41From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker, 25 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
My brother and myself having had a final settlement of our affairs with Mr. Nicholas on behalf of the estate, it may be satisfactory to you to know on what principles it was done.—I proposed to Mr. Nicholas at once, and without making any question of it, that I would take on myself one half of the maintenance of my sisters from my fathers death. The result was as follows: £ s d Balance of my...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Walker, 7 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am at a loss how to proceed respecting a grant of 8000 acres of Land made under the regal government to your Father and myself on the western waters. It has been surveyed and the Plats &c. offered to the Register of the Land office several years ago. He refused to receive them, supposing he was not authorised to do so. Many people are anxious to purchase the land if we could make titles,...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker, 23 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of June 7. and really wish it were in my power to give a satisfactory opinion as to what should be done relative to the grant of lands therein mentioned: but my absence and attention to other subjects have rendered these so little familiar to my mind, that I am not competent to advise in them. If I recollect rightly, Mr. Mason’s land law was intended by him to...
44To James Madison from Thomas Walker, 29 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
With the utmost possible deferrence I address Your Excellency which would not have been presumed but for the despotic law of necessity. A fortnight since a petition was transmitted to your Excellency on behalf of your very humble servant, paying [ sic ] a pardon and liberation from a New York Prison where he is confined at the suit of unprovoked maliciousness for having casually without...