Wilson J. Cary to Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1811
From Wilson J. Cary
Carysbrook. July 26. 1811.
Dear Sir
I ask the favor of you to deliver to the bearer (who is directed to receive and take charge of him) the Merino Ram lamb we are entitled to, out of the produce of our ewes. An apology is due to you for having given you the trouble of keeping him so long; but the distance from hence to Monticello and the variety of pressing business always on hand upon a large and complicated farm must plead our excuse for having delayed removing him untill now.
Wilson J. Cary—
RC (ViU: TJP-CC); endorsed by TJ as received 27 July 1811 and so recorded in SJL.
Wilson Jefferson Cary (1784–1823), the son of Wilson Cary and TJ’s niece Jane Barbara Carr Cary, attended the College of William and Mary in about 1803, studied law in Richmond under Edmund Randolph, and was admitted to the Virginia bar. He married Thomas Mann Randolph’s sister Virginia at Monticello in 1805, moved to Carysbrook in Fluvanna County by 1809, and represented that county in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1821–23, where he supported the establishment of the University of Virginia. Cary was also active in the Agricultural Society of Albemarle. He was buried in the Monticello graveyard ( , 7:302; , 2:1248n, 1399; Fairfax Harrison, The Virginia Carys: An Essay in Genealogy [1919], 112–3; , 12; , 308, 313; Joseph C. Cabell to TJ, 30 Dec. 1822; , 1:253; Richmond Enquirer, 3 Oct. 1823; Fluvanna Co. Will Book, 3:6–7, 9–12).
Index Entries
- Agricultural Society of Albemarle; members of search
- Albemarle County, Va.; Agricultural Society of search
- Cary, Jane Barbara Carr (Wilson Cary’s wife); family of search
- Cary, Wilson; family of search
- Cary, Wilson Jefferson; and merino sheep search
- Cary, Wilson Jefferson; identified search
- Cary, Wilson Jefferson; letters from search
- merino sheep; and W. J. Cary search
- Monticello (TJ’s estate); burials at search
- Monticello (TJ’s estate); wedding at search