Notes on Labor for Digging Cellars, 30 June 1805
Notes on Labor for Digging Cellars
June. 1805.
In digging for the Western offices of the President’s H. the following assortment of labour, appeared well balanced.
3. diggers
3. loaders
3. carts (1. horse)
2. drivers
the earth was carried about 200. yds.
MS (CSmH); partially dated; entirely in TJ’s hand.
Laborers dug the west side of the cellar wall at the President’s House in the summer of 1804. In June 1805, John Philips was paid for digging the cellar to the east of the house (Thomas Munroe to TJ, 31 July 1804, 29 June 1805).