1To Thomas Jefferson from George Hunter, 2 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
If the Government of the United States has a desire to explore the new acquisition of Territory called Louisiana, In order to procure general & necessary information preveous to a Treaty to fix Boundaries between us & the Dominions of Spain. To ascertain the situation of, & circumstances relative to, those large bodies of good Land which shall appear best calculated to reimburse the purchase...
2To Thomas Jefferson from George Hunter, 4 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you Excellency will permit me to call your attention to the contents of this letter which the Embargo ocasions me to write as I got my bread by going to sea and am now deprived of it and am beholden to my relations who feel the effects of it nearly as bad as myself. I am persuaded to address you and make known to you I am the son of William Hunter who is the surviving partner of Joseph...
3From Thomas Jefferson to George Hunter, 14 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4th. inst. was recieved a few days ago. you have been greatly decieved by the information that I had never paid the debt to William Hunter & that the bond is lost. I paid it to Joseph Royle’s executor & have a perfect recollection of the fact, and I have no doubt that at Monticello I can produce satisfactory evidence of it; probably the bond itself. I am not willing to...
4To Thomas Jefferson from George Hunter, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honor’d with your letter of the 14th Inst. and from its contents am satisfied with respect to the bond; and on recalling my attention to the proposition have found my self in error. allude it to my inexperience and want of age, being now only in my eightteenth year I hope you will forgive me of the error for which I am indebted to your Honor for pointing out to me as it will be a guard to...