Thomas Jefferson Papers

Account with Reuben Perry for Work on Main House at Poplar Forest, [ca. May 1813]

Account with Reuben Perry for Work on Main House at Poplar Forest

[ca. May 1813]

Mr Thomas Jefferson
In account with R. Perry
To 330 feet Double Jambs & face grounds @ 1/  £16. 10.
44 feet Single grounds @ 4d . 14.8
9 Chimney grounds @ 4/6 2.  0.6
156 feet base & Surbase grounds @ 6d 3. 18.0
76 feet grounds for Cornice @1 6d 1. 18
81 feet grounds for Cornce @2 9d 3.  0.9
165 feet 4I base & Surbase @ 6d 4.  2.6
188 feet grounds for Cornce @3 6d 4. 14
2 Cuddy & 2 trap doors @ 2/3 .  9.
12 Double work pannels @ 4/3 2. 11.
12 window Sill puting in @ 1/6 . 18.
132 feet 8I Cornce grounds @4 6d 3.  6.0
120 feet base & Surbase @ 6d 3.  0.
20 Curtain board @ 3d .  5.
4 feet ground @ 3d .  1.
£47.  8.5
for Board 15. 16.2
£63.  4.7

MS (ViW: TC-JP); written in Perry’s hand on one side of a single sheet, with penciled question and check marks in left margin in an unidentified and possibly later hand; undated, but compiled after TJ indicated that this work was not yet complete in a 6 May 1813 letter to Martha Jefferson Randolph and before TJ listed this debt in a 10 Dec. 1813 account with Perry; endorsed on verso by Perry as “Bill Mr Jeffersons Work” and by TJ as “Perry Reuben. acct work at Pop. For.”; attached at some point to a separate sheet containing Account with Reuben Perry, [ca. 28 Nov. 1811].

surbase: a border or molding just above the lower paneling of a wainscoted room; a chair rail (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ).

Perry’s letter to TJ of 4 Mar. 1813, received six days later from Lynchburg, and TJ’s reply of 26 Mar. 1813 are both recorded in SJL, but neither has been found.

1Perry here canceled “9d.”

2Perry here canceled “1/.”

3Perry here canceled “9d.”

4Perry here canceled “9d.”

Index Entries

  • building materials; door and window frames search
  • building materials; timber search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; Account with Reuben Perry for Work on the Main House at Poplar Forest search
  • Perry, Reuben; account with search
  • Perry, Reuben; letters from accounted for search
  • Perry, Reuben; letters to accounted for search
  • Perry, Reuben; TJ’s carpenter search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); main house at search