Documentary History
of the Construction of the Buildings
at the University of Virginia, 1817-1828

Frank Edgar Grizzard, Jr.

Notes

431. Curtis Carter and John M. Perry, Agreement, 4 January 1821, ViU:PP.

432. Brockenbrough to Cabell, 26 January 1821, ViU:JCC.

433. See Phillips to Brockenbrough, 6 January, and Lowber to Brockenbrough, 18 January, in ViU:PP, and TJ to Perry, 21 January 1821, in DLC:TJ.

434. Brockenbrough to Cabell, 26 January 1821, ViU:JCC.

435. Cabell to Brockenbrough, 31 January 1821, ViU:JCC.

436. Cabell to TJ, 4 January 1821, ViU:TJ, and Cabell to TJ, 18 January 1821, ViU:JCC; see also Cabell, Early History of the University of Virginia, 194-95, 196-97.

437. Cabell to TJ, 25 January, 1821, ViU:JCC; see also ibid., 197-99.

438. TJ to Cabell, 31 January 1821, ViU:JCC; see also Cabell, Early History of the University of Virginia, 201-3.

439. TJ to Cabell, 31 January 1821, ViU:JCC; see also ibid., 201-3. "Partly because he was a long-term optimist, Jefferson was a notably patient man," wrote Dumas Malone, "but the Old Sachem, as Cabell called him, knew that his sands were running out and wanted to lose no time" (Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 365). Even the near approach of his 79th birthday could not force Jefferson, whom Edmund Bacon later called the "most industrious person I ever saw in my life," to enter into the expected rest of old age (Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, 84).

440. Cabell to TJ, 8 February 1821, ViU:JCC; see also ibid., 203-4.

441. See John Van Lew & Co. to Brockenbrough, 28 February and 5 March, and Loose Receipts, 13 and 19 March 1821, in ViU:PP.

442. John Pollock, Account, 16 March 1821 to 20 February 1822, ViU:PP.

443. See Warwick to Brockenbrough, 22 and 23 March, and Loose Receipt, 24 March 1821, all in ViU:PP.

444. See Lowber to Brockenbrough, 29 March 1821, in ViU:PP.

445. William Dawson & Co. to Brockenbrough, 24 March 1821, ViU:PP.

446. Maury to Brockenbrough, 25 March 1821, ViU:PP.

447. Pickering to Brockenbrough, 25 March 1821, ViU:PP.

448. Carter to Brockenbrough, 26 March 1821, ViU:PP.

449. Ware to Brockenbrough, 27 March 1821, ViU:PP.

450. Spooner to Brockenbrough, 28 March 1821, ViU:PP.

451. Spooner to Brockenbrough, 3 April 1821, ViU:PP.

452. Phillips to Brockenbrough, 29 March 1821, ViU:PP.

453. Blackburn to Brockenbrough, 30 March 1821, ViU:PP.

454. Crawford to Brockenbrough, 30 March 1821, ViU:PP. Malcom F. Crawford (b. 1794), said to have been born in Maine, and his partner Lyman Peck contracted for the carpentry work of twenty-seven dormitories on the west range. Crawford purchased building lots from James Dinsmore in 1822 and 1825 on West Main Street at the corners of 12th and 11th streets, and Peck lived in a rented house in the same area. Crawford and brickmason William B. Phillips built the Nelson County jail in 1823, the new Edgehill after the earlier house burned in 1828, and the courthouses of Caroline, Page, and Madison counties; Crawford later built the Spotsylvania and Rappahannock counties courthouses. Phillips and Crawford also are believed to have built for future university law professor John A. G. Davis in 1826 a Jeffersonian styled house in downtown Charlottesville that came to be called The Farm; the house, which is extant, served as the headquarters for Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer when General Philip Sheridan's Yankee troops moved into the city in 1865 (see Brickhouse, "The Farm," Virginia: The University of Virginia Alumni News, 84 (1995), 30-35). Christ Episcopal Church was built in 1824 on Crawford's downtown Charlottesville lot at the corner of 2d and High streets, and the following year Crawford married Amanda M. F. Craven, the daughter of James Dinsmore's Pen Park Mill partner, John H. Craven. See Lay, "Charlottesville's Architectural Legacy," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 46:48-49.

455. Peck & Crawford, Agreement for Carpentry, 10 August 1821, ViU:PP. In addition to doing the carpentry work for the west range dormitories, which cost the university $4,618.25, the firm of Peck & Crawford also put up some of the blocking courses at Pavilions I, II, IV, and VI, the steps at Hotel B, and the Chinese railings for the windows at Pavilions III, V, and VII; Crawford, who is identified as having hung a pair of doors at Hotel F for $8.16, earned $1,078.10 in his own name at the university between 2 July 1824 and 18 May 1829 (ViU:PP, Ledger 1).

456. Dinsmore to Brockenbrough, and Perry to Brockenbrough, 30 March 1821, ViU:PP.

457. Perry & Thorn to Brockenbrough, 30 March 1821, ViU:PP.

458. See Pitt to Brockenbrough, 30 March, in ViU:PP, and Alexander Garrett to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 8 September 1821, ViU:JCC.

459. Cosby to Brockenbrough, 31 March 1821, ViU:PP.

460. Cosby to Brockenbrough, 2 April 1821, ViU:PP.

461. Starke to Brockenbrough, 31 March 1821, ViU:PP.

462. Widderfield to TJ, 1 April 1821, ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, "Workmen at the University of Virginia," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 17:38.

463. Widderfield to Brockenbrough, 3 April 1821, ViU:PP.

464. Oldham to the Board of Visitors, 2 April 1821, ViU:PP.

465. Smith to TJ, 16 April 1821, ViU:PP.

466. Cocke to TJ, 31 March 1821, CSmH:TJ.

467. TJ to Cocke, 1 April 1821, ViU:JCC.

468. David Watson, delegate from Louisa and member of the Central College Board of Visitors, wrote in his Miscellaneous Memoranda, ca 1 April, that the act was passed "by our Assembly with much difficulty . . . At the last session of our Assembly, the University was authoris'd to borrow $60 thousand; estimated then to be sufficient to finish the buildings; & upon the application for more money, at this session, much discontent was manifested by the Members--the bill was rejected by one vote; & passed, on reconsideration, next day" (ViU:Watson Family Papers; see also appendix D).

469. Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 2 April 1821, PPAmP:UVA Minutes; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 20-21.

470. Ovid's counsel in the Metamorphoses was to stay the middle course for safety.

471. Johnson and Breckenridge to Cocke, 5 April 1821, ViU:JHC; see also Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 385-86.

472. TJ to Eppes, 8 April 1821, printed in Betts and Bear, Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, 438-39. Francis Wayles Eppes (b. 1794), who was the oldest child of John Wayles and Mary Jefferson Eppes and the inheritor of Poplar Forest, was at this time attending South Carolina College in Columbia. Jefferson's hopes that his grandson would finish his formal education were dashed in the fall of 1822 when Eppes married Mary Elizabeth Cleland Randolph, a fourth cousin and the daughter of Thomas Eston Randolph of Ashton in Albemarle County (see ibid., 10-13, 446-48).

473. TJ to Vaughan, 8 April 1821, PPAmP: Madeira-Vaughan Collection.

474. TJ to Cocke, 9 April 1821, ViU:JHC; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 20-21. Cocke's plantations kept him away from the university for the whole spring, and two months later he wrote to his James River colleague at Edgewood, "If you will come down in some short time I will go with you to the University and Monticello; for I feel that I have neglected my duties more than I ought to have done" (Cocke to Cabell, 23 June 1821, privately owned [1995]).

475. TJ to Appleton, 16 March, ViU:TJ, and TJ to Samuel Williams, 16 April 1821, in DLC:TJ; see also ibid., 21. For a list of the origins and sizes of the capitals intended for pavilions nos. II and III west, and I and IV east, see TJ's Specifications for Corinthian and Ionic Capitals, ca 16 April 1821, in ViU:TJ.

476. Appleton to TJ, 7 July 1821, DLC:TJ. Appleton also informed Jefferson that Giacomo Raggi's wife died "about three months Since [i.e., early April]; thus, the painful task of communicating this Distressing information to her husband must Devolve, of course, on yourself." Jefferson informed Raggi of his wife's death by letter on 3 October (ViU:TJ).

477. TJ to Patterson, 15 May 1821, DLC:TJ. John Patterson was married to Wilson Cary Nicholas' daughter Mary (see TJ to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 10 January 1809, in Betts and Bear, Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, 377-78).

478. George W. Spooner, Jr., Account with John M. Perry, 16 April to 6 November 1821, ViU:PP. The account shows that in August and November Spooner purchased another 5,090 feet of boards from Perry, including "525 feet first Rate flooring."

479. Dinsmore to Brockenbrough, 21 April 1821, ViU:PP. Dinsmore's account with Monroe shows that the carpenter previously had purchased 3,993 feet of lumber from the president's lands for $101.85 in October 1820 and January 1821. Another account between Dinsmore and Monroe, dated 23 April 1821 to 9 July 1822, shows that Dinsmore purchased another 3,165 feet of boards during that period.

480. See John Van Lew & Co. to Brockenbrough, 10, 17 April, 7, 18 June, and Loose Receipt, 19 April, 8 May, and 18 June 1821, all in ViU:PP.

481. See Page to Brockenbrough, 11 April, 22 May, 13 June, 30 July, 9 August, 6 September 1821, in ViU:PP.

482. See Thomas Brockenbrough to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough, 19 April, and Loose Receipt, 9 and 13 June, 14 July 1821, in ViU:PP.

483. Anderson to Brockenbrough, 24 April 1821, ViU:PP.

484. See D. W. & C. Warwick to Brockenbrough, 26 April, 31 July 1821, and Loose Receipt, 13 November 1820, 15 May 1821, in ViU:PP.

485. Blackford, Arthur & Co. to Brockenbrough, 14 May, 13, 22 June, and 13 August 1821, ViU:PP.

486. See Lowber to Brockenbrough, 28 April, 19 May, 14, 19, 26 July 1821, in ViU:PP.

487. See Andrew Smith to TJ, 16 April, in ViU:PP, and TJ to Brockenbrough, 20 April, in ViU:TJ, Smith to Brockenbrough, 1 and 30 May 1821, in ViU:PP,

488. See Smith to TJ, 16 April, in ViU:PP, TJ to Brockenbrough, 20 April, in ViU:TJ, Smith to Brockenbrough, 1, 30 May, 1, 2, 13 June, and 17 July, and Loose Receipts, 1, 7, 8, and 10 June 1821, in ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, "Workmen at the University of Virginia, Magazine of Albemarle County History, 17:39. The undated printed directions for making Roman Cement are also in ViU:PP.

489. See Peyton to Alexander Garrett, 23 April, Peyton's Account with the University of Virginia, 11 June 1821 to 29 August 1822, and Loose Receipt, 13 April 1821, all in ViU:PP.

490. Brockenbrough to Garrett, 7 July 1821, ViU:PP.

491. TJ to Randolph, 21 July 1821, DLC:TJ. On 8 September Bursar Alexander Garrett informed Senator Cabell that "Mr. Jefferson has just returned from Bedford & was at the University today pushing Brockenbrough about the settlement of the accounts Mr B. thinks he will be ready in a short time" (ViU:JCC).

492. See TJ to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 August, and Board of Visitors' Bond to the Literary Fund, 3 August 1821, in ViU:TJ. The bond actually was made for $900 less than the amount requested.

493. D. W. & C. Warwick to Brockenbrough, 31 July (two letters), and Loose Receipt, 31 July 1821, ViU:PP.

494. John Van Lew & Co. to Brockenbrough, 2 August 1821, ViU:PP. Brockenbrough & Harvie was more explicit in its letter to Brockenbrough of 18 September: "The end of the year is approaching and your funds are I suppose not very abundant We are very much in want of money and we must therefore beg the favor of you to settle our accounts for you know if your funds give out before they are paid that it may possibly never be paid--I hope you as a matter of favor as well as of justice settle this before that event arises. Will [you] be good enough to write and say when we may expect to receive the balance" (ViU:PP).

495. TJ to Rush, 14 August 1821, PHi:Society Small Collection.

496. Brockenbrough, Notice to Undertakers, 25 August 1821 (document G ), in Oldham vs University of Virginia, ViU:UVA Chronological File.

497. See Robert Gentry, Account for Hauling Rock, 21 August 1821 to 8 February 1822, John Neilson to Brockenbrough, 22 August, 27 October, Perry to Brockenbrough, 23 August, 5 September, Dinsmore to Brockenbrough, 8 September, R. & J. McCullock to Brockenbrough, 10 September 1821, all in ViU:PP. During the remainder of 1821, the only other local deliveries of materials were wagonloads of plank, sand, and lime, sent to John M. Perry (see Perry to Brockenbrough, 14, 20 November, 24 December 1821, in ViU:PP); plank for the "terris floor of pav. No. 3," delivered to Dinsmore & Perry (see Dinsmore & Perry to Brockenbrough, 17 December 1821, in ViU:PP); and 1,452 feet of lumber for James Oldham (see Oldham to James Black, 1 December 1821, in ViU:PP).

498. See John Van Lew & Co. to Brockenbrough, 20, 30 August, 4 September, 15 October, Blackford, Arthur & Co. to Brockenbrough, 1, 15 September, D. W. & C. Warwick to Brockenbrough, 6, 17, 26 September, 3, 4, 25 October 1821, all in ViU:PP. Out-of-town merchants made only three other sales to the university before the end of the year: Andrew Smith's November shipment of 4 casks of Roman Cement (see Charles Gardner to Brockenbrough, 6 September, and Smith to Brockenbrough, 10 November 1821, in ViU:PP); Alexander Galt's early December shipment from Norfolk of a bolt of copper and two barrels of rosin (see Galt to Brockenbrough, 4 December 1821, in ViU:PP); and John Van Lew & Co.'s late December shipment of hardware, oil, and 17 kegs of paint (see John Van Lew & Co. to Brockenbrough, 27 December 1821, in ViU:PP).

499. Alexander Garrett to John Hartwell Cocke, 9 October 1821, ViU:JHC.

500. TJ to the Board of Visitors, 30 September 1821, DLC:TJ.

501. Alexander Garrett to Cocke, 9 October 1821, ViU:JHC.

502. Garrett to Cocke, 9 October 1821, ViU:JHC.

503. TJ to the Board of Visitors, 30 September 1821, DLC:TJ.

504. TJ, View of the Expenses & Funds, 30 September 1821, ViU:TJ.

505. TJ to James Madison, 30 October 1821, DLC:JM.

506. See James Glasgow to Brockenbrough, 24 March, William Thackara and Edward Evans to Brockenbrough, 23 April, Brockenbrough to William Thackara and Edward Evans, Queries Regarding Plastering Prices, ca 1821, and Edward Evans, Philadelphia Prices of Plastering, ca 1821, in ViU:PP.

507. See Oldham's Account, October 1821 (document C ), and TJ to Oldham, 2 November 1821 (document E ), in Oldham vs University of Virginia, ViU:UVA Chronological File, and TJ to Brockenbrough, 2, 3 November 1821, in ViU:PP; Brockenbrough to Oldham, 5 November (document F ), in Oldham vs University of Virginia, ViU:UVA Chronological File; see also O'Neal, "Workmen at the University of Virginia," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 17:39.

508. See Johnson and Breckenridge to John Hartwell Cocke, 5 April 1821, ViU:JHC. Actually, by December, Johnson was the "only doubtful member on that head" (see TJ to Breckenridge, 9 December 1821, in ViU:TJ).

509. Cabell to TJ, 21 November 1821, ViU:TJ.

510. Cabell to Cocke, 21 November 1821, ViU:JCC.

511. TJ to Short, 24 November 1821, printed in Whitman, Jefferson's Letters, 362-63.

512. Brockenbrough to the Rector and Board of Visitors, 26 November 1821, printed in Report and Documents Respecting the University of Virginia (Richmond, 1821), 32; a copy is in ViU:JHC.

513. Cocke to Cabell, 8 December 1821, ViU:JCC; see also Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 388.

514. Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 30 November 1821, PPAmP:UVA Minutes; see also Cabell, Early History of the University of Virginia, 465-70. Literary Fund President Thomas Mann Ranolph, Jr., on 3 December forwarded the visitors' report to the House of Delegates, which published it under the title of Report and Documents Respecting the University of Virginia (Richmond, 1821); a copy is in ViU:JHC.