1Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, [5 January 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Dick s load. 1 Hhd pork. (16 hogs weighing 2000 ℔ the back bones & Facees to be deducted) containing 112 peicees 1 Ferkin lard (leaf fat) gross weight 82 ℔ 1 Ferkin butter gross weight 54 ℔ 1 bag dryed peaches weighing 45, and 1 Keg butter 104 ℔ making 1 in all 158 ℔
2Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two Boys Dick & Moses arrived here on Monday night last both on Horse-back without a pass, but Said they had your permission to visit their friends here this C X mass , yesterday two men came in pursuit of them for Stealing their Horses Horse and Saddle, they found the horse here and Dick
3Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter by Jerry I received on Thursday night last, he delivered his load safe and I had the doors and books put in one of the rooms in the house and the wine in the cellar, the sowing of peas, shall be attended to, and I expect by the time Jerry returns, I Shall be able to Send you Some of those late peas, which you were pleased with last Summer, the letter to m r Radford & myself with...
4Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, [before 26] January [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter by Dick & Jerry , this morning, they arrived here late, last Evening, and I am very sorry that Dick , has faild to deliver his loads, he has many excuses, and seems now to be much mortified, I hope another case will not occur, I now send by Jerry the balance of the pork intended for monticello , in a box containing pieces 95 ps, also all the poplars that are in the...
5Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I been endeavouring to send off your Tobacco for several days past, but can,t get a boat, till Tuesday or wednesday next Doc t Cabell Says he will send down 6 Hh ds then, there will not be more than 1 or two hhds more behind, of inferior, which I will have here next week, the crop, which I apprised you last f autumn , would be very short, which is pretty generally so in this part of the...
6Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the morning 10 th Ins t that and on the same Evening about 3 oClock: there was greatest hail storm I ever saw. your House appears to have b’een the centre of it, the damage is immense, a fine ps. wheat in Perry s I do not think will be worth cutting & all the rest & oats very much injured at Tomahawk , B. Cr. is not materially hurt by the hail but greatly damaged by the great...
7Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a few days ago giveing an account of the dreadfull hail Storm that visited us on the 10 th Ins t and that I would replace the glass that was broken by it, if to be had in Lynchburg . I have made enquiry, but can find None of the Size of that in your house there, the Surest chance will be for You to order it from Richmond , to be here, to be put in during you r visit the House is...
8Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 25 I rec d last Evening. I sorry indeed that you have losses, there as well as here, we have had no deaths Since Hall , but a good many sick and complaining, they Charge Hercules with Poisoning, and the cause of all deaths here for the last
9Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Sancho at length acknowledges, that he is perfectly well, & that he is willing to set out for Monticello by times in the morning, he was fully able to have followed you in 2 or 3 days but he appeared So unwilling to go and having been So dangerously ill, I thought it best to indulge him a week longer, I am here this Evening for the purpose of seeing that every thing necessary for his journey...
10Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 8 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you M r Hepburns bill for repairing the thrashing Machine amounting to 49 dollars 34 cts, your taxes the Sheriffs Say must be paid in this month and if convenient may be included in the Dft, they are a hungary set, and will not wait, the Printer agrees to reduce his a/c to 30 dollars, and wishes that the Proctor may be directed to pay it immediately to his order, I told him you...