Thomas Jefferson Papers

Peter B. Read to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1822

From Peter B. Read

Shadwell Mills 8th April 1822

Sir,

I shall start, to morrow morning to Buckingham after my tools, & will be back on thursday evening, will thank you to meet me at this place on Friday between ten & two Oclock, for the purpose of haveing a full understanding with each other respecting, your saw mill, & the repaires wanting on this

Very respectfully your most Oebt Sert

Peter. B. Read

RC (MHi); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Apr. 1822 and so recorded in SJL.

Peter B. Read, miller, is listed in the 1820 census as a resident of Buckingham County aged between twenty-six and forty-four. TJ employed him in 1822 to repair his sawmill and manufacturing mill at Shadwell (DNA: RG 29, CS, Buckingham Co., 1820; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1385, 1388, 1389; TJ to Thomas Eston Randolph, 10 Sept. 1822; Randolph to TJ, 18 Sept. 1822).

On 15 Apr. 1822 TJ recorded that “Peter B. Read begins on the mill work at 1.D. a day” (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1385).

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  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); sawmill at search
  • Read, Peter B.; as miller and millwright search
  • Read, Peter B.; identified search
  • Read, Peter B.; letters from search
  • sawmills; at Monticello search
  • Shadwell mills; repairs to search
  • tools; of millwrights search

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Peter B. Read to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1822
Author
Read, Peter B.
Recipient
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
8 April 1822

Reference

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“Peter B. Read to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1822,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-18-02-0287. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 18, 1 December 1821 to 15 September 1822, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, pp. 330–331.]

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