Memorandum from Ann Bacon to Thomas Jefferson on Turkeys Raised, 7 March 1821
Memorandum from Ann Bacon on Turkeys Raised
March 7th 1821—
Memorandom of Turkeys raised and sent to the house 1820. 15 Turkeys was sent to the house one half is Mr Jeffersons1
1821. twelve is deliverd and two yet Remains to be sent up when ever requier’d two was cripled in catching them and died of this years raising2
Ann Bacon
MS (MHi); in Bacon’s hand; at foot of text, adjacent to dateline: “Mr Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ: “Bacon mrs 7.75 D Mar. 7. pd cash.”
Ann Simmons Bacon (ca. 1783–1824) was a native of Albemarle County. She married TJ’s overseer Edmund Bacon in 1802 and moved with him to Kentucky in 1823, where she died. In his financial records TJ lists payments to her for weaving in 1809 and 1810 and for turkeys in 1815 (Edmund Bacon to TJ, [before 1 Aug. 1820], 22 Aug. 1824; , 2:1248, 1252, 1306; Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America [1959], 434).
1. In right margin adjacent to this line, TJ wrote “7½.”
2. In right margin adjacent to this line, TJ wrote “8.”
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