Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Hugh Chisholm, 17 November 1810

Account with Hugh Chisholm

Hugh Chisholm in account with Th: Jefferson

						D
1807.	Dec.	8.	To remitted through E. Bacon			20.
1808.	Jan.	5.	To do			100.
	Feb.	8.	to do			100.
	Mar.	8.	to do			100.
	May	12.	to cash			60.
	Aug.	8.	to paid Reuben Maury			43.
	Nov.	7.	to remitted you			10.
			to remitted Bullock for you			77.	90
			to do to your brother			35.
1809.	Jan.	7.	To order on G. Jefferson			150.
		23.	To do			157.	16
			Balance due H. Chisolm			41.	61
						894.	67.

				Cr.
1807.	Sep.	29.	By balance due you per settlemt			430.	06
					m. days
1808.	Feb.	9	–July 6	yourself at Monto & to Oct. 7. at Pop. For.	7–24
	Mar.	10.	–Nov. 4.	your brother at Pop. For.	7–20
				@ 20. D. pr month	15–18 =	313.	86
	Feb.	9.	–Oct. 2.	at Poplar For. 2. boys 201. days @ 4/6		150.	75
						894.	67

1809.			By balance as above		mo. d D	41.	61
	Aug.	8.	–Sep. 17.	by yourself & boy at Mo	1– 9 @ 30.	39.
				your brother	1– 3 @ 20	22.
1810.	Sep.	24	–Nov. 14.	by yourself	1–21. @ 20	34.
						136.	61

1810. Nov. 17.

Settled and the balance of one hundred & thirty six Dollars 61. cents acknoleged due to Hugh Chisolm

Th: Jefferson

Hugh Chisholm

MS (MHi); in TJ’s hand, signed by TJ and Chisholm; endorsed by TJ: “Chisolm Hugh. settlement of 1810. Nov. 17.” Not recorded in SJL.

Chisholm had recently presented TJ with an invoice briefly stating that he and a boy had worked from 8 Aug. to 17 Sept. 1809 at $30 per month, that his brother, John R. Chisholm, had worked at an unspecified date for one month and three days at $20 per month, and that Chisholm had himself worked from 24 Sept. to 14 Nov. 1810 (MS in MHi; entirely in Chisholm’s hand; on a small scrap; undated).

Index Entries

Bacon, Edmund; mentioned search
Bullock, Mr. search
Chisholm, Hugh; account with TJ search
Chisholm, John R. search
Jefferson, George (TJ’s cousin); payments made for TJ search
Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with H. Chisholm search
Maury, Reuben; payments to search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); builders at search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Hugh Chisholm, 17 November 1810
Authors: Jefferson, Thomas
Chisholm, Hugh
Date: 17 November 1810

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Hugh Chisholm, 17 November 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-03-02-0150. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 215–216.]