to buy back the house ...

and this money was intrusted to a young relative of the Jeffersons' to convey to Charlottesville.

Traveling in the stagecoach with the young man was Captain Uriah P.Levy, to whom he confided his mission.

The young man became intoxicated and dallied, but Captain Levy hastened on to Charlottesville, and purchased Monticello for two thousand five hundred dollars.

The next day the repentant and sober young man arrived and besought Captain Levy to take the three thousand dollars ...