Charlottesville Central Gazette Advertisement Warning Off Monticello Trespassers, 24 Mar. 1827
My time of life my affairs being much embarressed & my health precarious all admonish of the necessity & propriety of makeing & publishing my last will and testament which I do by these presents revoking all former wills. I vest in my sons Robert Carter Wilson Cary & John Smith...
Thomas Cooper’s Letter to the Editor of a Columbia, South Carolina, Newspaper about Subscription Funds for Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 24 July 1826]
Mr. Editor.—I find, much to my surprize and regret, that a proposal has been started to convert the intended donation to Mr. Jefferson, into a monument to his memory. This appears to me an indirect way, of putting an end to the subscriptions originally intended to free Mr. J. and his family from...
Thomas Cooper to John Vaughan, 24 July 1826, enclosing Letter to the Editor of a Columbia, South Carolina, Newspaper about Subscription Funds for Thomas Jefferson
I am persuaded that whatever objections you may have had to Mr Jefferson’s politics, you think of him as I do of Mr J. Adams; that this country is more indebted for its independance to those two men than to any other, save perhaps General Washington. Mrs Randolph is left with eleven Children. I...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 12 June 1823]
The floor of the portico is ript up and the red dirt in it all loosened and partly thrown out. Gormon says that he can do nothing without Thrimston and that it will take him still a week. if it is possible to spare him so long for pity sake let him remain, as we shall all be mired in the very...
Albemarle County Court, Virginia, Appointment of Appraisers of Thomas Jefferson’s Estate, 7 Aug. 1826
At a court held for Albemarle County the 7th day of August 1826 On the motion of Thomas J Randolph executor of Thomas Jefferson deceased, John M Perry, Richard Duke, Reuben Linsday John H Craven and Martin Dawson or any three of them being first sworn are appointed to appraise the estate of said...
Admission of TJ’s Will to Probate and Appointment of Appraisers, 7 Aug. 1826
The last Will and Testament of Thomas Jefferson deceased was produced into Court & the hand writing of the deceased proved by the Oath of Valentine W Southall & Ordered to be recorded, And On the Motion of Thomas J Randolph Executor therein named letters testamentary are granted him on...
Printed Bill of Sale for Purchase of Slaves from Thomas Jefferson’s Estate, [1827–1829]
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Thomas J. Randolph, Executor of Thomas Jefferson, deceased, for and in consideration of the sum ofdollars, the payment whereof to me, as Executor aforesaid, is duly secured byofbefore the sealing and delivery of these presents, have bargained and sold, and,...
Promissory Note from Sydney R. Pellet and Ira Pellet for Purchase of Moses Gillette from Executors of Thomas Jefferson’s Estate, 1 Jan. 1829
$545 On or before the first day of January 1830. We Sydney R Pellet & Ira Pellet of Albemarle county, Virginia, promise to pay or cause to be paid unto THOMAS J. RANDOLPH, Executor of Thomas Jefferson, dec. his heirs or assigns, the just and full sum of Five hundred and forty five dollars...
Account of Sale of Slaves from Thomas Jefferson's Estate, 1 Jan. 1829
An acct of sales of negroes of the Est of Thomas Jefferson 1st Jan. 1829.
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