1To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
...within itself all the stouter and midling stuffs for it’s own cloathing & houshold use. we consider a sheep for every person in the family as sufficient to clothe it, in addition to the cotton, hemp & flax which we raise ourselves. for fine stuff we shall depend on your Northern manufactures. of these, that is to say, of company establishments, we have none. we use little machinery. the...
2Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 21 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
family as sufficient to clothe it, in addition to the cotton, hemp & flax which we raise ourselves. for fine stuff we shall depend on your Northern manufactures. of these, that is to say, of company establishments, we have none.