Mary “Molly” Walker Lewis (1742–1824), the eldest daughter of Thomas Walker, an executor of Peter Jefferson’s will, was born at Castle-Hill in Albemarle County. She married TJ’s close friend and neighbor Nicholas Lewis in 1758 and had twelve children. “Captain Molly” was well known locally for her strictness, charity, and wit. During their marriage and after her husband’s death in 1808, she resided at The Farm, a 1,020-acre estate just east of Charlottesville. Lewis sporadically provided TJ with a wide range of goods, including ash-tree seeds, carrots, corn, cucumbers, cured meats, cymlings, and cypress vines (Merrow Egerton Sorley, Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family [1935, repr. 1979], 601–4, 835–6; K. Edward Lay and Martha Tuzson Stockton, “Castle Hill: The Walker Family Estate,” MACH description begins Magazine of Albemarle County History, 1940– description ends 52 [1994]: 39–40; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends ; Betts, Garden Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1766–1824, 1944 description ends , 363, 426, 443, 497).

TJ paid Lewis $65 on 3 Jan. 1810 “for corn & some other articles” and $21.27 on 5 Mar. 1810, which, he thought, settled his account with her up to 24 Feb. 1810 (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1252, 1253).