51Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 13 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am at this moment engaged in making arrangements which may supply the deficit of crops and prices; but it will be two or three weeks before their result will be known. the moment it is, you shall be informed what can be done either from myself, or by Jefferson to whom I am turning over all my concerns. I informed my sister Marks that I would send for her any day she would name, and I still...
52Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 27 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the kind indulgence expressed in your letter of yesterday which lays me under an obligation the more to prevent your suffering by it if in my power, & will still if possible raise the money by a sale of property. my grandson had mentioned to me that a woman of mine who has 5. children and no husband had expressed a wish to be sold . I had a meeting with him yesterday, and...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 12 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Dec. 1. and I think you must have misinterpreted the expressions of my letter of Nov. 28. as on a revisal of that I find nothing which could convey an idea of dissatisfaction with yourself. I am sure nothing of that kind was intended because it was not felt. I barely referred to the opinion given in mine of Sep. 8. that 375. D. was double the worth of the...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 24 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your servant finds me just mounting my horse on a call to mr Lilly’s. I have only time therefore to say I must leave the renting &c to yourself entirely, only guarding against repetitions of corn planting so as to injure the fields. I am sorry I have not 10. D. by me. I depend on exchanges with the sheriffs, who collect little. Accept my best wishes. RC ( MA ). Not recorded in SJL .
55From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 2 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We have failed entirely in our cabbages this year. and I understand this has been universally the case in the red lands, insomuch that there is not a single one to be bought above this. your kindness in sending us some heretofore induces me to expect that the low grounds in your neighborhood may be able to furnish us our winter’s stock. the favor then I am about to ask of you is to become our...
56Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The injury which the grinding of plaister does to the mill, and the offence it gives to our bread customers hav e obliged me to make it a rule to grind plaister for nobody but myself. it shall be done for you however on this occasion. but my water wheel has given out, and we are now engaged in renewing it. this will not be compleated till about a week before which time I wish your plaister to...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 28 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
On reciept of your letter from Lancaster, I wrote to mr Hay to engage mr Wirt as assistant counsel in your case in chancery. I inclose you his answer. wishing to avoid appearing in this case I must get the favor of you to write to mr Wirt & to do what is needful in the case. Accept my friendly salutations & best wishes. ViU .
58From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 16 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night from mr Higginbotham a draught of yours on me for forty seven pounds payable in April. I shall delay writing to him till the next post by which I may hear from you. I considered our settlement of Aug. 11 and the balance of 558.14 D paiable Dec. 15. and actually paid as soon as the note was presented, as in full of the principal money due on all the purchases, and that the...
59Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 13 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your lre of to-day is hand d to me just as I am getting on horseback . I h d expect d to repay to you in the spring one half of what I owe you, & still hope it if our prod ce will bring any price reasonably, my regret is infinite that I cannot discharge the whole and I w d gladly do it & have b n try g to do it by a sale of either l ds
60From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 10 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I was so much engaged in preparing for a post that I could not answer by your servant the letter he brought, requesting me to settle the accounts between Colo. Lewis & yourself. I might state as a good reason for declining it, that I am by no means sufficiently versed in matters of account to undertake that office with the necessary consciousness that I could properly discharge it. but...
61From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 27 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
If my note for 558.14 D paiable the 15th. of Dec. is still in your own hands, I should be very glad if it could be either postponed awhile or paid by monthly portions, as I find I shall be very hard pushed , during the next month. if however it is gone out of your hands I shall endeavor to make provision for it if possible. accept my friendly salutations and best wishes. RC ( ViU ); addressed:...
62From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 2 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 29. came to hand last night. having left at Monticello the plat of the partition of Henderson’s land, I do not from memory recollect the position of John & Charles Henderson’s 4. acres very accurately; but think I recollect enough to say it is impossible for him to build a mill on them, and bring water to it without drawing his canal through lands not his, and which no court...
63From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 14 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th . is at hand particular circumstances relative to mr Randolph’s mill seat had obliged me to communicate to him confidentially the interest I had acquired in the opposite one. I have therefore referred to him to consider with respect to his own as well as my interests whether it will be necessary to take down Henderson’s dam before I come home, and if he thinks proper to...
64Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 6 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am infinitely obliged by the kind offer of the sum mentioned in your letter, and any further one you will be able to spare: an award is given against me for between 7. & 800.D. for rent to the Hendersons , to be paid instantly. I have also to pay 1600.D. more for the 3. shares of the daughters. this, with purchase of corn, and two years failure of crops embarrasses me beyond my expectations....
65Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 5 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now enabled to give you an order on Cap t Peyton for 700.D. and to assure you of the balance of my debt in July. which will be 547.16 D with interest from Mar. 10. as you will see by the subjoined statement. I pray you to be assured that it has never been in my power to do more than I have done, and than what I still engage to do; and I have no doubt that your own experience proves to you...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 25 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. was recieved by the last post. it is quite out of my power to be a purchaser of land. nobody is more puzzled to make both ends meet, and I fear at the close of my office I shall find I have not done so. it will be as convenient for me that mr Bacon should recieve corn from you as money: but you must be so good as to inform him yourself what he is to recieve from you &...
67Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 28 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your letter covering Sheckle’s certificate of his having never paid the 2. years rent of the house he had rented. this was quite unnecessary, as your own assurance of that to me was quite sufficient. perhaps, at the time you mentioned it, I might have betrayed some little surprise, because that the whole rents from the 3. tenants Sheckle , Hope & Bowles for a year or two...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 4 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 3. was recieved in due time, and should have been sooner answered but that I wished some information from mr Randolph on the subject, who has but lately returned to this place. I do not want the inclination to purchase the shares of the warehouse, on the contrary it is desirable to me to consolidate that acquisition in all it’s parts: but it is scarcely in my power to make...
69From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I ventured to write you my letter of the 8th. inst. I entered into arrangements with my banker in Georgetown to be sure that I could punctually comply with what was therein undertaken. immediately on the reciept of yours to-day I went to him again to see if he could throw the two paiments of 500. D. each promised for March & April into one of 1000. D. for March. on examining the state...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 16 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The certificate for 1000. acres of land in the name of John Peyton which you inclosed me shall be forwarded to the war office by this day’s post. without some authentic designation however of the person to whom the patent is to be granted it will of course come out in the name of John Peyton. I mention this, that if you wish it otherwise, you may furnish me with the supplementary papers...
71Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 20 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The title purchased from Henderson’s representatives is so extremely complicated as to render it indispensable to state in the deed all the several conveyances of all the parties; otherwise in case of question at any future time it might be lost for want of knowing it. I have endeavored to do this in the inclosed deed, and in order that you may have time, I send it to you To-day, & pray you to...
72Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, [12 May 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
The demand of Frances Hornsby for her portion of the lands of her father conveyed to you by James L. Henderson is now become so serious as to require us to proceed immediately against James L . and in the mean time to aim at some compromise with mr Hornsby . I yesterday conversed with Cap t Meriwether , attorney for Hornsby
73Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Craven Peyton for Purchase of Henderson Lands, 14 July 1801 to 7 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Craven Peyton in account for Henderson’s lands, with Th: J. D r
74From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 14 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. was put into my hands by Thomas Walker about 3. or 4. hours ago, and I immediately take measures to obtain the 600. Dollars desired, in such a form as he could most safely carry & might answer your purpose. I have accordingly been able to obtain 500. dollars in 10. bills of the United states branch bank of Norfolk & 100. Dollars gold. the former will be inclosed herein;...
75Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 15 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have secured the return of the 1500.D. you were so kind as to lend me, by a sale of part of the land to mr Dawson , the price payable July 1. this will enable your negociator in Kentucky to ask a shorter day of payment. should you fail in that negociation, I can still find use for the money according to your own convenience. I set out for Bedford tomorrow morning to be back on the 29 th . I...
76From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you, Dear Sir, a thousand thanks for your kind present of Cabbages—they are the more acceptable as I had despaired of getting any in this part of the neighborhood. but it was the farthest of all things from my thoughts to have broken in upon your private stock at all. the negroes being the only cabbage dealers here I thought they might be so also in your neighborhood where the low...
77Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Craven Peyton for Rents and Profits from Henderson Lands, 1801–7 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Craven Peyton in account D r £
78Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 17 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
you are quite free, my dear Sir, to make the use you propose of the opinion I gave you, and under the cautions you express. my object is to avoid giving useless offence. I salute you with friendship P.S. your serv t has been detained by the interruption of a visit from a foreigner RC (Mrs. Charles W. Biggs, Lewisburg, W.Va., 1950; photocopy in MsSM ); dateline between note and postscript;...
79Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the first moment it has been in my power to commence the repaiment of the sum with which you were so kind as to accomodate me by sending you an order on Cap t Peyton for 500.D. as much as I am indebted to you for your friendly forbearance, I am afraid to name dates for further payments. the spring will be the earliest, at which I shall be able to pay the half or the whole of...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 31 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The proceedings on my lottery are too far advanced to admit the practicability of any change whatever to be made on it. I have put the whole business in to the hands of my grandson who is now on his way to Baltimore and the Northern cities, and has already disposed of tickets probably in Richmond and on the road. I have meddled so little with it that I have not even asked from him any...
81From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter I wrote to mr Bacon to send me the account which I had left with him to convince you of the errors of addition in it. it is now before me. your addition makes the debits £53-10-1 the Credits 42-10-6 Balance 11-1-7 the true addition makes the debits £51-8-7 Credits 42.17-6 Balance 8-11-1 = 28.5
82From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 12 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to send you the 20. D. you desire. I recieved a considerable sum by post yesterday, but paid away the whole of it in the course of the day & this morning, reserving only as much as would carry me to Bedford. my reciepts being monthly it will not be till this time next month again that I shall be in cash. In having the mill house valued it will be important that...
83From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 8 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 2d. instant was recieved by last post, desiring a remittance of the balance of 131. D 47 c due you on our settlement of May 22. I accordingly now inclose you 140. Doll. in bank bills of the United states, as these cannot be got exactly to the fraction desired. I hope it will be recieved in time for your purpose. sundry approaching calls for money render it absolutely...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 13 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 27th. of April I recieved from Mr. Jefferson for acceptance your note for 201. D. paiable about the last of July, which I sent back accepted and shall pay at maturity. I did not write you on it because I thought he would do so. since that your favors of Apr. 25. & June 9. have been recieved. the former proposed that I should pay £200. in 60. days (say July 1.) and £60. in 90 days (Aug....
85Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 16 September 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday the inclosed letter , and have this day forwarded on the bill it covered, to mr Hollins of Baltimore . by the Northern mail which leaves Milton tomorrow it will reach him on Saturday, whereas had I waited to send it thro’ mess rs Gibson & Jefferson at Richmond it could only have got to Richmond on that day, and would have added near a week to the term at which it is...
86From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 8 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Nov. 2. I expressed a hope I might be able to pay you 1000. D. the 1st. week of this month, 1000. D. in March, & the balance in the summer. in my letter of the 20th. of Nov. I still thought it might be but suggested a possibility that the paiments might be a month later. it is with sincere concern I am obliged, by a rigorous view of my affairs, to say, not only that I cannot...
87Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 7 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4 th came to hand yesterday. I do assure you that I never have entertained a moment’s doubt of the truth of the transaction between Ja s Henderson , mrs Henderson & yourself as to the sale of the lands of the 3 youngest daughters, and of her full knolege & consent to it as you have ever stated it. I believe her denial of it to be a sheer falsehood. it was impossible such a...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 9 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been obliged to change a little the arrangement I had made with you as to the paiment of the 375. D. by inclosing you an order on Gibson & Jefferson for 100. D. in Richmond, as I was not able to remit to mr Benade from this place more than 275. D. this I did yesterday in an order of the bank of the US. at this place on that at Philadelphia to that amount; and I informed him that you had...