From Thomas Jefferson to the Auditors, 1 May 1781
To the Auditors
May. 1. 1781.
Wm. Brackenridge came express from Botetourt on necessary public business and was detained in Richmond three days.
Th: Jefferson
380 miles @ 2℔ Tobo is 780 Tobo. @ £75 | £585 |
Ferriages | 1: 4 |
Expences 3 days in Richmond | 181:16 |
768 |
RC (Contingent Fund Vouchers, Vi); endorsed: “16 June 1781. Wm. Brackenridge £768 Contingent.” TJ’s orders to the auditors are written on the verso of a memorandum of George Skillern, county lieutenant, stating that Brackenridge “thinks he ought to be paid for thirteen Days as he found a horse and boar his own Expences” and that “the wether was bad and waters high.”