1Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 1 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Our distress on the article of hauling obliges me to send for the yoke of steers which were to come from Poplar Forest . you know our situation and will I hope send us a pair which will do solid service. of those which mr Griffin sent while you were here, we have never been able to make any thing. I have given Moses leave to stay a day with his friends. I suppose he can bring on the back of...
2Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 17 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The unexpected difficulty of getting water to my saw mill and threshing machine has made it impossible for me to leave those works a day; and the harvest is now so near as not to leave me time for a visit to Poplar forest . I must therefore put it off till the harvest is over. as soon after that as I shall suppose you may have brushed over your tobacco, I will go; because I imagine you will be...
3Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 18 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 10 th by post, requesting that you would make the necessary preparation for mr Chisolm’s beginning to plaister by sending for a waggon load of lime, and having sand brought by the waggon returning from Lynchbg , or sending for it express. I presume the waggon load of plank has been brought from Rosser’s and that mr Perry has made a beginning of putting up the grounds for...
4Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 21 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter from Maj r Flood informing me that his neighbor M r Duval will spare me from 6. to 8. bushels of Burnet seed. you will therefore be pleased to send off two boys on horseback to bring it. they should take bags which will hold 4. bushels each. the seed is as light as chaff. it is sown half a bushel to the acre. Major Flood’s is 34. miles from Poplar Forest on the...
5Conveyance of Sally Goodman from Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 30 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of the county of Albemarle do hereby sell and convey to Jeremiah A. Goodman now of the county of Bedford a certain negro girl slave named Sally , being the daughter of Aggy one of the slaves of the sd Thomas , which said Girl Sally is about three years of age in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty Dollars to me the sd Thomas...
6Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 26 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Hercules arrived here on the 22 d having been discharged from Buckingham jail on the 20 th where he had been confined as a runaway.the folly he has committed certainly justifies further punishment, and he goes in expectation of recieving it, for I have assured him that I leave it to yourself altogether and made him sensible that he deserves & ought to recieve it. I believe however it is his...
7Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 5 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of Jan. 12. never reached me till the day before yesterday. the ram of Merino blood sent to Poplar Forest is half blooded from a ewe of my Spanish breed. a full blooded ram lamb is never sold for less than 50.D. the half blooded generally at 20.D. but as I my object is not to gain, but to benefit our citizens by enabling them to get into the breed, I have never taken more than...
8Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 5 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the few minutes mr Burwell stops here, to drop you a line by him. on reciept of your information that the flour would all go down the ensuing week, I wrote to mr Gibson the moment any tolerable price could be got, to sell as much as would enable him to remit you 250.D. which I expect he has done by this time. this will enable you to pay the debts of which you gave me a...
9Thomas Jefferson: Memorandum to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 12 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Mem m for mr Goodman . as soon as the green swerd seed is ripe, have som e gathered by the negro children and sowed on all the naked parts of the mound, and then cover those parts lightly with s traw first, & brush laid over that. if m ore seed could be gathered by the children it might be sowed in the fall or spring in the square round the house where the green swerd has not as yet taken....
10Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 8 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Dick & the others arrived here the day before yesterday (Wednesday) he lost one of his hogs opposite Lynchburg , and a mutton died the night before he got here. every thing else came well. whenever the carriage of flour falls to a dollar a barrel you had better get all mine off, giving orders on mr Gibson for paiment of the freight. indeed whenever the expectation of the price of carriage...