Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 28 May 1821
From Bernard Peyton
Richd 28 May 1821
Dear Sir,
I am favor’d with yours of the 23rd: & 25th inst: this morning, the latter covering $350, which is at your credit, and I have this day forwarded to Mr John Vaughan of Philadelphia a check from Farmers Bank for $300, as you directed, which is accompanied by your letter to him recd some time ago.
Before recg yours, had charged you, & given Messrs: Clark Cox & Co credit for the ½ Bll: scuppernon Wine ($15.50) shipd by order of Col Burton of N. Carolina, of which I immediately apprised them. The Cask has arrived in good order, & shall be forwarded by Johnson’s Boat the first time he is down.
I will also procure from Messrs: D. W & C Warwick, & forward by the first Boat, 3 Boxes Tin, such as were sent by those Gentlemen to the University, at $13 each.
None of your Flour is yet to hand, when it arrives, will dispose of it to the best advantage & render you ℀ sales by succeeding mail, any drafts you may draw in consequence, will be promptly honor’d. I am still without any information of the shipt your Tobacco from Lynchburg.
Bernard Peyton
| Flour $ | 3.62½ |  |
| Tobacco | 4½ @ 9– |
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 31 May 1821 and so recorded in SJL.
Index Entries
- building materials; tin search
- Burton, Hutchins Gordon; and scuppernong wine search
- Clark Cox & Company (N.C. firm) search
- D. W. & C. Warwick (Richmond firm); TJ buys tin from search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); orders on search
- flour; at Richmond search
- flour; transported to Richmond search
- Johnson, Mr. (boatman); transports goods search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and wine for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; forwards letters for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco prices at search
- scuppernong (wine) search
- tin; for University of Virginia search
- tin; TJ buys search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
- tobacco; price of in Richmond search
- tobacco; shipment of search
- Vaughan, John (1756–1841); account with TJ search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; building materials for search
- wine; scuppernong search