Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Expenses, 9 March 1809
Notes on Expenses
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1809. Mar. 9. | Balance at the bank in favor of Th: Jefferson | 2291. | 77½ | ||||
a warrant from the Treasury | 1148. | ||||||
3439. | 77½1 | ||||||
Th:J. proposes to draw as follows | |||||||
J. Barnes | 1000. | ||||||
Lemaire about | 768. | 842 | |||||
I. A. Coles | 140 | ||||||
Jos. Milligan | 152. | 93 | |||||
John Cox | 22. | 503 | |||||
Peter Lenox | 16. | 4 | |||||
Levi Lincoln | 45. | 625 | |||||
Jones & Howell | 273. | ||||||
C. W. Peale | 150. | 6 | |||||
Jos. Dougherty about | 74. | 277 | |||||
ThJ. about | 466. | 298 | |||||
3169. | 45 | 3169. | 45 | ||||
leaves balance in favr ThJ. | 330. | 32 | |||||
Mr Madison will pay at his convenience for ThJ. | 735. | ||||||
and Th:J. will remain indebted on his own acct | 2934 | 3669. | 68 | ||||
but will give his note for the whole | 3669. | ||||||
instead of his present note for | 4000. |
MS (CSmH: JF); entirely in TJ’s hand; on verso: “Bank US. Mar. 10. 09”; filed with a series of notes, estimates, and expenses, with a covering sheet labeled by TJ: “Bank US. loose memms, estimates, notes Etc of my dealings with it while I lived in Washington.” Dft (CSmH: JF); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; with additional entries, variant order, and lacking concluding comments on agreement with Madison.
As he planned here, on 10 Mar. 1809 TJ did indeed draw as indicated on the Bank of the United States ( , 2:1242–3).
1. In Dft TJ here estimated additional income from items sold in Washington, including a chariot (sold to Dr. Elzey for $500 on 10 Mar., , 2:1242) and several items sold to James Madison (see TJ to Madison, 19 Apr. 1809), for a total of $4,674.775 in assets.
2. Reworked from “770.,” the figure in Dft.
3. In Dft TJ here included entries for “Ingle for Pechin 7.29/Gannin [no amount given]/ Melvin 5.” TJ paid “Gannin the barber” $6 on 11 Mar. ( , 2:1243).
4. Reworked from what appears to be “76.50.” Dft: “abt 20.” In Dft TJ here included an entry for “Bacon 10.”
5. In Dft TJ here included entries for “G. Jeff. 100./Dangerfield 590” (paid on 10 and 11 Mar.; see , 2:1243).
6. In Dft TJ indicated that this payment was “for Th:J.R.” and also included three more entries, grouped by a brace, for “Julien abt 75/ Shorter 20/Th:J. 212.805,” for a total of $307.805 (first two debts paid 17 Mar. and 7 Apr.; see , 2:1244).
7. Reworked from “61.35,” the amount TJ owed specifically to Dougherty ( , 2:1243), with the revised figure incorporating payments made for TJ by Dougherty to Ingle and Melvin (see note 3). Dft: “abt 80.”
8. Reworked from what appears to be “479.21,” with the revised figure repeated at right for clarity.
Index Entries
- Bacon, Edmund; TJ pays search
- Bank of the United States; drafts on, by TJ search
- Barnes, John; TJ pays search
- chariots search
- Coles, Isaac A.; TJ pays search
- Cox, John; TJ pays search
- Daingerfield, Mary Willis; TJ pays search
- Daingerfield, Sarah search
- Dougherty, Joseph; TJ pays search
- Elzey, Arnold; purchases chariot from TJ search
- Gannin, Mr. (barber) search
- household articles; chariots search
- Ingle, Henry search
- Jefferson, George (TJ’s cousin); TJ pays search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; notes on expenses search
- Jones & Howell (Philadelphia firm); account with TJ search
- Julien, Honoré; TJ pays search
- Lemaire, Etienne; TJ pays search
- Lenox, Peter; TJ pays search
- Lincoln, Levi; TJ pays search
- Madison, James; purchases items from TJ search
- Melvin, James search
- Milligan, Joseph; TJ pays search
- Peale, Charles Willson; and expenses for T. J. Randolph search
- Pechin, William; payment to search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); expenses paid by TJ search
- Shorter, Jack; TJ pays search