1Thomas Jefferson to John Daingerfield, 2 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of July 17 . has been duly recieved. be assured that the delay in the paiment of the hire due to mrs Dangerfield & yourself has been the cause of severe mortification to me. I was obliged to apply all my first resources to a large purchase of corn, which the drought of the last year has raised to 5. 6. and even 7.D. the barrel in this & the neighboring counties. but I reserved a fund...
2John Daingerfield to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry to learn from my mother you refused to pay a the full year’s hire for her man Edmund ; as the principle has been long since settled; and juries never hesitate, when the subject is brought before them to decide against a deduction and certainly this must be right, for unless some such thing was implied the owner of a slave never would hire him a year for 70 dollars when he could...