121XVII. Farell & Jones to Richard Randolph, 10 August 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
We are now to acknowledge receipt of your favors of the 15 Janry 6, 19 and 25 April and 14th June. We made £600 Insurance on 75 hhds. of the Estates Tobacco and the like Sum and quantity of yours on board the True Patriot in consequence of your general order and shall get a return for short Interest. You may depend on our best care in the disposal of your 34 hhds by that ship, and inclosed we...
122XVIII. Farell & Jones to Wayles & Randolph, 10 August 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed we transmit you Account Sales of your several parcells Tobacco viz. 50 hhds ⅌ Prince of Wales £358.. 6..4 11 ⅌ Spr. Nancy 48..11..6 1 ⅌ Elizabeth 5..17..9 which we assure you was the utmost this Market wou’d afford for them and we hope will prove to your satisfaction. We Remain Gent Your mo Obed Servts RC ( Vi : USCC ); addressed: “Messrs. Wayles & Randolph James river Virginia ⅌...
123XIX. Farell & Jones to Richard Randolph, 15 December 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
We wrote you very fully the 10th Augt by the Virginian since which we have none of your favors. We were in hopes by this time to have transmitted you Account Sales of your 34 hhds. Tobacco consigned us by the True Patriot but we have still 21 hhds unsold. So soon as they are disposed of we will forward you Account Sales. Our prices begin to look up and should the report of your not raising any...
124XX. Farell & Jones to Richard Randolph, 27 January 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last to you was the 15 Decr. by the True Patriot to which you will please to be refer’d. In consequence of your General order to have your Property cover’d by our Ships we have made £500 Insurance for you on 50 hhds. Tobacco by the Virginian and shall let it remain in hopes that you may still ship us a large quantity, tho’ two days ago we receiv’d a Letter from Mr. Evans with a List of...
125XXI. Farell & Jones to Richard Randolph, 10 March 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
We wrote you fully the 15 Decem by the True Patriot since which we are not favor’d with any of yours. We also wrote you the 27th Janry by the Molly to both which we refer you.—We have now the pleasure to advise you of the safe arrival of the Virginian with 42 hhds of your Tobacco consigned us in the disposal of which you may depend on our best care and attention to your Interest and we hope to...
126From Thomas Jefferson to ——, 26 July 1764 (Jefferson Papers)
I like your proposal of keeping up an epistolary correspondence on subjects of some importance. I do not at present recollect any difficult question in natural philosophy, but shall be glad to have your opinion on a subject much more interesting. What that is I will tell you. In perusing a magazine some time ago I met with an account of a person who had been drowned. He had continued under...
127Report on Parliamentary Procedure, [8 November–8 December 1769] (Jefferson Papers)
A.6. ✓ Resolved that a question being once determined must stand as the judgment of the house, and cannot again be drawn into debate. A.9. ✓ Ordered that the orders for the business appointed for the day be read by the clerk before any other matter be proceeded on. A.5. ✓ Ordered that when a question shall arise between the greater and lesser sum or the longer and shorter time , the question...
128To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Jordan, with Jefferson’s Notes, 7 August 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
I some time Since received a letter from Colo. Randolph of Tuckahoe requesting I would inform him what I knew of his right to Leatherwood land and as you are or will be his Lawer I trouble you with it which is as follows. There was leive granted by the Council to Colo. Peter Jefferson Charles Lynch and Ambross Smith to take up fifteen Thousand Acres of Land adjoining Randolph & Co. at the Wart...
129From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Turpin, 3 June 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
Below I send you a state of the prices of the books you mentioned in your’s as far as it is my power to judge without having seen them. Much depends on their being new, much or little worn, and also upon the editions. And besides this the prices are sometimes accidentally high or low. However I have affixed such prices as I have usually known them cost in England. If the Hawkins’s pleas of the...
130To Thomas Jefferson from John Lewis, 4 October 1772 (Jefferson Papers)
Have received yours by Col. Lewis’s Man, and find he has not deliver’d my mesage as I directed, should have wrote to you had I bin accquainted of his going, but happen’d to find him in his journey to you, and deliver’d this mesage—to ask you if you had taken Mr. Carrs, and Mr. Jno. Woodsons, diposisions, as I have formerly requested, being at so great distance from me which made it...
131From Thomas Jefferson to Ann Eppes Harris, 26 April 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
I have applied to Mr. Waller on the subject of your bonds. He sais that Colo. Hunter when he left the country directed him not to call for the money due from yourself and son nor to do any thing further with your bonds till further orders. On being furnished by Daniel Hylton with a copy of Colo. Hunter’s letter […] he immediately inclosed it to Colo. H[unter an]d desired his directions […] for...
132Notes for Epitaph and Grave of Dabney Carr, [after 16 May 1773] (Jefferson Papers)
Inscription on my friend D. Carr’s tomb-stone. Lamented shade! [whom ev’ry] gift of heav’n Profusely blest: a temper winning mild; Nor pity softer, nor was truth more bright. Constant in doing well, he neither sought Nor shunn’d applause. No bashful merit sigh’d Near him neglected: sympathizing he Wip’d off the tear from Sorrow’s clouded eye With kindly hand and taught her heart to smile....
133Deed from Jane Randolph Jefferson for the Conveyance of Slaves, 29 September 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas Peter Jefferson did by his last will and testament bequeath to Jane Jefferson his wife one sixth part of all his slaves during her life, with power by deed or will to appoint the same to any of his children as she should think proper, and on his death partition having been made, the several slaves hereafter named with divers others were alloted to the said Jane: and whereas Thomas...
134To Thomas Jefferson from John Hook, 12 May 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent a Message to you by Mr. Steptoe offering you a small tract of Land laying between your Old and new tracts in this County, it was formerly the property of Saml. Brown, at £100 payable as follows, £40 to be paid [at the?] ensuing June or July Meeting of the Merchants in [Wil]lmsbg. and the Remainder by XMass or Aprl. 1775. Since then I have determined to write you by Mr. Ross , that I may...