PrC (MHi); at foot of text: “Mr. Thomas Divers”; endorsed in ink by TJ.

Thomas Divers, the brother of George Divers, owner of the Farmington estate near Charlottesville, was a former merchant in Charlottesville who in 1804 became a captain of an Albemarle troop of cavalry in the Virginia militia (George Gilmer to TJ, 11 June 1792; note to TJ to George Divers, 26 Nov. 1792; CVSP description begins William P. Palmer and others, eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers … Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, Richmond, 1875–93, 11 vols. description ends , ix, 405). Under the terms of the 5 June 1794 law of congress “laying duties upon Carriages for the conveyance of persons,” the owner of a Phaeton was obliged each September to pay a tax of six dollars (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , iv, 1452).