John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1810
From John Barnes
George Town Columbia 12th January 1810—
My last respects to you Sir was of the 1st Sepr since when, I have not been Honore’d with any of your favors.—
In the Course of this and the insuing Mo. it will become Necessary to provide for a Remittance to be made, the good Genl Kosciusko:—Under present circumstances, I have to ask your aid, and shall be governed by your instructions—
from a rough statemt of the Genls a/c, with me, even after I may have received, his present half yrs Bank Penna dividend—deducting therefrom—the $82. overpd in his last years a/c—will leave him a Balce something less than $542, exclusive of the reasonable Interest, due from you, on his Principal. $4,500—and have to regret the deficiencey in his Usual Annual Remittance of $1000—
Be pleased Sir, to favor me, with Order on the Cashr Bank Penna—
John Barnes.
PS—Inquiring of the V.P— respecting Mrs B— I am hopefull; some Accomodation (remittance) hath taken place, thro her Bror Mr J.P— on that very dubious Accot—
RC (ViU: TJP-ER); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr—Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Jan. 1810 and so recorded in SJL.
When her brother James Prince returned from the West Indies, Maria Prince Beckley hoped to make a remittance on a 1798 loan of $240 from TJ to her deceased husband John Beckley, longtime clerk of the United States House of Representatives. No payment was forthcoming ( , 2:983, 986, 988; Maria Beckley to TJ, 13 Dec. 1808, and TJ to Beckley, 1 Jan. 1809 [DLC]; Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, John Beckley: Zealous Partisan in a Nation Divided [1973], 176–7, 277; , 30:278, 407).
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