1Enclosure: Extracts from Minutes of the Directors of the Rivanna Company, 4 December 1810–4 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Directors at Charlottesville on Tuesday the 4 th of Dec. 1810. present W m D. Meriwether , Dabney Minor , & John Kelly . Ordered that the Directors will meet at
2William D. Meriwether and Nicholas H. Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1819 (1st letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to take notice that at The Tavern of Jessee Devenport s in the Town of Charlottesville Between the hours of 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. of Thursday the 10 th Instant June And so from day to day untill concluded we shall proceed to take the depositions of Jessee Lewis and others to be read in evedence in a suit wherein we are defendants and yourself complainant in the Superior Court of...
3William D. Meriwether and Nicholas H. Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1819 (2d letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to take notice that at the House of John Higginbotham in the Town of Warminster Between the hours of 9 AM and 6. PM of Saturday the fifth instant June and so from day to day until concluded we Shall proceed to take the Deposition of Emanuel Poor to be read in evidence in a Suit where in we are Defendants and your self complainant, in the Superior court of Chancery holden at Staunton...
4William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the difficu lt y of ascertaining facts respecting the locks, the navigation of your canal, the work done by the Rivanna Company thereon, and other points of controversy in relation to the same, the two M r Minors myself and other persons will meet at the Shadwell mills on saterday next the fifth instant to view and measure the same. at which time and place your presence is...
5Thomas Mann Randolph’s Deposition in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [8 June 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
This deponent had two crops boated down Rivanna before 1794, from Milton , that of 1792 and 1793: he knew an instance of a Boat going and returning within the week in 1792: a negroe man of his was in that Boat at the time, with, (he thinks) Sylvanus Meeks , and another: he had part of his crop damaged in Magruders falls in 1793, the Boat containing it was lost. He was a subscriber to the loan...