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To Thomas Jefferson from John Hawkins of Kentucky, 1 March 1805

From John Hawkins of Kentucky

Richmond 1 March 1805

Sir,

Being informd you are about arecting a deer park on your farm in Virgina I wish to inform you I can furnish you with a cupple of Elks. the mail and the female They are rising five years old the female is now with young. I have been at a graet trubble and expence in bringing them from the State of Kentucky to this place—if it Suits you to purchase Them Sir you will pleace to Write me immadiately, as I wish to carry them on provided it dont suit You to purchace.

I am Sir with Every Sentiment of Esteem Your Obt. Servt.

John Hawkins

RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson Esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Mch. and so recorded in SJL, where TJ listed letters received on 9 Mch. under 8 Mch.

TJ kept a deer park at Monticello since about 1769, although the boundaries of the park altered with time (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 1:149; Vol. 28:179). An enslaved worker, Isaac Jefferson, remembered the park as being a fenced-in area “two or three miles round” near his family’s living quarters (Isaac Jefferson, Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, ed. Rayford W. Logan [Charlottesville, 1951], 34).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from John Hawkins of Kentucky, 1 March 1805
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    Hawkins, John
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    1 March 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John Hawkins of Kentucky, 1 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0612. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 603.]

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