Account with Isham Chisholm, [ca. 1 May 1812]

Account with Isham Chisholm

[ca. 1 May 1812]

		Isham Chisolm in Acct with Th:J.

		To balance due on nail acct 29/4 =		4	.89
1812.	Mar.	10.	To cash	20
		23.	By 13. days pursuit of Jas Hubd @ 2.D			26.
	Apr.	5.	To cash	5	.
		6.	To do	20	.
		15.	By 9. days pursuit of Jas Hub @ 1.D			9.
			By jail fees 16/			2.	67
			By his subsistence on the road			2.
			By premium promised			25.
			To balance thro’ E. Bacon	14	.78
				64	.67	64.	67

MS (MHi); written entirely in TJ’s hand on a reused address cover to TJ; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Chisolm Isham.” Dft (MHi); written entirely in TJ’s hand on a different reused address cover to TJ; undated; with Chisholm’s debits arranged vertically above his credits; endorsed by TJ: “Chisolm Isham”; subjoined to TJ’s Notes on Expenses, [ca. 1 May 1812].

Isham Chisholm (d. 1837), a farmer in Albemarle County, worked occasionally for TJ. Earlier in 1812 TJ sent him to Lexington, Virginia, in unsuccessful pursuit of TJ’s runaway slave James (Jame) Hubbard. On a second trip for this purpose, Chisholm apprehended Hubbard in Pendleton County (now West Virginia) and brought him back to Monticello. At his death he owned property valued in excess of $4,000, including twelve slaves (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1268, 1297; TJ to Reuben Perry, 16 Apr. 1812; Account with Reuben Perry, 10 Dec. 1813; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 12:461–2, 470–1).

Index Entries

Bacon, Edmund; pays I. Chisholm search
Chisholm, Isham; account with TJ search
Chisholm, Isham; identified search
Chisholm, Isham; TJ pays search
Chisholm, Isham; tracks runaway slave search
Hubbard, James (Jame) (TJ’s slave); capture of search
slaves; fugitive search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Account with Isham Chisholm, [ca. 1 May 1812]
Authors: Jefferson, Thomas
Chisholm, Isham
Date: 1 May 1812

Reference

Cite as: “Account with Isham Chisholm, [ca. 1 May 1812],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-05-02-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 5, 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 5.]