1From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 23 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the 19th. by which I learn you have done 250. f. of the garden. were we to go on, reducing the whole to the same level we have begun with, the labor would be immense. I therefore conclude to do it in 4. levels of 250. f each, and taking such a level for each as that the earth to be dug away shall just fill up the part which is too low. in this way each...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 13 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 260. D. to be paid as follows John Perry 100. Colo. Nicholas Lewis 103. 89 Wurtenbaker for Wm. Stewart 10. taking in my note Terril on acct. of James Walker 47. 98 261. 87 inform mr Peyton that I have paid for him to the Postmaster General 28. D 53 c. the true balance of his account after correcting the error of addition. my best wishes attend you. Privately owned.
3From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 10 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 620. D. to be applied as follows. to John Perry 200. D. James Walker 100. D. Dabney Minor 266. 67 to discharge a debt from G. Lilly, take in the bond yourself, on account 53. 33 for fodder &c.
4From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 9 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 250. Dollars, of which 100. is for James Walker, 50. for mr Maddox, and 100. D. towards paying such of your debts as are most pressing. another like remittance the next month will I hope begin to place you at your ease. Mr. Peyton sent me an order from Madox for 50. D. but at the date of the order you had in hand that sum for him. it will therefore be necessary, for you to...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 13 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandums The first work to be done is to finish every thing at the mill, to wit, the dam, the stone still wanting in the South abutment, the digging for the addition to the toll mill, the waste, the dressing off the banks & hollows about the mill houses, making the banks of the canal secure every where. in all these things mr Walker will direct what is to be done & how. The 2d. job is...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 21 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy arrived here last night and he will set out tomorrow, if the weather permits. he takes in his cart a number of articles of which I shall inclose a list with directions as to their contents. I shall here direct only as to some particulars. in the box No. 4. you will find some willow-oak acorns, peach stones, & a little more of the Quarentine corn which I had here. this last you will add to...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 20 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I suppose that for the waggon &c. to get here on the 6th. of March, they must set out on Thursday the 2d. of March. and as the post will arrive that morning at Milton, it will be better not to set off till after the arrival of the post, as it is possible something may occur which I might wish to write to you before you set off, altho’ I do not foresee any thing. As your waggon will come empty,...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 19 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night yours of the 18th. respecting mr Belt’s horse. he never spoke to me on that subject, but as I believe him to be an honest man who would not apply our grain to his support I shall not object to it. I am very sorry indeed to hear how little the tollmill gets. however I hope you keep an exact account of all the toll she gets, as nothing but exact observations of that can...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you three hundred & five Dollars to be disposed of as follows D to John Perry 200.
10From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 7 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Directions for mr Bacon. June 7. 08. Consider as your first object the keeping a full supply of water to the mill, observing that whenever the water does not run over the waste, you should take your hands and having put in a sufficiency of stone, then carry in earth and tighten till the water runs steadily over the waste. it ought to do this when both mills are running one pair of stones each....
11From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the 4th. and a new arrangement of the post which begins this day will enable me hereafter to answer letters the day after they are recieved, so that to a letter written Saturday morning the answer will be recieved the Thursday following, which will be a week sooner than heretofore. I inclose you 120. Dollars, of which 20. Dollars are to be paid to Hugh...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised Henry Williams to send him by this day’s post 87 D. 13 C for William Stewart. I therefore now inclose you 90. D. out of which you will be so good as to pay him immediately. I expect to be on in a fortnight with what may be necessary the demands still remaining on you. I offer you my best wishes. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
13From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 4 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy has been detained till to-day in order to carry home another decayed horse which I must pray you to let run at large in the day, having him fed night & morning. I apprehend Davy will have to lead him most of the way, and I cannot conjecture the time it may take him to get home. I had hoped to have set-off tomorrow, and to have been at home on Sunday, but I think it rather probable I shall...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 25 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 21st. is recieved. I think you ought not to venture to come without a horse or mule besides those in the Phaeton. a dog may disperse your sheep, or some other occurence, & they could not be pursued either with the Phaeton or the man on foot. two horses in the Phaeton & a mule for the rider would be best. if you can hire a steady horse reasonably, do so; or if you can borrow one....
15From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found it more convenient to have money sent to you from Richmond this month than from this place. you will accordingly recieve by mail from mr George Jefferson 700. D. under cover to mr Higginbotham. they are to be disposed of for the debts due & becoming due as follows. D mr Belt 12.
16From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you 360. D. to be paid as follows. to John Perry 200. mr Nelson 30. Wm. Maddox 52. 16 mr Belt 75. on account 2. 84 360. mr Belt shall receive his balance the first week in next month.
17From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 5 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you four hundred & fifty five dollars to be paid as follows. to John Perry 100. D. Hugh Chisolm 100. D. mr Higginbotham by ord. of Madox 38. 49 David Anderson of Milton 15. 16 yourself on account 201. 35
18From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 27 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from mr John Peyton I percieve he is not satisfied that there was an error of addition in the account I left with you to be shewn to him. will you be so good as to return it to me by the first post. I mean the account in which he had corrected some of the figures on your shewing them that they were wrong. you will know it by my having stated some of the figures in my own hand. I...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 19 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 11th. by John is recieved. I should imagine that above & near the New road, and in the clearing you have to make in the river field you would find rail timber enough for the fence down the mountain. should you not however, you must get it where it is most convenient. when you proceed to mend up the fence which incloses the house & it’s grounds, you will find a great deal of timber...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 8th. came to hand last night, and I now inclose you 30. D. for Bishop’s order in favor of Brown. this pays all the debts of which I have any note except that of Mullins’s which I informed mr Higginbotham should be paid at the beginning of the next month. it is possible I may be at Monticello on the morning of the 22d. but it is possible I may be one, two or three days later. I...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 17 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 13th. is recieved, and the 135. D. shall be sent you the first week in Nov. as shall also the small debts stated to be now due in the paper you gave me, & which I have now recovered these amount to something under 50. D. I expect mr Madox is now about the stable, & the house laid off where an old loghouse stands, & of course that he draws off some of your force. I think it will be...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 7 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Jan. 29. has been recieved. mr Randolph having been so kind as to offer his aid in directing the repairs of the dam in my absence, I have accepted it, and therefore refer you to take his advice and directions as my own, the time of my return home being too uncertain to look to that. but I suppose the permanent repair must not be attempted till the weather & water become warm, that...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 26 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
As I must carry thorn plants home in the spring to fill up the vacancies in my hedges, I must now get you to take the trouble of walking round the whole of the two thorn enclosures, and counting exactly how many are wanting. there should be one every 6. inches. then count how many plants are living in the thorn nursery, and send me the numbers, that I may be able to procure here the proper...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 18 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I am entirely uninformed of the nature of mr John Peyton’s account, as also of that of Cooper. I must therefore get you to forward them to me, with the credits to be placed against them. I have recieved a letter from mr Craven offering his river field in exchange for new land over the road where I proposed, provided I will add to it the bottom land from where the Colle & Park branches meet, up...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 12 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy has been detained here until this day. he now carries with him some bundles of trees, and 4000. thorns. as to the trees, the moment he arrives, dig a trench in the garden 18. I. deep and set them in it in their bundles, side by side, & fill in the earth again very close, so that the air may not possibly get to them, and let them remain so till I come home, only watering them every day...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 24 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy has been detained till now, the earth having been so frozen that the plants could not be dug up. on the next leaf are directions what to do with them, in addition to which I inclose mr Maine’s directions as to the thorns. he brings a couple of Guinea pigs, which I wish you to take great care of, as I propose to get this kind into the place of those we have now, as I greatly prefer their...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you two hundred and forty five dollars, to wit for mr Dinsmore 20. D. mr Chisolm 50. mr Walker 100. yourself on account 75 245. the 75. for yourself you will pay to those you think best. if mr Perry is with you, tell him I retain 100. D. which I will either remit to him or to mr Speer as he shall direct. mr Speer told me it was to be paid to him, but I wait mr Perry’s order to do...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Eppes of Eppington in Chesterfield has bought a horse for me which is now at his house, and for which I must pray you to send off a trusty person immediately on reciept of this. I think Jerry would be most to be depended on to take care of the horse, as he is a horse of high price. it is 80. miles to Eppington. he goes by Colo. Lewis’s at the Byrd, crosses the river at Dungeness, then goes...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
We have no mail from Milton this week, so that any letters committed to that will not come to hand until next week. I must pray you to send me a little of the wool shorn from my old breed of sheep (Merinos) about the bulk of an apple, done up flat in a letter. I believe it is the identical kind which is now selling for 1 ¼ D. a pound. I offer you my best wishes. ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers.
30From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
After leaving home some other things occurred to me which I will now mention by way of supplement to my former memorandums. I omitted to name Ursula as one who, when the family has left Monticello, may be employed with the other labourers. when Phill proceeds to the making shoes for the people, Barnaby & Shepherd should join him, as they have heretofore done, in order to perfect themselves...