1From George Washington to Robert Jackson, 26 May 1757 (Washington Papers)
1 do white-Lead
2Invoice from Robert Cary & Company, 31 March 1761 (Washington Papers)
1 Rundlet white Lead Groun:
3Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 12 October 1761 (Washington Papers)
500 lb. white Lead ground in Oyl 100 lb. Spanish brown Do 10...
4Invoice from Robert Cary & Company, 10 April 1762 (Washington Papers)
Two Rundlets white Lead Ground
5Enclosure: Invoices to Robert Cary & Company, 15 November 1762 (Washington Papers)
1 Keg white Lead ground in Oyl 1 Barrl FF Gunpowder 20 lb....
6Invoice from Robert Cary & Company, 13 April 1763 (Washington Papers)
1 Keg white Lead grd o C. 2 Q. 3 lb. Nt...
7Enclosure: Invoice of Goods to Robert Cary & Company, 27 September 1763 (Washington Papers)
...Candlesticks with broad bottoms to them 100 Wt white Lead gd in Oyl 2 block tin Coffee Pots—...
8Invoice from Robert Cary & Company, 13 February 1764 (Washington Papers)
Ground White Lead 1 C.o.14 @36/
9Memorandum Books, 1767 (Jefferson Papers)
for 400 lib. white lead, 50 galls. oil.
10From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 20 February 1768 (Franklin Papers)
...as Glazers, Type-Founders, Plumbers, Potters, White Lead-makers and Painters; from the latter,...
11Minutes of Truro Parish Vestry, 21 September 1769 (Washington Papers)
...too soft” and hence should be “painted with White Lead and Oyle,” and “that the sub’d...
12[July 1771] (Washington Papers)
...,” they ordered it to “be painted with white Lead and Oyle.” They also stipulated “that the...
13[Diary entry: 8 July 1771] (Washington Papers)
...,” they ordered it to “be painted with white Lead and Oyle.” They also stipulated “that the...
14Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 10 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
...ground in Oil 3 Kegs contg about 300 Wt of white Lead ground in Do 2 Kegs contg abt 200 of Red...
15From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 6 October 1773 (Washington Papers)
400 Wt of White Lead grd in Oyl over & above the last Order
16To George Washington from Going Lanphier, 16 October 1773 (Washington Papers)
400 Wt of White Lead for Inside and Out
30 lb. Read Lead...Country Oyl, the above White Lead to...
17Thomas Jefferson in Council to Thomas Whiting, 26 June 1779 (Madison Papers)
500 lb of white lead in Kegs ground.
18From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Whiting, enclosing List of Materials for Temporary Buildings at Richmond, 26 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
500 ℔ of white lead in Kegs ground.
19From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 15 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
4 Ct Weight of white Lead Gd in Oyl
20To George Washington from William Fitzhugh, 2 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
...—such as Crown Glass 10 Inches by 12—white lead—Oil—paint, Nails, Sprigs Brads Hinges Gross...
21Mount Vernon Store Book, January 1787 (Washington Papers)
½ bagg white lead to Mathew, to put on the mouldings in the...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 17 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
..., the Steel furnaces, Tin plate Manufacture, white lead Manufacture,-all those things might be...
23To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 15–16 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
...Green House and the wings to it for white lead which if the principal paint in forming a...
24From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 30 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
...houses (if not already done)—also white led to finish what was begun, and not...
25To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 9 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
...done there is no danger of sending too much White Lead—4 or 5 of the small kegs which white...
26Memorandum for James Anderson and William Pearce, 5 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
...) and paint them in the usual manner with white lead gr[oun]d in oil and after the...
27To George Washington from William Pearce, 13 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
...Is very Scarce here Oil is 9/ ⅌ Gallon white Lead 24/ ⅌ Cegg [keg] spanish Brown 14/...
28From George Washington to William Pearce, 20 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
...abt Paints & Oil; but when you spoke of White Lead ground in Oil being 24/ pr Keg, you...
29From George Washington to James Maury, 5 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
...invoice lists the following items: “300 Wt of White lead ground in Oil;” 2 pieces of “very...
30To George Washington from Saunders A. Read, 25 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
...of Paints & Linseed Oil I received the White lead Ground in Oil Warrented Good is five pound...
31From George Washington to James Anderson, 1 November 1798 (Washington Papers)
...in their places and painted (by Thoms Davis) with white lead.
32To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 2 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The white lead and oil have been used, for painting the window...
33From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1800 (Madison Papers)
...thought of common plaister thickly painted with White lead overspread with sand. I wish to...
34To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 4 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...thought of common plaister thickly painted with white lead and overspread with sand. I wish...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Gibson & Jefferson, 20 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
4. kegs white lead
36Notes on Painting at Monticello, 2 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
white lead unground @ 13. D. Cwt
37Memorandum Books, 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
with 500 pounds of unground white lead (TJ to Taggart, 2 May 1805; Taggart to...
38From Thomas Jefferson to John Taggert, 2 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...you to purchase for me 500. lbs of unground white lead, & to ship the same by the first...
39To Thomas Jefferson from John Taggert, 17 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...to your instructions have Shipped the White Lead, on board the Schooner Liberty...
40To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 6 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Gallena in its gangue of white lead Spar from the old mines—
41From Thomas Jefferson to John Taggert, 9 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
℔ White lead, dry
42To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 31 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
" white lead and linseed Oil..." 1 key of white lead
43To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas H. Brantingham, 3 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...of the Expences in Establishing, a white Lead manufactory, which is changing the...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas H. Brantingham, 21 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...those of arms, within which description that of white lead, proposed by you, does not fall....
45From Thomas Jefferson to John Taggert, 13 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
250. lb of unground white lead
46From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 26 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
...at the neck. it may be easily mended with white lead, & if placed where it cannot be touched...
47From Thomas Jefferson to John Taggert, 12 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
...of linseed oil, and 200. lb. of dry white lead, and to request that they may be immediately...
48To Thomas Jefferson from John Taggert, 26 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
...your Orders have Shiped the Oil and White Lead on board the Schooner Adventure Captn....
49From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 1 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
...in 3. weeks from this time. the oil & white lead for mr Barry left Philadelphia Oct. 25. & of...
50Memorandum Books, 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
250 pounds of white lead, sending also small amounts of ochre and Prussian blue...