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Memorandum Books, 1792

1792.

Jan. 2. Gave Maria .25 C.
James Market money 4.D. still due 8d.
3. Recd. from bank by Francis 50.D.
Pd. Wages of servts. Francis 7.D his wife 3.D. James 7. Cuffy 4. Robert 7. John 7. }  35.D.
 
4. Gave J. W. Eppes ord. on bank for 17.D.
Recd. from Treasurer an order on the bank for 875.D.
5. Gave order on bank for a post bill for 116.67 paiable to TMRandolph junr. for a horse (Matchless)34 bot. in Sep. 5. years old last spring.
Gave ord. on bank for 51. 62 post bill for Christian Baehr taylor of N. York.35
Do. for 70.53 to George Meade36 for quarter cask Madeira.
Do. to Seche for myself for 50.D.
James market money £4–12–2 + 5/4 = 13.D.
Gloves 3/9—shoeing horses 33/6.
6. Petit on acct. 20.D.
Printer’s boys .75—a jug .25.
8. Inclosed to Christian Baehr the bill for 51.6 D. ante.
Do. to Dan. Hylton for TMRandolph junr. the bill for 116.67.
9. Gave Maria .25.
James 20/8½ + 1/9½ = 3.D.
Maria for shoes 7/.
10. Petit on acct. 5.D.
11. James 22/9 + 7/3 = 4.D.
Gave the following orders on the bank
£   Dol.
Herbst & Lex. groceries   32– 16 –6½ =    87. 53
Pennington. sugar 10– 1 –6 26. 87
A. May37 (baker) 6– 19 –5 18. 59
Ingles. cabinet work 10– 8 27. 73
H. Pepper. brewer 14– 12 –6 39.
Bringhurst junr. 10– 16 –9 28. 90
£85– 14 –8½ = 228. 62
Cash still  in bank  360. 82.
in hand 34.
13. Pd. Starr shoemaker in full 8.D.
Francis for 12. bush. oats 4.D.
 
Recd. from bank by Francis 50.D.
Gave ord. on bank in favr. Billington taylor in full 65.42.
Pd. for Universal asylum38 5.33.
An Analysis of the receipts & paiments of the two last quarters, towit from July 7. 91. to Jan. 13. 92. the date of this present entry.
July 7. to Oct. 26. to Total
Octob. 25 Januar. 13. Jun.39 7—Jan. 13.
House rent. 100. 100. 200.     
Stable exp. 139. 46 68. 05 207. 51
Servants 87. 73 161. 27 249.
Dress 35. 80 72. 38 108. 18
Washing 13. 33 13. 33
Wines 273. 66 139. 18 412. 84
beer 1. 39. 40.
bread 10. 19. 69 29. 69
Groceries 27. 67 137. 88 165. 55
Market money 129. 63 162. 291. 63
Office 8. 71 105. 113. 71
fuel 137. 39 5. 142. 39
books 2. 76 14. 33 17. 09
furniture 94. 39 183. 97 278. 36
acquisitions includg. debts 201. 65 932. 40 1134. 05
Arrearages pd.
Travellg. exp. 258. 14 258. 14
Maria. 126. 04 126. 04
Contingencies 170. 19 178. 65 348. 84
Total 1678. 18 2458. 2240 4136. 40
July 7. Cash in hand & bank 479. 08
Aug. 17. recd. from Lieper 400.
Sep. 1. do. 200.
2. recd. from J. M. 18. 4
Oct. 4. recd. from Jas. Brown 50.
7. do. from Treasury 875.
do. from Lieper 100.
errors short entry 9. 62
2132.10
 
Oct. 25. amt. of paimts. 1678. 18
cash in hd. & bank 453. 92
2132.10
 
Oct. 25. Cash in hand & bnk. 453. 92
Nov. 12. balce. from J.W.E. 14.
Dec. 2. recd. from Lieper 992.
23. do. 200.
92. Jan. 4. do. from Treasury 875.
7. do. from Lieper 100.
2634.92
92. Jan. 13. amt. of paimts. 2458. 22
cash in hd. & bank 167. 39
 (exclus. I.W.E.) 
Short entries 9. 32
2634.92
Jan. 14. Pd. for 10 oz. bole Armenic 2/6.
15. Pd. John Mole 5.D. He leaves my service.
Maria .25.
16. Pd. mending marble table [ ].11.
(Note Mr. Remsen tells me that 6. cord of hiccory last a fire place well the winter.)
17. James market money 46/7 + 5/11 = 7.D. charity 1.D.
18. Pennington for 50. ℔ brown sugar 53/9 = 7.17.
19. Pd. Petit on acct. 5.D.
J. W. Eppes cash 5.D.
20. Pd. for fur gloves 2.D.
Recd. from bank by Seche 20.D.
21. Pd. for 18. qts. sweet oil41 7.D.
James market money 10.D.
Postilion whip 6/ Maria .5.
24. Recd. bank by Seche 30.D.
Pd. for 40. b. oats 13.33.
James for charcoal 6.D. Myrtle candles of last year out.
25. Pd. Mrs. Pine for Burgess for a cloak for Maria £3–8.
26. James 31/ + 6/6 = 5.D.
Recd. bank by Seche 30.D.
Pd. Farren42 an impudent surcharge for Venetn. blinds 2.66.
27. Petit on acct. 5.D.
 
Do. for Lamoureux43 44 ℔ tallow candle 40/4.
Plaisterer of stove 1.D.
28. J. W. Eppes cash 5.D.
James 20/3 + 2/3 = 3.D.
29. Maria .5.
31. Recd. from bank by Seche 30.D.
Petit for cutting wood in cellar .30. Note there remain but 2 or 3 days stock of the 21¾ cords of maple & ash bot. ante.
Jan. 31.
Petit to pay for  2 cords hiccory  10.D. cordg. .08 cartg. 1.  cuttg.  1. =  12.08
Do. ¾  3.75 cuttg. . 38  = 4.13
Feb. 1. Recd. from bank by Seche 40.D.
James market money 51/10 + 8d = 7.D. his month’s allowance 7.D. Cuffy 4.D. Gustavus 7.D. Fras. 7.D. his wife 3.D.
Pd. 2 oz. lenitive electuary44 .25.
3. Petit Desert money on acct. 10.D.
Robertson. repairg. horseshoes 16/.
4. James market money 40/1 + 4/11 = 6.
5. Maria .5—pontage .25.
6. J. W. Eppes ord. on bank 10.D.
7. James 3.D. still due 5/10.
1. cord hiccory 5.5.
Recd. from bank by Seche 25.D.
9. James 5/10 + £5–9–9½ + 4/4½ = 16.D.
10. Recd. from bank by Seche 40.D.
Pd. Billy’s wife washing to Dec. 31. a quarter for myself 20.D. and 2. months for Maria 4.D.
Maria for shoes 1.D.
1. cord beach & ash 3.75 cutting 3/.
Petit Desert money on acct. 10.D.
11. Recd. order from Lieper on the bank for 100.D.
13. Maria 1.D.
James market money 53/8 + 6/4 = 8.D.
Recd. from the bank by Seche 40.D.
Pd. for tinwork 6/.
Pd. J. Eppes 5.D.
16. Gave Brining for fixing stove &c. ord. on bank for 25.75.
 
Gave Mrs. Pine for balance of quarterly acct. ord. on bank 45.60.
Pd. tin-work 4.66.
17. James 43/8 + 1/4 = 6.D.
18. Petit on acct. 5.D. Maria .25.
19. Borrowed of James Madison ord. on bank for 150.D.
20. James £3–5–10 – 5/10 = 8.D.
22. Do. 5/10 + 22/10 + 1/2 = 4.D.
23. Lodged J. Madison’s ord. in bank.
25. Recd. from bank by Seche 50 D.
James 6.D.
Petit on acct. 5.D.
Mrs. Pine supplementory acct. for Maria 10.4.
27. Pd. Mr. Barton for Dr. Currie 13/6 = 1.8.
28. James 1d + 42/9 + 2/4 = 6.D.
J. W. Eppes ord. on bank for 20.D.
Maria .5.
Stine 40.b. oats 15.37.
29. Recd. from bank by Seche 60.D.
Mr. Peale45 2 years subscription from Nov. 1790 2.D.
Mr. Vaughan arrearages of Sbscrptn. to Philosoph. society 20.D.
Mar. 1. Pd. Joseph46 balance of his expences from Richmd. 6.13.
Note Mr. Hylton had pd. the stage for him 6.5 & had furnished him in cash 10.D.
Pd. James 38/1 + 6/11 = 6.D.
Mar. 2. Gave Mr. Fitsimmons ord. on bank for 20.21 D. for 107 ℔ Bourbon coffee furnished by Mclaughlin & Taggart.47
Pd. servts. wages. Francis 7.D. his wife 3.D. Gustavus 7. James 7. Cuffy 4. = 28.D.
 
3. Borrowed of Mr. Madison order on bank for 150.D. & lodged it there.
Pd. for 1. cord of oak for the kitchen 3.D.
4. Maria .5.
7. Recd. from bank by Seche 40.D.
also a bank post note for 16.5 D.
Indorsed the post note to Mr. Hylton. See his lre. of Feb.
Pd. James £3–9–8½ + 5/3½ = 10.D.
Pd. Petit on acct. 10.D.
9. Pd. Palmer shoes for Maria 5.D.
10. Pd. Petit on acct. 5.D.
Pd. J. W. Eppes 5.D.
James 42/8 + 2/4 = 6.D.
12. Recd. from the bank by Seche 35.D.
Wood out. Pd. for half a cord hiccory 25/ cutting .25.
13. James 65/2 + 2/4 = 9.D.
Pd. for cord of hiccory 5.75. cutting in part .25.
17. James 7.D. (omission here of 10.D. to Petit.)
19. Maria 1.D.
Recd. from bank by Seche 25.D.
20. Pd. Hazard for a book48 5.25.
Pd. for pr. slippers .75.
21. James 82/7½ – 1½ = 11.D.
23. Pd. for a cord of oak 22/ cordg. 4d. cartg. 3/9 cuttg. 2/6 = 28/7.
24. James 39/ – 9 = 4.D.
25. Maria .5.
26. Recd. from bank by Seche 20.D.
27. Gave J. W. Eppes ord. on bank for 10.D.
Pd. Petit for making 6. stocks 1.25.
28. James 9/ + 50/ + 1/ = 8.D.
Godfrey Welzell49 for repairing Spinett 50/.
31. Recd. from bank by Seche 20.D.
James 57/ + 3/ = 8.D.
Recd. of Mr. Blair for Philip Mazzei 36.375.D.
 
Gave Petit on acct. for a ℔ tea 2.33. cord of oak 2.66.
Pd. for a book .25.
Apr. 1. Pd. Petit on acct. 10.D.
Maria .5.
3. Pd. postage .15—charity 1.D.
Pd. Cuffy wages 4.D. He leaves my service.
4. James 59/4 + 15/8 = 10.
5. Recd. from treasury ord. for 875.D. on bank of U. S.
6. Gave Maria .5.
7. Pd. Delany duty on a pipe of Lisbon wine 27.20.
James 31/11 + 5/7 = 5.
Servts. wages. towit James 7.D. Gustavus 7.D. Josep. 7.D. Francis 7.D. his wife 3.D.
Pd. freight of box from Richmd. 2.D.

Apr.

7.
 ℔ D.
Gave Mclaughlin  & Taggert for  105. Bourbon coffee for myself  22.52
107.  do. for J. Madison  23.78
order on bank of U. S. for amt. 46.30
Gave J. Madison ord. on bank of U. S. for 275.98.
8. Gave James Reynolds50 ord. on bank of U. S. for 141.33 in full for lookg. glasses.
Pd. Mr. Madison travellg. balance of our last journey to Virginia and error of short calculn. in the above order on bank 4.
9. Gave Dr. Benj. S. Barton order on bank of U. S. for 40.83 at the desire of TMRandolph jr. to whom charge it.51
Recd. from bank of U. S. a post bill for 24.5 payable to Adam Lindsay, to whom remitd. it for candles.
Pd. Dobson52 for a book 2.5.
10. Pd. J. W. Eppes cash 12.D.
Pd. Petit on acct. 10.D.
 
11. Pd. do. on acct. 10.D.
Recd. from bk. of U. S. by Seche 100.D.
Pd.  Adam May. baker £8– 13 –9 =  23. 17
Stine for oats 8– 5 –4 = 22. 453
Richards54 for leather breeches 1– 10 = 4.
Robertson. smith 1– 12 –6 = 4. 33
20– 1 –7 = 53. 54
James 45/3 + 7/3 = 7.D.
12. Wood out. cord of oak 2.5 portage &c. .88 = 3.38.
Pd. Wager for 2700. ℔ hay £9–3–6.
15. Maria .5.
16. Recd. by Fras. from bank U. S. 50.D.
James market money £4–5–8 + 4/4 = 12.
18. Petit 5.D.
19. Maria .5—Mrs. Pine ord. on bank U. S. 20.1 D. for disbursemts.
20. Pd. duty on Brugnols55 .8—pd. for book 1.D.
21. James 56/4½ + 3/7½ = 8. (13)56
Pd. Frederick Gayer57 for a set of punches by ord. on bk. U. S. 23.20.
Wood out. cord oak 20/ cordg. 4 d. cartg. 3/9 cuttg. 2/6 = 26/7.
24. J. W. Eppes cash 10.D.
James 24/5 + 5/7 = 5.D. (8)—pd. freight 2. barrls. cyder 1.5 drayage .375.
26. Maria for pictures 3.D.
27. Postage 1/4 freight 2. hhds. tobo. 6.D. drayage in Virga. .66. These are the last of the crop of 1790.
Recd. by Fras. from bk. of U. S. 50.D.
James 69/3 + 5/9 = 10.D. (omitted here 5.D. to Petit.
Pd. Voigt mendg. Mrs. Hylton’s watch 3.666.
28. Pd. Bertaut for feathers 12/.
29. Maria .5.
30. J. W. Eppes 5.
May 1. James 79/ + 3/6 = 11.D. (14)
 
Pd. Francis for a spade 1.D.
2. Petit for wood 3.5.
3. Petit on acct. 10.D.
Recd. by Francis from bk. U. S. 20.D.
4. James 44/ + 1/ = 6. (9)
Pd. to Dispensary58 5.D. & subscribed to pay annually a guinea. Notice of withdrawing to be given Bp. White or T. Pleasants.
May 5. Lodged in bk. of U. S. Lieper’s note for 200.D. endorsed by me. Note it is pd. for my tobo. of 1790, and is probably somewhat over the balance.
Credit bank & charge Lieper for discount 197.94 + 2.06.
Recd. of bk. of U. S. by Seche 50.D.
Pd. servts. wages to wit Francis for himself & wife 10.D. Joseph 7.D. Gustavus 7.D. James 7.D. Sam 4.D.
7. Maria 1.25.
James £5–10–4 + 2/2 = 15. (24)
8. Recd. bk. U. S. by Francis 50.D.
9. Pd. a quarter’s washing endg. May 1. 26.D.
Pd. Petit for 1 ℔ tea 17/6.
James 23/4 – 10 d. = 3.D. (4)
11. Pd. Francis 46. loads of earth 1.45.
James 10d + 28/3 + 11d = 4. (3)
Petit on acct. 5.D.
12. James 7/10½ – 4½d = 1. (1)
Pd. duty on clock importd. last year 7.52.
14. Gave Maria .5.
15. James market money 4½d + 45/1 – 5d = 6.D. (16)
Recd. from bank of U. S. by Seche 25.D.
Pd. Robertson shoeing horses 12/.
Petit for a cord of oak 20/ charges 6/7.
17. Francis for earth for garden 8/2—drayage of olive trees59 2/6.
James 5½d + 29/8½ – 2d = 4.D. (5)
 
Pd. Morris60 for plants 1.D.
19. James 2d + 34/ + 3/4 = 5.D. (4)
Pd. J. W. Eppes 5.D.
Recd. of Pritchard by Mr. Madison for 50. maps61 2.D. cash & his note on bk. of U. S. for 43 D. = 45.D.
20. James 45/4 – 7/10 = 5.D. (6)
22. Recd. from bank U. S. by Seche 30.D.
Pd. Steward for a book62 6.D.
Pd. drayage of Olive & Caper plants .25.
Pd. Petit on acct. 5.D.
Lodged in bank Brown’s draught on Clow & co. recd. from
T. M. Randolph junr. to repay advance of Apr. 9. 
D. 40.83
Lodged there also Pritchard’s note 43.
83.83
23. Pd. Fenno for half year’s gazette ending Mar. 3. 1.5 D.
James 7/10 + 39/3½ + 5/4½ = 7. (7)
Maria .5.
26. James 8/9½ + 6/2½ = 2. (0)
27. Maria .5.
29. James 45/1 – 1d = 6. (7)
Petit for half a pound tea 1.D.
Stine 20. bush. oats £3–1–6.
Endorsed a note of E. Randolph payable to me or bearer at 30. days sight for 700.D. merely as his security that he might receive the money on it from the bank.
Pd. duty on books 2.37.
30. Gave Mrs. Pine order on the bk. U. S. for 142.13 in full.
Pd. for 50. bundles straw 2.22.
31. Sold to T. Lieper 30. hhds. tobo. 37466 ℔ @ 4½ D. = 1683.D.
June 1. Gave Capt. Weymouth ord. on Lieper for 90.D. for frt. of sd. tobo.
James 1d + 28/5 + 1/6 = 4. (4)
2. Do. 11/3 + 3/9 = 2.D. (3)
Pd. seeing a small Seal .125.
 
Pd. portage of cask of wine from Vanuxem & Lombard63 1.D. to Petit.
Pd. Mrs. Pine for Mr. Madison’s picture64 37.33.
June 3. Pd. Petit .25.
6. Pd. do. .25.
Mr. Lieper hs. pd. to the bk. of N. A. D. Hylton’s bill on me in favor of Wm. Austin 66.67 D. on acct. of exp. tobo. at Richmd.
7. Recd. of J. W. Eppes 170.D.
Pd. Petit 20.D.
Pd. James 7.D.—William for a half month 2.D. Joseph 7.D.—Gustavus 7.D.—Francis 10.D. Maria .5.
Pd. Petit for cambrick he furnished me for stocks 44/6.
Recd. from T. Lieper his note at 64. days sight for 844  D.
 gave him my note65 payable in like manner for 684
 these are to be discounted at bank of U. S. makg.  1528 .D.
and are in due time to be taken up by him being in payment for my tobo. of 91. sold to him. I endorsed both notes, and am, if necessary, to endorse once more others to take them up, so as to extend the credit for him to September.
8. Pd. James £3–10–7 + 4/5 = 10.D. (18) Maria .5.
Pd. Dunlap for gazettes of 1791. bound 11.D.
Repd. Mr. Taylor66 acct. of portage of hay to Clymer 10.D.
Pd. Gibbs for 25. yds. linen £7–16–3.
Pd. Genl. Irvine67 for James Madison 10.D. to make up deficiency of money left, viz. he left 40.D. & the acct. was 50.D.
9. Pd. Petit for cord of oak 22/ exp. 6/9.
12. James 56/4 + 3/8 = 8.D. (8)
 
I have credit at the bank of the U. S. for Lieper’s and my
 notes of  844 D. &  684.D. – disct. ante June 7.
835.14 676.82
Drew bill of exchange on Nichs. & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard in favr. of John Dobson for 1014. gilders worth 400.D. at the present excha. of 35½d per gilder.
Recd. from Thos. Pinkney68 his excha. on Willinks, Van Staphorsts & Hubbard in favr. of John Dobson for 2535 gilders at 30. days sight, for which I give him credit on the bank of the U. S. for 1000.D.
Inclosed the two bills before mentioned to John Dobson to be applied towards discharge of my bond to Jones for £500. due July 19. 1791.
13. Gave the ord. on bank of U. S. above mentd. in favor of Thos. Pinckney for 1000.D.
Recd. of bank of U. S. cash 50.D.
Maria .5.
Pd. Mr. Cassinove69 for 100. Vanillas 4.D.
Pd. J. W. Eppes 10.D.
Pd. Crosby70 for blank bills of Excha. 1.D.
for blank bonds .6.
June 15. Gave James Bringhurst for an antt. acct.71 an order on the bank of the U. S. for 33.33.
Pd. Miss Gilmore for work for Maria 2.25.
16. James market money 106/7½ + 5/10½ = 15.D. (17.)
Pd. McElwee72 for paintg. &c. in Petit’s room 4.62.
18. Pd. Petit 5.D. Recd. from bk. U. S. by Petit 50.D.
Pd. Guest  for 25 yds. linen 20.D.
for 3. yds. muslin for Maria 3.D.
Gave Maria for ribbon &c. 6/8.
19. Pd. for a measure .5.
20. Pd. for odd nos. of Museum 1.D.
James 43/7½ + 1/4½ = 6. (10)
 
22. Petit 10.D.
Gave Pennington for sugar ord. on bk. U. S. 21.D.
Gave Herbst & Lex for quarter’s grocery acct. endg. Apr.  ord. on bk. U. S. 35.3 viz. £7–7–4 last quarter + 5–17–5 in part this.
Recd. from bk. U. S. by Petit 40.D.
Recd. from bk. U. S. a post bill for 6½ D. which I remittd. to Adam Lindsay for 2. barrels cyder.
Pd. James 34/6 + 3/ = 5.D. (5)
23. Pd. Stine 15 bush. corn 7.5 5. bush. bran 1.56 &c. = 9.22.
Pd. Francis Stable exp. 1.07 Maria for shoes 1.
24. Pontage to Mr. Ross’s 1/8.
25. Portage of wine 1/ of sugar 11d. Maria .5.
26. James 83/7½ + 6/4½ = 12 D. (13)
Pd. 1. cord oak 19/ cartg. &c. 6/7.
Gave John Bringhurst ord. on bk. U. S. for 16.55 last quarter’s acct.
Petit on acct. 5.D.
Pd. for 106. ℔ codfish 3.84.
27. Recd. from bk. U. S. by Petit 30.D.
Pd. Langstrotts73 china, vz. 1. doz. coffee 1. doz. tea cups & saucers 11. tumb. 8.66 D.
Pd. Morris teapots &c. 2.D.
28. Pd. 6. ℔ imperial tea 15.D.
Pd. J. W. Eppes 5.D.
Pd. for 4. lookg. glasses for D. Hylton 24/.
30. Pd. for 6. do. for myself 36/.
Recd. by Petit from bk. U. S. 50.D.
Pd. James 56/6 + 3/6 = 8.D. (15)
Petit on acct. 5.D.
Pd. freight of stores to Virginia 4.66.
July 2. Gave Maria .5.
Pd. an Italian for stores, viz. oil £5–5–11.
3. Gave in charity 3.D.
Recd. from Treasurer warrant for 875.D. & lodged in bank of U. S.
James 33/11 + 3/7 = 5.D.
Pd. Wm. Redwood74 for a quarter cask Lisbon 30.D. by ord. on bank.
 
4. Pd. Robertson shoeing horses 24/.
5. Recd. from bank of U. S. by Petit 75.D.
Pd.  Few.75 chocolate & mustard  1–10–5
Blanchard.76 cheese 1–12–3
cheese 1–13–9
4–16–5  =  12.85 D.
July 5. Gave Robertson ord. on bank for 1. gross porter 22.73 D.
6. Pd. servts. wages viz. Francis 7.D. his wife 3.D. Gustavus 7. Josep 7. James 7. the black 4. = 35.D.
7. Pd. Petit on acct. 10.D.
Pd. on sbscribg. to Blair’s sermons77 .25.
Pd. John Bringhurst acct. last quarter by ord. on bk. 33.35.
Pd. for a whip 13/6 a cane 3/9.
Pd. for spectacles for George Twyman 4.D.
James 42/3 + 2/9 = 6.D. (11)
Half a year’s rent due Lieper this day & to be allowd. him in acct. viz. 333.33.
8. Gave Freneau ord. on bank for 21.D. being first half year’s subscription of 14. Charlottesville subscribers.78
Pd. at Grey’s garden .195.
10. Gave Maria 1 D.
James 35/9 + 1/9 = 5. (7)
Recd. from the bank by Petit 100.D.
Pd. Gordon79 2. pr. men’s mockeseens 4.D. 2 pr. women’s do. 3.33.
Pd. Petit for stockgs. & hdkchfs. for Maria 5.D.
11. Pd. do. for stockgs. for do. 19/6.
Delivd. 75.D. at the mint80 to be coined.
 
Gave orders on the bank viz.
Petit for cash for myself 75. }  322.29
Benj. W. Morris,81 for stores, vz. brandy, rum &c. 64. 04
H. & J. Ingles in full 63. 25
J. W. Eppes 120.
Pd. quarter’s washg. endg. July 31. 26.D.
Pd. for makg. 14. shirts 12.D.
Pd. Stine for forage 3.73.
Gave Maria for sash 1.D.
12. Pd. Williams for drawg. my portrait82 14.D.
Gave orders on bank. to wit
£
Thos. Billington in full  30 –17–5 = 82.33 }  227.59
James Ker in full 44 –16–6 = 119.53
Adam May. baker 9 –13–0 = 25.73
Pd. Lawrence Seckel 1800. ℔ hay 10.5.
Pd. Mary Byal for work for Maria 5/6.
Pd. Margt. Gilmer work for Maria 23/3.
13. Recd. from bk. U. S. by Petit 100.D.
Balance remaining in bank 109.55.
Pd. Palmer 1 pr. shoes Maria 8/4.
Pd. another shoemaker 2. pr. do. 2 D.
James market money 5.5. (9)
Do. his wages for next month 7.D.
Oellers83 ice for 50. days 50/.
Recd. Lieper’s note for £89–9–4 = 238.57 which with the one ante June 7. for 844.D. makes up (as he says) the balance for my tobo. of 1791. Consequently I am to provide for payment of the note of 684.D. at the bank, and therefore left with him my note for 691.D. to take up that of 684. in due time.
 
July 13. Pd. for fiddle strings .97 for muslin 25.6.
Pd. wages of the scullion 1.66.
Recd. from the mint 1500. half dismes of the new coinage.
Set out for Monticello.
Pd. pontage at Grey’s .12.    . 12
Chester.  lodging, &c. this eveng. & tomorrow morng. 3.81
servts. .30
3. 81
. 3
14.
Wilmington.  pliers, knife &c. .52
breakft. &c. 1.17      servts. .12
1. 29
Christeen  Maria .2
dinner &c. 2.2 servts. .15
2. 35
Elkton.   barber .15
Hollingsworth lodgg. &c. 3.28 servts. .15
} 3. 58
7. 12 84
15. Susquehanna. Rogers85 breakft. dinner &c. 2.6 servts. .5 ferrge. 1.67 4. 77
Charity .18 . 18
16.
Bushtown.  Stiles86 lodgg. &c. 3.41
servts. .15
} 3. 56
8. 51
Baltimore.  barber .2
Grant’s brkft. dinner &c. 3.33 servts. .4
. 2
3. 73

Elkridge.   ferrge. .34
Spuryear’s  lodging &c.  3.1
servts. .35
. 34

} 3. 45
17.
7. 72
Spuryear’s. brkft. &c. 1.46 servts. .6 2. 06
Bladensburg. Ross.87 dinner &c. 1.74 servts. .3 2. 04
 
18.
George town.  powder .4 barber .2
Shuter88 lodgg. brkft. &c. 4.9 servts. .15


reprs. of Phaeton .33 ferrge. 1.
. 6

5. 05

9. 02

. 73

1.
Alexandria. turnpike .2 baiting horses .75 . 95
Colchester.89 lodgg. &c. 2.75 2. 75
5. 43
19. A child .05 ferrge. & ferrymen .65 . 65
Adams’s  a child .05 guide 1.
brkft. &c. 1.67 do. guide .40
} 3. 12
Lansdown’s guide .8 cord .1 grog .15 1. 05

Elkrun church.  reprs. of phaeton .58
Shoemake. dinnr. lodgg. &c. 2.5
servt. .15

} 2. 65

20. 7. 47
Strode’s a child .05
Guide .1 . 1
Adams’s mill. corn .2 . 2
Orange C. H. dinner &c. 1.166 servts. .15 1. 31
1. 61
22. Mr. Madison’s servts. .5 . 5
Arrived at Monticello. (cash on hand 81.03) 51. 71
Small houshold exp. 1.
27. Gave in Charity 3.D.
28. Patsy small hhd. exp. 1.5.
29. Do. do. 3.D.
30. Gave bond to Henderson McCaul & co. for £94–17–1½ sterl. paiable July 19. 1796. with int. from Sep. 1. 1771. to Apr. 19. 1775. and from Apr. 19. 1783. till paid. Note this was for a balance of my mother’s not included in the settlement or bonds formerly given.
Aug. 3. Pd. Buster portage from Richmond 1.6.
5. Patsy small hhd. exp. 2.5.
 
6. Smith George90 to pay Mickie for 45. ℔ iron 2.4.
8. On settlement with Bowling Clarke91 I owe him £158–13. which he is to repay himself out of balances due in Bedford, & by the sale of beef & pork there this fall.
9. Recd. from George Twyman for spectacles 4.
Exp. Charlottesville pd. .1.
11. Patsy small hhd. exp. 1.6.
12. Do. do. 2.5.
13. Inclosed to D. Rittenhouse Lieper’s note of 238.57 D. out of which he is to pay for Equatorial instrument92 for me.
15. Gave Marks’s waggoner .8.
17. Smith George 2. ℔ steel .4.
Aug. 21. Patsy small hhd. xp. 1.5.
22. Charity 4.
24. Patsy sm. hhd. xp. 2.5.
Sep. 4. A. Brydie at Milton93 for 10. ℔ coffee 2.8.
8. Patsy small exp. 2.5.
12. Mrs. Sneed94 3.2.
13. Chiles 20 ℔ mutton .8.
15. Patsy 2.D.
17. Recd. from James Brown 50.D. on acct. of my tobo.
19. Pd. Watson 21 days work 12.D.
20. Patsy small exp. 2.D.
21. Mrs. Key old balance for fowls 9/.
22. Jupiter to pay for 10. ℔ butter .95.
23. Patsy sm. exp. 1.3.
25. Gave in Charity 6.D.
27. Left Monticello.
28. Gave vales at Mr. Madison’s .375.
 
Stevensburg. dinner &c. 1.5.
29. Strode’s. vales .166.
Shoemake’s. breakft. &c. 1.16 vales .166.

30.
Dumfries.  barber .25.
dinner lodging &c. 5.95 vales .41.
Colchester. ferrge. .5.
Oct. 1. Mount Vernon.95 vales 2.D.
George town.  ferriage 1.D.
advertisement 1.D.
barber .25.
dinner &c. 2.63 vales .4.
2. Bladensburg. lodging &c. 4.35 vales .37.
Vanville.96 breakft. &c. 1.25 vales .125.
Spuryear’s. baiting horses .666.
Elkridge. ferrge. .36.
3.
Baltimore.  barber .25.
persian &c. for Maria .81.
dinner lodging &c. 5.11 vales .5.
Webster’s. breakft. &c. 1.2 vales .25.
Bush. baiting horses .53 vales .12.
4.
Susquehanna.  ferrge. & ferrymen 2.D.
dinner lodging &c. 4.83 vales .34.
Elkton.  breakfast &c. 1.27 seeing a camel .25.
mending harness .33 vales .25.
Christeen. baiting horses .53 vales .12.
5.
Wilmington.  barber .25.
dinner lodging &c. 4.6 vales .33.
Chester. breakfast &c. 1.46 vales .5.
Schuylkill ferriage .16. Arrived at Phila. Cash on hand 8.51.
Analysis of the preceding travelling expences.
for myself & Maria      12.57
for our servant 5.05
for 4. horses 20.38
for vales 6.43
for ferriages 4.02
contingencies 3.64
  Total 52.1   gave Maria .5.
 
Oct. 6. Mr. Taylor has lodged in the bank of U. S. for me a quarter’s salary 875. Dol.
He has out of that taken up my note ante July 13. for 691.Dol.
8. Recd. from bank of U. S. by Petit 75.D.
Pd. a shawl for Maria 5/6.
Pd. Joseph his wages & board for Sep. & his board for the first 5 days of Octob. 16.33 D.
Pd. Robert for do. 16.33.
Pd. James for August and September 14.D.
Pd. Francis Seche for wages & board from Sep. 1. to this day 19.D. He now leaves my service & John Riddle comes.97
Note that Petit had received from the bank by my order  dollars and had paid as follows for the latter half of July & August viz. to Francis 29. Doll. to Gustavus 26. to Joseph 26 D. and for himself 24.D.—He has also recd. 10.D. from Mr. Taylor on my account.
Recd. back from Mr. Rittenhouse Lieper’s note for 238.57 D. inclosed to him ante Aug. 13. Returned it to Lieper and took a fresh one, which deposited in the bank of U. S.
<Note the bank of U. S. has recd. a quarter’s salary for me, 875 Dol. due the 1st. inst. and have out of it taken my note for 691.D. ante July 13.>
9. Pd. for visiting cards .5.
9. Maria 1.61.
Received from bank of U. S. by Petit 50.D.
I have credit at the bank for 236.08 on Lieper’s note for 238.57.
Gave ord. on bank to J. Shepherd98 for  clothes for James  19.75
do. for myself 10.
29.75
Do. to Pennington’s for sugar 18.02.
10. Do. to Vanuxem & Lombart for a cask of claret 40.
<12.> <Do. to John Bringhurst in full 33.92.>
Paid Hyde for 4. dinners furnished for 2 persons 9.46.
Gave Maria .66.
 
11. Paid balance to bank of North America 7.62.
Pd. for 4¼ cords of ash @ 27/6 + 2/6 cutting + 3/9 carting + cording 20.28.
Pd. Petit for Whitesides & Collier1 for 6. pr. cotton stockings 6.66.
12. Recd. from bank of U. S. by Petit 30.
Gave order on bank in favor of John Bringhurst 33.92.
Do. in favor of H. Pepper for beer from Jan. 7. to Oct. 8. 53.D.
Pd. Petit to repay Mr. Taylor (ante Oct. 8) 10.D.
Pd. do. on account 10.D.
Gave David Seckel for pasturg. horses ord. on bank for 39.3.
13. Pd. for a book 6.D.
Pd. Gordon for a pr. mocassin shoes 2.D.
Pd. Petit 10.D.
1792 Oct. 13. Here should have come in the Analysis2 which by mistake was placed on verso of the next leaf.
13. Maria .5 repd. Petit for havg. fiddle bows mended 1.13.
14. Maria 1.6.
15. Two inkpots .66.
16. Stine ord. on bank (for 40. b. oats) 15.35.
Pd. Petit 2 D.
18. A waggon load of charcoal 7.5.
19. Pd. Gayer for 9. punches 3.
20. Recd. from bank by Petit 50.D.
21. Gave Maria .5.
22. Petit on account 10.D.
Pd. Standley for 2200. ℔ hay 20.7.
(Heiltzheimer says that a horse well fed with grain requires 100. ℔ hay a week, & without grain 130. ℔)
23. Gave Maria for her Mantua maker (Miss Langley) 2.07.
Drew bill on James Brown in favr. Clow & co. for 200 D. & recd.  .
On settlement with Petit this day I owe him a balance of 530.96 Dol. exclusive of the wages of the current month.
Gave him a statement of the account and an acknolegement of the balance subjoined.
Pd. James error in accts. 1.06.
24. Gave Jabez Emery, collector of taxes, order on bank for 23.47 D. for taxes.
Pd. for pamphlet .125.
 
25. Pd. for 2 cords of oak 52/ cordg. 8d. cartg. 7/6 cutting 5/ = 8.69.
26. Pd. Petit on acct. 10.D. in part of wages of currt. month.
Recd. by do. from bank 25.D.
Gave Maria 1.5.
Pd. mending instruments .26.
27. Pd. John Riddell for Al. Austin3 for his boots 7.
Gave Maria .5.
29.
Pd. Petit for the past week  Market money  8. 5   (9)
tea ¾ ℔ 1. 85
furniture 3.
13. 35
30. Pd. for dying a pr. breeches .75.
31. Gave Maria entrance money with Moller4 6.
Nov. 2. Recd. from bank by Petit 75.
Pd. servants wages. to wit John 5.4 Gustavus [7.] Joseph 7. James 7. Brown 3. (his wages are 5.D. pr. month) = 29.4.
Pd. Petit in full of wages for last month 8.5.
3. Pd. mendg. ring 4.D. pd. for thermometer 7.D.
4. Gave Maria .5.
D. 
Inclosed J. Garland Jefferson order on James Brown for  75.
Inclosed Revd. Matthew Maury do. on do. 166. 675
241. 67
5. Pd. Petit. dress 1.93 furniture 1.7 Market money 17.12 = 20.75. (20)
Recd. from bank by Petit 50.
6. Pd. Robertson for shoeing horses 4.13.
Pd. for 13 cords of ash, maple & oak 43.92.
7. Pd. for 2 packs visiting cards 4/.
8. Recd. from bank by Petit 20.D.
Pd. for 2 oz. gum tragacanth6 .25.
 
Gave Maria to pay Moller a month’s music 6 D.
Nov 8. Recd. from Clow & co. 200.D. for my draught to that amount on James Brown.
9. Deposited the sd. 200.D. in the bank of the U. S.
Pd. Morgan for a stove 7.D.
10. Pd. Carey a year’s subscription for Americn. Museum 1.2.
Recd. from bank by Petit 75.
Pd. carting 13. cords of wood 7.8.
Pd. Petit 30.96 in part of his balance ante Oct. 23. which reduces it to 500.D.
Pd. mending ivory pocket book .25.
11.
Pd.  John Riddle leather breeches for himself 5.D.
do. rye & rye straw 3.03.
Gave Maria .5.
12.
Pd. Petit Nov. 5.—11  Market money  24. 2   (21)
furniture 4. 53
porter 1. 11
29. 84
13. Pd. Crukshanks for Naut. Alman.7 for 1793.4.5.6. 4.44.
14. Recd. from bank by Petit 50.D.
Dec. 1.
Pd. washerwoman a quarter’s washing endg.  Oct. 6. 20.D.
Pd. for 2550. ℔ hay 14.86 + 1.D. for waggoning.
Pd. Crukshanks for a book 1.66.
15. Pd. Moller for music 1.66.
Gave Maria .5.
16. Pd. J. Barclay for 1. doz. claret 7.D.
Pd. John for 18. bush. oats 6.4.
17. Recd. from bank by Petit 25.D.
18. Pd. sawg. 13. cords of wood 7.13.
19. Inclosd. to McKean8 atty. for J. Shepherd the ord. on the bank ante Oct. 9. which had not been delivd. to him.
Indorsed a note for J. Page for 575 D. payable at the bank of the U. S. at 60. days from date.
 
20. Gave Mrs. Fullarton9 order on the bank for 11.89 for things purchased for Maria.
Recd. from Clow & co. 200 D. for a bill on James Brown.
Pd. Petit table expences Nov. 12—18. 32.89 D. (25)
21. Deposited in the bank of the U. S. 175.D.
27. Pd. Petit for Nov. 18—23. table expences 49.24. (54)
Pd. do. for Oellers subscription to assemblies & concerts 16.D.10
Recd. by do. from bank 75.D.
Pd. Mr. B[ ]et a subscription for missionaries 15.D.
Gave Jos. Donath11 ord. on bank for 23.09 for 14449 sq. feet of glass.
Pd. Crosby for books 5.8.
Gave Maria to buy silk .8.
30. Recd. from bank by Petit 60.D.—pd. him in part wages 5.D.
Dec. 1. Pd. Crosby for books 2.D.
2. Pd. servants wages viz. John 7. Robert 7. Joseph 7. James 7. Brown 5. Petit balance of his wages 13.5.
Pd. John for rye & straw 3.66.
3. Pd. poor tax 8/.
4. Recd. from bank by Petit 75.D.
Pd. Petit table exp. Nov. 24—Dec. 1. 58.10 D. (59.)
Pd. John for 12. bushels oats 4.4.
Recd. from Clow & co. for draught on Mr. Brown 200.D.
Pass over next page.
 
[An] Analysis12 of the receipts & paiments of the three last quarters viz. from Jan. 13. 92. to Oct. 13. 92.
 
Jan. 13. to Apr. 13. Apr. 13. to July 13. July 13. to Oct. 13. Jan. 13 to Oct. 13.
House rent 333. 33 333. 33
Stable 82. 84 170. 27 39. 3 292. 41
Servants 122. 63 158. 16 210. 41 491. 2
dress 4. 33 98. 87 18. 66 121. 86
washing 20. 40. 60.
wines 27. 20 31. 40. 98. 20
other liquors 95. 14 53. 148. 14
bread 23. 17 25. 73 48. 9
groceries 89. 11 102. 43 20. 82 212. 36
market money 186. 208. 34 37. 15 431. 49
office 85. 91. 16 176. 16
fuel 54. 59 17. 82 20. 28 92. 69
books 8. 24. 72 6. 38. 72
furniture 176. 31 175. 06 351. 37
debts pd. & acquisitions 1. 8 1071. 2 41. 54 1114. 54
travellg. expences 4. 102. 08 106. 08
Maria 88. 76 208. 12  2. 98 299. 86
Contingencies 27. 65 98. 12 45. 72 171. 49
Total 1001. 39 2949. 47 637. 94 4588. 8
Receipts
Jan. 13. Cash in hd. & bk. 167. 39
Feb. 11. Recd. Lieper 100.
Mar. 31. Blair 36. 37
Apr. 5. Treasury 875.
1178.76
May 5. Lieper 197. 94
19. Pritchard 19. 45
June 12. Lieper 844.
Bank 684.
July 7. Credt. of rent Lieper     333. 33
2979.2713
 
Sep. 17. Recd. from Brown 50. 
Bank for Treasy. 184. 
Lieper 238. 57
J.W.E. for books 87. 66
 560.23 4718. 26
 
Amt. paimts. 1st. quarter 1011. 3914
2d. 2954. 47
3d. 647. 94
Oct. 13. cash in hd. & bk. 63. 74
short entries of paimts. 40. 72
4718. 26
Adding these three quarters to the last one of the last year to wit from Oct. 26. to Jan. 13. it stands thus (omitting Debts pd.) and adjusting articles marke thus*
         
House rent <*666.66> 15 *666. 66
Stable <499.92> 360. 46
Servants <740.2>  652. 47
Dress <230.04> 194. 24
Washing <80.>  80.
Wines <511.04> 237. 38
other liquors <188.14> 187. 14
bread <78.59> 68. 59
groceries <377.91> 350. 24
Market <723.12> 593. 49
office <289.87> 281. 16
fuel <235.08> 97. 69
books <55.81> 53. 05
furniture <629.73> 535. 34
travellg. exp. <364.22> 106. 08
Maria <425.9>  425. 9
Contingencies <520.33> 350. 14
Total <6616.56> 5240. 03
Dec. 5. Lodged in bank of U. S. 200.D.
7. Gave Maria for cloke &c. 2.
 
8. Gave James Springer order on bank for 10.31 for 1500 ℔ hay.
Pd. Crosby for books 8.13.
9. Gave Maria .5.
10. Pd. Petit table expences Dec. 2.—8. (62) 50.97.
Recd. from bank by Petit 70.D.
12. Pd. glazier John Stock16 2.6.
Pd. Capt. Swail freight of box17 of servts. clothes to Richmd. .5.
13. Gave Petit order on bank for 49.48 as follows.
£
for Biggs18 11– 0– 1 }  for servants clothes at Monticello.
for Cope 2– 3– 6
for Whitesides & Collier  1– 11– 6
3– 16– 0 for 12 hdkchfs. for myself
18– 11– 1 =  49.48
Gave Maria to pay for clothes 9.15.
15. Borrowed of Petit & pd. for 24. b. oats @ 2/10 9.06.
Pd. for diamond to cut glass 6.
17. Gave Maria .5.
19. Gave Dr. Barton order on bank for 60.D. in loan.19
20. Recd. from bank by Petit 55.D.
Pd. Petit  what I borrowed on the 15th. viz. 9. 06
a ℔ of tea     27/6 }  £2–2–6 =  
Making hdkchfs. 6/ 5. 67
housewashing 9/
table exp. Dec. 9—15 (32) 26. 76
Pd. for dying 10 waistcoats & breeches 5.33. 41. 49
Pd. Maria for Moller 5.
21. Pd. Lemar for 2 pr. clasps 3.33.
22. Recd. from Mr. Madison the 10.D. ante June 8.
23. Gave Maria for fringe .25.
25. Gave do. to pay for makg. coat 1.2.
30. Gave her .5.
<31.> <Pd. portage of a book .26.>

34Matchless, a horse of fierce temperament, had been the agent of “some hair-breadth escapes” on TJ’s most recent journey to Philadelphia. He was killed a year later while being ridden by TJ’s servant Joseph (TJ to TMR, 25 Oct. 1791, 18 Feb. 1793).

35TJ had ordered a coat of “superfine French cloth, of the very dark blue which you know I wear,” “a pair of black silk and a pair of black sattin breeches,” and “a gilet and pr. of breeches of buff Casimir, a very light buff, not a yellow one” (TJ to Christian Baehr, 14 and 29 Aug. 1791).

36The mercantile business of George Meade (1741-1808), prominent Philadelphia merchant and shipowner, was located at 78 Walnut Street and on the Walnut Street wharf (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

37 Adam May’s bakery was at 29 North Ninth Street (Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

38TJ had subscribed since 1787 to the Columbian Magazine, or Monthly Miscellany, established in Philadelphia in 1786. From Mch. 1790 until it ceased publication in Dec. 1792, it was called the Universal Asylum, and Columbian Magazine, and published by William Young. Many of TJ’s Philadelphia friends, such as Francis Hopkinson and Benjamin Rush, were associated with this monthly magazine, one of the best and most successful in eighteenth-century America (Sowerby, No. 4902 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ; Mott, American Magazines, i, 94-9 description begins Frank L. Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1741-1850, New York, 1930, 2 vols. description ends ).

39Correctly July.

40The figures $2458.22 and $4136.40 are five cents greater than the totals of given figures.

41Sweet oil is any mild edible oil such as olive oil.

42Possibly John Farran, a “house carpenter” at 93 Walnut Street (Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

43 Laurent Lamourour was a “tallow chandler” at 391 North Front Street (Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

44A lenitive electuary is a laxative made of French prunes, pulp of cassia, senna leaves, and coriander seed bound together by black syrup of sugar (“Electuaries,” Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences [Philadelphia, 1798], xiv, 425-7).

45The museum of natural history and art of Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) had opened to the public in 1786 at Peale’s house on the southwest corner of Third and Lombard streets and was moved in 1794 to the hall of the American Philosophical Society. Admission to the museum, long the most prestigious in America and the first in the world to make a serious and scientifically arranged collection available to the general public, cost twenty-five cents and was free to the annual subscriber. TJ, a lifelong friend to both Peale and his museum, was made first president of its Board of Visitors on 14 Feb. 1792 (Charles Coleman Sellers, Mr. Peale’s Museum [New York, 1980]; Edgar P. Richardson, Brook Hindle, Lillian B. Miller, Charles Willson Peale and His World [New York, 1982]).

46 Joseph was a “small French boy” TJ had engaged to “shave, dress and follow me on horseback” (TJ to Daniel L. Hylton, 5 Feb. 1792; Hylton to TJ, 12, 19 Feb. 1792).

47 McLaughlin & Taggart were grocers at 11 North Water Street (Phila. Dir. 1791).

48Although Ebenezer Hazard (1744-1817), the pioneer editor of original American historical records, was selling books in Philadelphia at this time, TJ may have purchased Hazard’s own publication, the first volume of his Historical Collections (Philadelphia, 1792), which dealt with the discovery of America and the early colonial period (Brown, Philadelphia Book Trade, p. 59 description begins H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, A Directory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in Philadelphia to 1820, New York, 1950 description ends ; Sowerby, No. 3044 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ). For TJ’s long association with this project, see TJ to Hazard, 18 Feb. 1791, and note.

49 Godfrey Welsey was a musical instrument maker at 86 North Fourth Street (Phila. Dir. 1793).

50 James Reynolds (1736-1794), prominent Philadelphia gilder and carver, sold his own and imported looking glasses at his store on North Third Street (Prime, Arts & Crafts, p. 232-4 description begins The Arts & Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland and South Carolina, ed. Alfred Coxe Prime, New York, 1969, 2 vols. description ends ; Betty Ring, “Check List of Looking-Glass and Frame Makers . . ., The Magazine Antiques, cxix [1981], 1191).

51TJ and TMR were both intermediaries in a transaction between Philadelphia naturalist, Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815), and Archibald Cary Randolph (TMR to TJ, 18 Mch. 1792).

52The store of printer and bookseller Thomas Dobson (1751-1823) was described by Benjamin Rush in 1791 as “the most public place of resort for literary people in our city.” It was located at 41 South Second Street (Jackson, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, ii, 589-91 description begins Joseph Jackson, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pa., 1930-1933, 4 vols. description ends ; Letters of Benjamin Rush, ed. L. H. Butterfield [Princeton, N.J., 1951], i, 583; Brown, Philadelphia Book Trade, p. 41 description begins H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, A Directory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in Philadelphia to 1820, New York, 1950 description ends ).

53Correctly $22.04, the figure TJ must have used to arrive at the $53.54 total.

54 William Richards was a “breeches maker” at 126 Market Street (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

56Here TJ revived his Parisian practice of recording the number of people who dined at his table, so that the average per person per meal cost could be calculated.

57 Ernst Frederick Gayer was an unemployed type founder then resident in Philadelphia (Gayer to TJ, 3 May 1792, 8 Jan. 1793).

58Founded in 1786 on the south side of Chestnut Street nearly opposite Strawberry Alley, the Philadelphia Dispensary was the first free medical clinic in the United States. An annual contribution of one guinea allowed subscribers to select two patients for treatment. Benjamin Rush was one of the Dispensary’s founders and attending physicians, and among its managers were William White (1748-1836), Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania, and the merchant Samuel Pleasants (Jackson, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, ii, 589 description begins Joseph Jackson, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pa., 1930-1933, 4 vols. description ends ; Philadelphia General Advertiser, 18 Dec. 1790).

59One hundred olive trees and some caper plants had arrived from France and were sent on to the South Carolina agricultural society (TJ to Elias Vanderhorst, 11 May 1792; TJ to George Washington, 16 May 1792; MB 12 July 1788).

60 George Morris sold seeds and plants from his garden on Twelfth Street between Market and Arch streets (Philadelphia Dunlap’s American Daily Advertiser, 26 Mch. 1791).

61 William Pritchard had evidently bought some of the maps made to accompany the Notes on Virginia description begins Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, ed. William Peden, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1955 description ends .

62From Peter Stewart, printer and bookseller at 34 South Second Street, TJ bought the Laws of the State of North-Carolina, published by James Iredell at Edenton, N.C., in 1791 (“Contingent Expenses of the Department of State,” 22 May 1792, Papers, xvii, 369; Sowerby, No. 2165 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ; American Daily Advertiser, 10 May 1792; Brown, Philadelphia Book Trade, p. 114 description begins H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, A Directory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in Philadelphia to 1820, New York, 1950 description ends ).

63 James Vanuxem and Hermann Joseph Lombaert were partners in a mercantile firm engaged in the West Indies trade. Their store of general merchandise was at 7 North Water Street in 1792 and 73 South Water Street in 1793 (Philadelphia General Advertiser, 22 Aug. 1791, 14 Nov. 1792; Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

64TJ bought the portrait of James Madison by Robert Edge Pine (1730-1788) two weeks before a public auction of Pine’s paintings held by Mary Pine before her return to England. The painting, which TJ considered “an indifferent one,” later hung in the parlor at Monticello, was at Edgehill in 1862, and is now unlocated (Robert G. Stewart, Robert Edge Pine [Washington, D.C., 1979], p. 37, 68; TJ to William Morgan, 4 Feb. 1809; Catalogue of Paintings, No. 30 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s “Catalogue of Paintings &c. at Monticello,” c. 1815. ViU description ends ; Nicholas P. Trist to Philip R. Kendall, 25 June 1862, ViU).

65TJ and Thomas Leiper raised the money for the 12 June payment to John Dobson by joint notes, because they had not yet settled their account for the sale of TJ’s 1791 tobacco (see MB 13 July 1792; TJ to Leiper, 10 and 12 July 1792).

66 George Taylor, Jr., served as chief clerk in the Department of State from the resignation of Henry Remsen, 1 Apr. 1792, until the end of TJ’s term.

67 William Irvine (1741-1804), Revolutionary War brigadier general and in 1793 a Pennsylvania congressman.

68 Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina was about to leave for England as minister to Great Britain.

69TJ bought the vanilla pods from Théophile Cazenove (d. 1811), the representative of several Dutch banking firms interested in investing in American securities and land (TJ to James Currie, James McClurg, and Thomas M. Randolph, Sr., 1 May 1791; Papers, xix, 454 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ; John Askling, “Autobiographical Sketch of Anthony-Charles Cazenove,” VMHB, lxxviii [1970], 301).

70 Sampson Crosby had been office keeper and messenger in the Department of State since TJ first began serving as Secretary of State (Papers, xvii, 356, 358 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends ).

71The account with ironmonger James Bringhurst dated back to 1777 (TJ to Bringhurst, 15 Jan. 1791).

72 John McElwee was a looking glass and paint merchant at 75 South Front Street (Prime, Arts & Crafts, p. 211-14, 303-4 description begins The Arts & Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland and South Carolina, ed. Alfred Coxe Prime, New York, 1969, 2 vols. description ends ).

73 Huson Langstroth was a china merchant at 38 North Second Street (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

74 William Redwood was a grocer and tea merchant at 146 South Water and 147 South Front streets (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

75 Joseph Few was a grocer and “chocolate-maker” at 129 and 131 South Water Street (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

76 John D. Blanchard sold domestic and imported cheese and dry goods at his store at 4 South Third Street (Philadelphia General Advertiser, 14 Nov. 1792).

77TJ may have subscribed to the fourth volume of the Sermons of Hugh Blair; it was first printed in America in 1794, by both Mathew Carey and Robert Campbell of Philadelphia.

78TJ had long wished for “a whig vehicle of intelligence” of wide circulation to balance John Fenno’s Federalist Gazette of the United States (TJ to TMR, 15 May 1791). Here he assisted in the distribution of Philip Freneau’s semiweekly National Gazette, which appeared in Philadelphia from Oct. 1791 to Oct. 1793. For TJ’s close association with the establishment and content of this paper of republican principles, see Papers, xx, 718-59 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends , Malone, Jefferson, ii, 423-8 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends , and Sowerby, No. 543. Freneau (1752-1832 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ), whom TJ had appointed his clerk for foreign languages in Aug. 1791, served in the Department of State until Oct. 1793.

79 Peter Gordon was a cordwainer at 142 South Front Street (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

80Established in Apr. 1792, the United States Mint was placed under TJ’s jurisdiction in the fall of 1792 and, at TJ’s suggestion, David Rittenhouse was named its director. On 13 July TJ received his first supply of coins of the new decimalized currency. The Mint was located on Seventh Street between Market and Arch streets.

81 Benjamin W. Morris was a wine merchant and grocer at 58 Dock and 110 South Second streets (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

82The pastel crayon drawing of TJ by William Joseph Williams (1759-1823) is now unlocated (Bush, Life Portraits, p. 40-1 description begins Alfred L. Bush, “The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson,” Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View, ed. William Howard Adams, Washington, D.C., 1976 description ends ; TJ list of furniture shipped from Philadelphia in 1793, in which TJ described the portrait as “done by Williams in crayon,” ViU).

83 James Oeller was the proprietor of Philadelphia’s finest and most popular hotel, on Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh streets. It was the scene of meetings, banquets, concerts, and dancing assemblies until it burned in 1799 (Historic Philadelphia, p. 324 description begins Historic Philadelphia from the Founding until the Early Nineteenth Century, ed. Luther P. Eisenhart, Philadelphia, 1953 description ends ). For a description of Oeller’s ice house, see Wansey, Journal, p. 103-4 description begins Henry Wansey and His American Journal, ed. David John Jeremy, Philadelphia, 1970 description ends .

84Correctly $7.22.

85 John Rodgers kept a tavern and ferry house on the east side of the Susquehanna Lower Ferry. The stone Rodgers Tavern, where William Stephenson probably kept tavern before Rodgers took it over in 1780, still stands in present Perryville, Md. (Papenfuse, Maryland, p. 32 description begins Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State, comp. and ed. Edward C. Papenfuse and others, Baltimore, 1976 description ends ; Colles, Roads, p. 173 description begins Christopher Colles, A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, 1789, ed. Walter W. Ristow, Cambridge, Mass., 1961 description ends ).

86 Joseph Stiles was first licensed to keep an ordinary in Bushtown (Harford) in 1775 (Harford County Minute Book, 28 Mch. 1775, Hall of Records of Maryland, Annapolis).

87A certain Ross kept a tavern at the sign of the Indian Queen in Bladensburg, Md. (Diaries of George Washington, vi, 238 description begins The Diaries of George Washington, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, Charlottesville, Va., 1976-1979, 6 vols. description ends ).

88 John Suter (d. 1794) and then his son John Suter, Jr., kept a tavern on High (now Wisconsin) Street south of Bridge (now M) Street in Georgetown (Eberlein and Hubbard, Historic Houses of George-town, p. 10-12 description begins Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard, Historic Houses of George-town and Washington City, Richmond, 1958 description ends ).

89Colchester, on the north shore of Occoquan Creek in Fairfax County, was once a thriving commercial center and ferry site (Edith M. Sprouse, Colchester, Colonial Port on the Potomac [Fairfax, Va., 1975]).

90 Little George (1759-1799), the son of Ursula and Great George, was a slave blacksmith at Monticello.

91 Bowling Clarke was TJ’s overseer at Poplar Forest in Bedford County until 1801.

92TJ sent Thomas Leiper’s note to David Rittenhouse to secure the purchase of an equatorial telescope from a Mr. “Van Bram,” perhaps William Gerard De Brahm (1717-c. 1799), the former surveyor general of the southern district of the American colonies then living in Philadelphia. TJ actually paid $102.67 in Jan. 1793 for “this noble instrument,” which was made by Jesse Ramsden. In 1806 TJ wrote that this was the only astronomical instrument with which he had any familiarity (MB 8 Oct. 1792, 5 Jan. 1793; TJ to Rittenhouse, 12 Aug. 1792; TJ to William Lambert, 29 Nov. 1822; TJ to William Dunbar, 12 Jan. 1806; TJ to Rev. James Madison, 29 Dec. 1811; list of “Mathematical Apparatus,” MHi).

93The town of Milton, formed in 1789, was on the south bank of the Rivanna River three miles east of Monticello. Located at the head of navigation, it was a flourishing mercantile center for many years, but is now only a place name (Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, p. 58 description begins Boynton Merrill, Jr., Jefferson’s Nephews: A Frontier Tragedy, Princeton, N.J., 1976 description ends ).

94 Mary (Polly) Snead, wife of Benjamin Snead, was a midwife.

95The day before TJ had stopped at Gunston Hall for a last conversation with George Mason, who died on 7 Oct. At Mount Vernon TJ and Washington discussed the implications of his letter to the president of 9 Sep. 1792 on the breach with Hamilton and TJ’s wish to retire at the end of the first presidential term. TJ made memoranda of both conversations (Papers, xxiv, 428-9, 433-6 description begins Julian P. Boyd and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, N.J., 1950- description ends .

96Vansville is about nine miles northeast of Bladensburg and one half mile northeast of present Beltsville, Prince Georges County, Md. The tavern there was kept by Gabriel Van Horne (Griffith, Map of Maryland description begins Dennis Griffith, Map of the State of Maryland, Philadelphia, 1794 description ends ; Traveller’s Directory, “Road from Philadelphia to Washington,” map 20 description begins S. S. Moore and T. W. Jones, The Traveller’s Directory, or a Pocket Companion: Shewing the Course of the Main Roads from Philadelphia to Washington, Philadelphia, 1802 description ends ; Diaries of George Washington, vi, 205 description begins The Diaries of George Washington, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, Charlottesville, Va., 1976-1979, 6 vols. description ends ).

97The coachman Francis Seche was dismissed because TJ did not want to lose Adrien Petit, who had threatened to return to France if Francis and his wife were not removed from TJ’s household (Petit to TJ, 28 July 1792; TJ to George Taylor, 13 Aug. 1792; Taylor to TJ, 26 Aug., 1 Sep. 1792).

98 John Shepherd was a merchant tailor at 3 South Fourth Street (Phila. Dir. 1791 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

1 Whitesides & Collier were merchants at 136 Market Street (Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

2Located at 4 Dec. 1792.

3 Alexander Austin was a boot and shoemaker at 268 Market Street (Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

4 John Christopher Moller, “professor of music” at 163 North Third Street, was very active in the musical life of the city. He was a composer, an organist at the Zion Lutheran Church, and was associated with the City Concert series as organizer and keyboard performer. He no doubt instructed Maria Jefferson on the harpsichord (Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ; Cripe, Jefferson and Music, p. 22-3 description begins Helen C. Cripe, Thomas Jefferson and Music, Charlottesville, Va., 1974 description ends ).

5This payment was for the school fees of TJ’s nephew Dabney Carr (TJ to Matthew Maury, 4 Nov. 1792).

6Tragacanth, a gum obtained from various Astragalus species, is used in oil painting and as a suspending agent for drugs.

7 The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, established in 1765 by English astronomer-royal Nevil Maskelyne, was published annually in London. TJ, who had begun buying it in 1786, assembled an almost complete collection until 1809, when he began buying John Garnett’s American reprint (Sowerby, No. 3810 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

8 Joseph McKean (1764-1826), son of Pennsylvania chief justice Thomas McKean.

9Soon after their arrival in Philadelphia on 5 Oct. TJ placed his daughter Maria in the boarding school run by Valeria Fullerton at 113 Arch Street. From this school, where she remained until some time in 1793, Maria visited her father every Sunday (Jennings Cropper Wise, Colonel John Wise of England and Virginia [Richmond, 1918], p. 96; Phila. Dir. 1794 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ; TJ to TMR, 12 Oct. 1792).

10 James Oeller’s hotel on Chestnut Street was again the scene of the Philadelphia Dancing Assemblies and the City Concert series for the 1792-93 season. The first concert in the series, which at this time was under the direction of Alexander Reinagle, John Christopher Moller, and Henry Capron, took place on 1 Dec. 1792 (Cripe, Jefferson and Music, p. 22-3 description begins Helen C. Cripe, Thomas Jefferson and Music, Charlottesville, Va., 1974 description ends ).

11 Joseph Donath, merchant at 28 South Front Street, later supplied TJ with imported Bohemian glass for Monticello (Abraham Ritter, Philadelphia and her Merchants [Philadelphia, 1860], p. 166).

12TJ intended this chart to follow the page that ended with the third entry for 13 Oct., q.v.

13This and the grand total, although both are $900.55 greater than the total of the given figures, are correct. The discrepancy arose from TJ’s omission of the $875 Treasury warrant of 3 July and his incorrect transcription of the $45 received from Pritchard on 19 May (he evidently absentmindedly combined the date and the figure).

14TJ altered the original entries in this column by overwriting. To the quarterly totals from the chart at the left and the “short entries” figure he added a total of $50, while subtracting $50 from the original “cash in hd.” figure of $113.74.

15TJ erroneously included the last two quarters of 1791 in the totals of the deleted first column.

16 John Stock was a painter and glazier at 11 South Seventh Street (Phila. Dir. 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

17The contents of the box, which included four pairs of tongs and shovels as well as yard goods and stockings for the Monticello housemaids, are itemized in TJ to MJR, 13 Dec. 1792.

18 John Biggs was a merchant and glover at 76 North Front Street (Phila. Dir. 1791, 1793 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

19When Benjamin Smith Barton offered to repay this loan in 1796, TJ wrote that the sum was “so little” that he had forgotten it and asked Barton to send him any good pamphlets which appeared in Philadelphia in lieu of repayment (Barton to TJ, 19 Dec. 1792, 1 Aug., 25 Oct. 1796; TJ to Barton, 10 Oct. 1796).

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