2181John Adlum to Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
With this days mail I send you a number of cuttings of the vines from which I made the wine I had the honor of sending you by M r Christie . I also enclose a bottle of the wine, made last season There is one particularity peculiarity in those vines different from any I am acquainted with, They will not bear pruning in the same manner that foreign vines do. When I had them first cultivated, my...
2182John Adlum to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
About the middle of last month I send sent on to you a number of the cuttings, of the Grape Vines you requested. As I have not heard, that you have received them, I am fearful they may have been lost on the way. If so? and you will send me word: I will forward on to you a smaller number of cuttings, and see that they are put in the mail, so that there can be no question of their getting safe...
2183Thomas Jefferson’s Constitution for Proposed Agricultural Society of Albemarle, [ca. 1 February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Several persons, farmers & planters of the county of Albemarle , having, during their visits and occasional meetings together, in conversations on the subjects of their Agricultural pursuits, recieved considerable benefits from an intercommunication of their plans & processes in husbandry, they have imagined that these benefits might be usefully extended, by enlarging the field of...
2184Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Membership Diploma in the Agricultural Society of Bavaria, 13 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( MHi ); printed diploma (inscribed by lithographer Johann Michael Schramm : “in Stein von J. Schram”), with TJ’s surname, decoration surrounding it, and date filled in by hand, signed by L. Graf von Arco as president and countersigned by Baron Karl von Moll as secretary. The illustration on TJ’s membership diploma is a drawing of Charles Guillaume’s wheel plow.
2185To James Madison from Robert Ailstock, [ca. 9 April 1815] (Madison Papers)
I have the Honnour in Close you a few lines to inform you Sir that I would be glad to get a discharge from the Servis of the united for I have binn on the lines about two and Six months and in the time my farther is dead Sence I have left home and what little propetty I have is agoing to distrucktion and If you will Gave me a discharge and pay me my monthley pay that is due me I will Gave up...
2186Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate and Plans for Albemarle Academy/Central College, [ca. 18 November 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
The walls of the Pavilion are 116.f. running measure. Cellar 2. bricks thick, 10 f. high. 24. bricks to a square foot. 24 × 10 × 116 amount to 27,840. bricks 27 84 0 Upper walls 23. f. high, 1½ brick thick. 18. bricks to a square foot. 18 × 23 × 116 48,024 say 53360 the chimney 4,752 4752 6. pilasters 1 134. 1134
2187Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 17 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the board of Trustees of the Albemarle Accademy at charlottesville the 17 th day of June 1814 . In the absence of the Secretary, Frank Carr was nominated and appointed Secretary. On motion made and Seconded, the scheme of a Lottery heretofore reported to the board was amended by the adoption of the following substitute. Lottery for the establishment of an Accademy in the County...
2188Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 15 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Trustees of the Albemarle Accademy held at the house of Triplet T Estes in Charlottesville the 15 th day of April 1814 —agreeable to adjournment, present Peter Carr President, Thomas Jameson , Frank Carr , Jno: B Carr , Robt B Streshly
2189Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 3 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the board of Trustees of the Albemarle Accademy held at the house of Triplet T. Estes in Charlottesville the third day of May 1814 , agreeable to adjournment. Present Peter Carr President, John Harris , Dabney Minor , Thomas Wells , Sam
2190Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 5 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the recommendation of the twenty fifth of March last past , on this fifth day of April 1814 . appeared at the house of Triplet T Estes , in Charlottesville , Thomas Jefferson , Jonathan B Carr , Robert B Streshly , James Leitch , Edmund Anderson , Tho