The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2
Jefferson, Thomas / Boyd, Julian P.
Apart from lawmaking, the volume contains the records of Jefferson's activities as county lieutenant, concerned with local defense and the treatment of British sympathizers, as an amateur of science, corresponding with Rittenhouse and other learned men in Europe and America, as a protector and friend of Burgoyne's army intervened at Charlottesville, as a farmer and gardener, and as a book collector.