Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) is a book written by the American statesman, philosopher, and planter Thomas Jefferson. He completed the first version...

independently. In his book Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Jefferson had scribed his ideas for public education at the elementary level. Charles...

while his more public justification, expressed in his book Notes on the State of Virginia, was his fear that freeing enslaved people into American society...

carried on a long and successful campaign against state financial support of churches in Virginia. Jefferson also coined the phrase "wall of separation...

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...

Tucker, 1837, v. 1, pp. 165–166. Notes on the State of Virginia, p. 149; Burstein, 2006, p. 146. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1853, Query XI TJF: Thomas...

and power generation. The name "Ohio" comes from the Seneca, Ohi:yo', lit. "Good River". In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, Thomas...

consist of actual battle; it points to the situation in which one knows there is a 'Will to contend by Battle'. In his Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)...

ISBN 0945612486. Lance Banning notes that the Virginia Declaration of Rights was the inspiration for the phrase in the Declaration of Independence, but does not...

Thomas Jefferson's 1785 "Notes on the State of Virginia", Query 17 (Religion) in which he writes, "The legitimate powers of government extend to such...

Africa, primarily from the Bight of Biafra and Angola. In 1784, Jefferson published Notes on the State of Virginia where he stated that enslaved individuals...

West Virginia is a mountainous state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast...

Jefferson noted the phenomenon of looming in his book Notes on the State of Virginia: There is a solitary mountain about 40 miles off, in the South, whose...

The Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia is the official seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. The state flag of Virginia consists of the...

in Virginia. Commenting on the area's coal in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1781–82), then-Governor Thomas Jefferson stated: "The country on James...

"Jefferson's 'Notes on the State of Virginia,' https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h490t.html Jefferson, Thomas (1781). "Notes on the State of Virginia". PBS...

came of age. Hemings died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1835 in the home of her freed sons. The historical question of whether Jefferson was the father...

convention to write a new state constitution, and sought the support of Jefferson, who had been trying since 1776 to get Virginia to adopt a new constitution...

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a public land-grant research university with its...

Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 United States census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah...

one burial mound on the Rivanna River near the former Monasukapanough, which he later mentioned in his Notes on the State of Virginia" and which modern...

poet's note: Research Notes. Taylor is a descendant from the Jefferson-Wayles marriage. "Virginia is for Lovers" Archived October 9, 2007, at the Wayback...

upstream portions of the York River and its tributaries and their access to the Chesapeake Bay. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82...

mid-twenties, Madison Hemings was described in a special census of the State of Virginia as being: 5 feet 7 3/8 inches high light complexion no scars or...

the Turkey Island plantation in Henrico County, Virginia on February 24, 1687. He was the third son of William Randolph (1650–1711) and wife Mary Isham...

that purpose. Although the government long supported Christian activity among Indians, and in Notes on the State of Virginia Jefferson supported "a perpetual...

of Virginia, which is the seal of the state as a whole. The shield is based on the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Virginia granted to the state in...

aspects of Jefferson's life that he seldom highlighted in his own writings, as well as providing accounts of the early years of the University of Virginia and...

Massachusetts in the 1780s. The collection of manuscripts included architectural drawings, farm books, and the draft for Notes on the State of Virginia. There are...

Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1784), although there are notable exceptions, including Davy Crockett's A Narrative of the Life of Davy Crockett...