Thomas Jefferson Papers

Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1823

From Bernard Peyton

Richd 19 June 1823

Dear Sir,

I was favor’d with yours of the 13th current, last evening, & immediately paid Mr Rawlings $89.77, in full of your dft:, on me, in his favor—

I have never failed to pay Mr Ritchie whatever claims he presented against you, and recollect distinctly paying him $7.50, for six Volumes of sessions Acts, on 23d Augst 1822, which you will find in your ℀ of that date, I was not apprised that you were due him any thing further—at all events, he has never applied to me for payt your ℀, & when he does, I will discharge it—

Jefferson will inform you that your Bedford crop of Tobacco is not all down yet, up to this time I have only recd 16 Hhds: of it—I expect to sell ten of them on Monday next—

With great respect Dr sir Yours very Truly

Bernard Peyton

RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 22 June 1823 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with FC of TJ to Thomas Appleton, 9 Oct. 1823, on verso; addressed: “Mr Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 19 June.

jefferson: Thomas Jefferson Randolph.

Index Entries

  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; subscriptions search
  • law; books on search
  • Mutual Assurance Society; and TJ’s insurance search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
  • Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
  • Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
  • Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); as manager of Poplar Forest search
  • Rawlings, James; and Mutual Assurance Society search
  • Ritchie, Thomas; and works for TJ search
  • Ritchie, Thomas; as editor ofRichmond Enquirer search
  • subscriptions, for publications; legal search
  • tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
  • tobacco; sale of search
  • tobacco; transported to Richmond search
  • Virginia; laws of search