Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to the President and Directors of the Richmond Branch of the Bank of the United States, 15 January 1823

Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to the President and Directors of the Richmond Branch of the Bank of the United States

Richmond Jany 15 1823

Gentlemen

We are about to make arrangements for the discharge of the debt of W. C Nicholas, decd to your Bank for $20,000. accrued by Th Jefferson and Th. J. Randolph. in the following manner. viz. an1 amt exceeding one fourth of the principal. to be paid in a few days, a sum not less than two fourth more to be paid in December 1823. the remaining fourth to be discharged in december 1824. The interest which is now due it may be desirable to have put upon the footing of a negotiable note.—we ask your approbation & assent2 of the times & sums proposed to be paid

respectfully

Th: J. Randolph for
himself and for

Th. Jefferson

RC (ViU: TJP); entirely in Randolph’s hand; between dateline and salutation: “To The President & directors of the office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the U. States Richmond”; addressed: “The President & Directors of the Bank of the U.S. Richmond.” Not recorded in SJL.

A missing letter from Thomas Jefferson Randolph to TJ, 16 Jan. 1823, is recorded in SJL as received 21 Jan. 1823 from Richmond.

1. Manuscript: “and.”

2. Preceding two words interlined.

Index Entries

Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search
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Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bond with W. C. Nicholas and T. J. Randolph search
Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Bond of Wilson Cary Nicholas, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph to the Second Bank of the United States search
Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); bond with TJ and T. J. Randolph search
Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); estate of search
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and W. C. Nicholas’s estate search
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letter from, to the President and Directors of the Richmond Branch of the Bank of the United States search
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letters from accounted for search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to the President and Directors of the Richmond Branch of the Bank of the United States, 15 January 1823
Authors: Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: President and Directors of the Richmond branch of the Bank of the United States
Date: 15 January 1823

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to the President and Directors of the Richmond Branch of the Bank of the United States, 15 January 1823,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-19-02-0222. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 19, 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 300.]