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Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest, [ca. 4 December 1812]

Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest

[ca. 4 Dec. 1812]

1812.   b   ℔
Oct. 2. 38 . 52  1. barrel fine flour for 5½ bush & ½ dollar extra for Superfine.1
5. 41 . 04
10. 28 . 45
12. 29 . 36
13. 34 . 48
14. 34 . 49
15. 28 – 30
16. 29 – 12
17. 27 – 52
18. 34 – 15
22. 30 – 02
28. 30 – 45
Nov. 17. 34 – 45
19. 38 – 00
23. 32 . 24
24. 35 – 00
25. 36 – 00
26. 38 – 46
30. 36 – 30
Dec. 1. 33 – 36
2. 32 – 42
3. 32 – 42
4. 33 – 10
772 –  5
 
8 – 40
780 – 452
15 . to mr Goodman.
301 . sowed
1096   45

[Notation by TJ on verso:]

1812. Oct. Nov. Dec.

wheat delivered from Poplar Forest at the mills.

being the whole crop of 1812. except the seed.

 b
 780.45   = 141. Bar. F. flour
+  15.
 301.
1096.45
 some used

MS (ViU: TJP-ER); written entirely in TJ’s hand on both sides of a single sheet; undated. Dft (ViU: TJP-ER); written in TJ’s hand on one side of a single sheet, with addition in Jeremiah A. Goodman’s hand; undated; notation in right margin in unidentified hand: “141 Bbls. fine Flour—is 775³⁰⁄₆₀ bus. Wheat leaving a balance of 5¹⁵⁄₆₀ bus.”

1. Preceding thirteen words omitted in Dft.

2. Dft ends here, with preceding two lines written in Goodman’s hand.

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Title
Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest, [ca. 4 December 1812]
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
4 December 1812

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“Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest, [ca. 4 December 1812],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-05-02-0411. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 5, 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. 481–482.]