Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves, [ca. 10 November 1818]

Enclosure

List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves

[ca. 10 Nov. 1818]

	Blankets.		Beds
	Cate		Cate
	Hal		Hanah. Cate’s
	Hanah		Lucinda.
	Sally		Edy
	Armistead		Dinah
	Maria. Cate’s		Betty
	Gawen		Aggy
	Austin	8.	Maria. Nanny’s
	Flora	Maria having now a child, I promised her a house to be built this winter. be so good as to have it done. place it along the garden fence on the road Eastward from Hanah’s house.
	Fanny
	Edy. 1. for herself
	& 1. for Nancy & Robert
	Dick
	Dinah.
	1. for Joe & Shepherd
	Betty
	Cate. Betty’s
	Jesse
	Maria. Nanny’s
20.	Milly. Nanny’s

PoC (MHi); in TJ’s hand; undated; on verso of covering letter, with second enclosure subjoined.

Maria’s child was James Hubbard (Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1, 131).

Index Entries

Aggy (TJ’s slave; b.1789; daughter of Dinah); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Armistead (TJ’s slave; b.1771); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Augustine (Austin) (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1775); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
beds; for slaves search
Betty (Island Betty; Old Betty) (TJ’s slave; b.1749); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
blankets; for slaves search
Cate (TJ’s slave; b.1788; Betty’s daughter); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Dick (Yellow Dick) (TJ’s slave; b.1767); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Dinah (TJ’s slave; b.1766); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Edy (TJ’s slave; b.1792); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Fanny (TJ’s slave; b.1788; daughter of Abby); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Flora (TJ’s slave; b.1783); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Gawen (TJ’s slave; b.1804); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Hall (Hal) (TJ’s slave;1767–1819); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Hannah (Hanah) (TJ’s slave; b.1770); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
household articles; beds search
household articles; blankets search
Hubbard, Cate (TJ’s slave; b.1747); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Hubbard, James (TJ’s slave; b.1818); birth of search
Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves search
Jesse (TJ’s slave; b.1772); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Joe (TJ’s slave;1806–18); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Lucinda (TJ’s slave; b.1791); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1776); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1798); child of search
Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1798); house for search
Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1798); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Milly (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Nancy (TJ’s slave;1812–18); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Nanny (TJ’s slave; b.1778); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); beds and blankets for slaves at search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); slave dwellings at search
Robert (TJ’s slave); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
Shepherd (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
slaves; blankets and beds for search
slaves; dwellings of search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves, [ca. 10 November 1818]
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Yancey, Joel
Date: 10 November 1818

Reference

Cite as: “Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves, [ca. 10 November 1818],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-13-02-0347-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 13, 22 April 1818 to 31 January 1819, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 387.]

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