Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 4 September 1822
To Bernard Peyton
Monticello Sep.1 4. 22.
Dear Sir
Presuming that in addition to the proceeds of my tobo you have recieved the amount of the check on the farmer’s bank for 1059.D. inclosed in my letter of Aug. 29. I yesterday drew on you in favor of Wolfe and Raphael for 103.84 and this day in favor of James Lietch for 908.47 & of Martin Dawson for 49.54 and I shall be obliged to draw in a few days for 750. D and one or two smaller draughts. to assist in meeting these & to make up my balance to you I2 only await a tide in the river to ship flour, and the coming in of a balance of about 1200.D. from my mill tenants. the former however is a sure and early reliance. affectionately yours
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Francis Eppes to TJ, 27 Mar. 1821, not found (see note to TJ to Eppes, 8 Apr. 1821); adjacent to signature: “Colo Bernard Peyton”; with related calculations in pencil at foot of text in an unidentified hand, tallying the $1,811.85 in drafts mentioned above and also adding 166 to 1,059 for a total of 1,225; endorsed by TJ.
TJ’s letter of aug. 29 to Peyton was actually written on 28 Aug. 1822.
TJ’s financial records specify that the draft in favor of wolfe and raphael was intended to pay John Gilliam for “a bay of Diomede blood, 6. y. old last spring, 5 f–1½ I. high, a dim star in forehead, slight snip on nose, short ears.” TJ had purchased this horse on 12 Jan. 1822 (, 2:1382, 1388). The order on james lietch (Leitch) cleared TJ’s “acct. from Aug. 1. 20. to Aug. 1. 21” (, 2:1388; , p. 465). The draft in favor of martin dawson covered “the amt. of my acct. from Aug. 1. 21. to Aug. 5. 22 and including an assumpsit of 21.79 for Ewen Carden which charge to him accordingly” (, 2:1389).
1. TJ here canceled “24.”
2. Preceding nine words substituted for “I.”
Index Entries
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Carden, Youen; assumpsit for search
- Dawson, Martin; TJ pays search
- Dawson, Martin; TJ’s account with search
- Diomede (TJ’s horse) search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); orders on search
- flour; shipment of search
- Gilliam, John search
- horses; TJ buys search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with J. Leitch search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with M. Dawson search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; rent due TJ search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells flour search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- Leitch, James; account with TJ search
- Leitch, James; TJ pays search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Randolph & Colclaser (Albemarle Co. firm); as tenants at Shadwell mills search
- rent; from Shadwell mills search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- Richmond, Va.; flour shipped to search
- Shadwell mills; rent for search
- tobacco; sale of search
- Wolfe & Raphael (Charlottesville firm); TJ pays search