Washington Boyd (d. 1821) was the treasurer of the city of Washington from 1802 through 1807. In 1808, TJ appointed Boyd the marshal of the District of Columbia, a position he held until 1818. Boyd also served as an officer in the local militia and as a founding trustee of the Washington public school system (W. B. Bryan, Various Forms of Local Government in the District of Columbia [Washington, D.C., 1898], 18-19; F. Regis Noel and Margaret Brent Downing, The Court-House of the District of Columbia [Washington, D.C., 1919], 57; Baltimore Federal Gazette, 20 July 1802; Samuel Yorke At Lee, History of the Public Schools of Washington City, D.C. from August, 1805, to August, 1875, Written at Request and Published by Order of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools, for the National Centennial Year, 1876 [Washington, D.C., 1876], 3; Daily National Intelligencer, 7 Mch. 1821).

In his financial records of this date, TJ noted giving William A. Burwell an order on the Bank of the United States for $32 for “taxes on 4. carriages” (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 , 2:1153).