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Clothing and Bedding Distribution List for Poplar Forest Slaves, [after 21 July 1813]

Clothing and Bedding Distribution List for Poplar Forest Slaves

[after 21 July 1813]

Poplar Forest.
Grown persons		 plains homespun shirting Children woolen
homesp.		 shirtg
Hall. ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½  ✓ 7 . Hanah’s ( Jamy. 05 ✓ 2 ¾ ✓ 3 ⅓
Hanah. ✓ 3   ✓ 3   ✓ 7   Phil. 08 ✓ 2   ✓ 2 ⅓
Sally (Hanah’s) 98 ✓ 2   ✓ 1   6 1 Edmund. 09. ✓ 1 ¾ ✓ 2  
Lucinda ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7   George Welsh. 12 ✓ 1   ✓ 1  
Maria (Nanny’s) 2   ✓ 5   6 2     7 ½   8 ⅔
Nisy. 99 ✓ 2   ✓ 2 ¼ 5 ⅓3 Lucinda’s ( Melinda. 09 1 ¾ ✓ 2 .
Nace ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½ ✓ 7   Rebecca. 12.   1   ✓ 1  
Phill Hubard ✓ 3   ✓ 3   ✓ 7       2 ¾   3  
Abby. ✓ 2   ✓ 3   7 4     Nancy. Edy’s. 12. 1   ✓ 1  
Will ✓ 3   ✓ 3   ✓ 7   Sal’s ( Betty 01. ✓ 3 ¾ ✓ 4 ⅔5
 Manuel 94 ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½ ✓ 7 ⅔ Abby. 04. 3   ✓ 3 ⅔
 Amy. 97 ✓ 2   ✓ 2 ¾ ✓ 6 ⅓ Edy. 06. 2 ½ ✓ 3 .
Edy ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7   Martin. 09. 1 ¾ 2  
Gawen. ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½ ✓ 7   Moses. 11. 1 ¼ 1 ⅓
Sal. (Will’s) ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7   Mary Anne. 12.   1     1  
Milly 97 ✓ 2   ✓ 2 ¾ ✓ 6       13 ¼    15 ⅔
 Sandy. 13.       Dinah’s ( Lucy. 99.6 ✓ 4 ¼ ✓ 5 ⅓7
Dick ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½ ✓ 7   Jamy. 02. ✓ 3 ½ ✓ 4 ⅔
Dinah ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7   Briley. 05.   2 ¾ ✓ 3 ⅓
Hanah (Dinah’s) ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7       10 ½   13 ⅓
Aggy ✓ 2   ✓ 3   7 8 Sally. Aggy’s. 12.   1   ✓ 1  
Evans ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½ ✓ 7   Bess. ( Prince. 04. 3   ✓ 3 ⅔
Bess. ✓ 2   ✓ 3   7   Joe. 06. 2 ½ ✓ 3  
 Ambrose ✓ 2 ¼ ✓ 2   5 ⅓ Shepherd. 09   1 ¾ ✓ 2  
Betty ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7       7 ¼   8 ⅔
Hercules ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½ 7     43 ¼ 51 ⅓9
Jesse. ✓ 3   ✓ 2 ½ 7  
    63 ¼   71 ¾   174 ⅔10
   Blankets
✓ Jamy ) Hanah’s
Phill
✓ Nisy
✓ Nace
✓ Will
✓ Abby
✓ Sal. Will’s
 
✓ Edy ) Sall’s
Martin
✓ Amy Will’s
✓ Aggy )
  Sally
✓ Evans.
✓ Hanah Dinah’s
✓ Ambrose ) Bess’s
Prince.

Beds.

Sall. Will’s

Milly

Hanah. Dinah’s11

 
Bear Creek.
Grown persons		 plains homespun shirtg Children woolen
homespun		 shirtg
Jame Hubbard. ✓ 3 . ✓ 3 . ✓ 7 . Maria’s. ( Johnny. 04. ✓ 3   ✓ 3 ⅔
Cate. ✓ 3   ✓ 3   ✓ 7 . Isaac. 09.12   1 ¾ ✓ 2  
Armistead. ✓ 3 . 3 . ✓ 7 .     4 ¾   5 ⅔
Cate.Rachael’s  97. ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7   Sally’s ( Billy. 08. 2 . ✓ 2 ⅓
Maria. Cate’s ✓ 2 ½ ✓ 3 . 7 . Anderson. 10. 1 ½ ✓ 1 ⅔
Sally. Cate’s. ✓ 2 . ✓ 3 . ✓ 7 . Henry. 12.   1 .   1 .
Reuben. ✓ 3 . 2 ½ ✓ 7 .     4 ½   5 .
Austin ✓ 3 . 2 ½ ✓ 7 . Flora’s ( Gawen. 04. ✓ 3   ✓ 3 ⅔
Flora. ✓ 2   ✓ 3   ✓ 7 . Aleck. 06. 2 ½ 3 .
Fanny. ✓ 2 . ✓ 3 . ✓ 7 . Billy. 08. 2   2 ⅓
Caesar. ✓ 3 . ✓ 2 ½ 7 . Boston. 11.   1 ¼   1 ⅓
Cate. Suck’s. ✓ 2   ✓ 3 . 7 .     8 ¾   10 ⅓
Daniel. ✓ 3 . 2 ½ 7 . Fanny’s ( Rachael. 07. ✓ 2 ¼ 2 ⅔
Stephen ✓ 3 . 2 ½ ✓ 7 . Rhody. 11. 1 ¼ 1 ⅓
Cate. Betty’s ✓ 2   ✓ 3 . 7 . Zacharias. 13.    
Mary. Betty’s ✓ 2 . ✓ 3 . 7 .     3 ½   4 .
Nanny. ✓ 2   ✓ 3   7 . Cate’s ( Davy. 06. 2 ½ ✓ 3 .
    42 ½   48 ½   119   John. 11.   1 ¼ ✓ 1 .⅓
    3 .¾   4 .⅓
Nanny’s ( Phill. 01. ✓ 3 ¾ ✓ 4 ⅔
Milly. 06. ✓ 2 ½ ✓ 3 .
George Denis. 08. 2 . ✓ 2 ⅓
Janetta. 12.   1   ✓ 1 .
    9 ¼   11  
  34 ½ 40 ⅓13
   Blankets
✓ Sally. Cate’s
✓   Billy )
  Anderson
  Henry.
✓ Gawen. ) Flora’s
Aleck
✓ Rachael ) Fanny’s
Rhody
Zacharias
✓ Caesar
✓ George Dennis ) Nanny’s
Janetta

Beds

Maria. Cate’s

Flora.

Nanny.

Wanting for cloathing all the people.

homespun
wollens		   shirting
for the grown people 105¾ yds plains. 120. yds 29414 yds
for the young ones 78. yds 92 .
198. 386 .15

MS (PPAmP: Thomas Jefferson Papers); in TJ’s hand, with check marks possibly in two different hands and other revisions in an unidentified hand; written on one sheet folded to form four pages; undated, but composed after the 21 July 1813 birth of Sandy (Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1, 131).

1. An unidentified hand here inserted “3½.”

2. An unidentified hand here inserted “3½.”

3. An unidentified hand here inserted “3½.”

4. An unidentified hand here inserted “3½.”

5. An unidentified hand here inserted “2.”

6. Reworked from “Sandy Milly’s.”

7. An unidentified hand here inserted “2½.”

8. An unidentified hand here inserted “3½.”

9. First page of manuscript ends here.

10. Correct figure is 175⅔.

11. Second page of manuscript ends here.

12. TJ here canceled an entry for “Dolly. 12.,” who was to receive one yard each of woolen homespun and shirting.

13. Third page of manuscript ends here.

14. Correct figure is 295.

15. Correct figure is 387.

Index Entries

  • Abbey (Abby) (TJ’s slave; b.1804); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Abby (TJ’s slave; b.1753); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Aggy (TJ’s slave; b.1789; daughter of Dinah); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Aleck (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Ambrose (TJ’s slave; b.1799); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Amy (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Anderson (TJ’s slave; b.1810; Sarah [Sally] Hubbard’s son); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Armistead (TJ’s slave; b.1771); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Armstead (Manuel) (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Augustine (Austin) (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1775); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Bear Creek plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); blankets and beds for slaves at search
  • Bear Creek plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); clothing for slaves at search
  • Betty (Bess) (TJ’s slave; b.1747); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Betty (Island Betty; Old Betty) (TJ’s slave; b.1749); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Betty (TJ’s slave; b.1801); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Billy (TJ’s slave; b.1808; Flora’s son); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Billy (TJ’s slave; b.1808; Sarah [Sally] Hubbard’s son); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Boston (TJ’s slave; b.1811); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Bryley (Briley) (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Caesar (TJ’s slave; b.1774); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Cate (TJ’s slave; b.1788; Suckey’s daughter); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Cate (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • clothing; for slaves search
  • Daniel (TJ’s slave; b.1790); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Davy (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Dennis, George (TJ’s slave; b.1808); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Dick (Yellow Dick) (TJ’s slave; b.1767); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Dinah (TJ’s slave; b.1766); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Dolly (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Edmund (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Edy (TJ’s slave; b.1792); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Edy (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Evans (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Fanny (TJ’s slave; b.1788; daughter of Abby); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Flora (TJ’s slave; b.1783); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Gawen (TJ’s slave; b.1778); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Gawen (TJ’s slave; b.1804); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Goodman, Sally (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hall (Hal) (TJ’s slave; b.1767); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hanah (TJ’s slave; b.1796); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hannah (Hanah) (TJ’s slave; b.1770); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Henry (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hercules (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • household articles; beds search
  • household articles; blankets search
  • Hubbard, Cate (TJ’s slave; b.1747); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hubbard, Jame (TJ’s slave; father of James Hubbard); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hubbard, Phill (TJ’s slave); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hubbard, Sally (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hubbard, Sarah (Sally) (TJ’s slave; b.1788); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Isaac (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Jamey (Jamy) (TJ’s slave; b.1802); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Jamey (Jamy) (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Janetta (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Clothing and Bedding Distribution List for Poplar Forest search
  • Jesse (TJ’s slave; b.1772); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Joe (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • John (TJ’s slave; b.1811); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Johnny (TJ’s slave; b.1804); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Lucinda (TJ’s slave; b.1791); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1800); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1776); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1798); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Martin (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Mary (TJ’s slave; b.1792); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Mary Anne (TJ’s slave); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Melinda (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Milly (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Milly (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Moses (TJ’s slave; b.1811); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Nace (TJ’s slave; b.1773); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Nancy (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Nanny (TJ’s slave; b.1778); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Nicy (Nisy) (TJ’s slave; b.1799); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b.1801); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b.1808); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); beds and blankets for slaves at search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); clothing for slaves at search
  • Prince (TJ’s slave; b.1804); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Rachael (TJ’s slave; b.1773); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Rachael (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Rebecca (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Reuben (TJ’s slave; b.1793); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Rhody (TJ’s slave; b.1811); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Sally (Sal) (TJ’s slave; b.1777); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Sandy (TJ’s slave; b.1813); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Shepherd (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • slaves; blankets and beds for search
  • slaves; clothing for search
  • Stephen (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Suckey (TJ’s slave; b.1771); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • textiles; homespun search
  • textiles; plain cloth search
  • textiles; shirting search
  • textiles; wool search
  • Welsh, George (TJ’s slave); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Will (William) (TJ’s slave; b.1753); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Zacharias (TJ’s slave; b.1813); on Poplar Forest slave lists search

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Jefferson Papers
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Clothing and Bedding Distribution List for Poplar Forest Slaves, [after 21 July 1813]
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Jefferson, Thomas
Date
21 July 1813

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“Clothing and Bedding Distribution List for Poplar Forest Slaves, [after 21 July 1813],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-0256. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 6, 11 March to 27 November 1813, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. 308–310.]