From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph H. Nicholson and Rebecca Nicholson, 26 January 1802
To Joseph H. Nicholson and Rebecca Nicholson
Tuesday Jan. 26. 1802.
Th: Jefferson requests the favor of The Honble. Mr. & Mrs. Nicholson’s company to dinner the day after tomorrow at half after three oclock, or at whatever later hour the House may rise.
RC (DLC: Shippen Family Papers); in Meriwether Lewis’s hand; addressed: “The Honble Mr. Nicholson”; endorsed.
Rebecca Lloyd, daughter of Edward Lloyd of Annapolis and of “Wye house,” near Easton, Maryland, married Joseph H. Nicholson in 1793 (
, 13:505).