11From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 5 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Being [near an absence] from home of several months, I have, [among] other […]ed things, turned to the papers respecting the land [case between us]. I have thereupon made a statement of facts respecting it, […] [had] been proposed between us, & of the law on those facts according [to my con]ception of it. this I enclose you, and shall be glad to recieve [at] Philadadelphia your...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 27 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, James Oldham, has lived with me several years, is an able workman in housejoinery, skilled in the orders of architecture, honest, sober and industrious. he wishes to get into business on a larger scale than that of merely monthly wages and I have recommended Richmond to him as a place where he will find no superior, and as I suppose no equal; and where, when once he can make...
13From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 15 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mutual confidence in the honor & friendship of each other has made us too inattentive to the settlement of the question respecting the lands claimed by us both adjoining our possessions here. it had better be settled while in our hands, for no others will be disposed to do it in a more friendly or just way. the facts be within a narrow compas. I do not know that we differ as to any of them. if...
14From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 21 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 15th. of Aug. last, but soon afterwards learnt that you were on a journey of some length & time which probably prevented the letter from coming under your notice. the object of it was to propose that we should proceed to name arbitrators & to submit to them the question of our claim to the lands in dispute between us. I should suppose that we might find among the members of...
15From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 10 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
No body, not a member of your family, has felt with more sensibility than myself the losses lately sustained by it. my intimacy with your father began almost in the cradle, and through a life of length was never clouded by a moment’s abatement. with the circumstances which produced a warm attachment to your brother, and very much endeared him to me, you are acquainted. I should not at this...
16From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 26 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 10th. of May last I took the liberty of addressing a letter to you on the subject of some lands to which your father & myself had opposing claims. we were to have had them arbitrated, but the mutual confidence reposed in each other occasioned it to be too long neglected. it was to have been done without fail at the last session of assembly, had it not been prevented by his death. in my...
17Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 28 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you in Charlottesville , I had not for a considerable time looked with attention into the papers concerning my title to the lands on the top of the mountain which were in question between your father & myself. I have now re-examined them and am confirmed in the belief that while justice cannot but pronounce that these lands were my property, the law itself...
18Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 10 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Jan. 1. and 12. are both recieved. mine of Dec. 28. had been written with a view to state on paper what was supposed to be agreed between us, & to invite a corresponding statement from yourself, that we might see if we understood one another. I suppose I have been unfortunate in the choice of terms used in my letter, because I find doubts still in your mind which that was...
19Thomas Jefferson’s Quitclaim to John Harvie, 18 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Know ye that Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle in consideration of the sum of one dollar to him in hand paid by John Harvie of the county of Rockingham , and of sundry covenants entered into between the said Thomas & John, doth by these presents remise, release, & for ever quitclaim for himself & his heirs unto the said John & his heirs, all the right, title, & claim...
20Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 5 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Within a few days after the signature of our agreement, I prepared, according to the best form I could find in the books, a deed of release & quitclaim to all title to the lands which were the subject of that agreement, and executed it before three witnesses. the first day of the ensuing court threatening rain, I did not go, but attended the morning of the next, and acknoleged it for...