Thomas Jefferson Papers

Bowling Clark to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1805

From Bowling Clark

Hills creak Augt. 4. 1805

Dear Sir

Your feavers by Harcalis of July 24 I recived last evening. & agreeable to your request have set to your list. what I supposeed to be the value of each differant track Pr acre. at the time I left the Forest. I cant be so certain of the value of those three tracks of Calloways & the two Robartsons. as I neaver traced those lines all round. the Lands in that Neighbourhood. have raseed in thare value vary concidirable sence I left that place. should have bin exceding glad to have seen you when up. but had I have none it. should not have bin able to have rode that distance at that time & am Dear Sir with cincear esteem yours &c

Bowling Clark

RC (ViU: Edgehill-Randolph Papers); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 16 Aug. and so recorded in SJL.

Harcalis: Hercules, an enslaved farm laborer whom TJ moved from Monticello to Poplar Forest in 1790 (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, 2 vols. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 1:145).

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