# William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, [14 March 1810] CITATION: “William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, [14 March 1810] URL (original): https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0240 URL (fetched, Wayback Machine capture): https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0240 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) ---- William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, [14 March 1810] From William D. Meriwether [14 Mar. 1810] Dear Sir Of the peach apricots only three were living, one of which I send to you, also three trees grafted on peach stock, the spring after that I received them, the kind uncertain I have called them the Bourdeaux apricot, because I think they most resemble them. I have only one Bourdeaux apricot living, and one French peach, therefore agreable to your directions have not disturbed them—We have a plenty of cuttings and I shall graft largely, and I am in hopes that I shall have a plenty for us boath an other year M r Dawson and myself gave a copy of our award the evening we saw you at shadwell to M r Alexander and we inclosed an other copy to you which M r Dawson was to leave with M r Turner or M r Vest his assistant in the store,—I do not recollect to have seen any mention of money due to you from Meriwether Lewis in his papers. John Markes has got his papers and memorandom book and when he returns from Richmond, I will inform him of the debt due to you, and request him to examine for a memorandon to that efect— Adu Your with Sincerity W D. Meriwether RC ( MHi ); undated; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Mar. 1810 and so recorded in SJL . Index Entries Alexander, Eli; TJ’s dispute with search apricots; trees search Dawson, Martin; and TJ’s dispute with E. Alexander search Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; claim against M. Lewis’s estate search Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; dispute with E. Alexander search Lego (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); and TJ’s lease dispute with E. Alexander search Lewis, Meriwether; TJ’s claim against estate of search Marks, John search Meriwether, William Douglas; and TJ’s dispute with E. Alexander search Meriwether, William Douglas; letters from search Meriwether, William Douglas; trees retrieved from search peaches; trees search Shadwell (TJ’s estate); dispute over lease of search trees; apricot search trees; peach search Turner, Fleming; document to be left with search Vest, Charles; document to be left with search Permanent Link What’s this? https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0240 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 William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, [14 March 1810] Author Meriwether, William D. Recipient Jefferson, Thomas Date 14 March 1810 Reference Cite as “William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, [14 March 1810],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0240. [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, p. 294.] More between these correspondents Preceding From Jefferson to Meriwether [14 March 1810] Next From Jefferson to Meriwether [21 August 1810] All All correspondence between Jefferson and Meriwether