1824

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Events

• “The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph (1762-1828) in Washington, DC. The first cookbook published in America, it was republished at least nineteen times before the outbreak of the Civil War. The title page of her cookbook bears this motto: “Method is the soul of Management.” Mary was a distant cousin of Thomas Jefferson, as was her husband; and her brother married Jefferson's daughter Martha.
• An official map of Virginia is published that contains the proposed town of New York.
• November 4-15: The Marquis de Lafayette visited Thomas Jefferson at Monticello

Births

• October 1 – John Staige Davis, son of John Anthony Gardner Davis and Mary Jane Terrell Davis in Albemarle County.
• October 11 – John Glover is born in Alabama. A student at the University of Virginia, Glover was struck on the head by a performer after taunting a lion at a traveling menagerie in 1846 and subsequently died os his injuries, later being buried in the University of Virginia Cemetery.
• December 10 – Hudson Sprouse is hung in Harrisonburg, Virginia. A resident of Albemarle County, Sprouse had been found guilty of murdering a woman named Susan Sprouse (a relative of his) in the Ragged Mountains not far from Taylor's Gap.

Notes

• There were only six hundred residents in the town of Charlottesville this year – by 1836 the population would increase to 957.