Your letter was received this morning. You must certainly be mistaken when you state having loaned me many years since at Washington a Book on neutral rights—I have no such book in my library at home and have never either seen or read the work you mention—although not very particular in other...
A difficulty having been raised in the payment to me of a sum of between $26 & 2700 which I had been lead to to expect with perfect certainty to day and this difficulty as I believe raised with a view to extort from me an usurious deduction I am unable to pay in full my note of $5000 due at...
A requisition was made on me by your board some short time since to pay on the 5th of July next $2000 of the debt which I owe to your bank on acct of my fathers and grand fathers estates. In consequence of the bonds for the sale of the property falling due on the first of January next and the...
The bearer hereof Peter Marks a coloured man late the property of James Monroe deceased late President of the United States has been liberated & set free by at Mr Monroes dying request by his executor Samuel L Gouverneur of the City of New York & by Mrs E K Hay one of Mr Monroes daughters...
Know All Men by these presents, that I Cornelia J. Randolph of the City of Washington for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to me in hand paid by Alfred Mordecai, of the City of Washington at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, (the receipt...
In case of my death before my return from Europe, for which voyage I am about to depart, it is my wish that Eugenia a mulatto female slave whom I purchased from Miss Cornelia Randolph shall be manumitted, & I request that my representatives will, in such event, duly regard & execute this...
Eugenia is a slave formerly my property & purchased from me by Capt. Mordicai two years ago. She informs me that you requested I should write the above certificate.
Eugenia, a yellow woman, the wife of Peter Marks, is known by the subscriber to be the property of Capt. A. Mordecai, of the U.S. Army, and it is believed from arrangements made by Capt. M. when last on here, and from conversation with him, that he wishes the Woman to join him in Philadelphia.
The bearer Euginia, described in the Bill of sale of Cornelia J. Randolph to A. Mordecai in the possession of her Husband Peter Marks a Couloured Man has the pass of her Master to join him at Frankfort Penn which with the bill of sale were sent to him to be put in her possession. The woman has an...
Eugenia marks has lived with me, as housekeeper & cook for nearly five years, & I recommend her in the strongest terms, as capable, honest, industrious & good tempered—
Peter marks has been in my service for nearly five years—he is perfectly honest & good tempered, & an accomplished house servant. Understands also the care of horses & is a good driver—
I have received your letter of the 25th inst: addressed to “The Honble Geo: W Randolph” and requesting permission to publish in your circular my letter of July 3rd to Mr Randall. You probably mistake me for my elder brother who edited the correspondence of Mr Jefferson and was in public life at...
Your note of the 17th was duly received and incessant occupation must be my excuse for not answering it sooner. There is not one of Mrs Jefferson’s numerous descendents who has a paper bearing the stroke of her pen. The nearest thing to it is the label on a paper containing a golden curl from the...
Your letter of the 3d was received to-day and I hasten to write and thank you for sending me the enclosed slips containing a copy of my great-grandmothers letter. I am afraid from Mrs Smith’s letter that neither “love nor money” could ever get the original from her for you. There is just a bare...
I am sending you the Papers in reference to my Mother and Father as I told you I would I have been very sick for the last six weeks or I would of sent them sooner Hopeing you may be successfull in placing them and the articles I gave you where they will be taken care of