# Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 14 March 1810 CITATION: “Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 14 March 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0239. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , Retirement Series, vol. 2, 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810 , ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 293–294.] URL (original): https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0239 URL (fetched, Wayback Machine capture): https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0239 DATE FETCHED: 2026-09-14 TRANSCRIPTION: scholarly edition text (Princeton, Papers of Thomas Jefferson / Madison Papers, as published on Founders Online); text below is verbatim from the fetched page, including the editors' source note and footnotes. Superscripts are flattened by the HTML-to-text conversion (e.g. 'Oct r' = Oct^r, '11 th' = 11^th). ---- VERBATIM TEXT (Founders Online page) ---- Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 14 March 1810 To William D. Meriwether Monticello Mar. 14. 10. Dear Sir The bearer now comes for the trees you have taken care of for me, that is to say, my half of them. where there is only a single one of a kind, do not risk the taking it up. a graft from it another year will do as well for me. be so good as to have the roots of those sent well wrapt in straw to keep the cold air from them. I have some claim on Governor Lewis’s estate for monies furnished him some time before he set out on his Western expedition. I do not recollect it’s amount, having never looked into it since that time but I have a loose idea of somewhere about 100.D. I have no doubt you will find it stated among his papers. I mention it at present merely for your information, and leave it to the convenience of the estate. I am D r Sir Your’s affectionately Th: Jefferson PoC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Cap t W. D. Meriwether”; endorsed by TJ. On 24 Nov. 1807 TJ sent Meriwether from Washington, D.C., “according to our arrangement,” six Italian peach apricot trees , two Bordeaux apricot trees, two French peach trees, and about one hundred pecans for planting ( MHi ). On 23 June 1803 Meriwether Lewis gave TJ a promissory note for $103.93 for monies furnished him . On his copy TJ later noted that, after taking both interest and the disbursements made for him into account, Lewis owed him $108.04 as of 1 Aug. 1807 ( MHi ). Index Entries apricots; trees search food; pecans search Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; claim against M. Lewis’s estate search Lewis, Meriwether; TJ’s claim against estate of search Meriwether, William Douglas; letters to search Meriwether, William Douglas; trees retrieved from search nuts; pecan search peaches; trees search pecans; TJ sends seeds search trees; apricot search trees; peach search Permanent Link What’s this? https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0239 Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Back to top You Are Looking At Source Project Jefferson Papers Title Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 14 March 1810 Author Jefferson, Thomas Recipient Meriwether, William D. Date 14 March 1810 Reference Cite as “Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 14 March 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0239. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , Retirement Series, vol. 2, 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810 , ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 293–294.] More between these correspondents Preceding From Meriwether to Jefferson [7 March 1810] Next From Meriwether to Jefferson [14 March 1810] All All correspondence between Meriwether and Jefferson