1From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 19 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...of TJ’s wife’s first husband, Bathurst Skelton (d. 1768). Gilliam was the husband of Skelton’s sister Lucy. The suit concerned arrangements between Wayles and Skelton over certain lands, including Elk Island. The long-standing controversy involved TJ in multiple ways: as one of the executors of Wayles’s estate, as a former administrator of Skelton’s estate, by his wife’s dower right,...