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From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 7 June 1800

To George Jefferson

Monticello June 7. 1800.

Dear Sir,

I authorised mr Eppes in case he should purchase a horse which he was to get for me, to make me liable for 300. Dollars as the price; and as the seller was not acquainted with me, I gave him leave to draw on you for the sum at three months date, as he might consider your acceptance as more suitable to him. should such a draught be presented, be pleased to accept it, on full assurance that the money shall be placed in your hands before the day.—Colo. Gamble writes me there is an old balance of 5. Dollars due him from me. be so good as to pay it.

I thought I had desired you to send me a hogshead of molasses in the winter; but presume I am mistaken, as I do not find that any has been sent. as the weather is too warm now to move it in a large mass I will be obliged to you for thirty gallons double cased, or the watermen will spoil it.

I left with mr Gibson a draught on mr W. C. Nicholas on Picket Pollard & co. for 450. D. I drew lately in favor of John Watson for 148.29 D and the remaining 300. D[ols. is reserve]d for Henry Duke, to whom be pleased to pay it on his application. I am not certain that he will apply

I am with great esteem Dr Sir Your friend & servt

Th: Jefferson

PrC (MHi); faint; at foot of text: “Mr George Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.

The seller of the horse was William Haxall.

Colo. Gamble writes me: a letter from Robert Gamble to TJ of 20 May, recorded in SJL as received 6 June, has not been found.

For TJ’s account with John Watson, merchant and factor for Alexander Brydie & Co. at Milton, see MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1021. TJ’s payment included the sum of £93.15.0 for his brother-in-law Charles Lilburne Lewis, from whom he had purchased 125 barrels of corn at 15/ and £6 for Dabney Minor for 10 barrels of corn at 12/ (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:915, 1021). Henry Duke, brickmason at Monticello from 1797 to 1799, called for payment on 3 Sep. 1800 (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:958; TJ to George Jefferson, 13 Sep. 1800; Statement of Account with Gibson & Jefferson, 15 Jan. 1801).

A letter from TJ to George Jefferson of 26 May 1800, recorded in SJL as written from Eppington, has not been found.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 7 June 1800
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    “From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 7 June 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-32-02-0007. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 32, 1 June 1800 – 16 February 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 14–15.]

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