Benjamin Morgan to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1820
From Benjamin Morgan
Philada July 12th 1820
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 26th may and 7th Instant reached me last evening
A person named Bostwick came to New Orleans in 1815 or 16 & commenced business in the grocery line & after being in trade one or two years fail’d & quit our Country I do not recollect the christian name of the person I describe but as I knew no other Bostwick in NO I think it must be the Grocer who is in treaty with your Kinsman & who in my opinion is not entitled to credit
There is no one here at present who can give me any information but as my Partners are instructed to open & reply to all letters address’d to me I presume you will hear from them in a few days after the receipt of this letter—I am with much respect
Benja Morgan
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 21 July 1820 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Jonathan Thompson, [18] Jan. 1822, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Monticello” by “Mail”; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 13 July.
Index Entries
- Bostwick, John; as potential purchaser of Lego search
- Bostwick, John; New Orleans merchant search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sale of Albemarle Co. land proposed search
- Lego (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); sale of proposed search
- Morgan, Benjamin; and J. Bostwick search
- Morgan, Benjamin; letters from search
- Morgan, Benjamin; mercantile business of search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and proposed sale of Lego search