1Notice of Sale of Wayles Properties, 15 July 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
River, opposite to Elk Island; and one Thousand four Hundred and eighty Acres on
2Further Notice of Sale of Wayles Properties, 9 September 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
River, opposite to Elk Island.
3Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 15 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
the residuary legatee and owner of Elk island, in the accyou ask the names of the several successors to Elk island.
4Memorandum Books, 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
Elk-islandCalculation of the value of Mrs. Jeff.’s interest in Elk island.
5Jefferson’s Advertisement for Sale of Elk Hill, [after 10 January 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
The lands called Elk-hill on James river and the Byrd creek, adjacent to Elk-island, in Goochland, containing 669 acres, in two ..., on a very high and beautiful position, commanding a fine view of the Blue mountains, of James river for several miles, and of Elk island. It is in a thick seated neighborhood of independant farmers. There is also a small dwelling house on the latter tract. These...
6Memorandum Books, 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
Sam. Williams proposes to tend in Elk island and at Elk hillElk island is 693. strides wide at the dividing fence between Skelton & myself. (measured accurly. 127½ po. = 701½ yds.) From that fence it is 200 pannels (say poles) up to the widest part of...
7Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 23 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
allow the joint occupation of the two plantations on the main to be set-off against that of Elk island. they had but about 80. a
8Thomas Jefferson to David Copeland, 25 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
and Elk Island on the
9Indenture for the Sale of Elk Hill, 5 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
, to whom it had been allotted in the distribution of Wayles’s estate. Lomax had acquired lands in the vicinity of Elk Hill and Elk Island from
10From 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,...