N. N. Wilkinson (for Bernard Peyton) to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1822, with Jefferson’s Notes
From N. N. Wilkinson (for Bernard Peyton), with Jefferson’s Notes
Richmond July 3d 1822
Dr sr
By Mr Harlow’s boats you will receive, 4 Blls. herrings, 2 Bundles 20d nail rods 2 do. 8d & 61 Bundles of the sizes between making in all 10 Bundles—if delivered in good order pay frght: as customary—
Your Obd: Sevt
| B Peyton | |
| By | N. N. Wilkinson |
P.S. I could find no Shad but those with heads on, I therefore bought none—
[Notes by TJ on verso:]
| ℔ | ||
| 100 XXd | 4 000 | |
| 100. VIII | 10,000 | |
| 300 X to XVI. | 19,000 | |
| the dam will take | 2,400 |
| June 20. 22. | I asked | |
| 2. bundles | 8d | |
| 2 | 20d | |
| 6. intermediate | ||
RC (MHi); entirely in Wilkinson’s hand; notes and an additional evidently unrelated calculation in TJ’s hand on verso; postscript adjacent to closing and signatures; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson Monticello pr Mr Harlow”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Peyton received 15 July 1822 and so recorded in SJL.
1. Reworked from “3.”
Index Entries
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- building materials; nails search
- dams; on Rivanna River search
- fish; herring search
- fish; shad search
- food; herring search
- food; shad search
- Harlow, Brice; boats of search
- Harlow, Brice; delivers letter search
- herring; sent to TJ search
- naileries; nail-rod and iron stock search
- nails; as building material search
- Peyton, Bernard; and fish for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and nail-rod for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- Rivanna River; dams on search
- shad; TJ orders search
- Shadwell mills; dam at search
- Wilkinson, N. N.; as clerk for B. Peyton search
- Wilkinson, N. N.; letter from search