Thomas Jefferson Papers

Order on John Barnes, 30 November 1801 [document added in digital edition]

Order on John Barnes

Nov. 30. 1801.

Mr. Barnes

Pay to mr LeMaire or order one hundred & eight dollars seventy five cents for value recieved on account of Sir

Your humble servt.

Th: Jefferson

108.75 D = £40–15–6½

RC (RR Auction, 14 Feb. 2024, lot 5); at foot of text: “Mr. John Barnes”; endorsed by Barnes; receipt for payment signed by Étienne Lemaire.

According to TJ’s financial memoranda, this payment was for Lemaire’s provision accounts for 22-28 Nov., which included provisions, stores, fuel, and miscellaneous items (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 , 2:1059).

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