4351George Wyche to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am loth to have my name added to the list of people who break in upon your retirement.— The Ambition of the correspondence of the first man of the age would not have induced me to violate the Laws of politeness by making such an i n trusion upon a man whom I have never seen. But the known interest which you feel in whatever relates to the Geog Geology or topography of our country & your...
4352To Thomas Jefferson from John A. Xaupi, 31 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The profound respect that I entertain for your person, would ever have prevented me from interrupting a moment of your valuable time, to speak to you on the subject of my profession, but, the enclosed note of M r Tucker, by informing me that you are Rector of the University, gives me the hope that you will not disdain to grant me a moment’s attention. Under the recommendation of Judge Carr, I...
4353To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Yancey, 21 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing for your perusal the prospectus of a Newspaper about to be printed here by M r Crawford a gentleman well recommended; I have lately enclosed one to the President, and have received for answer “to which as I approve it, you will subscribe my name” will you be so good as to write me if the paper may be sent to you. you’ll please to accept assurances of my great...
4354To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Yancey, 7 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I was lately at New York in New York State. & was then requested to take Some Patent hoes, & present to The farmers, & Planters of V a I Rec d 1 Doz for the Agricultural Society of V a with a request, that You, & Col o T. M. Randolph Should have one each. a letter has been put in the P. O. here for You from The Patenter, (M r Hines) the hoes are of the Trowell kind they are light & usefull—I...
4355To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Yancey, 4 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect ’ere this you have seen the unfortunate Dispute between - M r Crawford Editor of the V a Times, & his foreman W m Ramsay. having written to you about the Comencement of said paper. I feel bound to say that every word of M r Crawfords statement relative to the Contract is truth & I believe the balance is. I Cannot Recommend Ramsay to your notice & sincerely hope you will support...
4356To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Yancey, 25 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you our young friend M r George B Bibb, of Alabama, the only son of Doctor William B. Bibb deceased late governor of Alabama, M r Bibb is on a visit to our university, and wishes to call & pay his respects both to you & M r Maddison. with high Considerations of respect & regard y r mo obt MHi .
4357Charles Yancey (1766–ca. 1825) to Thomas Jefferson, 5 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
my Brother Joel Yancey of Kentucky , often writes me, & often Mentions you, in a late letter he says “pray dont forget to present me in Respectfull terms to our good Republican Father, friend, & benefacter M r Jefferson ,” I avail myself of this opportunity to assure You My dear sir that I have Never lost sight of the obligation the people are under to you, for the Many years hard Labor You...
4358Charles Yancey (1766–ca. 1825) to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
the Bearer hereof W m C. Yates Esq r being On his way to Richmond is desirous of Seeing You, & Your Residence, Any attention paid to him will be to Your Old friend a favor, who Gladly embraces the Opportunity of Renewing to You his unfeigned Regard & esteem for You as a man, & an Old faithfull public Servant RC ( MHi ); addressed: “ Tho s Jefferson Esq r
4359Charles Yancey (1770-1857) to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
your highly esteemed favor of July last enclosing a draft for our Court house was duly received, and I owe an apology for not answering it earlier, which is as follows—upon the Submission of your plan to the board of Commissioners , it was disapproved, much to my mortification; and a plan adopted Similar to the Albemarle Court house , I still indulged the hope that before the work progressed...
4360Charles Yancey (1770–1857) to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The Court of this County have ordered the building of a new Court house, and appointed myself & others to draft a plan of the house and let the building of it; I am fully impressed with the importance of a good plan, & Very Sensible of my incompetency to draft one ; and believing that you have devoted much of your Valuable time & reflection to Subjects of Architecture, I have taken the liberty...
4361Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Bishop sets off this morning with Billy for charlottsvill , I have directed him to have him put in jail, and take the jailers receipt to you, I have paid him 5 dollars, and you will owe him the balance for taking him down, Hanah,s Billy arrived here on Friday last, M r Bishop is to be our overseer at
4362To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Yancey, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In looking over your notes to me for my services in superintending your plantations in Bedford, I find that they are made to carry interest from April, Instead of the first Jan y you know, that the year ended the last of December and I always thought, (although I did not expect to receive the money till the crops were sold), that I was entitled to Interest after my year exspired, but should...
4363Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 12 th Ins t I have Received, as also the Dft for Hepburn for fifty dollars, Hepburn is not at present in this neighbourhood nor do I Know where he is at work at this time having not seen or heard from him for the last 2 or 3 weeks, on sight I will hand him the Dft, and tell him, what you say respecting his going to Monticello to work, but suppose myself, if left to him altogether, he...
4364Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of 11 th Ins t I did not rec d till Saturday last, I have been endeavo r ing to day to get a boat, to send your Tob o to Richmond , but have not been able to Succeed, tho. I think there is but little doubt, but that I shall get it off this week, I will get it sent down as soon as possible to Capt Peyton , and write you as soon as it is on board— I have also made enqurry of the...
4365Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Nace sets off this morning for Montcello with 2 beaves and six muttons, the beeves are not as fat I could have wishd, or would have been had they been younger one of the Steers is very bony, and is a much better beef than he appears to be, but I hope you will find them both respectable beef, the sheep are fatt I have recovered the young Steer that broke from us, when I sent the other 2 by Dick...
4366Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your waggon, arrived here on 24 th by it I receivd a cask of cyder and wine which I stowed away in the deep cellar I should have started them back, with the pork on wednesday last, but we had some fixing to do, not expecting your waggon till after Xmas, which we could not finish till yesterday, they are now loaded but as it is late in the evening and the weather so bad, I have directed them to...
4367Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter by M r Randolp h I received a few days since, and have particularly observed the contents. in transfering your authority over your plantation s here to your grandson , I presume you did not include even me even the present year, and that your motive was, to give me an
4368Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, [5 January 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Dick s load. 1 Hhd pork. (16 hogs weighing 2000 ℔ the back bones & Facees to be deducted) containing 112 peicees 1 Ferkin lard (leaf fat) gross weight 82 ℔ 1 Ferkin butter gross weight 54 ℔ 1 bag dryed peaches weighing 45, and 1 Keg butter 104 ℔ making 1 in all 158 ℔
4369To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Yancey, 18 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you some time last fall, that I was very much in want of Money, and that I would be very much oblig d to you to pay me one thousand dollars as soon as you could make it convenient, which letter I am inform d thro M r Randolp you did not receive,—I am still in great need of that sum, and would be very much obliged to you to let me have it some time this Spring, the balance of your debt...
4370To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Yancey, 1 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Yancey Joel 1816. Dec. 31. 1 st note 550 off 1 st instalm t Univ y 50 500 1818. May 1. 2 d Note 400 off 2
4371Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 3 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 28 th covering a dft for your Taxes is received, Hemings has no locks nor hinges for the Stair doors, I have fernish d him with the plank he wanted for the blinds, and have received the B ls bisquit, cheese, and
4372Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Tob o was put on board a Boat and left Lynchburg on last Friday, 7 Hhds, and directed to Cap t Peyton , I should have inform d you immediately, but you know , the mail to charlotteville leaves Lynchburg on friday morning, and the Tob o
4373Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter by Jerry I received on Thursday night last, he delivered his load safe and I had the doors and books put in one of the rooms in the house and the wine in the cellar, the sowing of peas, shall be attended to, and I expect by the time Jerry returns, I Shall be able to Send you Some of those late peas, which you were pleased with last Summer, the letter to m r Radford & myself with...
4374Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, [before 26] January [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter by Dick & Jerry , this morning, they arrived here late, last Evening, and I am very sorry that Dick , has faild to deliver his loads, he has many excuses, and seems now to be much mortified, I hope another case will not occur, I now send by Jerry the balance of the pork intended for monticello , in a box containing pieces 95 ps, also all the poplars that are in the...
4375Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Jery arriverd here last Evening about 4 oClock, with one of his Mules very lame and complains much about badness of Roads, I had e very thing ready, and shoud have loaded wednesday night, had Jery came, but they now will be a day later than you expected, I hope to get them off this morning by sun rise, the pork turn, d out very well, and has been destributed as you derected, the 23 hogs picked...
4376Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 8 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you M r Hepburns bill for repairing the thrashing Machine amounting to 49 dollars 34 cts, your taxes the Sheriffs Say must be paid in this month and if convenient may be included in the Dft, they are a hungary set, and will not wait, the Printer agrees to reduce his a/c to 30 dollars, and wishes that the Proctor may be directed to pay it immediately to his order, I told him you...
4377Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Sancho at length acknowledges, that he is perfectly well, & that he is willing to set out for Monticello by times in the morning, he was fully able to have followed you in 2 or 3 days but he appeared So unwilling to go and having been So dangerously ill, I thought it best to indulge him a week longer, I am here this Evening for the purpose of seeing that every thing necessary for his journey...
4378Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 19 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of 14 th got here on the 17 th at night, and I duly receiv,d that by Bishop , I am astonish d that my letters should be So long on the way, when yours almost, always reach me within 4 days after date, by the cart John Hemings has rec d
4379Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you about a week ago inclosing Hepburns bill and informing you that the Sheriffs were pushing for the Taxes &c Since then, the sheriff has been to see me, and says he must have your Taxes by the last of this month that is, the day after our Court , he is compel l d to go to Richmond , your Taxes amounts this year to 145 doll dollars and Some cents, $12 more than last year, on Saturday...
4380Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a few days ago giveing an account of the dreadfull hail Storm that visited us on the 10 th Ins t and that I would replace the glass that was broken by it, if to be had in Lynchburg . I have made enquiry, but can find None of the Size of that in your house there, the Surest chance will be for You to order it from Richmond , to be here, to be put in during you r visit the House is...
4381Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 27 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yours of the 11 th Ins t a few days ago, and have made diligant search and enquiry for Billy , but can hear nothing of him. I do not believe, he has been at P. Forest since I sent down by Bishop . I shall still be upon the watch , and if found, shall be sent down immediately. I will send the stocks to Cap t Martin
4382Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two Boys Dick & Moses arrived here on Monday night last both on Horse-back without a pass, but Said they had your permission to visit their friends here this C X mass , yesterday two men came in pursuit of them for Stealing their Horses Horse and Saddle, they found the horse here and Dick
4383Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your 2 letters of 8 and 9 th Inst. I received a few days past with two Dfts in favour of Bishop and myself on Cap t Peyton , for which I thank you, as they will answer all the Debts that are now pressing on me I have enquired of Mr Miller the price of board and tuition, which is thirty dollars tuition fee, and one hundred dollars board for two sessions one half paid in advance RC ( MHi );...
4384Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
on Sunday last M r Gough and his aid young Bagby arrived at Poplar Forest to take charge of your concerns for the ensuing year agreeably to an arrangement previously made betwen him and M r Tho s J Randolph and on Tuesday Evening M r
4385Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your 2 letters of 25 27 th Nov. & 4 th In st I duly rec d in Answer to first I asure you that particular attention shall be paid to the list of cloathing and other derections inclosed. and all other matters of yours intrusted to my care, it seems indeed we have more to buy for cloathing, than we ought to have, considering the number of hands allotted to manufacturing but you will recollect,...
4386Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April [1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Your To bo is in Lynchburg and will be sent to Richmond to day or to morrow, It will be directed to care of M r Gibson as usual, the Stem d Hhd, and one of leaf not quite full , both inferior, had better be sold in Lynchburg , on that you ll determine
4387Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 16 th by mr. Coffee I have recd , mr Coffee arrived here on Friday last, and purposes going to Lynchburg this morning, and return to night, and to morrow he will go to the N. Bridge , he has declin d
4388Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been anxiously expecting you at the P. Forest for some time past, or should have written you sooner, Since M r Randolph was here it has been reported that he had taken the management of your Estate here for the ensuing year, and that he intended to send up Overseers, indeed he mentioned to me himself when he was here last, that something of the kind was talked of between you and...
4389Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment effected sale of Your wheat at P. F. at 5/– certain and the rise until the first January next the money to be paid at when when the wheat is delivered at five Shillings, if You choos think proper to draw it then—otherwise if the money is retained to be Subject to the rise till the first day January , then the Contract is at end I have mem o of the Contract in writing in the...
4390Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 20 th Ins t did not reach me, till night before last, and early yesterday morning, I sent an express to M r Hepburn with a letter informing him, what you desired me to tell him, he did not, write, but requested the messenger, that I would let you Know, that it was impossible for him to leave the work which had engaged, and which was nearly compleated, for M r Clay and Jo:...
4391Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 14 th & 16 th I received yesterday, in answer to that of the 14 th permit me to asure you of my particular attentions to the contents, and at all times my best exertions to manage your estate here as well as I know how I wrote you on thursday last informing you of the amount of your Taxes which is 145 d and some cents, I Should have mentioned the amou n t in
4392Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 25 I rec d last Evening. I sorry indeed that you have losses, there as well as here, we have had no deaths Since Hall , but a good many sick and complaining, they Charge Hercules with Poisoning, and the cause of all deaths here for the last
4393Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I been endeavouring to send off your Tobacco for several days past, but can,t get a boat, till Tuesday or wednesday next Doc t Cabell Says he will send down 6 Hh ds then, there will not be more than 1 or two hhds more behind, of inferior, which I will have here next week, the crop, which I apprised you last f autumn , would be very short, which is pretty generally so in this part of the...
4394Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the morning 10 th Ins t that and on the same Evening about 3 oClock: there was greatest hail storm I ever saw. your House appears to have b’een the centre of it, the damage is immense, a fine ps. wheat in Perry s I do not think will be worth cutting & all the rest & oats very much injured at Tomahawk , B. Cr. is not materially hurt by the hail but greatly damaged by the great...
4395To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Yancey, January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Maria and children 600 George 275 Phill 400 Edmond 300 James Hanah s husbn d 300 Hanah 175 2050 Henry 275 { 1215
4396To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Yancey, 21 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am on my to Key West in East-Florida, as Collector of Customs for that fort. I thought that I wou’d do myself the pleasure of saying to you that I do, and ever shall retain a grateful, and affectionate recollection of you, as a pre-eminent advocate, and friend to the equal rights of man; and as the illustrious author of the declaration of our independence. I do most sincerely hope that the...
4397To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Yates, 15 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of sending to you the notice annexed, for the purpose of exciting attention to a subject which cannot fail to be interesting to literary men. The prevailing system of education needs improvement. It is a complaint often repeated, that the studies which are usually considered preparatory to an academical education, are so tedious to children and youth, as to excite...
4398Jesse C. Young to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith send for your perusal a copy of “ Murray ’s English Grammar Simplified , ” by Allen Fisk , a Gentleman of this city; which you will be pleased to consider as an offering to yourself. My motive in sending the above mentioned volume to you sir, is, that you may be pleased to give it, (if consistant with your other avocations,) an attentive perusal; and if you should find it to contain...
4399Richard Young to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will indulge the freedom of a Stranger who has no other motive than is natural to an inquisitive immagination in thus trespassing on your valuable time, I notice in your Seventh Querry of your note on virginia that you there treat of the climate Generally after haveing Shewn by a Table the general currant of the winds from observation for one year you that you remark that ⹁⹁ The...
4400Richard Young to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your verry obligeing favour of the 22d of may last I am truely sorry to be informed of the ill State of your health which I hope is better. In my communication of the 11th of that month I had no Sort of expectation that had your health permitted that you woul at that time engage in a Subject Such Meteological Subjects. This communication was intended to call your attention to...