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Peter Minor to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 July 1812

Peter Minor to Thomas Mann Randolph

Ridgeway July 11. 1812.

Dr Sir

The directors of the Rivanna company intend to recommence their operations on Monday next Their first essay will be at the Milton falls, where they have determined to make a sluice around the Island in preference to improving the one1 which yrself & Mr Jefferson have attempted. This course they deem much more practicable in the execution, & much safer for the passage of boats, on account of the greater graduation of fall that will be effected. In doing this some part of the work you have done will be destroyed & the head of the sluice necessaryly stoped up. I was directed to make you acquainted with this their determination, & at the same time to assure you that all idea of demanding toll upon the issues of the Shadwell Mills will be abandoned in consideration of the advantages afforded by the use of the canal & its recent improvement by Mr Jefferson—

This explanation is intended to prevent the possibility of any collision, which might have taken place had the directors proceeded to pull away your work without due notice.

The work which was loaned to you last summer by the company, it is expected will be now returned with your earliest convenience, as they are at present weak handed, & wish to finish their operations with the greatest dispatch.

Yrs with esteem & respect

P. Minor.

RC (MHi); endorsed by Randolph as received the day it was sent; endorsed by TJ: “To Thos M. Randolph.”

1Reworked from “sluice.”

Index Entries

  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; and Rivanna Company search
  • Milton, Va.; and Rivanna Company search
  • Minor, Peter; and Rivanna Company search
  • Minor, Peter; letter to T. M. Randolph search
  • Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); and Rivanna Company search
  • Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); and Shadwell mills search
  • Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); letter to from P. Minor search
  • Rivanna Company; directors of search
  • Rivanna River; TJ’s sluice on search
  • Shadwell mills; and T. M. Randolph search