Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on Craven Peyton and Reuben Grady, 19 May 1811

Memorandum on Craven Peyton and Reuben Grady

Charge Craven Peyton £19–10 for fire & coal wood accounted for to him by Reuben Grady settled between them May 19. 1811.

MS (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; written on a small scrap, part of a reused address cover to TJ; endorsed by TJ: “Peyton Craven.”

reuben grady paid TJ for the right to cut firewood at Milton and occasionally sold him charcoal (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 , 2:1250, 1286, 1287, 1296).

TJ described this transaction thus a day earlier: “Charge Craven Peyton on acct. of Reuben Grady £19–10 settled with him for fire & coal wood” (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 , 2:1265).

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on Craven Peyton and Reuben Grady, 19 May 1811
Authors
Jefferson, Thomas
Grady, Reuben
Peyton, Craven
Date
19 May 1811

Reference

Cite as
“Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on Craven Peyton and Reuben Grady, 19 May 1811,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-03-02-0506. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, p. 625.]