1Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Joseph Dougherty, [4–10 March 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esq r To Jo s Dougherty D r D –cts To 40 30 bushels oats a 40 cts per bushel 12 –00 To a stable broom
2Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is the bill of leading for your goods which left this place a few days ago, M r Colels Coles wrote you of the accident which happned to the vessel, on which they were first ship d — I re-shiped them on board the dolphin of york . Capt n John Mager —Master— a dove colour silk in the form of a bed, I think filled with down—was got in your bed room—after you left the
3Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved yours of the 19 th just in time by the return of this day’s post, to inform you that the dove coloured silk, with down in it, is mine. it is an Eider-down coverlet which I bought in Philadelphia in 1793. when I lived there. as it can be rolled into a compass not bigger than a man’s leg, I would wish it to be packed in as small a box as it can be got into, & forwarded by the...
4Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you will pardon me for not returning you thanks for the noble recommendation you were so good as to send me by Short er . I do not see that there is any thing wanting in it. M r T:J. Randolph left this place on the 4 th of this month on his way to Philad a —he
5Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my arival at this place, from Wilmington I had the happiness to hear from you. by the Hon ble M r Burwell on his way to Baltimore two weeks yesterday: and from the Hon ble M r Howard
6Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 27 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 15 th I have recieved, and am thankful to you for the information as to the broadtailed ram, & shall be particularly so to D r Thornton if he can spare me one, as I have no chance of getting one in this state. mr Howard was mistaken in supposing I was sending for one. there is no such animal nearer than Washington . will you be so good as to inform me whether the one D r Thornton...
7Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of the 27 May I received; I went the other day to Doct r Thorntons farm to select a ram lamb of this year for you: you may take him from the Ewe the 15 or 20 of Aug t which is about the time that the lambs quits the Ewes; and it will be as soon as necessary to put him to your broad tail ewe. I remember of you saying that Gen l Washington s rule was to put his ewes to the ram ab...
8Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 26 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 18 th came to hand on the 24 th . altho’ three posts a week leave Washington for this place Milton , & perform the rout in 2. or 3. days, yet from a negligence somewhere our letters are often a week coming to hand. with respect to the best mode of proceeding with your Merinos, I have no doubt, if you were able that it would be best for you to purchase as many ewes as the rams...
9Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
yours of the 26 th of last month I rec d the 29 your kind wish and always ready and willing to aid me, is a thing nither strange nor unknown to me; and had I any reason to suppose that you were able to assist me I should solicit you, on such an occasion, with more confidence than any person I know. you may have thought sir, that I hinted at somthing of that in my last letter. but I can assure...
10Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 24 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy sets off tomorrow with a cart for the bigtailed ram D r Thornton was so kind as to promise me. as the post will be with you a day or two earlier I drop you this line to give you earlier notice. I write you more fully by Davy PoC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M r Joseph Dougherty”; endorsed by TJ. davy : David Hern (1784–after 1829), the son of David Hern