351Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I
suppose I shall have to send you from both
places about 400. barrels of flour. that from of the last crop half the price was lost, and in the present year, from 800. bushels of wheat sown, I had a right to expect as many barrels of flour, and am
cut short one half by the drought.
the remedy must be to make no new money engagements but for bread, and work
352To James Madison from Lemuel Merritt, 18 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
...force there amount to sixteen thousand four hundred regulars. The number of Malitia in canida, I could not learn accurately. Provisions there are Verry scarce, they shipped from Hallifax, to Quebeck 27000 Barrels of flour by the last convoy, all which they have obtained, from the U.S. either by captor; or Neutral Vessels; which I believe is a great detriment to our prsioners In...
353To James Madison from Erastus Roberts, 2 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
...length of time that his offended master thought proper. The next instrument of punishment was a bat about the size of a common cricket Bat, used to pat the naked posteriors of Soldiers when nealed over a drum or barrel. These modes of punishment were invented to elude the Law of Congress which repealed so much of the Rules and Articles of War as authorized punishment by stripes and lashes;
354Enclosure: Extract of a Letter from Jonathan Ellicott to Thomas Worthington, [ca. Jan–February 1813?] (Jefferson Papers)
—His mill, I understand, is capable of manufactoring about twelve Barrels of flour per day; a quantity that I have experiensd may be made by one miller with ease, without the use of what he
calls his machinery; or in other words in the old way—This alarming decision,... ...to make a Barrel of flour out of half a Bushel of wheat less than it could be made from in the old way;—That there...Barrel
355To James Madison from Harry Toulmin, 13 August 1813 (Madison Papers)
...of a letter from a British General in Canada.” Cornells also learned from an express rider for the Indians that the governor had given them about “forty horse loads of powder and one barrel of flints with many guns.” Finally, “from his own knowledge,” Cornells stated that “the inimical Creeks” were “distroying their own stock & provisions & property promiscousley with those of the...
356Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 8 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
of 230. acres of corn, about 15. acres may make 2. or 3. barrels to the acre; and about 215. acres will not produce a single ear; not half of it will , a great deal not 2. feet high. we usually make about 7. or 800. barrels; we shall certainly not to buy
400.
barrels of corn for bread for my people.
357Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Darmsdatt, 30 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am one of the unfortunate on whom the blockade came before I had sold a barrel of my flour. to sell it for 4.D. which after the expence of barrel grinding & transporting, me 2½ D. a barrel or 47. cents a bushel for my wheat.
as for the half dozen barrels of herrings you sent here lately, and
half a dozen barrels to
358Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
½ doz.
barrels of herrings ordered to
359To James Madison from Thomas Ewell, 27 July 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...property now in the magazine, condemned as bad, he refuses to return to my possession, or to have my account credited with it? The magazine being filled with rejected powder, near two hundred barrels of that untried and last delivered, were stored on board a rotten ship in the Eastern Branch, where the moisture cannot fail to secure it condemnation as effectually as the slight-of-hand of the...
360Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel H. Hooe, 21 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am one of the unfortunate upon whom the blockade came before I had sold a barrel of my flour. I am now offering it for 4.D. at , which will be 2½ D. after paying for grinding, for the barrel and transportation. it is
not yet sold.