Joseph Coleman (1770–1846), farmer, was a native of Virginia who lived in Albemarle County by 1802 and served as an ensign in the Virginia militia. At his death his personal estate was valued at $7,747.20 and included twenty-five slaves (Annie Noble Sims, comp., Francis Morgan: An Early Virginia Burgess and Some of his Descendants [1920], 114–7; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 372, 403; DNA: RG 29, CS, Albemarle Co., 1810–40; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 17:338–9, 373–5).

Benjamin Childress (1764–1852), farmer, was a Virginia native who served briefly in the militia during the Revolutionary War. At his death in Albemarle County, his estate included 480 acres of land and fourteen slaves (DNA: RG 15, RWP; DNA: RG 29, CS, Albemarle Co., 1850; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 21:352, 22:298–300; gravestone inscription in Mount Zion Methodist Church Cemetery, Albemarle Co.).

Andrew Hart (1754–1832), merchant and farmer, was born in the county of Linlithgow, Scotland. By 1784 he immigrated to Virginia, and from 1786 until 1807 he operated a store in Albemarle County. Hart was a postmaster from an undetermined period until 1811. He subscribed $100 to Central College in 1817 and owned twenty-seven slaves at his death in Albemarle County (Mildred Carrington Hart Ewell, The Hart Family: An Account of Andrew Hart [1754–1832] of Sunny Bank, Albemarle County, Virginia, emigrant from Scotland and His Descendants [1997]; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 223–4; Axelson, Virginia Postmasters description begins Edith F. Axelson, Virginia Postmasters and Post Offices, 1789–1832, 1991 description ends , 4; Master List of Subscribers to Central College, [after 7 May 1817], document 5 in a group of documents on The Founding of the University of Virginia: Central College, 1816–1819, 5 May 1817; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 11:99–101, 146–7).

John Slaughter (b. ca. 1792), farmer, was a native of Virginia. He subscribed $50 to Central College in 1817. In 1831 Slaughter moved from Albemarle to Muskingum County, Ohio, where he continued to farm and was active in the Whig Party. He moved to Illinois after 1850 and lived until at least 1857 (Sarah Travers Lewis Anderson, Lewises, Meriwethers and their Kin [1938], 339–40; Central College Subscription List, [ca. 7 May 1817], document 4 in a group of documents on The Founding of the University of Virginia: Central College, 1816–1819, 5 May 1817; American Farmer, and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the Day, new ser., 3 [1842]: 410–1; Ohio State Journal and Columbus Gazette, 11 Sept. 1835; Columbus Ohio State Journal, 13 Oct. 1841; DNA: RG 29, CS, Ohio, Muskingum Co., 1840, 1850).

Robert McCulloch (1781–1853), miller, was a native of Albemarle County. He served as a captain in the Virginia militia, 1814–15. McCulloch operated a post office at his mills, 1818–22, and he supplied lumber for the construction of the University of Virginia. In 1835 he moved to Cooper County, Missouri, where he died (William F. Johnson, History of Cooper County, Missouri [1919], 229, 414; Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812 [1988], 45, 253; Axelson, Virginia Postmasters description begins Edith F. Axelson, Virginia Postmasters and Post Offices, 1789–1832, 1991 description ends , 5; ViU: PP, ledger, 1817–23; James Harris and Robert McCulloch to TJ, 16 Dec. 1821; gravestone inscription in McCulloch Cemetery, Cooper Co., Mo.).

Brightberry Brown (1762–1846), farmer, was a lifelong resident of Albemarle County. He served in the Revolutionary War and was later a captain in the Virginia militia. Brown co-owned the county’s first turnpike, which was begun in 1805 and crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains. He served as postmaster at Brown’s Turnpike, 1812–14 and 1820–28. Brown patented a water loom in 1814, and in 1830 he owned twenty-three slaves (DNA: RG 15, RWP; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 69, 153, 235, 375, 403; Washington National Intelligencer, 1 Aug. 1812; Axelson, Virginia Postmasters description begins Edith F. Axelson, Virginia Postmasters and Post Offices, 1789–1832, 1991 description ends , 3; List of Patents description begins A List of Patents granted by the United States from April 10, 1790, to December 31, 1836, 1872 description ends , 137; DNA: RG 29, CS, Albemarle Co., 1830; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 17:286, 522–6).

Horsley Goodman (1760–1827), farmer, was a brother of TJ’s overseer Jeremiah A. Goodman. He resided his entire life in Albemarle County. Having briefly served in the Revolutionary War, Goodman later became a major in the Virginia militia. He owned twenty-four slaves in 1820 (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 210, 374; DNA: RG 15, RWP; DNA: RG 29, CS, Albemarle Co., 1820; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 9:3–6, 40–1; gravestone inscription in Earlysville on land formerly belonging to his father).

On this date TJ paid Gill Gillette $1 for “expences in carrying letters to Coleman et al. viewers of road” (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, 2 vols., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1338).