31Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 5 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Within a few days after the signature of our agreement, I prepared, according to the best form I could find in the books, a deed of release & quitclaim to all title to the lands which were the subject of that agreement, and executed it before three witnesses. the first day of the ensuing court threatening rain, I did not go, but attended the morning of the next, and acknoleged it for...
32Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Appraisal of Chattels at Belmont Estates, [after 5 October 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
1. likely bull 6. years old £6. 0. 0 3. yoke of steers, one yoke of them 13. years old the others 12. in good order & likely 40. 10. 0 2. large young steers intended for oxen, 4. y. old in good order & very likely.
33John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I forward you herewith the valuetion made at our mutual solicitation by M rsrs Higginbotham & Watson of the articles submitted to their appraizement. It is also accompanied by a concise statement of the amount of your claim against me, as liquidated according to the principles of our compromise . As soon as you advise me of your concurrence in the correctness of those papers I will transmit by...
34Enclosure: Payment Plan for Money Due from John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Value of 2020 acres land at £3.15 the acre £7575. 0. 0 Valuation by M rsrs Higginbotham and Watson £682 Rent transferred 250
35Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 15 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 18. never came to my hands till three days ago or it should have been sooner answered. I find your statement to be correct in principle and calculation, and will here repeat it as evidence of the pr our transaction in it’s present stage. £ there was payable to me July 1. 1810. 106– 2–9¼ I recieved 120– overpaiment 13–17–2¾ the 2 d instalment due Mar. 1. 1811.
36John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to be delinquent in dischar g ing my note to you at the time it became due but it has proceeded from a failure in those opportunities of remittance which I had calculated upon and the difficulty of procuring others as substitutes. I had confidently expected to remit the money by a very safe had hand in the latter end of February but was disappointed in the crossing of the mountain...
37John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The dreadful blow which has thinned my family has occasioned a remissness in my writing to you; but your goodness, I know, will forgive the omission in the cause, which has produced it. Perhaps this letter will not reach you by the time that your that is claim against me is due. I hope however that a short procrastination of payment will occasion you no sensible inconvenience I have written to...