Esther Hutson (Hudson) was a resident of Rockbridge County by 1820. During a property dispute in 1839 she was deemed to be no longer resident in Virginia (DNA: RG 29, CS, Rockbridge Co., 1820; Vi: RG 48, Personal Property Tax Returns, Rockbridge Co., 1822; Rockbridge Co. Deed Book, Q:323–5; Rockbridge Co. Chancery Order Book [1831–46], 153–4, 182).

Following TJ’s return to Monticello, his granddaughter Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) reported to Nicholas P. Trist on 21 Nov. 1821 that “Grand-Papa returned home yesterday morning having fortunately experienced no ill effects from spending those two cold days at the natural bridge without the protection even of a great coat, for he had forgotten to take his with him, but he suffer’d a good deal with cold yesterday and we are uneasy lest he should still be sick. he lost Wellington on the road, and has supplied his place with a horse equally gentle in the carriage, and which we can ride with safety” (RC in DLC: NPT). TJ recorded that on 19 Nov. 1821 he “Bought of John Flood a mare (Stella) 6. y. old last spring of Janus and Seelah blood. a star, a snip, and 2 hindfeet white. blood bay. 4–10 high. for 80.D. payable Apr. 30” (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1381).