31From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 2 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Instead of remitting me the sum of 584 D .29c as desired in my letter of Aug. 29. I must now ask the favor of you to remit me in cash only 244 D .29 and the balance of 340. D. to remit to James Brand, carpenter, at Portland in Maine. should it not be practicable to obtain a bank draught for this on some bank there, it is probable the Treasurer of the US. will give his draught on the Collector...
32Thomas 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...
33Thomas 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...
34Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
By the present post I desire mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to remit you 360.D. for Gen l Kosciusko , being the interest on his money in my hands for the last year. I am labouring & employing all the resources I can spare to wipe out my Washington debt paid for me by the bank of Richmond . the crop now going to market reduces it so that the one now preparing will clear it off entirely. this done,...
35Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 15 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 9 th came to hand last night, and the course it suggested was like a ray of light beaming on my uneasy mind. indeed I know that had I time to consult Gen l Kosciuzko he would be delighted with the opportunity of accomodating me. and I accede to it with the more readiness, because before his departure he made me the depository & sole executor of his will , by which it appears his...
36From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 24 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 24. came to hand yesterday. The present serves to [advise] you that on the 22 d. instant I drew on you for 10[0] Dollars in favor of David Jackson or order and this day for 86. Doll. 28½ Cents in favor of Isaac Millar or order, which be pleased to honor on account of Sir Your very humble servt PrC ( MHi ); faded in part; at foot of text: “Mr. John Barnes.” Barnes’s favor of...
37From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
As attorney in fact for Mr. William Short one of the ministers in Europe for the US. I inclose you two 6. per cent certificates of his amounting to three thousand eight hundred ninety three dollars eighty nine cents, to be sold to the best advantage you can for his account, as also to receive three hundred and ninety dollars sixty two cents due on his stock of different descriptions,...
38Thomas 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...
39Thomas 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...
40From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 27 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I was taken on my journey with sore eyes, and have continued so ill with them, & still am, as to be unable to do business almost entirely. nevertheless my anxiety on account of payments I have to make in Philadelphia obliges me to address you. on sending my accounts to my nailcustomers on my return home, I find them as much unprepared for prompt paiment as if they had never expected my return....
41From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th came to hand on the 10th. by the delay of your journey to Philadelphia I am afraid my arrearages are inconvenient to you. I write to Gibson & Jefferson by this day’s post to forward you a thousand dollars instantly. they will recieve my letter on the same day you recieve this, and if they can procure good paper immediately, it may be with you by the time you originally...
42Thomas 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...
43Thomas 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
44Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 6 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved from Gen l Kosciuzko a duplicate of his letter of May 30. to which he adds this P.S. ‘you render me a great service by the arranging arrangement with mr Morton to whom I owe many thanks for the most obliging manner in which I have been treated at Paris , and for the exactitude of his correspondent.’ this channel then being so agreeable to the General we had better adhere...
45From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 2 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favors of July 26. and Aug. [10.] the former covering your account to July 24. balance in my favor 6[…] since which your’s of Aug. 10. advises the acceptance of my draught in favor of […] Lott for 47.25 which consequently leaves me in your hands only 14.36. This is exclusive of Mr. Short’s dividends left in your hand for his purposes. Having now to pay...
46From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I drew on you about the 10th. or 11th. inst. in favor of William Wardlaw or order for 40. Dollars, of which this serves to advise you, if I did not write a letter of advice at the time. If I did, I omitted to keep a copy of it and it has escaped my memory. I am with esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Mr. John Barnes.” TJ’s draft in favor of Dr. William...
47Thomas 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 .
48From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 18 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson having been obliged to send what pocket money he had to Monticello will thank mr Barnes for 25. or 30. D. in small bills. RC ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); addressed: “Mr. Barnes”; endorsed by Barnes. Not recorded in SJL . TJ’s financial memoranda records that he received $25 from Barnes the same day ( MB James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum...
49Thomas 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...
50Thomas 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
51Enclosure: 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...
52Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th is duly recieved, and was communicated to mr Randolph , who, as I informed you is sole tenant of my mills , which he holds from year to year, the year beginning the 1 st of July. he has no disposition to recieve a partner, because as he found to be the case in his late partnership his property became liable for all the losses while he had recieved but half the...
53From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Martin Wanscher writes to me for 40. Dollars. there will then remain due to him about 90. or 100. D. which he will be drawing for from time to time. the demand of his balance having been expected to have laid over till the spring, will be an addition to my last estimate . I am to inclose the money to him in Alexandria, so that I suppose it should be in bills of that bank or the Washington. I...
54Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford lately I found here your two favors of Aug. 22. & 31. I thought I had the form of an order on the bank of Pensylva for Kosciusko’s dividends, such as I used to sign for you; but on searching my papers I do not find it. I have endeavored therefore to make out an order for the last half year’s dividends which I am in hopes may be substantially sufficient, tho’ not so...
55From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Dinsmore is arrived here from Monticello on his way to see his brother at Baltimore, and asks for 40. Dollars in Philadelphia bills if to be had, which I must pray you to accomodate him with. he will call on you to-day. affectionate salutations. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by Barnes: “Mr Dinsmore 3d Nov 1803 $40.” Not recorded in SJL . TJ noted in his financial records that on this day he gave...
56Enclosure: 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
57Thomas 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
58From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of May 12 . noting the sale of the stock last sent, and that a balance of 267.D. 43c. will remain on hand after deducting the draughts already paid or accepted. I now inclose another Certificate to be disposed of for Mr. Short, being 7504 Doll. 42. cents of deferred debt with a power of attorney to transfer the same, and also to receive the interest due on his...
59From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you May 22. advising you of a draught for 100.D. payable to Saml. Howell junr. & Co. The present serves to cover a power of attorney to recieve about 300.D. July 1. from the bank of the US. and to advise you that I have this day drawn on you for 300.D. payable to Samuel Howell & Co. July 2. which be pleased to honor on account of Dear Sir Your most obedt. servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of...
60Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter of Dec. 1. from Gen l Kosciuszko , in which he says ‘I have recieved a bill of exchange of 5500 francs from mr Barnes , and I have been punctually paid by the house of mr Morton . I pray you to continue to remit to me my interest thro’ the same channel; if mr Morton will have the goodness to permit it’ This putting out of all doubt the preferable channel of...