61From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall set out in 3. or 4. days for Bedford, and not having money for the road, & having also some petty nbhood debts I have drawn on you this day for 140.D. in fav r Jacobs and Raphael. I hope on my arrival in Bedf d to find my tob o crop beginning to be ready to go down. I shall be absent about a fortnight. I owe mr Rawlings for the fire insur ce co. 84.40 which I gave him reason to expect...
62Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 3 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
An abundant rain having given us a plentiful tide I wish to avail myself of it in bringing up a part of 7. tons of plaister which I ask the favor of you to procure & forward to me as often as W m Johnson , shall call for it. he starts this evening. I will further request you to procure & send me by him 100. ℔ of good coffee, that is to say Bourbon if to be had, if not then Java or other...
63Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 5 th is recieved announcing the sales of 5. hhds of my tob o . my confidence in you always satisfies me that the sales have been as good as the market would admit. this is one third of the crop, the whole being 15. hhds, and these having netted 8083 ℔ we may presume the whole will nett about 24,000 and will be down without delay . I was obliged to draw on you on the 10 9 th in...
64Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 15 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to Captain Peyton a blank for the renewal of his note in the Farmer’s bank of which Capt P. has been so kind as to undertake the patronage, for the discount on which mr Gibson is desired to answer his call, and he salutes him with affectionate esteem & respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure not...
65Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 14 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 12 th I drew on you in fav r of John R. Campbell for 101.34 D and in fav r of John W. Eppes for 163.20 D I shall postpone awhile as well as lessen my demand on London . mr Jones Collector of Petersburg
66From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 3 d in expectation that the note would be discounted I had already drawn on you for 300 + 200 + 100 + 50D. say 650.D. I shall stop at that and settle Bacon’s balance otherwise. our river rose 1. foot with the late rains and we got off Wood’s boats with flour; but I learnt yesterday that the water failed before they got out of the river, and that they are...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
having omitted to note my last renewals, I have lost sight of their dates, but I am sure I must have been in default in the observce of that duty which I trust my power of atty to you will have enabled you to supply. I now send you a set of them with blanks for dates.—you have not sent me my last quarter’s acc t —Students continue to come in almost daily; we are now something upw ds of 70....
68Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 4 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your two kind favors of Feb. 12. & 26. and they make it a duty to go into some explanations. age and ill health, and still more the loss of plantation skill and management by an absence of 50. years from such attentions, had for some time rendered me unequal to the proper management of my possessio ns insomuch that those in Bedford had been entirely unproductive and those...
69From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
A neighborhood debt obliged me to draw on you in favor of John Winn for 64.85 which I do with reluctance until we get tob o down, or recieve monies due. M r Thompson Collector of N. York has sent to your care for me a box of seeds from France for which he has paid charges 1D.90c can you remit him so small a sum? affect ly yours MHi .
70From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 6 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Not doubting that the 235. Barrels of flour sent off in a good tide 10. days ago are now in hand, I am obliged to make some calls on you for current purposes. I have therefore drawn on you this day in favor of Wolfe & Raphael for 220. D. I have also recieved notice from mr Henry A. S. Dearborne, Collector of Boston, that he has forwarded to you my wines & stores lately arrived there from...
71Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 5 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night yours of Apr. 1 . that of Mar. 20 . mentioning the refusal of the note of 300.D. had given me great concern, which indeed is not much alleviated by seeing that my deficiency is still of 767.75 which would have been presented prevented nearly had my mill-tenants paid me their arrearages of 600.D. this I am pressing for, as my only resource to relieve you until my tob o...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 10 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
My affairs in Bedford not permitting me to wait longer I shall set out for that place the day after tomorrow, to be absent 2. or 3. weeks. altho’ we have not heard of our Bedford tob o having arrived at Richm d yet Jefferson seems confident that some must have arrived, and that all will do so soon from that and this place. in the mean time I must pay some neighborhood debts before I set out, &...
73Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 6 th day of Feb. mr Gelston of N. York shipped for me at that place a supply of wines from Marseilles on board the schooner Brilliant , Cap t Black , belonging to Richmond , addressing them to mess rs Gibson & Jefferson
74Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
During an absence of 27. years from Europe , the ordinary course of mortality, aided by a bloody revolution & active guillotine has swept off nearly every personel acquaintance on that side of the Atlantic . with some literary characters I have since had correspondence, but I not knowing them personally or their habits of society, I do not take the liberty of giving letters of introduction to...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 30 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the approach of your crisis and my own heavy balance due to you I have kept off some neihborhoods calls for some time. but two of these can no longer be delayed, the one for 60. D. for which I have this day drawn on you in favor of Jacobs & Raphael, the other will be something under that I expect, it’s amount being not yet known to me. I have entirely depended on Jefferson as to the...
76Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 3 [April] 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson ’s absence in Bedford has rendered it impossible to send you the inclosed till this moment for want of his endorsemt. I hope they will still get to your hands in time for renewal. ever & affectionately yours. PoC ( MHi ); misdated; on verso of left half of reused address cover of Joel Yancey to TJ, 22 Dec. 1820 ; endorsed by TJ as a letter of “3 Mar. Apr. ” 1821. Recorded in SJL as a...
77Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday only your favor of the 12 th . I find all in it right. I am in want of some earthen pots for covering plant s of Sea-kale in the garden. I am told they are made at a Pottery, in or near Richmond , and that mr Wickham particularly has them of the proper size and form which were made there. will you be so good as to get me half a hundred & send them by the first boat, or if...
78Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
You know we are engaged in the establishment of a Central college near Charlottesville , and we are sure you will have your children educated at it. on that ground we claim a right to give you occasional trouble with it’s concerns. we wish to cover our buildings with slate, and we believe all our lands on Henderson’s & B. island creeks to be full of what is excellent, we wish therefore to get...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 8 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to procure for me a safe bill of excha. on London to nett there, clear of excha. 444. D. payable to Mr Sam l Williams N o 13. Finsbury square London, forwarding with it the inclosed letter which advises him of it’s purpose . send me if you please the triplicate I must request you also to send me by the 1 st waggon 8. boxes of tin, and by the boats 6. barrels of...
80Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 5 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday a letter from mr Yancey informing me that on the 25 th of May he sent off 7. hhds of tob o for me, and I learnt at the Shadwell mills that they had sent off 89. barrels of flour. both articles I trust are with you by this time. I therefore put under your cover two letters for Glinn & co. and Fr. Mayo , covering orders on you the former for 100.D. the latter for 127.12 ½ D...
81Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 8 June 1821, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
I have two calls in Bedford so pressing that they do not permit my getting more flour down before I make deliver the orders, the one to Jonathan Bishop for 136.48 D the other to Joel Yancey for 135.D. but as they will go circuitously by Bedford , before th ey get to you, you will recieve a boat load which will start the day after tomorrow. another load will go on the return of the boat. that...
82From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 30 th your advances for me have been unreasonably great and such as I must check. but no consideration on earth will permit me to let you suffer. Except our neighborly and current calls, every thing is in Jefferson hands. I sent for him this morning and have had a conference with him. he assures me he has had you in constant view and thinks himself...
83From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 28 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My misfortunes of the past year have been considble & shall be briefly stated. four prime young men, guilty of an attack on their overseer were sent, as an example to N. Orleans to be sold about 2. years ago. I had a right to expect with certainty 2000.D. for them. as yet I have recieved 400. only, and have but uncertain expectations what more & when will be recieved. this has cut me short in...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Col o Peyton is requested to get mr May to obtain of the best window glass of the Boston manufactory the following articles 25 . panes 12. I. square 50. panes 12 by 18 I. ½ doz. panes 18. I. by 2. feet. also the following for print frames 2. panes or sheets 19½ I. by 15. I. for the 2. prints of Pantheon 1. 19½ I. by 14¼ for Comparative buildings 3 . d o 17
85Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of Nov. 29 . you have rightly under stood the expression in my letter of ‘the place under him’ assuredly meaning the principal office in Richmond under the PM.G. Jefferson ’s sollicitations were warmly for yourself. he never had an idea of that or any thing else of the kind for himself. his views are fixed on the earth & his own industry only. I intend this year to...
86Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 22 February [1822] (abstract) (Jefferson Papers)
wrote to Col o Peyton to send me 8. gross corks by 1 st waggon FC ( MHi ); abstract in TJ’s hand beneath endorsement of PoC of TJ to Peyton, 15 Feb. 1822 ; on recto of reused address cover of John Laval to TJ, 20 May 1820 ; partially dated.
87From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I this inst. recieve your of y17 th and hasten to inclose the blanks wh ch had escaped me. I am in hopes they would in time altho’ I do not recollect their exact days. will you be so good as to send up the remainder to mr Brockenbro’ of the plans of the Univ y I expect you have rec d from mr Coffee and fowarded for me to Bedford a box of ornaments of Architecture I suppose the Sicily Madeira...
88Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose the note to the Farmer’s bank for renewal and hope it will reach you in time, altho it had nearly slipped my due attention. for the discounts I must request your application to mr Gibson as my produce will go to him as soon as our river is in a condition to float a boat. the time of shipping my tobacco to my friend Maury as stated in mr Pollard’s letter is too long I fear for me to...
89From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The wines for which I asked you to make a remittance to N.Y. were but a part of what I had written for. there were yet 5. cases and a cask of red wine to come which have since arrived at Boston consigned to Henry A. S. Dearborne the Collector, who has pd freight and duties for me 31. D 30 which I must request you to remit him, and to mr E. Copeland j r of Boston the further sum of 52. D 10 the...
90From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 6 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Cox’s draught on you for the Scuppernon wine is right. I think I had in a former letter advised you that such an one would be made. in your last account rendered I find an omission of a credit of 300. D. the price of a negro woman of mine sold in Richmond, and directed, as I understood to be paid to you. I shall have to draw on you immediately for Raphael’s quarterly bill, something...
91Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors of the University have occasion to remit to Thomas Appleton , our Consul at Leghorn the sum of 1200.D. which he has desired may be placed in the hands of Samuel Williams N o 13. Finsbury square London subject to the order of Thomas Appleton . I have also occasion to remit to mr Appleton the sum of 444.D. on my private account. I therefore inclose to you mr Garrett ’s check on the
92Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved this morning your favor of the 17 th have got the correct bills signed by D r Everett , now inclose them and hope they will get to hand before my draught in favor of White gets round to you. the 56.31 and 88 D. curtail must be retained out of the proceeds of the bill of Exchange: I had in mr G. ’s hands at the last statement of our accounts but about 30.D. and he may have paid some...
93From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I drew on you, as I had advised you on the 9 th for 200. D. in the evening of the same day I recieved yours of the 6 th by which I saw how much you were in advance for me, and was truly mortified to be called on the next day by the sheriff for my taxes here 113. D 12 c and had no resource but to draw on you. our flour has been lying in the mill near 2. months, and unluckily at the only tide we...
94Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your s of the 2 d has been recieved as also the books and boulting cloth. I drew on you yesterday in favor of Wolfe & Raphael for 180.D. and must ask the favor of you to remit for me to Henri Guegan bookseller at the foreign bookstore Baltimore 43. D 50 C I have now but one draught more to make on my present funds in your hands. that is the heavy one in favor of mr Garland of Lynchburg . my...
95Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion for some books from London , the inclosed letter requests my friend mr Rush our Minister there to engage some bookseller to furnish them. I state to him that you will be so good as to put into my letter a bill of exchange of £40. sterl, and that you will forward 2plic s & 3plic . by other conveyances. I leave the letter open for your perusal and request you to put a copy of...
96Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 28 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time of writing my letter of the 16 th I expected I was wrong as to the 330.D. and had I thought of looking to the preceding quarterly account, I should have seen that I was wrong . however all is now right: I inclose you a check on the Farmer’s bank for 1059. D 66 C which please to recieve and place to my credit in your account. I shall within a few days have to draw on this deposit as...
97From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 27 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Some boxes of philosophical apparatus are arrived at Richmond for the University in the care of Mess rs Warwicks. a paper is sent me to be signed entirely unconformable to the facts of the case, the awkwardness of which perhaps you can relieve by verbal explanations. I therefore trouble you with the papers open, to be perused, delivered and accomodated. The boxes must come indispensably by...
98From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 30 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
My former shipments: of flour were 33. & 50. barrels and by a waggon so a fortunate rain enabled me to ship the day before yesterday 235. more. altho this may not place enough in your hands to pay mr Barret 750.D. yet I must pray you to do it as soon as the flour is sold. I do not draw an order, but I write to inform him that you will do it as soon as my flour is sold, and he will call on you...
99Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 30 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not till yesterday that I could get a 3 d witness to the inclosed deed . the intenseness of the weather has prevented me from going from home. you will observe it is not recorded. this ceremony is unpleasant, the deed is good without it between the parties & those claiming under them, and against creditors where there are other assets. the subsequent purchaser without notice can alone...
100From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 23 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a bill of lading for some wines E t c from Philadelphia, which are probably arriving at Richm d ab t this time and I must pray you to remit 62.85. to Mr John Steele Collector at Phila, who has advanced the freight, duties E t c on them from Marseilles, and without delay as it is a kind of debt of honor. Jefferson will be with you on Monday and will place in your hands 4900 D....
101Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 19 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
We are here, Ellen , Cornelia and myself for two mo nths to come, & living on plantation fare. this may be considerably improved if you can send us by a Lynchburg boat, addressed to mr Archib. Robertson a keg of tongues & sounds, a small keg of crackers, a small box of raisins, and a good cheese, to which be pleased to add a barrel of shad from my old friend mr Darmsdat , who has supplied me...
102Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 25 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from Cap t Miller of Norfolk of Feb. 16. he informed me he had put on board the steamboat for me ten gross of corks to your address. not having heard of them I am afraid the steamboat has never delivered them. in the mean while the season is so far advanced and advancing that I fear I shall lose my whole year’s stock of ale and cyder by too late bottling. if the corks are arrived I...
103Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 23 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My draughts on you have been as follows D Sep. 30. in favor of Joel Wolfe 100 . Oct. 13. Taxes Albemarle . 197 .21 d o Bedford .
104Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 6 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot account for my inattention to furni sh you my notes for renewal in the banks. I now send a compleat set of the 5. notes, and will make it a point hereafter to send renewals on the 1 st day of every other month. by adopting a fixed day, I shall not forget. but in case it should escape me, I send you the powers of Attorney to supply it. I hope to recieve immediately my quarterly account...
105From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very kind letters, with those of other friends were real soothers of a kind of uneasiness I never had before experienced, which was the greater as the less expected. a majority of one in the legislature of my native state was an appalling idea. but it has ended well, and I count on days and nights of quiet which I had never seen since the coup de grace given me by a deceased friend. I...
106Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After so many kind services as I have recieved from you, & so many testimonies of kind dispositions, it would seem unreasonable to press further on them. and yet to whom but a friend can we apply in distress? I have a note of 3000.D. in the Farmer’s bank which was endorsed for me by Col o Nicholas . a different endorser is now called for, and I am told it must be a town endorser. mr Gibson...
107Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 26 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th did not come to hand till last night. to have been a fortnight on the way proves great negligence on the way, which was not at the post office here, as I well know. you say you feel great embarrasment at asking my sollicitations for you at the seat of government . feel none, my dear Sir; there is nothing within my power which I am not ready to do for you, and I should be...
108From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 3 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My neighborhood debts having run up to 175. D. I have this day drawn on you for that sum in favor of Jacobs & Raphael. I fear my arrears with you are become considerable. Jefferson tells me that about 4000 ℔ of the tob o lately sold for him was mine from this place, and the crop from Bedford is partly lodged at Lynchburg to go down by the first boats and the residue nearly prepared to go to...
109Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 11 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The period for renewal of my note in the Farmer’s bank being now at hand, I inclose one endorsed as before by my grandson , but requiring the favor of your name also as a town endorser according to the regulations of that bank. not knowing at how many dates days after date they require notes, I have left that blank. our boats which left Milton Oct. 10. are not yet returned, there not being...
110From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 17 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have so entirely left all my affairs to Jefferson that I know almost nothing of them. I am uninformed whether our tob o from Bedford is all down or our flour from here. before he went away, I stated to him that we should have to make the ordinary and current call on you. he told me I might do it, as he had made provn with you on that subject. my quarterly bills are now due and must be drawn...