Mary Anne Williamson Bacon (d. 1833) was the mother of TJ’s overseer Edmund Bacon. By 1794 she was occasionally selling TJ turkeys and mutton. She inherited three slaves and 500 acres in Albemarle County from her husband, Harwood Bacon, in 1807. Bacon remained in the county until at least 1822. She died in Saint Louis County, Missouri (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends ; Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America [1959], 434; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 4:292–3, 315–8; DNA: RG 29, CS, Albemarle Co., 1810; Memoranda Book of Edmund Bacon, 1802–22 [ViU]).

On jan. 6. 1817 TJ had borrowed $145 from Edmund Bacon, $95.48 of which had come from Mary Bacon. Edmund Bacon paid his mother $20 on TJ’s behalf on 15 May 1817, using funds received from William D. Fitch (fitz) as a payment on the latter’s account with TJ (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1330, 1333–5).