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Thomas Jefferson’s Calculation of Timber Needed by Alexander Hepburn at Poplar Forest, [ca. 8 October 1819]

Calculation of Timber Needed by Alexander Hepburn at Poplar Forest

[ca. 8 Oct. 1819]

I. f sawing
sq. f.
Grist 22  108 = 198
20  90 150
14  144 168
18  55 82 –6
16  40 53 –4
12  420 420 1071.1[0]
saw 11  84 77
16½ 36 49 –6
5  120 50 176.6
wheat 21½ 70 125 –5
20½ 55 94
18½ 33 50 –8
15  24 30
15½ 60 77 –6
13½ 18 20 –2 = 397–9
1646–1
last parcel for Grist-mill.
sq. f
21  117 = 204 –9
18⅛ 288 435
15¼ 288 366
14  135 157 –6
288 132 1295–3

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 232:41563); written entirely in TJ’s hand on one side of a slip of paper; undated; edge trimmed.

Index Entries

  • agriculture; threshing machines search
  • Hepburn, Alexander; as millwright search
  • Hepburn, Alexander; repairs machines search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Calculation of Timber Needed by Alexander Hepburn at Poplar Forest search
  • machines; threshing search
  • mills; construction of search
  • mills; grist search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); mills at search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); threshing machine at search
  • sawmills; at Poplar Forest search