Adams,
John
(1735-1826) Delegate to First Continental Congress;
commissioner to France; with Jay and Franklin negotiated Treaty of
Paris ending Revolution; second President of the United States. |
ADAMS,
JOHN
Relationship With |
28
Dec 1796 |
| Adams,
John |
ADAMS,
JOHN
A Personal Thought |
21
Jan 1812 |
Adams,
John
|
ARISTOCRACY
Of Talent
|
28
Oct 1813 |
Adams,
John
|
BONAPARTE,
NAPOLEON
Assessment Of
|
25
Feb 1823 |
Adams,
John
|
BONAPARTE,
NAPOLEON
Exiled
|
5
Jul 1814 |
Adams,
John
|
CONGRESSIONAL
POWERS |
7
Jul 1785 |
| Adams,
John |
EDUCATION
State University of Virginia |
15
Aug 1820 |
| Adams,
John |
EDUCATION
Studying the Classics |
5
Jul 1814 |
| Adams,
John |
EUROPE
Reflections on the 18th Century |
11
Jan 1816 |
| Adams,
John |
EUROPEAN
WARS |
1
Jun 1822 |
Adams,
John
|
FOREIGN
RELATIONS
Britain
Peace |
10
Jun 1815 |
| Adams,
John |
GOVERNMENT
Just |
28
Feb 1796 |
| Adams,
John |
GOVERNMENT
Legislative Branch |
23
Feb 1787 |
| Adams,
John |
HEALTH
|
1
Jun 1822 |
| Adams,
John |
INDIGENOUS
AMERICAN TRIBES
Cherokees |
11
Jun 1812 |
|
Adams, John |
INDIGENOUS
AMERICAN TRIBES
Speculation on Origin |
27
May 1813 |
|
Adams, John |
MORAL
PRINCIPLES
and Religious Belief |
5
May 1817 |
| Adams,
John |
MORAL
PRINCIPLES
and the Law |
15
Jun 1813 |
| Adams,
John |
MORAL
PRINCIPLES
Calvinists |
11
Apr 1823 |
| Adams,
John |
MORAL
PRINCIPLES
Reflections on the Quality of Life |
8
Apr 1816 |
| Adams,
John |
MORAL
PRINCIPLES
Study of |
13
Oct 1813 |
| Adams,
John |
OLD
WORLD CONDITIONS
Prospects for Cause of Liberty |
12
Sep 1821 |
| Adams,
John |
PERSONAL
HABITS |
21
Jan 1812 |
| Adams,
John |
PRESIDENCY
Experience in |
21
Jan 1812 |
| Adams,
John |
RETIREMENT
Desire for |
28
Dec 1796 |
| Adams,
John |
REVOLUTIONS
|
4
Sep 1823 |
| Adams,
John |
ROMAN
EMPIRE
Cicero's Writing |
10
Dec 1819 |
| Adams,
John |
RUSH,
BENJAMIN
Memorial |
27
May 1813 |
| Adams,
John |
UNITY
Missouri Question |
10
Dec 1819 |
| Adams,
John |
UNITY
Spirit of '76 |
27
Jun 1813 |
| Adams,
John |
WEALTH
Production of
Commerce |
21
Jan 1812 |
| Adams,
John |
WEALTH
Production of
Protecting the Nation's Merchant Ships |
10
Jun 1815 |
Adams,
Samuel
(1722-1803) Leader in Massachustetts Assembly and
early leader in call for independence from Britain. He was educated
in the ancient classics and contributed numerous articles to the
newspapers. |
ADAMS,
SAMUEL
Opinion Of |
26
Feb 1800 |
Adams,
Samuel
|
BONAPARTE,
NAPOLEON
Enemy of Republicanism |
26
Feb 1800 |
Adams,
Samuel
|
UNITY
Restored |
29
March 1801 |
Astor,
John Jacob
(1763-1848) German-born; became leader in fur
trade and then a major New York City real estate speculator.
|
COMMERCE
Fur Trade |
13
Apr 1808 |
Austin,
Benjamin
(1752-1820) Jeffersonian political leader in
Boston.
|
BONAPARTE,
NAPOLEON
Enemy of Republicanism
|
9
Feb 1816 |
| Austin,
Benjamin |
WEALTH
Production of
Manufactures |
9
Jan 1816 |
Bancroft,
Edward
(1744-1821) English writer; inventor; diplomatic
spy. |
SLAVERY
Jefferson's Plan to Convert to Free Tenant Farmers |
26
Jan 1788 |
| Bancroft,
Edward |
SLAVERY
Virginia Quaker Efforts to Create Tenant Farmers |
26
Jan 1788 |
Banneker,
Benjamin
(birth-death) African-American; mathematician.
|
AFRICAN-AMERICANS
Improving Conditions of |
-
--- 1791 |
Bannister,
John
(1734-1788) Memberof the Virginia House of
Burgesses and of Congress. |
EDUCATION
European |
15
Oct 1785 |
Barlow,
Joel
(1754-1812) Liberal U.S. statesman; poet, friend of
Thomas Paine; consul for Algiers (1795); minister to France (1811). |
FOREIGN
RELATIONS
European War |
14
Mar 1801 |
| Barlow,
Joel |
UNITY
Political Parties
Dissention in the Cabinet |
24
Jan 1810 |
| Barlow,
Joel |
UNITY
Political Parties
Role of Minority |
3
May 1802 |
Barry,
John
(1745-1803) Officer in the Continental navy.
Captain of the ship Alliance, the only frigate to survive
the war. |
UNITY
Republicanism |
2
Jul 1822 |
Bellini,
Carlo
Professor of modern languages at William and Mary
College; emigrated from Italy to Virginia in 1774; became a friend
of Jefferson. |
EUROPEAN
AFFAIRS |
30
Sep 1785 |
Bidwell,
Barnabas
(birth-death) Northern Republican from
Massachusetts. Fled to Canada to escape prosecution for stealing
public funds. |
STATESMANSHIP
and the Congress |
5
July 1806 |
Blackstone,
William
(1723-1780) English jurist. His Commentaries on
the Laws of England (1765-1769) exerted a strong influence on
British and U.S. jurisprudence. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Blair,
John
(1732-1800) Jurist; delegate to Constitutional
Convention; supported Madison and Jefferson in struggle to frame and
adopt a constitution. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Bowditch,
Nathaniel
(1773-1838) American mathematician and astronomer. |
EDUCATION
State University of Virginia |
26
Oct 1818 |
Breckinridge,
John
(1760-1806) Lawyer; statesman; U.S. senator;
Attorney-Generaly of the U.S. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Brown,
James
(1766-1835) U.S. senator; diplomat; secretary of
territory of New Orleans; minister to France. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Brown,
John
(1757-1837) U.S. senator; outstanding supporter of
the interests of the Western country. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Burke,
Edmund
(1729-1797) British statesman who espoused the
cause of the British colonists in North America. Author of Reflections
on the French Revolution (1790). |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Burr,
Aaron
(1756-1836) Served in the Continental army; lawyer;
U.S. Senator; Vice President of the U.S. during Jefferson's first
administration; killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel (1804); tried
for treason (1807) and acquitted. |
UNITY
Political Parties
Influence of British |
1
Feb 1801 |
Cabell,
Joseph C.
(1778-1856) Principal assistant to Jefferson in
founding the University of Virginia; rector of the university. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Cabell,
Samuel J.
(1756-1818) Soldier in Continental army; lawyer;
congressman; original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Cabell,
William H.
(1772-1853) Governor of Virginia; one of board of
commissioners to select site of the University of Virginia and plan
its organization. |
GOVERNMENT
Local Responsibilities |
2
Feb 1816 |
Carmichael,
William
(d. 1795) Diplomat; secretary to Benjamin Franklin,
Deane, and Lee, when they were commissioners to France. |
CONSTITUTION
United States
Defects |
11
Dec 1787 |
| Carmichael,
William |
CONSTITUTION
United States
Objections To |
27
May 1788 |
| Carmichael,
William |
CONSTITUTION
United States
Presidency |
12
Aug 1788 |
Carmichael,
William
|
FRANCE
Revolution |
8
May 1789 |
| Carmichael,
William |
JONES,
JOHN PAUL |
12
Aug 1788 |
| Carmichael,
William |
MEDICAL
SCIENCE
Criminal Practices |
27
May 1788 |
| Carmichael,
William |
PRESIDENCY
Election of 1789 |
8
May 1789 |
Cartwright,
John
(1740-1824) English political reformer; championed
the cause of the British colonies in North America.
|
BRITAIN
Constitution Of
|
5
Jun 1824 |
| Cartwright,
John |
CONSTITUTION
United States
Amending
|
5
Jun 1824 |
| Cartwright,
John |
HUME,
DAVID
Britain's Constitution |
5
Jun 1824 |
| Cartwright,
John |
HUME,
DAVID
Britain's Constitution |
5
Jun 1824 |
| Cartwright,
John |
PAINE,
THOMAS
Britain's Constitution |
5
Jun 1824 |
Chastellus,
Francois Jean
(Marquis de)
(1734-1788) Served with the French army in
North America; kept a journal for the years 1780-1782. In his book
Voyage dans l-Amerique septentrionale (1786), he describes a
visit to Jefferson at Monticello. An English edition appeared in
1827.
|
AFRICAN
AMERICANS |
7
Jun 1785 |
Chastellus,
Francois Jean
Marquis de) |
INDIGENOUS
AMERICAN TRIBES |
7
Jun 1785 |
Chipman,
Nathaniel
(1752-1843) Jurist; U.S. senator; a federalist. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Claiborne,
William C.
(1775-1817) Governor of the territory of Louisiana
and State of Louisiana after its admission to the Union. |
WESTWARD
EXPANSION
Knoxville to Natchez |
24
May 1803 |
Clark,
George Rogers
(1752-1818) Led campaigns in the Northwest
Territory during the war for independence. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Clay,
Charles
Rector of St. Anne's Parish, in Albermarle County,
Virginia.
|
BURR,
AARON
Imperial Aspirations
|
11
Jan 1807 |
| Clay,
Charles |
MORAL
PRINCIPLES
and Religious Hierarchies |
29
Jan 1815 |
Clinton,
De Witt
(1769-1828) Lawyer; philanthropist; mayor of New
York; sponsor of Erie and Champlain-Hudson canals. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Coke,
Edward
(1552-1634) Lord chief justice of England; author
of Reports and Institutes. |
SUBJECT |
Date
|
Cooper,
Thomas
(1759-1839) Scientist; pamphleteer who wrote
against the Sedition Act. |
FRANCE
Revolution |
29
Nov 1802 |
Cooper,
Thomas
|
BRITAIN
Conditions
|
10
Sep 1814 |
Cooper,
Thomas
|
SLAVERY
of Africans compared to British Seamen |
10
Sep 1814 |
Cooper,
Thomas
|
UNITED
STATES
Conditions in, compared to Britain |
10
Sep 1814 |
Coxe,
Tench
(1755-1824) Political economist; wrote pamphlet,
An Examination of the Constitution for the U.S., supporting
adoption of the Constitution. |
DISARMAMENT
Naval |
21
Sep 1807 |
Coxe,
Tench
|
FOREIGN
RELATIONS
France |
1
May 1794 |
| Coxe,
Tench |
MONTICELLO
Condition |
1
May 1794 |
Currie,
James
(1756-1805) Virginia physician and trader;
advocated abolition of the slave trade. |
subject |
date
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