1To Thomas Jefferson from John Warkson, 21 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Please to hearken to my Complaint—I am unhappy, And do Earnestly beg of you for Protection and favor—Should I be Successful I should Consider my-self the most happy—I shall in the first place Make known to you my Sittuation With a Small account of of my life—I was Born in Pensylvania of English Parrents, My Mother died When I was 3 years Old—My father followed the Sea, for his livelyhood—As...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Warkson, 3 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 21. was duly recieved, proposing yourself for my employ as a carpenter, mill-wright or miller. at present I have no occasion for service in either of these lines, but about this time twelvemonth I probably shall—but I imagine that in the neighborhood of so considerable a place as Fredericktown, these services are so much higher than where I live that a change would hardly...