From Thomas Jefferson to S. & S. Myers
To S. & S. Myers
Washington Dec. 7. 1802
By desire of mr Samuel Dyer of Albemarle I inclose you an order on Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson for one hundred & fifty dollars for the credit of mr Dyer with you. Accept my respects and good wishes.
Th: Jefferson
RC (DeHi); addressed: “Messrs. Samuel & S. Myers Richmond”; franked and postmarked; endorsed as received 10 Dec. and answered on the 11th. Recorded in SJL with the notation “150.”
S. & S. Myers was the partnership headed by Samuel Myers (1755–1836), a half-brother and former business partner of Moses Myers of Norfolk. Samuel Myers transferred a successful mercantile business from Petersburg to Richmond during the 1790s and emerged as a leading member of the city’s small but potent Jewish community. By November 1800, his business advertised under the name S. & S. Myers, but three years later it was advertising solely under his name (Richmond Virginia Argus, 4 Nov. 1800, 1 Dec. 1802, 5 Oct. 1803; Myron Berman, Richmond’s Jewry, 1769–1976: Shabbat in Shockoe [Charlottesville, 1979], 64–70).
TJ was likely reimbursing samuel dyer on behalf of his carpenter John Perry (, 2:1088). A letter of 7 Oct. from Dyer to TJ, recorded in SJL as received 13 Oct., has not been found. TJ’s response of 15 Oct. has also not been found.