1To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, Jr., 2 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of January the 11th only came to my hands this Morning or you certainly should have recieved a more Immediate Answer. I do not Recollect Mr. Marks haveing mention’d to me any Suppos’d Interference between you and him. He inform’d me at the time of my purchase, that Colo. Randolph claimed, and I think by Entry, the Land that he had Included within his Survey, and that by Agreement...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, Jr., 25 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter dated so far back as the 2nd. of November has been withheld till the 12th. of this Month when it was deliver’d to me by Colo. Bell from Charlottesville. I should then have Immediately Answer’d it but as I Conceive there must be the want of Recollection, or some Misunderstanding in Circumstances either in you or Colo. Randolph respecting the 490 Acres of Land near Edge Hill, I...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, Jr., 19 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 19 Mch. 1791 . Forwards enclosed letter under cover to TJ “as the most favorable opportunity of procuring it the quickest Conveyance to the Gentleman to whom it is addess’d. It is my answer to many Enquirys he has made as to his Civil and Religious Rights if he comes amongst us, but more particularly the Situation of some Western Lands that he has purchas’d of an English Merchant at...
4To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, Jr., 9 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favour’d with your Letter of april the 27th. and have kept it up a few days, to search for your first Letters Stateing your Claim to the Land referr’d to, but have Mislaid them, your Letter from philadelphia relinquishing any Right to the Moiety of the Survey which I purchas’d of Colo. Randolph being the only one I can now find, you will therefore be pleas’d to send me your propos’d...
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, Jr., 29 February 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
In Answer to your Letter of the 22nd. of this Month, I am Sorry it is not in my power to Accede to your proposals, in being the purchaser of your pounceys tract of Land, for although the four Acres that lyes between my line and the Louisa Road would be a desirable Acquisition to me on Account of Rail Timber, yet that Object must Yeild to my Inability of becomeing the proprietor of the whole...