1Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely regret that we happen to see the same subject in lights so very different, with respect to the mill . but the rent of a real property must, you know, be a fixt thing. as it’s original cost cannot be varied, so the interest or rent on that cannot vary with daily and transient occurrences, and especially on a lease for time. it is easy to reduce a rent, but impossible to raise it...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 26 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 24 th was recieved yesterday. the clause of arbitration in the lease was a sufficient provision between Shoemaker and my self because we understood every part of it in the same way. so it was with mr Randolph & M c Kinney. but you and myself differ so materially and in so many points that to enter into a contract with opposite meanings & to propose to go thro’ it by arbitrations...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The distress in which I am to meet debts of the most pressing urgency obliges me to remind you of the arrearages due to me on the mill account. according to the account rendered by yourself to the 1 st of last July there was then a balance acknoleged due of 650.09D my acc t made it more. this difference was left to Jefferson to settle with you, and it was agreed between you to arbitrate it as...
4Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 21 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On casting my eye over your account I observed that I should have to ask the favor of you to have me furnished with the details of the flour delivered, to wit, a statement of the dates, quantities & persons to whom delivered, without which I cannot settle either with the boat men, or mr Gibson . I imagine you take the boatmen’s receipts by which th ey stand charged to their employer. a...
5Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You need not hurry yourself at all as to the extracts from your Day-book. a letter from George Stevenson to mr Randolph just recieved gives the uneasy information that your son Eston is very ill at Baltimore . indeed he says that he is in imminent danger. his case is an inflammatory fever. having given this cause of alarm, mr Stevenson will undoubtedly write by every mail while the crisis...
6Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 12 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have some debts here which press very sorely on me; for the paym t of which my only resource is the my cash balance at y e mill . and my return to Bedford moreover depending on their payment I am obliged to trouble you with the subject. mr C. Peyton to whom I have ab t 600.D to pay wrote me 2. days ago that you would accept my ord. in his favor which would suit him. I did not chuse...
7Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 15 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday an alarming account of the of danger there is of the mill floors being crushed down by the weight with which they are now loaded. I went to day to examine into it, and indeed I found it most imminent, and every moment to be expected. on the garrett floor is about 150,000 ℔ and on the ground floor about 120,000 ℔, making a whole of 270,000. weight and the danger is proved...
8Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 2 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of yesterday was recieved last night. you need take no trouble about the flour balance, till you have it of your own; and as to the damaged 27. barrels I mean to bear my own part of that misfortune, so that you have nothing to make up on that account. I set out tomorrow for Bedford & shall be back by the 20 th . mr Bacon will be starting about that time for Missouri , and will want some...
9Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 28 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 20 th has been a week getting to my hands. I am sorry that mr Colclaser , after the pointed assurances I gave him, should still have doubts about the work at the mill. I will not suppose he doubts my intention and he could not have doubted the means had he calculated. for what is to be done? the lower broadside of the house is to be secured by from coming further out from...
10Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 24 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to you some days ago that I had a note in the bank of the US. for 1000.D. which I was notified at the time must be paid up at it’s term, and could not be renewed. as I sent it with a blank date to be filled on the day of actual discount, I do not know the precise day it is due, but I know it is between the 1 st & 7 th of July. for this I have no earthly resource but the balance due...