Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1812
From Samuel J. Harrison
Lynchbg Mar 13. 1812
sir
your Dft in favor of Brown & Co paye the 1st of next Month for $600. has appeard & wishing it Should be Honor’d have accepted it, & Shall pay it at maturity.
If you have intended this Dft as a part of the last payment for the Land, (which from its having been made payable at the Same time it would Seem that you have) I here inform you that I do not expect to make that payment untill the Title Shall be fully clear’d—Scott having Sued both you & me for a Valuable part of the Tract.
Now however frivolous this Suit may be thought to be; yet I ought not, nor Can I believe that you wish me to be Involved in any Trouble about it; which would Evidently you Know be the Case, in the Event of your Death, before the Suit Shall be Decided.
I am Sorry that Scott is So Troublesome, and hope you will not think hard of me for withholding the £400. untill I Shall have Received an undoubted Title to the Land; for I asure you it would be but little Consequence to me, did I not believe that Justice to myself & Family Required that I Should do So.
I here Enclose you the Bond for the last Payment, which has been allways Ready for you had Mr Griffin applied as you directed him.1
The $600. will of course be deducted out of the Tobo—
S J Harrison
RC (ViU: TJP); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Apr. 1812 and so recorded in SJL. Tr (ViU: TJP); entirely in TJ’s hand; at head of text: “letter from mr Saml J. Harrison to Th: Jefferson.” Enclosure not found.
On 29 Feb. 1812 TJ drew an order on Harrison for $600 in favor of Archibald Robertson, partner of the late William brown, to be credited to his “store acct.” ( , 2:1273; TJ to Robertson, 1 Mar. 1812).
1. Paragraph omitted in Tr.
Index Entries
- Brown & Robertson (Lynchburg firm); TJ’s account with search
- Griffin, Burgess; Poplar Forest overseer search
- Harrison, Samuel Jordan; and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott search
- Harrison, Samuel Jordan; buys land from TJ search
- Harrison, Samuel Jordan; buys tobacco from TJ search
- Harrison, Samuel Jordan; letters from search
- Ivy Creek (Campbell Co.); S. Scott claims TJ’s land on search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; dispute with S. Scott search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- overseers; and sale of tobacco to S. J. Harrison search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); Overseers at; and sale of tobacco to S. J. Harrison search
- Robertson, Archibald; TJ pays search
- Scott, Samuel; TJ’s land dispute with search
- tobacco; TJ’s income from search