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Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account for Flour Sales, 5 January 1821

Enclosure

Account for Flour Sales

Sales 51 Blls: super, 10 fine, & 3 x midlings Flour by B. Peyton
for ℀ Mr Thos Jefferson
1821 Rich’d
5 Januy To  Lewis Ludlum for Cash in store
51 Blls: super fine Flour at $3. 37½ $172. 12
10  do fine    do 〃 3. 12½ 31. 25
 3  do x midlings  do 〃 2. 25 6. 75
$210. 12
Charges
Cash paid on ℀ freight $6. 00
Canal Toll $6.67. Drayage $1.38 8. 05
storage $5.12—Inspection $1.28 6. 40
Commission at 2½ pr Ct on $210.12 5. 25       $ 25. 70
Nett proceeds at Cr Mr T. Jefferson $184. 42

MS (MHi); in Peyton’s hand; with covering letter subjoined; calculations by TJ at foot of text:

“64. 184.42 (2.88
128
 564
 512
 522.”

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account for Flour Sales, 5 January 1821
Author
Peyton, Bernard
Recipient
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
5–8 January 1821

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“Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account for Flour Sales, 5 January 1821,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-16-02-0435-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 16, 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 526–527.]

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