1824

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Events

• “The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph (1762-1828). 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.
• 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.

Notes

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