51From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 19 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of the 15th. I am glad to learn your progress in the garden, which I wish to have pushed, because it will be to be inclosed in March, and it would be very inconvenient to have to do that work after it is paled in. still we must not sacrifice the crop of the year for it. for the work absolutely necessary to prepare for the crop, we must suspend the garden works, when...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not heard whether Jerry is returned from Bedford with his waggon, but I expect he is, and that except bringing home your corn, you have little waggoning to do. it will be well therefore to have both waggons in order, and to proceed to waggoning dung to the garden. that from Milton should be first brought, and for this purpose it will be worth your while to put the road along the river...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 3 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter by Davy would lead you into an error as to the day of his departure, as I dated it Dec. 30. instead of 31. by mistake. if it is now as cold with you as it is here I am in hopes you will be able & ready to fill the icehouse. it would be a real calamity should we not have ice to do it, as it would require double the quantity of fresh meat &c in summer had we not ice to keep it. I had...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found it more convenient to have money sent to you from Richmond this month than from this place. you will accordingly recieve by mail from mr George Jefferson 700. D. under cover to mr Higginbotham. they are to be disposed of for the debts due & becoming due as follows. D mr Belt 12.
55From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 24 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter of the 12th. I made the following estimate of your debts, and of the cost of the articles to be bought. D D debts Johnson Roe
56From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I mistook in my last in naming to you the day when you would recieve the money from Gibson & Jefferson. you will recieve it on Thursday Feb. 2. the same day this gets to Milton. with respect to Milch cows, mr Divers assures me that 2. cows, kept in stalls, and well fed with proper food, furnish him with the whole milk & butter used in his house. I had calculated on trying to keep 4. in that...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
We have no mail from Milton this week, so that any letters committed to that will not come to hand until next week. I must pray you to send me a little of the wool shorn from my old breed of sheep (Merinos) about the bulk of an apple, done up flat in a letter. I believe it is the identical kind which is now selling for 1 ¼ D. a pound. I offer you my best wishes. ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers.
58From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 20 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I suppose that for the waggon &c. to get here on the 6th. of March, they must set out on Thursday the 2d. of March. and as the post will arrive that morning at Milton, it will be better not to set off till after the arrival of the post, as it is possible something may occur which I might wish to write to you before you set off, altho’ I do not foresee any thing. As your waggon will come empty,...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 27 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
As the two cooks which are here, will take the place of Peter Hemings in the kitchen, it will be necessary that one of them should have his room next the kitchen, and that it should be vacant on their arrival. I would wish you therefore before your departure to let him make choice of any one of the log-houses vacant, on the Mulberry row, and to direct your people to proceed immediately to fix...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 28 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In writing to you yesterday I forgot to send you the inclosed letter to Doctr. Wallace at Fauqr. C.H. he has promised me a pair of wild geese, a pair of Summer ducks & some other things, which are at some little distances from there. by delivering him this letter as you come by Fauqr. C.H. he will have them all ready in place by the time you get back there again, so as not to detain your...
61Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 5 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I find I can drive from hence 4. or 5 beeves and as many muttons as we can want; all as fat as they can be; and having to drive these I conclude to drive the hogs also, and kill them at Monticello . the whole will start therefore as soon as the hogs are fat enough. of course we need buy no more beeves. I shall be glad if you will see mr Darnell and tell him that the business here is suffering...
62Thomas Jefferson’s Promissory Note to Edmund Bacon, 7 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
1813. Apr. 7. I promise to pay to Edmund Bacon or order on or before the 1 st day of August next one three hundred and seventy Dollars for value recieved. I say 370. Dollars, witness my hand this seventh day of April eighteen hundred & thirteen the above belongs to John Bacon of the County of Botetourt to whose credit the money must be Applyed when recev d agreeable to Assignment
63Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, [15 November 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I have made it a point thro’ life never to recieve or pay compound interest nor any thing more than what is legal. nor do I think compound interest just, because had the law intended to permit it, it would have been fixed at 3. per cent or 3 ½ which is as much as men in general make of their money in the ordinary & honest vocations of life. more may be made, by possibility, at the gaming table...
64Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find I shall be able to get from here from Saturday this day fortnight to Saturday this three weeks. it is necessary therefore that Cretia ’s Johnny should set off with the cart on Thursday morning the 3 d of December
65Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find that the cart need not leave Monticello till Thursday the 11 th 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
66Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you two draughts on mr Gibson , the one in favor of mr Woods for 174.70 and the other in favor of yourself for 63.85 this last is to enable you to pay 48.85 to mr Maupin and 15.D. to mr Stout . the two former sums include interest from last court. I am afraid it may not be convenient to mr Lietch to advance money for these draughts, and that it is merely an accomodation to me that he...
67Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now anxious for the carpenters to come on as soon as they shall have done the jobs mentioned in my letter to mr Meeks . we have a horse which has been raised here 3. years old this month, of tolerable figure, great size & promising qualities for a riding horse. I am putting him into the hands of a neighbor to learn him to pace & shall take him down with me when I return. I would therefore...
68Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4 th could not leave Charlottesville till the 8 th and was recieved here on the 9 th . our mail starts for Charlottesville tomorrow & will arrive there on Saturday at 6. P.M. I am glad you have given the assistance of a hand to each cooper’s shop, and wish it to be continued, and even more help to be given if necessary, for I look to the offal of the mill as our only...
69Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1820 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Poplar Forest , 22 Nov. 1820 . SJL entry reads “ Ned & Wormly . garden, lawn & grove. roads.” Letter not found.]
70Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 21 st came to hand yesterday . you have done right in having the safety gate finished, and at any moment when the convenience of the great mill shall admit, it should be laid down, as we know not when a fresh may put us into danger. should mr Meeks be gone, get mr Gilmore to direct it, and indeed I would at any rate rather have it done under his direction. I must get you to look...
71Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 12 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Yancey & myself conclude it will be best to send the pork of this place to Monticello before Christmas . hoping you will recieve this letter on Sunday the 17 th I wish you to send off the waggon the next mornin g Monday 18
72Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
the pork delivered mr Minor according to the entry in my book is was 10. hogs weighing 1067 ℔ @ 8.50 D = 90.69½ D RC ( ViU: TJP ); written on a small scrap; dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in SJL . TJ made this pork sale in December 1818 to Samuel Overton Minor , from whom he received $70 through
73From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 18 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 26. came to my hands May 8. and I was gl ad to learn that after all your sufferings on the road from rain & sickness, you had got safely at length, into a satisfactory position. we had here, from the time of your departure the finest weather possible, and were every day remarking how lucky you were in your weather. our family is all well and has been generally so, except...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 9 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d in the last month your letter of Aug. 22. and begin it’s answer by remitting the balance of what I owe you. this should have been sooner done, but we have been unusually late in getting our produce to market this year. the balance which the order on mr Terril left me on the 1 st of Sep. 23. still in your debt was 22. D 36 and calculating back interest, and forward from that date, to...