1To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 27 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
This Morning Lieutenant Henry Bell of the third Regiment of Dragoons came to my House with an armed Force, and under your Impress Warrant, granted to Genl. Greene, upon his crossing Dan River, demanded an Entrance into my Stables. I informed him that your Warrant was designed to extend only to those Counties which were then contiguous to the Enemy, and ought not now to be executed in these...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 2 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your Favour of the 28th. ulto. and should have conformed to your Opinion of not commencing any Law Process against Mr. Bell, if he had not, after being apprized of my Application to you for an Order to recover my Horse, rode him on his own private Business into Orange County. But he appeared to have been insolent as well as arbitrary in the Exercise of his Power. I therefore beg the...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, enclosing Court Proceedings against a Slave, together with Jefferson’s Reprieve, 13 … (Jefferson Papers)
As one of Colo. Tayloe’s Executor’s I take the Liberty to solicit you on Behalf of Billy, a Negro Man belonging to that Estate, who is now under Sentence of Death, by the Judgement of the Court of Prince William County. The Crime for which he is condemned, and the Proceedings of the Court will be made known to you by the enclosed Papers. Not entertaining a Doubt myself of the Illegality of the...
4[From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 27 November 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 27 Nov. 1783 . Entry in SJL reads: “M. Page. Meeting and separation of Congr.—cession without alterations.” Not found.]
5From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a note which I lately received from Mazzei.—Among other objects he has desired me to wind up for him, is the recovering a gun which he left with Mr. Hunter to be mounted for him. If the convenience of your situation to Mr. Hunter will justify me in asking your aid in it, I would trouble you to make the application, and if successful to lodge the gun with Mr. Joseph Jones in...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 8 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you a letter which should have been written by your servant from Fredericksbg., whom you were so kind as to send for me when I was there. But I had passed the day at Chatham, was returning about dusk, shivering, and snowing, when I met your servant in the streets. I desired him to apologize to you for my not writing, by telling you the place and state in which he found me, and I left...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 3 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been requested to forward to you the enclosed Letter, which, as it relates to a subject, that I know, has long engaged your Attention, will, I am sure, be favourably received by you. I also send you a Publication in the Paper of this Day on the same Subject by the same Gentleman. If any thing can draw you from your Retirement, I am confidint that the Solicitation now made will not be...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 30 August 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not in my power to attend at Fredericksburg according to the kind invitation in your letter and in that of Mr. Ogilvie. The heat of the weather, the business of the farm to which I have made myself necessary, forbade it; and to give one round reason for all, maturé sanus , I have laid up my Rosinante in his stall, before his unfitness for the road shall expose him faultering to the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, [16 May 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
I am growing old, and am grown lazy, and particularly [in wri]ting letters. Yet, when any circumstance of business [orders] […] to take up a pen for an old friend, I […] feel the warmth [of earlier] years rekindle in my heart. While writing to you I am (in imagination) at Rosewell, 25 years old, in all the vigour of love and liberty. It is unpleasant that we should have been made, like our...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 19 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hugh Mercer, the posthumous Son of the late Genl. Mercer, will do me the honour of forwarding this to you. I will shortly make known to you what have been his persuits in Science, and what is his Object in applying to you. His Education commenced with the Study of the Greek and Latin Languages, in which he made some Progress. His chief Attention has been to the Belles Lettres, in which he...