131501From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 14 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I now send you the nails desired, as is stated below. I must beg you, my dear Sir, to push the supply of corn as far as you possibly can. At the time I recieved your letter , I had an agent gone in quest of corn into the quarter you mention, to wit, Louisa and Orange; he returned having been able to get but 20. barrels, which is very far short of what will be necessary for our bread; for as to...
131502From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 7 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I took before I left home a note of the amount of your nail-account, which was £33–16–3. but omitted to draw off a copy of it that I might now furnish it to you. this shall be done on my return. in the mean time I inclose you an order on Gibson & Jefferson for 47. D. 30. C. say £14–3–9 making with the above nail account the sum of £48. which I was to pay you for mr Randolph. We have little...
131503From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 21 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. William Davenport desired me to pay you for him, one hundred dollars which I engaged to do soon after my arrival at this place. Besides this there were two quarters of one of the beeves you sent him (I believe the first) which I took and was to answer to you. You will see below a statement of that, which after deducting the amount of some nails, leaves a balance of 23/6 due on my account....
131504From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 27 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received two days ago your favor of May 31. on the subject of Mr. Underwood and immediately put the papers of recommendation into the hands of Genl. Knox, satisfying him of the respectability of the persons subscribing the recommendation. He will do for Mr. Underwood whatever and whenever justice will permit.—I think it very possible that Congress may be called together something earlier...
131505From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 30 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I had mentioned to you that I had found in the book of accounts kept for my father’s estate by Mr. Harvie, that Dr. Walker was debited in his account in these words ‘1762. to cash in account with Mr. Mc.Caul £199—18—1’ and that in the same book Mr. Mc.Caul was credited in his account in the following words ‘1762. Dec. 25. By cash paid per orders from Thomas Walker £199–18–1’...
131506From George Washington to Francis Walker, 10 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
In answering your favor of the 28th Ulto which has been duly received—I wish it was in my power to give you more satisfactory information than you will find, in this letter, relative to the lands near Suffolk. Some years ago (before, if my memory serves me, I was called to administer the Government of the U. States) Mr John Lewis, as Executor of his father Colo. Fielding Lewiss Will, informed...
131507Enclosure: Robert Peters and Others to George Walker, 21 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your communication of Mr. Jeffersons letter to you of the 14 Inst, permit us to request the favor of you to inform Mr. Jefferson, as a piece of Justice which seems requisite to ourselves, that We are very far from being so unreasonable to expect that Maj L’Enfant would be, or to think that he ought to be, employed on either of the conditions mentioned in his first letter to you,...
131508From Thomas Jefferson to George Walker, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 9. came to hand yesterday with the letter from several of the proprietors of Georgetown desiring the reemployment of Majr. Lenfant, and were duly laid before the President. He would be happy to satisfy the wishes of those gentlemen wherever propriety and practicability admit. The retirement of Majr. Lenfant has been his own act. No body knows better than yourself the...
131509From George Washington to George Walker, 26 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 24th instt was received this day. It was not, I conceive, the intention of the Law which established the seat of the general government, that the President of the United States should enter into the detail of the business for the execution of which Commissioners were appointed. But it certainly is his duty, when charges of malpractice, or improper conduct are exhibited...
131510From Thomas Jefferson to George Walker, 26 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 21st. with the letter from sundry inhabitants of George town which it inclosed, and have laid them before the President. You have before understood, Sir, that Majr. L’Enfant was originally called into the service by Mr. Carrol, who doubting, before Majr. Lenfant’s arrival here, whether he could with propriety act as a Commissioner while he remained a...
131511From Thomas Jefferson to George Walker, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sorry that, being from home at the time you were so good as to call on me, I missed seeing you. The President being engaged also, was equally unlucky. As you left no letter for me, I took for granted that your negociation with Majr. Lenfant had proved fruitless. After your departure the President sent Mr. Lear to Major Lenfant to see what could be made of him. He declared unequivocally...
131512From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 1 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In an account presented to me by mr Shoemaker are the charges below stated, as to the reasonableness of which I am an entire stranger, and therefore ask the favor of you to inform me what would be the proper charges. I ask this of you the rather because you know exactly the nature of the articles, and because I shall have entire confidence in what you shall think right. Be so good as to lodge...
131513From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 16 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10th. did not come to hand till yesterday. had it come by the post of the 10th. & arrived on the 12th. as it ought to have done, I could have complied with the request of the hundred dollars, as on that day I settled & paid the demands of the month which I regularly do the 2d. week of every month, after which it is rarely in my power to answer a demand of any size till the...
131514Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 22 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your former favor stating the prices of mill work, and finding that mr Brown’s bill was considerably different, I proposed to him to refer the bill to you, and to ask the favor of you to come and see the work and settle the prices between us. this favor I have now to ask of you, and shall very gladly pay you for your time whatever you think proper. if you could name the day that...
131515Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 17 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I originally employed you to build my saw mill having confidence in your work & prices. when it was turned over to mr Brown , it was understood between you and myself that he was to be governed by your prices. we are now about coming to a settlement, which renders it necessary for me to ask the favor of your prices. mr Brown handed me a bill of yours, but it related only to gristmills,...
131516From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 14 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I remit you through mr Freeman one hundred dollars, & shall regularly make you the same remittance monthly hereafter. I am anxious to hear that the toll mill is going, as I cannot doubt there must now be water enough for her whatever be the state of the dam. I have desired mr Jefferson (if he has not before done it) to send up a hogshead of pit-coal for Stewart; and I have bespoke at...
131517From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 8 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the 4th. inst. I did not suppose that I was in your debt. the impression on my mind was that the last paiment I made compleatly discharged the balance, and having left my papers at Monticello, I cannot now examine into them. but I shall be at home in about a month and you must then come & let us examine into the matter, and whatever is right shall be done....
131518From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 28 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 1. was recieved in the course of that month, altho’ the delay of compleating my mill will not only lose me the intermediate rent, but endanger rival establishments getting the start, yet my absence from home rendering it impossible for me to make other satisfactory arrangements, I must acquiesce in the delay of another twelvemonth as you propose, and expect you to begin for...
131519From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 26 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of the 16th. but I do not sufficiently understand the difficulty of containing the water within the banks of the canal, under the toll-mill shed, to give directions about it. I must therefore leave it to your direction. I recieve with real grief the account of the tumbling down of the new walls of the toll mill. I had hoped that I had seen the end of my expences for...
131520From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 20 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The walls of my tollmill will be finished in a fortnight, and the mason mr Hope wishes immediately to begin the manufacturing mill, as he thinks he can raise the walls to the lowest floor this season. I must therefore ask the favor of you to come over in the course of a fortnight & lay off the foundation & give him a plan to proceed on. you know we agreed to make it 10. f. longer than mr...
131521From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 24 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7th. was not recieved here till the 11th. & I had the day before sent off your monthly remittance of 100. D. I cannot therefore make up the sum you desired till the next remittance which will leave this place this day fortnight. you shall then recieve 200. D. I communicated your proposition of a new machine for cleaning wheat to a very intelligent miller in this neighborhood...
131522From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 1 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a letter some time ago from Stewart informing me he was sued for the hire of the woman who lives with him, that you were become bail for his appearance. I intended by last post to have desired you to become his special bail, and that when I should come home I would settle it for him, but such was the pressure of business it was impossible for me to write, & tomorrow is the day it...
131523From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 6 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
My mill stones have been arrived some time, and the wall and roof of the toll-mill house are finished. every thing therefore waits for you, & as the season is approaching when they will be wanting, & custom begins now to thicken I hope you will come immediately. I shall recieve 100. D. for you by Saturday’s post, which will be ready when you come. hoping to see you immediately, I salute you...
131524From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 13 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s post I remit a sum to mr Bacon out of which he will pay you 100. D. further reflection on the mode of making the waste for the canal convinces me that that I proposed to you is the best. that is to say, beginning at a proper distance from the side of your canal; dig the bed of your waste sloping regularly down to the water edge in the river, & lay 18. I. depth of loose stone on...
131525From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 25 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I find it to be the opinion of mr Lilly that having hired an extraordinary force for the year he shall be able to compleat the canal for my mill this summer. I have contracted with mr Hope to build the mill houses for both the small & large mills. the smaller one he will begin immediately. I must therefore ask of you to come over without delay and mark out the site of both. if you come before...
131526From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 19 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is out of my power to settle with mr Shoemaker without information on the worth of the articles about which I wrote to you, & I have no opportunity of obtaining the advice of any person acquainted with the subject but yourself. I send the bearer therefore express in hopes you will by his return let me know what you think of them. In a settlement with the administrator of Hancock Allen,...
131527From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 1 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On examining more carefully into the work still to be done in the canal , I find there is no prospect of getting the water to the mill seat before the ensuing summer. consequently there is no occasion to do any thing towards the buildings this winter. in March I shall be here, when I shall be able to form a still better judgment, and will inform you of our progress & expectations. Accept my...
131528From John Adams to James Walker, 25 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
you will be surprised at receiving this Letter. But I hope you will pardon the curiosity of dotage, I wish to know whether the records of the Town and Church of Charleston were destroyed in the great Fire of the 17th. of June 1775. if any of them remain, I wish to know what remains concerning the Revrend Thomas Shepard once Minister of that place my Wifes Great Grand Father, Daniel Quincy...
131529Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 11 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about opening a canal at the hither end of my dam, and carrying it about 300. yards through the low grounds to where I shall have 6.f. fall, with a view of there building a saw mill, and joining to it a threshing machine. I can afford it but little water, & the fall being small, I propose a breastwheel of 10½ f. diameter, with a spur wheel on each side, the one driving the wallower with...
131530From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 16 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 13th. inst. Messrs. Jones & Howell shipped for me from Philadelphia for Richmond the articles below stated, being as near the order sent them as they could furnish without waiting to have them especially made at the forges. being addressed to Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson, they will probably recieve them about the time or soon after you recieve this. of course you may immediately take...