Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Reuben Perry, 10 December 1813
Account with Reuben Perry
| Reuben Perry in acct with Th: Jefferson | |||||||
| £ | s | d | D | ||||
| Account for work on the house at Pop. For. | 63– | 4– | 7= | 210. | 76 | ||
| do for various jobs. | 11– | 11– | 0 | 38. | 50 | ||
| do for barn at Monticello. | 329. | 68 | |||||
| £ | s | d | |||||
| error in Griffin’s acct of 1807. formerly settled, now corrd | 11– | 18– | 4 | 39. | 72 | ||
| 618. | 66 | ||||||
| 1813. | By finding hands from Oct. 26. 12. to wit | ||||||
| Jesse Perry 12. days (13/6 pr week) | Hal & Mat 16. days (@ 10/ pr week) | ||||||
| £3– | 9– | 9= | 11. | 62 | |||
| May 8. | By acct smith’s work from J. A. Goodman 59/11 | 9. | 98 | ||||
| By 13 bush–1 peck corn furnd at Monticello @ 20/ | 8. | 83 | |||||
| By pd mrs Lewis for 124½ ℔ bacon @ 1/ £6–4–6 | 20. | 75 | |||||
| By the price of Jame Hubbard | 450. | ||||||
| By Isham Chisolm’s order | 50. | ||||||
| Balance due Reuben Perry | 67. | 48 | |||||
| 618. | 66 | ||||||
Dec. 10. 1813.
Settled and the balance of sixty seven Dollars and 48. cents acknoleged due to Reuben Perry
| Th: Jefferson |
| Reuben Perry |
MS (ViW: TC-JP); in TJ’s hand, signed by TJ and Perry; endorsed by TJ: “Perry Reuben Settlemt Dec. 10. 1813.”
Jeremiah A. Goodman supplied TJ with documents respectively giving the number of days worked by Mat and Hal and by jesse perry, and the value of the smith’s work performed by or for Goodman (MSS in ViW: TC-JP; in Goodman’s hand; with TJ’s summary of both documents on the verso of the latter). TJ settled his accounts with goodman on 12 May 1813 and Mary Walker lewis on 5 Oct. 1813, and he paid Isham Chisholm’s order on 24 Jan. 1814. He finally cleared the balance of his account with Perry early in November 1814 by drawing on Gibson & Jefferson for $75, noting on 4 Nov. that this “overpays our old balce. of 67.48 and it’s interest” (, 2:1288, 1293, 1297, 1304; TJ to Perry, 3 Nov. 1814).
Index Entries
- bacon search
- Chisholm, Isham; TJ pays search
- corn; TJ buys search
- food; bacon search
- Gibson, Patrick; payments made for TJ search
- Goodman, Jeremiah Augustus; Poplar Forest overseer search
- Griffin, Burgess; Poplar Forest overseer search
- Hal (laborer); paid for work search
- Hubbard, James (Jame) (TJ’s slave); sold by TJ search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with R. Perry search
- Lewis, Mary Walker (Nicholas Lewis’s wife); TJ pays search
- Mat (laborer); paid for work search
- Monticello (TJ’s estate); barn at search
- Perry, Jesse; paid for work search
- Perry, Reuben; account with search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); main house at search