Bill for Food to Thomas Jefferson at a Tavern in Liberty, Virginia, [17 September 1815]

V. Bill for Food at a Tavern in Liberty, Virginia

[17 Sept. 1815]

Mr Jefersons Bill
To	2 horsefeeds	2–
〃	Dinner	2–
	Servants Dinner	1–6
		5 6

MS (MHi); written on a small scrap in an unidentified hand; undated; endorsed by TJ at foot of text: “1815. Sep. 17. Liberty”; with unidentified map in pencil by TJ on verso.

On 17 Sept. 1815 TJ recorded spending $0.93 for dinner in Liberty (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1313).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Bill for Food to Thomas Jefferson at a Tavern in Liberty, Virginia, [17 September 1815]
Author: Unknown
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 17 September 1815

Reference

Cite as: “Bill for Food to Thomas Jefferson at a Tavern in Liberty, Virginia, [17 September 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0011-0006. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9, September 1815 to April 1816, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 21.]

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