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Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales, 2 August 1822
Enclosure
Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales
Sales 5 Hogsheads leaf Tobacco by Bernard Peyton
for ℀ Mr Thos Jefferson
1822 Richd
2d August—To sundry persons for Cash 5 Hhds: Viz:
 1 |
No | 1=1900= | 130= | 1770 | |||||||||
| 〃 | 〃 | 3=1782= | 132= | 1650 | |||||||||
| 3420 | ℔s: | to Gray & Pankey | at | $7.20 | = | $246.24 | |||||||
| 〃 | 〃 | 5=1847= | 130= | 1717 | 〃 | to do. | at | 5.75 | — | 98.73 | |||
| Refused 2 | 〃 | 6=1476= | == | 1356 | 〃 | to Mr Brander | 〃 | 4.45 | — | 60.34 | |||
| Refused | 〃 | 7=1723= | == | 1590 | 3 | 〃 | to R. Anderson & Co | 〃 | 3.55 | — | 56.45 | ||
| $461.76 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Charges— | |||||||||||||
| To Cash pd freight 8083 ℔s: nett at 25¢ | $20.20 |  |
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| Do for notes at 50¢ | 2.50 | = | $22.70 | ||||||||||
| Canal toll do. at 2/6 $2.08 Drayage at 9d $0.63 | — | 2.71 | |||||||||||
| Commission at 2½ pr cent | 11.54 | $36.95 | |||||||||||
| Nett prcds: at Cr T Jefferson | — | $424.81 | |||||||||||
| E.E. | |||||||||||||
| Bernard Peyton | |
| By | N. N. Wilkinson |
MS (MHi); in N. N. Wilkinson’s hand, except as indicated below; with TJ’s notations on prices per pound near foot of text:
| “lowest | 3.55 |
| highest | 7.20 |
| average sale | 5.63 |
| average nett | 5.25” |
and TJ’s calculation of the average net price on verso:
| “8083| | 424.81 (5.25 |
| 40415 | |
| 20660 | |
| 16166 | |
| 44940”; |
e.e.: “Errors Excepted.”
1. The lower of the two abbreviations in this graphic stands for TJ’s Tomahawk plantation at Poplar Forest.
2. Reworked by Peyton from ditto marks, here and below.
3. Beneath this column TJ drew a rule, with the sum of 8,083 underneath it.
4. To the left of this sum TJ divided 5 into 28.15 to get 5.63.
Index Entries
- Brander, Mr. search
- Gray & Pankey (Richmond firm); buys TJ’s tobacco search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Richard Anderson & Company (Richmond firm) search
- Richmond, Va.; TJ’s tobacco sold at search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco prices at search
- tobacco; price of search
- tobacco; sale of search
- Tomahawk plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); tobacco grown at search
- Wilkinson, N. N.; as clerk for B. Peyton search