11Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel H. Hooe, 20 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely sorry to have to announce to you the death of mrs Dangerfield’s negro man Edmund which happened the day before yesterday in the most sudden manner. as he had taken one of my women to wife I had placed him at a farm across the river about a mile & a half from here, and with an overseer who is, without exception, the best man I have ever employed in that way. Edmund & another man...
12Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel H. Hooe, 24 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
The preceding is the copy of a letter I wrote to mr John Dangerfield , which I had intended for yourself also, having always transacted the business which is the subject of it as a single concern, & remitted the amount of what was due to both the ladies in one sum. you percieve by that that the double accident of distress for corn, & the delays of a tenant have caused my omission of paiment,...
13Nathaniel H. Hooe to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
The Custom which you have practiced in transmiting the amount of the hire of M rs Daingerfield’s Negroes as well also as that of mine has this year failed, & recollecting you promised me in the month of january last to make the payment in the spring of this year, has prevented an application from either of us sooner, M rs Daingerfield some little time back informed me, that she was in want of...