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To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 16 December 1802

From Craven Peyton

Stumpisland 16. Dcr. 1802.

Dear Sir

I am sorry I was undar the necessity of giving Mr. D. Carr a Draft On you for Six Hundred Dollars, this I did One Month later then you named to me woud. be convenient for you in the last payment, Augt., is the term named to him, resptg. the two first payments. I made engagements to meet Demand On the tenth of February & the tenth of March & I used every exertion in my power to get furthar time but to no effect. This I did for your Own convenience.

With Much Respt Yr Mst. Obt.

C Peyton

RC (ViU); endorsed by TJ as received 21 Dec. and so recorded in SJL.

According to his financial memoranda, TJ did not record an order on Gibson & Jefferson for Dabney carr in the amount of $600 until 6 Sep. 1803 (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1107).

later then you named to me: for the postponed payment plan TJ arranged in the purchase of the Henderson lands, see TJ to Peyton, 2 Nov. 1802.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 16 December 1802
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    16 December 1802

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 16 December 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0160. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 180.]

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