1Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Sawing Instructions for James Martin, [ca. 10 November 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Bill for Capt Martin 10. joists 8. by 10.I. 24.f. long clear of bad knots windshakes & cracks. heart of poplar. 10. d o 4 by 10.I. 24.f. long. heart of poplar clear of bad knots. 5. pieces 6.I. square 16.f. long. heart of poplar. 500.f. sheeting plank. poplar. PoC ( MHi
2Thomas Jefferson’s Conveyance of Bear Branch Land to William Radford and Joel Yancey, 7 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and eleven between Thomas Jefferson of the county of Albemarle on the one part and William Radford and Joel Yancey both of the county of Campbell on the other part, witnesseth that,
3Thomas Jefferson to William Radford and Joel Yancey, 31 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I agreed the last winter with mr Matthew Brown of Lynchburg for the execution of certain brickwork at the Central College , for which he was to be paid the price at which similar work should be done in Lynchburg this present year 1818. that price is now to be settled, and as all the evidence on the subject must be found in Lynchburg or it’s neighborhood, to which place I shall not be able to...
4Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 2 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of Dec. 22. and felt sincere satisfaction at the assurances it expressed of your continued friendship. of this indeed I never entertained a doubt, nor that this was the governing principle of your endeavors to promote my interests. these I saw plainly were faithful & zealous always and gave me therefore unbounded confidence in your care of my affairs. these were...
5Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves, [ca. 10 November … (Jefferson Papers)
Blankets. Beds Cate Cate Hal Hanah . Cate ’s Hanah Lucinda . Sally Edy Armistead Dinah Maria . Cate ’s
6Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 5 th has been recieved. I prefer sending the flour to Richmond . it is more convenient to concentrate all my funds in one hand; and it also increases confidence in my correspondent , so that if at any time I have occasion to overdraw, he knows himself sure of recieving the funds. Lynchburg too is no wheat market. while they were offering 9/ there it was & is 13/6 and 14/ at...
7Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 27 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by my grandson yours of the 14 th and cannot say that I have recieved any thing which has given me more pain . nothing on earth was farther from my intention than that it should be considered as intended to give you an opportunity to withdraw. it was sincerely meant, as it was expressed, to be a withdrawal of myself from a superintendance to which age had rendered me incompetent and...
8Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am lately returned from the Warm springs with my health entirely prostrated by the use of the waters. they produced an imposthume and eruptions, which with the torment of the journey back reduced me to the extremest weakness. I am getting better, but still obliged to lie night and day reclined in one posture, which makes writing all but impossible. the visitors of the college meet the 1 st...
9Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 18 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 9 th and observe one article in it requiring immediate answer, that which relates to the using our wheat for bread, instead of purchasing corn. the price of last year’s flour now at Richmond is 8.D. & of this year’s 10.D. which is equal to 8/ and 10/ for wheat; and war in Europe , now I think absolutely certain, will ensure the last price at least, thro’...
10Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 16 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 16 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ corn. wheat. hogs. taxes. cheese. biscuit. iron sheet.” Letter not found.]
11Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 30 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 30 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ Moses ’s Billy rec d . sell Han ’s Billy 6. or 700.D. Robertson
12Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 7 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted among my memorandums to request you to have all the seed of the oat-grass at mr Goodman ’s saved, in order to make lots near each of the Overseer’s houses. it comes a month earlier than any other grass, and is therefore valuable for ewes & lambs, calves, yearlings and poor cows. there should also be good clover lots adjoining, independant of the large clover fields. I have enquired...
13Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 11. 19. wrote to Joel Yancy by Henry going with 2. mules to bring John Hemings E t c. & tools. that J.H. must put away all remaining stuff, first making a list of it for me that I may know what will be wanting for next year. send preserved peaches by him request Hepburn to come, see our streams, site & buildings & give a bill of scantling. I will pay the time & expence of the journey.
14Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 29 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I now inclose you mr Morris ’s and Maj r Pollard ’s reciepts for their 1 st instalments to the Central College . I shall set out tomorrow for the meeting at Rockfish gap , and when our business is done there I shall go on to the Warm springs . I shall probably be back the last week of August, and be with you a fortnight after. I salute you with friendship and respect. PoC (
15Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 27 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry delivered your letter and all the articles entrusted to him safely on Tuesday night. I now inclose you a list of the cloathing to be given to every one of the people according to their ages, also of the blankets and beds to be given this year, which you will find in the columns headed 1819. I have given the columns of the last and next year, to shew those who recieved the last year &...
16Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson will not be able to go to Bedford for some time. he set off this day to Richmond to see his own tob o look ed at and sold. he advises that that of Pop. For. be sent off immediately to Richmond . I had on the road a conversation with a gentleman of knolege on the subject, and he assures me that the Lynchbg purchaser, besides deducting the carriag e,
17Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, [18?] October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , (18?) Oct. 1819 . SJL entry for a letter to Yancey listed immediately underneath that to Yancey of 16 Oct. 1819 reads “taxes E t c. Hanah’s Billy .” Letter not found. Yancey
18Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 30 December 1820 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 30 Dec. 1820 . SJL entry reads “ a chair. 2 doz. wine. trees.” Letter not found.]
19Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 21 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved 3 days ago your’s of Dec. 14. and now inclose you an order on Richmond for 94.70 D the amount of my US. taxes in Bedford , which are exactly the half this year of what they were the last. I inclose you also a blank for the lit list of the stock, stating the heads under which they are to be stated. I am sorry to inform you that the completion of the waggon will be very much...
20Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
We should have been now about setting off for Poplar Forest , but for the accident of 3 of my carriage horses being recently taken with the disease called the sore tongue. I am told that the cure of this will require 10. days and will leave them so emaciated as to require time to make them able to take the road. the time of my setting out depends therefore on this uncertainty. mrs Randolph...
21Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It being now high time to try the experiment of burning our stubble fields as a means of destroying the brood of the fly deposited in them, and ready the first warm spell to come out and lay their eggs in the new wheat, I take up my pen to state to you the method as going into practice here. you take a still day, and burn a margin all round the field sufficient to secure the fences. then the...
22Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 15 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 4 th was recieved the day before yesterday consequently the very day the Collector of the US. taxes was to call on you. as the law allows 20. days from that date for payment, this will reach you in time. you did not say what is the amount of the tax; but my grandson Th: J. Randolph has happened to be at Lynchburg where he was told by mr Robertson it was about 170.D. I therefore...
23Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 9 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
In directing the distribution of the pork for this season I believe I omitted to state that 10. hogs should be kept for my use at Poplar Forest as usual. if there is any old bacon left it will be acceptable here when the waggon brings the pork. you will be so good as to inform me on what day our waggon should be there to join Dick ’s in bringing the pork, butter E t c. I propose to send Phill...
24Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 12 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you an order on mr Gibson in favor of mr Hepburn for 50.D. it is the first moment it has been in my power. not knowing his Christian name I have left a blank for it to be inserted. I am still uncertain as to the time of my setting out for Poplar forest , tho extremely anxious to do so. under this uncertainty I leave it to mr Hepburn to come on immediately or await my visit to...
25Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 4 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for sometime been becoming sensible that age was rendering me incompetent to the management of my plantations. failure of memory, decay of attention and a loss of energy in body & mind convince me of this; as well as the vast change for the better since my plantations here have been put under the direction of my grandson T. J. Randolph . his skill, his industry and discretion satisfy me...
26Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 22 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I confidently expected to have set out for the Forest on the 15 th or soon after, under the known necessity however to be here again the 1 t week in May. but one circumstance after another has turned up to delay me untill time has so advanced that were I now to go, I could stay not more than 3. or 4. days. I must therefore defer it 2. or 3. weeks more. Never were such times seen as we have...
27Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Dick arrived here on Friday night with every thing safe. he yesterday he rested of course with his relations and to-day being Sunday he will start tomorrow. Phill will go immediately into the smith’s shop. Hanah ’s Billy is in the Cooper’s shop, and as soon as he can make a good barrel he shall return to Poplar Forest . he is too ungovernable. if what flour you have is not gone to Richmond ,...
28Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 18 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
On the very day the waggon left us, my daughter , wh o was to accompany me to Bedford was taken sick. she is better and thinks that by tomorrow or next day she will be strong enou gh for the road. I do not think so; but still count from day to day on departing either with her or without her as her convalescence may admit. ever & affectionately yours PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address...
29Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 23 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 23 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ inclos g ord. on P.G. fav r A. Robertson 146.D. taxes John Hem. to put up E. & W. stair doors. Billy
30Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 21 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I informed mr Darnell that nothing on account of the misfortunes of the last year, scarcely any thing made for market there or here, immense purchases of corn for bread here and some there, and unexampled taxes, I could not pay his wages till another crop should come in. he said he should be particularly in want of 50.D. which therefore I promised to send him. I have also to pay John Depriest...