To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Dougherty, 31 December 1808
1808
Amount of the whole expence that attended our crop of oats and hay Utencils included
Sythe and hingings | 2. | 12½ |
rake | 0. | 56 |
reaping hook | 0. | 50 |
reapers and whiskey | 13. | 97 |
hawling in oats | 2. | 50 |
two months hire of black man | 20. | 00 |
Dollars | 39. | 65½ |
valuation of the produce Viz:
Say 270 bushels of oats worth 50 Cts. per bushel | } | 135. | 00 | |
the price that oats now sells at | ||||
About 16 CWT, of hay worth 86 cts. per cwt. | 13. | 76 | ||
Oats Straw worth | 30. | 00 | ||
178. | 76 | |||
39. | 65 | |||
cleer of all expence Dollars | 139. | 11 |
MHi: Coolidge Collection.