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Thomas Jefferson
Recommendation for Abiah B. Thorn
The bearer Abia Thorn, of Phila a bricklayer by trade has done much of the brickwork of the
University of Virginia, and besides some of the other buildings of the best workmanship
himself and partner executed the walls of the principal edifice the Rotunda, than which I
believe more beautiful and faithful work has never been done in any country. he is moreover
sober, industrious perfectly correct in his habits and conduct of entire probity & worth, and
as such I recommend him for any employ he may sollicit.
Th: J.
ADftS, DLC:TJ, 1p, with TJ docket "Thorn Abia." Jefferson made this draft on a coversheet
with a mutilated address in the writing of James Madison, postmarked "Orange C. H. Mar
30th."
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