The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 37

4 March to 30 June 1802
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-691-15001-7
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 844 Seiten, Format (B × H): 244 mm x 169 mm, Gewicht: 1358 g

Reihe: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

This volume opens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the nation's third president, and closes on 30 June. In March, a delegation of Seneca Indians comes to Washington to discuss their tribe's concerns, and Jefferson names a commissioner to handle a land sale by Oneida Indians to the state of New York. In April, the Senate ratifies a treaty with the Choctaw nation for a wagon road across their lands. Jefferson worries about an increasingly dictatorial France taking back control of New Orleans, prompting him to the intemperate remark that he would "marry" America's fortunes to the British fleet. Charles Willson Peale sends him sketches of the skull of a prehistoric bison found in Kentucky. During the closing, and very frustrating, weeks of Congress, he distracts himself with a cipher devised by Robert Patterson. He prepares lists of books to be purchased for the recently established Library of Congress and also obtains many titles for his own collection. Even while he is in Washington occupied with matters of state, Jefferson has been keeping close watch on the renovations at Monticello. In May, he has Antonio Giannini plant several varieties of grapes in the southwest vineyard, and he orders groceries, molasses, dry Lisbon wine, and cider to be shipped to Monticello in time for his arrival. He looks forward "with impatience" to the moment he can embrace his family once more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jefferson, Thomas

Oberg, Barbara B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vii
Editorial Method and Apparatus xvii
Illustrations xlvii
Jefferson Chronology 2
1802
From William C. C. Claiborne, 4 March 3
From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 4 March 5
From Anonymous, [before 5 March] 6
To Henry Dearborn, [5 March] 7
From Henry Dearborn, 5 March 9
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson's Reply, [on or after 5 March] 10
From John Hughes, 5 March 11
To Samuel Smith, 5 March 12
To Henry Voigt, 5 March 13
From Simon Chaudron and John James Barralet, 6 March 13
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 March 14
From Abishai Thomas, 6 March 16
From Elizabeth House Trist, 6 March 16
From John Archer, 7 March 18
From Abraham Baldwin, 7 March 19
To William C. C. Claiborne, 7 March 19
To Anne Cary Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, and Ellen Wayles Randolph, 7 March 20
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 8 March 21
From James Walter, 8 March 22
Memorandum from Albert Gallatin on Nominations, [9 March] 23
To the Senate, 9 March 23
From Robert Smith, 9 March 24
From Samuel Smith, [9 March] 25
From Tench Coxe, [before 10 March] 25
From "A Lover of his Country," 10 March 27
Conference with Handsome Lake, Cornplanter, and Blue Eyes 29
I. Address of Handsome Lake, [10 March] 33
II. Henry Dearborn's Reply, 13 March 35
III. Address of Handsome Lake, [15 March] 36
IV. Address of Cornplanter, [15 March] 38
V. Address of Handsome Lake, [15 March] 39
VI. Address of Blue Eyes, [15 March] 39
VII. Henry Dearborn's Reply to Handsome Lake,
Cornplanter, and Blue Eyes, 17 March 40
VIII. Confirmation of Title to the Seneca and Onondaga Indians, 17 March 42
From John Dickinson, 10 March 43
From Christopher Ellery, 10 March 44
From Andrew Ellicott, 10 March 45
From George Jefferson, 10 March 47
From Charles Le Brun, 10 March 47
From Charles McLaughlin, 10 March 50
To John Minor, 10 March 50
To the Senate, 10 March 51
To the Senate, 10 March 52
Sentence in the Court-Martial of John Spence 54
I. Henry Dearborn's Preliminary Draft, [10 March] 55
II. Henry Dearborn's Second Draft, with Jeffersons Revisions, [20 April] 56
From John Trumbull, 10 March 57
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 March 61
From John Wayles Eppes, 11 March 61
From Pierre Charles L'Enfant, 12 March 62
Account with Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 12 March 64
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 64
From Benjamin Rush, 12 March 68
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 13 March 69
From David Fergusson, 13 March 70
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 March 71
From Robert Smith, 13 March 71
To Pierre Charles L'Enfant, 14 March 72
From John Thomson Mason, 14 March 72
From James Monroe, 14 March 73
From Susannah Santoran, 14 March 74
From William Barnwell, 15 March 75
From William Barton, 15 March 75
From Elizabeth Chester, 15 March 76
From Anthony S. Gadbury, 15 March 77
From Caesar A. Rodney, 15 March 78
To George Jefferson, 16 March 79
To Robert R. Livingston, 16 March 79
From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 16 March 80
From John Thomson Mason, 17 March 81
From John Minor, 17 March 81
From Thomas Paine, 17 March 82
From John Beckley, 18 March 85
To Benjamin Rush, 18 March 86
To James Dinsmore, 19 March 86
From George Jefferson, 19 March 87
From Philip Myer, 19 March 88
To James Walter, 19 March 89
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 March 90
From David Austin, 20 March 91
From Tench Coxe, 20 March 92
From William R. Davie, 20 March 93
From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 20 March 94
From Anthony S. Gadbury, 20 March 95
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 March 95
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 March 97
To Elizabeth House Trist, 20 March 98
To Robert Bailey, 21 March 100
From James Monroe, 21 March 100
To Gouverneur Morris, 21 March 101
From Gouverneur Morris, 21 March 101
Description of a Wheel Cipher, [before 22 March] 102
To Robert Patterson, 22 March 107
From Stephen Sayre, 22 March 109
From William Vallance, 22 March 111
To Caspar Wistar, 22 Mar

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara B. Oberg, senior research scholar and lecturer with the rank of professor at Princeton University, is general editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.