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Thomas Jefferson’s List of Debts and Assets, [ca, 27 February–14 July 1820]

List of Debts and Assets

[ca. 27 Feb.–14 July 1820]

20. Mar. small debts       debts    
✓ Johnson Jas W. 9. 20 ✓ Mayo 40.
✓ Barnes John 10.   ✓ Wood Wm 133. 33
✓ Defoe 5. 83 ✓ bank discts 80. 32
✓ Carden abt 5.   ✓ Steele 17. 44
✓ Suttle 24   ✓ Coffee 65.
Bacon abt 6.   355.77  
✓ Rachael 12.   ✓ small debts as before 218. 82
✓ Nace & Davy 2 + 1.62 3. 62 ✓ Lewis Howell 125.
✓ Kinsolving abt 2.   ✓ Leitch for cash 115. 33
✓ McAfee abt 30    459.15  
✓ Ragland abt 10.   Aug. 15. ✓ Wood Drury 144.
✓ Watkins abt 60    ✓ University 300
✓ Dawson } about 30    ✓ do for Rogers 56. 62
✓ Watson ✓  for Holmes 60.
Wait & Winn ✓ Garret for Laporte 125.
< Bram & Jones > Jan. 1. ✓ Craven John 22 22 
Coles John 15.   752.62  
travelling 50.   June 18. ✓ Smith Andrew 68. 78
218. 82 ✓ Laval 71.
    ✓ Ingersol 6.
    ✓ Cary 21. 25
    ✓ Gray 37. 75
    204.78  
    ✓ Wells for Bacon 213.
    ✓ Dawson for Laporte abt 350.
    do for Meeks 5551    
Resources.     ✓ Hepburn 49. 34
Gibson. balance Feb. 222 109. 57 July 19 ✓ White 143. 56
T.J.R. flour 153.B. abt 612.    
Rand. & Colcl. 110.B. 495. 0 3 ✓ Clay abt 60.
   their old debt 194. 61 252.90  
Th: J. R. cash 251. 17 ✓ Perry 40.
12. M. ℔ tobo 720.   Chisolm abt 12.
Rand. & Col. flour bar. 1677 670. 80 Carden 60.
3053.15 3053. 15 ✓ Massie abt 38.
    Johnson & Peyton 100.
    250.  
    ✓ Leroy & Bayard 125.
    ✓ Pini 444.
    ✓ Dodge 769. 200.  
    3599. 22
    Wait abt 200.  
    Higgenbotham 143.334  
 
Notes in bank. D 
1820. July 14. sent. Bank  Virga.  1378. P.G. endorser
US.  2250. } Th: J. R
3000
Farmer’s  3000. Th: J. R. & B.P.

MS (CSmH: JF); written entirely in TJ’s hand on both sides of a single sheet; undated.

TJ presumably began compiling this document after receiving a copy of his account from Patrick Gibson in a missing letter of 24 Feb. 1820 received three days later. This letter advised TJ that Gibson could no longer extend credit for new expenses (see TJ to Gibson, 15 Mar. 1820, and note). In TJ’s Notes on his Account with Gibson, [ca. 22 May 1820], enclosed in TJ to Gibson, 22 May 1820, TJ indicated that the quarterly balance in Gibson’s hands as of 22 Feb. 1820 was 109.57 dollars. On 19 Mar. 1820 TJ received word that his balance in Gibson’s hands had increased to roughly $370 (John G. Robert [for Gibson] to TJ, 16 Mar. 1820).

TJ added his list of bank debts on or after 14 July 1820, and he evidently inserted dates and check marks at different times to indicate settlement of specific debts, with the amount paid generally increased to include interest (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 ).

t.j.r.: Thomas Jefferson Randolph. b.p.: Bernard Peyton.

1. Entry interlined.

2. Manuscript: “Feb. 2.”

3. Duplicate number “495” written by TJ below text in preceding column, presumably to clarify poorly reworked number here, is editorially omitted.

4. Remainder on verso.

Index Entries

  • Bacon, Edmund; TJ’s account with search
  • Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
  • Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
  • Barnes, John; TJ’s account with search
  • Bramham & Jones (Charlottesville firm); TJ’s debt to search
  • Carden, Youen; TJ’s account with search
  • Chisholm, Hugh; account with TJ search
  • Clay, Charles; TJ’s debt to search
  • Coffee, William John; TJ’s debt to search
  • Colclaser, Daniel; as miller search
  • Coles, John (1774–1848); TJ’s debt to search
  • Craven, John H.; TJ’s account with search
  • Davy (TJ’s slave; b.1785); TJ’s debt to search
  • Dawson, Martin; P. Laporte’s debt to search
  • Dawson, Martin; TJ’s account with search
  • Defoor (Defoe), Benjamin; TJ’s debt to search
  • Dodge, Joshua; TJ’s debt to search
  • Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
  • flour; received as pay search
  • Garrett, Alexander; and Laporte’s boardinghouse search
  • Gibson, Patrick; account with TJ search
  • Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
  • Gibson, Patrick; letters from accounted for search
  • Gray, William Fairfax; TJ’s account with search
  • Hepburn, Alexander; TJ’s debt to search
  • Higginbotham, David; TJ’s account with search
  • Holmes, Hugh; TJ’s debt to search
  • Ingersoll, Edward; TJ’s account with search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; Central College–University of Virginia subscription search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; List of Debts and Assets search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; List of Debts and Assets search
  • Johnson, Chapman; TJ’s debt to search
  • Johnson, James (boatman) search
  • Kinsolving, Mr.; TJ’s debt to search
  • Laporte, Peter; TJ’s debt to search
  • Laval, John; account with TJ search
  • Leitch, James; TJ’s debt to search
  • LeRoy, Bayard & Company (New York firm); and TJ’s debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst search
  • Lewis, Howell; TJ’s debt to search
  • Massie, Charles; TJ’s debt to search
  • Mathew Carey & Son (Philadelphia firm); TJ’s account with search
  • Mayo, Frederick August; TJ’s account with search
  • McAffee, Samuel; TJ’s account with search
  • Meeks, Edmund; account with TJ search
  • N. & J. & R. van Staphorst; TJ’s debt to search
  • Nace (TJ’s slave; b.1796); TJ’s debt to search
  • Perry, John M.; account with TJ search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
  • Peyton, John Howe; TJ’s debt to search
  • Pini, Elisabetta Mazzei (Philip Mazzei’s daughter; Andrea Pini’s wife); and P. Mazzei’s estate search
  • Rachael (TJ’s slave; b.1776); TJ’s debt to search
  • Ragland, John C.; TJ’s account with search
  • Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); account with TJ search
  • Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
  • Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); debt to TJ search
  • Rogers, John (of Albemarle Co.); TJ’s account with search
  • slaves; TJ’s debts to search
  • Smith, Andrew; TJ’s debt to search
  • Steele, John (1758–1827); TJ’s debt to search
  • Suttle, William; TJ’s debt to search
  • tobacco; and TJ’s debts search
  • Watkins, Thomas G.; TJ’s account with search
  • Watson, John (1760–1841); TJ’s debt to search
  • Wayt, Twyman; as assignee search
  • Wayt & Winn (Charlottesville firm); TJ’s account with search
  • Wells, John Clark; and TJ’s bond search
  • White, Jacob W.; TJ’s debt to search
  • Wood, Drury; TJ’s debt to search
  • Wood, William (d. ca.1822); TJ’s debt to search

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Thomas Jefferson’s List of Debts and Assets, [ca, 27 February–14 July 1820]
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Jefferson, Thomas
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February–July 1820

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“Thomas Jefferson’s List of Debts and Assets, [ca, 27 February–14 July 1820],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0391. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 425–427.]