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Henry Flood’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food and Lodging, [13 September 1815]

II. Henry Flood’s Bill for Food and Lodging

[13 Sept. 1815]

 Colo Jefferson
1815
Sept  11th  To 5 Horses feedg 2/3 11.3
〃  1 Dinner 2.0
〃  3 Servts Dinr 1/– 3.0
〃  1 Lodging .9
〃  Wine 2.6
13th 19.6
To 5 Horses feedg 2/3 11.3
〃  1 Supr 2.0
〃  1 Lodging .9
〃  1 Servt 1.0
〃  Wine 4.6
£1.19.0

MS (MHi); undated; endorsed by TJ: “Sep. 13. 15. H. Flood”; with TJ’s notation beneath sum that the amount owed was $6.50.

On 11 Sept. 1815 TJ recorded paying $.25 in tips at Flood’s tavern. Two days later he paid a total of $6.75 for lodgings “&c. going & coming” (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).

Index Entries

  • Buckingham County, Va.; Flood’s ordinary search
  • Flood, Henry; Buckingham Co. tavernkeeper search
  • Flood’s ordinary (Buckingham Co.; proprietor Henry Flood) search
  • food; tavern charges for search
  • horses; tavern charges for search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bill from H. Flood search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Travels; tavern bills search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Travels; to Buckingham Court House search
  • slaves; tavern charges for search
  • taverns; bills from search
  • wine; tavern charges for search

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Henry Flood’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food and Lodging, [13 September 1815]
Authors
Jefferson, Thomas
Flood, Henry
Date
12–13 September 1815

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“Henry Flood’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food and Lodging, [13 September 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0011-0003. [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, pp. 19–20.]