Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1820
From Bernard Peyton
Rich’d 19 June. 20.
Dear sir,
By Mr Johnson you will receive a small Bag of Seeds fordd by the Collector at Petersburg.—if delivered in good order please pay freight as customary—
Say to Mrs Randolph if you please that her Bll: Haws by Mr Johnson for Mrs Morris are safely to hand & shall be dispatched by the first Vessel to N. York—in haste—
Your Mo: Obd: Servt:
B. Peyton
1 Bag
RC (MHi); addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 3 July 1820 and so recorded in SJL.
The collector at petersburg was Joseph Jones.
Index Entries
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- hawthorn search
- Johnson, Mr. (boatman); transports goods search
- Jones, Joseph; and goods for TJ search
- Morris, Ann Cary Randolph (Martha Jefferson Randolph’s sister-in-law; Gouverneur Morris’s wife); friendship with M. J. Randolph search
- Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Randolph, Martha Jefferson (Patsy; TJ’s daughter; Thomas Mann Randolph’s wife); and A. C. R. Morris search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- seeds; sent to TJ search