To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 3 January 1805
From Craven Peyton
Stump Island Jany. 3d. 1805
Dear Sir
I nevar have been deturmined untill a few days past respecting the shears in the Milton warehouse. ewing to the proprietor being in Baltimore each share cost him £80–0.0. Sixty is what is asked but I think they might be had for fifty pounds each there is five of them, the othars in Kentucky, I have not reciavd. any information respecting them but expect to hear by every post. will thank you to let me no if I shall close the bargain fir the five and at what price
with great Respt.
C Peyton
RC (ViU); endorsed by TJ as received 8 Jan. and so recorded in SJL.
For Peyton’s activity relating to the Henderson heirs’ shares of the Milton warehouse, see , 2:1135n, and TJ to George Jefferson, 5 Oct. 1804.
proprietor being in Baltimore: possibly Richard Seabrook of Baltimore, to whom John Henderson sold, in July 1802, all of his warehouse shares, as well as those of Bennett Hillsborough Henderson and Isham Henderson. Peyton purchased these shares in early June 1805 (Isham and Bennett H. Henderson to John Henderson, 17 July 1802 [MS in ViU; endorsed by TJ with notation “their rights in lot No. 15. the warehouse”]; John Henderson to Richard Seabrook, 17 July 1802 [MS in same; endorsed by TJ with notation “3/10 of Warehouse ½ of lot No. 15. lot No. 57.”]; Robert Haggard, “Thomas Jefferson v. The Heirs of Bennett Henderson, 1795-1818: A Case Study in Caveat Emptor,” Magazine of Albemarle County History, 63 [2005], 8; , 5:422-4).