From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hollingsworth, 6 November 1792
To Jacob Hollingsworth
Philadelphia Nov.1 6. 1792.
Sir
You were so kind as to undertake to engage a particular person to overlook a farm for me in Virginia. Having heard nothing from you on the subject, and being anxious to know whether you have succeeded I take the liberty of asking you to drop me a line of information. I am with much esteem Sir your most obedt servt
Th: Jefferson
PrC (MHi); at foot of text: “Mr. Hollingsworth”; with date corrected by TJ (see note 1 below). Recorded in SJL as written 6 Nov. 1792.
Jacob Hollingsworth (1742–1803), a half brother of the Maryland legislator Henry Hollingsworth, and the brother of the Philadelphia merchant Levi Hollingsworth, was an innkeeper at Elkton, Maryland (Edward C. Papenfuse and others, A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635–1789, 2 vols. [Baltimore and London, 1979–85], i, 447–8; v, 154, 155n, vi, 237; G. Harlan Wells, “The British Campaign of 1777 in Maryland Prior to the Battle of the Brandywine,” Maryland Historical Magazine, xxxiii [1938], 10). TJ stopped at Hollingsworth’s tavern on 14 July 1792 on his way home to Monticello and probably again on 4 Oct. 1792 on his return to Philadelphia ( , 14 July and 4 Oct. 1792).
1. Word later added by TJ above “Oct.”