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Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco and Flour Sales, 13 June 1821
Enclosure
Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco and Flour Sales
Sales Seven Hhds: Leaf Tobacco by B. Peyton for ℀ Mr Th: Jefferson
1821 Richd
| 9 June | To sundry persons for Cash (viz) | ||||||||||
| No | 1 | = 1760 −1 | 150 = 1610 |  |
3080 | ℔s nett | at $7.30 | $224.84 | |||
| 2 | = 1620 − | 150 = 1470 | |||||||||
| 3 | = 1545 − | 145 = 1400 ℔s nett | 〃 〃6.30 | 88.20 | |||||||
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4 | = 1535 − | 140 = 1390 | |
2720 | ℔s nett | at $5.55 | 150.96 | |||
| Refused– | 5 | = 1470 − | 140 = 1330 | ||||||||
| 6 | = 1580 − | 140 = 1440 ℔s nett | at 〃4.70 | 67.68 | |||||||
| Lugs– | |
7 | = 1400 − | 142 = 1258 ℔s nett | 〃 〃2.80 | 35.22 | |||||
| $566.90 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Charges | |||||||||||
| Cash paid for Notes at 3/– each | $3.50 | ||||||||||
| Canal Toll at 2/6 & Drayage at 22¢ | 4.46 | ||||||||||
| Commission at 2½ pr Ct | 14.17 | 22.13 | |||||||||
| Nett proceeds at Cr T. J. | $544.77 | ||||||||||
| Sales fifty Barrels super & 48 fine flour by B Peyton for ℀ Mr Th: Jefferson | |||||||||||
| 1821 Richd | |||||||||||
| 13 June | To | John Ayers & Co for Cash in store | |||||||||
| 50 | Blls: super fine flour | at $3.75 | $187.50 | ||||||||
| 48 | 〃 fine do | 〃 3.50 | 168.00 | ||||||||
| 98 | $355.50 | ||||||||||
| Charges | |||||||||||
| Cash paid freight at 2/6 pr bll: | $40.84 | ||||||||||
| Canal Toll 38 Blls: $3.96 | 3.96 | ||||||||||
| Drayage 60 Blls: from break in Canal at 4/– for 6 Blls: & Drayage 38 Blls: from Basin at 9d |
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7.42 | |||||||||
| Storage 98 Blls: at 8¢ $7.84—Inspection $1.96 | 9.80 | ||||||||||
| Commission at 2½ pr Ct | 8.89 | $70.91 | |||||||||
| Nett proceeds— | $284.59 | ||||||||||
MS (MHi); conjoined with covering letter; in Peyton’s hand.
lugs are either the lower leaves of a tobacco plant or the lowest grade or quality of harvested tobacco ().
1. Equal signs in this column editorially corrected to minus signs.
2. To the left of this total, TJ wrote “|9898| 566.9 | 5.72 pr Cwt.”
Index Entries
- flour; sale of search
- John Ayers & Company (Richmond firm); and TJ’s flour search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco sold at search
- tobacco; in Richmond market search
- tobacco; sale of search