Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809

From the Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church

Buckmountain Church March 19. 1809.—

Dear Sir,

Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church, Sendeth Greeting to our much esteemed friend, Mr Thomas Jefferson.

We Congratulate you in your Return home, from your labour and painful Servis of eight years. now to take some Sweet hours of retirment and rest.—Injoying at pleasure the Company of your loveing Friends, and neighbours. not that We were werey, or Dissattisfied with your Conduct, but were wel pleased; for which Be pleas’d to accept of these our kind Thanks.—May your Days be many and Comfortable. in a word (may we say) we wish you health, wealth, and prosperity through life, And in the world to come life everlasting

Signed by order of the Church

George Twyman

MS (DLC); salutation below greeting; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as an “Address” of 17 Mar. 1809 received 9 Apr. 1809 and so recorded (with correct date) in SJL. Printed in Richmond Enquirer, 26 May 1809.

George Buford Twyman (1731–1818), an Albemarle farmer and longtime acquaintance of TJ, was an original member of the Albemarle Baptist Church of Christ, serving as moderator and record keeper from its organization in 1773 until 1811. The name of the church was changed to Buckmountain Baptist Church in 1801, when the congregation took possession of the church by that name formerly occupied by Episcopalians (1811 autobiography, George Twyman Papers, and Chesnut Grove Baptist Church Records, 1773–1970, both in ViU; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 1:22, 153, 206, 874, 878; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 132–3).

An undated letter from Twyman to TJ received 3 July 1809 was located after print publication of this volume, has been added digitally, and will appear in the concluding supplement to the print edition.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809
Authors: Twyman, George
Buckmountain Baptist Church (Albemarle Co.)
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 19 March 1809

Reference

Cite as: “Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-0047. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1809 to 15 November 1809, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 63–64.]