Thomas Jefferson Papers

Washington School Subscription Receipt, 6 November 1805

Washington School Subscription Receipt

Novr. the 6th. 1805. Recd. Thomas Jefferson Esqr. President of the united States twenty dollars being the amount of the first Instalment on his Subscription to the Washington School Institution

Washington Boyd

Treasur.—

MS (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 6 Nov. and “Washington academy. rect”; also endorsed “1st. instalmt.”

On 8 Nov., TJ recorded in his financial memoranda: “Gave Isaac A. Coles for Washington academy ord. on bk. US. 20. D” (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 , 2:1166). This was the first of ten payments TJ made to cover his $200 Subscription to the educational institution (see John Gardiner to TJ, 22 July).

Records of payment of the remaining installments of the subscription are in TJ’s papers: (1) Receipt from Boyd for $20 for the second installment, 28 Feb. 1806 (MS in MHi, endorsed by TJ: “Washington academy”; on verso, a list in TJ’s hand of the due dates for each of the ten quarterly installments, commencing on 1 Oct. 1805 and ending 1 Jan. 1808, with his added notes of the dates on which the first eight installments were paid); recorded in TJ’s financial memoranda under 24 Feb. (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 , 2:1174). (2) Receipt from Boyd for $20 for the third installment, 3 May 1806 (MS in CSmH); recorded in TJ’s financial memoranda, 5 May: “Delivd. Joseph Daugherty for the Washington academy 20. D.” (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 , 2:1179). (3) For the fourth installment, TJ recorded in his financial memoranda, 20 July 1806, his payment of $20 to the Washington academy, as one of a group of payments to be made by John Barnes (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 , 2:1185). (4) Receipt from Boyd for $20 for the fifth installment, 5 Nov. 1806 (MS in MoSHi: Jefferson Papers; endorsed by TJ with notation “5th. instalmt”); recorded in TJ’s financial memoranda, 6 Nov., as one of a group of payments to be made by Dougherty (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 , 2:1192). (5) Receipt from Boyd for $40 for the sixth and seventh installments, 7 May 1807 (MS in CSmH); recorded in TJ’s financial memoranda, 21 May, as one of a group of payments on 6 May made by Dougherty (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 , 2:1204). (6) Receipt from Boyd for $20 for the eighth installment, 7 Aug. 1807 (MS in MWA; endorsed by TJ with notation “8th. instalmt”); recorded in TJ’s financial memoranda, 31 July, as a payment made by Dougherty (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 , 2:1208). (7) Receipt from Boyd for $20 for the ninth installment, 11 Nov. 1807 (MS in CSmH); recorded in TJ’s financial memoranda, 6 Nov., as one of a group of payments made by Dougherty (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 , 2:1214). (8) Receipt from Boyd for $20 for the tenth installment, 8 Feb. 1808 (MS in CSmH); recorded in TJ’s financial memoranda, 8 Feb., as one of a group of payments made by Dougherty and “Washn. acad. last instalment” (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 , 2:1219).

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