Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1822
From Edmund Bacon
March 9th 22.
Deare Sir.
Will you be so good as to let me no how much oats will be wanting to be bought as an Oppertunity now offers to supply ourselves. we have ingaged 250 bushels and has been feeding on it for some days so that we may count from the begining of this month. you have 6 horsis and the mule at your stable besides Mr Coffees horse makeing 8.
We have 7 mules and one horse here and four oxen and three milk cows I suppose we may get as much ofall from the Mill as will feed the oxen & cows
it seems that in all we have 16 head of horsis & mules if we allow 2 gallons a day each 321 Gallons a day is 4 bushels a day we shall not have any clover nor pasture so that I dont no how we are to make out without food through the spring and sumer. I promised to meet a man at Milton this evening about the purchase of oats. he offers 90 days credit. I shall wait for your answer how much to buy. I am Yours &C
E: Bacon
RC (MHi); dateline beneath closing; addressed: “Mr Jefferson Monticello”; endorsed by TJ: “Bacon E. Estimate of Oats from Mar. 1. 22”; with related calculations by TJ at foot of text:
| “8 horses | 2. b | 3.5 | 250.0 | (71 | ||
| 8 mules | 1½ | 245 | ||||
| 3½ b. | 50 | |||||
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| 210.” | ||||||
1. To arrive at this number, Bacon multiplied the “16,” positioned on the line immediately above, by an interlined “2.”
Index Entries
- Bacon, Edmund; buys oats for TJ search
- Bacon, Edmund; letters from search
- cattle; and milk search
- cattle; fodder for search
- clover; as fodder search
- Coffee, William John; visits Monticello search
- fodder; for horses search
- fodder; for mules search
- fodder; for oxen search
- horses; fodder for search
- horses; owned by TJ search
- mules; at Monticello search
- mules; fodder for search
- oats; as fodder search
- oxen; fodder for search
- Shadwell mills; fodder from search