Thomas Jefferson Papers

Receipt from Robert Harrison, [11 March 1805]

Receipt from Robert Harrison

[11 Mch. 1805]

Mr Th Jefferson Dr to Robt Harrison
1805 
Feby  To Repairing three penns $2.0

Recd Payment

Rob harrison

MS (MHi); undated; endorsed by TJ: “Harrison Robert pd. Mar. 05.”

Under 11 Mch. in his financial memoranda, TJ recorded paying two dollars through Joseph Dougherty for Repairing pens for the polygraph. Harrison subsequently received payments on several other occasions for work on TJ’s polygraphs (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, 2 vols. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1148, 1159, 1165, 1168, 1170).

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    Receipt from Robert Harrison, [11 March 1805]
    Author
    Harrison, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    11 March 1805

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    “Receipt from Robert Harrison, [11 March 1805],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0025. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 27.]