1Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 7 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I remitted you some time ago 200.D. through Gibson & Jefferson and I take measures through by the present mail from this quarter to remit through them another sum of 100.D. until I could pay up one of the two quarters of supply due, I preferred letting my nailery be without employ. this is their present state. I must therefore now pray you, with as little delay as possible to send me on a...
2Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 10 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with real mortification that, instead of a remittance for the last supply of rod & iron , now due, I am obliged to send you this letter. yet my feelings on the failure will not permit me to be merely silent. I have now been for 13. or 14. years a customer of your house & of it’s predecessors, and have never failed beyond a few days over the term of remittance, except on one occasion, I...
3Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 6 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 16. was duly recieved, and I thank you for the indulgence of making my remittances from time to time as I can. this shall be as diligently done as the difficult circulation of money in this part of the country will permit. in the mean time I avail myself of your permission to ask a new supply of 2. tons of rod, assorted as usual, and a quarter ton of the best tough bar iron,...
4Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 1 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of the 15 th . you are right as to my omission of the supply of iron in 1810. I must explain this for my own justification. when I sat down to make a statement, by memory, of the paiments to which my produce now getting to market was to be applied, I noted your debt as about 600.D. which was the general impression of it on my mind. turning afterwards to our letters,...
5Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe our account stands thus. D 1809. May 2. due of course Aug. 2. 304.36 Sep. 21. due Dec. 21. 303.93 1810. Mar. 25. Interest on 304.36 to this day (8. mo.)
6Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 6 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to send me, before the closing of your river, 1. ton of nail rod , in which let there be a single bundle of half-crown rod, and the rest assorted for from 20 d down to 6 d nails also a quarter of a ton of toughest Swedish iron in bars from the size of a gigg axletree down to the small sizes, and one hundred weight of hoop iron for cut 4 d nails. I am told there is a patent auger for...
7Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 10 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 17. reached this just as I had left it on a journey to a possession I have about 90. miles South of this, and from whence I am but lately returned. I had not written to you for some time, because I was in the constant hope of making you a remittance, which the delays and difficulties of those from whom I had a right daily to expect paiments as constantly disappointed,...