Extract from Isaac Briggs’s Account of a Visit to Monticello
11 mo. 3–sixth day of the week |
His 77th year finds him strong, active and in full possession of a sound mind. He rides a trotting horse and sits on him as straight as a young man.
Published in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., Visitors to Monticello (1989), 90.
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November 3, 1820
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