Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 12 November 1803

From J. P. G. Muhlenberg

Custom House, Philadelphia
Novr. 12th. 1803.

Sir

Enclos’d I have the Honor to transmit the Bill of Freight, paid Abm. Piesch, for eight Cases of Wine, imported in the Brig Mary Ann, from Havre—Also, the Bill of Lading, for said Wine, Shipp’d on Board the Sloop Harmony, Captn. Ellwood for Georgetown—The Duty on the Wine amounts to $29-66—

I have the Honor to be with Perfect Respect Sir Your Most Obed servt.

P Muhlenberg

RC (MHi); at foot of text: “The President of The U. States”; endorsed by TJ as received 16 Nov. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures not found.

In his financial memoranda, TJ recorded at 17 Nov. requesting John Barnes to pay Muhlenberg $40.26 for freight, in addition to the $29.66 for duties on the wine (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 , 2:1112).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 12 November 1803
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    Muhlenberg, J. P. G.
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    12 November 1803

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 12 November 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0533. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 41, 11 July–15 November 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, p. 710.]

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