1From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 5 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In the account of Kippen & co. against my father’s estate which you rendered to Mr. Nicholas there is a sum of £200., charged as paid to Dr. Walker Aug. 16. 1769. for which Dr. Walker has given no credit in his account against the estate, nor does he remember. It becomes necessary therefore for this to be established by producing the voucher. I must pray you to do this and to send me by post,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 7 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Lyle and incloses him the Observations on his account with R. Harvie and an order on A. Donald for £325. sterling which he supposes makes up his instalment of July next. He hopes Mr. Lyle will take the trouble of writing to Mr. McCaul to know the exact amount and date of his two former paiments . PrC ( MHi ). An entry in SJL under 24 Feb. 1790 shows the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 16 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
We are not yet able to settle with Dr. Walker the sums he received from Mr. Mc.Caul for the estate. He has credited 1761. Mar. By Alexander Mc.Caul £200–0–0 1764. Dec. 1. By cash of Alex. Mc.Caul £220–0–0 but he has not credited the £200.received from him Aug. 31. 1766. (and not Aug. 26. 1769. as I had mistated the date in my letter of Feb. 5. to you). He now imagines this £200. charged by you...
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 3 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 23d. Ult. and wish I could have permitted your trouble on the subject to end there. But the sum is become too important by near 30. years interest to be left in doubt. Doctr. Walker does not question his receipt of such a sum in 1761. or 1762. His entries prove it beyond doubt and his recollection also probably. He only supposes that McCaul failed to...
5From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 11 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In order to make provision for the payment of my debts to yourself and Farrell & Jones, I sold a tract of land to Mr. Ronald for £1076. pounds sterling, one half payable Jan. 1. 1796. the other half Jan. 1. 1797. with interest on the whole from Oct. 5. 1790. For the one half, I retain a mortgage on the lands sold; for the other half he mortgaged a moiety of his Beaverdam lands valued at the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 15 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
When I was in Virginia the last year, I took the liberty of solliciting you to furnish me a copy of the account of my father’s estate from his death Aug. 17. 1757. till I came of age which was Apr. 2. 1764. at which time I believe the account commences which you furnished Mr. Nicholas. These two accounts are necessary for the settlement of many others; but peculiarly so for that of Dr. Walker...
7From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 7 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of Oct. 23. 1790. you informed me there was a balance due to Kippen & co. from my mother of £126–9–5. currency before the beginning of the war. This letter having been delivered me just as I was setting out for Philadelphia I informed you I could give no answer to it till I should come here this present fall. I have now had time to examine papers on that subject and find no...
8From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know that any circumstance could have given me more pain than that which has produced a failure in my payment to you after I had thought it so sure as to give you reason to count on it. When I left Europe, I did not leave a shilling there unpaid: but expecting to return, I left my house, horses, servants &c. at my expence. This with the sending over my furniture brought on me demands...
9From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 29 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time of my settlement with Mr. Hanson and yourself, I had flattered myself that those demands were so modelled that I might provide for a punctual discharge of them by sale of property for the later payments and, for the earlier, from the profits of my estate. Two flattering crops had made me count on the latter resource too sanguinely, and the importunities of the other creditor have...
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 15 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to what I mentioned to you in a former letter , I have had, in January past, a sale of negroes made for the purpose of paying my bonds to Henderson & co. The amount of the sales returned to me is £700–1–6 besides which there is one other bond not yet taken which will be about £100. so that the whole is about £800. Virginia currency, the one half payable the next christmas, the other...
11From 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...
12From 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...
13From 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...
14From 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...
15From 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,...
16From 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...
17From 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...
18From 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...
19From 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...
20From 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...
21From 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...
22From 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...
23From 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...
24From 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...
25From 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...
26From 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...
27From 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...
28From 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...
29From 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...
30From 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...