The Thomas Jefferson Papers  The Thomas Jefferson Timeline: 1743
- 1827  The Early Republic, 1800-1809   February. While in
Philadelphia, Jefferson learns that his lifelong body servant
and slave, Jupiter, has died. Jupiter had fallen ill but
insisted on accompanying Jefferson in his travels. Unable to
continue, and left in Fredericksburg, Virginia to recuperate,
Jupiter had returned home to Monticello, where he died.  July.
Jefferson works on a manual of parliamentary practice, which
will be published in 1801 and become the procedural handbook for
the Senate. About twelve years after Jefferson's death in 1826,
the House adapts the Manual of Parliamentary Practice for its
own use. The 1993 edition, still in use today in the Senate,
includes Jefferson's preface and a list of the sources he used
in writing it.  June. The U. S. capital is moved from
Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.  June 30. A false report that
Jefferson is dead is published in Baltimore and taken up
elsewhere throughout the country.  December 3