1Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel H. Hooe, 20 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely sorry to have to announce to you the death of mrs Dangerfield’s negro man Edmund which happened the day before yesterday in the most sudden manner. as he had taken one of my women to wife I had placed him at a farm across the river about a mile & a half from here, and with an overseer who is, without exception, the best man I have ever employed in that way. Edmund & another man...