151Enclosure: Tadeusz Kosciuszko’s Account with John Barnes, 22 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Thad s Kosciusko , at Paris . In a/c w th John Barnes Geo Town Co a 1812 May 16 th
152Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
After an absence of five weeks, I returned home the day before yesterday, and found here your favors of May 18. & 24. & June 16. and 22. I am much rejoiced that you have been able to compleat the sale of Gen l Kosciuzko’s Pensylva bank stock, and to transfer it to the new loan of the US. there I know it will be safer than in any deposit on earth and will place him beyond those risks which...
153Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 20 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on reciept of your favor of July 29. I wrote to mr Gibson desiring him to make sale of my flour for whatever he could get for it in cash. it had been laying on hand since christmas in hopes of a rise of price. he accordingly made sale of it for 2. D 61 c a barrel which netted me for my wheat 48 cents a bushel. he informed me at the same time he could not sell at all for ready...
154Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 30 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of the present letter is merely to save 5. dollars. the inclosed Alexandria bill for that amount can yet I presume be past with you, in which case you will place it to credit in our account. no bank-bill of another state is now recieved with us; those of our own state are refused by many, and recieved by others only from doubtful debtors, and for want of all other medium. they will...
155Enclosure: Baring Brothers & Company to John Barnes, 20 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
We have in course, your Esteemed favor of the 22 d June with a Remittance inclosed for Account of Gen l Kosciusko , for £400. sterling a 60 days—on William Murdock —which was duly Accepted—and for which, We shall Understand, with said Gentleman to whom—We have forwarded your letter.— and have the Honor to be— Tr ( ViU: TJP-ER ); entirely in Barnes ’s hand; adjacent to signature: “To John...
156Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 29 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Dec. 6. & 18. have been recieved. the last came to hand yesterday evening only. we have two mails a week between this & Washington , which come in the evenings of Wednesday & Friday, & go out the mornings of Wednesday & Thursday. they are therefore little better than one: yours of the 18 th recieved last night (Wednesday) could not be answered in time for the mail which went...
157Enclosure: Power of Attorney from Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 29 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint John Barnes of George town in the territory of Columbia my Attorney in fact for the purpose of recieving from the Treasury of the United States all sums of interest due or to become due on any stock standing in my name in the books or funds of the United States : and I do hereby...
158Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 18 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The departure of the mail and my distance from the office leave me barely time to inclose you an order on the Treasury for 4870.D. to wit 4500.D. the principal of Gen l Kosciuzko ’s money in my hands, and 360.D. one years interest. the order is for 10.D. over to cover any fraction of interest. the high interest on this principal has made me anxious to get first rid of it, and I have informed...
159Enclosure: Order on United States Treasury, 18 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
J. B. 4 870 Pay to W m S. or order 10,500 D. in part of the sum of 23,950 D. appropr d by the act of Congr. for the purchase of my library as advised in my lre
160Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Apr. 22. & 25. are at hand. you observe that the question is how to dispose of the 4500.D & the 360.D the latter being interest, I supposed would be remitted to the General for use; and the 4500.D. principal being itself a stock bearing interest at 5 ⅔ p.c. and payable at the end of one year, I had supposed it would be best to keep it in it’s present form until payable, and then...
161Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter from Gen l Kosciuszko , desiring me to remit his whole principal to him in France . the letter is without date, and as I conjecture was not only before the late revolution , but before our peace . it seems to indicate a state of despair of recieving his remittances regularly, and of his distresses for want of them. in consequence of these changes, however, as...
162Enclosure: Baring Brothers & Company to John Barnes, 14 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
We have duly received your esteemed letter of 28 April, in reply to our respects of 20 Oct advicing you remittance of £400. a 60% on W m Murdock on Account & for the Use of General Kosciusko at Paris which has been accepted—and we have placed the same at the disposition of the General forwarding him at the same time your letter to his address— We beg your reference to our quotations at foot &...
163Enclosure: Tadeusz Kosciuszko to John Barnes, 26 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive your letter dated the 22 d June 1814 . by which you have sent me, a Memorand m containing, a detail, of the recovery, that you have made—on my Acco t and the Notice of two remittances each of £400—which you have made to Mess rs Barring Brothers & C o equally on my Acco t —I shall be obliged to you,—to send me Copy—of my Acco t settled—at your House—at the End of the...
164Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 19. requests my advice as to the 4500. Dollars Treasury notes of Gen l Kosciuzko ’s payable the 16 th of April next, which of course ought to be invested in time in some other form bearing interest. I am unacquainted with the different kinds and prices of US. stock, and I would trust no other; but I think we had better as soon as it can be done advantageously, exchange it...
165Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to make a remittance to my grandaughter Ellen W. Randolph now at the President’s I take the liberty of putting it under cover to you, because I think it will go safer in that way. I therefore inclose a bill of 100.D. of the bank of Virginia which I understand will be worth more than par in the bills of the District. be so good as to pay it out to the order of my grandaughter,...
166Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Aug. 10. & Oct. 3. are now before me. the difficulties you find in transferring the stock of Gen l Kosciuzko standing in my name to his own, puzzle me exceedingly, because I do not understand them. it is a business I am not familiar with. both the General’s wish and mine is that the stock should stand in his own name to avoid difficulties in case of my death, but that the powers...
167Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Millegan undertook to print a work put into my hands for that purpose. it was to have been begun on the 4 th of July last. I have written him letter after letter, and can get no answer. if he cannot print the work, I wish him to say so, and to return it to me. will you do me the favor to apply to him personally, and to procure for me a definitive answer? FC ( DLC ); written in TJ’s hand on...
168Enclosure: Joseph Milligan to John Barnes, 21 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
in answer to your Note I enclose you a page of the book which I engaged to print for M r Jefferson I would have answered his Letter but having failed in beginning to print the book I would not write until I Could Send him an evidence that I had begun: The enclosed is a page was set up to determine the size; next week I will send him a proof of the first Eight pages RC ( DLC ); addressed: “...
169Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 15 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return here from Bedford after an absence of 7. weeks I find here your favor of the 2 d inst. covering a letter from Buckley & Abbot which I now return. in your P.S. you request 1. the original Certificates of the 12,500.D. 6. p.c. US . stock, 2. two powers for you to recieve the interest of the stock at the Treasury and dividends at the bank of Columbia .
170Enclosure: Power of Attorney from Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes for United States Stock Interest, 15 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Albemarle , by virtue of the powers to me given by Thaddeus Kosciuzko , late a General in the armies of the United States , do hereby constitute and appoint John Barnes of George town in the district of Columbia lawful attorney under my self, of the said Thaddeus with full powers to recieve for the sd Thaddeus and in his...
171Enclosure: Power of Attorney from Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes for Bank of Columbia Dividends, 15 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Albemarle county of the state of Virginia , by virtue of the powers to me given by Thaddeus Kosciuzko late a General in the army of the United States , do hereby constitute and appoin t John Barnes of Georgetown in the district of Columbia lawful attorney under my self of the sd Thaddeus
172Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 31 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d came to hand last night, and I now inclose you two powers of Attorney , one to be used at each place, and copied verbatim from the form in your letter . I have not attested it before a magistrate, because it would cost me a ride of many miles to find one, which I am not able to take, but it is impossible that this can be requisite for a power of attorney to transfer a...
173Enclosure: Power of Attorney from Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes for Transfer of Assets, 31 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint John Barnes of George town Columbia my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to transfer into the name of Thaddeus Kosciuzko , heretofore a General in the service of the United States , and at present of Switzerland , all the stock of the United...
174Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you the power of Attorney which I am in hopes fulfills all the forms of the treasury & will enable us I hope to compleat this transfer for our friend . ever & affect ly PoC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M r Barnes”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures: enclosure to TJ to Barnes, 31 Dec. 1816 , and possibly also first enclosure to TJ to Barnes, 15 Dec. 1816 . our friend :
175Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your fav or of the 7 th and in it the following certificates of stock in the name of Gen l Kosciuzko , to wit, D C US. Certificate N o 90. for 11,363. 63 six per cents of loan
176Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Feb. 28. was recieved on the 5 th instant and I now inclose you a power of Attorney copied from th e form you sent me . it has been detained by the difficulty of access to a justice of peace in a county of 60. miles length over which they are sparsely scattered, and difficult to be found at home. I hope the form is such as not to require periodical renewals, which if the certificate...
177Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 12 th is received a nd I am happy to find that the General ’s distresses have been so happily relieved. I am in hopes the regular course of commerce now will enable us to prevent any such recurrence of want to him. I am equally gratified by the prospect of seeing you here once more: and as I pass much of the temperate seasons at Poplar Forest , to prevent the danger of my losing...
178Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 10 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This is written a few minutes after your departure from this place; for on returning into my room, and recollecting your question of yesterday, whether I had no remittance to make to your quarter, it occurred that I was indebted for the National Intelligencer for some years back; for indeed on examination I do not find that I have paid it later than to Oct. 31. 13. as it will give you less...
179Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A young negro man, named Thruston , brother to Edy , who while I was in Washington , was in the kitchen under the instruction of M r Julien , has escaped from my grandson to whom I had given him . he is supposed to have gone to Washington and to be there lurking under the connivance of some of his sister’s old friends. the bearer, mr Wheat , my grandson
180Enclosure: Joseph Milligan to John Barnes, 18 June 1817, with John Barnes’s Note to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July [1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I received the Box of Books from M r Jefferson that he Sent to be bound they are now in the hands of one of my young men and will be finished in ten days also the book of tables which you brought will be bound in the Same time I will Send them all to Fredericksburg about the 6th or 7th of July that they may meet M r Jefferson on his return to Monticello July. 11 th yesterday M r Milligan...
181Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I will not trouble you with vain condolances, & expressions of regret on the death of our mutual friend Gen l Kosciuzko , which we see announced in the papers in too credible form & which we both lament. besides the power of Attorney left with me & under which we have acted, he left in my hands a Will , all written in his own hand, making a charitable disposition of his property here, of which...
182Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not from whom or what quarter the inclosed letter to Wanscher comes, nor whether he is still living. I suppose it is from Germany , and invoke your charity to dispose of it according to circumstances. I do it with the more pleasure as it gives me new occasion to repeat to you the assurances of my constant friendship and respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of William...
183Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing you knew Martin Wanscher , to whom the inclosed letter is addressed, my letter to you was so short as to be unintelligible. he was a plaisterer living in Alexandria , and was the one I employed to come on and plaister my house, which he did about 10. years ago, and returned to Alexandria . he was a German, and I suppose from his acquaintance with me, instructed his friends in Germ a...
184Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take up my pen merely to answer the kind anxiety you are so good as to express in yours of the 17 th Oct. respecting my health. I am recovering steadily but have not yet got out of doors; but I think within a very few days I shall be able to get on my horse, to me the most sovereign of all Doctors. Affectionately Adieu. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of John H. Hall to TJ, 15...
185Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 31 (for Dec. 1. I suppose) came to hand last night, and your communication of my letter to mr Adams is entirely approved, as our friendly sentiments are fully reciprocal. no one can sympathise with him on his late loss more sincerely than I do. I am withdrawing from newspapers, and therefore write the inclosed for the editors of the National Intelligencer, which I leave open...
186Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for your settlement with Gales and Seaton for me, and I now inclose you 7. Dollars reimbursement in Richmond bills, which I hope may be readily disposed of with you. I find myself quite restored in health and strength and feel much indebted to my friends for the their solicitudes and enquiries on the occasion. to yourself I tender assurances of my constant friendship &...
187Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 26. has been duly recieved. it was not till lately that I recieved mr Wirt ’s opinion that General Kosciuzko ’s will might be proved in the district court within whic h I live, and that the th treasury would consider the probat there as sufficiently authentic for them to act. that court is to be the 1 st
188Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
An absence in Bedford prevented my recieving your favor of Apr. 21. until the 3 d inst. in answer to your kind enquiries as to our fire, the loss was confined to the little pavilion which, as you may remember, constituted the Northern extremity or wing of my buildings. our snow house enabled us to so far to cover with snow the adjacent terras which connected it with the main building as to...
189Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter, my dear friend, is too long for me to copy, and yet I wish you to know it’s contents. when therefore you have read it, be so good as to stick a wafer in it & have it delivered. perhaps indeed it would not be amiss for you to call with it yourself, as mr Poletika might wish to make some enquiry of you. as the French quotation from Gen l Kosciuzko ’s last letter to me is an...
190Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 March [1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind letter of Feb. 19. has been some time at h and , but my health and the injunctions of my physician make me slow & short in answers. I thank you for taking up my letter to mr Binns , and now inclose the 10.D. you were so kind as to pay for me. the best way of forwarding me the print of the Decln of Independance, will be to roll it on a light roller of wood, and wrap it in strong...
191Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I was happy to recieve your letter of the 2 d by mr Parr and by such attentions as I could render to him to prove my respec t for your recommendation as well as to prove my respect for his merit. he staid a day and night with us & then pursued his journey. I am told that the busts of mr Madison and mr Monroe as made by mr Cardelli an Italian sculptor, are to be had in Washington
192Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 10 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
On my late return from Bedford I found here your favor of Aug. 23. in my lre to you of June 12. 19. I inclosed one to mr Politika which I requested you to read before delivery for your informn. it was too long for me to copy. the fact it explained was that the trust committed to me by Gen l Kosciuzko’s will would take a much longer time to execute than I had to live: that moreover the claim...
193Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve this day your favor of the 18 th which gives me the welcome information of the continuance of your good health. I have recieved a letter from mr Lear , admr of Gen l Kosciuzko , requesting me to transmit to him the original certificates of stock which constitute the property of the General which was in our hands. I do so in the letter now inclosed, which I leave open for your perusal...
194Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 16 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment and at this place recieve your favor of the 5 th with mr Lear’s reciept for the original certificates of Gen l Kosciusko of which I think it a duty to give you immediate notice to place you at ease, & to assure you as ever of my constant and aff te frdshp & respect Dft ( MHi ); on verso of RC of Barnes to TJ, 5 Oct. 1821
195Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Mar. 26. is duly recieved and I am truly thankful to you for your kind attention to the busts, which I have no doubt I shall safely recieve through the hands of Col o Peyton . I learn with pleasure the continuance of your health. that bodily activity should decline with age is a law of nature. I am very little able to walk, but I ride daily and without fatigue, and otherwise enjoy a...
196From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 30 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22 d is but just recieved, and I am able to answer myself your very kind enquiries after my health, the fracture I met with was as slight a case of the kind as could happen. how fortunate, for example, that it was neither a leg nor a thigh: that it was not my right arm: that, of my left, it was the smallest bone, and that a skilful Surgeon attended promptly. you see...
197From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to pay to Col o Jon Trumbull the sum of 65.25 & have been expecting to hear of his arrival at Wash n which he informed me he should visit this winter. not hearing of it however & not knowing where else to place it at his command, I have thought you would do me the favor to recieve it and hold it subject to his order. I have therefore this day desired Col o Bernard Peyton, my correspdt...
198From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your habitual kindness to me occasions me to trouble you oftner than I ought to do . a gentleman now here informs me he saw a book in the bookstore of a mr Thomson in Wash n so recently published in England that I did not expect a copy had got to America. it is Jones Greek and English Lexicon, costing in England 30.ƒ. sterl. or 6.67 for which however he says mr T. asked 12.D. an advance of 80....
199From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 4 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The book you were so kind as to have sent to me came safe. so rarely are US. bk. bills to be seen here that my correspdt in Charlottesville was not able to find for me a 10. D. bill of that kind till yesterday. I now inclose it with 2. D. in silver to make up the 12. D. you have been so kind as to pay for me. with my thanks for this accept assurances of my constant esteem & respect. MHi .