1Resolution of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, 6 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the President & Directors of the Literary Fund on Monday the 6 th August 1821 . Ordered that the Auditor of Publick Accounts issue a warrant on the Treasury in favor of Thomas Jefferson Esquire Rector of the University of Virginia for the Sum of Twenty nine thousand one hundred dollars loaned to that institution under authority of an act of the General Assembly
2Virginia Council of State’s Appointment of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 29 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor called the attention of the board to the subject of appointing Visitors for the University of Virginia in Conformity with the provisions of an act of assembly passed the 25 January 1819 —Whereupon, the following persons were duly appointed Visitor—to wit: Thomas Jefferson — James Madison — Chapman Johnson — Jos. C. Cabell
3Thomas Mann Randolph’s Notes on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [after 23 … (Jefferson Papers)
The answer of G. Divers . Notes by TMR . Qu. 12. ‘and × widened the canal to the extent proposed’ × untrue. ib. ‘the ‡ occupant of the mill.’ ‡ Shoemaker . qu. 18. ‘a considerable accession of grain.’ causes a considble loss of grain for grist. ib. ‘transporting ‡
4Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Paper Model of Thomas Mann Randolph’s Plow, [ca. 2 May 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( NNGL , on deposit NHi ); cut and folded by TJ.
5Thomas Mann Randolph’s Deposition in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [8 June 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
This deponent had two crops boated down Rivanna before 1794, from Milton , that of 1792 and 1793: he knew an instance of a Boat going and returning within the week in 1792: a negroe man of his was in that Boat at the time, with, (he thinks) Sylvanus Meeks , and another: he had part of his crop damaged in Magruders falls in 1793, the Boat containing it was lost. He was a subscriber to the loan...
6Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
William L. Pogue Esq r of the state of Kentucky having expressed a desire to wait upon you, as he passes through your neighbourhood on his way home, I have given him this to inform you who he is; being alltogether a stranger among us. He brought me a letter from General Robert Pogue of Kentucky introducing him as his Son, whom he had sent in upon his private business, which required an...
7Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The House of delegates by resolution of January 19 th called for information concerning “the title by which the commonwealth holds the land included within the limits of the Capitol Square ”. As yet I have been able to procure none worth communicating, and take it for granted that the papers, of whatever kind they were, must have been destroyed when Arnold ravaged the town. I find that six...
8To James Madison from Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 October 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to make known to you, that on Tuesday the 7th. instant, at Charlottesville, a number of respectable Gentlemen of Albemarle and the adjacent Counties, who had held a prior meeting in form on the preceding evening with that view, united themselves to constitute an agricultural Society. An Organization was completed, many regulations were adopted, and the title of “Agricultural...
9Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Pendleton a Director of the Literary Fund has within this hour agreed with me to complete the Loan to the University , out of money now in Bank. He authorizes me to assure you of his vote when the Bond arrives, which renders the transaction sure. I need not observe that if M r Griffin s proposition to cancel the debt due from the University should prevail, the loan authorized by the act of...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to day seen a M r Mauray of this place who has about 4 or 5 quarter casks, of the Scuppernon wine, 2 Yrs. old, which he says he will sell at 87½¢ a Gall. if you take it all, he brought it in from Carolina for a gentleman of Norfolk, who declined takeing it because it is not sweet —It is very different from that I drank at Monticello, I have therefore obtained a bottle which I shall send...