Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph (1741–1793)

New York July 25 1790

I have always believed it better to be settled on a small farm, just sufficient to furnish the table, and to leave one’s principal plantations free to pursue the single object of cropping without interruption.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 17:274–6.
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