Lafayette's Visit to Monticello (1824) - Revision history

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	*Downing, Charles. "Reception of General Lafayette in Albemarle." [[Short Title List\|''MACH'']] 24(1965-66): 53-66.		*Downing, Charles. "Reception of General Lafayette in Albemarle." [[Short Title List\|''MACH'']] 24(1965-66): 53-66.
	*"General La Fayette's Visit to Monticello and the University." ''The Virginia University Magazine'' IV no. 3(1859): 113-125.		*"General La Fayette's Visit to Monticello and the University." ''The Virginia University Magazine'' IV no. 3(1859): 113-125.
-	*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson'']], 6:402-408.	+	*Malone, [[Short Title List\|''Jefferson'']], 6:402-408.
		+	*"Reception of Gen. La Fayette." ''Richmond Enquirer'', Nov. 16, 1824.
	*Ward, Robert D. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7908 ''An Account of General La Fayette's Visit to Virginia, in the Years 1824-'25...''.] Richmond, VA: West, Johnston & Co., 1881.		*Ward, Robert D. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7908 ''An Account of General La Fayette's Visit to Virginia, in the Years 1824-'25...''.] Richmond, VA: West, Johnston & Co., 1881.

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	==Further Sources==		==Further Sources==
	*Downing, Charles. "Reception of General Lafayette in Albemarle." [[Short Title List\|''MACH'']] 24(1965-66): 53-66.		*Downing, Charles. "Reception of General Lafayette in Albemarle." [[Short Title List\|''MACH'']] 24(1965-66): 53-66.
-	*"General La Fayette's Visit to Monticello and the University." The Virginia University Magazine IV no. 3(1859): 113-125.	+	*"General La Fayette's Visit to Monticello and the University." ''The Virginia University Magazine'' IV no. 3(1859): 113-125.
	*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson'']], 6:402-408.		*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson'']], 6:402-408.
	*Ward, Robert D. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7908 ''An Account of General La Fayette's Visit to Virginia, in the Years 1824-'25...''.] Richmond, VA: West, Johnston & Co., 1881.		*Ward, Robert D. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7908 ''An Account of General La Fayette's Visit to Virginia, in the Years 1824-'25...''.] Richmond, VA: West, Johnston & Co., 1881.

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		+	*Downing, Charles. "Reception of General Lafayette in Albemarle." [[Short Title List\|''MACH'']] 24(1965-66): 53-66.
		+	*"General La Fayette's Visit to Monticello and the University." The Virginia University Magazine IV no. 3(1859): 113-125.
	*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson'']], 6:402-408.		*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson'']], 6:402-408.
		+	*Ward, Robert D. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7908 ''An Account of General La Fayette's Visit to Virginia, in the Years 1824-'25...''.] Richmond, VA: West, Johnston & Co., 1881.

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	I have received from an unknown hand, a copy of the Pike County Republican, Waverly O., dated Dec. 25 1873. On its fourth page is an article designed I presume by the sender for my inspection, headed "life among the lowly Israel Jefferson." I remember distinctly this person as a slave of Mr. Jefferson, who kept a record by families of the births deaths location &c. of his slaves. This record is now before me in Mr. Js hand writing. Israel is made to say that he recollects distinctly, the departure of Mr. J and family for Washington D.C. when he went		I have received from an unknown hand, a copy of the Pike County Republican, Waverly O., dated Dec. 25 1873. On its fourth page is an article designed I presume by the sender for my inspection, headed "life among the lowly Israel Jefferson." I remember distinctly this person as a slave of Mr. Jefferson, who kept a record by families of the births deaths location &c. of his slaves. This record is now before me in Mr. Js hand writing. Israel is made to say that he recollects distinctly, the departure of Mr. J and family for Washington D.C. when he went
-	to assume the duties of President. Mr. Jefferson left home alone, taking not even a servant with him Dec. 1st. 1800 to preside over the Senate as Vice President where he was March 3 1801. Israel, by the record was born Dec. 28 1800. He is thus made to recollect distinctly events occurring, a month before his birth. He is made to say that he commenced the duties of life as a waiter at Monticello and attendant on Mr. J's person at the commencement of his second term March 1805. He was then at the mature age of four year and his whole family on the list of slaves on the farm leased to Mr. Craven 1801 to 1809. The record Feb. 10 1810 places him on the farm, not on the list of those at Monticello house. He is first, subsequently brought to my notice as a [scullion?]: the cook in chastising him having given him a scratch on the head and on complaining to his Master was turned over to me for examination. He is made to record a conversation occurring half a century before, lying dormant on his mind during that period never before having been known to relate it, between Jefferson and La Fayette. La Fayette according to Israels own admission speaking with an accent that rendered it difficult for him to understand him. This conversation so distinctly heard and remembered for fifty years occurred between these two feeble old men in a rapidly moving coach, Israel the postillion riding the near leader of a four horse team at the time that he is made to say he heard it.	+	to assume the duties of President. Mr. Jefferson left home alone, taking not even a servant with him Dec. 1st. 1800 to preside over the Senate as Vice President where he was March 3 1801. Israel, by the record was born Dec. 28 1800. He is thus made to recollect distinctly events occurring, a month before his birth. He is made to say that he commenced the duties of life as a waiter at Monticello and attendant on Mr. J's person at the commencement of his second term March 1805. He was then at the mature age of four year and his whole family on the list of slaves on the farm leased to Mr. [[John Craven\|Craven]] 1801 to 1809. The record Feb. 10 1810 places him on the farm, not on the list of those at Monticello house. He is first, subsequently brought to my notice as a [scullion?]: the cook in chastising him having given him a scratch on the head and on complaining to his Master was turned over to me for examination. He is made to record a conversation occurring half a century before, lying dormant on his mind during that period never before having been known to relate it, between Jefferson and La Fayette. La Fayette according to Israels own admission speaking with an accent that rendered it difficult for him to understand him. This conversation so distinctly heard and remembered for fifty years occurred between these two feeble old men in a rapidly moving coach, Israel the postillion riding the near leader of a four horse team at the time that he is made to say he heard it.

	The meeting of Jefferson and La Fayette at Monticello on La Fayettes last visit to America was so impressive as not easily to be forgotten by those who beheld it. La Fayette was escorted in triumph through each county by its citizens. An escort of 120 mounted men, with Mr. Jeffersons Landau and a grey team selected from the best horses in the county, awaited him near the county line. We had sent videts four miles down the road to warn us of his approach, that we might properly marshall our escort for his reception. Mr. Wm. C. Rives was to deliver the address of welcome. Fortunately we had drawn up our escort by way of drill, the superintendents in a group in front of the little road side inn, each urging his own views, when our videt [vidette] came in at the top of his sped. La Fayette in Genl. Cockes coach, drawn by his [little?] blooded horses, four in hand fleet as the wind came flying upon his heels. In a moment the coach drew up before us Band we were all brought suddenly to order; Mr. Rives promptly and hansomely [sic] collecting himself for the address of Welcome. The mountain of Monticello was leveled, the front lawn less than an acre a semicircle with the portico projecting beyond the centre: 7 carriages stopped at the middle of the periphery of the semicircle. On leaving the road passing throug[h] the gap of the mountains the escort filed off by a less used road and when La Fayette arrived were found drawn up in an arch extending from the carriage stand towards the house. Some one had marshalled several hundred persons attracte[d] by curiosity on the opposite side facing the mounted men. Thus all would see as La Fayette descended from the carriage. Jefferson descended the steps of the portico. La Fayette lame Jefferson feeble from age as they approached each got into a shuffling quickened gait until they threw themselves with tears into each others		The meeting of Jefferson and La Fayette at Monticello on La Fayettes last visit to America was so impressive as not easily to be forgotten by those who beheld it. La Fayette was escorted in triumph through each county by its citizens. An escort of 120 mounted men, with Mr. Jeffersons Landau and a grey team selected from the best horses in the county, awaited him near the county line. We had sent videts four miles down the road to warn us of his approach, that we might properly marshall our escort for his reception. Mr. Wm. C. Rives was to deliver the address of welcome. Fortunately we had drawn up our escort by way of drill, the superintendents in a group in front of the little road side inn, each urging his own views, when our videt [vidette] came in at the top of his sped. La Fayette in Genl. Cockes coach, drawn by his [little?] blooded horses, four in hand fleet as the wind came flying upon his heels. In a moment the coach drew up before us Band we were all brought suddenly to order; Mr. Rives promptly and hansomely [sic] collecting himself for the address of Welcome. The mountain of Monticello was leveled, the front lawn less than an acre a semicircle with the portico projecting beyond the centre: 7 carriages stopped at the middle of the periphery of the semicircle. On leaving the road passing throug[h] the gap of the mountains the escort filed off by a less used road and when La Fayette arrived were found drawn up in an arch extending from the carriage stand towards the house. Some one had marshalled several hundred persons attracte[d] by curiosity on the opposite side facing the mounted men. Thus all would see as La Fayette descended from the carriage. Jefferson descended the steps of the portico. La Fayette lame Jefferson feeble from age as they approached each got into a shuffling quickened gait until they threw themselves with tears into each others

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	==Jane Blair Cary Smith <ref>Jane Blair Cary Smith, "The Carysbrook Memoir," c1864. ViU, Acc. no. 1378, 69-78. This memoir was written by Jane Blair Cary Smith (1808-1888), a fifty-six year old woman recollecting an event that transpired when she was just sixteen. Perhaps this explains her oversight in including the Madisons among the guests on the portico; we know from Madison himself that Madison did not arrive until desert was being served (see his letter to Dolly Madison of November 5, 1824). As the eldest daughter of Wilson Jefferson Cary of Carysbrook,		==Jane Blair Cary Smith <ref>Jane Blair Cary Smith, "The Carysbrook Memoir," c1864. ViU, Acc. no. 1378, 69-78. This memoir was written by Jane Blair Cary Smith (1808-1888), a fifty-six year old woman recollecting an event that transpired when she was just sixteen. Perhaps this explains her oversight in including the Madisons among the guests on the portico; we know from Madison himself that Madison did not arrive until desert was being served (see his letter to Dolly Madison of November 5, 1824). As the eldest daughter of Wilson Jefferson Cary of Carysbrook,
-	Fluvanna County, and of Virginia Randolph Cary, the youngest daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph of Tuckahoe. Jane Blair Cary was a cousin who apparently visited Monticello on a regular enough basis to consider Monticello her mother's home. In 1831 she married Rev. Edward Dunlop Smith, a man who had been a student at University of Virginia and who became the pastor of the Chelsea Presbyterian Church of New York. Although her original manuscript has been lost, her nephew Captain Wilson Miles Cary of	+	Fluvanna County, and of Virginia Randolph Cary, the youngest daughter of [[Thomas Mann Randolph]] of Tuckahoe. Jane Blair Cary was a cousin who apparently visited Monticello on a regular enough basis to consider Monticello her mother's home. In 1831 she married Rev. Edward Dunlop Smith, a man who had been a student at University of Virginia and who became the pastor of the Chelsea Presbyterian Church of New York. Although her original manuscript has been lost, her nephew Captain Wilson Miles Cary of
	Baltimore copied her manuscript at some time during the Civil War.</ref>==		Baltimore copied her manuscript at some time during the Civil War.</ref>==

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-	*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson,'']], 6:402-408.	+	*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson'']], 6:402-408.

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-	*[[Short Title List\|Malone, Vol. 6]], pp. 402-408.	+	*Malone,[[Short Title List\|''Jefferson,'']], 6:402-408.

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Anna: date of visit (intro)

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-	The [[Marquis de Lafayette]] visited Monticello in 1824. The following are accounts of this visit.<ref>This article is based on RLB, Monticello Research Report, October 1996.</ref>	+	The [[Marquis de Lafayette]] visited Monticello November 4-15,1824. The following are accounts of this visit.<ref>This article is based on RLB, Monticello Research Report, October 1996.</ref>

	==Jane Blair Cary Smith <ref>Jane Blair Cary Smith, "The Carysbrook Memoir," c1864. ViU, Acc. no. 1378, 69-78. This memoir was written by Jane Blair Cary Smith (1808-1888), a fifty-six year old woman recollecting an event that transpired when she was just sixteen. Perhaps this explains her oversight in including the Madisons among the guests on the portico; we know from Madison himself that Madison did not arrive until desert was being served (see his letter to Dolly Madison of November 5, 1824). As the eldest daughter of Wilson Jefferson Cary of Carysbrook,		==Jane Blair Cary Smith <ref>Jane Blair Cary Smith, "The Carysbrook Memoir," c1864. ViU, Acc. no. 1378, 69-78. This memoir was written by Jane Blair Cary Smith (1808-1888), a fifty-six year old woman recollecting an event that transpired when she was just sixteen. Perhaps this explains her oversight in including the Madisons among the guests on the portico; we know from Madison himself that Madison did not arrive until desert was being served (see his letter to Dolly Madison of November 5, 1824). As the eldest daughter of Wilson Jefferson Cary of Carysbrook,