1Thomas Jefferson’s Agreement to Convey Bedford County Lands to Charles L. Bankhead, 29 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas Thomas Man n Randolph & Martha his wife by due conveyance from myself were seised in fee Simple of a parcell of Land in the County of Bedford , part of my tract of land called Poplar Forest , containing as conjectured by protraction but not known by actual Survey 1000 Acres of which parcel the said Thomas M. & Martha have conveyed to Anne Moseley 840 Acres being the part on the West...
2Resolution of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, 6 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the President & Directors of the Literary Fund on Monday the 6 th August 1821 . Ordered that the Auditor of Publick Accounts issue a warrant on the Treasury in favor of Thomas Jefferson Esquire Rector of the University of Virginia for the Sum of Twenty nine thousand one hundred dollars loaned to that institution under authority of an act of the General Assembly
3Virginia Council of State’s Appointment of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 29 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor called the attention of the board to the subject of appointing Visitors for the University of Virginia in Conformity with the provisions of an act of assembly passed the 25 January 1819 —Whereupon, the following persons were duly appointed Visitor—to wit: Thomas Jefferson — James Madison — Chapman Johnson — Jos. C. Cabell
4Thomas Mann Randolph’s Notes on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [after 23 … (Jefferson Papers)
The answer of G. Divers . Notes by TMR . Qu. 12. ‘and × widened the canal to the extent proposed’ × untrue. ib. ‘the ‡ occupant of the mill.’ ‡ Shoemaker . qu. 18. ‘a considerable accession of grain.’ causes a considble loss of grain for grist. ib. ‘transporting ‡
5Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson Randolph’s Conveyance of Bedford County Land, [before 19 February 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
This Indenture made on the day of one thousand eight hundred & ten, between Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha his wife on the one part and John Watson on the other part, all of the county of Albemarle witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of ten dollars for every acre of the lands herein after conveyed, paid or secured to be paid by the said John to the said Thomas Mann, the said Thomas...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I should not have waited for your letter my Dearest Father had it been in my power to have written sooner but incredible as it may appear, that in period of 2 months not one day could have been found to discharge so sacred and pleasing a duty, it is litterally true that the first fort night of your absence excepted and 3 or 4 days of the last week, I have not been one day capable of attending...
7Recommendation of William McClure by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer W m M c lure removed from N.C. to this neighborhood under an engagement to instruct us in the use of the Spinning Jenny. several of these machines have been made by him & by our own workmen, and our Spinners are taught to use them so completely as to ensure our being able to clothe our own people by the labor of a few of the least useful of them. his principal profession is that of...
8Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Paper Model of Thomas Mann Randolph’s Plow, [ca. 2 May 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( NNGL , on deposit NHi ); cut and folded by TJ.
9Thomas Jefferson’s Agreement with William McGehee, 8 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
William MacGehe agrees with Thomas Mann Randolph , acting for Thomas Jefferson, that he will serve the said T.J. as Overseer, over not more than twenty hands, upon his plantation where John H. Craven now lives, during the year 1800 and ten, for the sum of fifty pounds in money, six hundred lbs of net pork, seventy lbs of Beef, twelve Barrels of Corn, one Barrel of flour and the priviledge of...
10Thomas Mann Randolph’s Deposition in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [8 June 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
This deponent had two crops boated down Rivanna before 1794, from Milton , that of 1792 and 1793: he knew an instance of a Boat going and returning within the week in 1792: a negroe man of his was in that Boat at the time, with, (he thinks) Sylvanus Meeks , and another: he had part of his crop damaged in Magruders falls in 1793, the Boat containing it was lost. He was a subscriber to the loan...