1Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 14 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose my bill in Chancery for the file of the court. it has been read by all the defs . the four of them acknolege the facts, within their own knolege, to be correct. they are glad the suit is brought, that they may know their rightful ground, and will answer without delay, and consent to it’s being brought on by motion as soon as ready. some depositions will be necessary. the suit...
2Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, [18] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you mr Divers ’s answer I given without form or the ceremony of an oath. his health, and hurry to depart for the springs rendered it necessary to dispense with useless formalities. I furnished the def s with a copy of the bill some months ago, but I know nothing of the progress of their answers. as soon as they shall be given in, I will pray you to send me office copies as guides...
3Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 3 March [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I have learnt with sincere pleasure your nomination as a Visitor of the University ; and with the more as it will again give us occasions of seeing you here. I hope you will make Monticello your head quarters on all these occasions; and I particular ly wish you could come a day at least before our meeting of the 29 th instant . the papers being all here, their examination would put you into...
4Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson and John H. Peyton, 9 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On the information of mr Peyton that my suit with the Rivanna co. was set for hearing at your approaching term, I took up the corporate answer of the def s which till then I had read but once, & that slightly, & made observations on it as I went along, which I now inclose. mr Divers ’s individual answer I had sent you before, on which also I now furnish some observations. On the 31 st of May &...
5Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson and John H. Peyton, 11 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you the documents, original or authentic, to which the references of my bill relate. N os 4. 5. 7. 8. are duly authenticated by mr Minor as a Commissioner in Chancery .
6Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 26 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I was summoned by the Rivanna company to attend taking the deposition of Alexr Garrett this day which was to prove that the body of the Inquisition of 1805. was in my handwriting, and the interpolation in a different one; a fact which I have stated in the bill . it will be conveyed I presume by tomorrow’s mail. I have given them notice that I shall take the deposition of John Coles on Monday...
7Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson and John H. Peyton, 28 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you mr Cole ’s deposition taken this morning at Milton , and closing, as I suppose, all further examination on either side. you will find that it solidly supports the statement in the bill as to the interpolated clause in the inquest of 1805. his answer to the question whether he did not think the dam an obstruction to the navigation? is perplexed, but meant to convey this idea,...
8Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 4 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1 st is recieved. the ruinous and compleatly rotten state of the locks at my mill is such that any thing of an extraordinary fresh will infallibly blow them up and sweep away the bank of the canal so as to unite it to the river to an extent which no one can previously determine. an immediate decision therefore is of the first importance and takes place of all other...
9Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, Chapman Johnson, and Robert Taylor, 8 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Proposing within a few days to set out for Bedford , I think it a duty previously to state to you the progress and prospect of things at the University . you may perhaps remember that almost in the moment of our separation at the last meeting one of our colleagues proposed a change of a part of the plan of the grounds, so as to place the gardens of the Professors adjacent to the rear of their...
10Virginia Council of State’s Appointment of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 29 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor called the attention of the board to the subject of appointing Visitors for the University of Virginia in Conformity with the provisions of an act of assembly passed the 25 January 1819 —Whereupon, the following persons were duly appointed Visitor—to wit: Thomas Jefferson — James Madison — Chapman Johnson — Jos. C. Cabell