John B. Mitchell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1820

From John B. Mitchell

Richmond July 22nd 1820

Sir

I have been informed that you want a person in the Situation of an Overseer—I am at presant out of a place And would be glad to make an engagement with you if It meets your approbation I can bring you Respectable Recommendations as to Probity &a I have never been in the Situation of an Overseer But has conducted a large Farm on my own Accot in Europe I understand Accots If you should want please write me what you would give a Year to a Man that would be capable of Filling the Situation—

Yours very Respectfully

Jno B Mitchell

P.S.. I will consider it a particeler favour by hearing from you as early as convenient and direct to me Richmond==

JBM

RC (MHi); postscript on address leaf; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr near Charlotesville V .. .. a”; stamped; postmarked Richmond, 24 July; endorsed by TJ as received 27 July 1820 and so recorded in SJL.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: John B. Mitchell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1820
Author: Mitchell, John B.
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 22 July 1820

Reference

Cite as: “John B. Mitchell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1820,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-16-02-0110. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 16, 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 140–141.]