1From Thomas Jefferson to Bushrod Washington, 23 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume I am not mistaken in supposing that an injunction is the proper and most effectual mode of preventing a person from drowning a millseat of mine by raising his dam below it. With this view I have prepared the inclosed bill and documents , and trouble you with them to procure and send me an injunction. The defendant being very actively employed at present in raising his dam, the case...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Bushrod Washington, 1 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Some months ago a subpoena in Chancery at the suit of Mr. Banks was served on me as former governor of Virginia , calling on me and others not named [but I suppose the Counsellors of that day] to appear &c. Presuming it was for some act done on behalf of the commonwealth I wrote to the governor to know whether I must defend, or whether the executive would not undertake it for the Commonwealth,...