1To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 14 August 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
bundles of haybundles of hay
2To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Brown, 4 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
could be detained in this “fertile Land planting or corn or hay.” He came to Lexington a few Evenings ago & the young men assembled in considerable numbers for the purpose of singing to him his own Poem, the Aliens, by way of Serenade. Whilst they were tuning their......the States, they take their way; / Some here, some there, as fancy leads, / Sit down; and plant, or corn, or hay, / To raise...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 2[5] May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
had reported him to be. Philip Norborne Nicholas, George Hay, ...to testify to the validity of Callender’s statements about Adams, and squashed Wirt’s attempt to argue that the Sedition Act was unconstitutional. Nicholas, Hay, and Wirt finally refused to continue, and Callender’s trial, prosecuted by Thomas Nelson, concluded with the defendant unrepresented by legal counsel. He was found...
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 14 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The Examiner augments in Circulation, and The Prospect is already more than half sold. We are in a strong Canvass here about who is to be attorney General—If merit has any thing to say George Hay will get it. Of the other Candidates, one is only not a boy—the second is incessantly drunk; the third is a tory of the dirtiest kind,
5To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 18 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
), might by introducing a new & intelligent system, improve the estates & augment the revenue beyond all conception—Take the Dover low grounds for instance & convert them into the best meadow—I am much mistaken if the hay cut thereon & sent to Richmond would not in a few years pay the purchase money of the low grounds so employed.—And every acre would produce still more if the hay were employed...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
order for Clover seed this year? I am greatly pleased with Clover hay: what I thought worth little, from the rain in making, has proved fine food by the effect on my animals. I can think of no preparation for turneps, which have become a necessary crop with me, so...
7To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 23 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wish the beer which you desired Mr. Hay should have bottled for you could accompany them, but fear it will not—as it appears as if I shall not be able to prevail on Mr. H. to have it done; he has frequently promised to attend...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William Strickland, 18 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...of great value. The rye grass I once saw cultivated in America, and producing a more luxuriant crop than is usual in this country: it is not esteemed here a very good grass, being coarse when standing for hay; but is greatly cultivated, producing the first herbage for our sheep in the spring. These seeds are contained in a box about a foot square, marked on the top
9To Thomas Jefferson from Luther Martin, 24 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
170, 206; TJ to George Hay, 19 June 1807).