The original version of Notes on the State of Virginia was composed during the most difficult period of Jefferson's life, 1780-1782. The first two weeks of June, 1781, marked the chaotic close of his administration as governor, his family's desperate escape from Monticello from the raiding party of Col. Banastre Tarleton, and the Virginia House of Delegates' call for an investigation of his conduct over the previous year. "Jefferson's Country" will commemorate those painful days in a series of posts.
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