# Notes on the State of Virginia publishes natural-history, law, and census queries as a public handbook

Date: 1785

## The fact

The 1785 Paris printing of Notes on the State of Virginia put rivers, mountains, laws, products, and a census of tribes and counties into a public book. The instrument here is that handbook as knowledge, not the race ranking stored on Query XIV's row. Marbois asked; Jefferson answered at more than pamphlet length. Thomas Jefferson's documented role is: He compiled answers for Marbois and then printed. Surveyors, clerks, and correspondents fed data. Query XIV remains a separate cost.

## Context

François de Barbé-Marbois is the named questionnaire author. Sharing data with Virginia correspondents is required. Buffon's degeneracy thesis is a target in the natural-history queries. A later school extract is a carrier. The setting of Notes on the State of Virginia publishes natural-history, law, and census queries as a public handbook is the public file around 1785-06-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Library of Congress — Notes on the State of Virginia at https://www.loc.gov/item/03004902/ (Library of Congress). Independent locator: Monticello — Notes on the State of Virginia at https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/notes-state-virginia/ (Thomas Jefferson Foundation). Official carrier: Library of Congress — Notes on the State of Virginia (https://www.loc.gov/item/03004902/; Library of Congress). Independent carrier: Monticello — Notes on the State of Virginia (https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/notes-state-virginia/; Thomas Jefferson Foundation).

Official or archival record: Library of Congress — Notes on the State of Virginia (https://www.loc.gov/item/03004902/; Library of Congress).

## Significance

Improving path from Notes on the State of Virginia publishes natural-history, law, and census queries as a public handbook on 1785-06-01. A public state handbook of rivers, laws, and products is an education path, split from the race Query. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Notes on the State of Virginia publishes natural-history, law, and census queries as a public handbook under 1785-06-01 for Thomas Jefferson. Established: a sourced public record of Notes on the State of Virginia publishes natural-history, law, and census queries as a public handbook under 1785-06-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with Query XIV. Do not store a 1850s reprint as 1785. Mixed effects of Notes on the State of Virginia publishes natural-history, law, and census queries as a public handbook are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Notes on the State of Virginia publishes natural-history, law, and census queries as a public handbook. Naming Thomas Jefferson does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1785-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Thomas Jefferson: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-jefferson

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.loc.gov/item/03004902/
- https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/notes-state-virginia/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tj-notes-natural