The second volume in this series, dealing with 1777-1779.
Apart from lawmaking, the volume contains the records of Jefferson's activities as county lieutenant, concerned with local defense and the treatment of British sympathizers; as an amateur of science, corresponding with Rittenhouse and other learned men in Europe and America; as a protector and friend of Burgoyne's army intervened at Charlottesville; as a farmer and gardener; and as a book collector.