Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 November 1817
To Edmund Bacon
Poplar Forest. Nov. 29. 17.
Th:J. to mr Bacon
I find that the cart need not leave Monticello till Thursday the 11th of December, on the morning of which I wish it to be dispatched. I send Bedford Billy down to be put to work with the Coopers under Barnaby, and Thrimston to leave Barnaby and work with the carpenters. I hope you will keep them all to their duty. Billy is found too ungovernable for Johnny Hemings. my best wishes atten[d] you.
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of James Pleasants to TJ, 25 Aug. 1817; dateline at foot of text; with one letter lost at right margin due to polygraph misalignment; endorsed by TJ.
Index Entries
- Bacon, Edmund; letters to search
- Bacon, Edmund; Monticello overseer search
- Billy (TJ’s slave; b.1799); as cooper search
- carts; mentioned search
- Gillette, Barnaby (TJ’s slave; b.1783); as cooper search
- Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); as woodworker search
- Hern, Thrimston (Thrimson) (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1799); as carpenter search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); coopers at search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); slaves at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); slaves at search
- slaves; at Monticello search
- slaves; behavior of search
- slaves; management of search
- slaves; travels of search