1Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with James Lyle, 6 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esq r on acct of Rich d Harvie In acct. with James Lyle To This sum, ⅌ Col: Jefferson’s letter, due with interest from the 19 th of April 1783 at 5 ⅌C t ⅌ Ann:—Sterling Money } £132.12.0 To Interest on the same till July the 6 th 1811
2Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The process of getting my flour to market from Bedford and this place, and of getting it sold, has been slower than I had hoped. it is now so far effected as to enable me to inclose you an order on Gibson & Jefferson for one thousand Dollars. I shall not fail to make as great an exertion from my future crops as they will enable me to do for the completion of the paiment of my debt to you....
3Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 5 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Jan. 27. I informed you I was just setting out for Bedford to see about getting my crop of wheat there ground & brought to market, out of which I should be enabled to make you a paiment. I found it in a disagreeable situation. it had been delivered to be ground at a mill, the dam of which had recently given way. I endeavored to withdraw it but the miller refused, engaging to...
4Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 27 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d did not reach me till the day before yesterday. I set out this morning for Bedford to see about the expediting the grinding my wheat there & getting the flour to market. it is the fund which I have destined for your debt, my tobacco being engaged to extricate my indorser & myself from the bank. what the wheat crop will enable me to do, I cannot fix precisely, as it will...
5Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 12 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of Jan. 24. and recieved it with sincere affliction, and with the more on account of the utter incapacity in which it finds me to yield any prompt compliance, with your call, a call to which former indulgencies render it very painful to me not to give effect. I will explain to you my situation. when the end of my service in the government was approaching, I resolved...
6From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 6 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 22. was recieved in due time and should have been sooner answered, but I put it off from day to day, fearing to make any promise until I could be certain of performance. this has not been till the present moment, and I now inclose you an order on messrs. Gibson & Jefferson for 500. D. I must still go on without venturing to make a specific promise until I can do it with a...
7From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 7 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 14. was recieved at this place after a circuitous course by Washington. I have felt with deep regret my own slow progress in the paiment of my old debt to Kippen & co. and with equal thankfulness your friendly indulgence in leaving the paiment so much to my convenience. it renders more strong the sentiment of a faithful discharge of it ultimately, and I have been in the hope...
8From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 18 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Lyle. he believes that the subject of the inclosed letter respects mr Strange only: but as mr D. Carr assures him that mr Lyle has the direction of some of these affairs, he thinks it safest to put it open under his cover, assured, that if it does not appertain to mr Lyle, he will have the goodness to forward it to mr Strange. he takes this...
9From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 20 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It was fully my expectation, and you had a right to expect that I should have paid you 1000. D. in the course of the last summer, but the resource for that paiment was unavoidably taken up by another call. my tobacco of the last year is now either arrived or arriving at Richmond consigned to messrs. Gibson & Jefferson, and I inclose you a letter directed to them, & authorising them either to...
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 3 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson having had my tobacco in their hands for sale a considerable time, I have been in the constant expectation of sending you an order on them for one thousand dollars to be recieved at the term stipulated for paiment, which I desired them not to make more than 60. days. by a late letter from them I find they have not yet been able to sell for a reasonable price. the...
11From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 16 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5th. has been duly recieved, and I sincerely wish it were in my power, as it would be my duty, to comply immediately with it’s request—but it is not immediately practicable. I have ordered my crop of tobo . to be in Richmond by the last of December, and as soon as it can be sold you shall recieve from it a strong paiment, which I am enabled to make the more considerable, as I...
12From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 15 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not till a day or two before I left home that I was able to look into the papers respecting Richd. Harvie’s account, and committed the result to a letter which accompanies this, but which the accumulation of business I found here has prevented my forwarding sooner. I now inclose you also an order on Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson for 500. Dollars, and must take some time to provide another...
13From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 17 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
According to request I have examined here my papers respecting the bond to R. Harvie, and a memorandum in writing given me by him during the interval of his visit to this neighborhood preceding his death, enables me to add the following facts & observations to those contained in my note of July 22 1795, furnished to you. the difficulties in R. Harvie’s account respect those sums of £25, of £19...
14From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 9 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 24. came to hand on the 1st. inst. the impression on my mind is that there were important errors in Richd. Harvie’s acct. and that I gave you some years ago a detailed statement of them. Richard and myself had one or more conversations on the subject, and some explanations took place, but what their effect was, my memory does not enable me to say. I think I have probably a...
15From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 12 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Aug. 3. has been some time at hand, tho’ it is but lately I [have] been able to look into the subject. I had always for my own satisfaction kept by me a statement of my bonds to your company, of the paiments made on them, and the bonds delivered you for collection to be applied to the paiment of mine. as these bonds bore interest, I considered them as equivalent to a like sum of my...
16From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 13 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. inst. is at hand. that also of Aug. 18 was recieved in September. I deferred answering it in expectation of recieving & remitting the paiment of the year, but the instalments for my tobacco were not paid up till I came here, at which time a new circumstance was coming on the preparatory expences of which obliged me to throw the paiment which should have been made to you...
17From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 17 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you before I left home informing you of the unlucky error I had committed in not selling my tobo. of 98.99. in May when I was offered 11. D. in Richmond: but believing it would be higher in the fall as usual, and unaware of the effect of the non-intercourse law, I kept it; & after bringing it here to lessen my loss, I have only lately been able to sell it for 7. Doll. at long...
18From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 6 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have hitherto been in expectation of selling my last year’s crop of tobo. at Richmond & of ordering out of it the same paiment to you as the last year. but the prices, instead of rising through the season as usual, have fallen, & far below what the state of the general market of Europe justifies. I am therefore looking out for information whether to send my tobaccoes to Philadelphia, New...
19From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 15 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been three times called to this place the last year, and now kept here on a session of 6. months, the expences attending this have so far exceeded what were to have been expected in the ordinary course of things, that they put it out of my power to make the first payment promised in my letter of the last year , in time. I had calculated on one trip only to this place, and a short...
20From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 12 February 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 25 came to hand in due time. Your [manner] of charging interest on my bonds is I believe the usual one. Being prepared for my departure to Philadelphia, I am not able to examine the particulars of the paiments. As far as my memory serves me I thought the overpaiment of the first bond by Mr. Donald’s bill was a few pounds more than you make it. But I may misremember, or there...
21From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 12 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The present representative of Farrell & Jones has brought a suit against the executors of Mr. Wayles as security for the late R. Randolph on the foundation of a loose and equivocal expression in a letter neither meant as an engagement by Mr. Wayles nor understood as such by F. & J. I do not believe there is the smallest danger of it’s being so understood by a court or jury, but as all things...
22From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 1 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding that I cannot depend on the profits of my plantations for paying off the last bond to Kippen &c. I have come to a resolution to sell two tracts of land, the one in Bedford, the other here, and have given directions in Bedford accordingly. If they can be sold, they will effect the whole paiment. The sale will yet require some time, and the circumstances of our country always require...
23From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 25 November 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Lindsay Coleman called on me yesterday on the transaction which has been the subject of our two last letters. He says it was a matter of Mr. Wayles’s, and that the note in question was given by Mr. Eppes and myself as executors. I cannot recall to my mind one tittle of what he mentions, and the transaction not relating to my private affairs is the reason I made no entry in my books. I have...
24From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 12 November 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment favored with yours of the 3 inst. My memory (as far as it can be trusted) assures me I never had a transaction of any kind with any body of the name of Coleman in my life. I have moreover searched my memorandum books which have been kept with exactness and are alphabeted. I do not find such a name on them for 22. years back, which is as far as I have examined them. I suspect...
25From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 8 November 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Kinsolving having paid me £20–10–2 I now enclose you Mr. Snelson’s order on James Brown for that sum less 10/ by a mistake of addition at the time of taking it. Kinsolving still has some tobacco of his last crop, to which he will add some new, and let me have the proceeds. At least so he promised, and therefore I let my execution lie. It shall be forwarded to you as soon as recieved. I am...
26From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 28 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 23d.—The fall before the death of Colo. E. Carter, he called on me for the papers which I had had in the suit of Harding v Carter, and I delivered to him the bundle. It consisted only of copies of the bill, answer &c. from the records. Mr. Charles Carter lately called on me on the subject, and I informed him I had delivered all the papers to his father,...
27From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 10 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I expected that Kinsolving’s money would by this time have been brought in to remit to you. He confessed judgment on both bonds with a stay of execution, and in the spring brought me his tobacco notes to sell for him and receive the money. Not liking to do this I left it to himself to sell them and bring the order for the money. I have not heard from him since, tho’ those who know him assure...
28From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 24 December 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
A second debtor, Robert Hawkins, called on me yesterday and paid me his second bond £41–15. Having no immediate conveyance to Richmond for this money, I send to Mr. Randolph, who is on his way there, an order to recieve a like sum lying ready for me in Richmond and to pay it to you together with Milliner’s £72-8-8 delivered him for you as mentioned in my former letter of which he is the...
29From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 14 December 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
On this day my Bedford bonds of the 2d. instalment become due. Yet but one person has called on me. William Milliner called yesterday and paid me £72–8–8 which I now send you by Mr. Randolph to be applied to the discharge of my bonds in the order in which they are paiable. He promised me he would pay the balance £49-18-10 at the Bedford court of the present month to Mr. Clarke, who will of...
30From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 24 April 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14th. inst. came to hand by the last post. I had intended to have been in Richmond and Manchester, with the first good weather of this month, but the small pox first, and then the embargo which suspended a considerable object of my journey occasioned me to postpone it. I shall be with you soon after the term fixed for the expiration of the embargo. In the mean time I had long...