1Thomas Jefferson to David Higginbotham, 16 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of Feb. 22. on the subject of paints. I shall certainly want a very great quantity in the course of the present year, as I have to renew the whole outer painting of this house and the terrasses, and to paint that in Bedford which has never been done. but I did not make more of any thing scarcely last year than would pay for the corn we did not make. I must therefore...
2David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now enclose you a copy of the morgage, and to m r Short , from which you can be so good as to draw the deed of release from m r Short to me and at same time enclose it to him for him to do the needful and return to you, to be recorded in Court, I am raily sorry to give you so much trouble about this business RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MHi
3David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
If you have not yet sold your westham lots and are still disposed to sell them, be pleased to say the number you have and the size and the price you ask for them, I will perhaps purchase them if the price is not two high, I may perhaps be able to turn them into Cash in some way or other to suit us both, be pleased to say what is the loss we shall all sustain this year by the Hessian fly, shall...
4Thomas Jefferson to David Higginbotham, 26 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 20 th is recieved. I had never thought of selling my lots in Beverly town , but to pay a debt, I will do it, on terms rigorously just, that is to say, for first cost and compound interest on it to this day; rating interest at 5. p.c. till 1797. when it was raised by law, and at 6. p.c. for the then amount to the present day. mine are the lots N o 57. 107. 108. and 151. they are...
5Thomas Jefferson to David Higginbotham, 31 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I sent to mr Short a form of reconveyance of the Indian camp to you, and impressed on him the necessity of executing it. he has just returned it to me duly executed, and I have the pleasure of inclosing it to you with assurances of my constant esteem & respect. RC ( ViU: TJP ); at foot of text: “ M r Higgenbotham ”; endorsed by Higginbotham . PoC ( MHi ); on verso of...
6David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Their was due to me on the 16th In t for corn sold to m r Bacon on your account as ⅌ his note One Hundred and ninety three Dollars and 34. cents which I should be glad to receive at your earliest conv en ience I am Dear Sir RC ( MHi ); addressed: “ Thomas Jefferson Esq Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 28 June 1819 and so recorded in SJL
7Thomas Jefferson to David Higginbotham, 29 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I had from mr Bacon ’s information (but by mistake as I now suppose) made a memm of the balance due you for corn to be payable July 16 . or I you should sooner have heard from me. the short sale of my flour & tob o had obliged me to place my neighborhood debts on a fund of about 1000.D. due to me from two hands only in the neighboh neighborhood . I find they cannot pay immediately, but from...
8David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I Shall have to Pay my Overser M r Moon on the 15th In t his Sallery for his last years Servises, if you can with any convenience Pay me by that time the am t of your small note to me for corn as under I shall be very thankfull I am your mo t Obt Note due 20th Mar 1820 $150. 90 In
9Thomas Jefferson to David Higginbotham, 7 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your letter of that date . I have not as yet got a single barrel of flour to market, nor does the present state of the river admit it. I leave injunctions here to omit no opportunity of sending it down, and you may be assured that the corn debt which you were so kind as to let lie over the last year shall be among the earliest to be paid by the present crop. I salute you...
10David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
It has now been some time since I have had any conversation with you on the Subject of your debt to me, and as I am in want of the money, will you be so good as to write me at your earliest convnce, when you think you can count on Paying it with certainty, I no the dificulty of the times, and this has caused me to Put of applying to you sooner, the debt with In t is now little short of...