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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, [ca. 1819]

Notes on Household Consumption

[ca. 1819]

 
  1815. 16 1816. 17 18[1]7. 18 1818. 19 Total average
  *    *    *       
negro clothg 226 .31 528 .28 587 .19 199 .10 1540 . 88  
        + 117 .90  
  ℔  *    *     *    317 .  
iron & steel 1096 . 112 .26 1212 . 114 .57 679 . 60 .97 828 . 69 .45 3815 . 357 .25
           
Nails 41 .81 91 . 27 .78 30 .14 190 .73.   47 .68
           
whiskey 40 ¾ 38 .63 24 ⅛ 24 .80 7 ⅛ 6 .30 14 ½ 14 .50 86 ⅛ 84 .23 22 . 21 .
           
rum & brandy 31 . 79 .43 18 ⅛ 54 .38 24 [. . .] 51 .63 44 ¾ 124 .56 118 . 310 . 30 . 77 .50
           
salt 7 . 61 . [12?] 74 .50 9 .[. . .]2 54 .50 8 . 52 .50 36 .2 242 .50 9 60 .62
  ℔           
Sugar brown 330 . 89 .30 245 . 53 .82 48 . 98 .38 255 . 53 .58 1314 . 295 .08 73 .77
   white 178 ½ 96 .21 244 .12 102 .77 242 .[. . .] 80 .75 253 . 91 .86 919 . 371 .29 230 . 93 .
  ℔           
tea 15 59 . 22 . 85 . 14 39   21 . 52 ½ 72 . 235 ½ 18 . 59
  ℔           
coffee 120 . 47 .51 81 . 29 ⅓ 73 27 .38 90 . 37 .65 364 . 141 .87 91 . 35 .47
 
†other groceries 84 .38 172. 94 120 . 61 .74 439 .06 110 .
           
dry goods. 425 .85 537 .81 424 .47 375 . 1763 .13 441 .
           
‡miscellaneous 82 .16 86 .70 137 .09 132 .97 438 .92 110
Total     1385 .44     1955 .66     1715 .44     1294 .55     6351 .09.     1588  
        117 .90  
        1412 .45  

Notes.

* during the years 15. 16. 17. I provided the whole estate. therefore the amount in 18. 19. may be taken as the present average of these articles

† other groceries include1 rice, cheese, candles, oil, raisins, soap, spices Etc

‡ tools, iron mongery Etc    +117.90 bot in the spring to make up for the year which makes a total for the year of 1412.45
savings proposed. in  Negro clothing 100
spirits 32
groceries ⅕ in price 86
economy in other 76 .55
294 .55 deducted from last year leave 1000.d
1294 .55
1000 . for annual store acct

MS (ViFreJM); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; damaged at crease.

1. Manuscript: “includ.”

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  • alcohol; whiskey search
  • brandy; at Monticello search
  • building materials; ironmongery search
  • candles search
  • cheese; TJ orders search
  • clothing; for slaves search
  • coffee; at Monticello search
  • food; cheese search
  • food; raisins search
  • groceries; purchased by TJ search
  • household articles; candles search
  • household articles; soap search
  • iron; purchased by TJ search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on Household Consumption search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); household consumption at search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); salt for search
  • nails; purchased by TJ search
  • oil; for TJ search
  • raisins; TJ orders search
  • rice; TJ orders search
  • rum search
  • slaves; clothing for search
  • soap search
  • spirits (alcohol) search
  • steel; purchased by TJ search
  • sugar; brown search
  • sugar; refined search
  • tea; ordered for Monticello search
  • whiskey; at Monticello search

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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, [ca. 1819]
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Jefferson, Thomas
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January 1815 – December 1819

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, [ca. 1819],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0284. [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, pp. 312–313.]