The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 11 :19 January to 31 August 1817

Publication subTitle :19 January to 31 August 1817

Author: Jefferson Thomas;Looney J.  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2018

E-ISBN: 9780691185187

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691164113

Subject: K7 Americas History

Keyword: 美洲史

Language: ENG

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The 584 documents in this volume cover the period from 19 January to 31 August 1817, during which Jefferson devotes much time and energy to founding Central College, the predecessor of the University of Virginia. In May 1817, at its first official meeting, the college's Board of Visitors authorizes land purchases and a subscription campaign that eventually raises more than $44,000. Jefferson also prepares a legal brief for his chancery suit against the directors of the Rivanna Company. After years of disagreements and failed negotiations, he composes and revises a legal statement of his claim to the property in dispute. Although the complaint is submitted to the court in May 1817, the case is not settled until December 1819. In March 1817 Jefferson’s friend James Monroe begins his first term as president. During the summer Jefferson learns of the death of two friends, Madame de Staël Holstein and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours. Late in the summer he visits Natural Bridge with two of his granddaughters. Jefferson continues to purchase books from Europe with the assistance of George Ticknor, and Stephen Cathalan helps him restock his wine cellar and pantry. Even though Jefferson answers his voluminous correspondence selectively, he still chafes under the burden.

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I. Thomas Jefferson’s Bill of Complaint against the Directors of the Rivanna Company, [by 9 February]

II. Extract from Minutes of the Directors of the Rivanna Company, 12 September 1810

III. From Peter Minor, 10 November 1810

IV. Extract from Minutes of the Directors of the Rivanna Company, 8 January 1811

V. From Peter Minor, [15] January 1811

VI. Statement of the Dispute by the Directors of the Rivanna Company, [ca. 15 January 1811]

VII. Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia Statutes for Clearing the Rivanna River, 27 December 1816

From Joseph Milligan, 9 February

To Hugh Nelson, 9 February

From William Sampson, 9 February

To Smith & Riddle, 9 February

To John Wood, 9 February

From Francis Hall, 10 February

From Samuel L. Mitchill, 10 February

From William Canby, 11 February

From Madame de Staël Holstein, 12 February

From Patrick Gibson, 13 February

From Charles Yancey, 13 February

From Philip I. Barziza, 14 February

From John H. Peyton, 14 February

From James Madison, 15 February

To James Madison, 16 February

To John Barnes, 17 February

From Peter S. Du Ponceau, 17 February

To Fernagus De Gelone, 17 February

To Patrick Gibson, 17 February

From George Washington Jeffreys, 17 February

To Mr. Logan (of Staunton), 17 February

From Charles K. Mallory, 17 February

To Simeon Theus, 17 February

From Jerman Baker, 19 February

From Joseph C. Cabell, 19 February

From Richard Rush, 19 February

From William Thornton, 19 February

To Samuel L. Mitchill, 20 February

From Smith & Riddle, 20 February

To Edwin Stark, 20 February

To Simeon Theus, 20 February

From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 20 February

From Charles Yancey, 20 February

From Simon Bernard, 21 February

From Joseph Milligan, 21 February

From José Corrêa da Serra, 22 February

From Hendrick W. Gordon, 22 February

From David Higginbotham, 22 February

From Richard C. Derby, 23 February

From Thomas Law, [received 23 February]

To Charles K. Mallory, 23 February

From James Monroe, 23 February

To Philip I. Barziza, 24 February

From Joseph Delaplaine, 24 February

To Thomas Law, 24 February

From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 24 February

From Robert B. Sthreshly, 24 February

From Caspar Wistar, 24 February

From Fernagus De Gelone, 25 February

From William A. Burwell, 26 February

From George M. Dallas, 27 February

From Chapman Johnson, 27 February

From John Barnes, 28 February, enclosing Draft Power of Attorney to John Barnes for United States Stock Interest, 26 February

To Hutchins G. Burton, 28 February

From John W. Maury, 28 February

From Charles Willson Peale, 28 February

From Peter H. Wendover, 1 March

To Madame de Corny, 2 March

From Nicolas G. Dufief, 3 March

To George Washington Jeffreys, enclosing Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, 3 March

From Thomas Law, 3 March

From John Trumbull, 3 March

From William Johnson, 4 March

From Thomas Eston Randolph, 4 March

From Joshua Stow, 4 March

From Thomas Appleton, enclosing Notes on Lupinella Grass Seed, 5 March

To Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 March

From Valentine W. Southall, 5 March

To Richard C. Derby, 6 March

To John Wayles Eppes, 6 March

To Fernagus De Gelone, 6 March

Instructions for Setting a Sundial, [ca. 6 March]

From William Pelham, 6 March

From Robert Walsh, 6 March

To Joel Yancey, 6 March

To Fernagus De Gelone, 7 March

To Simon Bernard, 8 March

To George M. Dallas, 8 March

To John H. Cocke and David Watson, 10 March

From Joseph Dougherty, 10 March

To James Madison, 10 March

From Bernard Peyton, 10 March

From John Pope, 10 March

From Thomas Eston Randolph, 10 March

To John Barnes, 11 March

From George Gibbs, enclosing Statement of the Mineralogical Committee of the New-York Historical Society, 11 March

To Joseph Miller, 11 March

From Samuel L. Mitchill, enclosing Statement of the Committee on Zoology of the New-York Historical Society, 11 March

To Bernard Peyton, 11 March

From Fernagus De Gelone, 15 March

To Thomas Eston Randolph, 15 March

From Edwin Stark, 15 March

To Thomas Appleton, 16 March

To Stephen Cathalan, 16 March

To Albert Gallatin, 16 March

To David Higginbotham, 16 March

To Lucy Marks, 16 March

To Charles Willson Peale, 16 March

To Bernard Peyton, 16 March

To Archibald Thweatt, 16 March

To Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 16 March

From Joseph Delaplaine, 17 March

From Bernard Peyton, 17 March

From Edwin Stark, 17 March

To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 19 March

To Joseph Milligan, 19 March

To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 March

To Joel Yancey, 19 March

From Patrick Gibson, 20 March

From David Michie, 20 March

From Thomas Eston Randolph, 20 March

From Edmund Bacon, 22 March

To David Michie, 22 March

To Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 March

To Joseph Dougherty, 23 March

To Craven Peyton, 23 March

From Craven Peyton, 23 March

To Joshua Stow, 23 March

To Robert Walsh, 23 March

To Jethro Wood, 23 March

From Joseph Miller, 24 March

From Alden Partridge, 24 March

From John Barnes, 26 March

From John H. Cocke, 26 March

From DeWitt Clinton, 27 March

To John H. Cocke, 27 March

To George Divers, 27 March

From George Divers, 27 March

From Richard Flower, 28 March

Notes and Drawings for Barboursville, [before 29 March]

From James Barbour, 29 March

From Joseph C. Cabell, 30 March

To Peter Minor, 30 March

From Peter Minor, 30 March

From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 March

To David Watson, 30 March

To Nicolas G. Dufief, 31 March

To John Wayles Eppes, 31 March

To Fernagus De Gelone, 31 March

From James Eastburn, John W. Francis, and James Smith (of New York), March

To Patrick Gibson, 1 April

To William D. Taylor, 1 April

From Hutchins G. Burton, 2 April

From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 April

From Thomas Wells, 2 April

From Nicolas G. Dufief, 4 April

From Josephus B. Stuart, 5 April

From David Watson, 6 April

Albemarle County Court Order Concerning a Proposed Road, 8 April

Notes on a Proposed Albemarle County Road, [ca. 8 April]

From David Higginbotham, 8 April

From George Washington Jeffreys, 8 April

To James Monroe, 8 April

From Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 April

From Joseph Milligan, 9 April

From James Madison, 10 April

From Giovanni Carmignani, 11 April

To Nicolas G. Dufief, 11 April

From Michael H. Walsh, [11 April]

To Joseph Delaplaine, 12 April

From Alexander Garrett, 12 April

From Valentine Gill, 12 April

From Horatio G. Spafford, 12 April

From David Bailie Warden, 12 April

To James Dinsmore, 13 April

To James Madison, 13 April

To James Monroe, 13 April

To DeWitt Clinton, 14 April

To Chapman Johnson, 14 April

To John W. Maury, 14 April

From Bernard Peyton, 14 April

To John Wood, 14 April

To James Madison, 15 April

To James Monroe, 15 April

To Craven Peyton, 15 April

From André Thoüin, 15 April

From Horatio G. Spafford, 18 April

From William Thornton, 18 April

From John Adams, 19 April

From Tristram Dalton, 22 April

From James Dinsmore, 22 April

From James Baker, 23 April

From Joseph C. Cabell, 23 April

From James Monroe, 23 April

From Elkanah Watson, 24 April

From Christopher Clark, 25 April

From DeWitt Clinton, 25 April

From Lafayette, 25 April

From John Laval, 25 April

To Archibald Robertson, 25 April

From Josephus B. Stuart, 25 April

To Patrick Gibson, 26 April

From Chapman Johnson, 26 April

From James Monroe, 27 April

From John Wayles Eppes, 28 April

To LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 28 April

From Abigail Adams, 29 April

To James Baker, 29 April

To Fernagus De Gelone, 29 April

Memorandum to James Monroe on Scuppernong Wine, [ca. 29 April?]

To Louis H. Girardin, 30 April

Account with William Mitchell, [April]

To Hutchins G. Burton, 1 May

To George Cabell, 1 May

To John H. Cocke, 1 May

From Henry A. S. Dearborn, 1 May

To John Wayles Eppes, 1 May

To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 1 May

From Patrick Gibson, 1 May

From Jean Mourer, 1 May

To James Oldham, 1 May

To Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 1 May

To Tristram Dalton, enclosing Paper Model of Thomas Mann Randolph’s Plow, 2 May

To John Adams, 5 May

The Founding of the University of Virginia: Central College, 1816–1819

I. Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 5 May

II. John H. Cocke’s Description of Central College Board of Visitors Meeting, [5 May]

III. Anonymous Description of Central College Board of Visitors Meeting, [5 May]

IV. Central College Subscription List, [ca. 7 May]

V. Master List of Subscribers to Central College, [after 7 May]

To Fernagus De Gelone, 6 May

To John Wood, 6 May

To Isaac A. Coles, 7 May

To Joseph Darmsdatt, 7 May

From Isaac A. Coles, 8 May

From Fernagus De Gelone, 8 May

To Elkanah Watson, 8 May

From Isaac Briggs, 9 May

From Frank Carr, 9 May

From Robert H. Saunders, 9 May

To William Thornton, 9 May

From Alexander Garrett, 10 May

To William Johnson, 10 May

To Josephus B. Stuart, 10 May

From George Washington Jeffreys, 11 May

Notes on the Canal Locks and Manufacturing Mill at Shadwell, 11 May

From John Barnes, 12 May

From Daniel Lescallier, 12 May

To Fernagus De Gelone, 13 May

To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 13 May

To James Gibbon, 13 May

To Lafayette, 14 May

To Jean Baptiste Say, 14 May

To Abigail Adams, 15 May

From Isaac Briggs, 15 May

To Destutt de Tracy, 15 May

From Thomas Eddy, 16 May

To John Barnes, 17 May

From Patrick Gibson, 17 May

From John Adams, 18 May

To Isaac Briggs, 18 May

To Louis A. Leschot, 18 May

From David Higginbotham, 20 May

From LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 20 May

From John Manners, 20 May

From Charles Willson Peale, 20 May

From Caspar Wistar, 20 May

From Isaac Briggs, 21 May

From Luis de Onís, 21 May

From James Gibbon, 22 May

Notes on Value of Lots in Beverley Town (Westham), [ca. 22 May]

To Craven Peyton, 23 May

To Patrick Gibson, 24 May

To Patrick Gibson, 25 May

To LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 25 May

From Sir John Sinclair, 25 May

From John Adams, 26 May

To David Higginbotham, 26 May

From John Barnes, 27 May

From Tristram Dalton, 27 May

From William Thornton, enclosing Sketches for a Corinthian Pavilion, 27 May

From Aaron Clark, 28 May

To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 28 May

From Patrick Gibson, 28 May

From John Wood, 29 May

From Fernagus De Gelone, 31 May

From William Caruthers, 2 June

From John Vaughan, 2 June

From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 3 June

To Lancelot Minor, 3 June

From John M. Perry, 3 [June]

To John M. Perry, 3 June

From John Barnes, 4 June

From Mr. Durot, 4 June

To Stephen Cathalan, enclosing List of Wine and Food Ordered by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [before 6 June]

To de Bure Frères, 6 June

To John Wayles Eppes, 6 June

To Albert Gallatin, [before 6 June]

To William Lee, 6 June

To George Ticknor, [before 6 June]

To David Bailie Warden, 6 June

To Stephen Girard, 7 June

From LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 7 June

To Elisha Ticknor, 7 June

To John Vaughan, 7 June

From Edmund Bacon, 8 June

To Daniel Brent, 8 June

From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, enclosing Translated Extract from Isaak Iselin, Uber die Geschichte der Menschheit, 9 June

To John Barnes, 10 June

To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 10 June

To Caspar Wistar, 10 June

To William Caruthers, 11 June

To Luis de Onís, 11 June

From William Darby, 12 June

To George Washington Jeffreys, 12 June

To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 12 June

To John Manners, 12 June

To Alexander von Humboldt, 13 June

To Louis Pio, 13 June

To Barbé Marbois, 14 June

To John Barnes, 14 June

To José Corrêa da Serra, 14 June

To George Divers, 14 June

To Daniel Lescallier, 14 June

From Dominick Lynch, 14 June

From Marc Auguste Pictet, 14 June

To Robert Simington, 14 June

To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 15 June

From William Lee, 16 June

From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 16 June

Account with Mary Bacon, [ca. 17 June]

To Louis H. Girardin, 17 June

From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 17 June

From Valentine W. Southall, 18 June

From William Thornton, 18 June

From John Vaughan, 18 June, enclosing Account with Stephen Girard, 21 September 1816

To William Duane, 19 June

To Fernagus De Gelone, 19 June

To Joseph Gales (1761–1841), 19 June

To William Short, 19 June

From Daniel Brent, 20 June

To Thomas Eston Randolph, 21 June

From Thomas Eston Randolph, 21 June

To William Darby, 22 June

To James Madison, 22 June

To Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 June

To Daniel Brent, 23 June

From Thomas Freeborn, 23 June

To Albert Gallatin, 23 June

To Alexander Garrett, 23 June

To Patrick Gibson, 23 June

To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 23 June

Conveyance of Lands for Central College from John M. Perry and Frances T. Perry to Alexander Garrett, 23 June

Agreement between John M. Perry and Central College, 23 June

To Robert H. Saunders, 23 June

From James Leitch, 24 June

To James Dinsmore, 25 June

To William Lee, 25 June

From Peter Poinsot, 25 June

To Joel Yancey, 25 June

From Joseph Gales (1761–1841), 26 June

From Patrick Gibson, 26 June

To Benjamin Harrison, 26 June

To Dominick Lynch, 26 June

From Craven Peyton, 26 June

From Craven Peyton, 26 June

From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 28 June

From Richard Peters, 28 June

To Craven Peyton, 28 June

From Craven Peyton, 28 [June]

To John Vaughan, 28 June

From George Crowninshield, 30 June

From Donald Fraser, 30 June

From Horatio G. Spafford, 30 June

To Patrick Gibson, 1 July

From Thomas Humphreys, 2 July

From Richard Claiborne, 4 July

From William Short, 4 July

From Solomon Henkel, 5 July

From James Clarke, 6 July

From William Lee, 6 July

From John Barnes, 8 July

From Stephen Cathalan, 8 July

To Craven Peyton, 8 July

From James Rawlings, 9 July

From John Barnes, 11 July, enclosing Account with Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 11 July], and Joseph Milligan to John Barnes, 18 June, with John Barnes’s Note to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July

From Benjamin Harrison, 11 July

To Charles Clay, 12 July

To Paul A. Clay, [ca. 12 July]

From José Corrêa da Serra, 12 July

From John Adams, 15 July

From Mark L. Descaves, 15 July

From the Seventy-Six Association, 15 July

From Stephen Cathalan, 16 July

To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 16 July

From John Love, 16 July

From Joseph Milligan, 16 July

To Craven Peyton, 16 July

From Craven Peyton, 16 July

From John Barnes, 17 July

From Albert Gallatin, 17 July

From Harrison Hall, 17 July

To Craven Peyton, 17 July

From P. de Valltone, 17 July

Notes on the Siting of Central College, 18 July

From P. de Valltone, 18 July

To John H. Cocke, 19 July

From Jeremiah A. Goodman, 19 July

From John H. Cocke, 20 July

To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 20 July

To Fernagus De Gelone, 21 July

To James Oldham, 21 July

To John Le Tellier, 22 July

From George Divers, 23 July

George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [ca. 23 July]

Thomas Mann Randolph’s Notes on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [after 23 July]

Notes on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [after 23 July]

From David Knight, 23 July

To James Madison, 23 July

From Craven Peyton, 23 July

From Hiram Storrs, 23 July

To David Watson, 23 July

From Levett Harris, 24 July

From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 24 July

John H. Cocke’s Description of Central College Board of Visitors Meeting, 25[–28 July]

From Peter Derieux, 25 July

From Lancelot Minor, 25 July

From James Monroe, 27 July

Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 28 July

From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 28 July

From Samuel L. Osborn, 28 July

Agreement with Jeremiah A. Goodman, 30 July

From Joseph Milligan, 30 July

From John Vaughan, 30 July

From A. F. De Laage, 31 July

To James Rawlings, 31 July

To Thomas Appleton, 1 August

To James Clarke, 1 August

To Mark L. Descaves, 1 August

To the Seventy-Six Association, 1 August

From Tanner, Vallance, Kearny, & Company, 1 August

To Stephen Cathalan, 2 August

To John Vaughan, 2 August

To Levett Harris, 3 August

To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 3 August

To John Love, 3 August

From James Oldham, 3 August

From Andrew Alexander, 4 August

Circular to Prospective Donors to Central College, 4 August

From Fernagus De Gelone, 5 August

To Patrick Gibson, 5 August

From Hezekiah Niles, 5 August, enclosing Circular to Prominent Subscribers, 31 July

To John Wayles Eppes, 6 August

From John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane, 6 August

To Harrison Hall, 6 August

From Quinette de Rochemont, 6 August

To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 7 August

To William Lee, 7 August

To Daniel Colclaser, 8 August

From Hugh Chisholm, 10 August

From Victor du Pont and Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 11 August

From John Le Tellier, 11 August

From James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson), 11 August

From John Patterson, 11 August

From David Whitehead, 11 August, enclosing Abraham Clark’s Recommendation of David Whitehead, 30 December 1793

From George Flower, 12 August

To David Knight, [12] August

From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 12 August

From Maxfield Ludlow, 12 August

To Archibald Robertson, [12] August

From Archibald Robertson, 12 August

From David Bailie Warden, [ca. 12–22 August]

To A. F. De Laage, [13] August

From A. F. De Laage, [13] August

To Samuel J. Harrison, Charles Johnston, and Archibald Robertson, [13] August

Trip to Natural Bridge, [ca. 13–17 August]

I. Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 17 August

II. Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August

III. Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [after 29 August]

IV. Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 30 August

V. Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) and Mary Elizabeth Randolph (Eppes), 24 September

From George Ticknor, 14 August

From James Maury, 15 August

From Robert Walsh, 15 August

From Joseph C. Cabell, 18 August

To Patrick Gibson, [18] August

From Francis W. Gilmer, 18 August

From Randolph Harrison, 18 August

To Chapman Johnson, [18] August

To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August

To Philip Thornton, [18] August

To Thomas Appleton, [20] August

To Giovanni Carmignani, [20] August

To Fernagus De Gelone, [20] August

To John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane, [22] August

From Hugh Chisholm, 23 August

Notes on Newspaper Subscriptions, [ca. 23 August]

To Hezekiah Niles, [23] August

To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, [25] August

From James Pleasants, 25 August

From James Rawlings, 25 August

From Stephen Cathalan, 27 August, enclosing Victor Adolphus Sasserno to Stephen Cathalan, 14 August, Amant Spreafico (for Pierre Mages & Compagnie) to Stephen Cathalan, 15 August, and Amant Spreafico to Stephen Cathalan, 19 August

From Absalom Townsend, [ca. 28] August

From John Martin Baker, 29 August, enclosing John Martin Baker to Richard Rush, 18 August

To Samuel L. Osborn, [29] August

Anonymous (Thomas Jefferson) to the Richmond Enquirer, [ca. 29] August

To Thomas Ritchie, [29] August

From Daniel Brent, 30 August

From Chapman Johnson, 30 August

To Hugh Chisholm, 31 August

To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 August

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