Statement of Account with Richard Gaines, 20 May 1805
Statement of Account with Richard Gaines
| Cr— | Jefferson Esqr. to Richard Gaines | Dr. | |
| May 20 1805 | $ | ||
| To 6 pair Black Morocco Slippers a/$1.75 ea | 10.50 | ||
| To 4 pair Calf Skin do—a/$1.50 ea | 6.00 | ||
| To 2 pair Calf Skin Ran Shoes a/1.75 ea | 3.50 | ||
| $ | 20.00 | ||
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ with notation “June 6. 05. pd. by check on bk. US.”
Richard Gaines owned a manufactory on Bridge Street in Georgetown where he sold men’s and women’s boots and shoes “made to order with promptitude and fashion.” He moved to Cincinnati around 1811, set up a shoe store, and purchased a tanyard and property (Washington Federalist, 12 Mch. 1808; Cincinnati Liberty Hall, 4 Sep. 1811, 9 June 1812, 19 Oct. 1813, 12 July 1814).
Slippers: on 8 Mch., Gaines provided TJ with a receipt for “Ten Dollars in full for Six pair of Ladies Slippers” (MS in MHi; endorsed by TJ; , 2:1147).
Ran: the rand was a thin leather strip featured in women’s heeled shoes fashionable from the mid-seventeenth century onward to make it easier for the shoemaker to attach a delicate upper to the shoe (; Rebecca Shawcross, Shoes: An Illustrated History [London, 2014], 64; Connecticut Norwich Courier, 14 Feb. 1810).
According to his financial memoranda, on 6 June TJ drew $20 on the Bank of the United States to pay Gaines (, 2:1155; Notes on Personal Finance, [ca. 4 June]).