5641Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Presidential Appointments, [ca. 6 March 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
candidates Sec retary of State War Missisi pi Gov r v. Williams Holmes .
5642Notes on Shipping Costs for Flour, [February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
1 bl Sfine flour Sold at $9. 1 bl Sfine flour 6 bus @ 6/9 6 75 freight & provisions, 1.50 tol l & Drayage 25 Storage & Cooperage
5643Memorandum Books, 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 1. Recd. from Jonathan Shoemaker on acct. 50.D. Pd. Edmund Bacon 70.D. out of which he is to pay Wm. Anderson for 25. B. corn @ 14/ 58.33 leaves balce. 11.67. 2. Pd. him 7.D. which with the balance of 11.67 yesterday enables him to pay a balance 18.D. still due Wm. Bacon for the beef mentd. ante Dec. 28. Note he has bot. a sorrel mare for work at Lego for £6–10 paiable at the rising of...
5644Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, [ca. 16 December 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
Catalogue of books on Agriculture. Geoponica Cassiani Bassi . Gr. & Lat. there have never been but 2. editions published, one by Needham at Cambridge in 1704. 8 vo the other by Niclas , at Leipsick in 1781. 2. v. 8 vo
5645Recommendation of William McClure by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer W m M c lure removed from N.C. to this neighborhood under an engagement to instruct us in the use of the Spinning Jenny. several of these machines have been made by him & by our own workmen, and our Spinners are taught to use them so completely as to ensure our being able to clothe our own people by the labor of a few of the least useful of them. his principal profession is that of...
5646Thomas Jefferson: Book List, [after 6 October 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
Enfield Mackay on Longitude Nautical almanac for 1816. by Blunt N.Y. d o by Garnet Garnet’s Requisite tables La Croix wants 2 d vol. a Fr. dict. of about 1550–1600 Antoninus. 12 mo Playfair’s statistical Breviary. 8 vo M c Mahon’s gardening. 8 vo
5647Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case, [ca. 9 April 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Books quoted & possessed by me. Books quoted but not possessed by me. Civil law. Ferriere Valin Pothier Guyot . Repertoire Universelle Denizart Renusson Julien Prevot de la Janné Partidas Curia Philippica
5648Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Cost of French Merchandise, [ca. 3 July 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
idea of the produce of 200.D. at old prices, by way of memm. D Costs on 200. D worth about 1/16 or 6. p. cent. 12 50. ℔ Maccaroni @ .20 p r ℔. 10 42. bottles of wh. hermitage @ 4₶–½ = 190.₶ (*excha. 5.₶35 = 1.D) 36 217. d o Nice @ 1₶¾ (or .32½) = 380₶
5649Notes on Wheat Shipments from Poplar Forest, [ca. 4 December 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
1812. b ℔
5650Proposals to Revise the Virginia Constitution, 12 July 1816. II: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Revising the Virginia … (Jefferson Papers)
Convention by the people general suffrage for Delegates freeholders for Senate equal representn. seat of govmt every 10 th year. 100. members. Senators older both houses older pay to be fixed biennial elections Gov r elected by
5651Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Biography of Peyton Randolph (ca. 1723–75), [ca. 26 July 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Peyton Randolph was the eldest son of S r John Randolph of Virgin ia, a barrister at law, and an eminent practitioner at the bar of the General court . Peyton was educated at the college of W m & Mary in Williamsburg , & thence went to England
5652Thomas Jefferson’s Lease Agreement with William Johnson, 17 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
It is agreed between Thomas Jefferson and William Johnson that the said Thomas shall permit the sd William to occupy during this present year 1811. the tenement below Milton which he has occupied for some years, in lease, for which he shall pay the sd Thomas a rent of sixty dollars on the last day of the year; and that the land shall be divided into three equal shifts, of which one shall not...
5653Memorandum Books, 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 3. Borrowed of D. Higginbotham 20.D. Jan. 4. Gave in charity 1.D. Drew on Gibson & Jefferson for 60.D. in favor of Joel Shifflet on the order of James Salmons. 6. Charity 1.D. Gave my note to Clifton Rhodes for 71.32 D. for 6. beeves bought, payable Aug. 9. ensuing. Gave my note to Charles Vest by order of Thos. Hunton for a mule bought of him for 55.D. payable May 1. 11.
5654Henry Flood’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food and Lodging, [13 September 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
Col o Jefferson 1815 Sep t 11 th To 5 Horses feed g 2/3 11.3 〃 1 Dinner 2.0 〃 3 Serv ts
5655Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Supplemental List of Recommended Books, [ca. 4 October 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
Pike’s arithmetic. 8 vo Simpson’s Algebra. 8 vo Emerson’s fluxions 8 vo Simpson’s Euclid 4 to Gibson’s surveying. 8
5656Thomas Jefferson’s Constitution for Proposed Agricultural Society of Albemarle, [ca. 1 February 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Several persons, farmers & planters of the county of Albemarle , having, during their visits and occasional meetings together, in conversations on the subjects of their Agricultural pursuits, recieved considerable benefits from an intercommunication of their plans & processes in husbandry, they have imagined that these benefits might be usefully extended, by enlarging the field of...
5657Thomas Jefferson’s Field Notes and Calculations of Altitude of the Peaks of Otter, [10–ca. 17 November 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
Field Notes. 1 st operation. 1815. Nov. 10. went on the top of the sharp or South peak of Otter , & from thence made these observations. ° ′ the meridian altitude of the sun by sextant 71– 8 − error of instrument 1– 30
5658Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Books to be Acquired by Joseph Milligan, [ca. 28 March 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
Impartial history of the Revolution in France . 1. v. 8 vo Ray ’s American tars in Tripoli . 12 mo printed in the US. Sampson ’s memoirs. 8 vo Hepbur n ’s book of gardening. 12 mo printed at Washington .
5659Thomas Jefferson’s Calculations of Latitude of Poplar Forest, 8 November–3 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 8. ° ′ ″ Nov. 9. ° ′ ″ Nov. 12. ° ′ ″ Nov. 13. ° ′ ″ Nov. 15.
5660Thomas Jefferson’s Observations for Calculating the Latitude of Monticello, 30 January–4 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
1816. Jan. 30 Jan. 31. Feb. 3 Feb. 4. Observed altitude Jan 30 error of instrum t 68–28–30 68–56– 0 70–39–30 ☉’s semidiam. here & hereafter 70–39–30 true observ d
5661Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Distances between Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge, [ca. 17–21 September 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
Roads Poplar Forest Callaway ’s mill bridge . 5. } soon after passing Callaw ’s mill a right hand is a better road, and saves 3. mi. to Clarke ’s. 4 { Leftwich’s mill Liberty . 12
5662Memorandum Books, 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 3. Recd. of Gibson & Jeff. 75.D. 4. Gave my note to Wm. Bacon for 30.D. with interest from Nov. 21. 1812. for beeves bought. Pd. E. Bacon for Richard Bruce 20.B. Corn 56. 67
5663Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Reuben Perry, 10 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Reuben Perry in acc t with Th: Jefferson £ s d D Account for work on the house at Pop. For. 63– 4– 7= 210. 76 d o for various jobs. 11–
5664Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Joseph Fossett’s Account for Plating Saddle Trees, 18 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
1811. Saddle trees plated for M r Burnley D the former acc t
5665Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate and Plans for Albemarle Academy/Central College, [ca. 18 November 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
The walls of the Pavilion are 116.f. running measure. Cellar 2. bricks thick, 10 f. high. 24. bricks to a square foot. 24 × 10 × 116 amount to 27,840. bricks 27 84 0 Upper walls 23. f. high, 1½ brick thick. 18. bricks to a square foot. 18 × 23 × 116 48,024 say 53360 the chimney 4,752 4752 6. pilasters 1 134. 1134
5666Thomas Jefferson’s Statement on the Batture Case, 31 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : To defend himself in Livingston v. Jefferson , TJ prepared a lengthy “Statement of the Usurpation of Edward Livingston on the Batture , or public Beach at New Orleans , and of the laws requiring his removal by the late Executive of the United States ,” which he signed and dated Monticello , 31 July 1810 (DLC: TJ Papers, 195:34667–709). Before and after this date he edited versions...
5667Thomas Jefferson’s Astronomical Calculations, 5-11 February 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
1811. Feb. 5 H ′ ° ′ ° ′ ″ 12–14
5668Contract to Purchase Corn from Craven Peyton, 13 October 1813, with Subsequent Receipts (Jefferson Papers)
M. Bacon & C. Peyton have bargained for all the corn C. Peyton may have to sell—except about Seventy barrells—that is C.P. is to let M. Bacon hav e One hundred Barrells if he makes as much to sell aftar deducting the above Seventy; the Corn to be recav d between the 1 st & tenth of Nov r On the rivar bank. at Twenty Shilling ⅌ barrell payable on the
5669Thomas Jefferson’s Resurvey of Lego, 29 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Lego . re-survey of Dec. 29 09. scale 40. po. to the Inch the hedge row mentioned in the survey of Nov. 94 . remained entire, & bears magnetically about N.48¾ E. the double bodied walnut, in line 5.6. remains one peach tree on the line 7.8. is remaining. the row of peach trees 7.11. has many remaining. the Western walnut between 1. & 9. is standing, but belted & dead. the fore & aft line tree...
5670Notes on Outstanding Debts, [before 5 August 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
Wickham for Hanbury 140.85 – 22 D. 44 Liv’s costs suit ✓ Garth J. W. 208 £–4 + int. Oct. 2. + 100 D. for Salmons ? ✓ Vest . mule . 55.D ✓