1Tristram Dalton to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge & thank you for your favour of the 2 nd Inst: which I communicated to my friend Aaron Dexter Esq r President of the Mass as Agricultural Society . He and his friends are highly gratified by your account of Co l Randolph ’s success in ploughing hill sides horizontally—a desideratum long sought for, in vain, in this quarter. Several Gentlemen are anxious to begin the...