Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1823
From Bernard Peyton
Richd 21 July 1823
Dear Sir,
I am favor’d with yours of the 18th: current, & will forward, by tomorrow’s Mail, a Check to Messrs: Leroy Bayard & Co, for one hundred & twenty five $125 Dollars, to your credit, as requested—
I am this day receiving nine Hhd’s more of your Tobacco, which will be sold on Wednesday next, & you advised accordingly—
Bernard Peyton
Your Fish will be fordd tomorrow, by Wm Dabney’s Boat—not a Waggon have I yet been able to find, by which to send the Tin—
B.P.
RC (MHi); dateline beneath full signature; endorsed by TJ as received 24 July 1823 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with Dft of TJ to William B. Giles, 11 Sept. 1823, on verso; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 21 July.
A missing letter from Peyton to TJ of 24 July 1823, the address cover only of which has been found, is recorded in SJL as received 26 July 1823 from Richmond (RC in MHi; with Dft of TJ to John Wayles Eppes, 9 Sept. 1823, on verso; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 24 July).
Index Entries
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- building materials; tin search
- Dabney, William (alias William D. Statham; boatman) search
- fish; sent to TJ search
- food; fish search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- LeRoy, Bayard & Company (New York firm); and TJ’s debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst search
- N. & J. & R. van Staphorst (Amsterdam firm); TJ’s debt to search
- Peyton, Bernard; and fish for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from accounted for search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- Richmond, Va.; TJ’s tobacco sold at search
- Richmond, Va.; wagon carriage to and from search
- tin; TJ buys search
- tobacco; sale of search
- wagons; transport goods to and from Richmond search