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Thomas Jefferson’s Census of Inhabitants and Supplies at Monticello, 8 November 1810

Census of Inhabitants and Supplies at Monticello

1810. Aug. 1. Census. Monticello Bacon’s McGehee’s Goodman’s Cardin’s Starke’s Total
free white males { to 10. years of age 4  3  3 1    3  14.
from 10. to 16. 0    1      1.  2.
  16. to 26. 2  1      1  1  5
  26. to 45. 1    1 1    1  4.
  45. & upwards 1        1    2.
free white females { to 10. years of age 4    2 2  2  2  12.
from 10. to 16. 3.        2    5
  16. to 26. 2.     1    1.  4
  26. to 45. 3  1  1    1  1  7
  45. & upwards 0            0
Slaves of all ages *1421  2  1 2     147.
            2022  
pairs of shoes 112           112. pr
  stockings  83            83. pr
looms  1  1  1    1  1  5.
cloth. woollen mixed   30. 35    15.  30 110. yds
  cotton   93. 58   100 170 421. yd
  linen   32 88.    20 140 280. yd
wrought nails tons  6.            6. tons
Candles 430           430. ℔
Soap 110           110. ℔
 Th:J
 Nov. 8. 1810.

MS (NjMoHP: Lloyd W. Smith Collection); entirely in TJ’s hand.

The census data matches that found in the 1810 federal census. James Starke worked as a carpenter at Monticello, 1810–12 (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 , 2:1253).

1. Reworked from “122.”

2. Despite its placement in this column, this number totals the free and slave inhabitants.

Authorial notes

[The following note(s) appeared in the margins or otherwise outside the text flow in the original source, and have been moved here for purposes of the digital edition.]

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* this includes 16. slaves of mr Randolph
4.   of mr Bankhead
20.

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  • Monticello (TJ’s estate); and1810census search
  • nails; and1810census search
  • Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); and1810census search
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Thomas Jefferson’s Census of Inhabitants and Supplies at Monticello, 8 November 1810
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Jefferson, Thomas
Date
8 November 1810

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Census of Inhabitants and Supplies at Monticello, 8 November 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-03-02-0138. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, p. 202.]