Thomas Jefferson to James Lindsay, 14 June 1823
To James Lindsay
Monticello June 14. 23.
Dear Sir
I have duly recieved your favor of the 6th and have been truly thankful for the indulgence to my convenience which you have exercised hitherto, and which my unskilful management of my plantations and a series of disastrous years have made a real accomodation. age and debility have obliged me to relinquish the care of my own affairs and to put them entirely into the hands of my grandson Th: J. Randolph[.] he is now in Richmond attending the sale of some of my tobacco. on hi[s] return I will place your letter in his hands with an explanation of th[e] obligation I am under to press it on his earliest attention and means. and to him I must refer you to confer on the subject, and with the expression of my obligation to you I beg leave to assure you of my great esteem and respect.
Th: Jefferson
RC (ViHi); torn (with loss of frank); addressed: “Mr James Lindsay Lindsay’s store Albemarle”; postmarked.
James Lindsay (ca. 1773–1856), farmer, was a native Virginian and a nephew of TJ’s friend Reuben Lindsay. When he died in Louisa County he owned 463 acres of land and 65 slaves there, as well as 3,197 acres and 29 slaves in Albemarle County (DNA: RG 29, CS, Louisa Co., 1850; , 257; , 43:308; Richmond Daily Dispatch, 23 May 1856; Louisa Co. Will Book, 14:133–40, 159–63).
Lindsay’s favor of 6 June, not found, is recorded in SJL as received 8 June 1823. Lindsay was an executor of the estate of Joseph Brand, to which TJ owed $339.60 in principal and $238.43 in interest as of 1 July 1823 (Richmond Virginia Patriot, 6 Dec. 1814; , 2:1336; note to TJ to Mr. Brand, 12 June 1815; TJ’s List of Debts and Assets, 1 Apr. 1823).
Index Entries
- Brand, Joseph (d.1814); TJ’s debt to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to J. Brand search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; aging search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; debility search
- Lindsay, James; and J. Brand’s estate search
- Lindsay, James; identified search
- Lindsay, James; letter from accounted for search
- Lindsay, James; letter to search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); as manager of Monticello search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); sells tobacco search
- Richmond, Va.; TJ’s tobacco sold at search
- tobacco; in Richmond market search
- tobacco; sale of search