1Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 2 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of Dec. 22. and felt sincere satisfaction at the assurances it expressed of your continued friendship. of this indeed I never entertained a doubt, nor that this was the governing principle of your endeavors to promote my interests. these I saw plainly were faithful & zealous always and gave me therefore unbounded confidence in your care of my affairs. these were...
2Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves, [ca. 10 November … (Jefferson Papers)
Blankets. Beds Cate Cate Hal Hanah . Cate ’s Hanah Lucinda . Sally Edy Armistead Dinah Maria . Cate ’s
3Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 5 th has been recieved. I prefer sending the flour to Richmond . it is more convenient to concentrate all my funds in one hand; and it also increases confidence in my correspondent , so that if at any time I have occasion to overdraw, he knows himself sure of recieving the funds. Lynchburg too is no wheat market. while they were offering 9/ there it was & is 13/6 and 14/ at...
4Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 27 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by my grandson yours of the 14 th and cannot say that I have recieved any thing which has given me more pain . nothing on earth was farther from my intention than that it should be considered as intended to give you an opportunity to withdraw. it was sincerely meant, as it was expressed, to be a withdrawal of myself from a superintendance to which age had rendered me incompetent and...
5Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am lately returned from the Warm springs with my health entirely prostrated by the use of the waters. they produced an imposthume and eruptions, which with the torment of the journey back reduced me to the extremest weakness. I am getting better, but still obliged to lie night and day reclined in one posture, which makes writing all but impossible. the visitors of the college meet the 1 st...
6Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 16 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 16 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ corn. wheat. hogs. taxes. cheese. biscuit. iron sheet.” Letter not found.]
7Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 30 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 30 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ Moses ’s Billy rec d . sell Han ’s Billy 6. or 700.D. Robertson
8Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 11. 19. wrote to Joel Yancy by Henry going with 2. mules to bring John Hemings E t c. & tools. that J.H. must put away all remaining stuff, first making a list of it for me that I may know what will be wanting for next year. send preserved peaches by him request Hepburn to come, see our streams, site & buildings & give a bill of scantling. I will pay the time & expence of the journey.
9Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 29 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I now inclose you mr Morris ’s and Maj r Pollard ’s reciepts for their 1 st instalments to the Central College . I shall set out tomorrow for the meeting at Rockfish gap , and when our business is done there I shall go on to the Warm springs . I shall probably be back the last week of August, and be with you a fortnight after. I salute you with friendship and respect. PoC (
10Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 27 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry delivered your letter and all the articles entrusted to him safely on Tuesday night. I now inclose you a list of the cloathing to be given to every one of the people according to their ages, also of the blankets and beds to be given this year, which you will find in the columns headed 1819. I have given the columns of the last and next year, to shew those who recieved the last year &...
11Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson will not be able to go to Bedford for some time. he set off this day to Richmond to see his own tob o look ed at and sold. he advises that that of Pop. For. be sent off immediately to Richmond . I had on the road a conversation with a gentleman of knolege on the subject, and he assures me that the Lynchbg purchaser, besides deducting the carriag e,
12Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, [18?] October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , (18?) Oct. 1819 . SJL entry for a letter to Yancey listed immediately underneath that to Yancey of 16 Oct. 1819 reads “taxes E t c. Hanah’s Billy .” Letter not found. Yancey
13Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 30 December 1820 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 30 Dec. 1820 . SJL entry reads “ a chair. 2 doz. wine. trees.” Letter not found.]
14Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
We should have been now about setting off for Poplar Forest , but for the accident of 3 of my carriage horses being recently taken with the disease called the sore tongue. I am told that the cure of this will require 10. days and will leave them so emaciated as to require time to make them able to take the road. the time of my setting out depends therefore on this uncertainty. mrs Randolph...
15Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It being now high time to try the experiment of burning our stubble fields as a means of destroying the brood of the fly deposited in them, and ready the first warm spell to come out and lay their eggs in the new wheat, I take up my pen to state to you the method as going into practice here. you take a still day, and burn a margin all round the field sufficient to secure the fences. then the...
16Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 9 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
In directing the distribution of the pork for this season I believe I omitted to state that 10. hogs should be kept for my use at Poplar Forest as usual. if there is any old bacon left it will be acceptable here when the waggon brings the pork. you will be so good as to inform me on what day our waggon should be there to join Dick ’s in bringing the pork, butter E t c. I propose to send Phill...
17Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 12 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you an order on mr Gibson in favor of mr Hepburn for 50.D. it is the first moment it has been in my power. not knowing his Christian name I have left a blank for it to be inserted. I am still uncertain as to the time of my setting out for Poplar forest , tho extremely anxious to do so. under this uncertainty I leave it to mr Hepburn to come on immediately or await my visit to...
18Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 4 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for sometime been becoming sensible that age was rendering me incompetent to the management of my plantations. failure of memory, decay of attention and a loss of energy in body & mind convince me of this; as well as the vast change for the better since my plantations here have been put under the direction of my grandson T. J. Randolph . his skill, his industry and discretion satisfy me...
19Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 22 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I confidently expected to have set out for the Forest on the 15 th or soon after, under the known necessity however to be here again the 1 t week in May. but one circumstance after another has turned up to delay me untill time has so advanced that were I now to go, I could stay not more than 3. or 4. days. I must therefore defer it 2. or 3. weeks more. Never were such times seen as we have...
20Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Dick arrived here on Friday night with every thing safe. he yesterday he rested of course with his relations and to-day being Sunday he will start tomorrow. Phill will go immediately into the smith’s shop. Hanah ’s Billy is in the Cooper’s shop, and as soon as he can make a good barrel he shall return to Poplar Forest . he is too ungovernable. if what flour you have is not gone to Richmond ,...
21Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 18 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
On the very day the waggon left us, my daughter , wh o was to accompany me to Bedford was taken sick. she is better and thinks that by tomorrow or next day she will be strong enou gh for the road. I do not think so; but still count from day to day on departing either with her or without her as her convalescence may admit. ever & affectionately yours PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address...
22Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 23 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 23 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ inclos g ord. on P.G. fav r A. Robertson 146.D. taxes John Hem. to put up E. & W. stair doors. Billy
23Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 21 st your letters of the 10 th and 13 th and learn with much concern the deaths and sickness among our people. at one plantation here we are in worse condition, 16. being now laid up with the nervous fever of whom two have died, Milly Sall ’s daughter wife of Barnaby , and a child of
24Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 10 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote to you on the 11 th of Sep. I confidently hoped to recover my health and strength to be with you long before this. but I am not yet able to go out of the house: and altho’ much recovered, I shall not have strength for the journey until it will be too cold to undertake it. I shall not therefore see you until April . in this case I must pray you to act in all things for the best...
25Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Sawing Instructions for James Martin, [ca. 10 November 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Bill for Capt Martin 10. joists 8. by 10.I. 24.f. long clear of bad knots windshakes & cracks. heart of poplar. 10. d o 4 by 10.I. 24.f. long. heart of poplar clear of bad knots. 5. pieces 6.I. square 16.f. long. heart of poplar. 500.f. sheeting plank. poplar. PoC ( MHi
26Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 4 January [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 18 th Dec. was not recieved till the 28 th . that of the 24 th came at the same time which proved that the first had lost a week at some of the intermediate post offices, and often they lose a fortnight. the bringing home some corn detained the waggon till now. it carries up some doors for the house which should be put in one of the rooms where they will be kept dry, and a...
27Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 25 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter by Jerry I forgot to request you to send by the waggon the barrel of biscuit also, as before spring it will become mouldy probably and spoilt. With respect to the canal, I look to the grinding plaister as the thing which is to produce us crops and improve our lands. and that therefore we should think it a lasting compensation for shortening a particular crop somewhat. yet I would...
28Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On settling up the affairs of the year I find I shall again be mortifyingly deficient in meeting the demands which 3 years of war, and 4. years of Goodman & Darnell have accumulated on me . an unwillingness to break in on testi testamentary provisions made for my family has hitherto prevented my relieving myself, by some sale of property, from the pain of witholding the money of others which...
29Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 20 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 12 th inst. I left to the convenience of mr Hepburn whether he would come on immediately, or await my visit to Bedford ; but the time of that visit is become so uncertain, and the pressure of my want of him here is so urgent, that I must pray you to press on him to come on immediately, as the distress for some of my work is so great that every day’s delay is a serious...
30Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 3 d did not get to Charlottesville unti l last night. I had written to you on the 30 th of Oct. by mr Bishop who said he would deliver it in 2. days. I presume you recieved it soon after yours of the 3 d . the cart now carries up the window irons for John Hemings