1Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 18 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I wrote to the clerk of Goochland for a copy of Reuben Skelton’s will. his answer is that there is no such will recorded there, that no administration was granted there, & therefore it is presumed that he was not a resident of that county. I know however that he was a resident of the county at the time of his death. his mansion house was at Elkhill on the Goochland side of...
2Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 13 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Dec. 28 . & Jan. 4. have been duly recieved. I had not recollected the admission of the will in the bill. this however I presume they would be permitted to correct by amendment if it were found they had done it against the fact. but their quotation gives me a hope the will is recorded, as I know not how else they could have a copy. There was a compleat set of accounts current...
3Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 25 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 16 th is recieved, and I am delighted with the sight of the probat of Reuben Skelton’s will. nothing had ever given me such a fit of the horrors as the idea of settling an account of the administration of Reuben Skelton’s estate. I see no necessity now for the search proposed into mr Wayles’s papers of which this I believe was the chief object. I am obliged to be in Bedford on...
4Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 23 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 18 th was recieved on the 21 st . I am happy to learn that our settlement goes on so harmoniously. but it could not well be otherwise; as I suppose the Commissioner can never have been presented with fairer papers, or fuller in a case of so long standing. there can be no objection to the transfer of debets from Fleming’s to Skelton’s account, where the article is properly...
5Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 29 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
After sending off my letter of the 23 d yours of the 20 th came to hand. I shall now explain the article of the £210. which is the subject of it. John Flemings executors having advertised his personal estate for sale, mrs Jefferson was very desirous to get a favorite housewoman of the name of Ursula . I attended the sale therefore and purchased her & two young boys her sons. Meriwether Skelton...
6Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 1 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of May 28 is just recieved, & I return the account of Farrel & Jones against B.S. which it covered. the paiments of F. & J. of Sep. 7. 69. on mr Wayles’s draughts debited to B.S. I cannot explain by memory, & especially as I have not mr W’s
7Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 14 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 11 th in answer to yours of the 4 th and yesterday recieved yours of the 7 th announcing to me the melancholy information of the death of my most esteemed friend mrs Eppes . an intimate and affectionate acquaintance of 40. years with her had always rendered her very dear to me. nearly the last of my early & most beloved friends has now dropt off, and I really view myself as...
8Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 15 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 19. arrived here the day after I set out for Bedford , from which I have returned but a few days. that of Sep. 9. is since recieved. the pressure of other business accumulated during my absence and that of returning mr Ladd’s report by our first post, have permitted me to consider it but with a limited measure of attention. it is compiled with great care, and equal...
9Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 27 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you the copy of Warden’s exceptions recieved from you some time ago. they are too captious & futile to claim serious attention from the court. I am sued by a Samuel Scott of Bedford Campbell for 50. a s of land part of what was allotted to mrs Jefferson on the division of mr Wayles’s estate. this claim proposes to cut that much out of an entry of 99. acres purchased by
10Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 3 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of June 16. and 23. came both to hand by our yesterday’s mail. it is another proof of the delays of the post between this and Eppington . the great post lines move rapidly & regularly: but I have ever found the cross posts subject to great delays. I should be very sorry indeed that you should take a trip to Richmond merely for the research I wished: and especially as you have found...