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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 37

4 March to 30 June 1802
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2018

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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.

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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.

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    Frontmatter

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    FOREWORD

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS

    xvii
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    CONTENTS

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    ILLUSTRATIONS

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    Jefferson Chronology

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    March 1802

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    April 1802

    156
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    May 1802

    388
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    June 1802

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    Appendix I: List of Appointments, [3-23 June]

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    Appendix II: Bankruptcy Commissions

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    Appendix III: Letters Not Printed in Full

    713
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    Appendix IV: Letters Not Found

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    Appendix V: Financial Documents

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    INDEX

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Legislature; Consideration; Commissioner; Henry Dearborn; President of the United States; Bankruptcy; Albert Gallatin; Payment; Aaron Burr; Republicanism; Meriwether Lewis; DeWitt Clinton; Gazette of the United States; Statute; Jay Treaty; The Papers of James Madison; Handsome Lake; Thomas Jefferson Randolph; Joseph Bonaparte; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; Newspaper; Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours; Salary; Fort Adams; Thomas Law (1756–1834); A Summary View of the Rights of British America; Secretary at War; Thomas Sumter; Arthur St. Clair; Joseph Priestley; Henry Knox; Charles Willson Peale; Presidency of George Washington; I Wish (manhwa); John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General); Postmaster General; Continental Congress; Repeal; John Cleves Symmes; Nathaniel Bowditch; Commentaries on the Laws of England; British North America; Granville Sharp; Rembrandt Peale; American Nations; Act of Congress; Annals (Tacitus); United States Marshals Service; Seneca people; Patent; American National Biography; Statutes at Large; Tobias Lear; Tench Coxe; Insurance Company of North America; James A. Bayard (elder); Thomas Sim Lee; John Drayton; Tories (British political party); Chief magistrate; Gazette; George Clinton (vice president); George W. Bush; Mergenthaler Linotype Company; Laurence Sterne; Andrew Ellicott; Abraham Baldwin; John Trumbull; Pierpont Edwards; Bank of North America
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