Authors: Thomas Jefferson

1764–1787

Excerpts from Founding Documents

Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one

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1787–1789

Notes on the State of Virginia: Query 4

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 25–30. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/913d. Query 4: A Notice of the Mountains? For the particular geography of our mountains I must refer to

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