Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 23 October 1820
To Bernard Peyton
Monticello Oct. 23. 20.
Dear Sir
My draughts on you have been as follows
| D | ||||||
| Sep. | 30. | in favor of Joel Wolfe | 100 | . | ||
| Oct. | 13. | Taxes Albemarle. | 197 | .21 | ||
| do Bedford. | 175 | . | ||||
| 19. | in favor of | Craven Peyton | 500 | . | ||
| Th: J. Randolph. | 106 | . | ||||
| Andrew Smith abt | 74 | .20 | ||||
| 21. | James Leitch. | 533 | . | |||
| Joel Wolfe. | 200 | |||||
| 23. | Martin Dawson. | 339 | .52 | |||
| 2224 | .93 | 1 | ||||
tomorrow I shall draw in favor of Alexr Garrett for 210. something more or less, and of John Watson somewhere about 70.
The harpsichord strings came safe, but the letter of Oct. 5. loitered somewhere till the 19th. I see a Franklin Almanac advertised at the2 Franklin office, opposite the Market. will you be so good as to send me 2. copies by mail? I expect you have recieved a small package of books for me from Guigam: Baltimore. be so good as to forward them by a waggon to James Leitch. mr Baker informed me he should recieve soon a cask of Scuppernon wine for me, which I desired him to deliver to you, & I pray you to send by the boats of Johnson, Gilmore or any other boatman whom you know to be trusty. God bless you.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Lydia Broadnax to TJ, 2 June 1819; at foot of text: “Capt. Peyton”; endorsed by TJ. Not recorded in SJL.
TJ drew on Peyton for his bedford taxes for $175 on 21 Sept. 1820 although he noted that the amount “shd. be 157.95” (, 2:1367). His records indicate that the payment to Thomas Jefferson randolph was “in full of 1000.D. borrowed for me from Carr ante for repayment of which he recd. for me from Charles Everett 929.85 (ante July 13.) which with the 1000.D. ante Aug. 9. compleated Everett’s payment of 1929.85. and the 106.D. now paid to Th:J.R. pays principal & int. in full of the 1000.D. he borrowed for me of Carr” (, 2:1369).
The payment to martin dawson covered an order on TJ by Edmund Meeks for $174.47 including interest, TJ’s note to Peter Laporte for $50.45 including interest, Youen Carden’s order on TJ for $8 in favor of John Ormond, a payment to Dr. Thomas G. Watkins on TJ’s behalf of $60, and TJ’s store account with Dawson through 31 July 1820 totaling $46.60 (, 2:1369). guigam: Henry Guegan.
1. Reworked from “2234.93.”
2. Manuscript: “the the.”
Index Entries
- Baker, Jerman (1776–1828); and wine for TJ search
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Carden, Youen; TJ’s account with search
- Carr, Mr. (lender); loans TJ money search
- Dawson, Martin; as merchant search
- Dawson, Martin; TJ pays search
- Everette, Charles; account with TJ search
- Garrett, Alexander; as University of Virginia bursar search
- Gilmore, Joseph; Milton boatman search
- Guegan, Henry (Louis Henri Guégan); and books for TJ search
- harpsichords; strings for search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; packing and shipping of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with C. Peyton search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with M. Dawson search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with T. G. Watkins search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to J. Leitch search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; payments to T. J. Randolph search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; pays taxes search
- Johnson, Mr. (boatman); transports goods search
- Laporte, Peter (Victoire Laporte’s husband); TJ’s debt to search
- Leitch, James; and packages for TJ search
- Leitch, James; TJ pays search
- Meeks, Edmund; account with TJ search
- music; harpsichord search
- Ormond, John; and Y. Carden search
- Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Peyton, Craven; account with TJ search
- Pollard, Nathan; publishesThe Franklin Almanack, calculated on a new and improved plan for the Year of our Lord, 1821 search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); TJ’s payments to search
- scuppernong (wine) search
- Smith, Andrew; and Smith & Riddle search
- Smith & Riddle (Richmond firm); and glass for TJ search
- taxes; TJ pays search
- The Franklin Almanack, calculated on a new and improved plan for the Year of our Lord, 1821 search
- Watkins, Thomas G.; TJ’s account with search
- Watson, John (1760–1841); TJ’s debt to search
- wine; scuppernong search
- wine; sent to TJ search
- Wolfe, Joel; TJ pays search