Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 15 November 1820
To Bernard Peyton
Poplar Forest1 Nov. 15. 20
Dear Sir
I had promised Samuel Garland to give him on my arrival here an order for 800.D. but, anxious to leave in your hands 500.D. for the curtail expected, I have this day drawn on you in his favor for 600.D. only, promising him the othe[r] 200 before I leave this place. by that time I hope Jefferson will have sent you on my account one or two boatloads2 of flour, which I have charged him to do as soon as the river admits. ever and affectionately yours
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of a reused sheet in an unidentified hand reading only “<Lynchburg> Sept”; edge trimmed; at foot of text: “Capt B. Peyton”; endorsed by TJ.
A missing letter of this date from TJ to Thomas jefferson Randolph is recorded in SJL and is described in TJ’s financial records as enclosing “to Th:J.R. my notes of 3000. & 2250. bk. US. and 2500. Farm.’s bk. to be indorsed by him and forwarded to B. Peyton for renewal” ( , 2:1371).
1. Preceding two words reworked from “Monticello.”
2. Manuscript: “boatsloads.”
Index Entries
- A. Robertson & Company (firm); TJ’s debt to search
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; transported to Richmond search
- Garland, Samuel; and TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ visits search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s flour search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letters to accounted for search