Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Joel Yancey, [ca. 25 May 1822] (second one)
Account with Joel Yancey
[ca. 25 May 1822]
| Cash Act. Dr | $ | C | |||
| 1821. | |||||
| Jan | To Amount due last year | 32 | 63 | ||
| 〃 | 〃 | To Richard Walker. Amt his Act | 14 | 25 | |
| 〃 | 〃 | To Joel Yancey | 4 | 58 | |
| March | 〃 | To John Gills in part. | 3 | 〃 | |
| To James Cox in part. | 5 | 〃 | |||
| May | 〃 | John Watts in part. | 5 | 〃 | |
| John Gills | 1 | 50 | |||
| 12 | To so much recd of Dudley for wheat. | 100 | 〃 | ||
| June | 1st | To balance in full of Dudley for the wheat. | 43 | 80 | |
| To Mr Jefferson Dft. on Peyton in favour of Johnathan Bishop | 136 | 48 | |||
| To ditto. do— on do in favour of J. Yancey | 135 | 〃 | |||
| fowarded | 481 | 24 | |||
| Cr. | |||||
| Feb | 〃 | By cash paid Wilkerson in part. for season | |||
| 〃 | of four mares | 10 | 〃 | ||
| May | 〃 | By Cash paid James Cox. over chage B.smithe Act | 25 | ||
| 4 | By ditto for potatoe seed | 〃 | 50 | ||
| 〃 | By ditto paid Cheetwood for coopering in part. | 5 | 〃 | ||
| 13 | By cash paid Butler for wheels | 15 | 〃 | ||
| 〃 | By cash paid Butcher Lynchburg for Beef for Mr Jefferson | 3 | 〃 | ||
| 〃 | By do paid Doct Streptoe | 70 | 43 | ||
| 〃 | By do paid John Burton for corn | 29 | 57 | ||
| 〃 | By do paid J Yancey for wheat furnished at Martins Mill July 1819 | 35 | 〃 | ||
| 20 | By do paid for carriage Iron salt from Lychbr | 〃 | 50 | ||
| June | 1st | By do paid Wm Cheetwood for do | 10 | 〃 | |
| July | By do paid Butler in full for cart wheels | 10 | — | ||
| By ditto. do Cheetwood for coopering | |||||
| By Cash paid Doctr Davies for Medecine & prescription | 10 | ||||
| By do paid J. Burton ⅌ receipt | 50 | 〃 | |||
| fowarded | 252 | 251 | |||
| Dr | $ | cts | |||
| July | 16th | To Amt. brought foward | 481 | 24 | |
| To James Howard ⅌ Wm Thompson | 2 | 〃 | |||
| To James Howard ⅌ Mr Bocock | 5 | 〃 | |||
| June | 18 | To refused Tobaco | 13 | 94 | |
| Sept | To ditto ditto | 8 | 75 | ||
| 1822 | |||||
| Jan | 6 | To John Watts ⅌ Mr Robertson | 14 | 〃 | |
| To Richard Walker amt his Act. | 537.43 | 12 | 50 | ||
| To 17. bushels of wheat at 1.D. To Dr Steptoe 6.57 Early 2/9 | 24 | 03 | |||
| To paid the University his 4th instalment due Apr. 1. 1821. | 50 | ||||
| balance due him | 639.72 | 28 | 26 2 | ||
| Cr | |||||
| July | 16 | By Amount brought foward | 252 | 25 | |
| By Cash paid Bishop ⅌ receipt | 136 | 48 | |||
| By ditto paid Wilkerson in full ⅌ receipt | 5 | 〃 | |||
| Sept | 1st | By cash paid Johnson Bocock for fixing cradles ⅌ receipt | 10 | 〃 | |
| 4 | By ditto paid James Howard. for corn | 5 | 〃 | ||
| By ditto paid Robert Yancey for corn (8 barrels)3 | 20 | 〃 | |||
| Oct | By do J Yancey. for corn (5 barrels) | 12 | 50 | ||
| By do ditto for corn | 12 | 50 | |||
| July | 16 | By Cash paid Goggins & Irvine for pork for Bishop | 44 | 〃 | |
| By ditto paid J. H. Burton for horse | 35 | 〃 | |||
| June | 1 | By ditto paid Cockram for horses | 100 | 〃 | |
| 1822 | By do Johnson Bocock in full | 7 | 〃 | ||
| 639 | 72 4 | ||||
MS (MHi); written in an unidentified hand on both sides of a single sheet, with notations added by TJ on verso rendered in italics above; undated, but evidently composed around the time of the settlement of TJ’s Poplar Forest plantation account with Yancey on 25 May 1822 (see , 2:1386); endorsed by TJ: “Yancey Joel. plantation acct for 1821.”
1. Correct sum is $249.25. Recto ends here.
2. TJ actually owed Yancey $25.27 (see notes 1 and 4).
3. Omitted closing parenthesis editorially supplied.
4. Correct sum is $639.73.
Index Entries
- beef; at Poplar Forest search
- Bishop, Jonathan; TJ pays search
- Bocock (Bococke; Bowcock), Mr. (overseer); mentioned search
- Bocock (Bowcock), Johnson search
- Burton, J. H. search
- Burton, John; sells corn to TJ search
- Burton, John; TJ pays search
- Butler, Mr.; TJ buys wheels from search
- carts; wheels for search
- Central College; subscription for search
- Cheetwood, William search
- Cockram, Mr. search
- corn; at Poplar Forest search
- Cox, James search
- cradles (agricultural tool) search
- Davies, Dr. search
- Dudley, Mr. search
- Early, Mr. search
- food; beef search
- food; pork search
- Gills, John search
- Goggins & Irvine (firm) search
- horses; at Poplar Forest search
- household articles; iron salt search
- Howard, James search
- iron salt search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; Account with J. Yancey search
- Martin, James; flour mill of search
- mills; J. Martin’s search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); corn for search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); horses at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); wheat grown at search
- pork; as pay search
- potatoes search
- Robertson, Mr. (of Virginia); payment made through search
- seeds; potato search
- Steptoe, William; as physician search
- Thompson, William (of Virginia) search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- Walker, Richard; TJ’s account with search
- Watts, John; Bedford Co. landholder search
- wheat; at Poplar Forest search
- wheat; ground for TJ search
- wheat; price of search
- Wilkerson, Mr. search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); and Central College–University of Virginia subscription search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); TJ pays search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); TJ’s account with search
- Yancey, Robert search