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Enclosure: Gibson & Jefferson: Flour Account with TJ, [9 June 1812]

Enclosure

Flour Account with Gibson & Jefferson

Gibson & Jefferson’s acct of the flour. recd June 12. 1812

date of sale.
1812. Feb. 12. 59. Barrels superfine
Mar. 25. 34. x midlings
3. struck do
28. 58. superfine
1. fine
June. 8. 12. fine
57. x midlings
8. struck do
3. Bar. ship stuff ‘on hand which they cannot dispose of at any price.’
235. Bar.
in the whole
117.  Bar.  Superfine
13. fine
91. x midlings
11. struck do
3. shipstuff unsaleable
  235 

Tr (DLC: TJ Papers, 196:34865); in TJ’s hand; undated; with unrelated calculation at foot of page; on verso of portion of address cover of Charles Blagrove to TJ, 4 June 1812.

In transcribing this document, TJ probably mistakenly expanded the abbreviation “str” to struck rather than “straight,” a lower grade of flour than cross middlings (Gibson & Jefferson to TJ, [before 12 Apr. 1812]).

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