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Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William Mitchell, [April 1817]
Account with William Mitchell
[Apr. 1817]
| Wm Mitchell in Account | Dr | with Th: Jefferson | Cr. | |||||||||
| b | ℔ | Bar. flour | D.C | Bar. flour | D. | C. | ||||||
| To wheat of 1815. | 174– | 36 @ 6/ | 174 | .59 | By 2. Bar. SF. flour | @ 6.D. | 12. | |||||
| a balance. | 2– | 50 @ 5/ | 2 | .38 | 1. do | @ 12.D. | 12. | |||||
| b ℔ | ||||||||||||
| To wheat of 1816. to wit | 191–51 | @ 2. D to pay cash bale | 383 | .03 | 86. Bar. midlings | @ 5.D. | 430. | |||||
| 462– | @ 5½. b for F. flour | 84. | 16. do | 6.D. | 96. | |||||||
| 2– 54 | a balance due | 60. ℔ bacon | 1/ | 10. | ||||||||
| 656.05 | By F. flour in excha. for 462.b. wheat @ 5½ | 84. | ||||||||||
| 84– | 560 | . | 84. | 560. | 1 | |||||||
| Wm Mitchell in Account | Dr | Bar. flour | D.C | with Th: Jefferson | Cr | |||||||
| b ℔ | By 2. Bar. S.F. flour. |
@ 6.D. | 12. | |||||||||
| To wheat of 1815. | 174–36 |  |
177.262 in F. flour @ 5½ | 1. do | @ 12.D. | 12. | ||||||
| a balance | 2–50 | 32– | 86. Bar. midlings | @ 5.D. | 430. | |||||||
| b | ||||||||||||
| To wheat of 1816. to wit | 280. | @ 2.D. to pay cash balance | 560 | . | 16. do | @ 6.D. | 96. | |||||
| 376.05 | in F. flour @ 5½ | 68–72 | 60. ℔ bacon | @ 1/ | 10. | |||||||
| 656.05 | By F. flour in exchange for wheat @ 5½ | 84. | ||||||||||
| Balance of do still due | 16–72 | |||||||||||
| 100–72 | 560 | . | 100–72 | 560. | ||||||||
MS (ViU: TJP-ER); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Mitchell Wm Apr. 1817.”
TJ here prepared his account with Mitchell by two variant methods and, evidently preferring the results of the first, canceled the one beneath.
1. Both sides of table from this point are struck through with separate diagonal lines.
2. Reworked from “176.86.”