20241Notes on Headaches, 10 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Recipe for the head-ach called the Sun-pain 6. grains of Calomel taken at night, without any thing to work it off, or any other matter whatever. Mr. Willis of Georgia has had this head-ach to a dangerous extremity, and tried bark ineffectually. A drunken Doctr. recommended the above dose of Calomel, it relieved him from the next fit. He had it some years after, and the same medecine relieved...
20242Agreement with Benjamin Johnson for Exchange of Poplar Forest Lands, 13 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
This indented deed of Exchange made on the 13 th day of December one thousand eight hundred & twelve between Benjamin Johnson of the county of Bedford on the one part, & Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle on the other part witnesseth that the said parties being separately siesed in fee simple of lands in the sd county
20243George Twyman to Nicholas Lewis and Isaac Davis, with Jefferson’s Instructions to William Davies, 20–28 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Sixth of October last I Delivered to Mr. Joseph Hawkins Comasery at the Barracks 139 ℔ of mutten at 4. Dollars pr. pound, which I agree’d with him for a few Days before, for which I took a receit of Mr. John Tomas his assistant, Mr. Hawkins being some-where about The Store. I wated with patience as no money was to be had, and between the 5th. and 10th. March notis was given For Every body...
20244Note of Agenda to Reduce the Government to True Principles, [ca. 11 July 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Agenda. committee to count money in treasury 1. divide the treasury department 2. abolish the bank 4 repeal the Excise law & let states raise the money. 5. lower impost 3. treasurer to pay and recieve cash not bills. qu? repeal irredeemable quality and borrow at 4. pr. cent qu 6. exclude paper holders
20245I. Notes on Billon as reported to the National Assembly, [1790] (Jefferson Papers)
La monnoie de Billon is composed of ⅘ copper and ⅕ silver which makes it intrinsically worth 11₶-10 the marc. [Les cloches, the bells of the kingdom become useless, will weigh 184,000,000 ₶ and be worth 184. millions of livres as metal] A proposal is made to mix arsenic with the copper of Billon to brighten the colour, but it will add 60 percent to the expence, therefore rejected. Copper costs...
20246Enclosure: Report on Commerce, 23 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Footing of the Commerce of the United States, with France & England; and with the French & English american Colonies. Wheat, Flour &c. France Grt. Britn: & Ireland French Ama. English Ama: Free Prohibited till it is 6/3 a Bushel Wheat, Flour &c. Prohibited by a genl. Law, Free by Suspensions from Time to Time. Free by Proclamaton Rice Free 7/4 sterlg. the Kent.
20247II. Jefferson’s Notes relating to Foreign and Domestic Affairs, [January 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, without date, taken down in Jan. 1783 .] Several series of notes, the order of which is not determinable, from papers principally in the office of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. (1) Notes captioned “Journal of Foreign Affairs. Vol. I. they begin Nov. 29. 1775.” These were taken by TJ from the “Secret Journal of Foreign Affairs” kept separately by Secretary Thomson from the...
20248Notes on Appointments, 31 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Orleans Govr. Claiborne Secretary < Sumpter. > James Brown. < Prevost. Petit. Detrehan .> Judges <James Brown> Pinkney • Kirby • Prevost • Hall Distr. Rodney Thos. Govr. Misipi. [he is judge of Misipi] Hull
20249Financial and Military Estimates for Continental Defense, [June–July 1775] (Jefferson Papers)
souls dollars New Hampshire 100,000 82,713 2 Massachusets 350,000 289,496 Rhode island 58,000 47,973 Connecticut 200,000 165,426 New York 200,000 165,426 New Jersey 130,000
20250Lease for the Hôtel de Langeac, [5 September 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
Par devant Les Conseillers du Roy, Notaires au Chatelet de Paris, Soussignés Fut Present Haut et Puissant Seigneur Auguste Louis Joseph fidele Amand de Lespinasse Langeac, Chevalier Comte de Langeac, Colonel d’Infanterie, Chevalier de l’ordre Royal et militaire de St. Louis, le Gouverneur pour le Roy des villes de Guerande, Le Croisic et St. Nazaire En Bretagne, de Celle de Rüe en Picardie, et...