John Taggart to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1809
From John Taggart
Philada March 15th 1809
Sir
Your letter of the 15th Ulto I recd and acording to Your Instructions1 have Shiped the Oil and Lead on bord the Schooner Jane Benoni Jackson Master bound for Richmond to the Care of Messrs Gibson & Jefferson of that place She is Expected to Sale on the 17th Inst. You will find a bill Enclosed I wish the artickles may be pleasing to you—
John Taggart
RC (MHi); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Taggart; between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Mar. 1809 and so recorded in SJL.
John Taggart, a merchant at 7 North Water Street, Philadelphia, typically supplied TJ with paint ingredients (
).TJ’s letter of 15 Feb. 1809 (MHi) requested sixty gallons of linseed oil and one hundred pounds of dry white lead along with Taggart’s bill.
1. Manuscript: “Instrutions.”
Index Entries
- building materials; paint search
- Gibson & Jefferson (Richmond firm); and building materials acquired by TJ search
- household articles; linseed oil search
- Jackson, Benoni (master of the Jane) search
- Jane (schooner) search
- lead; white search
- linseed oil search
- paint search
- Taggart, John; identified search
- Taggart, John; letters from search
- Taggart, John; sends oil and paint to TJ search
- white lead search