1From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 22 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am going to put you on a wild goose chace to find out the person to whom the inclosed letter is addressed. He moved to N. Carolina in 1782. and is settled somewhere up towards the mountains and not a great way from the Virginia line. This is all which his family here can tell me of him. A son of his here claims under him 100. acres of land which are in my possession, but he has no deed for...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 28 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
For the first time my dear sir, I have an opportunity direct for your house. Micajah Childs called on me this evening on his return to Charlottsville. I avail myself of it by his permission to send you some grape vines. No. 1 Burgundy, called Millers Burgundy, the berries oval and black, the leaves covered with a hoary down. 2 Auvorna second Burgundy or black Morillon esteemed the best of the...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 14 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Strong Mr. Rutherford Mr. Hawkins The committee on the enclosed bill reported verbally in substance as follows. That the line to be run would be exparte, as the President of the United States was authorized to appoint the officers to be employed in running the line, although such line would have affected the jurisdiction of the States of Virginia and Kentuckey, and perhaps, would have...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 1 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you your share of the white bent grass, so much valued by Mr. Bassett. I have sent the half of the remainder to the President. Mr. B. being a farmer, we may count with certainty on its being a valuable acquisition from the experience he has had. If you have formd any thing interesting from the name I sent you, you can communicate it to the President with a translation of the botanical...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 28 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Hops are planted in checks of six feet square; a foot square at the check spaded a foot deep and manured, seven cuttings are planted in each check. The following is a minute of the expence and produce of hops at stowmarket in Suffolk . Stock £25 for poles, the interest of which £1. 5.0 Rent £2. Tythe £1. rates 14/ 3.14.0 Three load of poles at 22/ annually 3. 6.0 manure four loads a year 16.0...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 12 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Crawford McLintock & Co. of Glasgow had a store in Warren County, before the revolution, near the place of my residence, and there was some money due them for merchandize sold there. Mr. Robert Turnbull of Petersburg has collected, or secured to be collected, a considerable part, if not the whole, of the debts. I know that he collected, or secured to be collected, more than one hundred pounds...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 26 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent the messenger of the Senate to you for 1st. vol. Of Ramsays history of S. Carolina. I shall return it to-morrow. I had a conversation with Genl. Dickinson , on the subject I mentioned to you yesterday. He expects this evening to be in company with Hammond and Bond and he will speak very freely to them, as from himself, and let me know the result to-morrow. On his present standing...
8Memorandum of Conversation between Philemon Dickinson and George Hammond, 26 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
D[ickinson] arrived late laste evening but immediately on his entering the room H[ammond] accosted him, and began in the strain of the festive night? D. What progress have you made with J[efferson]? H. Not much D. I will tell you what, H, it is conjectured here that there is some defect in your powers, and that in consequence the result of your visit here will not be productive of any good. H....
9To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 3 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you herewith the notes I informed you I had taken of the recent debate in the Senate. When you have read them I request that they may be returned; yet, if you judge proper, you may previously show them to the President. I have paid on my part that attention to the subject in question that its importance deserves, without being able to form an opinion perfectly satisfactory to myself....
10To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 3 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive the letter you did me the honor to write to me of the 1st. of april enclosing some of the scarlet blosom beans; And the acts of the last Session of Congress under an envelope franked by you, for which I request you to accept my thanks. I wish you and Mrs. Trist may have been as fortunate with your beans as I am with mine, the largest and middle sized are up and...