Enclosure: James Walker’s Timber List for Thomas Jefferson’s Sawmill Wheels, 20 July 1811

Enclosure

James Walker’s Timber List for Thomas Jefferson’s Sawmill Wheels

Timber	Length in feet & parts—	Breadth in Inches	Thickness in Inches—
6	10	16	4.½	Back Cants for Cogwheels white oak or heart pine		Coggwheel, &c. To be seasond
6	10	15	3.¼	Face Cants for ditto.
6	9.½	12	3.¼	Arms for ditto.
150	1–2	4	3.¼	Coggs for ditto good Locust
8	10	14	2	Plank for wallowers &c white oak.
3	10	12	4.¼	For Ragwheel of heart pine

For water wheel
6	14	21	3.¼	Shrouding of good white oak or heart pine		Not seasoned
6	10.½	8.½	3.½	Arms.
60	6	8	1.^⅛	Soling. of pine—
24	5	18	1	Buckets ditto
24	6	2.½	1.¾	Elboes—ditto
6	12	16	5	back cants	Cogwheel for 15 feet water wheel
6	10	15	3.¼	Face ditto
6	13	14	3.¾	arms
8	14½	18	3.¼	Shrouding	Water wheel 15 feet diamr
8	15.½	9	3.½	arms
60	6	9	1.^⅛	Soling
40	4.½	18	1—	buckets
40	4.½	2.½	1.½	Elboes

J Walker

20th July 1811—

MS (DLC); in Walker’s hand; endorsed by Walker: “Bill of wheel Timbers for Mr. Jeffersons Saw mill.”

A ragwheel has projections that allow it to catch the links of a chain passing overhead. shrouding: the annular rims on the buckets of a waterwheel (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Enclosure: James Walker’s Timber List for Thomas Jefferson’s Sawmill Wheels, 20 July 1811
Author: Walker, James
Date: 2–21 July 1811

Reference

Cite as: “Enclosure: James Walker’s Timber List for Thomas Jefferson’s Sawmill Wheels, 20 July 1811,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-04-02-0045-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 51.]