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Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales, 22 August 1822

Enclosure

Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales

Sales 10 Hogsheads Tobacco by Bernard Peyton for

                ℀ Thomas Jefferson Esq:

1822 Richd

22 August, To sundry persons for cash 10 Hhds: Tobacco Viz:

        ℔s
Leaf.— { T.J.
T.H.
No 2=1740=140=1600 nett,  to Gray & Pankey at $7.20  $115.20
4=1872=142=1730  〃 , to J. & W. Gilliat 7.00 121.10
T.J.
B.C.
1=1700=138=1562  〃 , to Luke & Sizer 5.65 88.25
2=1765=135=1630  〃 to D. Barclay 5.75 93.72
3=1687=137=1550  〃 to Luke & Sizer 5.55 86.02
4=1770=138=1632  〃 to J. &. W Gilliat 6.05 98.73
Refused. { 5=1505=135=1370  〃 to Luke & Sizer 3.85 52.74
6=1596=136=1460  〃   do.   do. 3.85 56.21
7=1842=142=1700  〃 to D. W. & C. Warwick 3.50 59.50
T.J.
T.H.
8=1386=126=12601   do.   do. 3.65 45.99
$817.46
Charges.—
         ℔s:
Cash paid frght: 13,864 at 20¢. $27.72
 Do 〃  〃  1630 〃 25¢. 4.07
 Do 〃 for notes at 50¢.     5.00  $36.79
To Canal toll do. at 2/6 4.17
To Drayage $1.34, Comssn at 2½ pr $20.44 21.78 $62.74
Nett proceeds at cr Th: Jefferson Esq. $754.72
E.E.   
B. Peyton
By  N. N. Wilkinson

MS (MHi); entirely in N. N. Wilkinson’s hand; conjoined with covering letter; with related calculations by TJ adjacent to signatures:

“154.94| 817.46 (5.27½
| 77470
 42760
30988
 117720
108458
  92620”
and
“154.94| 754.72 (4.87
| 61976
134960
123952
 110080.”

luke & sizer was the Richmond firm Lucke & Sizer. e.e.: “Errors Excepted.”

1Beneath this column TJ drew a rule, with “15494” underneath it.

Index Entries

  • Barclay, David; purchases TJ’s tobacco search
  • Bear Creek plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); tobacco at search
  • canals; and transportation costs search
  • D. W. & C. Warwick (Richmond firm); purchases TJ’s tobacco search
  • Gray & Pankey (Richmond firm); buys TJ’s tobacco search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
  • John & William Gilliat (Richmond firm); purchases TJ’s tobacco search
  • Lucke & Sizer (Richmond firm); buys TJ’s tobacco search
  • Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
  • Richmond, Va.; TJ’s tobacco sold at search
  • Richmond, Va.; tobacco prices at search
  • tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
  • tobacco; price of in Richmond search
  • tobacco; sale of search
  • Tomahawk plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); tobacco grown at search
  • Wilkinson, N. N.; as clerk for B. Peyton search