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I recieved yesterday yours of the 6 th informing me of the sale of part of my flour at my lowest limit of 9.D. you must be so good as to consider that limit as removed. it was originally proposed at a season when I was satisfied the market must come to that notwithstanding momentary depressions. but the season is now arrived when the approach of harvest must necessarily lower the demand &...
I presume you have recieved the sum of 1333 ⅓ D from mr Samuel J. Harrison which he assured me should be punctually paid on the 1 st inst. at your counting house. this makes no part of the purchase of my tobacco crop, which is not yet due, & is destined to meet the following demands Washington. John Barnes 360.D
We propose that my grandson, Jefferson Randolph shall attend the Mathematical department of the academy of Mess rs Girardin , Wood e t c in Richmond , and that he should go as soon as the frosts set in, say the 1 st week in October, which is as early as an upland constitution ought to approach the tide water. can you be so good as to engage a birth for him in some good family where he can...
My letter of Feb. 9. from Poplar Forest informed you of the sale of my tob o and of the disagreeable situation of my wheat crop in Bedford . I staid there till the last day of February in the hope of withdrawing it from the mill there and sending it down to Scott’s to be ground and forwarded to Richmond . but altho’ the mill dam was carried away a second time they refused to let me
Your favors of Sep. 28. and Oct. 5. are both recieved for mer by the last post was prevented by an accident which occ esc ape my attention till it was too late. the most eligible mod e two ewes brought up would be by a boat, but not without a trusty from here to take care of them. if the state of the river admitted it I would send one down in a boat, and the hope of a rain has prevented my...
My packages from Washington must be now near arriving with you, and I will pray you to forward them by such boats as are deemed trusty. there will also be from mr Taggert of Philadelphia a cask of linseed oil & keg of white lead. I inclose you a bill of lading of for a box belonging to one of my workmen, mr Nelson , which he had addressed to me, to the care of your firm, which as you will see...
In 1805. John D. Burke asked of me the loan of my volumes of newspapers from 1741. to 1752. and of the antient laws of Virginia , which he proposed to be lodged with Gov r Page to be open to his inspection. I accordingly sent to Gov r Page the laws desired, and 3. vols of Virginia gazettes from 1741. to 1760. permitting mr Burke
On the subject of the trunk N o 28. I am not without a hope that an interview by yourself with the drayman and Harry , the first time he goes down, may yet discover it’s fate. I am anxious, not so much for the value, tho that was considerable and the assortment of paper particular, as for the instrument (Dynamometer) which it contained, the only one in America , & imported for a particular...
Tomorrow being the last day fixed by our sheriff’s for the reciept of the taxes of the year, I shall draw on you in their favor for the amount of mine, being somewhere about 70.D. this will be in one or two draughts at their convenience & paiable at sight. I know there cannot remain as much of my last remittance as will meet this sum, but I am in daily expectation of recieving a sum which will...
I inclose you an order from John H. Craven on mr Richard Anderson for 250.D. founded on a sale of wheat for him, he w at 60. days. he writes to mr Anderson to procure a discount on the note he recieved so as to enable him to pay this immediately. on this fund, and the former balance in my favor I have drawn on you as follows. D Dec. 19. in favor of Joseph Brand 107.17 Jan. 12.