Frank Carr to Thomas Jefferson, [received 18 March 1816]
From Frank Carr
[received 18 Mar. 1816]
Dear Sir,
I was called on this Evening to set a broken leg of your man Moses. He is at Farley’s. It would be painful, & would derange what has been done, to move him. He will [be]1 taken care of & attended to where he is—The accident happened in a trial of strength in a wrestle with one of his fellows:
I am respectfully yr S &c
Frank Carr
RC (ViU: TJP-CC); undated; addressed (ink stained): “Thomas Jefferson Esqe Monticello By [. . .]”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 Mar. 1816 and so recorded in SJL.
On 19 June 1816 TJ recorded payment of $10 to Betsy Farley for “a month’s board” of moses (, 2:1324).
1. Omitted word editorially supplied.
Index Entries
- Carr, Frank; as physician search
- Carr, Frank; letters from search
- Farley, Betsy; boards TJ’s slave search
- fractures, bone search
- health; fractured bones search
- health; of slaves search
- Moses (TJ’s slave); broken leg of search
- slaves; health of search
- slaves; medical treatment for search
- slaves; wrestle search