1Thomas 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...
Extract from the proceedings of the AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of Albemarle. Resolved , That Messrs. Thomas M. Randolph, John H. Cocke, Joseph C. Cabell, David Watson and James Barbour, be a committee, whose duty it shall be to consider of, prepare and report to a meeting to be called for that purpose, the plans or methods of proceeding, best calculated in their estimation for the attainment of the...
3Account of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, [ca. 6 December] 1819 (Madison Papers)
In account with the Agricultural Society of Albemarle. Dr. Cr. {1817} To this sum due the By Cash paid {I A Coles} { 10 } {Octr:} Society on the day of your admission—see rule 19th. {5} Treasurer of the Society. {1818} To this sum due the Society on the first day of the succeeding regular autumnal meeting, do. {5} {By do. sent} {1819.} {Do. Do. Do.} {
4John Coles to Thomas Jefferson, [received 7 December 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
As Treasurer of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle , it has become my duty to forward to each member a statement of his account with the Society . You perceive by the one above that you are indebted to the Society fifteen dollars, which if remitted by mail to H art’s S tore , A lbemarle , will be very certain to come safely to hand, or if it miscarries will be at the risk of the Society