1Thomas 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...
2Thomas 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
3Thomas 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