Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Jones & Howell, 20 October 1804

From Jones & Howell

Philadela. 20th October 1804

Respected Friend

Agreeable to Your orders we have Sent to the Care of Gibson & Jefferson Eighty Bundles Rod Iron at

2.0.0.0. at $124—  $248.00
porterage— 1.33
$249.33

And Remain very respectfully Your Friends

Jones & Howell

RC (MHi); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Oct. and so recorded in SJL.

Your orders: see TJ to Jones & Howell, 5 Oct. TJ did not remit payment for the nailrod, drawing on the Bank of the United States in the amount of $249.33, until February (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 , 2:1146; TJ to Jones & Howell, 12 Feb. 1805).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Jones & Howell, 20 October 1804
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    Howell, Jones &
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    20 October 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Jones & Howell, 20 October 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-44-02-0507. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 44, 1 July to 10 November 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 570.]

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