6671Thomas Jefferson: Memorandum to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 12 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Mem m for mr Goodman . as soon as the green swerd seed is ripe, have som e gathered by the negro children and sowed on all the naked parts of the mound, and then cover those parts lightly with s traw first, & brush laid over that. if m ore seed could be gathered by the children it might be sowed in the fall or spring in the square round the house where the green swerd has not as yet taken....
6672Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 8 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Dick & the others arrived here the day before yesterday (Wednesday) he lost one of his hogs opposite Lynchburg , and a mutton died the night before he got here. every thing else came well. whenever the carriage of flour falls to a dollar a barrel you had better get all mine off, giving orders on mr Gibson for paiment of the freight. indeed whenever the expectation of the price of carriage...
6673Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 11 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your letter by Mr. Chisholm . The difficulty of the saw mills in sawing longer stocks than their saw-frame has never been regarded here. We take out the head block which holds the slab end of the stock; let the stock shoot back beyond that as far as it will go, and leave the slab end to be sawed by hand, for a stock of 24 f in a mill of 21 f. there would remain 3 f. of every...
6674Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 13 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous that Gill ’s waggon should go with Dick ’s, and having a job of hauling of corn from a distance and some other things to finish before Gill could go, I detained Dick to help dispatch it, and tomorrow both waggons will set out. the two beeves came in terrible order; the cow so poor that we are obliged to turn her out, and the steer in worse order than some of ours, so that we...
6675Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Goodman, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Jame Hubbard delivered your letter of the 30 th some days ago and proposes to set out on his return tomorrow. I am happy to hear your crops are likely. the wheat when threshed must remain in it’s chaff in the barn until we can dispose of it. with this view I should be glad if you before I go up you would get from the different millers the terms on which they will grind it for me, for I have no...
6676Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 10 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
A fall which I got from my horse a fortnight ago by the breaking of a girth, & by which I have recieved considerable hurt inwardly, will prevent my being with you by the middle of the month as I had intended. the external swelling is subsiding, but very slowly, so as to render the time when I may venture to travel uncertain. in the mean time Chisolm will proceed to do the plaistering of the...
6677Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 22 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Dick , Solomon and Philip are permitted to go and see their friends, and in returning will help to bring the hogs and beeves. I am in hopes you have procured the beds and given them to the women. in giving out their clothes I forgot the article of hats, which I give every other year; but as it will be more convenient to give about half one year and half another, we will give to the men only,...
6678Thomas Jefferson’s Instructions for Poplar Forest Management, 11 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
1814. Nov. 11. Poplar Forest . The crop here for 1815. is to be as follows Corn in Early ’s field. 80: acres . Wheat in M c Daniel ’s, in the corn field & the oldest tobacco ground South of South Tomahawk
6679Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it will not be in my power to furnish you the money you desire, nor any further sum whatever until next April, and it would be but deception to engage it. indeed when I paid the last sum , this was stated to you, and distinctly agreed to. all my resources are exhausted by the failure of my crops, until another comes in. it will then give me as great pleasure to pay this debt, as to...
6680Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 14 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot to take a note of the debt due for corn about Christmas; also the debts for the two horses . be so good as to let me know by mail, how much they are, to whom due, & when to be paid. I forgot also to desire a clover lot to be made at Bear creek where we proposed.— with respect to the Asparagus bed, of which I spoke to mrs Goodman , make them mow off the stalks and lay them one side,...