Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) to Jeremiah A. Goodman
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01084 Author/Creator: Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Place Written: Monticello Type: Autograph document signed Date: 30 July 1817 Pagination: 2 p. 25 x 20 cm Order a Copy
One letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman dated July 30, 1817. Goodman was Jefferson's former plantation overseer at Poplar Forest. Item documents the cancellation of selling Sally, a three-year old enslaved child to Goodman.
Noted in the acquisition note that Sally was a 3-year-old daughter of Aggy, a woman enslaved by Goodman. Jefferson cancelled the sale so as to not separate the mother from her daughter.
Having at the date of a settlement of Nov. 30. 1815. with Jeremiah A. Goodman sold to him a negro girl called Sally for the sum of 150. Dollars, for which sum I was then allowed a credit in account, it is now agreed with the s[ai]d. Jeremiah that that sale shall be annulled; that the said negro girl Sally shall now become my property, and that I shall repay to him the said sum of 150 D. with interest thereon from the sd 30th of November 1815. until repaid; and also that I shall repay him the sum of fifteen Dollars allowed me in account on the 16th day of December 1816. for subsistence for the sd. girl with interest thereon from the sd 16th of Dec. 1816. until payment and that these payments of the sd. sums of 150 D. & of 15. D. with their respective interests shall be made in the month of May eighteen hundred and nineteen. Witness my hand this [strikeout] 30th day of July 1817.
Th: Jefferson
I agree to the above and have delivered up the deed for the negro girl who has always been in the possession of the sd. Thomas.
[Signed by Goodman:]
Jeremiah A. Goodman
[2]
[Jefferson's docket:]
Goodman Jeremiah A. 1817. July 30.
September the tenth day 1817
[in other hands]
I assign the benefit of the withinto John Lone Benjamin Whaler. Jeremiah A. Goodman
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Michael Johnson
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