Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, [3] October 1821
To Bernard Peyton
Monticello Oct. [3]. 21.
Dear Sir
On the morning of the 1st inst. Wood’s boats started from the Shadwell mills, with 45. barrels of flour for me, and he has promised on his return to take immediately 60. barrels more which I have had got in readiness for him at the mill. Messrs Randolph & Colclaser also promise me they will immediately send down 50. barrels on my account now due.
I yesterday drew on you in favor of James Lietch for 50.D. Wolfe and Raphael for 70.D. and the sheriff of Albemarle for 145.44 D for taxes. I shall set out for Bedford tomorrow morning where I shall be until some time in November. immediately after my arrival there I shall have to draw on you for my taxes there, which will be followed by som[e] other draughts which I shall endeavor to hold back until I know that the flour is in hand, which Jefferson promises to attend to diligently. I inclose you a set of Notes for renewal, and salute you with constant affection & respect.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Thomas Cooper to TJ, 21 Aug. 1820; dateline faint; edge trimmed; at foot of text: “Colo B. Peyton”; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 3 Oct. 1821 and so recorded (with TJ’s additional bracketed notation: “notes”) in SJL. Enclosures not found.
The draft on Peyton that TJ gave to James Leitch (lietch) repaid $35 borrowed on 16 Aug. and $15 borrowed on 11 Sept. 1821. In addition to $137.44 for taxes, TJ’s payment to William Wertenbaker, the deputy sheriff of albemarle County, included $8 for Edmund “Meeks’s order.” On 22 Oct. 1821 TJ drew on Peyton for $139.54 to pay his bedford County taxes (, 2:1378, 1379, 1380).
A missing letter of 5 Oct. 1821 from TJ’s grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph (jefferson) is recorded in SJL as received 11 Oct. 1821 at Poplar Forest.
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; pays taxes search
- Leitch, James; TJ pays search
- Meeks, Edmund; account with TJ search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); taxes on search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); taxes on search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ plans visits to search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s flour search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letters from accounted for search
- Randolph & Colclaser (Albemarle Co. firm); TJ’s account with search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- Shadwell mills; flour from search
- taxes; TJ pays search
- Wertenbaker, William; as deputy sheriff search
- Wolfe & Raphael (Charlottesville firm); TJ pays search
- Wood, John Henry; boats of search