Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 September 1819
To Bernard Peyton
Monticello Sep. 20. 19.
Dear Sir
The messenger who carried my letter of the 18th to the post office brought me on his return your’s of the 9th. you will see by that that I had anticipated your kind offers of service by asking your name to a note which had been indorsed by Colo Nicholas. since that Jefferson observed to me that by making the note payable to him and his endorsing it, it would lighten your responsibility, as it woul[d] be seen that your endorsement was merely to satisfy the ceremony of a town endorser. desirous of rendering this favor as little onerous to you as possible, I inclose such a note and pray you to use it instead of the other which may be cancelled. the confidence I expressed in that letter of my safety as security for Colo Nicholas, cannot but be a little affected by what is said on that subject in your letter. yet when I conside[r] that he must know the liens he has given on his property for non-usurio[us] debts, and that he can have no motive for mistating them, I feel a strong confidence in the solemnity of his assurances. the bank of the US. has consented to take your bond with the addition of a 3d person, and to accept my grandson as the 3d person on my making him competent by a conveyance of lands to him in trust for securing this debt; all of which is done and goes by this mail to mr Marx instead of a renewal of the Notes. the date of the bond is of the 15th inst. the day the 1st note fell due. ever and affectionately your’s
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; edge trimmed and portions of two sentences rewritten by TJ due to polygraph misalignment; at foot of text: “Capt Bernard Peyton”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure not found.
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search
- Bedford County, Va.; deeds of trust for land in search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bond with W. C. Nicholas and T. J. Randolph search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; endorses notes for W. C. Nicholas search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Bond of Wilson Cary Nicholas, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph to the Second Bank of the United States search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Deed of Trust of Bedford County Land to Thomas Jefferson Randolph search
- Marx, Joseph; as director of Richmond branch of Second Bank of U.S. search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); and TJ’s bank loans search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); bond with TJ and T. J. Randolph search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); TJ endorses notes for search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); TJ proposes to convey land to search