Isaac Jefferson: Memoirs of a Monticello Slave
The Memoirs of Isaac Jefferson begin, “Life of Isaac Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia, Blacksmith, containing a full and faithful account of Monticello and the family there, with notices of the many distinguished characters that visited there, with his Revolutionary experience and travels, adventures, observations and opinions, the whole taken down from his own words.”

Page 4. “”After one year the government was moved from Williamsburg to Richmond. Mr. Jefferson moved there with his servants”

Page 5. “The day before the British came to Richmond (the Arnold), Mr. Jefferson sent off his family in the carriage”

Page 6. “The soldiers at Richmond, in the camp at Bacon Quarter Branch would come every two or three days to salute the Governer at the Palace”

Page 7. “When the British come in, an officer rode up and asked, ‘Where’s the Governor?’ Isaac’s father told him: ‘He’s gone to the mountains'”

Page 9. “General Washington brought all Mr. Jefferson’s folks and about twenty of Tuckahoe Tom’s (Tom Mann Randolph’s) back to Richmond with him”

Page 10. “Old master [Thomas Jefferson] was never seen to come out before breakfast–about 8 o’clock”

Page 14. “Isaac carried on the tin-business two years: it failed. He then carried on the nail-business at Monticello seven years: made money at that”

Page. 15. “Isaac wanted Mr. Giles to marry Miss. Polly. Arthur always said, he was a mighty fine man”

Page 19. “Mr. Jefferson had a large park at Monticello: built in a sort of a flat on the side of the mountain”