31From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 6 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr David Higginbotham, a merchant of Milton, who with a mr Watson of the same place, having acted heretofore as chief factors for the houses of Brown Reeves & co. and McLure Brydie & co. are now about to set up themselves. they are both men of extraordinary attention to business, prudent, honest, & in great esteem, and will undoubtedly carry into their own concern...
32From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 8. with it’s contents, say 250. D. were safely recieved yesterday, for which I return you my thanks. our country furnishes nothing new to communicate. the deplorable state of the crops is not new to you. we have had some rains but they were too late for the corn, of which it is now reduced to a certainty there will be but about half an usual crop made; and this will probably...
33From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 26. was recieved yesterday and I now return you mr Taggert’s letter, retaining his bill. the painter has been here about a week, and we are able to get some paints in the neighboring stores, for the present. I imagine those of Philadelphia are about now arriving in Richmond & may be here in a week or ten days. I expect to be with you about the 17th. health & weather...
34From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. came to hand in the morning of the 13th. I shall be glad if the plaisterers arrive soon. it would be too late to engage others, as I should wish the work done under my eye. if they are not set out, and will come off immediately, they may still accomplish the work. or even if one will come we might get him an aid. the plaister of Paris arrived two days ago, and all the...
35From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to mr Barnes for 20. or 30. D. in small bills. Jan. 6. 1802. i.e. 1803 RC ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); addressed: “Mr. Barnes”; notation by Barnes: “sent $30—pr Mr Dougherty”; endorsed by Barnes as a letter of 6 Jan. 1803. Not recorded in SJL . In his financial memoranda, TJ recorded the receipt of $30 from Barnes on 6 Jan. 1803 ( MB James A. Bear, Jr.,...
36From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 1 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Being to set out for Monticello this day, I must avail myself of your accustomed goodness to get my money affairs settled next week, as I cannot draw from the bank till then to do it myself. I have three heavy bills of 500.D. each drawn on me from Europe payable Aug. 6. Sep. 5. & Oct. 5. to mr William Pennock of Norfolk. the best mode of remittance is either by a draught of the bank here or...
37From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 29 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 19th. was not recieved till the 27th. thro’ some error of the post, which comes here daily. it is another proof in addition to the numerous others I have recieved of your friendship. I will avail myself of your kind offer of assistance only so far as to omit my this month’s remittance destined for you. this will enable me, without failing in my other engagements to meet my...
38From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22d. came safely to hand, & I thank you for the accomodation of the 120. D. for the operations of the ensuing month I inclose checks dated Sep. 5. I will pray you at their dates to deliver those to Lemaire for 500. D, Melvin 134.87 Saml. H. Smith for 26. D. to those persons respectively. I inclose a check also in your name for 1175. D. which I will pray you to dispose of as...
39From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 9 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6th. with 320. D. inclosed came safely to hand yesterday, for which I return you my thanks. I found my family all well, and we are now together at this place. our neighborhood is in a remarkeably healthy state at present. I recieve daily information from Lynhaven bay where the British ships remain quiet, going in & out occasionally. it remains to be seen what will be the case...
40From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 18 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has occasion to send an hundred dollars to Monticello if mr Barnes can furnish him with them. it would suit best in US. bank or branch bank bills of 10. D each, as they are to be paid out in small parcels. the post goes this afternoon. RC ( CSmH ). TJ received the HUNDRED DOLLARS from Barnes the same day and immediately forwarded it to his daughter Martha ( MB James A. Bear, Jr.,...
41From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
an accidental concurrence of several pretty heavy demands on me at the beginning of the ensuing month, will go beyond my ordinary resources. I am very averse to going further into the banks. if you have any funds which will be unoccupied one month I should be glad of their aid, & they should be replaced by a check for the 5th. of Aug. if not I must conclude to increase my note to Columbia some...
42From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. incloses the within to mr Barnes because the captain will probably apply to him on his arrival. a box for me is gone to Philadelphia . how shall I get the freight paid there? RC (University Archives, Autographs and Historical Documents, Westport, Connecticut, 1996); addressed: “Mr. John Barnes George town”; endorsed by Barnes, in part: “for a Box expected from Richmond.” Enclosure: see...
43From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 27 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Barnes to have the inclosed paid to mr Gelston . he will thank him also for 20. D. in 5 dollar bills. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by Barnes. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: see enclosure printed at David Gelston to TJ, 22 Oct. 1803 . In his financial memoranda at 27 Oct. 1803, TJ recorded his request that Barnes pay David gelston $55.62 “for freight & duty of 300....
44From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Fifty six days after date I promise to pay to the order of John Barnes fifteen hundred dollars negociable at the bank of Columbia, value received. 1500. D.— ViU .
45From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 29 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22d. I found on my return here two or three days ago, and I now inclose you a check on the bank of the US. for 1550. D. which I will pray you to apply as follows. D remit to Oliver Evans of Philadelphia 344. 96 Messrs. Jones & Howell of do. 137. 10 pay Thomas Carpenter 110. 33 credit me in your accts. 373. 32 remit to me by post
46From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On examination of our accounts I observe the amount [D] of your debet [2276.685] 2000. D. for March and 2000. D. for April supposed receivable yesterday 4000. leaves a balance for the use of the present month of [1723.295] I will therefore ask the favor of you to make arrangemts. for the following sums: for Colo. Thos. Newton
47From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 15 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I had written the letter of the 12th. which accompanied this on the morning of that day, & had the post come as usual it would have been with you on the 14th. but it had begun to rain on the evening of the 11th. and it continued raining for about 36. hours in torrents, with scarcely any remissions . this raised our river beyond what has been known for a great number of years. it has carried...
48From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson leaves with mr Barnes a check on the bank US. D bearing date Aug. 5. 1808. for 1467.67 which he prays him to recieve on that day & dispose of thus. D for himself, to the credit of Th:J. 250. remit to Messrs. Jones & Howell of Philadelphia 282.67 remit to Th:J. by the Milton post of Aug. 5 . 935.
49From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 9 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by yesterday’s mail your favor of the 5th. with the 935. D. inclosed with safety, and I thank you for your attention to this matter. we are all well, now in confinement by a rain which has fallen in moderate showers the last two days, but is now set in anew from the North East. it was wanting; but we may have too much. the crop of wheat has been generally indifferent: that of...
50From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 15 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will thank mr Barnes for thirty dollars for mr Wanscher and thirty three and one third to be sent to Monticello. Dec. 15. 1802. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by Barnes as a $70 payment, $30 for Wanscher and $40 for Monticello. In his financial memoranda under 15 Dec., TJ recorded the receipt of $70 from barnes and payments of $30 to Marten wanscher and $35 to Gabriel Lilly, from which...
51From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 June 1802 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has been taking a view of his affairs, and sends mr Barnes a statement of them. if it should be possible to get through the month of July without the aid of the bank, by my giving a new note there on the 4th of August for 2000. Doll. we should on that day be almost compleatly relieved, and the reciept of the 4th. of October will take up the note, and leave me entirely out of...
52From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Reibelt who is here, not knowing the amount of his account against me, prefers the reciept of it after my return to Washington. the sum destined for him therefore remaining free, & having occasion for it in Richmond, I will ask the favor of you to remit it say 150. D. by the first post to Gibson & Jefferson on my account. I expect they will be sending off a vessel with 1500. b. of coal for...
53From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 27 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Will mr Barnes be so good as to make remittance immediately to Genl. Muhlenberg according to the inclosed, and divide the charge between mr Madison & myself as therein noted? RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Mr. Barnes”; endorsed with calculations by Barnes (see below). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: J. P. G. Muhlenberg to TJ, 23 Mch. Adding the cost of duties charged at Philadelphia with the cost of...
54From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, with Barnes’s Note, 21 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John Barnes, of Georgetown will always answer my subscription to the Columbian Repository [ Note by Barnes :] Bradford & Burgess paid ⅌ JB. 1st Nov 1803 $2.50 Entd. 193— RC ( MHi ); endorsed by Barnes. Not recorded in SJL . The columbian repository was a weekly newspaper published in Georgetown by Thomas G. bradford
55From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
30. Dollars to Alexander Perry, Queen street Alexandria, to wit 20. D. for himself and 10. D. for mrs Wanscher on account of Martin Wanscher D C 51.21 for Monticello 30 81.21 May 23d. 1804 RC ( MHi ); in TJ’s hand, with text in italics in Barnes’s hand; written on a scrap from an address cover, probably from Robert Smith to TJ, 16 May , postmarked at Baltimore that day and with remnant...
56From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The corks for the demijohns (which I think we sent with them) got separated from them as I suppose, & never came to hand. I find several casks of wine in so bad a state as to render it prudent to bottle off as much as I can find bottles or demijohns for. but for want of corks for the latter I can make no use of them. will you be so good as to forward me some by the stage. a gross would be...
57From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 20 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you the two notes of 500. D. each to be discounted in the bank of Columbia. I have dated them on the first discounting day of that bank, after the first discounting day of the month at the Washington bank so as to have the aid of the latter bank if necessary; this occasions their dates to be some days later than I wished; but if that of September be too late for your purpose,...
58From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 18 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Before the reciept of your letter this morning , I had taken an exact view of my affairs, and had found that the balance can not be lessened till after the next month. in August it can be lessened 8. or 900. D. in Sep. 11, or 1200, or say 2000. dollars in those two months, & 500. D. a month afterwards till it disappears. I had therefore prepared the letter which accompanies this for the...
59From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Not recollecting precisely the time you proposed to go to Philadelphia, I now take the liberty of asking you, as you pass through Wilmington to pay for me to the revd. Wm. Pryce four dollars which I owe him for a book, and have never before been able to find a channel of remittance: and then in Philadelphia to procure for me half a dozen bl of portable soup, and to subscribe for McCorkle’s...
60From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 9 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by yesterday’s post the 825. D. you were so kind as to send me, for which I thank you, but am sorry you did not wait the return of the proper check which would have been no inconvenience to me. in your letter of the 2d. you mention that the omission to fill the blank was in the check to you for 825. D. yet from an expression in your last I have some fear there may have been the same...