MS (PWacD: Feinstone Collection on deposit PPAmP); in TJ’s hand; in a column to the left of his signature, TJ added the figures “72. D.” and “27.” for the sum of “99”; at foot of text: “Mr. Barnes”; on verso in Meriwether Lewis’s hand and signed by him: “Received of Mr. John Barnes ninty nine dollars agreeably to the within order—Oct. 7th. 1801”; acknowledgment of receipt on 8 Oct. “for Capt. Lewis” written by Barnes and signed in an unknown hand: “for Abrahm golden”; endorsed by TJ: “Gaulding Abram”; endorsed by Barnes.

Abram: Abraham Golden was a personal servant for Meriwether Lewis and later for Lewis’s successor as TJ’s private secretary. TJ wrote this order a day after he reviewed accounts for his Washington household from the period since his departure for Monticello, including servants’ wages. In his personal financial memoranda, TJ recorded on 6 Oct. that he gave “Abraham Gaulding” an order on Barnes for $99 (Lucia Stanton, “‘A Well-Ordered Household’: Domestic Servants in Jefferson’s White House,” White House History, 17 [2006], 8, 21n; 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 , 2:1053–4).