Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Craven Peyton for Corn, 28 January 1804 to 25 June 1805
Enclosure
Account with Craven Peyton for Corn
| Craven Peyton on a contract for corn in acct with Th: Jefferson Dr | Dol | ||||
| £ | |||||
| 1804. | Jan. | 28 | To my assumpsit to D. Higginbotham | 47– 0–0 | |
| Feb. | 25 | To my note paiable Apr. 10. | 50– 0–0 | ||
| To Lilly’s assumpsit for me to Brand. on your acct | 40– 0–0 | ||||
| To his do to mrs Key for me on your account | 60– 0–0 | ||||
| Mar | 29 | To my assumpsit to G. Jefferson for you | 60– 0–0 | ||
| May. | 8. | To my order on G. Jefferson | 15– 0–0 | ||
| 272– 0–0 | |||||
| Cr. | |||||
| By 410. barrels corn @ 12/6 according to contract | 256– 5–0 | ||||
| 1805. | June | 25 | By balance due you brought from another account | 2– 4–0 | |
| Balance due Th:J. on this account & carried to the next | 13–11–0 | ||||
| 272– 0–0 | |||||
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 194:34556); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; on verso of second page of preceding enclosure.
On 28 Jan. 1804 TJ accepted Peyton’s order in favor of David higginbotham for £47, amounting to $156.67 “paiable Apr. 15. This is on Peyton’s corn contract with Lilly.” TJ drew on Gibson & Jefferson on 17 Apr. 1804 to pay this debt. On 8 May of that year TJ drew on Gibson & Jefferson for 50 dollars “in favr. Craven Peyton on our corn contract for next winter.” On 23 Aug. 1804 he gave mrs key “an ord. on Gibson & Jefferson for £33–1–5½ = 110.25 in favr. Alexr. Garrett in part paiment of £60 for corn assumed to her for Craven Peyton and £14–11 purchased by Lilly on my own acct. viz. 48½ bush. @ 30/” (, 2:1119, 1124, 1126, 1134–5).
Index Entries
- Brand, Joseph; TJ pays search
- corn; TJ buys search
- Garrett, Alexander; and TJ’s debts to search
- Gibson & Jefferson (Richmond firm); and C. Peyton’s arrangement with TJ search
- Gibson & Jefferson (Richmond firm); payments made for TJ search
- Higginbotham, David; merchant search
- Jefferson, George (TJ’s cousin); payments made for TJ search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; Account with Craven Peyton for Corn search
- Key, Ann (Martin Key’s wife) search
- Lilly, Gabriel; Monticello overseer search
- Peyton, Craven; corn contract with TJ search