The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 28: 1 January 1794 to 29 February 1796

by Thomas Jefferson, John Catanzariti (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings Jefferson into retirement after his tenure as Secretary of State and returns him to private life at Monticello. He professes his desire to be free of public responsibilities and live the life of a farmer, spending his time tending to his estates. Turning his attention to the improvement of his farms and finances, Jefferson surveys his fields, experiments with crop rotation, and establishes a nailery on Mulberry Row. He embarks upon an ambitious plan to renovate Monticello, a long-term task that will eventually transform his residence.


Although Jefferson is distant from Philadelphia, the seat of the federal government, he is not completely divorced from the politics of the day. His friends, especially James Madison, with whom he exchanges almost sixty letters in the period covered by this volume, keep him fully informed about the efforts of Republican county and town meetings, the Virginia General Assembly, Congress, and the press to counter Federalist policies. An emerging Republican opposition is taking shape in response to the Jay Treaty, and Jefferson is keenly interested in its progress. Although in June, 1795, he claims to have "proscribed newspapers" from Monticello, in fact he never entirely cuts himself off from the world. At the end of that year, he takes pains to ensure that he will have two full sets of Benjamin Franklin Bache's Aurora, the influential Republican newspaper, one set to be held in Philadelphia for binding and one to be sent directly to Monticello.

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ISBN-13:	9780691185330
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	06/05/2018
Series:	The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , #28
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About the Author

John Catanzariti edited the Jefferson Papers while he was Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University. The Associate Editors of this volume are Eugene R. Sheridan, J. Jefferson Looney, James P. McClure, and Elaine Weber Pascu. Barbara B. Oberg, Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University, is the General Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
GUIDE TO EDITORIAL APPARATUS xi
ILLUSTRATIONS xxxvii
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY 2



1794



From George Washington, 1 January 3
To John Ross, enclosing Power of Attorney, 2 January 3
To Certain Diplomats of the United States, 3 January 4
To George Hammond, 3 January 5
To Thomas Willing and Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 3 January 6
From Horatio Gates, 5 January 6
From Hauterive, 15 January 7
Memorandum to Thomas Mann Randolph, [ca. 16-24 January] 8
From Harry Innes, 21 January 9
From Robert Leslie, 22 January 10
To Archibald Stuart, 26 January 11
From Thomas Pinckney, with Jefferson's Note, 29 January 11
From Ferdinando Fairfax, 31 January 12
To Horatio Gates, 3 February 14
To James Innes, 3 February 15
To Edmund Randolph, 3 February 15
From O. A. Bertrand, enclosing List of Notes and Agricultural Prospectus, 8 February 16
From Tobias Lear, 12 February 19
To Hartman Elliot, 15 February 20
To James Madison, 15 February 21
From Tench Coxe, 22 February 22
From Tench Coxe, 27 February 25
From James Madison, 2 March 26
From James Monroe, 3 March 29
From James Madison, 9 March 31
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 11 March 33
To James Monroe, 11 March 34
From James Madison, 12 March 35
From Richard Peters, 13 March
From Horatio Gates, 14 March 36
From James Madison, 14 March 37
From Tench Coxe, 16 March 38
From James Monroe, 16 March 39
From Diodati, 17 March 40
From James Madison, 24 March 42
From James Madison, 26 March 43
From James Monroe, 26 March 43
From James Madison, 31 March 45
From James Monroe, 31 March 45
From James Monroe, 2 April 46
To Thomas Walker, Jr., 2 April 48
To Benjamin Bankson, 3 April 48
To James Madison, 3 April 49
From John Adams, 4 April 50
From James Lyle, 14 April 51
From James Madison, 14 April 51
To Edmund Randolph, [17 April] 53
To Charles Rose, 17 April 53
To James Lyle, 24 April 54
To James Monroe, 24 April 55
From George Washington, 24 April 56
To John Adams, 25 April 57
To Ferdinando Fairfax, 25 April 58
To Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 25 April 58
To John Garland Jefferson, 26 April 60
From James Madison, 28 April 62
To William Nelson, Jr., 28 April 63
To John Ross, 30 April 65
Memorandum from Bowling Clark, April 65
To Charles Carter, 1 May 66
To Tench Coxe,1 May 66
To John Taylor, 1 May 68
From James Monroe, 4 May 69
From John Adams, 11 May 71
From James Madison, 11 May 72
To Edmund Randolph, 14 May 74
To George Washington, 14 May 74
To James Madison, 15 May 75
From Joseph LEpine, 16 May 77
From William Short, 22 May 78
From James Madison, 25 May 84
From James Monroe, 26 May 85
From James Monroe, 27 May 86
To John Garland Jefferson, 28 May 87
To Joseph L'Epine, 28 May 88
To Edmund Randolph, 28 May 89
From Tench Coxe, 31 May 89
From James Madison, 1 June 92
From John Taylor, 1 June 93
From James Monroe, 6 June 96
From Thomas Pinckney, 6 June 97
To James Brown, 8 June 97
List of Unretained Letters, [ca. 9 June] 98
From James Monroe, 17 June 100
From Timothy Pickering, 30 June 101
From Tench Coxe, 7 July 101
From John Leach, 12 July 103
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 July 104
To Timothy Pickering, 23 July 104
From William W. Hening, 24 July 105
To Richard Morris, 27 July 106
To Benjamin Carter Waller, 27 July 107
From Benjamin Carter Waller, 2 August 107
To Christopher Clark, 5 August 108
To Nicholas Davies, 6 August 109
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 August 111
From John Taylor, 15 August 112
To James Steptoe, 16 August 113
To Francis Eppes, 28 August 114
From Edmund Randolph, 28 August, enclosing
Josef de Jaudenes to Edmund Randolph, 16 August, and
Edmund Randolph's Memorandum of a Conference with Josef de Jaudenes, 26 August 117
From François D'Ivernois, 5 September, enclosing First Letter on the Genevan Revolution, 22 August 123
From James Monroe, 7 September 145
To Edmund Randolph, 7 September 148
Power of Attorney to Caleb Lownes, 11 September 148
From François D'Ivernois, enclosing Queries, 16 September 150
To Joseph Mussi, 17 September 155
To Eliza House Trist, 17 September 155
From François D'Ivernois, enclosing Second Letter on the Genevan Revolution, 23 September 156
From François D'Ivernois, 23 September 164
To Dabney Carr, 24 September 166
To Garrett Minor, 24 September 167
To Thomas Divers, 28 September 168
To Benjamin Franklin Bache, 29 September 168
To James Brown, 1 October 169
From François D'Ivernois, 2 October 170
From François D'Ivernois, enclosing Third Letter on the Genevan Revolution, 4 October 175
From James Madison, 5 October 178
To John Barnes, 9 October 179
To Benjamin Carter Waller, 9 October 180
To George Wythe, [23 October] 181
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 October 182
To James Madison, 30 October 182
To Henry Remsen, 30 October 183
To Archibald Stuart, 30 October 184
From George Wythe, l November 184
From William Short, 4 November 185
To James Madison, 6 November 186
To Edmund Randolph, [6 November] 187
From Samuel Blackden, 9 November 187
From François D'Ivernois, 11 November, enclosing
Decree of the Geneva National Commission, 28 September, and
Extract from Etienne Pestre's Pamphlet, October l89
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 13 November 200
From Maria Cosway,13 November 201
From James Madison, 16 November 202
To John Barnes, 20 November 204
To William Branch Giles, 20 November 205
To James Maury, 20 November 206
To Joseph Mussi, 20 November 206
From John Trumbull, 20 November 207
From John Adams, 21 November 207
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 23 November 208
From Maria Cosway, 24 November 209
From Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 29 November 211
From James Madison, 30 November 211
To Archibald Stuart, 2 December 214
From William Branch Giles, 7 December 214
To James Madison, 9 December 216
To Samuel Blackden, ll December 216
To James Madison, 12 December 217
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 12 December 217
To James Lyle, 14 December 218
To William Branch Giles, 17 December 218
To Richard Adams, 18 December 219
From James Madison, 21 December 220
Deed of Manumission for Robert Hemings, [24 December] 222
To James Lyle, 24 December 223
From Richard Adams, 26 December 224
Authorization for J. P P Derieux, 26 December 224
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 December 225
To Thomas Walker, Jr., 26 December 227
To James Madison, 28 December 228
To John Taylor, 29 December 230
Memorandum from Eli Alexander, [ca. December] 235
Memorandum from Eli Alexander, [1794-95?] 236
Notes for Revising the Virginia Constitution, [1794 or later] 236



1795



From Marc Auguste Pictet, 1 January 239
From William Branch Giles, 4 January 240
To Henry Skipwith, 4 January 241
To Thomas Mann Randolph, [8 January] 242
Memorandum from Eli Alexander, 10 January 243
To Archibald Stuart, 10 January 243
From James Madison, 11 January 244
To Henry Banks, 15 January 245
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 15 January 246
To Joseph Mussi, 21 January 247
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 January 249
From James Madison, 26 January 250
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 January 251
From William Short, 29 January 252
Memorandum from Robert Bailey, [January] 256
From William Frederick Ast, 1 February 257
From John Adams, 5 February 258
To James Madison, 5 February 259
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 5 February 260
To John Adams, 6 February 261
To François D'Ivernois, 6 February 262
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 February 264
From James Madison, 15 February 265
To Robert Morris, 19 February 267
Notes on Letters from François D'Ivernois, [19-23 February] 268
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 February 270
To Archibald Stuart, enclosing Notes on Potash and Pearl Ash,
19February 271
To Thomas A. Taylor, 19 February 272
To Richard Claiborne, 21 February 273
From Robert Pollard, 22 February 274
To James Madison, 23 February 274
To Edmund Randolph, 23 February 275
To George Washington, 23 February 275
To David Rittenhouse, 24 February 279
To John Barnes, 25 February 279
From François D'Ivernois, [26 February] 280
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 February 281
From James Madison, [ca. February-March] 284
From Dugald Stewart, 1 March 284
Bill in Chancery of Wayles's Executors against the Heirs of
Richard Randolph, [on or before 2 March] 285
To James Madison, 5 March 291
To Thomas Pinckney, 5 March 292
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 March 293
From John Taylor, 5 March 293
To Joshua Fry, 8 March 302
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 9 March 302
To John Mason, 11 March 304
To Henry Remsen, 11 March 304
To William Champe Carter, I S March 305
From George Washington, I S March 306
From William Champe Carter, 19 March 309
From Tench Coxe, 20 March 309
From François D'Ivernois, 21 March 310
From James Madison, 23 March 315
From Jean Antoine Gautier, 24 March 317
From Grand & Cie., 24 March 317
From Grand & Cie. and Gautier & Cie., 24 March 318
From George Wythe, 26 March 319
From Jean Nicolas D6meunier, 30 March 319
From George Washington, 30 March 321
From James Lyle, 31 March 321
To Richard Hanson, 2 April 322
To Henry Remsen, 2 April 323
To Thomas A. Taylor, 2 April 323
From John Carey, 6 April 324
From Edmund Randolph, 11 April 325
From William Champe Carter, [on or before 13 April] 326
To John Taylor, 13 April 326
To William Champe Carter, 15 April 327
To John Taylor, 15 April 328
To John Barnes, 16 April 328
From William Branch Giles, 16 April 329
To James Brown, 18 April 330
To Archibald Stuart, 18 April 331
To George Wythe, 18 April 332
Articles of Agreement with William Champe Carter, 20 April 332
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 20 April 334
To John Barnes, 23 April 334
To William Temple, 26 April 335
To William Branch Giles, 27 April 336
To John Harvie, Jr., 27 April 337
To James Madison, 27 April 338
To Jean Nicolas DEmeunier, 29 April 340
From Eli Alexander, April 342
From Robert Pollard, 1 May 342
To James Monroe, 5 May 342
From Madame de Chastellux, 6 May 343
To James Brown, 7 May 345
To William O. Callis, 8 May 346
From John Harvie, Jr., 9 May 347
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 11 May 347
To James Steptoe, 17 May 349
To Archibald Stuart, 17 May 349
To Isaac Zane, 17 May 350
To Archibald Stuart, 23 May 350
To Robert Brooke, 24 May 352
To William Short, 25 May 353
To Froull6, 26 May 357
To James Monroe, 26 May 359
To John Adams, 27 May 363
From Rodolph Vall Travers, 29 May 363
To James Brown, 30 May 365
To Alexander Donald, 30 May 366
To Philip Mazzei, 30 May 368
Notes on Conversations with William Strickland, May 371
To Tench Coxe, 1 June 373
To Henry Knox, 1 June 374
From Robert Morris, 1 June 375
To Edmund Randolph, l June 37
To Benjamin Franklin Bache, 2 June 377
To John Barnes, 3 June 378
To John Barnes, 3 June 379
To William Champe Carter, 3 June 379
To Sarah Champe Carter, 4 June 380
From William Champe Carter, [ca. 4 June] 381
From William Champe Carter, 5 June 381
From James Blake, 6 June 381
To John Barnes, 8 June 383
To John Taylor, 8 June 383
To Archibald Stuart, 11 June 384
From John Blair, 13 June 384
From John Barnes, 14 June 385
From James Madison, 14 June 386
To Henry Remsen, 18 June 388
From Henry Knox, 20 June 389
From Robert Pollard, 21 June 389
To John Barnes, 24 June 390
From James Monroe, 27 June, enclosing Sketch of the State of Affairs in France, 23 June 390
From Sarah Champe Carter, 30 June 398
To Archibald Stuart, 30 June 399
From Henry Tazewell, 1 July 399
From James Monroe, 3 July 401
From James Ogilvie, [before 3 July] 401
From Mann Page, 3 July 404
From John Jay, 7 July 405
To James Lyle, 10 July 405
From John Craig Millar, 10 July 406
From William Branch Giles, 13 July 407
To James Madison, 13 July 408
To Archibald Stuart, 14 July 408
From Sir John Sinclair, 14 July 409
To James Brown, 16 July 409
To Archibald Stuart, 20 July 410
To John Barnes, 21 July 410
Notes on Infractions of Neutral Rights by France and Great Britain, [after 21 July] 411
Notes on the Account with Richard Harvie & Company, 22 July 413
From John Breckinridge, 25 July 417
From Robert Pollard, 25 July 418
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 July 419
To Archibald Stuart, 26 July 419
From John Barnes, enclosing Account, 28 July 420
From Tench Coxe, 30 July 421
From Christoph Daniel Ebeling, enclosing Note on Sources, 30 July 423
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 July 429
To William Champe Carter, 3 August 430
To James Madison, 3 August 430
To Robert Pollard, 3 August 431
List of Groceries for Gamble & Temple, [6 August?] 431
From James Madison, 6 August 432
From Robert Pollard, 9 August 434
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 August 434
To John Barnes, 12 August 436
To Joseph Donath, 12 August 436
Notes for Account with John Barnes, [after 12 August] 437
To Robert Pollard, 12 August 438
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 18 August 438
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 August 439
To Mann Page, 30 August 440
From Anthony Gerna, 2 September 441
From William Short, 2 September 442
To John Wayles Eppes, 3 September 446
From William Short, 3 September 446
From Robert Brooke, 4 September 447
To James Monroe, 6 September 448
To Madame de Tesse, 6 September 451
To Jean Antoine Gautier, 7 September 452
To Angelica Schuyler Church, 8 September 454
To Maria Cosway, 8 September 455
To Philip Mazzei, 8 September 456
To Thomas Pinckney, 8 September 457
From Pierre Auguste Adet, 9 September 458
To Caleb Lownes, 9 September 459
Notes on St. George Tucker's Measurements of the Natural Bridge, 9 September 460
To Tench Coxe, 10 September 460
From Grand & Cie., 11 September 461
To Charles Lilburne Lewis, 11 September 462To George Washington, 12 September 463
To John Craig Millar, 13 September 465
To Henry Tazewell, 13 September 466
To John Barnes, 14 September 466
To Sampson Crosby, 15 September 467
To St. George Tucker,15 September 468
To Joseph Donath,16 September 469
From Rodolph Vall Travers, 16 September 469
Inquest on Shadwell Mill, 18 September 471
To James Madison, 21 September 475
From John Carr, 22 September 477
To Eliza House Trist, 23 September 478
To Bushrod Washington, 23 September 479
Bill in Chancery on the Henderson Milldam, [24 September] 480
From Richard Harrison, 28 September 485
To William Alexander, 29 September 487
From William Short, 30 September 487
To Bushrod Washington, 1 October 497
From George Washington, 4 October 498
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October 500
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October 501
From Edward Rutledge, 12 October 502
To Pierre Auguste Adet,14 October 503
From Antonia Carmichael, 14 October 5 04,
To Marc Auguste Pictet, 14 October 505
Notes on the Letter of Christoph Daniel Ebeling, [after 15 October] 506
From James Madison, 18 October 510
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 October 512
From James Blake, 20 October 513
To James Brown, 20 October 513
From James Lyle, 23 October 514
To James Lyle, 28 October 514
From William Branch Giles, 29 October 515
From Tench Coxe, 30 October 516
From Louis of Parma, 2 November 517
From Bushrod Washington, 2 November 518
From James Lyle, 3 November 519
To the Heirs of Bennett Henderson, 7 November 520
To James Lyle, 8 November 521
From James Madison, 8 November 521
To Madame de Kersaint, 9 November 522
To James Lyle, 12 November 522
To Richard Harrison, 13 November 523
From Volney, with Postscript by Thomas Lee Shippen, 13 November 525
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 November 527
From James Monroe, 18 November 527
From James Lyle, 19 November 534
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 November 534
To James Lyle, 25 November 536
To Thomas Mann Randolph, enclosing State of the Case for the Virginia Land Office, 25 November 537
To James Madison, 26 November 539
From Richard Harrison, 28 November 541
To Edward Rutledge, 30 November 541
To James Madison, 3 December 542
From Maria Cosway, 4 December 543
From James Madison, 6 December 544
From James Blake, 8 December 545
From William Branch Giles, 9 December 545
To Thomas Lee Shippen, 9 December 548
From Sir Peyton Skipwith, 9 December 549
To Volney, 9 December 550
To John Barnes, 11 December 552
To Bowling Clark, 12 December 553
To Richard Stith, 12 December 553
From James Madison, 13 December 554
From William Branch Giles, 15 December 555
To Henry Remsen, 17 December 557
From William Branch Giles, 20 December 558
To Sir Peyton Skipwith, 24 December 560
To Benjamin Franklin Bache, 26 December 560
To Sampson Crosby, [26] December 561
From James Madison, 27 December 562
Notes on Edmund Randolph's Vindication, [after 29 December] 563
To William Branch Giles, 31 December 565
Notes of a Conversation with Edmund Randolph, [after 1795] 568
1796
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, l January 569
From George Wythe,1 January 569
From James Hopkins, 2 January 570
To J. P P Derieux, 3 January 572
To Archibald Stuart, 3 January 572
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 5 January 574
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 January 574
From James Madison, 10 January 576
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 January 579
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 January 581
To George Wythe, 12 January 581
To George Wythe, 16 January 582
To George Wythe, enclosing Statement of the Laws of Virginia, 16 January 583
To John Barnes, 17 January 591
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 18 January 592
To John Barnes, 24 January 593
From Jonathan Williams, 24 January, enclosing Extract from Meteorological Journal, 1791, and
Height of Virginia Mountains by Barometrical Measurement 594
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 25 January 599
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 27 January 599
From John Adams, 31 January 600
From James Madison, 31 January 600
To Philip Mazzei, 31 January 603
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 January 604
Deed of Manumission for James Hemings, 5 February 605
From James Madison, 7 February 606
To Thomas Mann Randolph, [7 February] 607
To John Barnes, 14 February 609
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 February 609
James Hemings's Inventory of Kitchen Utensils at Monticello, [20 February] 610
To John Barnes, enclosing Power of Attorney, 21 February 611
To James Madison, 21 February 612
From James Madison, 21 February 613
To John Harvie, Jr., 22 February 614
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February 616
To Archibald Stuart, 22 February 617
To John Adams, 28 February 618
To John Barnes, 28 February 620
To Tobias Lear, 28 February 620
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 28 February 621
To James Blake, 29 February 622
To Sampson Crosby, 29 February 622
From John Harvie, Jr., 29 February 623
From James Madison, 29 February 623
To Robert Pollard, 29 February 624
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 February 625
INDEX 627