Gideon Gooch to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1810

From Gideon Gooch

June 7th 1810

Dr Sir

I arrive on the 6th Inst. at Mr Madisons farm Blackmeadow with the merino sheep and wool that is Jointly Between you and Mr Madison will be Glad you would send some person to take charge of the wool and the sheep one of the Ewes has a lamb of the female kind the other Ewe is not with lam who Ever You send to take charge of the Sheep and wool please Give them an order for the deliverry of them yrs &c

Gideon Gooch

RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 10 June 1810 and so recorded in SJL.

Gideon Gooch was James Madison’s plantation manager at Montpellier for about a decade beginning in 1804 (Dolley Madison, Selected Letters description begins David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman, eds., The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 2003 description ends , 402).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Gideon Gooch to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1810
Author: Gooch, Gideon
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 7 June 1810

Reference

Cite as: “Gideon Gooch to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0391. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, p. 451.]

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