Account with St. Mary’s Seminary, [ca. July 1809]

Account with St. Mary’s Seminary

[ca. July 1809]

Dr. James Madison for Master John Todd.
1809		College charges as Specified in the Prospectus.
June	7.	Washing two Quarters	9.
		Mending linen and Stockings	3.
		Doctor’s fees and Medicines	4.
		Paper, Slates, Quills &ca	3.
		Postage and Penny post Com”	1 31
		Six months Board and Tuition	115.	135 31.

Classic Books
Decembr.	16.	Ross Grammar1	.75
		Young’s Dictionary	4.
		Gloucester’s Grammar2	1.
		Spanish Dictionary	2 50
		Josse’s Grammar3	2.
1809		Ortografía Castillana4	.50
January	27.	Horace	.40	11 15

Expenses foreign to the Pension, which, according to the Prospectus the College advances at the request of the Parents.

Clothing.
Decembr.	20.	One pair of Suspenders	.50
1809.	31	Mending Clothes, from the 26th. Novembr.	.25
January	5	1 pair Silk Stockings	4.
		1 pair Silk Gloves	1 50
		3. pairs Stockings at $1.50	4 50
		3. handkerchiefs at 62 ½	1 87 ½
		1. Yard ¾ Cloth for a uniform Coat at $10.	17 50
		¾ Yard black Velvet at $1.50	1 12 ½
		Buttons, Silk Linen &ca $2. Making $4.	6.
		4. Yards (almost) for a Great Coat at $1.50.	6.
		Trimmings and Making	4 25
		Amount Carried over	$47 50	146 46

		Amount brought forwd.	$ 47 50	146 46

Clothing Continued
1809.
January.	19	2. handkerchiefs at 75. Cts.	1 50
		Mending Clothes	.87 ½
	24.	4. Yards Velvet for a pair of Pantaloons at $1.12 ½	4 50
		Trimmings and Making	2 25
	28.	Mending Clothes	.16
February	4.	1. pair of Shoes	2 50
	18.	Mending Clothes	.16
		Mending a pair of Boots; & Tassels	2 62 ½
March	4	Mending Shoes	.75
April.	8	Ditto Clothes	.25
	24.	Ditto ditto	.16
Mai	15.	Mending Clothes from the 1st.	.31 ¼
	29.	ditto ditto	.37 ½
	″	1. pair of boots foxed	3.75
	23.	5. Yards ¼ Nankeen for 1. pair of Pantaloons	1 31 ¼
		Trimmings & Making	2 25
June	3	Mending Clothes	.37 ½
		ditto ditto	.66 ½	72 27

Accomplishments.
	Drawing Master, Six months Lessons from the 7. Xber. to the 7th. June	24.
No. the Drawing Master has not produced his bill	Drawing paper, Crayons and Models	6.
	Paid Mr. Forster Private writing Master, for 6. months Lessons from the 7th. December to the 7th. June
			30. ”

Extra Money advanced.
		Omitted the 17th. March, a hat	4.
February	28.	Money advancd. for a pair of boots and for his Journey	15.
March	29.	to him advanced for his tour to Washington	7.

May	1. & 18.	1st. ditto $2.00. 18th. to him advd. by order of the Prest. $33.50	35.50	61 50
				$310 23

MS (MdBS: Day Book, 1806–1809). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on internal evidence.

1. This was probably James Ross, A Short, Plain, Comprehensive, Practical Latin Grammar, Comprising all of the Rules and Observations Necessary to an Accurate Knowledge of the Latin Classics, which was published in several editions in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century.

2. Grammar of the Greek Language: Originally Composed for the College-School at Gloucester […] (Boston, 1805; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 8551).

3. Augustin-Louis Josse’s Grammar of the Spanish Language, with Practical Exercises first appeared in French in 1799. It was translated into English and reprinted many times in the United States before the Civil War.

4. Mateo Alemán’s Ortografía Castellana, a treatise on Spanish spelling, was first published in Mexico in 1609.

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Title: Account with St. Mary’s Seminary, [ca. July 1809]
Author: Madison, James
Date: 1–31 July 1809

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Cite as: “Account with St. Mary’s Seminary, [ca. July 1809],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0775-0001. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 711–713.]