Jefferson and Monticello (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Jefferson and MonticelloPeter Jefferson's friend in this enterprise was Wil liam Randolph, proprietor of Tuckahoe on the upper James. They staked adjacent claims, on opposite sides of the river, Jefferson's for one thousand acres and Randolph's for more than two thousand acres. When Jefferson came to select a site for his house his friend Randolph was so eager to have him on his side Of'the river that he gave him four hundred acres Off his tract, which he had named Edgehill. Legal conveyance re quired a consideration and the old deed shows that in this case the consideration Was Henry Weather bourne's biggest bowl of arrack punch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.