James Old (or Olds; ca. 1754-1821) moved from Pennsylvania to Albemarle County, where he operated a mill. He was the county sheriff in 1804 and in other years served as a justice of the peace (Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society, 10 [1949-50], 36; William W. Reynolds, “A Pennsylvania Ironmaster Moves South: John Old of Berks and Albemarle Counties,” Virginia Genealogist, 34 [1990], 287-93; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, Charlottesville, 1901 description ends , 292, 377; MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1136; RS description begins J. Jefferson Looney and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Princeton, 2004- , 15 vols. description ends 6:576).

CaSa: that is, capias ad satisfaciendum, a writ demanding a sheriff take into custody an adjudged debtor (Bryan A. Garner, ed., Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. [St. Paul, Minn., 2004], 221).

In his financial memoranda, TJ recorded at 23 Mch. 1805 paying Gabriel Lilly “for James Old on W. Stewart’s acct. the 20.D. ante Sep. 27. Note, the money sent for this purpose ante Dec. 10. had been paid to other persons for W. Stewart” (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1136, 1142, 1149).