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Notes on Personal Finance, [ca. 4 June 1805]

Notes on Personal Finance

[ca. 4 June 1805]

	Checks.
✓	Lemaire.	700
✓	Daugherty.	51	.845
✓	Carpenter	94	.25
✓	Burwell	100	.
✓	Gaines	20	.
✓	Cooper	18	.
	Cash. Maine 12. pocket
✓	Webb	50	.50
✓	Colston	400
		1434	.595

	Draughts.					lres
Phila.	Taggert.	\	86	.42		Taggert
	Roches	\	36	.75		Roches
N.Y.	Gelston	\	111	.82		Gelston
Baltim.	Killer & Faremans1	\	230	.		Killer & Faremans
			464	.99	\	Higginbotham. 100. self + 83.33. Hope			say	185
					\	Kelly. 50. self. 50. Kendred.
					\	Hope.

					\	Lilly. for Hope for	Thos. Whitlock.	83	.33
							Richard Price	76	.67
							David Anderson	60	.
							John Peyton	62	.90
							himself	181	.915	464	.815
						for	Hancock Allen	238	.42
							John Peyton	103	.16
							John Rogers2	67	.42
							John Perry	300	.
							his list of debts	289	.17	998	.17
										1462	.985
									say	1465

Richmond bills		183	.33	185	.
		100	.	100	.
		1462	.985	1465
		1746	.315	1750
	<say 1760.>

Richmd.	100	.	3		300
	50	.	2	.	100
	20	.	29		580
	10	.	19		190
	5	.	16		80
					1250
US.	50	.	6		300
	20	.	7		140
	10		6		60
					500	.

1434	.595
464	.99
1750	.
3649	.585

MS (CSmH); undated, but see below; in TJ’s hand, including check marks; several figures overwritten or altered; on verso of an address sheet directed to TJ as president at Washington.

Checks: TJ probably made these notes in conjunction with the Notes on Personal Finance, 4 June. He made the associated payments on 6 June (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 , 2:1155-6).

lres: TJ noted payments in letters of 6 June, several of which have not been found (Appendix IV).

1. Name of firm interlined in place of “Spear.”

2. Entry interlined.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Notes on Personal Finance, [ca. 4 June 1805]
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
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Date: 4 June 1805

Reference

Cite as: “Notes on Personal Finance, [ca. 4 June 1805],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0511. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 517–518.]

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