51From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your letter of the 10th. and will remit you the monies therein desired the first week of next month. you have not mentioned whether the note to mrs Carter is in part of the 113. barrels of corn, or whether it is an additional sum and for what. as soon as Castor recovers so as to be fit to ride, and is in good order I wish you to swap or sell him as well as you can, and...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 15 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed that for want of the mill irons which Stewart should have made, mr Walker has been obliged to quit working on the great mill, & to proceed with the small one it is too important to my interest as well as to the faith of my engagements to mr Shoemaker, to have the delivery of the mill to him suspended for this defect. I wish you therefore to exert yourself to have the irons done...
53Thomas 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...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you 700. Dollars, of which be pleased to pay to James Walker 100. D. John Perry 100 D. Wm. Maddox 50. D. and there will remain 450. D. for your corn, fodder & pork, which you must pay out as you find most necessary, & let me know what will then remain due for these articles & it shall be remitted about this time next month. after getting all the coal wood you can on the Meadow branch...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 25 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 16th. was recieved by the post of last week. I authorised mr Shoemaker to give some Whiskey to the people while at work in the water. we must of course take his word for the quantity. be pleased to settle with him also for the work of his cart. but you will do well to warn him to furnish nothing on my account but on your written order or mine. otherwise he will be paying his...
56Thomas 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
57From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 17th. is recieved. you may proceed to the purchase of the other 100. barrels of corn @ 9/6 drawing on me for the amount paiable to mrs Carter on the 10th. of January. if I understand your contracts correctly they will then stand thus. mr Meriwether 12. Dec. 10. mrs Carter for Giannini for corn 105.
58From 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...
59From 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
60From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved yours covering mr J. Peyton’s account. I find it is exactly as I had thought before, and I shall convince him of it when at home, which will be about the 24th. or 25th. instant. I inclose you 265. D. in Richmond bills which be pleased to pay as follows. to John Perry. 100. 100.
61From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The sorrel riding-horse is to be kept for Mr. Bacon’s riding. If Arcturus has not been exchanged for Mr. Smithson’s mare, I wish him and the Chickasaw mare to be disposed of immediately. I think $150 might be expected for him, and $100 for her; but I would take a fair wagon horse or mule for either, rather than keep them. For Arcturus we ought certainly to get a first-rate wagon horse or mule....
62From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 360. Dollars to be paid as follows to John Perry for Walker’s order 100. D. to mrs Lewis, my assumpsit for J. Perry 49. mr Nelson 20. mr Maddox 50. mr Chandler & the younger Shoemaker 40. on account 101. 360. this last sum is intended as a commencement for the discharge of your debts. you will therefore pay it towards those most pressing. in about 3. weeks you shall have...
63Thomas 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
64Thomas 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
65From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of the 4th. I would have you sow in oats the whole of the field we got of mr Craven, and plant your last year’s clearing in Pani corn, that is the kind of corn which was planted last year below the garden. the other kinds of corn, I would not have planted at all, as the Pani is the best. I wish it were possible for you to get red clover seed to sow with your oats....
66From 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...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you four hundred and eighty dollars to be paid as follows. D to mr John Carr for J. Perry. 100
68From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letters of the 13th. & 20th. the 14£ which you say is still wanting to pay your debts shall be sent by the first or 2d. post of January. I am chagrined at the malconduct of Martin in the toll-mill. I fear I shall be as much disappointed in his principles as in his health. but if in addition to negligence & dishonesty he disobliges our customers, he must be instantly...
69From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 14 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
My packages which were shipwrecked having been sent on from Richmond to Monticello, I send you a list of them; and as they have doubtless been wet, and might still grow worse by continuing unopened, I must pray you to open them, to examine particularly the condition of the contents and report it to me in a letter by the first post, that I may know which of them must be replaced, and have time...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 12 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you 100. D. of which be pleased to pay 50. D. to J. Perry and keep 50. for the debts you have still to pay. I ought to have remitted J. Perry 50. D. more and mr Chisolm 60. D. but these deficiencies I will make up on my arrival at home and then bring you 200. D. which will pay off the whole list of debts furnished me heretofore. let Davy set off with my horse on Saturday the 23d....
71Thomas 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...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The plants of Privet which you have recieved are from mr Gordon and I intend them for a hedge in the garden which not being yet ready, they must be set out in a nursery where you can find a convenient open spot. the waggon must not go to Bedford before mr Chisolm goes. it will not be wanting there till they are proceeding to burn the brick kiln which must not be till mr Chisolm is there...
73From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 13 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandums The first work to be done is to finish every thing at the mill, to wit, the dam, the stone still wanting in the South abutment, the digging for the addition to the toll mill, the waste, the dressing off the banks & hollows about the mill houses, making the banks of the canal secure every where. in all these things mr Walker will direct what is to be done & how. The 2d. job is...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 24 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy has been detained till now, the earth having been so frozen that the plants could not be dug up. on the next leaf are directions what to do with them, in addition to which I inclose mr Maine’s directions as to the thorns. he brings a couple of Guinea pigs, which I wish you to take great care of, as I propose to get this kind into the place of those we have now, as I greatly prefer their...