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Notes on Personal Finance, 4 May 1805

Notes on Personal Finance

May 4. in bank. Salary 2083 .33   2083 .33
Disct. 1979 1979 .
3979 4062 .33
bank. note of Mar. 2000 2000 .
2062 .33
2. Lemaire 1 600
2. Daugherty 65 .465
Latrobe 178 .25
3 Short 500 .
Jones & Howell 144 .47
Rapine & Conrad 11 .
Day. cyder 100 .685
cash 340 .
Burwell taxes 32 .
Polkinson 17 .77
La Bille 16 .
2005 .64

MS (CSmH); entirely in TJ’s hand; on verso of Notes on Personal Finance, at 15 Mch.

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, 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, 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, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1057, 1153; Carriage License, 7 May).

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