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Book/Printed MaterialThe records of the Virginia Company of London The records of the Virginia company of London also available in electronic form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Virginia Company of London - Kingsbury, Susan M. (Susan Myra) - Library of Congress
- Date: 1906
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CollectionThomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The papers of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), diplomat, architect, scientist, and third president of the United States, held in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, consist of approximately 27,000 items, making it the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Dating from the early 1760s through his death in 1826, the Thomas Jefferson Papers consist mainly of his correspondence, but they also include...
- Contributor: Jefferson, Thomas
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ArticleThe Thomas Jefferson Papers Timeline: 1743 to 1827 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 This timeline covers the period documented by Jefferson’s own correspondence and other papers. It roughly corresponds with his lifetime, 1743-1826.
- Date: 1743
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Article1743 to 1774 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 April 13, 1743 (April 2, Old Style)* Thomas Jefferson is born at Shadwell plantation in Goochland (later Albemarle) County, Virginia, to Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor, and Jane Randolph, daughter of a prominent Virginia family.
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Article1774 to 1783 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 July 1774 Jefferson drafts instructions for the Virginia delegates to the first Continental Congress. In the draft, Jefferson argues that Parliament has no governing rights over the colonies and asserts that the colonies have been independent since their founding. He describes the usurpations of power and deviations from law committed by King George III as well as by Parliament. Jefferson is not present in...
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Article1784 to 1789 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The Early Republic March 1, 1784 Jefferson submits to Congress his Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory, establishing procedures for the entrance of new states. In it, Jefferson proposes that slavery be abolished in new states by 1800. Congress rejects this part of the plan and passes the revised Ordinance April 23. Jefferson blames Southern representatives for Congress's rejection of...
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Article1790 to 1799 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The Early Republic, 1790-1799 1790 February 23. Jefferson's daughter Martha (Patsy) marries her second cousin Thomas Mann Randolph at Monticello. They live at Edgehill, an estate two miles from Monticello.
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Article1800 to 1809 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The Early Republic, 1800-1809 February 1800 While in Philadelphia, Jefferson learns that his lifelong body servant and slave, Jupiter, has died. Jupiter had fallen ill but insisted on accompanying Jefferson in his travels. Unable to continue, and left in Fredericksburg, Virginia to recuperate, Jupiter had returned home to Monticello, where he died.
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Article1810 to 1827 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The Early Republic, 1810-1827 July 15, 1813 John Adams writes Jefferson that it would be a shame for them to die without having explained themselves to each other. Adams and Jefferson correspond for about three years, during which they review the events of the Revolution and range over a variety of political and philosophical issues. During 1811-12, a mutual friend Dr. Benjamin Rush of...
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ArticleVirginia Records Timeline: 1553 to 1743 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The Library of Congress owns twenty-one manuscript volumes of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Virginia colonial records that were originally part of Jefferson’s personal library. Half of these are in the Manuscript Division with Jefferson’s papers, and the remainder are in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. This timeline covering early Virginia history is meant to illuminate the period documented in these volumes.
- Date: 1553
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Article1553 to 1599 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 1553 The London Company of Merchant Adventurers of England for the Discovery of Lands Unknown is organized. An "adventurer" is a business investor who "ventures" capital. The Company supports Sir Hugh Willoughby and his ship pilot, Richard Chancellor, in their attempt to find a northern sea route from England to Cathay (China) and the Spice Islands (Moluccas). The Company provides a model for future...
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Article1600 to 1609 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 1603 Queen Elizabeth I dies. James I succeeds her.
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Article1610 to 1619 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 1610 Sir Thomas Gates is deputy governor until the arrival of Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, the newly appointed governor of Jamestown.
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Article1620 to 1639 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 1620 January 20. The Virginia Company dissolves the Magazine, a subsidiary company formed to supply the colony, which has fallen into desperate financial straits. Thereafter, free trade prevails in the supply of the colony.
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Article1640 to 1699 - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 1640 The Virginia government at Jamestown passes statutes and codes that differentiate between white indentured servants and blacks in permanent servitude. By the 1680s, permanent servitude has become even more identified with race.
