Thomas Jefferson Free Frank As President, Sent to Fellow Inventor and Farmer Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore was an inventor and agriculturalist who worked as chief engineer on a number of public works projects, including the James River and Kanawa Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1806 President Thomas Jefferson chose Moore as one of three commissioners for the construction of the National Road from...
Thomas Moore was an inventor and agriculturalist who worked as chief engineer on a number of public works projects, including the James River and Kanawa Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1806 President Thomas Jefferson chose Moore as one of three commissioners for the construction of the National Road from Baltimore to Ohio, the Cumberland Road. This was the first Federal road project, and did much to open up what was then the American West to settlement. The preliminary report was published in December of 1806.
Free Frank signed, as President, October, no year but likely 1806. Jefferson has signed and addressed the piece. "Free Th: Jefferson Pr. US [President of the United States]. Mr Thomas Moore. Near Brookville."
During his Presidency, Jefferson corresponded on more than one occasion from Spring through late Autumn of 1806 on the subject of the Cumberland Road project.
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