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I was at Colo. Peter Randolph ’s about a Fortnight ago, and my Schooling falling into Discourse,...
This very day, to others the day of greatest mirth and jollity, sees me overwhelmed with more and...
I have been thinking this half hour how to begin my letter and cannot for my soul make it out. I...
Your’s of May 30’th came safe to hand. The rival you mentioned I know not whether to think...
In the most melancholy fit that ever any poor soul was, I sit down to write to you. Last night,...
From a croud of disagreeable [companions] among whom I have spent three or four of the most...
The contents of your letter have not a little alarmed me: and really upon seriously weighing them...
I received your letter of Wednesday the 18th instant; in that, of this day, you mention one which...
As the messenger who delivered me your letter, informs me that your boy is to leave town tomorrow...
This letter will be conveied to you by the assistance of our friend Warner Lewis. Poor fellow!...
I received your last by T. Nelson whom I luckily met on my road hither. Surely never did small...
I am at length arrived here, after a long, but agreeable trip along the continent as far as New...
Your welfare, That of m’rs Page, and your heir apparent give me great joy: but much was I...
I sit down to petition your suffrage in favor of a friend, whose virtues and abilities have made...
I am truly concerned that it is not in my power to undertake the superintendance of your son in...
Your messenger being about to return before I have an opportunity of conferring with Mr. Blair on...
Ero apud Society spring on Tuesday per quatuor. Fortasse et I. Lepus-æmula veniet. Apis ibi et tu...
[7 September 1769] R un away from the subscriber in Albemarle , a Mulatto slave called Sandy ,...
I am to acquaint Mrs. Page of the loss of my favorite pullet; the consequence of which will...
I take the liberty of interceding for your friendly aid to Mr. James Ogilvie a gentleman of my...
I am to beg the favor of your friendly interposition in the following case, which I hope you will...
To be sold to the highest Bidders, on Thursday the 31st of this Instant (January) at the House of...
To be let to the lowest bidder, on Thursday the 14 th of March, at Charlottesville, in Albemarle,...
Not expecting to have the pleasure of seeing you again before you leave the country I inclose you...
I wrote you a line from Wmsburgh last October; but lest that may have miscarried I take this...
To be sold to the highest Bidders, on the second Wednesday in March, being the Day before...
To be sold to the highest Bidders, on the third Thursday in March, at King William Courthouse,...
It is agreed between John Randolph, Esq., of the City of Williamsburg, and Thomas Jefferson, of...
Yours of the eighth of April I have received, and since that your favour of five pounds as...
As it was somewhat doubtful when you left the country how far my little invoice delivered you...
The case of Plume v. Portlock now lies at the Rules in danger of a dismission for want of a...
Among the Treasurer ’s causes which I have undertaken to finish is a suit brought against you by...
I sat down with a design of executing your request to form a catalogue of books amounting to...
I must again trouble you in the case of MacVee v. Wilson &c. Oranges, since on a second attempt...
Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Jefferson and Francis Eppes are held and firmly...
I have just received notice from Mr. Wythe that in the case of Jamieson and Taylor v. Meredith...
In the suit in Chancery brought by Jamieson and Taylor against Meredith, Cuningham and Nisbett,...
I obtained for you last June an order of council against Price for the 234. acres of land...
Inclosed is a copy of Dickie’s bill against you. You will be pleased to send me a state of the...
Your scruples on that part of the answer which denies your having in your hands effects of any...
Encouraged by the small acquaintance which I had the pleasure of having contracted with you...
You have before this heard and lamented the death of our good friend Carr . Some steps are...
ON serious Consideration of the present State of our Practice in the General Court, we find it...
Two Thousand five Hundred and twenty Acres of land in Cumberland , commonly known by the Name of...
Five Hundred and fifty Acres of land in the County of Charles City , with a convenient...
Entail bill (my own) May  9. 1774. leave to bring in the bill 10. bill read first time & ordd. to...
To the Inhabitants of the parish of Saint Anne. The members of the late house of Burgesses having...
A Declaration of rights and League for their support by the inhabitants of Virginia. We the...
Resolved that it be an instruction to the said deputies when assembled in General Congress with...
As I mean to be a conscientious observer of the measures generally thought requisite for the...