31Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 31 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d came to hand last night, and I now inclose you two powers of Attorney , one to be used at each place, and copied verbatim from the form in your letter . I have not attested it before a magistrate, because it would cost me a ride of many miles to find one, which I am not able to take, but it is impossible that this can be requisite for a power of attorney to transfer a...
32Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have purchased a spinning machine in Washington , thro’ the friendly agency of Doct r Thornton , for which the bearer Davy is now sent with a cart. he is furnished with provisions for himself & horses to Washington and back, and 5.D. for his ferriages & other accidental calls, and therefore I have no reason to expect he will need any thing more. should any extraordinary accident, or a longer...
33Enclosure: Power of Attorney from Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes for United States Stock Interest, 15 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Albemarle , by virtue of the powers to me given by Thaddeus Kosciuzko , late a General in the armies of the United States , do hereby constitute and appoint John Barnes of George town in the district of Columbia lawful attorney under my self, of the said Thaddeus with full powers to recieve for the sd Thaddeus and in his...
34Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 26 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters to Gen l Kosciuzko ha covering bills of exchange for £200. sterling have been duly recieved. I have inclosed the 1 st to the Secretary of states office to be put under cover to General Armstrong with the dispatches of the department & by the safest conveyance occurring. I propose some time hence to ask a conveyance for the seconds second in the same way, unless you think of any...
35Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I should like much the proposition in your’s of the 20 th to pay our remittances to G. Williams in Baltimore , and for Russel and Morton , on advice of that paiment, to pay the same to G l Kosciuzko . but neither of them could be entitled to a commission; because it would be as if we bought G.W’s bill on R. &
36Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th was exactly two weeks getting to this place instead of the two days in which it ought to have come. I recieved it yesterday. I have not yet lost my hope in mr Morton , and that he may yet be the most convenient channel of supplying Gen l Kosciuzko ; because if he continues firm, he could give the General cash there always for a draught on you. we will therefore yet wait...
37Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved and weighed your favors of the 9 th and 11 th . nobody would be farther from wishing a sudden crush to the banks than my self. that they are multiplied to a great abuse and evil is evident; and their reduction by degrees would be the safest for the public, and might save us if our legislatures were wise. but it is their folly which is hurrying us to the precipice, by the...
38Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to make a remittance to my grandaughter Ellen W. Randolph now at the President’s I take the liberty of putting it under cover to you, because I think it will go safer in that way. I therefore inclose a bill of 100.D. of the bank of Virginia which I understand will be worth more than par in the bills of the District. be so good as to pay it out to the order of my grandaughter,...
39Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 29 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 12. was duly recieved and I now return you that of mr Williams which it covered. I wish you may have been able to procure a bill to go by some of the late flags which offered such safe conveyance. It is time to ask if there is not great reason to feel alarm for our banking institutions. the notes they had in circulation the last summer were calculated to amount to 200....
40Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I set out tomorrow for Bedford and shall be absent 3. or 4. weeks. I have between 4. and 500. barrels of flour caught at Richmond by the blockade, not a barrel of it sold. my hope is that the enemy will prefer withdrawing out of the capes and cruising on the coast to catch something rather than lie where they do & catch nothing. the moment any movement of theirs gives a chance for our vessels...
41Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 26 th ult. came to hand by the last post. that of June 23. had been recieved in due time, & I had not adverted to the copy of the order it inclosed respecting Gen l K’s Pensylvania bank stock. I now inclose you an order to recieve it. I am very happy at being released from the bank in a way to incommode nobody. I am distressed by old mr Shoemaker your neighbor, who has rented...
42Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 15 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Having several small sums to pay in George town , in order to spare Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson the embarrasment of making so many fractional remittances, I have taken the liberty of desiring them to include the whole in a round sum of 200.D. and inclose it to you, presuming on your usual goodness that you will make the distribution for me, to wit to Henry Foxall 55. 46½ Richard Barry 70. 52
43Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 29 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Dec. 6. & 18. have been recieved. the last came to hand yesterday evening only. we have two mails a week between this & Washington , which come in the evenings of Wednesday & Friday, & go out the mornings of Wednesday & Thursday. they are therefore little better than one: yours of the 18 th recieved last night (Wednesday) could not be answered in time for the mail which went...
44Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 10 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th came to hand last night, and I now inclose you the order on the bank of Pensylvania for General Kosciuzko’s dividend. his interest due from me Apr. 1. shall not be delayed a moment, as the distance of that day gives me time for the sale of my crop of 1810. this has been so good, that with the prices now going it will nearly liberate me from that part of my Washington...
45Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Apr. 22. & 25. are at hand. you observe that the question is how to dispose of the 4500.D & the 360.D the latter being interest, I supposed would be remitted to the General for use; and the 4500.D. principal being itself a stock bearing interest at 5 ⅔ p.c. and payable at the end of one year, I had supposed it would be best to keep it in it’s present form until payable, and then...
46Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 8 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d came to hand last night, & by this day’s return of post I inclose you the order desired. I am very apprehensive that the difficulties of the times will embarras our remittances to the General . it was for this reason I pressed on him a connection with mr Morton . we have time enough still, before the next remittance, to hear from him on that subject. you say nothing of...
47Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 22 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In August last I recieved from mr Rembrandt Peale 2. or 3. pieces of Agate which had been purchased for me, by some person in France , who says I desired him to purchase them while I was resident in France . I have totally forgotten it, & his name subscribed in his letter to me (now inclos d ) being in illegible characters, I am unable to make out who it was who after so long an interval was...
48Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20 th came to hand last night only, and the same post brought me an answer from mr Morton which I inclose for your perusal & consideration, with a request to return it to me. mr Morton is a native of this state, not personally known to me till lately, but long ago much recommended to me by many here; but most particularly by mr Coles , who was much with him in Bordeaux ,...
49Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 27 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of the 15 th and learn with concern that a doubt can exist that our friend Gen l Kosciuzko may have failed to recieve his remittance of 1810. for as to that of 1811. mr Barlow’s safe arrival ensures it. of that of 1810. the 1 st 2 d & 4 th of Exchange were sent by different opportunities thro’ the department of state, and altho’ I trust they have been recieved,...
50Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 16 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night a letter from mr Short dated Liverpool June 19. covering the inclosed papers, to wit, 1. Extract from the Register of the Prerogative court of Canterbury. 2. Power of Attorney from Hibbert’s exrs to Smith for selling the stock now inclosed. 3. a blank power of Atty from Smith to transfer the stock to W m Short . 4. the original certificates for 5000. 1000. 1000. 1000....
51Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 16 th is just recieved, and I have maturely considered it, as well as the papers you were so kind as to inclose in it. it is with real pain that I fe el myself irresistably forced to a conclusion which I percieve to be different from what would be yours. mr Parker’s estimate of the proceeds of Gen l Kosciuzko’s 8000.D. in 13. years, makes a difference of 2046.D. in favor of...
52Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 24 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
On reciept of your favor of the 8 th I determined to take the first hour of leisure to make a more scrupulous search through Genl. Kosciuzko ’s papers, for his 8. p r cent certificates ; the belief that you had them, had rendered the first search less particular, which belief your last letter put an end to. entering on it a day or two ago, and unfolding every paper in his bundle, I had at...
53Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 29 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 18 th is recieved as had been in due time that of Apr. 25. I now inclose you the July order on the bank of Pensv a for Gen l Kosciuzko’s July dividend. I inclosed to him one copy of the bill of exchange you sent me by mr Barlow , & a 2 d
54Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Aug. 10. & Oct. 3. are now before me. the difficulties you find in transferring the stock of Gen l Kosciuzko standing in my name to his own, puzzle me exceedingly, because I do not understand them. it is a business I am not familiar with. both the General’s wish and mine is that the stock should stand in his own name to avoid difficulties in case of my death, but that the powers...
55Enclosure: Order on United States Treasury, 18 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
J. B. 4 870 Pay to W m S. or order 10,500 D. in part of the sum of 23,950 D. appropr d by the act of Congr. for the purchase of my library as advised in my lre