The partnership of A. Robertson & Company, comprised of Robertson, Boyd Miller, and Samuel Read, had dissolved on 31 Aug. 1819. Robertson had operated the firm’s store in Lynchburg, Read ran a store in Otter Bridge in Bedford County, and Miller was based in London, England (Va. Reports description begins Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, 1798–  (title varies; originally issued in distinct editions of separately numbered volumes with Va. Reports volume numbers retroactively assigned; original volume numbers here given parenthetically) description ends , 58 [17 Grattan]: 545). Neither the enclosed account nor the bond for TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company has been found, but on 7 Mar. 1820 TJ recorded that he had signed a note “to Archibald Robertson for 4256.08 the amount of my balance due to him on the 31st. of last August. This includes a bond of 233–15–1 of 1807. & int. which is to be cancelled.” The earlier bond that was to be canceled was a promissory note dated 1 Sept. 1807 from TJ’s Poplar Forest overseer, Burgess Griffin, and was presumably the bond to wm brown & co (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, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1210, 1309, 1362; Robertson to TJ, 16 Sept. 1824).