Bill for Purchase of Butter, [by 22 April 1819]

Bill for Purchase of Butter

[by 22 Apr. 1819]

Gross	—	Tare	—	Nett
16		8		8lbs1	@ 1/6.

MS (ViU: TJP-RFP); written in an unidentified hand on a small scrap; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Walker sent 2.D. by Gill Apr. 22. 19.”

According to TJ’s financial records, he made the payment described in his endorsement at Poplar Forest “for butter” (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 , 2:1353).

1. Manuscript: “8l.”

Index Entries

butter; TJ purchases search
food; butter search
Gillette, Gill (TJ’s slave; b.1792); delivers payment search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); butter for search
Walker, Mr.; TJ buys butter from search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Bill for Purchase of Butter, [by 22 April 1819]
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 22 April 1819

Reference

Cite as: “Bill for Purchase of Butter, [by 22 April 1819],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-14-02-0232. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 14, 1 February to 31 August 1819, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 243.]