1To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, 28 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
My Old friend Mr William Mitchell one of the most Respectable Merchants in Richmond has Introduced to me this Morning his Nephew Francis Mitchell , for whom he is very desirous of Obtaining the Appointment of a Midshipman on Board the Navy, this is the Young mans Choice for his pursuit in life, I am told he is of Regular Conduct & of an Active Enterprizing Spirit I Write this under a Raw...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 27 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, James Oldham, has lived with me several years, is an able workman in housejoinery, skilled in the orders of architecture, honest, sober and industrious. he wishes to get into business on a larger scale than that of merely monthly wages and I have recommended Richmond to him as a place where he will find no superior, and as I suppose no equal; and where, when once he can make...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 15 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mutual confidence in the honor & friendship of each other has made us too inattentive to the settlement of the question respecting the lands claimed by us both adjoining our possessions here. it had better be settled while in our hands, for no others will be disposed to do it in a more friendly or just way. the facts be within a narrow compas. I do not know that we differ as to any of them. if...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 21 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 15th. of Aug. last, but soon afterwards learnt that you were on a journey of some length & time which probably prevented the letter from coming under your notice. the object of it was to propose that we should proceed to name arbitrators & to submit to them the question of our claim to the lands in dispute between us. I should suppose that we might find among the members of...
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, 29 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Letter from Monticello of the 21st. and am willing that the Question between us respecting the Lands in Dispute, may be Submitted to any two or three Members of our Legislature at their Session in December as Mr. Burwell & myself may Nominate. It will therefore only be Necessary for you to give your Instructions to Mr. Burwell to have the Matter determined. With perfect...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 10 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
No body, not a member of your family, has felt with more sensibility than myself the losses lately sustained by it. my intimacy with your father began almost in the cradle, and through a life of length was never clouded by a moment’s abatement. with the circumstances which produced a warm attachment to your brother, and very much endeared him to me, you are acquainted. I should not at this...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 26 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 10th. of May last I took the liberty of addressing a letter to you on the subject of some lands to which your father & myself had opposing claims. we were to have had them arbitrated, but the mutual confidence reposed in each other occasioned it to be too long neglected. it was to have been done without fail at the last session of assembly, had it not been prevented by his death. in my...
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Harvie, 19 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time you first addressed me upon the subject of a tract of land now possessed by me, to which you advance an opposing claim I was not sufficiently acquainted with the merits of the affair to return an answer to your proposition. The death of my revered Father had been too recent for me to have overlooked his papers; and the tribute of filial respect prompted me to defer to a more...