1From Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, 18 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received by Mr. Carroll your favor of March 1. inclosing accounts of John Morton Jordan & co. and Perkins Buchanan and Brown against me. I am happy that claims, stated to be 18. and 19 years old still find me among the living to answer them. With respect to John Morton Jordan & co. I never had a connection of any kind, nor ever exchanged a word or letter, nor ever demanded or received...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, 13 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 29. came to my hands on the 7th. of May, while I was ill of a complaint which has not yet left me, but I find myself well enough to resume business. On a transaction of near 20 years standing, it is not wonderful that neither party can from memory alone say exactly what the transaction was. It is evident that neither you nor myself recollect it with sufficient precision, nor...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, 11 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
It is many days since I received the favor of your letter. I have been, and still am likely to be so pressed with business, at least during the earlier part of the session of Congress, as to give me time only to mention to you, that I have brought with me the papers in the affair between us, from my own house, where it was impossible for me to look into them. As there are many of them, and...
4From Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, 17 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 11. was received yesterday. You will pardon me if I adhere to the price of my tobacco, because I know that I am justified in it’s quality established for at least fifty years back. You will have observed that Capt. Woodford had ensured @ £11. sterl. the hhd. so that I could have had £12. sterl. for it at the time had I sold it in Virginia; less than I could have sold it for...
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 21. came to hand on the 24th. and as it proposed a different statement from mine of the 17th. and I was too much engaged to open the papers on that subject, I have not been able to take it up till now. The interval of the war has been usually settled at 8. years. You state it at 3. months less. This trifle is not worth notice, and besides is lessened by an error of a month...