Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Stephen Girard, 21 September 1816
Enclosure
Account with Stephen Girard
Philada 21st Septr 1816.
Thomas Jefferson Esqre
To Stephen Girard
For Premium on the cost of $550, in Specie which were paid on his account in Paris by Messrs Perregeaux Lafitte & Co as pr their Letter dated 14th May 1816 in virtue of my Letters of Credit to the following Persons.
| Stephen Chatalon of Marseilles for $200—paid with |
Fcs | 1056 | .— | |
| Brokerage ⅛% | 1 | .30 | ||
| George Thicknor at Paris for $350.—paid with |
1837 | .50 | ||
| Perregaux & Lafitte Commission on Fcs 2894.80 |
a ½ prct | 14 | .47 | |
| Francs | 2909 | .27 | ||
| at 18¾. cents for 1 Franc | $555 | .48.1 | ||
| Premium at 12 prct | 66.66. | |||
MS (MHi); in an unidentified hand; endorsed in a different unidentified hand: “Girard stephen.”
1. The correct figure is $545.48.
Index Entries
- Cathalan, Stephen (Étienne) (1757–1819); account with TJ search
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- Girard, Stephen; account with TJ search
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- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with S. Cathalan search
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- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; lines of credit in Europe search
- Perregaux, Laffitte & Compagnie (Paris firm); and TJ’s lines of credit in France search
- Ticknor, George; and books for TJ search