MS (ViU); entirely in TJ’s hand, with an additional entry in pencil (see note below); TJ’s block printing shown in small capitals; written in a bound ledger that also contains personal accounts, 1767–1770, accounts of Nicholas Lewis as superintendent of TJ’s properties, 1786–1792, TJ’s index to those and other accounts of 1783–1792, and accounts, lists, and sketches made by members of the Randolph family in the 1840s and 1850s; this statement being immediately preceded in the ledger by eight pages of chronological accounts, 21 May 1794 through 27 Nov. 1795, entirely in TJ’s hand, recording expenditures for nailrod and charcoal on the left (verso) side of each pair of facing leaves and receipts from sales of nails in pounds, shillings, and pence on the right (recto) pages, with heading on each verso page: “The Nailery,” and with TJ’s note below the final entry: “See a more summary statement in the following pages.”

TJ paid Benjamin Jordan $249.08 for nailrod on 21 July 1797. According to TJ’s financial records this is the only time he used Jordan as a supplier for the nailery (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , ii, 967). Neither a letter from Jordan to TJ of 6 Jan., recorded in SJL as received the next day, nor letters from TJ to Jordan of 19 Jan. and 21 July 1797, recorded in SJL, have been found.

TJ kept another set of nailery accounts, in which he made a chronological record of nails “Bespoke” and “Delivered” from January 1796 to November 1800, noting the sizes, quantities, and price of the nails in each order. With those accounts are miscellaneous notes by TJ relating to nail production and his ledger of the daily production of different sizes of nails by each of the nailery’s workers during the first six months of 1796 (CLU-C; entirely in TJ’s hand).