8, 14:44, 14:156, 14:419, 14:420, 15:313

Spiritual Homilies (Macarius the Egyptian), 12:446–12:447

Spitzenburg apple, 3:448, 3:448n, 3:455

Spooner, George Wilson

as agent of A. S. Brockenbrough, 14:605, 14:605n
as builder for University of Virginia, 15:103, 15:125, 15:200–15:201, 15:201n, 15:209, 15:559
identified, 15:201n
letters from, 15:200–15:202, 15:209
letter to accounted for, 15:209n

spoons, 4:231–4:232n

spotted fever. See typhus

Sprague, Joseph

and meeting of Essex Co. Republicans, 1:86n

Spreafico, Amant

and consulship for J. V. A. Sasserno, 9:472, 9:570, 9:573, 11:406–11:407, 11:657n, 11:657–11:658, 13:301
letters from, to S. Cathalan, 9:471–9:473, 9:573–9:574, 11:656–11:657, 11:657–11:658
and Sasserno family, 9:470, 9:471, 9:472, 13:301–13:302
and wine for TJ, 9:470, 9:471–9:472, 9:570, 11:404, 11:653, 11:653–11:654, 11:656, 11:656, 13:246, 13:246n, 14:328, 14:328, 14:338, 14:338, 14:339, 15:76

Sprigg, Osborn

identified, 3:651n
letters from, 3:651
recommends C. Shekell, 3:651
sheep of, 2:380

Sprigg, William, 2:443n

Spring (J. Thomson), 12:160, 12:164n

Spring, Samuel

Two Sermons, Addressed to the Second Congregational Society in Newburyport, 1:138

Springfield Farm (R. Lindsay’s Albemarle Co. estate), 14:46, 14:47

Spring Hill School (Indian training school, Mich. Terr.), 1:7, 1:660–1:662, 2:55–2:57, 2:58n, 3:369–3:370, 3:543, 3:543n

springs See also Warm Springs (Bath Co.); Hot Springs (Bath Co.)

falling, 13:242
routes to, 13:311n
salt, 3:333
sweet, 3:295, 13:243
temperature of as climate indicator, 11:39–11:40, 12:575, 12:618
therapeutic, 1:192, 1:451, 3:162, 4:107, 8:563, 8:628, 8:688–8:689, 10:183, 10:256, 10:313, 11:666
in Va., 14:562
visitors to, 9:120–9:121, 11:625, 11:631n
warm, 1:192
white sulphur, 13:243

Sproull (Sproule, Sprowl), John

and Niagara Campaign, 5:535

spruce

in Va., 11:624

Spruill, William, 14:561

Squanci, Natale

and death record of P. Mazzei, 9:673n

squash (vegetable), 1:170, 5:658, 6:487, 9:262–9:263

Squire (R. Jefferson’s slave), 2:60, 5:653, 6:282, 6:285, 6:363, 6:363, 8:257, 8:258, 8:258, 8:272, 8:272, 8:400, 8:636

squirrels, 4:536, 10:321

S. Smith & Buchanan (Baltimore firm), 1:361–1:362n, 5:646n, 14:615n, 14:619, 15:330

Stabili, Francesco

religious beliefs of, 13:481

stable

brooms, 1:3
insurance for, 1:317–1:318
padlocks for, 1:303

Stack, Gerard E.

and Charlottesville Academy, 14:46, 14:84, 14:90, 14:192, 14:210, 14:210, 14:219, 14:223, 14:257–14:258, 14:258–14:259, 14:261, 14:267, 14:268, 14:272, 14:274, 14:280–14:281, 14:294, 14:326, 14:425, 14:438–14:439, 14:472, 14:512, 14:516–14:517, 14:519, 14:525–14:526, 14:606–14:607, 14:642, 14:643–14:644, 15:142n, 15:239, 15:241–15:242, 15:242n, 15:378, 15:379n, 15:398, 15:398n, 15:499, 15:499–15:500n, 15:510
as classical tutor, 12:134, 12:195, 12:199, 12:238, 12:648, 14:5–14:6, 14:229, 14:267
identified, 14:223–14:224n
letters from, 14:223–14:224, 14:606–14:607, 15:230–15:231, 15:239, 15:488, 15:546
letters to, 14:643–14:644, 15:241–15:242, 15:489
letter to accounted for, 15:546n
recommendations of, 15:239n, 15:241–15:242, 15:243, 15:488, 15:489, 15:490
and seal for University of Virginia, 15:301
TJ invites to Monticello, 15:230–15:231, 15:241, 15:546

Stadler, John

attempts to secure land grant, 2:87, 2:88n, 2:133

Stadler, Joseph Constantine

print by, 11:xlvii–11:xlviii, 11:232 (illus.)

Staël Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine Necker, baronne de

on acquisition of language, 7:660
An Appeal to the Nations of Europe against the Continental System, 6:513, 6:514n
Considérations sur les principaux événemens de La Révolution Françoise, 11:116–11:117, 11:118n, 13:397, 13:397n, 13:476, 13:488, 13:511, 14:637
conveyance of TJ’s letter to, 8:583, 9:429, 10:376n, 10:379
Corinne ou l’Italie, 1:35, 1:35
correspondence of, 5:454, 6:147–6:148, 6:240, 6:281
death of, 11:540, 11:541n
De l’Allemagne, 9:84, 9:88n
and European affairs, 5:449–5:451, 6:140–6:145, 9:326, 9:326, 10:375
family of, 9:327, 9:377, 10:375, 11:117, 11:282–11:283
on France, 11:116–11:117
health of, 11:282–11:283
identified, 5:452–5:453n
and independence of Spanish colonies, 10:373–10:375
and Lafayette, 7:541, 11:117, 11:118n
letter from accounted for, 9:328n
letters from, 5:449–5:453, 9:326–9:328, 11:116–11:118
letters to, 6:140–6:145, 8:576–8:577, 10:373–10:376
T. Lyman introduced to, 11:294n
mentioned, 10:97
as purported author of Manuscrit venu de St. Hélène, d’une manière inconnue (J. F. Lullin de Châteauvieux), 12:92n
returns to France, 8:577
on slavery, 9:326
on U.S., 11:116–11:117
and War of 1812, 9:326, 9:328n

Staël Holstein, Auguste Louis, baron de

and Lafayette, 12:39
proposed U.S. visit of, 9:327, 10:375, 11:117
sends work to TJ, 13:511

Stahl, George Ernst

physician and chemist, 9:633

Stake, John

Revolutionary War service of, 4:623, 4:624n

Stake, John S.

identified, 4:624n
letters from, 4:623–4:624
seeks military appointment, 4:623

Stam, Jacob Frederick, 5:512–5:513

Stamford. See Stanford, Sir William

Stamp Act (1765)

promulgation of, 12:493, 12:496, 12:518
resolutions opposing, 4:599–4:600, 7:493, 7:494–7:495, 7:496–7:497, 7:544–7:545, 7:546–7:547, 7:549, 7:550–7:551n, 8:619, 8:620n, 8:621, 8:621–8:622, 8:622–8:623n, 8:641–8:642, 8:645n, 10:269, 10:271n, 14:376

Stamp Act Crisis

authorship of the Virginia Resolves, 8:619, 8:642
memorials and petitions in response to, 8:641–8:642, 8:642, 8:645n, 8:645–8:646n, 10:269, 10:271n
Rhode Island Resolves, 8:619, 8:621–8:623

Stanard, B. (militia officer), 7:600

Stanard, John, 5:539

Standard of Union (New York newspaper), 6:339, 6:340n, 6:340n, 6:400, 6:401n

Standish, Myles, 5:512

Stanerd (Stannard), Mr., 14:13, 14:40

Stanford, Sir William

Les Plees del Coron, 3:546

Stanhope, Charles, 3d Earl

fireproofing method of, 5:308–5:309n
and weights and measures, 12:91

Stanhope, George

translates Of Wisdom (P. Charron), 12:534

Stanhope, Philip Dormer, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. See Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

Stanislaw II, king of Poland

and P. Mazzei, 9:115, 9:669, 9:673n, 9:673

Stanley, Curtis

death of, 15:508n

Stanley, Elias

death of, 15:508n
as Greensboro, Vt., postmaster, 15:507, 15:508n

Stanley, Eunice Huntington

identified, 15:507n
letter from, 15:504–15:508
seeks aid from TJ, 15:504–15:507

Stanley, Thomas

The History of Philosophy, 1:580, 15:166n

Stanley, Timothy

aid sought for, 15:504–15:507
identified, 15:507–15:508n
as Vt. legislator, 15:505, 15:508n

Stannard (TJ’s slave; b. 1809)

on Monticello slave lists, 4:388
on smallpox vaccination list, 9:718

Stansbury, Abraham Ogier

identified, 8:191n
letter from, 8:187–8:192
religious beliefs of, 8:187–8:191
and TJ’s religious beliefs, 8:187, 8:190–8:191

Stansbury, Tobias

U.S. general, 8:155

Staphorst, N. & J. & R. van. See N. & J. & R. van Staphorst

staphylococcus

TJ infected with, 13:73n, 13:228–13:229, 13:250, 13:277, 13:278, 13:279, 13:279–13:280, 13:280, 13:283, 13:302, 13:303, 13:303, 13:309, 13:310, 13:321, 13:324, 13:393, 13:415, 13:468, 13:507, 14:230–14:231, 14:319, 14:459–14:460, 14:466, 14:502–14:503

Staples, John

identified, 5:93–5:94n
letters to, 5:93–5:94, 7:154, 7:346–7:347
makes castings for TJ, 5:93, 5:94n, 7:346–7:347, 7:517
as patent agent, 7:154, 7:155
and plow moldboards for TJ, 7:552n

Staples Mill, 5:93n

Staps, Frederick, 2:7, 2:9n

Star (brig), 9:572

A Star in the West; or, A Humble Attempt to Discover the long lost Ten Tribes of Israel, preparatory to their return to their beloved city, Jerusalem (E. Boudinot), 11:49, 11:49n, 11:230

star jasmine, 1:631–1:632

Stark, Mr.

mentioned, 6:343

Stark, Bolling

TJ on, 10:366

Stark, Edwin

identified, 10:448–10:449n
letters from, 10:500, 11:195–11:196, 11:204–11:205
letters to, 10:448–10:449, 11:137
and package for TJ, 10:409, 10:444, 10:448, 10:500, 10:540
and wine for TJ, 11:137, 11:144, 11:195, 11:204

Stark, John

Revolutionary War officer, 7:87

Stark, Robert Bolling

identified, 13:248–13:249n
letter from, 13:248–13:249
letter to, 13:311–13:312
recommends botanical work to TJ, 13:248, 13:311–13:312

Starke, Mrs. (boardinghouse keeper in Richmond), 1:670

Starke, James

and 1810 census, 3:202

star madreporite, 2:299

Starr, Isaac H., 10:4

Staszic, Stanislaw, 3:62n

State Department, U.S. See also Adams, John Quincy; Brent, Daniel; Graham, John; Smith, Robert

and batture controversy, 2:427, 2:429, 2:435, 2:439, 2:439–2:446, 2:449, 2:449–2:451, 2:452, 2:516, 2:568, 3:482, 3:483–3:488, 4:595, 5:84–5:85, 5:85–5:87n
books of, 3:638
building superintendent for, 13:289, 13:307
Chronology of Territorial Claims in Louisiana (Thomas Jefferson), 3:281, 3:282–3:283, 3:292, 3:297, 3:327, 3:328n, 9:487, 9:488n, 9:518
clerical salaries at, 8:115
clerks at, 1:15n, 3:260, 8:495–8:496, 10:482, 12:465–12:466, 14:559
and consular appointments, 12:459, 12:459n, 12:500, 14:618–14:619, 15:104–15:105
forwards letters, 2:256, 2:536, 2:544, 3:424, 3:615, 3:627, 4:19, 4:99, 4:462, 4:668, 7:222, 8:361, 8:363, 8:488, 8:495–8:496, 8:584, 8:589, 10:250, 10:250, 10:379, 10:380n, 10:391, 11:421–11:422, 11:458, 11:462, 11:486, 11:585, 11:642–11:643, 11:667, 12:268–12:269, 12:387, 12:468–12:469, 12:485, 12:609, 13:41, 13:46, 13:434, 13:434n, 13:467–13:468, 14:499–14:500
and La. boundaries, 3:281, 3:282–3:283, 9:445–9:446, 9:487, 9:488n, 9:516, 9:518, 9:658, 9:658–9:659n
and B. de La Harpe manuscript, 12:156, 12:295, 12:371
letter of credence for W. Short, 1:328, 1:343–1:344, 1:359, 1:658, 1:659n
papers of, 7:701, 7:702, 8:630, 13:118, 14:279, 15:58, 15:67
and patents, 2:665n, 8:408, 8:408n, 9:592, 9:593n
and presidential succession, 11:145–11:146
receives books for TJ, 4:586
receives packet for TJ, 1:408, 10:391

The Statement and Substance of a Memorial, &c. of John Nicholas; presented to the Virginia Legislature, 1819–20 (J. Nicholas), 15:195n

Statement of Facts in the Batture Case (Thomas Jefferson), 3:270–3:271, 3:290, 3:481–3:483, 3:483–3:488, 3:489–3:499

Statement of Improvements in the Theory and Practice of the Science of Medicine (T. Ewell), 14:600–14:601, 14:616, 14:618

A Statement of the Accounts of the United States (R. Morris), 9:237, 9:238n, 9:531, 9:544

statement on the batture case (Thomas Jefferson) See also The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi (Thomas Jefferson)

composition of, 2:657, 3:47, 3:47–3:49, 3:498n, 4:xliii–4:xliv, 4:291
copies of returned to TJ, 2:532, 2:675–2:677, 3:68–3:69, 3:70–3:73, 3:123–3:125, 3:130–3:135, 3:152–3:153, 3:290, 3:317, 4:466, 4:482, 4:492–4:493, 4:567–4:568
map for, 4:xliv
publication of encouraged, 3:326, 4:311, 4:393–4:394
sent to congressmen, 3:203–3:204, 3:254
sent to TJ’s attorneys, 2:545, 2:659–2:660, 3:42–3:43, 3:152–3:153, 3:201, 3:203
sent to TJ’s cabinet members, 2:568–2:569, 2:678–2:679, 3:30–3:32, 3:109–3:110, 3:147, 3:176n
TJ publishes, 4:367–4:368, 4:431, 4:477–4:478, 4:485, 4:520, 4:521–4:522

Statements and Remarks, addressed to Thomas Newton … on the subject of Agriculture, Ma[n]ufactures, and Commerce (I. Briggs), 9:476, 9:476n, 9:515

Staten Island, N.Y.

yellow fever in, 10:137, 10:150, 10:151n

State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States (J. Savage)

and presidential messages to Congress, 8:156, 8:157n
prospectus for, 7:644, 7:645–7:646n, 7:701–7:702
publication of, 7:646n, 12:400
sent to TJ, 8:156, 8:252

Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks (S. Hales), 2:82, 11:164

statics

collegiate education in, 13:208, 13:214, 13:214n
study of, 7:638, 7:639

stationery

blossom paper, 10:458, 10:458n
letter paper, 1:332, 1:347, 1:347, 1:384, 1:489, 6:343, 6:346, 6:346, 8:xlv–8:xlvi, 8:514, 8:628, 8:672, 8:673n, 14:566n, 15:134, 15:451
made from mulberry bark, 2:404n
of J. B. Moussier, 1:380 (illus.)
of A. F. Silvestre, 1:380 (illus.)

The Statistical Account of Scotland (J. Sinclair), 14:562–14:563n

Statistical Annals (A. Seybert), 13:603

The Statistical Breviary (W. Playfair), 9:60

Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America (D. B. Warden), 13:42

A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States (T. Pitkin), 13:603

Statistique élémentaire de la France (J. Peuchet), 4:325–4:326, 4:326n, 5:436, 7:90

The Statutes at Large (English, 1706), 3:546

The Statutes at Large (W. W. Hening)

publication of, 1:158–1:159n, 1:333–1:334, 1:489, 1:619–1:620, 3:168, 3:169n, 5:254n, 5:278, 6:413, 7:190, 7:292, 7:292n, 8:175, 8:231, 8:330, 8:348–8:349, 8:349, 8:349n, 8:399, 10:404, 10:404n
sent to TJ, 6:413, 10:404, 10:457
sources for, 7:228, 8:329–8:330, 8:348–8:349, 8:379, 8:399–8:400, 8:418–8:419, 8:424–8:425, 8:439–8:440, 8:474, 8:475n, 9:107, 9:237, 9:318
TJ cites, 5:135, 5:137n, 5:253, 5:254n
TJ endorses, 2:30, 2:50
TJ orders, 6:122, 6:374, 10:390

Staughton, William

edits The Works of Virgil (Virgil), 12:439

Staunton, Va.

chancery court at, 11:71, 11:72, 11:554n, 11:668, 12:592, 12:598–12:599, 12:602, 12:604, 12:605n, 13:284, 13:384, 14:400–14:401, 14:436, 14:476, 14:478, 14:493, 14:501
construction methods in, 13:380–13:381, 14:440–14:441
convention of western counties held in, 10:220, 10:294, 10:295n, 10:367
during Revolutionary War, 8:431, 8:431n, 13:274
potential location for state capital, 9:399, 9:506
as potential location for state university, 9:399, 9:506, 10:660, 11:134n, 11:257, 11:258, 12:432–12:433, 12:458, 13:80, 13:180, 13:180, 13:181, 13:181, 13:182, 13:183, 13:183, 13:186, 13:187–13:188, 13:189–13:190, 13:190, 13:190, 13:201, 13:210, 13:226, 13:401, 13:401–13:402, 13:491, 13:535–13:536, 13:584n
schools in, 14:183–14:184, 14:188, 14:210, 14:210, 14:268, 14:280, 14:281, 15:271
TJ visits, 13:166, 13:226, 13:228n, 13:230–13:231, 13:232, 13:233–13:234, 13:250
watchmakers in, 10:596, 10:596n, 10:607

Staunton River, 14:403, 14:403, 14:412

steamboats

Ætna, 13:254
Buffalo, 13:254
Cincinnati, 13:254
and circular inclined plane, 1:646–1:649
Constitution, 13:254
Eagle, 13:255
Enterprise, 9:89, 9:89n
Franklin, 13:255
General Jackson, 13:254
George Madison, 13:254
Governor Shelby, 13:254
Harriet, 13:254
invention of, 12:518
James Monroe, 13:255
Kentucky, 13:254
list of N.Y., 4:199–4:200, 4:235
Louisiana, 13:255
models of, 14:308
Napoleon, 13:255
Ohio, 13:255
Orleans, 13:254
paddles for, 11:497–11:499, 13:33
Pike, 13:255
report on, 7:68, 7:68n
A. M. Rochon on history of, 11:255, 11:457
Thames, 9:134, 9:135n
for transatlantic travel, 12:401–12:402
for U.S. river navigation, 7:56–7:57, 7:113n, 8:591, 10:610, 10:674, 10:675, 10:675, 11:32, 11:65–11:66, 11:111, 11:435, 11:448, 11:565, 11:565n, 13:254–13:255, 14:166–14:167, 15:149
in Va., 9:234n, 9:234n, 11:539, 13:77, 13:616, 14:37, 14:129
Vesta, 13:254
Vesuvius, 13:254
Walk-in-the-Water, 12:401, 12:402n
Washington, 11:523, 13:254

steam engines, 1:648–1:649, 7:113n, 7:558, 8:81, 8:82n, 9:138–9:139, 9:140, 9:141–9:143, 9:302–9:303, 9:462–9:463, 10:562, 10:674, 10:675, 11:6, 11:56, 12:401, 12:518, 13:96, 13:154–13:155, 13:178–13:179, 14:308

Stearns, John, 12:573n

Stedman, Ebenezer

identified, 2:352n
letters from, 2:352
sends opposition material to TJ, 2:352

Steed, Robert E.

grocer, 9:324, 9:324

steel

blistered, 6:344, 6:345, 6:348, 9:339
cast, 9:339–9:340, 9:340n
and construction of TJ’s canal, 11:73
engraving on, 7:559
eyeglass frames, 8:192n
and fire, 13:550, 13:550
German, 6:344, 6:346, 9:339, 13:92, 15:451
purchased by TJ, 7:180, 15:312
tempering of, 8:546–8:547

Steel, Hugh

identified, 12:628n
letter from, 12:627–12:628
letter to, 13:67
“Sketches of Louisiana,” 12:627, 12:628n
on western country, 12:627–12:628, 12:628–12:631, 13:67, 13:68

Steele, Mr. (brickmason), 12:240

Steele, John (1758–1827)

as collector at Philadelphia, 9:569, 9:573n, 10:68, 10:157, 10:215, 10:218n, 11:118–11:119, 11:119n, 11:128, 11:531, 11:531, 13:277, 13:277n, 14:239, 15:503
forwards seeds, 2:506, 14:325, 14:499
identified, 2:506–2:507n
letters from, 2:506–2:507, 10:57, 10:109, 10:494, 13:242, 14:499, 15:413–15:414, 15:503
letters to, 10:68, 10:159, 10:521, 13:166, 13:346, 14:325, 15:384, 15:482–15:483
letter to, from J. Dodge, 15:186–15:187
and packages for TJ, 10:57, 10:68, 10:109, 10:157, 10:159, 10:494, 10:521, 13:11, 13:166, 13:242, 13:346, 14:175, 14:325, 14:499, 15:186, 15:384, 15:413–15:414, 15:442
TJ pays, 10:157, 10:159, 10:521, 13:346, 15:482, 15:503
TJ’s debt to, 15:425
and TJ’s plan for militia, 7:678

Steele, John (1764–1815)

as comptroller of Treasury, 15:557n

Steenbergen, William

and establishment of University of Virginia, 13:473n

Steevens, George

and edition of W. Shakespeare, 1:412n

Stelle, Pontius D.

caters dinner for workmen, 5:205, 5:207n, 5:239n

Stephani (Stepani). See Estienne, Henri (Stepani; Stephani)

Stephen (hired hand)

as T. M. Randolph’s employee, 8:173, 8:173, 8:257–8:258, 8:272

Stephen (TJ’s slave; b. 1794)

hat for, 7:124
laborer, 8:185
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:309, 8:61, 8:255

Stephen, James, 3:79, 3:79n

Stephens, Alexander

The History of the Wars which arose out of the French Revolution, 7:664

Stephens, Lewis F.

and E. Henderson’s deposition, 9:52–9:54, 9:63, 9:443
identified, 9:54n

Stephensburg, Va. See Stephens City, Va.

Stephensburg Academy (Frederick Co.)

request for donation to, 1:566–1:567, 2:147, 2:148n

Stephens City, Va.

variant names of, 10:163n

Stephenson, Clotworthy

claim on U.S. by, 1:601, 1:649–1:650
identified, 1:601n
letters from, 1:601
letters to, 1:649–1:650

Stephenson, Samuel Martin

and fiorin grass, 3:339–3:340, 4:187, 4:364, 5:553, 5:553n
“The History of the Linen Manufacture,” 3:280n, 3:309, 3:309n
identified, 4:187–4:188n
letters from, 4:187–4:188

Steptoe, George

illness of, 14:552–14:553, 14:566

Steptoe, James

clerk of Bedford Co., 3:188, 3:374, 4:318n, 5:32, 5:32–5:33, 5:229, 5:361, 5:361n, 5:488n, 15:38n, 15:225, 15:225n, 15:261n
health of, 15:428
identified, 2:6–2:7n
invited to dinner, 4:86
and Ivy Creek tract, 2:6, 5:34–5:35
letters from, 14:552–14:553, 14:637
letters to, 2:6–2:7, 2:79–2:80, 5:342–5:343
letter to from J. C. Steptoe, 5:62–5:63
and G. Steptoe’s illness, 14:552
TJ introduces T. M. Randolph to, 2:79–2:80
and TJ’s health, 14:637
and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:62–5:63, 5:63n, 5:342–5:343

Steptoe, James Callaway

identified, 5:63n
letter from to J. Steptoe, 5:62–5:63
and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:62–5:63, 5:63n

Steptoe, William

account with TJ, 7:387–7:388, 9:40, 9:51
as doctor, 4:381, 7:387, 9:40, 9:238, 9:505, 14:554, 14:565–14:567
identified, 7:388n
letter from, 14:554
letters to, 9:26, 9:238
lumber for, 8:695
TJ invites to dine, 9:26

Sterling, Micah

identified, 14:275n
and Jefferson County Agricultural Society (New York), 14:274–14:275, 14:275n, 14:441
letter from, 14:274–14:275
letter to, 14:441

Stern, Elisabeth (of Germantown, Pa.), 10:152

Sterne, Laurence

allusions to, 4:85
in collegiate curriculum, 7:665
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 6:616, 10:13, 10:15n, 14:60
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 4:85n
Sermons by The late Rev. Mr. Sterne, 8:388, 12:534
TJ recommends sermons of, 7:627

Sternhold, Thomas

as translator of Psalms, 6:550, 6:552n

Stetson, Benjamin

purchases TJ’s tobacco, 8:492

Steuart, Mr. See Stewart, Dugald

Steuart, James

British economist, 14:82–14:83

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von

biography of, 9:183, 9:298, 12:589
Revolutionary War service of, 15:190, 15:191
and Society of the Cincinnati, 12:419, 12:430, 12:431n
TJ on, 10:267n, 12:419

Stevens, Alexander Hodgdon

forwards works to TJ, 6:45, 6:372, 6:445, 7:90
identified, 6:373n
letters from, 6:372–6:373
letters to, 6:445
and national pharmacopoeia, 12:573n

Stevens, Edward

Revolutionary War papers of, 4:468
Revolutionary War service of, 15:190, 15:190, 15:193, 15:194, 15:197
as Va. legislator, 7:549

Stevens, John

agent of V. Murray, 9:215n, 13:538
visits Monticello, 9:215n, 13:538n

Stevens, John (ca. 1749–1838)

identified, 13:367n
letter from, 13:366–13:367
letter to, 13:418
and railroads, 13:367n
sends work to TJ, 13:366, 13:418

Stevens, W.

petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Stevens, William

TJ pays, 7:459, 7:460n

Stevenson, Mr., 1:79

Stevenson, Andrew

as attorney, 13:360
gubernatorial prospects of, 8:47
identified, 15:38–15:39n
letter from, 15:204–15:205
letter to, 15:245
and meeting of Richmond citizens, 1:611n
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
and TJ’s endorsement of notes for W. C. Nicholas, 15:204, 15:245

Stevenson, Elizabeth Goodwin (George P. Stevenson’s wife)

books recommended by, 11:627n
plans visit to Monticello, 5:404
sends greetings to TJ, 8:452

Stevenson, George Pitt

bankruptcy of, 11:540, 11:541n, 11:606, 12:149
books recommended by, 11:627n
correspondence of, 11:461
death of, 14:475, 14:497
family of, 8:477, 12:148–12:149
forwards letters for TJ, 9:454n, 9:456n, 9:469
and gypsum for TJ, 2:205, 2:205n, 2:226
identified, 5:659n
letters from, 5:659, 8:452, 8:659–8:660, 9:469, 12:104–12:105, 12:195
letters to, 8:476–8:477, 12:149–12:150
letter to accounted for, 9:454n
merchant, 9:412, 9:415, 12:104–12:105, 12:148–12:149
plans visit to Monticello, 5:404
and recommendations for D. C. Terrell, 9:413, 9:481
seeks appointment, 12:104–12:105, 12:148–12:149, 12:149, 12:195
sends news to TJ, 5:659, 8:452, 8:659–8:660

Stevenson, Hetty Smith. See Carr, Hetty Smith Stevenson (Peter Carr’s wife)

Stevenson, John B.

identified, 11:151–11:152n
introduced to TJ, 11:151

Stewardson, William

as stonemason, 13:476n

Stewart, Adam

saws of, 9:592–9:593, 9:593n

Stewart, Alexander

identified, 5:38n
recommended by C. Price, 5:36–5:37
seeks consular appointment, 5:36–5:37, 5:81

Stewart, Alvan

delivers letter, 10:378
identified, 10:378n
introduced to TJ, 10:378
visits Monticello, 10:378

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

Stewart, Charles (1778–1869)

as U.S. Navy commodore, 13:11, 15:10

Stewart, Charles (ca. 1791–1835)

apprenticeship of, 12:185, 12:186, 12:257–12:258, 12:260, 12:274, 12:338–12:339, 12:339, 12:354, 12:365–12:366, 12:396, 12:396
health of, 12:185, 12:354, 12:365
identified, 9:566n
prepares accounts for J. Leitch, 9:565–9:566, 9:597, 9:656
TJ recommends, 12:185
witnesses document, 15:354

Stewart, Dugald

and Central College–University of Virginia faculty, 12:193, 12:201, 12:227, 15:303, 15:388
in collegiate curriculum, 7:662, 7:667
criticizes D. Hartley, 3:277–3:278
Dissertation First: exhibiting a general view of the Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy, since the revival of letters in Europe, 12:312, 12:313, 12:356, 12:402–12:403
and education, 13:515
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1:576, 7:627, 8:118, 8:472, 8:672, 8:673n, 9:543, 15:410
A General View of the Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy, Since the Revival of Letters in Europe. In Two Dissertations, 12:355
health of, 15:587–15:588
identified, 13:512n
introduced to J. Adams, 15:410, 15:410–15:411n
letter to, 13:511–13:512
A Short Statement of some important facts, relative to the late election of a Mathematical Professor in the University of Edinburgh, 15:140
TJ introduces W. C. Preston to, 13:485, 13:510, 13:511–13:512, 13:512n
TJ on, 12:345, 15:469
TJ’s relationship with, 15:469, 15:470n

Stewart, James, 14:540n

Stewart, John

described as a pedestrian, 4:689
letters from accounted for, 4:689

Stewart, Matthew

as mathematician, 13:339, 13:341n

Stewart, William

as blacksmith, 1:419, 1:419n, 12:185

Stewart, William (of Baltimore)

receives payment, 13:43, 13:60

Sthreshly, Amelia Magruder (Robert B. Sthreshly’s wife), 10:326, 11:151

Sthreshly, Robert B.

and Albemarle Academy, 7:267, 7:282, 7:293, 7:335, 7:570
identified, 6:554n
introduced by TJ, 10:326–10:327
introduces L. S. Towles to TJ, 11:151
letter from, 11:151
letter from to E. Bacon, 6:554
property of, 8:394, 8:398, 9:554, 9:554n, 10:326, 11:151
proposed move to Saint Louis of, 10:326
sells corn to TJ, 6:554, 6:554n, 7:290, 7:291n
and W. Short’s land, 4:59–4:60, 4:61n, 4:675
TJ purchases guitar from, 9:xliv, 9:554n
visits Monticello, 4:675

stibnite (antimony sulfide), 6:230

Stiles, Ezra

and B. Franklin, 13:591–13:592n

stills

R. Gillespie invents, 7:509

Stith, Elizabeth, 1:68n

Stith, Judith Randolph, 3:433n

Stith, Mary

family of, 14:314, 14:429
identified, 3:433n
letters from, 3:458
letters to, 3:432–3:433
and Limestone Survey tract, 3:432–3:433, 3:433n, 3:458, 8:393n, 14:314, 14:428–14:429
TJ’s childhood friend, 3:433, 3:458, 14:429

Stith, Richard

as Campbell Co. surveyor, 5:49, 5:63, 5:87, 5:87n, 5:88, 5:88n, 5:162, 5:229, 5:229, 5:230–5:231, 5:231–5:234, 5:235–5:236n, 5:287–5:288, 5:340, 5:361, 5:361n, 12:220
identified, 5:162n
and Ivy Creek tract, 1:670–1:671, 2:6, 2:97, 2:97n, 2:232, 2:232n, 2:322, 2:327, 4:308, 4:682, 5:32, 5:33, 5:33n, 5:34–5:35, 5:35n, 5:39–5:40, 5:40–5:41, 5:41n, 5:89, 5:89–5:90n, 5:90–5:91, 5:128–5:129, 5:161–5:162, 5:210, 5:287, 5:287–5:288
Receipt for John Wayles’s Land Purchase, 5:162–5:163
and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:342–5:343

Stith, William

buys lot in Westham, 8:171n
The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia, 5:508–5:509, 10:365
and Limestone Survey, 3:432, 3:433, 14:314, 14:429

Stith tract (Bedford Co.), 1:670–1:671

Stock, Joseph

edits Selecti ex Luciano Dialogi Quidam (Lucian), 14:551

Stockdale, John

publisher of TJ’s Notes on the State of Virginia, 1:588, 9:336n

stockings, 3:202, 6:344, 6:346, 6:349n, 10:555n, 11:450, 11:450, 12:257–12:258, 15:452

Stoddard, Amos

identified, 3:291n
letters to, 3:291–3:292
Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana, 3:291, 3:291–3:292n, 5:683n, 6:39

Stoddert. See Stoddard, Amos

Stoici Philosophi Encheiridion item (Epictetus; trans. E. Carter), 1:576, 15:43, 15:65, 15:159

Stokes, Joshua M.

letter from, 14:501–14:502
seeks employment at University of Virginia, 14:501–14:502, 14:575

Stone, David

as U.S. senator, 6:241

Stone, John (ship captain), 10:118, 10:171n, 10:343, 10:358, 11:531

Stone, Thomas

signer of Declaration of Independence, 13:329

Stone, William

and facsimile of Declaration of Independence, 15:liii

Stone, William J.

and Fluvanna Co. land, 3:179, 3:211, 5:15–5:16, 5:97
identified, 3:179n
letters from, 3:179, 5:15–5:16
letters to, 3:211, 5:97

Stone House Tavern (Charlottesville), 12:45, 12:45n, 12:61, 12:65, 12:68, 12:71

Storia Antica del Messico (F. S. Clavigero), 1:196, 1:198n, 7:664, 10:127–10:128, 10:145n

Storia della Guerra dell’ Independenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (C. G. G. Botta), 2:161–2:162, 2:529, 2:536, 3:41, 3:41n, 3:98, 7:616, 7:617n, 8:626, 8:626n, 8:657, 9:207, 9:343, 10:234, 10:235, 10:276–10:277, 10:646, 11:313, 11:364, 11:452, 12:534, 13:24, 13:26, 13:28, 13:523, 13:523n, 14:49, 14:120, 14:120–14:121n, 14:137–14:138, 14:156, 14:590

Storia delle Guerre Civili di Francia (E. C. Davila), 10:234, 10:237n

Storia Universale (Diodorus Siculus), 14:222, 14:240, 14:266, 14:276, 14:351

Storm, Garrit

identified, 9:504n
letter from, 9:503–9:504
letter to, 9:531
seeks information about A. Quarrier, 9:503–9:504, 9:531

Storrow, Samuel Appleton

visits Monticello and Montpellier (Madison family estate), 15:404

Storrs, Hiram

identified, 11:561n
and land claims, 11:560–11:561
letter from, 11:560–11:561

Story, Joseph

identified, 10:75–10:76n
letter from, 10:75–10:76
letter to, 10:173
and repeal of Embargo Act, 2:533, 2:534n, 2:537, 3:28
Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter, LL. D., 10:75, 10:75n, 10:173
and Supreme Court appointment, 3:126, 3:166, 3:178
and TJ’s batture pamphlet, 5:163
on TJ, 13:6

Stoughton, Thomas, Spanish consul at N.Y., 1:578, 1:578n, 1:604

Stout, Isaiah, 1:462, 1:572n, 13:169, 13:169n, 15:557

Stout, John

identified, 1:572n
letters from, 1:572
TJ loans books to, 1:572
witnesses conveyance, 1:462

stoves

at Barboursville, 11:225
brick, 6:56
D. Pettibone’s, 13:408, 13:409n
Rittenhouse, 14:91, 14:319–14:320
Russian, 6:56
stew, 1:122, 3:530
stone, 5:38, 5:38–5:39n, 5:109–5:110, 5:167–5:170, 5:588–5:590, 5:673–5:674, 5:674–5:675, 6:56, 7:361–7:363
Swedish, 1:122n, 3:609, 4:191–4:192, 4:215–4:216, 4:232–4:233, 4:560, 6:56
for University of Virginia, 14:91, 14:128, 14:214, 14:218–14:219, 14:229, 14:243–14:244, 14:319–14:320, 14:442n, 14:444, 14:489, 14:493, 15:29, 15:96, 15:100, 15:122

Stovin, George

and E. Aram’s murder trial, 7:376

Stow, Joshua

and Conn. legislature, 12:37
and Connecticut Society for the Encouragement of American Manufactures, 11:215
identified, 11:170n
letters from, 11:169–11:170, 12:37
letter to, 11:215

Strachan, John

and British outrages in U.S., 8:214–8:215, 8:216, 8:217, 8:217–8:219
identified, 8:226–8:227n
letter from, 8:214–8:228
and prisoners of war, 8:218–8:221
and sale of TJ’s library, 8:214, 8:224–8:225
and U.S. atrocities against southern Indians, 8:222–8:224
and U.S. atrocities in Canada, 8:214–8:215, 8:215–8:218, 8:219, 8:221, 8:222, 8:224, 8:225–8:226

Strahan, Mary Maury

and TJ’s health, 15:500

Strahan, William, trans.

Les Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel, 3:160, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:546

Strange, John

Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King’s Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, 3:134, 3:135n, 3:152, 7:147–7:148, 7:148, 7:148

The Stranger (Kotzebue; trans. Papendick), 3:633n

Stratton, Joseph Dickinson

as deputy sheriff, 14:114n

straw, 2:371, 3:65, 3:171, 6:486–6:487, 8:69–8:70, 8:158, 8:367, 8:459, 10:416, 11:483, 12:302, 13:582, 15:61

strawberries

Alpine, 2:481, 2:482n, 2:543, 3:353, 4:34, 4:561, 4:562
Chili, 2:140, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n, 4:523
as crop, 8:305, 11:39, 12:618
Hudson, 2:140, 3:439, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n, 4:523, 4:561, 5:382, 9:563
P. Mazzei sends seeds, 3:377, 4:34
C. W. Peale cultivates, 4:139
at Poplar Forest, 5:31, 9:563
white, 3:353

straw wine, 9:209, 9:212n

Stribling Springs (Augusta Co.)

tavern at, 13:230, 13:231

Strickland, Sir William, 1:21n, 4:33, 9:134

“Stringfellow, Laban” (pseudonym)

letter from, 12:650
poetry of, 12:650, 12:650–12:652

Strobel, Daniel

as U.S. consul at Bordeaux, 10:215, 11:652, 13:112

Strode, John

family of, 6:290
identified, 2:384n
letters from, 2:383–2:384, 6:229–6:230, 6:301
letters to, 6:292
poverty of, 6:229, 6:230n, 6:288, 6:290, 6:292, 6:336
and public appointment, 6:229, 6:230n, 6:288–6:289, 6:290, 6:292, 6:301, 6:301, 6:336
recommends J. McKinney, 2:383, 5:586
and Slate Mills, 3:184

strokes (illness), 9:98, 14:420

Strong (brig), 12:615, 14:62, 14:255, 14:464, 14:465n, 14:527, 14:564–14:565, 14:605, 15:8n

Strong, Caleb

death of, 15:235
as governor of Mass., 6:599, 6:599n, 6:625, 6:627n, 7:129, 8:358, 8:444n, 9:4, 9:150, 9:151n, 9:249, 9:250n, 9:256, 10:259

Stroud, James, 6:453, 6:454, 6:454n

Stroud, Samuel, 6:453, 6:454n

Struve, Burkhard Gotthelf

Bibliotheca Historica, 8:559, 8:562n

Stuart, Archibald

and accommodations for J. W. Baker and F. W. Eppes, 14:188
and brickmasons for University of Virginia, 14:112–14:113, 14:113n, 14:136, 14:216
and Central College cornerstone laying, 12:62
and corn-shelling machines, 14:97
and P. Derieux, 3:295, 3:481, 3:511, 3:575–3:576
family of, 15:158
identified, 2:93–2:94n
introduces B. Fuller, 15:271, 15:293
and Jefferson v. Michie, 6:153, 6:182, 6:215, 6:216n, 6:554, 6:555, 6:573, 11:208–11:209, 11:210n
as judge, 12:75, 12:594, 15:211, 15:211n
and R. Kenney’s steamboat model, 14:308
and T. Kosciuszko’s estate, 15:336, 15:336n, 15:358, 15:358n
letters from, 2:93–2:94, 3:511, 4:194, 13:80, 13:274–13:275, 14:112–14:113, 14:308, 15:271, 15:358
letters from accounted for, 4:157n
letters to, 3:295, 3:481, 4:77–4:79, 4:156–4:157, 4:236–4:237, 13:67–13:68, 14:136–14:137, 14:216, 15:293, 15:336
recollections of P. Henry, 13:274–13:275, 13:275n
recommends D. Cosby, 14:112–14:113, 14:113n, 14:136
recommends J. Warrell, 2:93
sends butter to TJ, 4:194, 4:236
sends oat seed to TJ, 1:585, 2:93
and timothy seed for TJ, 4:77, 4:156, 4:236
TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
TJ’s cloth forwarded to, 7:460
and TJ’s health, 15:271
TJ sends sheep to, 13:67–13:68, 13:80
TJ visits, 13:226, 13:233
and University of Virginia, 14:112, 15:336, 15:358
as University of Virginia commissioner, 12:611, 13:80, 13:109, 13:182, 13:182, 13:182, 13:183, 13:223

Stuart, Sir Charles

and M. Ney’s clemency plea, 9:393n

Stuart, Eleanor Briscoe (Archibald Stuart’s wife)

and butter for TJ, 4:236
TJ sends greetings to, 13:68, 15:293

Stuart, Frances, 10:610

Stuart, Gilbert

artistic career of, 4:xlvi
friendship with J. Winthrop, 8:389
identified, 7:526–7:527n
B. H. Latrobe’s opinion of, 3:625
letters to, 7:525–7:527
letter to accounted for, 15:373n
“Medallion” profile of TJ by, 6:148, 6:149n, 7:525–7:526, 7:527n, 8:136, 8:137n, 8:195, 8:281, 9:592, 9:593n, 10:71, 10:71n, 10:71–10:72, 10:258, 10:258–10:259, 10:274, 11:135, 11:266, 11:267n, 11:342, 11:387, 14:503
portrait of J. Adams by, 4:xlvi, 4:370 (illus.)
portrait of J. Jay by, 9:461n
portrait of D. Madison by, 10:258, 10:259n
portrait of J. Madison by, 7:295, 8:9n, 8:389, 10:258
portrait of W. C. Nicholas by, 14:liv, 14:250 (illus.)
portrait of G. Washington by, 9:352n
portraits of TJ by, 6:148, 6:149n, 7:296, 7:303, 7:341, 7:342n, 7:429, 7:497–7:498, 7:522, 7:525–7:526, 7:527n, 7:562, 8:8, 8:8n, 8:34, 8:389, 8:435, 9:351–9:352, 9:405, 10:38, 10:71, 10:71n, 10:159–10:160, 12:542, 13:345, 13:345n, 13:360, 14:466, 14:467n, 14:503, 14:504n, 15:338–15:339, 15:373, 15:439, 15:480, 15:480n, 15:488–15:489
TJ on, 7:526, 8:435

Stuart, Josephus Bradner

Account of a Visit to Monticello, 10:607–10:612
on American people, 11:285–11:289
business ventures of, 12:401–12:402
delivers letters, 10:557n, 10:568, 10:569n, 10:569n, 10:625
identified, 10:611n
introduced to TJ, 10:568–10:569
letters from, 11:25–11:26, 11:242, 11:285–11:290, 12:401–12:402
letters to, 11:65, 11:345–11:347
and publication of B. Franklin’s papers, 11:289, 11:290n
sends news to TJ, 11:242
sends works to TJ, 12:401
and steamboats, 12:401–12:402
and TJ’s public service, 11:285–11:289, 11:345
travels of, 11:25, 12:401–12:402
on U.S. trade policy, 11:25, 11:65
visits Monticello, 10:568–10:569, 10:607–10:611, 11:25, 11:25, 11:375, 11:376n
and C. Wistar, 12:402

Stuart, Robert

journal of, 6:557, 6:558n, 6:603, 6:603n

Stuart, Thomas Jefferson

identified, 15:158n
letter from, 15:158
and marble, 15:158

stucco, 1:195–1:196, 14:242–14:243, 14:462

Stukeley, William

and E. Aram’s murder trial, 7:376

sturgeon, 5:601–5:602, 5:604–5:605

Sturgis, Russell

on Republican committee, 11:569–11:570n

Sturtevant, Earl

forwards inkstand to TJ, 5:38, 5:39n, 5:109, 5:111
identified, 5:39n
letters from, 5:38–5:39
letters to, 5:111

Sturz, Friedrich Wilhelm

edits works of Cassius Dio, 11:415, 12:583, 14:510, 15:258

Stuyvesant, Peter

colonial governor of N.Y., 13:482n

Styles, A.

witnesses document, 8:346

stylograph, 1:182n, 2:xlii, 2:380 (illus.), 11:535

Stypmann, Franz

Scriptorum de Jure Nautico et Maritimo Fasciculus, 8:387, 8:387–8:388n

Styx (mythological river), 13:93, 15:379, 15:441

submarines

invented by D. Bushnell, 6:206, 6:207n, 6:314n, 7:513n, 7:621, 7:621n, 9:628n

subscriptions, for publications See also books; Jefferson, Thomas: Books & Library

art, 6:571, 6:571n, 12:283, 12:340
atlases, 3:552, 3:552n, 3:578, 11:582, 11:582–11:583n
Bibles, 2:321, 2:321–2:322n, 2:337, 2:349, 5:654–5:655n, 5:662, 10:283–10:284
biographies, 5:372n, 5:492, 5:492n, 5:545, 15:368n, 15:402–15:403
Declaration of Independence, 5:631–5:632, 5:632–5:633n, 5:643, 5:644n, 10:240, 12:531, 13:21–13:22n
dictionaries, 3:97, 3:98n, 3:137, 3:393
educational, 10:482n
encyclopedias, 3:589, 3:609, 4:281, 4:336, 4:365, 4:371, 4:408, 4:409, 4:530–4:531, 4:557, 4:558–4:559
gardening, 2:131, 2:132n, 2:167
history, 3:50–3:51, 3:291, 3:291–3:292n, 6:373, 9:522, 14:120n, 15:452–15:453n
journals, 1:671–1:672, 1:673n, 3:51n, 3:599, 4:663, 4:685, 5:18, 5:19n, 5:100, 6:77, 6:77n, 6:124, 7:344, 7:388–7:389, 7:389–7:390n, 8:488, 9:447, 9:525, 9:544, 10:19–10:20, 10:74, 10:432, 10:432, 10:471, 10:486, 11:215, 11:486, 11:541, 11:599–11:600, 11:659, 12:51, 12:403, 12:514, 12:552, 12:577, 12:616, 12:617n, 12:626, 12:627n, 12:655, 13:43, 13:60, 13:60n, 13:72, 13:588, 14:424, 15:340, 15:340, 15:340, 15:340, 15:357, 15:429, 15:481
legal, 14:34
manufacturing, 3:221–3:223, 3:238–3:239, 5:633, 5:633n, 5:661, 9:447–9:448, 9:597
maps, 11:615–11:616, 11:616–11:617n
medical, 1:597, 1:597n
newspapers, 1:48, 1:49, 1:50n, 1:85, 1:96, 1:107, 1:214, 1:303–1:304, 2:174, 2:175n, 2:670, 2:671n, 3:185, 3:227, 4:92, 4:127–4:128, 4:130–4:131, 4:177–178, 4:633, 6:339, 6:399, 6:400, 6:401n, 6:461–6:462, 6:505, 6:505n, 6:506, 6:560, 6:648, 8:435, 8:436n, 8:469, 8:566, 8:569–8:570, 8:676n, 9:439, 10:385, 10:385n, 10:511, 10:512n, 10:538, 10:538n, 10:600, 10:600n, 10:652n, 11:13, 11:425, 11:455, 11:456–11:457, 11:457n, 11:476, 11:523, 11:523n, 11:594, 11:594, 11:594–11:596, 11:594–11:596, 11:648, 11:649, 11:649, 12:6, 12:370, 13:469, 13:470, 13:471, 13:471n, 13:475, 13:475n, 13:477, 13:479, 13:486, 13:487n, 13:497, 13:497n, 13:506, 13:542, 13:571, 14:34, 15:481n
plays, 1:412
poetry, 1:112, 1:113n, 1:225–1:226, 1:504n, 2:309, 2:336, 2:369, 3:241, 3:243, 3:296
political, 10:481n, 10:518
political science, 4:25, 4:56, 4:57n, 5:227n, 6:55
religious, 3:431, 3:456–3:457, 12:474–12:475
scientific, 5:466, 5:467n, 6:213
unidentified, 5:146

subscriptions, nonpublication

for Albemarle Academy, 7:265, 7:337, 7:338, 7:339
for Central College–University of Virginia, 11:314–11:315, 11:471, 11:485, 11:485, 11:485n, 11:486, 11:535, 11:546, 11:546n, 11:559, 11:561, 11:565, 11:565–11:566, 11:566n, 11:590–11:591, 11:596, 11:636–11:637, 11:640, 11:650–11:651, 11:651n, 11:664–11:665, 12:3, 12:7, 12:18–12:19, 12:41–12:42, 12:68, 12:75, 12:76, 12:84, 12:98–12:99, 12:150, 12:164, 12:164, 12:206, 12:227, 12:232, 12:263, 12:292, 12:297–12:298, 12:305, 12:307, 12:315, 12:318, 12:325, 12:326–12:327, 12:327–12:328, 12:328, 12:333, 12:364–12:365, 12:413–12:414, 12:433, 12:437, 12:460, 12:464, 12:470, 12:472, 12:472, 12:510, 12:540, 12:551, 12:565, 12:613, 12:614n, 12:625, 12:625–12:626n, 12:644, 12:646, 12:655, 12:656, 13:17–13:18, 13:98, 13:162–13:163n, 13:168, 13:201, 13:222, 13:321–13:322, 13:322n, 13:339, 13:405–13:406, 13:484, 13:534, 13:534, 13:613, 13:617, 14:71, 14:98, 14:113, 14:120, 14:163, 14:179, 14:220, 14:220n, 14:221, 14:244, 15:345, 15:345n, 15:398–15:399, 15:400n, 15:603
to equip volunteer troops, 5:344–5:345
for minister, 13:476n
to pay W. McClure’s debts, 4:169, 4:209, 4:618–4:619, 5:14–5:15, 5:17, 5:132, 5:161, 5:174–5:175, 5:298–5:299, 5:328–5:329, 5:574–5:575, 5:575, 5:587, 5:639–5:640, 5:671
for proposed National Vaccine Institution, 12:565n
to support business ventures, 5:107, 5:107–5:108n, 5:508n
A. Thweatt on, 12:42

Suburb Saint Mary. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

Success, HMS (frigate), 6:363n

Succordy (slave), 4:231–4:232n

succory. See chicory (succory)

Suckey (TJ’s slave; b. 1771)

family of, 5:463n
on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:386, 5:461, 6:309, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:61, 8:62, 8:62, 8:62, 8:62, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255

Suckey (TJ’s slave; b. 1796)

on Monticello slave lists, 4:388

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

Sucky (TJ’s slave; b. 1806). See Gillette, Sucky (TJ’s slave; b. 1806)

Suetonius

in collegiate curriculum, 7:661
Histoire Des Douze Césars de Suétone, … Avec des Mêlanges Philosophiques & des Notes (trans. “Henri Ophellot de La Pause” [J. B. C. Delisle de Sales]), 13:342, 13:358, 13:359n, 13:394, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561
The Lives of the First Twelve Cæsars (trans. A. Thomson), 1:580, 12:534
Opera Omnia Quæ Extant (ed. A. Babelon), 14:511
reliability of, 7:24

Suffrein, Mr.

family of, 2:15

sugar

from beets, 7:54, 7:54n, 7:55
brown, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 4:209, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 6:341, 6:343, 6:346, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 6:347, 6:348, 6:348, 6:448, 7:180, 8:xlvii–8:xlviii, 8:30, 8:30–8:31, 15:144, 15:312, 15:315, 15:475
cane, 2:556, 11:345, 13:611
Cuban, 14:503
export tax on, 8:608
European, 4:85
imported, 9:426, 9:476n, 12:554
loaf, 1:31, 1:31, 1:31, 1:31, 1:31, 1:44, 1:44, 1:44, 1:222, 2:221, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:210, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 4:211, 6:343, 6:343, 6:343, 6:343, 6:343, 6:344, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 6:347, 6:347, 6:348, 6:348, 6:348, 6:448, 8:30–8:31, 9:301, 15:71, 15:449, 15:450
manufactured in West Indies, 8:317
manufacture of, 3:522n
maple, 1:657
in medicine, 4:381
mentioned, 6:343, 6:343, 6:345
military use of, 5:552
muscovado, 1:31, 1:31, 1:44
plantation, 2:136
at Poplar Forest, 5:33, 15:474
refined, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 6:311, 7:180, 8:xlvii–8:xlviii, 8:30, 8:30, 8:30, 15:312, 15:315, 15:475
smuggling of, 1:439
South American, 9:57, 9:269, 9:272, 9:286, 9:318, 9:324
stored in Washington, 4:27
Texan, 14:503, 15:595
TJ orders, 7:434, 11:617, 15:71

Sugden, Edward Burtenshaw

A Practical Treatise of The Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates, 6:477

suicide

and G. Du Jareau, 2:375n
and É. Lemaire, 12:176
and J. de Lespinasse, 14:30
and I. Lewis and L. Lewis, 1:168n
and M. Lewis, 1:436n, 1:602–1:603, 1:606–1:608, 1:632, 1:668, 2:30, 2:35, 2:42, 2:42, 2:44, 2:121, 2:191–2:192, 2:208, 2:209n
and J. Ogilvie, 3:632n
plants used to commit, 6:293
and E. Steadman, 2:352n
TJ on, 6:293
and G. Valaperta, 10:389–10:390n
venesection, 6:293

Suidas. See Σουίδας. Suidæ Lexicon (ed. L. Küster)

sulfur

medicinal uses of, 4:62, 4:102, 14:503
military uses of, 2:257, 2:261n, 9:509

sulla (plant), 15:601, 15:602n

Sulla (Roman statesman)

J. Adams on, 11:269

Sulla Peste di Costantinopoli del MDCCCIII (E. G. Valli), 10:136, 10:147n

Sullivan, Mr.

and W. Janes’s looms, 7:523

Sullivan, George

identified, 1:525n
letters from, 1:524–1:525
letters to, 1:591
recommends C. Artzt, 5:155
and spinning machine, 1:524–1:525, 1:591, 5:151

Sullivan, James

correspondence with T. Pickering, 6:259, 6:259n
family of, 11:32
The History of Land Titles in Massachusetts, 3:125
and Middlesex Canal, 10:674

Sullivan, Jeremiah

identified, 14:597–14:598n
letter from, 14:597–14:598
seeks employment at University of Virginia, 14:597, 14:598, 14:617

Sullivan, John

Revolutionary War general, 6:207

Sullivan, John Langdon

identified, 10:675–10:676n
letter from, 10:673–10:676
letter to, 11:65–11:66
and Merrimack Boating Company, 10:674, 10:676n
and Middlesex Canal, 10:674
promotes inland navigation, 10:673–10:674, 10:675, 10:675, 11:32, 11:65–11:66, 11:111
and spinning machine, 1:524, 1:525, 1:525n
steam towboat of, 10:674, 10:675, 11:32, 11:65–11:66, 11:111

Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de

Memoires de Maximillien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, 7:664, 10:234, 12:534
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:501, 4:504, 4:504

Sully, Thomas

drawing of Minerva, 14:444–14:445
identified, 4:356–4:357n
B. H. Latrobe praises, 3:625
letters from, 4:355–4:358, 4:398–4:400
letters to, 4:407, 4:459–4:460
portrait of P. S. Du Ponceau by, 9:xlv, 9:344 (illus.)
portrait of B. Rush by, 4:xlv–4:xlvi, 7:296n
portrait of G. Ticknor by, 8:xlviii, 8:272 (illus.)
and Society of Artists of the United States, 4:355–4:358, 4:398–4:400, 4:407, 4:459–4:460, 4:644, 4:646n

“Sulphate of lime of Onondago, State of New-York” (D. B. Warden), 3:333n

sulphur. See sulfur

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

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Thomas Jefferson), 1:486, 1:487n, 1:539, 1:569, 1:570n, 8:175, 8:231, 10:548, 13:40

Summers, Lewis

identified, 12:453n
introduced to TJ, 12:453
sends salt to TJ, 15:134–15:135
as Va. legislator, 12:449
visits Monticello, 12:453, 12:469–12:470

Sumter (Sumpter), Thomas, 3:501, 9:532–9:533

sun

altitude of, 3:448
annular eclipse of 1811 observed, 4:188, 4:195, 4:196–4:197n, 4:235, 4:237–4:239, 4:246, 4:263, 4:368, 4:369, 4:403, 4:407
and astronomical calculations, 1:489–1:498, 2:61, 3:361–3:367
and atmospheric conditions, 13:549–13:550, 13:550–13:552, 13:552–13:553
and calculation of latitude, 9:36, 9:70, 9:245–9:246, 9:415, 10:514–10:515, 10:571–10:572, 10:572n
and calculation of longitude, 4:247–4:266, 4:275, 4:368, 4:402–4:406, 4:407
and comets, 13:553–13:554
scorches plants, 2:222, 2:293, 14:181
TJ’s biblical allusion to, 3:579, 3:579n, 12:442

sun brier, 1:56

sundials See also clocks

and corncob capital base, 1:473, 1:475n, 10:xlvii, 10:350, 10:350 (illus.), 10:350, 10:351n (illus.), 10:510
at Monticello, 10:xlvii, 10:240 (illus.), 10:350, 10:350 (illus.), 10:350, 10:351n (illus.), 10:510, 11:432
at Poplar Forest, 4:96–4:98
sent to J. W. Eppes, 11:174
TJ’s Instructions for Setting, 11:176

Sundry Documents on the subject of a System of Public Education, for the State of Virginia, 12:73–12:74, 12:133, 12:134n, 12:288

Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, 1:415n, 6:362, 6:362n, 6:472–6:473, 6:474, 6:479, 6:480, 8:351, 8:692, 12:243

Superior Court of Chancery for the Staunton District, 11:554n, 11:668, 12:592, 12:598–12:599, 12:602, 12:604, 12:605n, 14:400–14:401, 14:436, 14:476, 14:478, 14:493, 14:501, 14:513–14:514, 14:540–14:541, 15:59, 15:153, 15:162, 15:226–15:227, 15:268–15:269, 15:269n, 15:269n, 15:290

Superior Court of Chancery for the Winchester District, 6:268, 10:557–10:558

Supplementa Librorum VII, VIII, IX et X Annalium C. Corn. Taciti (Tacitus; ed. G. Brotier), 12:583

Supplement, containing the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public and generally interesting nature (S. Pleasants), 12:502n

Supreme Court, U.S.

appointments to, 1:49–1:50n
and batture controversy, 2:441n, 2:454–2:455, 6:392, 6:392–6:393, 6:393, 6:394–6:395, 10:669, 10:669n
establishment of, 4:302–4:303n
and jurisdiction of federal and state courts, 9:44, 9:46n, 9:72–9:73, 9:120–9:121, 13:610
justices examine invention, 1:195–1:196
and T. Kosciuszko’s estate, 12:315n
and Livingston v. Jefferson, 4:291–4:292
and J. Marshall, 4:302n
and McCulloch v. Maryland, 14:627n
mentioned, 12:528
procedures of, 10:229n
and prize cases, 2:376, 2:377n, 2:480
replacement for W. Cushing, 3:118, 3:124, 3:126–3:127, 3:151, 3:165–3:166, 3:178, 3:182, 3:246, 4:100
TJ on, 3:124, 3:165, 3:182

surgery

study of, 7:639, 7:639, 7:640, 11:11, 12:647, 12:648, 15:123

Suriname

works on, 14:168

Sur l’éducation nationale dans les États-Unis d’Amérique (P. S. Du Pont de Nemours), 1:592, 1:593n, 1:674, 4:125, 4:127n, 4:327, 5:616, 5:620, 6:484, 6:485, 7:9, 7:168, 7:169n, 7:223, 7:225n, 8:382, 8:383n, 8:429, 9:231, 9:234n, 9:306, 9:443n, 10:45–10:46, 10:328, 11:638–11:639, 11:639–11:640n, 12:100–12:101

Sur l’Utilité des Établissemens des Écoles Gratuites de Dessein en Faveur des Métiers (J. B. Descamps), 14:387, 14:451

The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga (J. Trumbull), 11:145, 11:166

The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown (J. Trumbull), 11:145, 11:166, 14:464

surveying See also scientific instruments

and artificial horizon, 3:448, 4:167, 4:167n, 4:369
and Bear Creek lands, 4:279–4:280
and J. C. Borda’s circle, 4:369, 4:370n, 9:70, 9:76, 9:77n, 9:222, 9:680, 9:689, 9:691, 9:691–9:692, 10:571–10:572, 10:572n, 15:288
at Central College–University of Virginia, 11:544, 15:264
chain for, 4:341, 9:xliii–9:xliv, 9:315, 9:344 (illus.), 9:508, 9:509, 9:643, 9:643, 9:689, 10:288, 12:210, 12:337
chronometer for, 9:689, 9:691, 15:288
compass for, 2:152, 4:341, 9:222, 9:508, 9:509, 9:643, 10:289, 10:324–10:325, 12:337
and defense of Chesapeake Bay, 9:623–9:624, 9:625, 9:629n
and A. Ellicott, 5:100–5:101
and Henderson land, 5:421
and Kentucky-Tennessee boundary, 15:623n
and Limestone Survey, 12:81
Maine-Canada border survey, 10:18, 10:19n
and measuring baselines, 9:222–9:223
meridians used for calculations in, 9:680–9:681, 15:287–15:288
and Natural Bridge, 12:174–12:175, 12:310–12:311, 12:337–12:338, 12:394, 12:525, 12:525, 14:248
and new map of Va., 9:400–9:401, 9:440–9:441, 9:566, 9:590–9:591, 9:592n, 9:621–9:622, 9:623, 9:642–9:643, 9:649, 9:680–9:681, 9:684–9:692, 10:18, 10:55–10:56, 10:196, 10:196n, 10:239, 10:288–10:289, 10:293, 10:324, 11:49–11:50, 11:112, 11:396, 11:409, 12:52, 13:348–13:349, 14:562n
nonius for, 9:168, 9:171n, 9:171n, 9:686, 9:689, 9:689
occupation of, 1:215, 1:216, 2:344
perambulator for, 9:280, 9:282n
plotting table, 14:278, 14:278–14:279n, 14:302
poles for, 9:145
and Poplar Forest boundaries, 12:209–12:211, 12:214, 12:214–12:215, 12:216, 12:217–12:219, 12:219–12:221, 12:221, 12:222, 12:222–12:223, 12:224–12:226, 12:228, 12:261, 12:337, 12:349, 13:12
and Poplar Forest curtilage, 5:482, 5:489, 8:70
and protractor, 4:341
for roads, 9:338, 9:338–9:339n, 9:521, 9:521–9:522
TJ prepares instructions for L. H. Girardin, 7:252–7:253
TJ provides training in, 1:181–1:182, 1:215n, 1:650
and U.S. boundaries, 15:275, 15:276n
U.S. Coast Survey, 9:126, 9:220–9:221, 9:221n, 9:221–9:225, 10:18, 10:19n, 10:579, 12:492, 15:275
and Virginia–North Carolina boundary, 10:470, 10:470n, 15:621, 15:622–15:623n
of Washington, 5:101n

Surville, Clotilde de (Marguerite Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys), 7:665

Susan (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Susanna (Suzanna) (Old Testament figure), 6:623

Susquehanna Canal

lottery, 4:391

Susquehanna River

acts to improve navigation on, 4:161n
grapes grown along, 2:223, 12:348
mammoth bones found in, 2:507
navigation on, 15:493

Suter, Mrs.

Washington boardinghouse of, 3:539

Suter, Johann Rudolf

Flora Helvetica, 8:429, 8:429, 8:430n

Sutherland, Alexander (ship captain), 15:72

Suttle, William

TJ’s debt to, 15:425
witnesses warrant, 5:280

Süverman, John Christoph

identified, 2:364–2:365n
letters from, 2:364–2:365, 2:672–2:673
letters to, 3:110
and J. Pernier, 2:364, 2:672–2:673, 3:49, 3:110

Suvorov, Aleksandr

Russian general, 6:468, 7:528

Suwarow (ship), 2:475

Suydam, John, 12:142n

swallows

migration of, 11:404

Swan, William

as quartermaster general, 7:135

Swann, Samuel

as boundary commissioner, 11:22, 11:23n

Swan Tavern (Richmond)

TJ lodges at, 1:591, 1:608+, 1:614n, 1:615

Swanwick (brig), 15:119

Swanwick, John

bankruptcy of, 1:129, 1:131n, 5:433

Swartwout, Samuel

and allegations against J. Wilkinson, 3:324
and Niagara Campaign, 5:539–5:540

Sweden

and Congress of Vienna, 15:52
election of king in, 3:105, 3:106n
government of, 3:8, 3:12, 3:16, 3:468, 15:573n
relations with Great Britain, 2:275
relations with U.S., 5:685
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504, 4:507

Swedenborg, Emanuel

followers of, 11:363, 13:267n
and New Jerusalem Church, 5:595, 5:596n
and theology, 7:480

Swedesboro, N.J.

yellow fever in, 10:137

Swedish language

study of, 13:237

Swedish iron, 5:133, 11:11

sweet acacia, 1:555, 1:631–1:632, 2:301, 2:302

sweet potatoes

seeds requested from TJ, 8:680, 8:682n

sweet-scented currants, 4:427, 4:523–4:524, 4:524n, 5:323–5:324, 5:382

Swett, Daniel

inspector at Newburyport, Mass., 9:653, 9:654n

Swett, Mehitable “Hitty” Varnum (Daniel Swett’s wife), 9:653, 9:654n

Swift, Jonathan

J. Adams on, 9:528, 10:425, 10:589
correspondence with Lord Bolingbroke, 6:267, 6:267n
mental decline of, 15:410
quoted, 7:476, 7:481n, 10:12, 10:14n, 10:424, 12:251
religious beliefs of, 6:521
satirical writings of, 10:424–10:425, 10:425n
A Tale of a Tub, 9:203, 9:203n, 12:252n
TJ quotes, 5:682, 5:683n, 12:468
Travels into several Remote Nations of the World … by Lemuel Gulliver, 6:70n, 7:26, 9:535, 9:537n, 11:269
Verses on the Death of Dr. S—, D.S.P.D. occasioned By reading a Maxim in Rochefoulcault, 9:433, 9:434n

Swift, Joseph Gardner

and hydrostatic engine, 7:232
and Niagara Campaign, 5:537
U.S. general, 8:250, 13:58

Swift, Zephaniah

The laws of the United States of America, 2:521

Swinburne, Henry, 14:185

Swiney, Mr., 6:486

Swink, George

petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254, 5:378–5:380

Switzerland

and Congress of Vienna, 15:52
constitution of, 7:476
democracy in, 3:8, 3:12, 3:15
education in, 11:263–11:264, 11:266n
emigrants from, 11:198–11:199, 11:305, 11:413, 11:413, 11:413n, 11:448–11:449, 11:449, 11:449, 11:506, 12:144, 13:156, 14:228, 14:325
financial system of, 2:584
trade of, 10:92
in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:504
works on, 14:168

Swords, Edward

chancellor of U.S. consulate at Leghorn, 14:67n

Swords, T. & J. (New York publisher). See T. & J. Swords (New York publisher)

Sydenham, Thomas

medical theories of, 8:669
and nosology, 7:152, 11:367

Sylla. See Sulla (Roman statesman)

Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest-Trees (J. Evelyn), 2:82, 11:165

Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen (G. F. Creuzer), 9:698

Syme, John

cowardice of, 10:421
family of, 7:494

Syme & Pearson (Hanover, Va., firm), 2:433

Symmes, John Cleves

hollow-earth theory of, 15:581, 15:584n

Symphoricarpos albus. See snowberry

Synopsis Methodica Fungorum (C. H. Persoon), 13:342, 13:358, 13:494, 13:525

A Synopsis of the Four Evangelists (C. Thomson), 8:472, 8:472n, 8:672, 8:673n, 9:194, 9:194n, 9:340, 10:300, 11:115–11:116, 11:116n

A Synopsis of the Genera of American Plants (O. Rich), 8:601, 8:601–8:602n, 8:616

Synopsis, or, A Comprehensive View of Philosophical, Political & Theological Systems (J. M. Ray), 12:291, 12:337, 12:364

Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum (C. H. Persoon), 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

Syntagma Epicuri Philosophiae (P. Gassendi), 9:341, 9:342n, 12:582, 13:295, 15:164

syphilis

treatments for, 5:669

Syren (sloop)

carries dispatches, 1:183, 1:452
quarantined in France, 1:373, 1:374, 1:376

Syria

Napoleon fails to conquer, 2:274, 2:277n

syringes, 14:554

syrup

of punch, 1:268, 1:368, 2:109, 2:154
of vinegar, 1:161, 1:188, 1:188, 1:190, 1:190, 1:222, 1:257

Systema Naturæ (C. Linnaeus), 4:536, 4:667, 6:408, 6:409, 7:210, 11:367, 13:248, 13:249n

System der christlichen Dogmatik nach dem Lehrbegriffe der luterischen Kirche im Grundrisse (J. C. W. Augusti), 11:307

Systême de la Nature. Ou Des Loix du Monde Physique & du Monde Moral (Holbach), 9:650, 9:652n

Systême Social ou principes naturels de la morale et de la politique (Holbach), 12:583, 13:295

A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students of Medicine (C. Wistar), 8:447, 8:449n, 9:67

System of Nature; or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World (Holbach), 9:652n

A System of Notation: Representing the Sounds of Alphabetical Characters (W. Pelham), 1:216–1:217, 11:177

A System of Practical Mathematics (J. Potter), 7:250, 7:253n, 9:107, 9:229n, 10:357, 10:386

A System of Universal Science (A. E. B. Woodward), 6:411n

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