John Winn to Thomas Jefferson, 7 February 1810
From John Winn
Charlottesville 7th Fb. 1810
Sir
I am in want of some lime for whitwasheing. Mr Chisholem informs me you have some, if so and you can spare me about half a Bushell of that which is unslacked I shall be much Obliged if you have none unslacked1 that which is slacked will answer —I am
John Winn
RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Tho Jefferson Esqr Montecello”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 Feb. 1810 and so recorded in SJL.
John Winn (d. 1837) moved to Charlottesville from Fluvanna County early in the 1800s. He and his brother-in-law Twyman Wayt soon formed one of Charlottesville’s preeminent mercantile firms. Winn later facilitated the acquisition of some of the materials used to build the University of Virginia. He lived on the Belmont estate from 1813, and from 1803 until his death he served as Charlottesville’s postmaster (John M. Perry to Alexander Garrett, 23 June 1817, Perry to Arthur Brockenbrough, 4 Sept. 1817 [ViU: Proctor’s Papers]; Balance Sheet for the University of Virginia, 23 Nov. 1822 [ViU: John Hartwell Cocke Papers]; , 3; Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser, 21 Nov. 1837).
, 341, 346–7; ; , 170;chisholem was either Hugh Chisholm or his brother John R. Chisholm, brickmasons TJ employed at this time to build four cisterns at Monticello ( , 2:950, 1234–5, 1246–7). unslacked (unslaked): “not hydrated” ( ).
1. Manuscript: “unstacked.”
Index Entries
- Chisholm, Hugh; mentioned search
- Chisholm, John R. search
- lime (mineral); requested from TJ search
- Monticello (TJ’s estate); cisterns at search
- Virginia, University of (Charlottesville); building materials for search
- Winn, John; identified search
- Winn, John; letters from search
- Winn, John; seeks lime search