1From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 18 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bonds of Banks and Taylor which you were so kind as to take for my Elkhill lands, are destined to discharge bonds of mine to Mr. Jones of Bristol for Farrel & Jones, according to an agreement existing between Mr. Richard Hanson, attorney for Mr. Jones, and myself. Be pleased therefore to deliver the said bonds to Mr. Hanson, taking his receipt for them on the back of this order, which will...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 20 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 9th. inst. and am happy that the sale of Elkhill is at length compleated. I would at once renew the deed here, but that there exists no such law of Congress as you suppose which could make a record here effectual to pass lands in Virginia. There is I believe some law of Virginia allowing a considerable time for the probat of deeds executed out of the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 31 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
An offer to rent Elkhill for the ensuing year, and the advance of the season, have occasioned me to give the inclosed answer which I send open for your perusal. Should you have closed the sale, be so good as to return me the letter, or if you are certain of closing it within a reasonable time. Otherwise I will pray you to send it on, and if the sale be afterwards made, it will be necessary to...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 6 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You will have received my letter of Nov. 22. two or three days after the date of yours of the 26. and this will in a great measure have answered yours. I therein expressed a wish to obtain Dr. Taylor’s bonds backed by some other responsible person, because two responsible persons are always necessary to secure ultimately against the accidents which may happen to one of them in the course of a...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 22 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of the 10th. and am puzzled what to say on the subject. My first object is to be sure of the price. The mortgage of the Green briar lands I consider as almost nothing, so distant, probably so worthless, so difficult to be got at by the law, and so little likely to be sold for even any thing. I do not know Dr. Taylor’s circumstances: but Mr. Eppes...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 10 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 20.-Sep. 1. never came to my hands till yesterday. I have been ever since pondering on the proposition that Elkhill shall not be resorted to unless the 83,000 acre in Greenbriar should prove deficient, and I find it totally inadmissible. For see how it will work. The 83,000 I suppose are in a great number of surveys, say for example 83. surveys. The mortgage will not hinder...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 29 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment favored with yours of the 13th. with respect to the sale of Elk hill. You know it is made for the payment of my part of Mr. Wayles’s debt to Farrell & Jones, and that by my bargain with Mr. Hanson, I am clear, if the security proves sufficient. This is my look out. As to a mortgage on 83,000 acres of land on Green briar and the back counties it is next to nothing at all in my...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 1 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your box containing 4. glasses, marked dh . goes by the Relief Capt. Welsh which has sailed this morning. It will be delivered to Mr. Brown, with my packages, and you had better be on the lookout lest it should be sent on with mine to Albemarle. Will you be so good, the moment they arrive, to drop a line by post to Mr. Randolph at Monticello, informing him of their arrival that he may send for...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 29 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your glasses are this day sent off by the Schooner Relief Capt. Welsh bound for Richmond, in a box marked dh . They have waited because I thought they would go safer with a number of packages of my own, than if sent alone. I am impatient to learn that all papers are duly executed with respect to the Elk hill lands. I am with great esteem Dear Sir your friend & servt. P.S. The captain delivers...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 3 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 25. came to hand last night after the departure of the vessel which had brought my tobacco but I will avail myself of the first other one which shall be going to Richmond to send your looking glasses. To save you all the trouble in my power about the sale of the lands, I have prepared all the necessary papers, as far as could be done, and now inclose them. There is, in the...