Guerrant & Staples’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food, 12 September 1815
I. Guerrant & Staples’s Bill for Food
[12 Sept. 1815]
| Mr Jefferson | |
| To Breakfast | 2 3 |
| 3 Servants | 4. 6 |
| Dinner | 3–0 |
| 3 Servants | 4–6 |
| 5 Horses 301 hours | 1.2 2–6 |
| 3 Servants Breakfas | 4–6 |
| 3 Ditto Dinner | 4–6 |
| 23=5=9 | |
MS (MHi); written on a scrap in an unidentified hand; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Sep. 12. 15 Staples”; with TJ’s calculations at foot of text converting the amount due Staples to $8.075; unrelated fragment of notes in an unidentified hand on verso.
Guerrant & Staples obtained a license to keep an ordinary in Buckingham County in August 1815 (Vi: RG 48, Personal Property Tax Returns, Buckingham Co., 1815; , 2:1313).
1. Reworked from “24.”
2. Reworked from “2.”
3. Reworked from “3.”
Index Entries
- food; tavern charges for search
- Guerrant & Staples; Buckingham Co. innkeepers search
- Guerrant & Staples; identified search
- horses; tavern charges for search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bill from Guerrant & Staples search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Travels; tavern bills search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Travels; to Buckingham Court House search
- slaves; tavern charges for search
- taverns; bills from search