For TJ’s discounted bank note, see Notes on Personal Finance, at 15 Mch.

Payment to Étienne Lemaire, 2 May, was applied toward his President’s House accounts for a balance due of $457.30. Payment the same day to Joseph Dougherty (Daugherty) was for forage, utensils, smithing, and contingencies (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 , 2:1151-2).

Latrobe: see TJ to Thomas Munroe, 24 Apr.

On 3 May TJ drew checks on the Bank of the United States to Rapine, Conrad & Co. for books and to Thomas Claxton for payment to S. D. Day for cider (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 , 2:1152).

The carriage taxes settled through William A. Burwell, as well as the amounts owed to Polkinhorn & Hall and to Lewis Labille (La Bille) for upholstery at the President’s House, were paid on 7 May (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 , 2:1057, 1153; Carriage License, 7 May).