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[ William Lee Miller, who has made a special study of the role of
religion in the nation's founding, summarized the conclusion of that
study in these striking words:
    Did "religious freedom" for Jefferson and Madison extend to
atheists? Yes. To agnostics, unbelievers, and pagans? Yes. To heretics
and blasphemers and the sacrilegious? Yes. To "the Jew and the Gentile,
the Christian and the Mohametan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every
denomination?" Yes. To Papists? Yes. To "irreligion"? Yes. To people who
want freedom from religion? Yes. To people who want freedom against
religion? Yes.(9)
(9) William Lee Miller, "The Ghost of freedoms Past," in The Washington
Post National Weekly Edition (13 October 1986), p. 23. ]
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This could be viewed as a very short summation of freedom of and freedom
from religion

Convinced that religious liberty must, most assuredly, be built into the
structural frame of the new [state] government, Jefferson proposed this
language [for the new Virginia constitution]: "All persons shall have full
and free liberty of  religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to
frequent or maintain any religious institution": freedom for religion, but
also freedom from religion. (Edwin S. Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers:
Religion and the New Nation, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987, p. 38.
Jefferson proposed his language in 1776.)

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                JEFFERSON
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"I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be;
sincerely attached to his doctrines"
Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
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"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of
Jesus."
Jefferson to Charles Thomson, January 9, 1816
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"I am, therefore, of his theology" ["his" referring to "that sublime
reformer of the Jewish religion"]
Jefferson to Ezra Stiles, June 25, 1819
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Insofar as a Christian is defined as a disciple of Jesus Christ, Jefferson
owned that designation frequently:
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"Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under
my observation, none appear so pure as that of Jesus."
Jefferson to William Canby, Sept. 18, 1813
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"the greatest of all the reformers of the depraved religion of his own
country, was Jesus of Nazareth... a system of the most sublime morality
which has ever fallen from the lips of man."
Jefferson to William Short, Oct. 31, 1819
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"his [Jesus'] doctrines... composed the most beautiful morsel of morality
which has been given to us by man."
Jefferson to William Short, April 13, 1820
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"I concur with the author in considering the moral precepts of Jesus as
more pure, correct, and sublime than those of the ancient philosophers...
the morality of Jesus, as taught by himself, and freed from the corruptions
of later times, is far superior."
Jefferson to E. Dowse, April 19, 1803
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"I place him among the greatest reformers of morals that have ever existed"
Jefferson to Charles Clay, Jan. 29, 1815
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"[in the New Testament] the world will at length see the immortal merit of
this first of human sages."
Jefferson to F.A. Van Der Kemp, April 25, 1816
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I could care less about what some people say or think.

Jefferson was not a atheist.
In his own particular way he was quite religious.

If that is the case, what is the point of your reply?

BTW, Jefferson would have qualified as a deist far more in his early life
than in his later life.

At no point beyond perhaps his teen years, if even then, would he have
qualified as a "orthodox Christian" as that term was used and understood in
his day.

He was raised in the belief of the Church of England, he basically rejected
that and what followed would have qualified him as a Deist. (it must be
understood that American Deism was not exactly the same and those forms one
might  encounter in Europe. Though several scholars have stated that
Jefferson probably was more in liner with the European forms that were most
Americans, even he wasn't totally in harmony with them)

IN the late 1790s and into the early 1800s Jefferson moved more in line
with that brand of Unitarianism that was written about and taught by J
Priestily, though he didn't totally embrace those teaching either.

As he once wrote, he was a sect of one. he had his own unique beliefs.

Ahhhh, many Deists did not buy into the clockmaker thinking.
To be sure, there was forms of deism that stated that God make the
universe , etc, etc, etc, and then stepped back and allowed it to run and
function according to the universal laws that s/he/it, had incorporated
into the creation.  But that was not the thinking of all forms of deism.

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Jefferson would not qualify as a "Christian"
according to the standards of his day as exhibited in the various religious
tests and oaths required.

Notice how he qualifies:

Jefferson to Charles Thomson (1/9/1816).

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the
genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in
which
he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference
to
all others"

Jefferson to Rush (4/21/1803)
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"A change from what? the priests indeed have heretofore thought proper to
ascribe to me religious, or rather anti-religious sentiments, of their own
fabric, but such as soothed their resentments against the act of Virginia
for establishing religious freedom. they wished him to be
thought atheist, deist, or devil, who could advocate freedom from their
religious dictations."
"I never told my own religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never
attempted to make a
convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have ever judged of the
religion of others by their lives, and by this test, my dear Madam, I have
been satisfied yours must be an excellent one, to have produced a life of
such exemplary virtue and correctness."
"But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a
declared assent to all their
interested absurdities, My opinion is that there would never have been an
infidel, if there had never been a priest."
To Mrs. M. Harrison Smith, August 6, 1816.
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         ... If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief
that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It
is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same
evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to wit: their own
affirmations, and their  reasonings  in support of them. I have observed,
indeed, generally, that while in Protestant countries the defections from
the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries
they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D'Holbach, Condorcet, are known
to have been among the most virtuous of  men. Their virtue, then, must have
had some other foundation than love of God. (Thomas Jefferson, letter to
Thomas Law, June 13, 1814.
ME 14:138
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                  ... If we did a good act merely from the love of God and
a belief that it is
                  pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the
Atheist? It is idle to say, as
                  some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same
evidence of the fact as
                  of most of those we act on, to wit: their own
affirmations, and their reasonings
                  in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally,
that while in Protestant
                  countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity
of the priests is to
                  Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism.
Diderot, D'Alembert,
                  D'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the
most virtuous of
                  men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other
foundation than love of
                  God. (Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Law, June 13,
1814. From
                  Adrienne Koch, ed., The American Enlightenment: The
Shaping of the
                  American Experiment and a Free Society, New York: George
Braziller, 1965,
                  p. 358.)
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http://www.soncom.com/psonnek/quotes.html

"If not an absolute atheist, he had no belief in a future existence. All
his ideas of obligation or
retribution were bounded by the present life."
               [President John Quincy Adams on Thomas Jefferson, 1831]

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    Jefferson thought that Jesus was the greatest teacher of moral
philosophy (superior to the Greek philosophers); but he felt that all
the descriptions of Jesus's miracles, of his virgin birth, of his
divinity: was ignorant nonsense.
The 'Jefferson Bible' reflects this belief.

From,
"The Writings of Thomas Jefferson" , published by G. P. Putnam's Sons,
in 1894.:

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the
Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed
with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

  "...If we could believe that he (Jesus) really countenanced the
follies, the falsehoods, and  the charlatanisms which his biographers
(Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) father on him,  and admit the
misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of
the early, and the fanatics of the latter, ages, the conclusion would
be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an imposter."

From,
 a letter from Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush:

".... They are the result of a life of inquiry & reflection, and very
different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who
know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am
indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am
a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely
attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to
himself every human excellence; & **believing he never claimed any
other.**.."
(Emphasis is mine)
"... Like Socrates & Epictetus, he (Jesus)  wrote nothing himself.
 But he had not, like them, a Xenophon or an Arrian to write for him.
On the contrary, all the learned of his country, entrenched in its
power and riches, were opposed to him, lest his labors
should undermine their advantages; and the committing to writing his
life & doctrines fell on the most unlettered & ignorant men; who
wrote, too, from memory, & not till long after the transactions had
passed.
According to the ordinary fate of those who attempt to enlighten and
reform mankind, he (Jesus) fell  an early victim to the jealousy &
combination of the altar and the throne, at about 33. years of age,
his reason having not yet attained the maximum of its energy, nor the
course of his preaching,  which was but of 3. years at most, presented
occasions for developing a complete system of morals.
     Hence the doctrines which he really delivered were defective as a
whole, and fragments only  of what he did deliver have come to us
mutilated, misstated, & often unintelligible.
    They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of
schismatising followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating
& perverting the simple doctrines he taught by engrafting on
them the mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into
subtleties, & obscuring them with  jargon, until they have caused good
men to reject the whole in disgust, & to view Jesus himself as
an impostor.
            Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is
presented to us, which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of
the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime
that has ever been taught by man... "
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Jefferson claimed to be a Christian, but he did qualify that comment:

In a letter to Dr. Rush, April 23, 1803, Jefferson outlines his views
on the comparative merits of Christianity in syllabus form, stimulated
by Dr. Priestley's treatise of "Socrates and Jesus Compared.":

APRIL 21, 1803

             TO DOCTOR BENJAMIN RUSH

                           Washington, April 21, 1803

 DEAR SIR,In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings
of 1798-99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis
through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was
sometimes our topic; and I then promised you, that one day or other, I
would give you my views of it. They are the result of a life of inquiry and
reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to
me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of
Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of
Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any
one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all
others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never
claimed any other. At the short interval since these conversations, when I
could justifiably abstract my mind from public affairs, the subject has
been under my contemplation. But the more I considered it, the more it
expanded beyond the measure of either my time or information. In the moment
of my late departure from Monticello, I received from Dr. Priestley, his
little treatise of "Socrates and Jesus Compared." This being a section
of the general view I had taken of the field, it became a subject of
reflection while on the road, and unoccupied otherwise. The result was, to
arrange in my mind a syllabus, or outline of such an estimate of the
comparative merits of Christianity, as I wished to see executed by some one
of more leisure and information for the task, than myself. This I now send
you, as the only discharge of my promise I can probably ever execute. And
in confiding it to you, I know it will not be exposed to the malignant
perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new
misrepresentations and calumnies. I am moreover averse to the communication
of my religious tenets to the public; because it would countenance the
presumption of those who have endeavored to draw them before that tribunal,
and to seduce public opinion to erect itself into that inquisition over the
rights of conscience, which the laws have so justly proscribed. It behooves
every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions
of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances,
become his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example
of concession, betraying the common right of independent opinion, by
answering questions of faith, which the laws have left between God and
himself.
Accept my affectionate salutations.

[WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE ENTIRE SYLLABUS]
   Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus, compared
with those of others

 In a comparative view of the Ethics of the enlightened nations of
antiquity, of the Jews and of Jesus, no notice should be taken of the
corruptions of reason among the ancients, to wit, the idolatry and
superstition of the vulgar, nor of the corruptions of Christianity by
the learned among its professors.

 Let a just view be taken of the moral principles inculcated by the most
esteemed of the sects of ancient philosophy, or of their individuals;
particularly Pythagoras, Socrates, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca,
Antoninus.

 I. Philosophers. 1. Their precepts related chiefly to ourselves, and the
government of those passions which, unrestrained, would disturb our
tranquillity of mind.(1) In this branch of philosophy they were really
great.

 2. In developing our duties to others, they were short and defective. They
embraced, indeed, the circle of kindred and friends, and inculcated
patriotism, or the love of our country in the aggregate, as a primary
obligation: towards our neighbors and countrymen they taught justice, but
scarcely viewed them as within the circle of benevolence Still less have
they inculcated peace, charity and love to our fellow men, or embraced with
benevolence the whole family of mankind.

 II. Jews. 1. Their system was Deism; that is, the belief in one only God.
But their ideas of him and of his attributes were degrading and injurious.

 2. Their Ethics were not only imperfect, but often irreconcilable with the
sound dictates of reason and morality, as they respect intercourse with
those around us; and repulsive and anti-social, as respecting other
nations. They needed reformation, therefore, in an eminent degree.

 III. Jesus. In this state of things among the Jews, Jesus appeared. His
parentage was obscure; his condition poor; his education null; his natural
endowments great; his life correct and innocent: he was meek, benevolent,
patient, firm, disinterested, and of the sublimest eloquence. The
disadvantages under which his doctrines appear are remarkable.

1. Like Socrates and Epictetus, he wrote nothing himself.

 2. But he had not, like them, a Xenophon or an Arrian to write for him. I
name not Plate, who only used the name of Socrates to cover the whimsies of
his own brain. On the contrary, all the learned of his country, entrenched
in its power and riches, were opposed to him, lest his labors should
undermine their advantages; and the committing to writing his life and
doctrines fell on unlettered and ignorant men; who wrote, too, from memory,
and not till long after the transactions had passed.

 3. According to the ordinary fate of those who attempt to enlighten and
reform mankind, he fell an early victim to the jealousy and combination of
the altar and the throne, at about thirty-three years of age, his reason
having not yet attained the maximum of its energy, nor the course of his
preaching, which was but of three years at most, presented occasions for
developing a complete system of morals.

 4. Hence the doctrines which he really delivered were defective as a
whole, and fragments only of what he did deliver have come to us mutilated,
misstated, and often unintelligible.

 5. They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of
schismatizing followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and
perverting the simple doctrines he taught, by engrafting on them the
mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties, and
obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to reject the
whole in disgust, and to view Jesus himself as an impostor.

 Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented to
us, which, if filled up in the style and spirit of the rich fragments he
left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by
man.

 The question of his being a member of the Godhead, or in direct
communication with it, claimed for him by some of his followers, and denied
by others, is foreign to the present view, which is merely an estimate of
the intrinsic merits of his doctrines.

 1. He corrected the Deism of the Jews, confirming them in their belief of
one only God, and giving them juster notions of his attributes and
government.

 2. His moral doctrines, relating to kindred and friends, were more pure
and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers, and greatly
more so than those of the Jews; and they went far beyond both in
inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to
neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one
family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants and common
aids. A development of this head will evince the
peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others.

 3. The precepts of philosophy, and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of
actions only. He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his
tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the
fountain head.

 4. He taught, emphatically, the doctrines of a future state, which was
either doubted, or disbelieved by the Jews; and wielded it with efficacy,
as an important incentive, supplementary to the other motives to moral
conduct.
FOOTNOTE:
(1).To explain, I will exhibit the heads of Seneca's and Cicero's
philosophical works, the most extensive of any we have received from the
ancients. Of ten heads in Seneca, seven relate to ourselves, viz. de ira,
consolatio, de tranquilitate, de constantia sapien tis, de otio sapientis,
de vita beata, de brevitate vitae; two relate to others, de clementia, de
beneficiis; and one relates to the government of the world, de providentia.
Of eleven tracts of Cicero, five respect ourselves, viz. de finibus,
TuscllIana, academica, paradoxa, de Senectute; one, de officiis, relates
partly to ourselves, partly to others; one, de amicitia, relates to others;
and four are on different subjects, to wit, de natura deorum, de
divinatione, de fato, and somnium Scipionis. [Jefferson's footnote.]
Selected writings Koch  pp 519-21
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        You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as
far as I know.   I am not a Jew, and therefore do not adopt their theology,
which supposes the God of infinite justice to punish the sins of the
fathers upon their children, unto the third and fourth generations; and the
benevolent and sublime reformer of that religion (Jesus of Nazareth) has
told us only that God is good and perfect, but has not defined him. To Ezra
Stiles (President of Yale), TJ to Stiles --- 25 June 1819 --- Bergh 15:203
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        As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurian. I consider the
genuine (not the  imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything
rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. -Thomas
Jefferson, letter to William Short, Oct. 31, 1819  Bergh 15:219-22
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        But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his
own country, was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the
rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the
dress of his biographers, and as separable from that as the diamond from
the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality
which has ever fallen from the lips of man .., The establishment of the
innocent and genuine character of this benevolent morality, and the
rescuing it from the  imputation of impostore, which has resulted from
artificial systems, invented by ultra Christian sects* ...is a most
desirable object.* Jefferson's footnote: "The immaculate conception of
Jesus, his deification, the creation  of the world by him, his miraculous
powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in
the Eucharist, the Trinity; original sin, atonement, regeneration,
election. orders of the Hierarchy, etc. -T. J."
 To Short, October 31, 1819.            
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl259.htm
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 Table of Contents

 DATE    To/from    Page

1763 - July 15.   John Page        1
1786 - August 13.   George Wythe       2
1786 - August 20.   Comte De Mirabeau       4
1786 - Decenber 17.   Charles Thompson       5
1787 - July 23.   Mrs. John Bolling       6
1787 - August 10.   Peter Carr        7
1788 - February 2.   William Rutledge     10
1788 - July 31.   James Madison     11
1789 - January 8.   Dr. Price      13
1789 - June 18.   James Madison     15
1789 - March 13.   Francis Hopkinson     17
1789 - June 18.   James Madison     18
1794 - May 1.    Trench Coxe      20
1798 - March 2.   James Madison     21
1798 - March 29.   James Madison     21
1799 - January 26.   Elbridge Gerry     22
1800 - January 27.   Joseph Priestley     26
1800 - January 31.   Bishop James Madison    27
1800 - May 26.   Peter Carr      28
1800 - August 13.   Uriah Mcgregory     29
1800 - May 26.   James Monroe     30
1800 - August 14.   Jeremiah Moor     31
1800 - September 23.   Benjamin Rush     32
1801 - January 10.   Dr. Hugh Williamson     34
1801 - March 6.   John Dickinson     35
1801 - March 21.   Joseph Priestley     36
1801 - March 23.   Moses Robinson     37
1801 - March 29.   Elbridge Gerry     38
1801 - May 3.    Gideon Granger     39
1801 - July 21.   Pierpont Edwards     40
1801 - August 26.   Levi Lincoln      41
1801 - December 5.   Rev. Issac Story     42
1802 - January 1.   Levi Lincoln      43
1802 - January 1.   Danbury Baptist     43
 1802 - June 19.   Joseph Priestley     44
1803 - April 9.   Joseph Priestley     46
1803 - April 19.   Edward Dowse     47
1803 - April 21.   Benjamin Rush     48
1803 - April 23.   Benjamin Rush     51
1803 - May 20.   Gideon Granger     52
1804 - January 29.   Joseph Priestley     53
1804 - May 21.   Henry Fry      54
1804 - June 17.   Henry Fry      55
1805 - February 8.   C.F.C. De Volney     56
1807 - February 11.   Thomas Seymour     58
1807 - July 9.    Thomas Cooper     59
1807 - November 18.   Capt. John Thomas     59
1808 - January 23.   Rev. Samuel Miller     60
1808 - October 17.   Baltimore Baptist     61
1808 - October 18.   Ketocton Baptist     62
1808 - November 21.   Six Baptists Assoc.     63
1808 - December 9.   Methodist Episcopal Ch.    64
1809 - January 21.   Thomas Leiper     65
1809 - February 4.   New London Methodist    66
1809 - April 7.   Gov. James Jay     67
1809 - May 19.   John Wyceh      67
1809 - June 13.   Wilson C. Nicholas     68
1809 - September 27.   James Fishback     70
1810 - January 19.   William Baldwin     71
1810 - January 19.   Samuel Kercheval     71
1810 - October 9.   Capt. Isaac Hillard     73
1811 - April 13.   Gen. Thaddeus Kosciusko    73
1811 - April 15.   Dupont De Nemours     74
1811 - May 26.   Anne C. Bankhead     75
1811 - August 4.   James Ogilvie      76
1812 - June 11.   John Adams      77
1912 - December 27.   Dr. Robert Patterson     80
1813 - June 10.   John Adams (from)     80
1813 - June 14.   John Adams (from)     82
1813 - June 15.   John Adams      83
1813 - June 28.   John Adams (from)     84
1813 - July 9.    John Adams (from)     87
1813 - July 14.   Dr. Samuel Brown (from)    89
1813 - July 16.   John Adams      90
1813 - July 18.   John Adams (from)     92
1813 - August 22.   John Adams      93
1813 - September 14.   John Adams (from)     95
1813 - September 18.   William Canby     98
1813 - September 22.   John Adams (from)     99
1813 - October 13.   John Adams    101
1813 - October 28.   John Adams    104
1813 - November 15.   John Adams (from)   107
1813 - December 3.   John Adams (from)   109
 1813 - December 6.   Baron Von Humboldt   112
1813 - December 25.   John Adams (from)   114
1814 - January 24.   John Adams    117
1814 - January 31.   Samuel Greenhow   121
1814 - February ?.   John Adams (from)   122
1814 - February 10.   Thomas Cooper   125
1814 - March 17.   Horato G. Spafford   126
1814 - April 28.   Chev. Luis De Onis   127
1814 - June 13.   ?     128
1814 - July 5.    John Adams    131
1814 - July 16.   John Adams (from)   134
1814 - September 26.   Miles King    137
1815 - January 29.   Charles Clay    138
1815 - March 13.   P.H. Wendover   140
1815 - June 22.   John Adams (from)   142
1815 - August 24.   John Adams (from)   145
1816 - January 9.   Charles Thompson   147
1816 - January 10.   Horato Gates Spafford  148
1816 - January 21.   Thomas Ritchie   150
1816 - February 2.   John Adams (from)   151
1816 - March 2.   John Adams (from)   153
1816 - April 8.   John Adams    155
1816 - April 25.   F.A. Van der Kemp   158
1816 - May 3.    John Adams (from)   159
1816 - May 6.    John Adams (from)   162
1816 - August 1.   John Adams    164
1816 - August 6.   Mrs. M. Harrison Smith  165
1816 - August 9.   John Adams (from)   166
1816 - November 11.   Mathew Carey   168
1816 - November 12.   George Logan    168
1817 - January 11.   John Adams    169
1817 - January 29.   Charles Thompson   170
1817 - March 16.   Francis A. Van der Kemp  171
1817 - May ?.    George Ticknor   172
1817 - May 1.    Francis A. Van der Kemp  173
1817 - May 5.    John Adams    174
1817 - May 14.   Marq. De La Fayette   176
1817 - May 18.   John Adams (from)   177
1817 - May 26.   John Adams (from)   179
1817 - June 16.   Albert Gallatin   180
1818 - February 9.   Francis A. Von der Kemp  182
1818 - April 11.   Albert Gallatin   185
1818 - May 28.   Rabbi Mordecai M. Noah  187
1819 - June 25.   Ezra Styles    187
1819 - October 31.   William Short    188
1820 - March 14.   John Adams    191
1820 - April 13.   William Short    193
1820 - May 16.   Gen. Robert Taylor   195
1820 - August 4.   William Short    197
 1820 - August 14.   Thomas Cooper   200
1820 - August 15.   John Adams    203
1820 - November 4.   Rev. Jared Sparks   206
1821 - January 22.   John Adams    207
1821 - February 22.   Joseph C. Cabell   208
1821 - February 27.   Timothy Pickering   209
1821 - September 24.   John Adams (from)   210
1822 - June 5.    Rev. Thomas Whittemore  211
1822 - June 26.   Benjamin Waterhouse  212
1822 - July 19.   Benjamin Waterhouse  213
1822 - November 2.   Thomas Cooper   214
1822 - December 8.   James Smith    216
1823 - April 11.   John Adams    217
1823 - May 29.   Michael Megear   220
1823 - May 30.   James Cooper    221
1823 - August 15.   John Adams (from)   222
1823 - December 2.   John Fry    224
1823 - December 4.   William Carver   224
1823 - December 11.   Thomas Cooper   225
1824 - January 10.   Thomas Jefferson Grotjan  226
1824 - January 11.   Francis A. Van der Kemp  227
1824 - January 18.   John Davis    228
1824 - February 25.   Isaac Engelbrecht   230
1824 - March 24.   Augustus B. Woodward  230
1824 - June 5.    Maj. John Cartwright   232
1824 - October 15.   Edward Everett   236
1825 - January 8.   Benjamin Waterhouse  238
1825 - February 21.   Thomas Jefferson Smith  239
1825 - January 23.   John Adams (from)   240
1826 - June 24.   Roger C. Weightman   241

 Appendix

An Act for Establishing Elementary Schools     277
Anas, The         283
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, The     243
Doctrines of Jesus        286
Gazzett (Newspaper)        284
Gazzett Report, ** Part of       297
Notes of an Interview by Samuel Wuitcomb     288
Notes on Religion        268
Notes on Virginia        261
Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Life and Morals of Jesus,
(The so-called 'Jefferson Bible')      299
Thoughts on Lotteries       291
To the President and Directors of the Liberary Fund    285
Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?    255
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