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From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 May 1804

To John Barnes

30. Dollars to Alexander Perry, Queen street Alexandria, to wit 20. D. for himself and 10. D. for mrs Wanscher

on account of Martin Wanscher

  D   C
51.21 for Monticello
30   
81.21 May 23d. 1804

RC (MHi); in TJ’s hand, with text in italics in Barnes’s hand; written on a scrap from an address cover, probably from Robert Smith to TJ, 16 May, postmarked at Baltimore that day and with remnant text “Presiden” in Smith’s hand; endorsed by Barnes.

In his financial memoranda under 23 May, TJ recorded the receipt of the $81.21 from Barnes (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1127). For the payments on behalf of Marten wanscher and for legal costs, recorded here as for monticello, see TJ’s letters of 24 May to Lewis Deblois and Dabney Carr.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 May 1804
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Barnes, John
    Date
    23 May 1804

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 May 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0360. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 472.]

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