1Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 5 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I find I can drive from hence 4. or 5 beeves and as many muttons as we can want; all as fat as they can be; and having to drive these I conclude to drive the hogs also, and kill them at Monticello . the whole will start therefore as soon as the hogs are fat enough. of course we need buy no more beeves. I shall be glad if you will see mr Darnell and tell him that the business here is suffering...
2Thomas Jefferson’s Promissory Note to Edmund Bacon, 7 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
1813. Apr. 7. I promise to pay to Edmund Bacon or order on or before the 1 st day of August next one three hundred and seventy Dollars for value recieved. I say 370. Dollars, witness my hand this seventh day of April eighteen hundred & thirteen the above belongs to John Bacon of the County of Botetourt to whose credit the money must be Applyed when recev d agreeable to Assignment
3Robert B. Sthreshly to Edmund Bacon, 13 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
on reflecting upon your offer considering it to be a good one I have determined to take it That is you may have your choise either to give me the 19/. cash or 20/. on the—160 Days this you can determine me either by the bearer John who is going to mill or by some other opportunity in the course of the Day the corn to be taken from the Stack in the course of D November and early in December my...
4Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, [15 November 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I have made it a point thro’ life never to recieve or pay compound interest nor any thing more than what is legal. nor do I think compound interest just, because had the law intended to permit it, it would have been fixed at 3. per cent or 3 ½ which is as much as men in general make of their money in the ordinary & honest vocations of life. more may be made, by possibility, at the gaming table...
5Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find I shall be able to get from here from Saturday this day fortnight to Saturday this three weeks. it is necessary therefore that Cretia ’s Johnny should set off with the cart on Thursday morning the 3 d of December
6Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find that the cart need not leave Monticello till Thursday the 11 th of December, on the morning of which I wish it to be dispatched. I send Bedford Billy down to be put to work with the Coopers under Barnaby , and Thrimston to leave Barnaby and work with the carpenters. I hope you will keep them all to their duty. Billy is found too ungovernable for Johnny Hemings
7Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you two draughts on mr Gibson , the one in favor of mr Woods for 174.70 and the other in favor of yourself for 63.85 this last is to enable you to pay 48.85 to mr Maupin and 15.D. to mr Stout . the two former sums include interest from last court. I am afraid it may not be convenient to mr Lietch to advance money for these draughts, and that it is merely an accomodation to me that he...
8Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now anxious for the carpenters to come on as soon as they shall have done the jobs mentioned in my letter to mr Meeks . we have a horse which has been raised here 3. years old this month, of tolerable figure, great size & promising qualities for a riding horse. I am putting him into the hands of a neighbor to learn him to pace & shall take him down with me when I return. I would therefore...
9Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4 th could not leave Charlottesville till the 8 th and was recieved here on the 9 th . our mail starts for Charlottesville tomorrow & will arrive there on Saturday at 6. P.M. I am glad you have given the assistance of a hand to each cooper’s shop, and wish it to be continued, and even more help to be given if necessary, for I look to the offal of the mill as our only...
10Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1820 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Poplar Forest , 22 Nov. 1820 . SJL entry reads “ Ned & Wormly . garden, lawn & grove. roads.” Letter not found.]