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Charles Hoyle’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food, [13 September 1815]

IV. Charles Hoyle’s Bill for Food

[13 Sept. 1815]

Mr Jefferson 
Dinner 3/– Club 2/–  5–0
2 Servts Dinners 3–0
4 Horses 1 feed ea 6–0
14–0

MS (MHi); written on a small scrap in an unidentified hand; undated; endorsed by TJ at foot of text: “Lynchbg. Hoyle. Sep. 13. 15.”; with TJ’s subjoined calculation that the amount owed was $2.58, the sum of $2.33 and an apparent $0.25 tip.

Charles Hoyle (1753–1825), innkeeper, was a native of Ireland. By 1802 he leased and operated the Indian Queen tavern in Lynchburg. After the Franklin Hotel opened in that city in 1817, Hoyle acted as its manager (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; Margaret Anthony Cabell, Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg by the Oldest Inhabitant (Mrs. Cabell) 1858 [1858; repr. with additional material by Louise A. Blunt, 1974], 296–7, suppl., 101–3; William Asbury Christian, Lynchburg and Its People [1900; repr. 1967], 25, 33–4, 64; Lynchburg Hustings and Corporation Court Deed Book, A:55–6; DNA: RG 29, CS, Lynchburg, 1810, 1820; Richmond Enquirer, 29 Sept. 1812; Richmond Enquirer, 23 Sept. 1825; gravestone inscription in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg).

club: a share in a joint expense, such as punch (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 , 1:39; OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ). On 13 Sept. 1815 TJ recorded payment to Hoyle of $2.58 for “dinner” (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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  • alcohol; shared purchase of search
  • food; tavern charges for search
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  • Hoyle, Charles; Lynchburg innkeeper search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bill from C. Hoyle search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Travels; tavern bills search
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