Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged. Because of text width limitations, the table showing the geographical locations of the Indian confederacies had to be split into three sections. Accents in that table seem to indicate pronunciation. Sidenotes representing original page numbers in "The Batture at New Orleans" have been moved before the paragraph at which they were placed to avoid breaking up the flow of the text. [~c] is used to represent a c with an overbar. The section starting ""Logan's family" has no closing quotation mark. The section starting ""An act of" has no closing quotation mark. Accents in table on page 337 volume 8 seem to indicate pronunciation. The Table of Contents references a Special Message dated Mar. 21, 1804. The corresponding entry itself is dated Mar. 20. Prevôté and vicomté should possibly not have accents. Soree. Ral-bird should possibly be Sora. Rail-bird. bueltas y tortuosidades should possibly be vueltas y tortuosidades. Cypriores should possibly be Cypriéres. Aligators should possibly be Alligators. [Sidenote: 43*] is missing. Part II ends with an unfinished sentence, and an incomplete address. It has been left as printed. The dated sidenote "1778, Sept. 5." is out of order, and may be an error. Text references indicated by (A.), (B.), (3.)...(7.) point to an Appendix to the Notes on Virginia. The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were pointed out by the proofers, and left as printed: Chippewas and Chippawas Muskingum and Muskinghum Rappahanoc, Rappahannoc, Rappahànoc Duponçeau and Duponceau Pawtomac, Potomac, Potomak, Powtomac, Pottawatomies, Powtawatamies, Powtewatamy Monongalia, Monongahela Mississippi, Missisipi Miller, Millar Maudan, Mandan levee and levée THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: BEING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, MESSAGES, ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE. PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE LIBRARY, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, TABLES OF CONTENTS, AND A COPIOUS INDEX TO EACH VOLUME, AS WELL AS A GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE, BY THE EDITOR H. A. WASHINGTON. VOL. VIII. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY RIKER, THORNE & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C.:--TAYLOR & MAURY. 1854.