Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1821
From Bernard Peyton
Richd 17 May 1821
Dear sir
Your two esteemed favor’s of the 10th & 11th: current reached me by last mail, together with the enclosures in that of the 10th:. I have credited you with the $40 check returned, & charged you with $40.91 remitted several days ago in check to Joseph Wilson collector of the port of Marblehead; agreeable to your request. when the wines you speak of are recd, I will be careful to send them on by a hand on whom I can rely. I am this morning advised of the Shipment 15½ Galls: of the purest scuppernong Wine by Col Burton of N. Carolina for you, at $1 pr Gallon, which he desires I will charge to your ℀, for the benefit of Clark Cox & Co of Plymouth,—shall I do so? This wine is sent by a trusty Captain, & in consequence of the last being robd & injured: it is also without brandy: when it is recd, will forward it on as heretofore.
I will with great cheerfulness pay your dft: of $100 favor Miss Randolph when presented.
The news of the cessation of hostilities in Europe has caused a decline in Flour from $4¼ to $3¾—Tobacco $4½ @ 7 general sales, occasionally a fine Hh’d $9 @ 12—
Bernd Peyton
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 20 May 1821 and so recorded in SJL.
Index Entries
- alcohol; brandy search
- brandy; as wine additive search
- Burton, Hutchins Gordon; and scuppernong wine search
- Clark Cox & Company (N.C. firm) search
- Coolidge, Ellen Wayles Randolph (TJ’s granddaughter); TJ gives money to search
- Europe; and U.S. economy search
- flour; price of search
- Peyton, Bernard; and wine for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco prices at search
- scuppernong (wine) search
- tobacco; price of in Richmond search
- Wilson, Joseph; as collector at Marblehead, Mass. search
- wine; brandy added to search
- wine; scuppernong search