Authors: Thomas Jefferson

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Cabell (1807)

“From Thomas Jefferson to William H. Cabell, 8 July 1807,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/tq3t. TO GOVERNOR WILLIAM H. CABELL. WASHINGTON, July 8, 1807.SIR,—You will have received from the Secretary at

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Statute of Religious Liberty

“An Act for establishing religious Freedom.” Encyclopedia Virginia, Primary Documents. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/96jb. I. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens,

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Bill for Abolition of Entails

“Jefferson’s Autobiography,” The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/73r6. [B] Bill for Abolition of Entails, 11-12 August 1776 On the 12th, I obtained leave to bring in a bill declaring tenants

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1787–1789

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

“From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 30 August 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0075. From the separation of the Notables1 to the present moment has been perhaps the most interesting interval ever known to

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Notes on the State of Virginia
1764–1787

Notes on the State of Virginia: Query 6

Source: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 45-49. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/het6. Query 6: Productions mineral, vegetable, and animal …Near the eastern foot of the North mountain are immense

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