| Author:
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Prentis, David
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| Abstract:
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Has seen account of threshing machine [Jefferson] has which was made in Scotland; asks if it was imported or made here from model; came from Scotland where he was a threshing-machine-maker; is now making Meikle's Scotch machines; asks help in giving machine publicity; other machines should be used here: Cartright's three-furrow plow, Ducket's trenching plow, Cook's drill, Scotch turnip drill; wheel carriages improved by greater number of wheels. |
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Issued Date:
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1806-03-22 |
| Subjects:
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence
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| URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10288/14935
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| Citation:
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Tucker-Coleman Papers: Series 2 Thomas Jefferson Correspondence, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. |
