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Thomas Jefferson’s Transactions with James Leitch, 6 March–30 May 1820

Thomas Jefferson’s Transactions with James Leitch

[p. 5, 6 Mar. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson at reqt. E. Bacon    
    10l 10d Wt nails 1/1½ 5l 20d ditto 1/. 2 72
    8¾[l?] Loaf Sugar ⅌ Order 2/3  3 29 6.01
[p. 6, 7 Mar. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Boy:    
    10l 10d Wt nails 1/.     1.67
[p. 7, 8 Mar. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order E. Bacon    
    15l 10d Wt nails 1/.     2.50
[p. 7, 8 Mar. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    25l Coffee 2/6     10.42
[p. 9, 12 Mar. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌r Order    
    4½ ℔ loaf Sugar. 2s/3d. 1 bottle Spirits Turp. 3s/9d     2.32
[p. 13, 18 Mar. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Self    
    1 Co Gradus ad Parnassum 3 75
    1 〃 Greek Exercise 12/. 1 Co Bonacastles Algebra 9/. 3 50
    1 〃 Bona. Mensuration 10/6. 1 do the book 7/6. 1 do Epictatus 2/3 3 38 10.63
[p. 14, 21 Mar. 1820:]
.395. .40. Cash Dr. To Thomas Jefferson    
    received in a dft. on P. Gibson 115 33
.101.   John Nelson for this Sum 100 .
    215 33
[p. 15, 22 Mar. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    57l Iron 6d     4.75
[p. 26, 6 Apr. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order (for Burwell)1    
    1 Beaver hat $10. 10 yd. Steam loom Shirting 3/9 16 25
    Sewing Cotton 1/6. 2½ yd. Olive Cassimere 25/6 10 88
    ¾ yd. Brown holland 3/. 2 hanks Silk 6d   54
    3 Skains thread 3 cts. 1 Stick Twist 6d   17 27.84
[p. 29, 10 Apr. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson p. Order    
    1¼ yd. Blue Cloth @ 18/.     3.75
[p. 30, 11 Apr. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    1 ℔ Pepper 3/. 1 Oz Nutmegs 3/. 1 ℔ All cold thread 7/6 2 25
    6 Bottles Mustard 1/6 1 50 3.75
[p. 31, 14 Apr. 1820:]
.40. .395. Thomas Jefferson Dr To Cash    
    paid J. H. Rice p. Order $33 33  
[p. 31, 14 Apr. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Mr Bacon    
    ½ quire Writing paper @ 2/.     17
[p. 33, 17 Apr. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ order of E. Bacon/    
    9 lb 10 Wrought Nails 1/.     1.50
[p. 36, 20 Apr. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    2 large milk pans 3/6     1.17
[p. 38, 24 Apr. 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Self    
    6 yds. Cotton Shirting 2/6. 2 Boxes Wafers 1/6 3  
    1 Pad lock 3/. 1 Cow hide 1/. 3 hanks Silk 6d.   92
    15¾ German Steel 1/6 ⅌ Order 3 94 7.86
[p. 43, 1 May 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson p. Order    
    5 ℔ Coffee 2/6. 2 doz. Waistcoat Button Moulds 4½     2.20
 
[p. 46, 5 May 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Mrs R.    
    6 pair white Cotton Stockings 6/0. 1 dark do. Shawl 12/0 8  
    21 yds. fine Cotton Shirting 4/0 14   22  
[p. 47, 6 May 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    10 ℔ Coffee 2/6. 13 ℔ 8d Cut Nails 1/0     6.34
[p. 50, 10 May 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    1–½ round file ea 6/. 4/6 & 3/. 2 25
    1 Large flat ditto 6/. 1   3.25
[p. 58, 25 May 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    4 yds Canton Crape 7/6     5. 
[p. 58, 26 May 1820:]
.460. .395. Thomas Jefferson Dr to Bramham & Jones    
    6 hanks White Silk 6d     50
[p. 61, 30 May 1820:]
  .395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Order    
    252 ℔s Iron 6d. 20 ℔ 10d Wrought Nails 1/.     24.34

Leitch Daybook description begins MS daybook of Charlottesville merchant James Leitch, 2 Mar. 1820–8 May 1823, ViCMRL on deposit ViU, bound volume with ruled paper, in a clerk’s hand description ends ; one superscripted symbol illegible.

co: “copy.” For gradus ad parnassum (Sowerby no. 4798; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 872]), see note to Memorandum by Gerard E. Stack to TJ on Curriculum for Charlottesville Academy, [April–May 1819]. bonacastles algebra: John Bonnycastle, An Introduction to Algebra; with Notes and Observations: designed for the use of Schools, and Places of Public Education (London, 1782, and other eds.; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 8 [no. 396]). bona. mensuration: Bonnycastle, An Introduction to Mensuration, and Practical Geometry (London, 1782, and other eds.; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 8 [no. 397]). the book may have been [Spencer Perceval], “The Book!” or, The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales, under a commission appointed by The King, in the Year 1806 (1st American ed., New York and Boston, 1813; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 410; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 4 [no. 111]).

john nelson was John Neilson. A stick is a measure of cloth or thread by length equal to about three-quarters of a yard. All-colored (all cold) is multicolored or variegated (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ). TJ recorded on 15 Apr. 1820 that his $33 payment to Josiah Leake, agent of John H. rice, covered his subscription for six copies of “Smith’s hist. of Virga.” Rice had been involved in the publication of a two-volume edition of earlier works by John Smith, the second volume of which was The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Iles (Richmond, 1819; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 461) (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1364).

A button mold is “a disc of wood or other material to be covered with cloth to form a button” (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ). mrs r.: Martha Jefferson Randolph.

1. Omitted closing parenthesis editorially supplied.

Index Entries

  • An Introduction to Algebra (J. Bonnycastle) search
  • An Introduction to Mensuration, and Practical Geometry (J. Bonnycastle) search
  • Bacon, Edmund; orders goods for TJ search
  • Bonnycastle, John; An Introduction to Algebra search
  • Bonnycastle, John; An Introduction to Mensuration, and Practical Geometry search
  • books; dictionaries search
  • books; school textbooks search
  • Bramham & Jones (Charlottesville firm); TJ purchases goods from search
  • building materials; nails search
  • button molds search
  • cattle; hides search
  • children; books for search
  • clothing; for slaves search
  • clothing; hats search
  • clothing; shawls search
  • clothing; stockings search
  • coffee; TJ purchases search
  • Colbert, Burwell (TJ’s slave;1783–ca.1862; Critta Colbert’s husband); clothing for search
  • files (tools) search
  • food; mustard search
  • Gibson, Patrick; and payments made for TJ search
  • Greek language; exercise books search
  • hats; for slaves search
  • household articles; button molds search
  • household articles; milkpans search
  • household articles; padlocks search
  • household articles; thread search
  • household articles; turpentine search
  • household articles; wafers (for sealing letters) search
  • iron; purchased by TJ search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; purchases from J. Leitch search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; subscriptions search
  • Latin language; dictionaries search
  • Leake, Josiah; as subscription agent search
  • leather; hides search
  • Leitch, James; account with TJ search
  • Leitch, James; makes payments for TJ search
  • Leitch, James; TJ pays search
  • locks; padlocks search
  • mathematics; books on search
  • milkpans search
  • mustard; purchased by TJ search
  • nails; purchased by TJ search
  • Neilson (Nelson), John; TJ pays search
  • nutmeg search
  • pans, milk search
  • pepper; TJ purchases search
  • Perceval, Spencer; “The Book!” or, The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (included in Book of Kings compiled by TJ;see alsoBook of Kings) search
  • Randolph, Martha Jefferson (Patsy; TJ’s daughter; Thomas Mann Randolph’s wife); purchases goods search
  • Rice, John Holt; as publisher search
  • shawls search
  • slaves; clothing for search
  • slaves; order goods for TJ search
  • Smith, John (ca.1580–1631); The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles search
  • spices; nutmeg search
  • spices; pepper search
  • stationery; letter paper search
  • steel; German search
  • stockings search
  • subscriptions, for publications; history search
  • sugar; loaf search
  • textiles; Canton crepe search
  • textiles; cassimere search
  • textiles; holland search
  • textiles; shirting search
  • textiles; TJ purchases search
  • The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (J. Smith) search
  • thread search
  • tools; files search
  • turpentine; spirit of search
  • wafers (for sealing letters); TJ orders search
  • “The Book!” or, The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (S. Perceval; included in Book of Kings compiled by TJ) search

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Thomas Jefferson’s Transactions with James Leitch, 6 March–30 May 1820
Author
Leitch, James
Date
2–3 March 1820

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Transactions with James Leitch, 6 March–30 May 1820,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0412-0002. [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. 449–453.]