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class="search-result-index">1</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=1"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from Perkins, Buchanan & Brown, 2 October 1769</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>Having entered into some engagements with our worthy Friend Mr: Thos. Adams for Mr: Jordan by...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">2</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=2"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Nelson, Sr., 6 March 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>I was extremely concerned to hear of your Loss the account of which had reached us some time ago....</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">3</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=3"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Nelson, Jr., 6 March 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>I just received your melancholy account of the Loss you have sustaind, and have only time, (the...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">4</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=4"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 6 March 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>I have heard of your Loss [and] heartily condole with you, but am much pleased with the...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">5</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=5"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 9 March 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>I send you some nectarine and apricot graffs and grapevines, the best I had; and have directed...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">6</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=6"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 28 March 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>I am disappointed hitherto in every attempt to get ordained. The Commissary wrote against me in...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">7</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=7"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, Jr., April 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>When you were at Col. Lewis’s my Heart was with you, but something more than a Punctillio, for it...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">8</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=8"><span>Commission as Lieutenant of Albemarle, 9 June 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>HIS EXCELLENCY The Right Honourable Norborne Baron de Botetourt , his Majesty’s Lieutenant and...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">9</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22&s=1111311111&r=9"><span>To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Jordan, with Jefferson’s Notes, 7 August 1770</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Jefferson Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>I some time Since received a letter from Colo. 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