1To Thomas Jefferson from Overton Carr, 25 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer will deliver to your Steward, a Bacon Ham, which has been cured Seven years, & which I request the favour of you to accept as a present. Dean Swift observes, that a present should consist of something, of no great value, and which cannot be purchased with money. If his definition be correct, of which I have no doubt, this Ham comes perfectly within it; for although Bacon Hams may be...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Overton Carr, 27 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented to You by my Son who is desirous of obtaining a birth in the Navy and whose views permit me to hope you will promote by speaking to the Secretary in his behalf. He has been well educated, and having served a regular apprenticeship in a Merchants Compting House in Baltimore, is capable of transacting any Business in that line; but such is the difficulty of getting into...
3From Overton Carr to John Quincy Adams, 8 June 1820 (Adams Papers)
Deed recorded August 21st. 1821.— Whereas George Boyd and James L. Edwards on or about the fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen bargained and sold assigned transferred & conveyed unto the undersigned Overton Carr all the right title interest & estate of them the said George Boyd & James L. Edwards of in & to a certain house & lot then in the...