Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 October 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monticello Oct. 12. 23.
Dear Sir
I drew on you, as I had advised you on the 9th for 200.D. in the evening of the same day I recieved yours of the 6th by which I saw how much you were in advance for me, and was truly mortified to be called on the next day by the sheriff for my taxes here 113. D 12 c and had no resource but to draw on you. our flour has been lying in the mill near 2. months, and unluckily at the only tide we have had since Jefferson1 was in Bedford, and the man he had agreed with to attend with 3. boats on the first tide disappointed us. he assures me it shall go with the first tide. in the mean time the Sheriff of Bedford may come on us unless the overseer there should be able to answer him from his plantation means. I2 have lost here 10.M. plants of tobo out of a crop of 80,000 plants, and in Bedford 45,000, out of 300.M. but they were the latest and most indifferent, the best having been cut & secured before the frost. ever and affectionately yours.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of a reused address cover from Thomas Appleton to TJ; at foot of text: “Colo Peyton”; endorsed by TJ.
Albemarle County sheriff Achilles Douglass called on TJ for his taxes. jefferson: Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The boatman who disappointed TJ was a Mr. Lane (see TJ to Peyton, 28 Dec. 1823). The overseer at Poplar Forest was William Gough.
1. Word inadvertently canceled.
2. Word interlined in place of “we.”
Index Entries
- Albemarle County, Va.; sheriff of search
- Bedford County, Va.; sheriff of search
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Douglass, Achilles; as Albemarle Co. sheriff search
- Gough, William; as Poplar Forest overseer search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; pays taxes search
- Lane, Mr. (boatman) search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); frost damage search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); tobacco crop at search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); T. J. Randolph visits search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); taxes on search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); visits Poplar Forest search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- Shadwell mills; flour from search
- taxes; collection of search
- taxes; TJ pays search
- tobacco; effect of weather on search
- weather; frost search