Documents by Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Source: The Declaration as Adopted by Congress, [6 July 1775], Founders Online, National Archives). https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0113-0005 IF IT…
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Source: [Thomas Jefferson,] A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Set Forth in…
Draft of The Declaration of Independence
Source: H. A. Washington, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Taylor…
Notes on the State of Virginia
Source: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 270–75. https://archive.org/details/notesonstateofvi1787jeff/page/270…
Letter to John Holmes
Source: Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes. -04-22, 1820. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib023795/. I…
Letter to the New Jersey Legislature
Source: From Thomas Jefferson to New Jersey Legislature, 10 December 1807, Founders Online, National Archives,…
The Jefferson-Madison Exchange
Source: Gordon Lloyd and Margie Lloyd, eds., The Essential Bill of Rights (Lanham, Maryland: University…
Notes on the State of Virginia: Queries 18 & 19
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia ([1781-82]; London: John Stockdale, 1787), 270-75. Query…
Letter to Phillip Mazzei
My Dear Friend, Your letter of Oct. 26. 1795. is just received and gives me…
Letter to Reverend Samuel Miller
I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for…
Excerpts from Founding Documents on Religion
Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united…
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query IV: A Notice of the Mountains?
For the particular geography of our mountains I must refer to Fry and Jefferson’s map…
Letter to Justice William Johnson
DEAR SIR, -- Our correspondence is of that accommodating character, which admits of suspension at…
Letter to William Branch Giles
Dear Sir I wrote you a letter yesterday of which you will be free to…
Letter to George Washington
Dear Sir I received on the 2d. inst the letter of Aug. 23. which you did…
Letter to George Washington
Dear Sir I have determined to make the subject of a letter, what, for some…
Letter to James Madison
The idea of separating the executive business of the confederacy from Congress, as the judiciary…
Letter to James Madison
Source: To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1787 (Founders Online), https://goo.gl/ZaJfSg. For ease…
Extract from the Report to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund
A resolution was moved and agreed to in the following words: Whereas, it is the…
Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry
My Dear Sir, Your favor of Nov. 12 was safely delivered to me by Mr.…
Letter to John Taylor
I now inclose you Mr. Martin’s patent. A patent had actually been made out on…
Thomas Jefferson to George Mason
DEAR SIR, I am to make you my acknowledgments for your favor of Jan. 10,…
George Mason’s Account of Certain Proceedings in Convention
The constn as agreed to till a fortnight before the convention rose was such a…
Letter To Nathaniel Burwell
Dear Sir, — Your letter of February 17th found me suffering under an attack of…
Letter to Maria Cosway
My Head, My Heart In the spring of 1786, while serving as the US minister to…
Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany
Sir,-In answer to your inquiry as to the merits of Gillies' translation of the Politics…
Letter to Wilson Carey Nicholas
DEAR SIR,— Your favor of the 3d was delivered me at court; but we were…
Letter to Judge Spencer Roane
DEAR SIR,—I had read in the Enquirer, and with great approbation, the pieces signed Hampden,…
Letter to James Barbour
TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR. JAMES BARBOUR DEAR SIR, — Your favor of the 14th has…
Letter to Cabell
TO GOVERNOR WILLIAM H. CABELL. WASHINGTON, July 8, 1807.SIR,—You will have received from the Secretary…
Letter to Joseph Priestley
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN DEAR SIR,-- I learnt some time ago that you were…
Statute of Religious Liberty
I. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it…
Bill for Abolition of Entails
[B] Bill for Abolition of Entails, 11-12 August 1776On the 12th, I obtained leave to…
Letter to Elias Shipman and Others
Source: From Thomas Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants, 12 July 1801, Founders Online, National…
Letter to John B. Colvin
Source: Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, 20 September 1810, Founders Online, National Archives, https://goo.gl/RkC7ak.…
Letter to John C. Breckinridge
DEAR SIR, The enclosed letter, tho’ directed to you, was intended to me also, and…
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams
DEAR SIR--Since your favor of July 10. mine have been of July 17. 23 and…
Letter to Alexander Donald
DEAR SIR-- I received duly your friendly letter of November the 12th. By this time,…
Notes on the State of Virginia Query VI – Excerpt
Notes on the State of Virginia Query VI ...Near the eastern foot of the North…
Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law
Dear Sir,—The copy of your Second Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses, with the letter accompanying it,…
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams
Dear Sir-According to the reservation between us, of taking up one of the subjects of…
State of the Union Address (1808)
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: It would have been a…
State of the Union Address (1807)
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Circumstances, fellow citizens, which seriously…
State of the Union Address (1806)
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: It would have given me,…
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