From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Worthington, 24 March 1804
To Thomas Worthington
Mar. 24. 1804.
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to1 Colo. Worthington & sends him an order on John Barnes in Georgetown, the real agent for Genl. Kozciusko, & holder of his funds. is any thing due on account of taxes on these lands to Colo. Worthington himself? if there is, Th:J. will put it into the order on recieving it back.
PrC (MHi). Enclosure: Order on John Barnes for payment of $12.62½ to Worthington, Washington, 24 Mch., “on account of Genl. Kosciuzko, & for surveying done for him” (MS in same, in TJ’s hand and signed by him, signed by Henry Tims acknowledging payment, endorsed by Barnes as paid 27 Mch.; PrC in same).
On 27 Jan. 1804, TJ sent an order on Jonathan Smith, cashier of the Bank of Pennsylvania, to pay john barnes the half-year dividend on Tadeusz Kosciuszko’s 20 shares of the bank’s stock (MS in NjMoHP; in TJ’s hand and signed by him as attorney for Kosciuszko; note on verso by Barnes: “pay the within to the Order, of Mr Edwd Penington”; signed by Thomas Pope acknowledging receipt of payment on behalf of Penington, 1 Feb.). Barnes’s statements of Kosciuszko’s account with him from 15 May 1802 to 1 June 1803 and from the latter date to 5 July 1804 are in TJ’s papers at MHi.
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