1Samuel J. Harrison to Gibson & Jefferson, 16 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your request I have been in Search of the Trunk lost last Spring: Which I presume I have found with a part of its contents, as ⅌ List annexed—I believe I have also got the Thief; by name Ned , the property of James B. Couch Dec d late of Buckingham County —He is found guilty by the Examining magistrate here, & is now in Irons, & will be sent on, in a Day or Two, to take his Trial...