31Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 14 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The periods for the renewal of my notes in the Farmer’s & US. bank s approaching I inclose you the two of 3000.D. each for those banks which you have heretofore been so kind as to attend to, to which I add another to the US. bank for 2250.D. heretofore endorsed by mr Gibson , but now by my grandson to relieve mr Gibson , mr Marx having informed me that this change would be admitted. I shall be...
32Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved this morning your favor of the 17 th have got the correct bills signed by D r Everett , now inclose them and hope they will get to hand before my draught in favor of White gets round to you. the 56.31 and 88 D. curtail must be retained out of the proceeds of the bill of Exchange: I had in mr G. ’s hands at the last statement of our accounts but about 30.D. and he may have paid some...
33Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 1 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 21. & 24. have been recieved, the latter covering 225.D. and I shall immediately draw on you in favor of A. Garrett for 300. or 325.D. before the reciept of yours of the 21 s t I had already availed myself of the first good opportunity of speaking to the President on what is the subject of it. it was impossible to reply more frankly or more favorab ly than he did as to his...
34Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 14 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter addressed to mr Dearborne I inclose this which covers the one to mr Gray which Jefferson told me would be acceptable to you.— about 20. years ago, mr Stewart of Boston drew my portrait, for which I then paid him 100.D. about 12. or 15. years ago he desired me to set for him again saying he did not like the former portrait & would rather draw another for me. I sat for him, and...
35Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 6 September 1820, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
I set off for Poplar forest tomorrow to be back on the 24 th and think it safe to send you my notes for the farmers and US. bank s, lest they should be wanting. I shall recieve in Bedford a sum of money which will enable me to remit you the discounts and also the curtailment of 500.D. which you were so kind as to give me timely notice of. besides this I leave directions if a rain should...
36Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 September 1820, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
In the 1 st week of Oct. perhaps on the 3 d or 4 th day mr Eppes will deposit with his agent in Richmond , 500.D. subject to my order. this is intended to meet the curtailment of October of which you were so kind as to give me timely notice . at the same time perhaps, or if not, then certainly in all that month he will deposit 3500.D. more in like manner. for these sums I shall send you an...
37Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion for some books from London , the inclosed letter requests my friend mr Rush our Minister there to engage some bookseller to furnish them. I state to him that you will be so good as to put into my letter a bill of exchange of £40. sterl, and that you will forward 2plic s & 3plic . by other conveyances. I leave the letter open for your perusal and request you to put a copy of...
38Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 23 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My draughts on you have been as follows D Sep. 30. in favor of Joel Wolfe 100 . Oct. 13. Taxes Albemarle . 197 .21 d o Bedford .
39Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of the 23 d I have drawn as follows in favor of Alexr Garrett 217.29 and John Watson —72.76 and I have still two more to make, to wit for Joel Wolfe from 100. to 150.D. and in favor of E. Garland for 800.D. Will you be so good as to send by the boats about 15 or 20. gallons of linseed oil. as it is apt to leak in a cask you will judge whether it is better or not to have it in jugs....
40Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your s of the 2 d has been recieved as also the books and boulting cloth. I drew on you yesterday in favor of Wolfe & Raphael for 180.D. and must ask the favor of you to remit for me to Henri Guegan bookseller at the foreign bookstore Baltimore 43. D 50 C I have now but one draught more to make on my present funds in your hands. that is the heavy one in favor of mr Garland of Lynchburg . my...
41Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 15 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I had promised Samuel Garland to give him on my arrival here an order for 800.D. but, anxious to leave in your hands 500.D. for the curtail expected, I have this day drawn on you in his favor for 600.D. only, promising him the othe r 200 before I leave this place. by that time I hope Jefferson will have sent you on my account one or two boatloads of flour, which I have charged him to do as...
42Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 9 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect that my grandson informed you the of the misfortune which had stopped for a while the Shadwell mills . it will still be ten days or a fortnight before they will be able to recommence grinding, and consequently before we can be again getting down our flour. in the mean time I was obliged to draw on you yesterday in favor of Wolfe and Raphael for 100.D. which shall be replaced the...
43Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday only your favor of the 12 th . I find all in it right. I am in want of some earthen pots for covering plant s of Sea-kale in the garden. I am told they are made at a Pottery, in or near Richmond , and that mr Wickham particularly has them of the proper size and form which were made there. will you be so good as to get me half a hundred & send them by the first boat, or if...
44Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 4 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your two kind favors of Feb. 12. & 26. and they make it a duty to go into some explanations. age and ill health, and still more the loss of plantation skill and management by an absence of 50. years from such attentions, had for some time rendered me unequal to the proper management of my possessio ns insomuch that those in Bedford had been entirely unproductive and those...
45Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night yours of the 12 th and could scarcely believe it possible I should have made such a blunder as the omission to name the sum to be remitted to Mess rs Leroy & Bayard . but turning to my letter I found it really so. I am quite ashamed of it. the sum is 125.D. the inclosed letter from mr Maury came to my hands 9. months ago, and having not heard from mr Pickett I have taken...
46Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 30 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not till yesterday that I could get a 3 d witness to the inclosed deed . the intenseness of the weather has prevented me from going from home. you will observe it is not recorded. this ceremony is unpleasant, the deed is good without it between the parties & those claiming under them, and against creditors where there are other assets. the subsequent purchaser without notice can alone...
47Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 3 [April] 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson ’s absence in Bedford has rendered it impossible to send you the inclosed till this moment for want of his endorsemt. I hope they will still get to your hands in time for renewal. ever & affectionately yours. PoC ( MHi ); misdated; on verso of left half of reused address cover of Joel Yancey to TJ, 22 Dec. 1820 ; endorsed by TJ as a letter of “3 Mar. Apr. ” 1821. Recorded in SJL as a...
48Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 11 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved from M r Dearborne Collector of Boston information that he had recieved from Marseilles 3. cases of wine for me which he had forwarded to the Collector of Richmond , and that the freight and duties amounted to 17.05 D. I have informed him that I would desire you to remit him that sum immediately which I now request you to do, and recieve the boxes & pay the additional...
49Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors of the University have occasion to remit to Thomas Appleton , our Consul at Leghorn the sum of 1200.D. which he has desired may be placed in the hands of Samuel Williams N o 13. Finsbury square London subject to the order of Thomas Appleton . I have also occasion to remit to mr Appleton the sum of 444.D. on my private account. I therefore inclose to you mr Garrett ’s check on the
50Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 19 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall set out to Poplar Forest within a day or two, to be back within about 3. weeks. I do not know how much of my flour has been sent to you, but when all is down it will be about 370. or 80. barrels. I remitted you lately 581.51 with a request to make a particular application of 444.D. of it, & to hold the balance 137.51. to my credit, and Jefferson will recieve for me within a few days &...
51Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 10 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just returned from Bedford and have several little things of detail to write about, but time permits me at this moment to mention one only which presses. hearing that mr Coffee was in Charleston I wrote to D r Hosack to pray him to return me my letter & yours to m r Coffee. he did so , and I now inclose yours with the 40.D. check it covered and which was not used. this enables me to...
52Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I know I have no right to draw on you, and the Miller tells me it will be 10. days before he can send off a cargo of my flour. in the mean time my gr-daughter Ellen pays a visit of a week or 10. days to Richmond , and her occasions there will not wait the sending off my flour. I have therefore given her an order on you for 100.D. which will certainly be replaced within a week or 10. days after...
53Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote about a week ago to mr Yancey to hurry down my tob o from Bedford . it was lying at Lynchbg so I presume will be with you in the course of a week. I expect too that the mill here is now ready to begin to deliver my flour. our river being swoln by the rains I have been unable to go there to inform myself of a certainty. I have a note in the Virginia bank for 1125.D. renewable on the 22...
54Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 23 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Our river has been up so that I could not ford it to visit the Shadwell mills till yesterday. I found that there was not a single boat up, but that some are expected to-day and the miller promised he would send off 2. boatloads of flour tomorrow, and that the rest should follow within a few days. there are between 250. & 300 Barrels still to go. as soon as I know that the 2. boat loads are...
55Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 25 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you 350.D. of which I pray you to remit 300.D. to John Vaughan of Philadelphia sending with it at the same time the letter I inclosed to you for him in mine of April 19. with the remainder be pleased to send me 3. boxes of tin, to be bought from Daniel W. & C. Warwick , exactly of the quality of what they furnish to mr Brockenbrough for covering the houses at the University . he pays...
56Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 5 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday a letter from mr Yancey informing me that on the 25 th of May he sent off 7. hhds of tob o for me, and I learnt at the Shadwell mills that they had sent off 89. barrels of flour. both articles I trust are with you by this time. I therefore put under your cover two letters for Glinn & co. and Fr. Mayo , covering orders on you the former for 100.D. the latter for 127.12 ½ D...
57Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 8 June 1821, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
I have two calls in Bedford so pressing that they do not permit my getting more flour down before I make deliver the orders, the one to Jonathan Bishop for 136.48 D the other to Joel Yancey for 135.D. but as they will go circuitously by Bedford , before th ey get to you, you will recieve a boat load which will start the day after tomorrow. another load will go on the return of the boat. that...
58Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 6 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot account for my inattention to furni sh you my notes for renewal in the banks. I now send a compleat set of the 5. notes, and will make it a point hereafter to send renewals on the 1 st day of every other month. by adopting a fixed day, I shall not forget. but in case it should escape me, I send you the powers of Attorney to supply it. I hope to recieve immediately my quarterly account...
59Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 10 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 2 d came to hand last night, and I learn with great concern the final judgment in the case of Preston . the rules of the law are framed for the promotion of justice, and I am always sorry when in any particular case they produce the contrary. but you ask my opinion on the correctness of the decision. but, dear Sir , I am not competent to judge of it. nearly 40. years since I left...
60Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, [13] July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5 th covering the deed of trust came to hand on the 10 th . instead of adding the paragraph to it, I thought it better to write the deed over again, to incorporate the substance of the paragraph into it, and execute it anew. I did so, acknoleged it in our clerk’s office , and now inclose it with a certificate that it is recorded. I have been exceedingly distressed by the...