Fine and Previously Unknown Thomas Jefferson Free Frank As President

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Bowling Clark was Jefferson’s overseer at Monticello in 1786–87. He lived in Bedford County by about 1788 and served as Jefferson’s overseer at Poplar Forest from 1789–1801. Jefferson described him as “an honest & judicious man.” In 1801 Clark moved to Campbell County, where he was a farmer and horse breeder, but...

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Fine and Previously Unknown Thomas Jefferson Free Frank As President

Bowling Clark was Jefferson’s overseer at Monticello in 1786–87. He lived in Bedford County by about 1788 and served as Jefferson’s overseer at Poplar Forest from 1789–1801. Jefferson described him as “an honest & judicious man.” In 1801 Clark moved to Campbell County, where he was a farmer and horse breeder, but correspondence between the two indicates that Clark was assisting Jefferson with projects or information for Poplar Forest until at least 1814. The Clarks and Jeffersons had known each other for decades, a relationship going back to Bowling’s grandfather Capt. Christopher Clark and Thomas’s father Peter Jefferson. Bowling’s father Micajah Clark was a close neighbor of Thomas Jefferson, had acted as Jefferson’s surveyor and laid out some of his land.

Autograph document signed, a full sheet addressed in Jefferson’s hand to “Mr. Bowling Clarke, Campbell County”, franked by him “Free, T. Jefferson, Pres. U.S.,” and with remnants of the original seal.

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