1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 1 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
from Pietro Tellamanzie at 18 crazie per bottle, or 225 paolis total, with additional charges of 10 paolis for cases and straw and 16 paolis for transportation from Pisa, duties, and porterage. He calculated that the total of 251 paolis converted to $26.40 (
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 6 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Straw Wax
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 1 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The transportation from florence by the Arno. with porterage, bottling, Cases, Straw, Corks, ropes, transporting on board &ca. &ca.
4To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 7 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have paid Mr LeMaire $141. Mos. Wages a/c to the 4th Inst. as well Mr Dougherty—32.50 for Oats, straw, Chariot & Horses a/c—the Carriage tax Collector, called on me, respecting yrs—I requested him to leave it untill your return, as I knew not, what they consisted of.
5To Thomas Jefferson from Elias Boudinot, 10 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
the spring, and then planted them in a good soil—At Harvest, they turned out to be a species of Oats of a peculiar Nature—When ripe, I was collecting them from the Straw by hand—Having picked 14 or 15 I laid them on the grass, till I gathered more; but in 10 minutes they disappeared, and could not be found—I gathered a number more & put them in the...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Britton, 16 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
...too house a Strait jacket On. I
Verry Calm Manner Says to the Black Brute that Put It On I Am In Posetion of the Sackcloth where be the Ashes. I am took
and laid on an bundle of Straw nature had not far lost her Self. Shee wass disposed to Discharge by Urin
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Bruff, 16 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...bed steads, to superceed the necessity of screwing them and lacing the sacking: I have modeld here, a machine for treading wheat, cheap and simple, avoiding the fault of those lately patented, such as leaving in the straw, from 60, to 100 bushels of a thousand, and cuting off the heads where the straw is unsound. I have pland a grist mill; to be set up like a coffee mill, and turnd by hand;...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 27 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...president does not like older vintages but prefers them “a little Liquor,” that is, sweeter; they can supply Pierce Butler with virgin white wine next winter and could also provide him with “Straw colour hermitage wine much better than that,” their father being the only grower capable of producing such wine in that country; they will pack the wine in earthen bottles that weigh less and...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Chisholm, 1 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
...I woud have mentioned before to you it is not my
wish to run you to that Expence for further than it shall be the case if you
think proper I will get ozenburgs for a tick and fill with straw it will anser for some of the people when I am done with it I had a great deel rether do it then they shood be such of
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Claxton, 13 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
was a popular and more expensive floor covering than straw or