Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 4 December 1820
From Bernard Peyton
Rich’d 4 Decemr 1820
Dear Sir,
Your draft favor Mr Garland for $600 has been presented & paid some time since, & I will on Wednesday next pay $500 towards your $3,000 note due at the Farmers Bank on that day, being the amt of curtail called for by them on that note. on Friday last recd from Jefferson Randolph three Blank notes for the renewal your several notes under my management, which are in time, & shall be duely attended to: in his letter he mentioned that none of your Flour had then been shipped, but would dispatch it on the first rise of the water in the River, which the present thaw will afford, so that I presume it may be expected in a few days: The article is still declining, & now dull sale at $39⁄16—Wheat 67¢, Tobacco old $4¾ @ 9½, new $3¾ @ 7—
It affords me pleasure to inform you that the Genl Court have decided, (in which they had the concurrence of the Jury), that there was no defalcation in the Treasury during the year 1819, (which year alone I am surety) & that consequently the securities of that year are free from responsibility:—the Commonwealth’s Council have appealed from this decision to the Court of Appeals, where I hope we have still less to fear— With sincere regard Dr sir
Bernard Peyton
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 8 Dec. 1820 and so recorded in SJL.
Peyton was a surety for the former Virginia treasurer John Preston (Richmond Enquirer, 1 Dec. 1820, 3 July 1821).
Index Entries
- A. Robertson & Company (firm); TJ’s debt to search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; price of search
- flour; transported to Richmond search
- Garland, Samuel; and TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; as surety for J. Preston search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Preston, John (d.1827); as treasurer of Va. search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s flour search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- Richmond, Va.; flour shipped to search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco prices at search
- Richmond, Va.; wheat prices in search
- Rivanna River; water level of search
- tobacco; price of in Richmond search
- Virginia; Court of Appeals search
- Virginia; General Court search
- Virginia; treasurer of search
- Virginia; treasury of search
- wheat; price of in Richmond search