1From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 14 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Being charged with the preparation of a statement to Congress of all their lands North of the Ohio, it becomes necessary for me to know what quantity of lands was assigned to the Virginia Continental line on the South side of the Ohio, say on the Cumberland, in satisfaction of their claims of bounty lands against the Continent. If I can by any means come at this quantity, by deducting it from...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 15 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mutual confidence in the honor & friendship of each other has made us too inattentive to the settlement of the question respecting the lands claimed by us both adjoining our possessions here. it had better be settled while in our hands, for no others will be disposed to do it in a more friendly or just way. the facts be within a narrow compas. I do not know that we differ as to any of them. if...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 14 January 1760 (Jefferson Papers)
I was at Colo. Peter Randolph ’s about a Fortnight ago, and my Schooling falling into Discourse, he said he thought it would be to my Advantage to go to the College, and was desirous I should go, as indeed I am myself for several Reasons. In the first place as long as I stay at the Mountain the Loss of one fourth of my Time is inevitable, by Company’s coming here and detaining me from School....
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 10 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
No body, not a member of your family, has felt with more sensibility than myself the losses lately sustained by it. my intimacy with your father began almost in the cradle, and through a life of length was never clouded by a moment’s abatement. with the circumstances which produced a warm attachment to your brother, and very much endeared him to me, you are acquainted. I should not at this...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 6 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Short has an interest in some Green sea lands, which I think he derived from you. he has written to me to attend to them, but has given me no information respecting them. I must therefore take the liberty of asking you to inform me, where they lie, how much there is of them, what is the state of the title, whether he is a sole or joint holder with others & whom, whether they are laid off,...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 27 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, James Oldham, has lived with me several years, is an able workman in housejoinery, skilled in the orders of architecture, honest, sober and industrious. he wishes to get into business on a larger scale than that of merely monthly wages and I have recommended Richmond to him as a place where he will find no superior, and as I suppose no equal; and where, when once he can make...
7Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 28 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you in Charlottesville , I had not for a considerable time looked with attention into the papers concerning my title to the lands on the top of the mountain which were in question between your father & myself. I have now re-examined them and am confirmed in the belief that while justice cannot but pronounce that these lands were my property, the law itself...
8Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 5 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Within a few days after the signature of our agreement, I prepared, according to the best form I could find in the books, a deed of release & quitclaim to all title to the lands which were the subject of that agreement, and executed it before three witnesses. the first day of the ensuing court threatening rain, I did not go, but attended the morning of the next, and acknoleged it for...
9From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 5 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Being [near an absence] from home of several months, I have, [among] other […]ed things, turned to the papers respecting the land [case between us]. I have thereupon made a statement of facts respecting it, […] [had] been proposed between us, & of the law on those facts according [to my con]ception of it. this I enclose you, and shall be glad to recieve [at] Philadadelphia your...
10From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 25 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of July 12. by Mr. Austin and am glad of the occasion it’s acknolegement furnishes me of resuming a correspondence which distance and business have long interrupted, but which has never wanted the urgency of motives of sincere friendship on my part. Mr. Austin shall certainly recieve every aid I can give him. That which he asks from Congress I suppose very...