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Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William & Reuben Mitchell, [ca. 31 December 1813]

Account with William & Reuben Mitchell

[ca. 31 Dec. 1813]

M. Thomas Jefferson

In a/c with W. & R. Mitchell Dr

1813
May		To Flour over drawn equeal 6¾ bus. Wheat					7/6	$8.43
〃		To Extra on	141 Barrels Flour				3/.	70.50
Decr	31	To Carriage	44	Bbls	Flour	to Richmond	2/.	14.67
	〃	To ditto	40	〃	〃	〃	〃	13.33
	〃	To ditto	42	〃	〃	〃	〃	14.00

	〃	To ditto	241	〃	〃	〃	〃	8.00
	〃	To Provisions furnished Boatmen						33.29
	〃	To 2^{³³⁄₆₀} Wheat over drawn						1.70
	〃	To Extra on 1262 Barrels Flour					3/.	63.00
			Due W. & R. Mitchell					$226.923

Errs Excepted

W. & R. Mitchell

MS (ViU: TJP-ER); in the hand of a representative of William & Reuben Mitchell and endorsed by him on verso as “A/c M. Jefferson to W. & R. Mitchell”; endorsed by TJ: “Mitchells Messrs account of wheat & flour of 1813.

viz. bush		Bar.
827–57	=	126.	SF
		25.	F
		151	.”

TJ obtained the information given in his endorsement above from an undated “Statement of Mr Jeffersons wheat a/c; crop of 1813,” which additionally breaks down each shipment to Richmond into fine and superfine flour and notes that one hundred and fifty barrels of flour had been sent to Richmond and one barrel of superfine flour to Poplar Forest (MS in ViU: TJP-ER; in the hand of a representative of William & Reuben Mitchell and endorsed by him as “Mr Jeffersons Wheat crop 1813”).

On the verso of an undated list of wheat deliveries to William & Reuben Mitchell, TJ noted by way of summary that his “wheat of 1812. 780–45 b.,” the equivalent, he claimed, of 141 barrels flour, had been “delivd spring of 1813” (MS in ViU: TJP-ER; in the hand of a representative of William & Reuben Mitchell, with notation by TJ; endorsed by TJ: “Mitchells”).

1. Below and to the right of this column, TJ recorded the total of the four preceeding lines as “150. Bar.”

2. Below this column in an unidentified hand is the sum “267,” the total number of barrels in the two “To Extra” entries.

3. In the margin to the right of this column an unidentified person broke most of this sum down into “83.29,” the total transportation costs (carriage plus provisions), and “133.50,” the amount due from the two “To Extra” entries.

Index Entries

boats; transfer goods to and from Richmond search
flour; from Poplar Forest search
flour; transported to Richmond search
Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with W. & R. Mitchell search
Mitchell, William & Reuben (Lynchburg firm); account with TJ search
Mitchell, William & Reuben (Lynchburg firm); TJ’s transactions with search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); flour from search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); wheat grown at search
Richmond, Va.; boats transfer goods to and from search
Richmond, Va.; flour shipped to search
wheat; at Poplar Forest search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William & Reuben Mitchell, [ca. 31 December 1813]
Author: Mitchell, William & Reuben (Lynchburg firm)
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 31 December 1813

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William & Reuben Mitchell, [ca. 31 December 1813],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0048. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 7, 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 94–95.]

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