1Thomas 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...
2Thomas 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