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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Wages of Michele Raggi and Giacomo Raggi, 17 February 1819–17 February 1820

Notes on the Wages of Michele Raggi and Giacomo Raggi

Michael & Giacomo (James) Raggi.

1819.  Feb. 17. their wages began @ 526.D. a year. each
same day. they recd 200.D. each on account,
 
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1820. Feb. 17.  a year’s wages 1052
by cash recd on that day of agreemt1  400
by do now to be remitted 400.
payments by mr Brockenb.  
 

we are entitled by the contract always to keep in our hands a quarter of a year’s salary, which is to be paid at the end of their term. say 131.50 D

MS (ViU: TJP-PP); in TJ’s hand; with notes in an unidentified hand between the entry for 1820 and the final paragraph, consisting of “2 Years 7 mo:” and related marks used to tally this date range, presumably the tenure of Michele Raggi and Giacomo Raggi, each of whom served the University of Virginia for about one year and seven months between February 1819 and September 1820; endorsed in same unidentified hand: “M Js calculation of Raggi Wages,” followed by a seemingly unrelated calculation.

1. Preceding two words interlined.

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Wages of Michele Raggi and Giacomo Raggi, 17 February 1819–17 February 1820
Authors
Jefferson, Thomas
Raggi, Giacomo
Raggi, Michele
Date
17 February 1819 – 17 February 1820

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Wages of Michele Raggi and Giacomo Raggi, 17 February 1819–17 February 1820,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0374. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 402.]