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Memorandum Books, 1807

1807.

Jan. 1. Charity 1.D.
5. Paid the barber 5.D.
Lemaire’s accts. Nov. 30. to Jan. 3.
provns. servts. stores cont. Total meat buttr. eggs veget.
Dec.  6 75.25  1.50 cydr. 17. 7.  100. 75 307. 23  23  7.26   37.62589  ÷  61  =  .616
13 85.55  1.50 .70 87. 75 273. 46  21  4.03   42.775 ÷ 52 = .82
20 107.93   .87 52.20 1.11 162. 11 276  36  25  5.55   55.43 ÷ 61 = .91
27. 98.07   .50 2.69 101. 26 221  46  35  4.31   49.03 ÷ 63 = .78
Jan.  3. 110.95  5.36 116. 31 315  42  40  1.18   58.45 ÷ 62 = .94
477.75  9.73 69.20 11.50 568. 18 1392  193  144  22.33  243.31 ÷ 299 = .81
Dec.  8.  balance then due 1357. 41
Jan.  4.  Servts. wages to this day 148.
2073. 59
 5.  by ord. on bk. US. 400.
 balance remaing. due 1673. 59
Recd. from bk. US. 125.D. inclosed to John Homes Freeman 100.D.
Drew on do.  in favor of Th:J. for 500.D. inclosed it to Wm. Short.
in favor of Jones & Howell 281.25 which inclosed to them.
6. Drew on do. in favr. I. A. Coles 150.D.
Subscribed to church (Episcopal) near Navy yard 50.D.
Newsboy .25.
7. Gave Jos. Daugherty ord. on bk. US. 80.D. to wit 20. for Music band 6 for constables90 & the balance on acct. to wit 54.D.
10. Recd. from bank US. 360.D.
11. Inclosed to Burgess Griffin 15.D. to pay stone mason 13.33.
Inclosed to Edmund Bacon 245.D. to wit
 for James  Walker 100.
Chisolm 50 
Dinsmore 20 
 for himself on acct. 75 
245.
Borrowed from J. Barnes 231.40. a check on bk. US.
12. Delivd. the check to Mr. Coles to pay Lee’s bill of Excha. ante Dec. 15.
 
14. Gave in charity 4.D.
16. Charity 1.D.
Recd. from the bk. US. by ord. on bk. at Balt. 67. 30
 to which I added cash 50.
 and inclosed to Thos. Moore Balt. by ord. J. Speer  117. 30
Note this is to discharge the assumpsit to Speer of Dec. 9 and 50.D. part of an ord. of 150. from J. Perry on me in his favr.
On a calculation of the sums total to which Lemaire’s monthly accts. have amounted from Jan. 4. 06. to Jan. 3. 07
the average on the 12. months is 401.  +  148  =  549
but  while Congress is here, they are   526. + 148 = 674
while I am here, at other times 334 + 148 = 482
while I am not here 291 + 148 = 439
to which sum add servts. wages 148.
17. Charity 1.D.
Pd. P. Stelle subscrptn. to dancing assembly 16.D.
Pd. replenishing ice house 17.125.
27. Recd. from Isaac Briggs 10.D. to be remitted for him to Benj. Johnson Phila.91
22. Gave in charity 2.D.
29. Gave in charity 1.D.
Feb. 2. Charity 1.D.
3. Pd. for a seal, chain & key for my brother 1.50.
4. Charity 4.D. 5. Charity 1.D.
5. Lemaire’s accts. Jan. 4.—31.
provns. servts. grocers. cont. Total meat buttr. eggs veget.
Jan. 10. 120.82  .50  1.12 122. 44 207 43  28 26.45   71.82  ÷  71  =  1.1192
17. 88.14  1.75  2.13 92. 02 252 40  11 1.55   44.07 ÷ 58 =  .76
24. 61.82  3.88  20.60  .87 87. 17 284 46  16 .25   30.91 ÷ 58 =  .51
31. 86.63  4.75  17.80 109. 18 242 42  18 1.64   43.315 ÷ 58 =  .746
357.41  10.88  38.40 4.12 410. 81 985 171  73 29.89  190.11 ÷ 245 =  .78
Jan. 5. balance then due 1673. 59
Feb. 5. servts. wages 148.
2232. 40
By ord. on bk. US. 500.
Balance remaing. due 1732. 40
 
Gave Joseph Daugherty ord. on bk. US. 60.D.
7. Recd. from bank US. an ord. on do. at Philada. for 500.D. which I inclosed to Wm. Short.
Recd. from do. an ord. on do. for 220.15 in favr. Jones & Howel, of which 206.90 is due to them, and 13.25 is to be paid to Benjamin Johnson bookseller Phila. ante Jan. 27 which I inclosed to Jones & Howell.
Recd. from do. an ord. for 69.50 on bank at Norfolk in favr. Oliveira Fernandez & co. to pay for a cask of Lisbon Malmesey, which I inclosed to Oliveira &c.
8. Drew check on bank US. in favr. Geo. Andrews 40.80 for 30. metops.
Drew do. in favr. John Cox 100. on acct. for merchandise.
9. Recd. from bank US. 500.D.
Inclosed to John Holmes Freeman 140.D. in full of all accts.
Inclosed to Edmund Bacon for  James Walker 100.
John Perry 150.
Hugh Chisolm  50.
on acct. 50 
350.
Paid Conner the barber 5.D.
14. Charity 2.D.—do. 2.D.—Charity 4.D.
15. Drew on bk. US. for 30.D. in favr. Timothy Pickering for Thos. Burnham for a Corn-sheller.93
17. Charity 2.D.
22. Charity 4.D.
23. Assumed for J. Perry to pay D. Carr £100. with int. from Jan. 1 1806. by monthly instalments of 100.D. each, beginning the first week in May.
24. Pd. for a book 2.D.
27. Charity 2.D. do. 4.D.
Mar. 1. Drew on bank US. for 100.D. in favr. Genl. Hamilton of Pensylvania for a college in Washington county in that state.94
 
3. Charity 4.D.
4. Recd. from bank US. 590.D. which I remitted to bank Fredsbg. for Mrs. & Miss Dangerfield for hire of negroes ante Jul. 26.
5. Pd. Mr. Macon for Gale’s newspaper to Apr. 1807. 12.D.
Mar. 6. Lemaire’s accts. from Feb. 1.—28.
provns. servts. grocrs. cont. Total meat butter eggs veget.
Feb.  7.  83.26 1.  2.46 86. 72 287 46  22 1.48  41.63  ÷  70  =  .594
14. 109.98  .75 7. 117. 73 343 53  31  60.98 ÷ 73 = .83
21.  88.73  .50 89. 23 330 48  22 2.62  44.365 ÷ 86 = .515
28. 108. 3.  4.36 115. 36 207 49  24 2.   59. ÷ 63 = .93
389.97 5.25 7. 6.82 409. 04 1167 196  99 6.10 205.975 ÷ 292 = .72
Feb.  5. Balance remaining due 1732. 40
Mar.  4. Servants wages 148.
2289. 44
 6. By ord. on bank US. 500.
balance now due 1789. 44
7. Drew on bk. US. in favr. of Gabriel Christie for 60.94 to wit
 for duties & charges on wines &c.95 from Marseilles 46.94
 for W. & R. Hall sadlers Baltimore for a pr. stirrups96 14.
60.94
Recd. from bank US. cash 50.D.
Drew on bk. US. in favor of the Treasurer for 500.D. in exchange for his draught on the Collector of Petersburg for that sum and I remit the draught to G. Jefferson to pay to Robert Kinnan agent for Warre representative of Farrel & Jones £108–15 Virga. currcy. with int. at 5.p.c. from May 7. 1800. in full of my share of Mr. Wayles’s debt to Farrell & Jones. Kinnan is to deliver up my last bond still in his hands.97
8. Inclosed the treasurer’s draught as above to G. Jefferson to make paiment to Kinnan, and inclosed to Kinnan and order on Gibson & Jefferson for the same.
9. Paid the barber 5.50.
10. A book 2.25 charity 4.
12. Gave Davy & Isaac for their expences home 10.D.98
 
13. Drew on bk. US. for 50.D. in favr. Lemaire in exchange for small silver money for Monto.
14. Pd. Riley & co. N. Y. for a book (Azuni)99 8.D.
16. Recd. from bank US. 80.D. and inclosed to D. Higginbotham for corn purchased by E. Bacon.
Gave Jos. Daugherty ord. on bank US. for 50.D.
18. Charity 2.D. do. 1.D.
24. Drew on bk. US. in favr. Jos. Daugherty for 100.D.
28. Drew on do. in favr. John Woodside for 200.b. coal, Washington measure @ .40 = 80.D. This being 250.b. common measure with 1150.b. of the 1300.b. ante Nov. 20. make 1400.b. used since that date, amount to 10¾ bush. a day.
Gave John Minchin ord. on do. for 15.D. for boots.
29. Paid Capt. Mer. Lewis 2.05 for Mr. Peale for ink glasses.1
Apr. 3. Gave Shorter for Valise pad .75.
4. Gave ord. on bk. US. in favr. TMRandolph for 200.D.2
5. Pd. extra washing 15.D.
6. Lemaire’s accts. Mar. 1.—Apr. 4. 07.
provns. servts. wood cont. total meat butter eggs veget.
Mar.  7. 51.76  6.90  8.85 67. 51 152 35   8 5.41  25.88  ÷  25  =  1.03
14. 55.38  1.12 56. 50 190 36  18 7.32  27.69 ÷ 30 =  .92
21. 47.89  .25 48. 14 153 29  17 2.20  23.94 ÷ 41 =  .58
28. 102.14  3.77  18.77 .75 125. 43 151 51  19 6.27  56.64 ÷ 29 = 1.95
Apr.  4 50.84  4.25  3.38 58. 48 179 31  10 2.92  25.42 ÷ 33 =  .77
308.01  14.92  18.77 14.35 356. 06 825 182  72 24.12  159.57 ÷ 158 = 1.05
Mar.  6. balance then due 1789. 44
Apr.  4. servants wages 148.
2293. 50
 6. by ord. on bank 500.
balance 1793. 50
Recieved from bank US. an ord. on do. Philada. for 500.D. which I inclosed to Wm. Short.
Recieved from bank US. 375.D. cash.
 
Drew on bk. US. in favr.  Henry Ingles  for himself 54. 835
for church ante Jan. 6.   50 
104. 835
James Melvill,3 taylor 88. 125
Thos. Carpenter, taylor 48. 25
Isaac A. Coles 150.
Dr. Elzey 50.
7. Paid Conner the barber 5.D.
Geo. T. ferrge. &c. 1.75 Ravensworth .25.
8. Songster’s supper, lodgg. brkfast. vales 8.25.
9. Fauqr. C. H. Norris. supper, to dinner & vales 15.
10. Jefferson. Kuhn’s. suppr. & lodging 4.5.
Culpep. C. H. Shackleford’s. breakft. 3.
11. Orange C. H. Verdier. dinner lodging 7.20.
Gordon’s. brkfast., vales, & old acct. 4.17 = 44.12.
For Hhd. exp. 20.D.
12. Do. 10.D. Ben. sewers .50.
13. Paid John Perry 100.D.
14. Paid Hugh Chisolm 50.D.
Pd. Bacon for turkies 6.D.
15. Pd. Mr. Nelson 20.D. pd. James Dinsmore 20.D.
Gave Jerry for expences to Poplar forest 1.D.
16. G. Jefferson has sold my crop of tobo. 20. hhds. to John Tompkins @ 7.D. paiable 1000.D. on the 15th. inst. the residue at 60. days. I have directed him to pay the 1000.D. to Littleton W. Tazewell in part of Mr. Wayles debt to Cary & co.
20. Gave Isaac .50 for bringing cyder & trees from Colo. Coles’ yesterday.
22. Pd. my brother balance above cost of his watch &c. 1.50.
23. Pd. do. for Jesse Moore for ferriages 2.D.
The weight of my Bedford tobo. this year is as follows.
 No.  335.  164.  1766.  341.  156.  1494.  346.  156.  1652.  352.  160.  1818. 
336 157. 1573 342. 159. 1802. 347 160. 1621. 353. 156. 1600.
338. 156. 1619. 343. 150. 1600. 348 156 1600. 354. 150. 1586. 29,370.
339 156. 1599 344. 155. 1650. 350. 156 1500. 337. 158. 1422. }  3,038
340. 156. 1652. 345. 150. 1648. 351. 158 1590 349. 158. 1616
The 18. hhds. 29,370. ℔ are sold = 2055.90 D. but the overseer’s parts are included in this.
Apr. 23. Recd. and accepted Stephen Cathalan’s bill for 421.21 D. paiable at 30. days sight to James Davidson. This is for the last invoice of Hermitage, fruits, oil &c.4
 
25. Recd. of J. H. Craven 30.D.
26. Pd. James Walker 100.D.
Mrs. R. hhd. exp. 10.D.
Allowd. in J. H. Craven’s acct. as follows £   s
on the ord. of  John Perry, to be charged to J. P.    74– 10
James Walker do. 26– 0
a paiment to Wm. Madox. do. 6– 0
and drew an order on him in favr. Brown, Rives & co. for 57–15–3 (ante Sep. 28.) and £2–12 int. which fully discharges my acct. 60–7–3.
Accepted John Perry’s ord. in favr. John Carr for 100.D. to be pd. immedly. on my return to Washington.
27. Settled with James Walker and I owe him a balance of 804.78 D. to be pd. by monthly instalments, but I am to pay to Mr. Higginbotham £19–15 = 65.83 D. for him in addition to the first instalment.
30. Settled with John Perry, and the balance of 1217.22 due by our settlemt. of Oct. 1. is now overpd. 112.32 to be carried to my credit in next account.
May 2. Inclosed to J. Barnes a check on the bk. US. for 150.D. to be remitted to me at Monticello.
3. Drew ord. on J. H. Craven in favr. D. Higginbotham for £100.
Settled with J. H. Craven & pd. him 3/2½ balance due him.5
7. Settled with Wm. Mattox, & balance due him of £16–13–8 = 55.61.
Gave him ord. on D. Higginbotham for 10.D. in part.
8. Pd.  Pitman for mending clocks 5.D.
10. Small exp. 5.D.
Pd.  Uligate an ord. of Gab. Lilly favr. Richd. Price waggong. 40/.
11. Recd. the 150.D. from bank US. ante May 2.
Pd. Edmd. Bacon 50.D. a part to repay  Anderson money he had borrowed of him to pay Wallace for a beef, the rest on acct.
Bought of Randolph Lewis a woman Mary, 27. y. old, and her two sons William 6. y. old last March and    4. y. old last February, they are the wife & children of Moses, for £150. for which sum I gave my bond to Walter Key payable this day 12. month with int. from the date, Lewis being indebted to Key.6
Pd. Houshold expences 20.D.
12. Edmund Bacon gives me in the following list of debts
Thos. Burras for 18. hogs £6– 4– 0
John Peyton 3. days hauling ice     £3.
 and 40. bush. lime @ 1/   2  5– 0– 0
Jacob Cooper tanng. leather in 1804. & 1805. 8– 12– 9
John Brown 898. ℔ hay @ 6/ 2– 14– 0
John Gillam 348. ℔ fodder @ 7/6 1– 4– 97
Richard Anderson. 1. shoat 0– 18– 0
John Rogers 578. ℔ beef @ 6d 14– 9– 0
James Carr for 16. barr. corn @ 5.D. 24– 0– 0
John Gillam. 24. bar. do. @ do. 36– 0– 0
John Stevens 8. bar. do. @ do. 12– 0– 0
D. 370.40 =  £111– 2– 6
Sent to Mrs. Lewis 30.D. for bacon, vegetables &c.
Gave John Freeman 5.D. Shorter 5.D.
13. Pd. Nelson 5.D. left at Monticello in small silver 17.43.
Pd.  Martin for timber 10.D.
Gordon’s pd. dinner &c. 3.D.
14. Orange C. H. Verdier tea, lodgg. &c. 5.71.
Culpeper C. H. Shackelford. breakft. &c. 1.58.
15. Fauquier C. H. Norris. dinnr. lodgg. brkft. &c. 7.375 a smith .25.
Figgins’s. oats .50.
Songster’s dinner 1.5.
16. R. Fitzhugh’s vales .50.
Geo. T. ferrge. &c. 1.25 = 21.665. cash in hand 33.375.
18. Recd. from bk. US. 185.D.
Inclosed to Edmd. Bacon 120.D. for Carr & Stevens ante May 12.
Inclosed to D. Higginbotham for James Walker 65.D. ante Apr. 27 and desired him to charge me the 83 cents not inclosed.
 
21. Pd. John Freeman for Wm. Stewart 12.
Recd. from bk. US. 500.D. and remitted same to W. Short.
Gave Lemaire ord. on bk. US. for 500.D.
Gave James Davidson ord. on bk. US. for 421.21 to discharge Cathalan’s excha. on me for wines & fruits.
Note that May 6. & by checks of that date committed to Jos. Daugherty there was paid as follows to
   Henry Foxall. castings8 150. 20
Mclaughlin’s representatives. portage 17. 62
John Coxe. store acct. balance 88. 205
Washington acady. for Jan. 1. & Apr. 1.  40.
296. 025
Lemaire’s accts. from Apr. 5. to May 15. = 547 = 5.57 weeks
provisions 181. 35 meat 672. ℔
servts. 9. 50 butter  85.
charcoal 18. 50 eggs  74. doz.
wood 14. veget.  13.87
contingencies 12. 46
235. 81 10. servts. 5.57 weeks
is 181.35/55.7 = 3.25
pr. week and 672/55.7
℔ is 12 ℔ meat pr.
week
May.  4. servts. wages 148.
balce. of Apr. 6.  1793. 50
2177. 31
May 18. by ord. bk. US. 500.
balance remaing. due 1677. 31
23. <Drew ord. on bk. US. in favr. Maine for trees 35.25> cancelled.
Gave in charity 1.D.
May 25. Accepted 3. bills of exchange drawn on me by Philip Mazzei in favor of Wm. Pennock of Norfolk for 500.D. each, paiable at 60. 90. & 120. days, the acceptances dated June 7. This is in discharge of the balance due from me to him.
26. Gave in charity 1.D.
Pd. Lyle for a pr. shoes 3.50 & for 2. pr. strings .50.
29. Gave Martin9 for his expences 5.D. charity 1.D.
June 1. Charity 2.D.
3. Joseph Daugherty’s accts. from Dec. 9. to this day inclusive
balance still due on acct. of Dec. 8. . 24
forage 252. 45
harness & sadlery 24. 305
smith 4.
 
portage 12. 87
miscellans. 41.92 – error somewhere .09  41. 83
balance now due 335. 695
6. Recieved from George Jefferson 350.D. on account of my tobo. ante Apr. 16.
Lemaire’s accts. May 16. to May 30.
provns. servts. cont. total meat butter eggs veget.
May 23 46.28  3.13 49. 41 139 29 20 8.17   23.1410  ÷  11  =  2.10
30. 61.91  1.50 1.12 64. 53 173 25 13 9.72   19.91 ÷ 15 = 1.33
108.19  1.50 4.25 113. 94 312 54 33 17.89   43.05 ÷ 26 = 1.65
balance remaining due ante May 18.     1677. 31
acct. May 16. to May 30. as above 113. 94
June  4.  Servants wages to this day 148.
1939. 25
6. By ord. this day on bank US. 500.
balance remaining due 1439. 25
Drew on bk. US.  in favr. Joseph Daugherty for 100.D.
Do. in favr. of J. Barnes for 200.D.
8. Recd. from the bank US. 190.D.
Inclosed to Edmund Bacon 480.D. to be paid as follows to
John Carr on acct. of John Perry 100. D.
James Walker 100.
Wm. Maddox 45. 60
Dabney Carr on acct. of W. Maddox  28. 67
J. Kelly on acct. of Hugh Chisolm 75. 87
J. Gillam for corn 120.
*TMRandolph for Wm. Duane 7.
on account 2. 86
480. 00
 * Note I had recd. these 7.D. some days before to be transmitted to Mr. Randolph & had not entered the reciept.
Inclosed to Hugh Chisolm 30.D.
9. Charity 1.D.
10. Recd. from bk. US. an ord. on do. in Philada. for 200.D. in favr. Isaac Briggs on acct. of his expences in surveying the road to N. Orleans. Inclosd. to him. This is to be repaid if Congress allow him for it.11
 
June 11. Inclosed to Roches freres 15.D. for books.
Pd. Henry Herford for Charles Holt 2.D. for the Bee to Feb. 3. 07.
12. Recieved from the bk. US. a draught on that at Philada. for 750.D. which I endorsed & inclosed to William Short.
Charity 2.D.
14. Ferriage to & from Eno’s 1.D.
15. Pd. Owen Lyons for a pair of boots 12.D.
16. Pd. Conner the barber 5.25.
22. Charity 1.D.
23. Drew on bk. US. for 27.60 favr. John Poor 30. bush. corn.
24. Charity 2.D.
Recd. from bank US. 25.D.
July 2. Charity 2.D.
3. Recd. of George Jefferson 251.09 D.
Lemaire’s accts. from May 31. to June 27.
provns. servts. coal cont. total meat butter eggs veget.
June  6. 51.49  4.83 56. 32 196.  24. 19 9.26  9.49  ÷  25  =  .38
13. 51.81  26.36 11. .80 89. 97 197.  25½ 13 10.42  13.31 ÷ 45 = .30
20. 78.20  2.90 81. 10 198.  28. 14 9.63  39.70 ÷ 45 = .88
27. 49.95  2.36 52. 31 177  22 11 6.49  7.95 ÷ 14 = .57
231.45  26.36 11 10.89 279. 70 768  99½ 57 35.80  70.45 ÷ 129 = .54
July  4. Servts. wages to this day 148.  – 16. deducted for Joseph.12
Balance of June 5. 1439. 25
1866. 95
July  6. By ord. on bk. US. 500.
1366. 95  – 16. = 1350.95
Recd. from bk. US. an ord. on do. Philadelphia for 797.11 which I remitted to Geo. Taylor broker in Philada. for Wm. Short, being in full of my debt to him.
 
Drew ord. on bank US. for 150.D. in favr. Is. A. Coles salary.
Recd. from bk. US. 215.D.
Inclosed to Burgess Griffin 100.D. for lime & stonework.
Inclosed to J. H. Freeman 25.D. the half of the hire of Moses. There are .87 cents still due.
Inclosed to Edmund Bacon 90.D. to pay 87.13 to Henry Williams for Wm. Stewart.
Inclosed to Benjamin Brown of Alexa. the ord. of the bank of Virga. at Richmond on that at Alexa. recd. from G. Jefferson ante July 3. for 251.09 out of which he is to retain 241.75 for millstones13 & to remit me 9.34 the balance.
8. Recd. back from Benj. Brown 10.D. instead of the 9.34 preceding.
Recd. from bank US. an ord. on do. at Philada. for 200.D. in favr. of Isaac Briggs, which I inclosed to him to be repaid as mentd. ante June 10.
Drew on bank US. for 25.D. in favr. Rob. Brent for wounded seamen of the Chesapeake.14
9. Pd. Edg. Patterson for prints 1.D.—Riggs15 a Leghorn hat 2.75.
Gave in charity 1.D.
10. Gave  Pitman ord. on bk. US. for 30.50 mending clock.
14. Pd. Shorter for 20. bushels oats 15.D.
Josep Daugherty’s accts. forage 22.07. smith 3. carrge. maker 20 constables 4. Doctrs. Ott & Patterson16 13.24½ = 62.31½ for which gave him ord. on bk. US.
July 16. Charity 1.D.
18. Pd. Conner the barber 5.D.
Recd. from bk. US. 25.D.
21. Pd. I. A. Coles sundry trinkets for Mrs. Randolph 10.125.
Charity 1.D. pd. for 2. copies Madison’s map of Virga. 14.D. ante Jun. 22. 1805.
 
22. Gave Richd. Gaines ord. on bk. US. 22.25 for shoes for my daur.
26. Charity 1.D. 27. Do. 1.D.
30. Gave Thos. Main ord. on bk. US. for 59.25 for trees &c.17
31. Drew orders on the bk. US. of the following dates.
 Aug.  1.  in favor of Th:J. 75.
6. John Barnes  for  Th:J. 320
 for Wm. Pennock ante May 25.    500.
Jones & Howell 281
himself 200. 1301.
Lemaire 400.
Joseph Dougherty for  Washn. acad. (July 1.) 20.
Weightman & Duane18 64.375
84. 375
balance due the bank 222. 93
2083. 305
Lemaire’s accounts June 28. 07. to July 25.
provns. servts. forage cont. total meat butter eggs veget.
July  4. 61.27  1.49  62. 76 190  31½ 47 8.08  22.77  ÷  21  =  1.08
11. 67.41  2.25 .25 69. 91 137  26½ 15 7.45  28.91 ÷ 25 = 1.1119
18. 58.47  1.50 .62  60. 59 206  21½ 17 7.12  19.97 ÷ 32 =  .62
25. 58.77  3.50  62. 27 148  29½ 16 4.56  20.27 ÷ 17 = 1.19
245.92  3.75 .25 5.61  255. 53 681 109 95 27.21  91.92 ÷ 95 =  .95
Aug. 4. Servts. wages to this day 132.
balance of July 6. 1350. 95
1738. 48
Aug. 6. by ord. bk. US. ante 400.
balance remaing. due 1338. 48
July 31. Gave in charity 1.D. pd. for oats 2.67.
Aug. 1. Pd. the barber 3.D. recd. from Lemaire small silver 50.D.
Accepted Cathalan’s bill for 31.33 at 15. days sight in favr. Davidson.20
Pd. extra washing 15.
Geo. T. ferrge. 1.D.
2. Songster’s lodging &c. 3.92.
Brown’s breakft. &c. 1.58. Elk run church dinner &c. 1.75.
3. Strode’s vales .50 Herring’s 2.25 Orange C. H. breakft. &c. 2.375.
 
4. Gordon’s dinner lodging &c. 4.83 = 18.205 pd. do. for a hat 2.D.
5. Small exp. 20.D.
7. Do. 8.D.
8. Recd. from J. Barnes the 320.D. ante Aug. 6.
10. Pd. James Dinsmore 20.D.
Pd.  Nelson 40.D. charity 2.50.
Pd. James Walker 100.D.
Pd. Wm. Mattox 20.D.
11. Charity .50.
12. Inclosed to J. Barnes 30.D. to pay Cathalan’s bill ante Aug. 1.
Inclosed to R. Jefferson 20.D. to pay for grass seeds.
Inclosed to Colo. Jonathan Williams 10.D. my arrears to the Military Philosoph. society21 for 1806. and 1807.
Aug. 15. Pd. Wm. Maddox on acct. 20.D.
16. Small exp. 8.D. 23. Do. 8.D.
28. Charity 2.5.
29.
Drew orders on the bank of the US. at Washington
 dated Sep. 5. in favr. of  Lemaire for  400.   
J. Barnes 1590 
1990.
Mr. Barnes is to pay the 1590.D. as follows.
 to  Jones & Howell. iron 49. 97
Caldcleugh & Thomas. lanthern ornaments22 24. 43
Gabriel Christie. duties23 100. 39
Mayer & Brantz. books24 3. 12
Pennock for Mazzei 500.
G. Jefferson for Jas. Oldham. doors &c. 100.
Melvin. taylor 119. 18
remit to me 690.
on acct. 2. 91
1590.
 
30. Small expences 8.D.
Sep. 5. Recieved of J. Barnes the 690.D. ante Aug. 29.
6. Pd. houshold exp. 8.D.
Inclosed to Joseph Daugherty on account 50.D.
7. Pd. John Perry on the order of James Walker 30.D. and on his own account 20.D. more.
Accepted his ord. in favr. of John Kelly for 100.D. paiable in the month of November & 100.D. in the month of December.
8. Pd. D. Carr 366.83 for J. Perry in full of my assumpsit ante Feb. 23.
Pd. Sam. Carr for Peter Minor25 100.D. in part for 3. mules. There remain 50.D. due to him for which he desires nails.
10. Pd. John Nelson 10.D.
11. Enniscorthy. vales .5 left with Colo. Coles for James Walker 70.D.
Warren. servts. breakft. & horses, & ferriage 1.08.
J. Fludd’s feeding horses .50.
12. Henry Flud’s lodging &c. 1.88.
Hunter’s breakfast &c. 1.42.
15. Poplar Forest. See settlement with B. Griffin of this date.
Gave  Jerry for his expences home 1.D.
Phill do. .25.
Pd. Chisolm on acct. 10.D.
Vales 1.D.
Hunter’s dinner &c. 1.25.
16. H. Fludd’s lodging &c. 1.875.
J. Fludd’s breakfast &c. .75.

Warren  ferriage .50.
vales .75.
17.
My taxes in St. Anne’s this year are
1914. as. land 9. 24
 333½ as. do. . 80
 44. slaves } 21. 78
 13. horses & mules & chair
 43. levies 20. 21
clerk of  Albem. . 51
Goochld. 1. 75
 
Amherst 2. 44
Chancery 1. 08
Taliaferro. . 50
58. 31
clerk Charlottesville D. Ct. 2. 28
60. 59
Sep. 20. Small exp. 8.D.
21. Gave ord. on D. Higginbotham in favor of Henry Williams collector of St. Anne’s for the 60.59 D. before mentioned which I am to replace to him from Washington.
My dues in Fredericksville are paiable to  Norris.
1873.  as. land 10. 69
160.  do. do. by Craven Peyton . 96
11. 65
I am to pay him also on J. Perry’s order 12. 24
& for 2. barrels of flour 10.
gave him order on David Higginbotham  33. 89  to be replaced as before.
24. Charity 2.D.
On examination of my dealings with D. Higginbotham Sep. 1. 06—Aug. 31. they are as follows
£ 
 for  Negro clothes  172– 1– 11
groceries 9– 11– 11
ironmongery 10– 6– 4
iron & steel 29– 5– 4
salt 9– 4– 0
miscellanies 7– 9– 7
gratuities 28– 6– 1
portage 9– 10– 5
mill 5– 0– 2
workmen 3– 1– 2
paiments 38– 6– 8
322– 3– 7
2– 17– 4  deducted for some error
319– 6– 3  amt. of year’s dealings.
The balance I owed that company Aug. 31. 1807. was £1920–6–7 for which I give my note to Higginbotham & co. Against this is to be credited a paiment of about 70.D. from McDowell & 525.D. from Clarke26 leaving the real balance about 1732.£.
 
25.
Assumed to pay for Wm. Mattox to  J. H. Craven 7.08 
Isaac Shoemaker  30.53 
 now paid him cash 5.D.
 on settlement with him the balance now due him is 138.49.
Gave John Freeman 5.D. John Shorter 5.D
27. Small exp. 10.D.
28. Charity 2.D.
29. Pd. for Small debts 20.D.
30. Pd. Ben for sewers .25 gave Patsy small change 2.94.
Oct. 1. Montpelier. vales .50.
Stevensbg. Zimmerman’s dinner 1.92.
2. Strode’s vales 1. Herring’s servts. & horses 3.5 lost out of pocket 25.D.
Elk run. breakft. &c. 1.125 Brown’s oats .5.
3. Songster’s lodgg. &c. 3.5 Geo. T. ferry .75 = 11.795.27
Cash in hand 2.75.
5. Recieved from the bank US. ord. on that at Norfolk for 500.D. in favr. Wm. Pennock & remitted it to him, which pays the last of the 3. bills ante May 25.
Recieved from bank US. 115.D.
(I now remitted D. Higginbotham 95.D. to pay the orders in favr. Williams & Norris ante Sep. 21. which I omitted to enter at the time.
Oct. 7. Lemaire’s accts. July 26. to Oct. 3. = 10. weeks @ 2.94 D. pr. week each
provisions 235. 38 meat 767. ℔
servts. 23. butter 109½
coal 41. 12 eggs  57 doz.
wood 96. 44 vegetables   35.63
furniture 16. 75 future establishment of Servts.
washing 7. 63 Lemaire 30.
contingencies 2. 25 Julien 25.
cash (Aug. 1.) 50. Joseph 16.
472. 57 Robert 14.
servts. wages Aug. Sep. 192. Mrs. Daugherty  9.
balance of Aug. 6. 1338. 48 Shorter 10.
2003. 05 Sandy (scullion) 10.
Sep. 5. ante. ord. on bank 400  John  4.
Oct. 7. do. this day 500  Edy  2.
900  10.  Fanny  2  122.D.
remaing. due 1103. 05
Drew ord. on bk. US. in favr. J. Barnes 250.D.
 
Drew do. in favor I. A. Coles 150.D.
Pd. Edgar Patterson for tooth brushes & quills 2.42.
Repd. Shorter his exp. on the road 4.D.
Pd. John Freeman Wm. Stewart’s order 6.D.
8. Gave to Isaac Shoemaker ord. on the bank US. for 67.56 being the balance due him per settlement this day of his account arbitrated by Magruder & Wright.28
Charity 1.D.
11. Pd. Pitman for Benj. Brown millstone cutter .67 a balance.
12. Recd. from the bank US. 470.D.
Inclosed to G. Jefferson 100.D. with an order to pay James Oldham 82.06 balce. of his acct.
Inclosed to Edmund Bacon 360.D. to be paid as follows
 to  John Perry by ord. of James Walker 100. D.
Mrs. Lewis my assumpsit for J. Perry 49.
Mr. Nelson 20.
Wm. Maddox 50
Chandler & Shoemaker (work on dam)  40.
himself on acct. (towards debts) 101 
360.
Gave order on bank US. in charity for 10.D.
17. Drew ord. on bk. US. for 50.D. in favr. Ann C. Randolph at Newport and inclosed to her as a gratuity.29
20. Portage .25. 21. Charity to a woman without hands 5.D.
23. Pd. for visiting cards .50.
27. Charity 4.D. 29. Drew ord. on Gibson & Jeff. favr. Saml. Page for 99.86 crop tobo.30
Lemaire’s accts. Oct. 4.—31.
provns. servts. furnre. cont. Total meat butter eggs veget.
Oct. 11. 38.92  4.50 43. 42 169  19½ 11 4.27   19.4631  ÷  21  =   .93
17. 52.50  3.16 55. 66 184  32  8 5.    26.25 ÷ 22 = 1.19
24. 65.88   2. 2.12 70. 219  32 19½ 3.97   32.94 ÷ 59 =  .55
31. 82.24  28.61 110. 85 287  43 29 4.28   40.24 ÷ 68 =  .59
239.54  28.6132 4.50 5.28 279. 93 859 126½ 67½ 17.52  118.89 ÷ 170 =  .81533
balance ante Oct. 7. 1103. 05
amount to Oct. 31. 279. 93
Nov.  4. Servants wages to this day 122.
1504. 98
 6. By ord. on bank this day 500.
Balance remaining due 1004. 98
Drew the following orders on the bank US.
Lemaire as above 500.
J. Barnes 250. inclosed check to him
 McCormac 100. do.
D. Brent charity for Fredsbg.34 100. do.
D. Gelston  for himself for duties35 10.62 inclosd. draught on bank to him
for Cheetham newspapers  30 40. 62 
J. Taggert oil & paint 73. 40 do.
Roches freres. books36 22. do.
Jos. Daugherty for
 Washn. acad. instalmt. 20.
 taxes37 21.
 Cooper. picture frames 38.25
 himself on acct. 50.75 130.
 

7.
Recd. from bank US.  cash   20.
Recd. from do. do. 400.  which I inclosed to Gibson
 & Jefferson to pay for 1050. bush. of coal 178. 50
 to pay my ord. in favr. Saml. Page his share of tobo.   99. 86
 and on account 121. 64
400.
Pd. Conner the barber 5.25.
9.
Recieved from bank US. 250.D. and inclosed to
 Edmund Bacon, to wit for  Jas. Walker 100.
Wm. Madox  50.
on account 110 
260.
11. Charity 4.D.
14.
Gave  Nathan Failey38 ord. on bk. US. 72.D. freight of 1050. b. coal.
Jos. Daugherty do. 20.40 drayage of do. & trunks of books.39
16. Charity 5.D. 17. Charity 1.D.
18. Recd. from J. Barnes 50.D. pd. for gloves .50 ferret .0621.
19. Pd. Wm. Pechin’s agent 2. years sbscrption. for Baltimore American viz. to Aug. 16. 1807. 10.D.
20. Pd. Doctr. Ott for paints 9.785.40
21. Pd. for socks 1.25.
24. Gave Davy for expences to Monticello 6.D.
Subscribed to Stelle’s dancing assembly 16.D.
Gave F. Eppes41 .50.
25. Charity 4.
The last pipe of Madeira is broached this day, & is to be bottled. The preceding one was broached July 06.
Dec. 5. Pd. subscription to Colvin’s Weekly register42 5.D.
Lemaire’s accts. from Nov. 1.—28.
provns. servts. coal furn. wash conting. Total meat buttr. eggs veg.
Nov.  7. 87.92    4.  .50 24.81 117. 23 236. 33  28  4.11  45.92  ÷  64  =   .717
14. 79.11   13.50 75.50 1. 169. 11 196. 35  26  14.31  37.11 ÷ 62 =  .60
21. 116.92  116. 92 257 42  28  4.37  74.92 ÷ 62 = 1.20
28 88.10  .63 88. 73 227 34  22  5.31  46.10 ÷ 56 =  .82
372.05   17.50 75.50 1.50 24.81 .63 491. 99 916 144  104  28.10  204.05 ÷ 244 =  .834
Nov.  6. balance 1004. 98
Dec.  4. servts. wages to this day 122.
1618. 97
 5. By ord. on bk. US. this day 500.
balance remaining due 1118. 97
7. Drew orders on the bank US. as follows
 in favr.  John Barnes 400. D. on acct.
Jones & Howell 243. 67 sheet lead43
Wm. McDonald 30. exp. of 2. bears44
Wm. Taylor 200 for Kelly by ord. J. Perry
 33⅓ for do. by ord. E. Bacon
233. 33
Jos. Daugherty 125. on account
1032 
and inclosed them to Barnes, Jones & Howell, McDonald and Taylor respectively.
8. Recd. from bank US. 140.D.
Inclosed to E. Bacon 120.D. to wit for Hugh Chisolm 20.D. & for J. Perry on acct. & by ord. of James Walker 100.D.
Pd. for the Baltimore evening Post, Niles & Frailey,45 7.D. to March 25. 08. This paiment made by Joseph to Mr. McCormac.
15. Charity 4.D. 16. Pd. Conner the barber 5.D.
17. Pd. Maine for plants 16.D.46
18. Drew ord. on bank US. in favr. Wm. Payne assee. of J. H. Craven for 200.D. Note Craven had put that sum into the hands of E. Bacon to be applied to my use, & I repaid it here.
26.47 Gave Francis Eppes .50.
Drew ord. on bk. US. in favr. Lemaire for 45.D. for cyder.
28. Charity 1.D.

89From Dec. 1806 to Apr. 1807 TJ altered his usual method of deducting from the “provns.” total a figure to represent the weekly cost of his servants’ dinners. In this period he halved all “provns.” totals under $100; from the totals over $100 he deducted $52.50, $49.00, or $45.50, presumably according to the number of servants dwelling in his household. Both TMR and JWE lived at the President’s House in this period.

90The constables may have been present at the New Year’s Day reception at the President’s House. For the duties and organization of the Washington police force in this period, see Bryan, National Capital, i, 548-9 description begins Wilhelmus B. Bryan, A History of the National Capital, New York, 1914-16, 2 vols. description ends .

91TJ paid Philadelphia bookseller Benjamin Johnson $10.00 for a Bible ordered by Isaac Briggs and $3.25 for his own order of four copies of William Crakelt’s revision of John Entick’s New Latin and English Dictionary, first published in London in 1771 (MB 7 Feb. 1807; Johnson to Briggs, 21 Jan. 1807, DLC: TJ Papers).

92Correctly $1.01.

93This machine for shelling Indian corn, invented by Paul Pilsbury of Newburyport, Mass., had been shown to TJ in 1803, at which time he made a drawing of it and described its operation. The payment to one of its patentees, Thomas Burnham of Ipswich, Mass., was made through TJ’s implacable political foe Senator Timothy Pickering (1745-1829). TJ found that this corn sheller would not perform successfully with all sizes of ears of corn (Betts, Farm Book, p. 231-2 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Princeton, N.J., 1953 description ends ; TJ to Pilsbury, 18 Oct. 1806; Burnham to TJ, 24 Nov. 1806, 3 Feb. 1807; Burnham receipted invoice, 7 Feb. 1807, MHi; TJ to Charles Willson Peale, 21 Mch. 1815).

94Pennsylvania congressman John Hamilton (1754-1837) was a member of the first board of trustees of Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) College in Washington, Pa.

95These were the wines and foodstuffs paid for in May (MB 23 Apr., 21 May 1807).

96These were plated stirrups (W. & R. Hall receipted invoice, 28 Jan. 1807, MHi).

97On the last act in this “long standing and weighty affair,” the payment of TJ’s part of the Wayles debt to Farell & Jones, see TJ to Robert Kinnan, 6 May 1805, 10 July, 19 Nov. 1806.

98 Davy’s and Isaac’s carts carried home trees, hedge thorn plants, and other plant material for the grounds at Monticello (TJ to Edmund Bacon, 26 Jan., 12 Mch. 1807).

99D. A. Azuni, The Maritime Law of Europe (New York, 1806; Sowerby, No. 2113 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

1 Meriwether Lewis, who had returned to Washington from his transcontinental journey in Dec. 1806, took TJ’s payment for three pairs of small inkholders to Charles Willson Peale in Philadelphia (TJ to Peale, 13 Feb., 29 Mch. 1807; Peale to TJ, 10, 17 Feb. 1807).

2TJ wished his son-in-law, who had been dangerously ill in March, to consider this money as a gift rather than a loan (TJ to TMR, 3 Apr. 1807; Malone, Jefferson, v, 140-4 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ). TJ and TMR left together for Monticello on 7 Apr.

3 James Melvin’s itemized invoices, for this and subsequent purchases, are in MHi.

4TJ paid for two hundred bottles of white Hermitage wine and assorted French food items, listed in TJ to Stephen Cathalan, 28 Apr. 1806 (Cathalan account, 2 Feb. 1807, MHi).

5TJ’s account with John H. Craven, 3 June 1806 to 3 May 1807, is in MHi.

6TJ’s nephew Randolph Lewis (1773-1811), who was about to remove to Kentucky, had offered his slaves to TJ at the request of TJ’s slave Moses (b. 1779), son of Davy and Isabel. TJ, in deepening financial distress, reluctantly agreed to buy them, from a “desire to make all practicable sacrifices to keep man and wife together who have imprudently married out of their respective families” (TJ to Lewis, 23 Apr. 1807; Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, p. 91-2 description begins Boynton Merrill, Jr., Jefferson’s Nephews: A Frontier Tragedy, Princeton, N.J., 1976 description ends ). Moses, whose second child was Davy (b. 1803), was a nailer and blacksmith at Monticello until 1819, when TJ gave him to his grandson TJR.

7Correctly £1–6–1.

8These may be the “iron chimney facings” and “ornaments in lead for architecture” shipped to Monticello in the spring (TJ to George Jefferson, 24 Apr. 1807).

9This Martin was JWE’s servant (TJ to JWE, 28 May 1807).

10For the weeks of 23 May to 25 July TJ returned to his usual method of deducting from the “provns.” total the weekly cost of his servants’ dinners. He halved the small totals, deducted $42.00 (for twelve servants) for the weeks of 30 May, 6 and 27 June, and deducted $38.50 (for eleven servants) for the other weeks.

11Congress had refused to reimburse Isaac Briggs for expenses he incurred in 1804 while laying out a route for a post road from Washington to New Orleans. This enterprise had not been authorized by Congress, but had been suggested to Briggs by TJ, who was now “really mortified that you should have been left to suffer in an undertaking wherein I was an agent” (TJ to Briggs, 25 May 1807). It appears that in 1818 Briggs finally received some compensation for his survey, which was in fact used as the basis for the post road, but by this time TJ had given up all thought of repayment for his personal contribution of $400 and wished Briggs to retain it as “a further retribution for his sufferings and difficulties” (MB 8 July 1807; TJ to Alexander Dallas, 26 Feb. 1816; Ella K. Barnard, “Isaac Briggs, A.M., F.A.P.S.,” MdHM, vii [1912], 412-19; American State Papers, ed. Walter Lowrie and Matthew S. Clarke [Washington, 1834], xvii [Claims], p. 362, 544-5).

12 Joseph Dougherty, who was having marital difficulties, had temporarily left TJ’s employment. He returned to his wife and to the President’s House in October (Dougherty to TJ, 31 Aug., 17 Sep. 1807; TJ to Dougherty, 6 Sep. 1807).

13This pair of burr millstones for the Shadwell toll mill was four feet three inches in diameter (TJ to Benjamin Brown, 28 Apr. 1806).

14The sailors were wounded in the unprovoked attack on the U.S.S. Chesapeake by the H.M.S. Leopard off the Virginia capes. Mayor Robert Brent thanked TJ for his contribution in a letter of 8 July 1807. On the Chesapeake affair see Malone, Jefferson, v, 415-38 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends .

15TJ bought the leghorn hat from Elisha Riggs, a Georgetown dry goods merchant (Washington National Intelligencer, 19 Sep. 1806; Riggs receipted invoice, 9 July 1807, MHi).

16Dr. Thomas Patterson, who had an apothecary shop on F Street, may have been consulted for TJ’s ailing leg. Patterson recommended the application of pressure through the use of a vinegar-soaked bandage, to “support the vessels and promote absorption” (Patterson to TJ, recd. 14 July 1807; Washington National Intelligencer, 23 June 1806).

17TJ was paying for 4,000 Washington thorn plants and the trees listed in Thomas Main to TJ, 10 Mch. 1807, as well as for $24 worth of thorn plants for TMR (Main receipted invoice, June 1807, DLC).

18 Roger C. Weightman had taken over William Duane’s bookselling and printing establishment on Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington National Intelligencer, 27 May, 3 June 1807; Bryan, National Capital, i, 595 description begins Wilhelmus B. Bryan, A History of the National Capital, New York, 1914-16, 2 vols. description ends ).

19Correctly $1.16.

20This was for an eighty-pound Parmesan cheese and sixty pounds of Naples macaroni, which Stephen Cathalan had had Thomas Appleton purchase in Italy (Appleton to Cathalan, 24 Jan. 1807; Cathalan account, 2 Feb. 1807, MHi).

21The United States Military Philosophical Society, devoted to the preservation and promotion of military science, was founded in 1802 by Jonathan Williams, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Closely linked with the Academy and the Corps of Engineers, this society was dissolved during the War of 1812 (see Sidney Forman, “The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813,” WMQ, 3d ser., ii [1945], 273-85).

22These brass “ornaments”—balance shells, chain, and pulleys—are probably those presently supporting the hanging lamp in the entrance hall at Monticello (Caldcleugh & Thomas invoice, 30 May 1807, MHi).

23The bulk of this payment was for duties and freight charges on one of the casks of Cahusac wine paid for in Dec. 1806 and on 350 bottles of Montepulciano wine (MB 15 Dec. 1806; Gabriel Christie accounts with TJ, 28 May, 9 June 1807, MHi; Thomas Appleton to TJ, 10 June 1807).

24This was the final volume of TJ’s octavo edition of the tragedies of Aeschylus (Sowerby, No. 4525 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

25 Peter Minor (d. 1835), son of Garrett Minor, lived in Louisa County. By 1809 he had moved to Ridgeway on the north fork of the Rivanna River about six miles north of Monticello. Treasurer of the Rivanna Navigation Company and secretary of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, he was always on friendly terms with TJ (Woods, Albemarle, p. 278 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ; Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 65 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends ).

26These were the delinquent accounts of TJ’s Augusta County nail distributors, John McDowell and Samuel Clarke (see MB 5 May 1796; TJ to John Coalter, 8 May 1807).

27Correctly $12.795.

28 Isaac Shoemaker had originally charged $194 for dressing the millstones and rubbers, raising the floor, and adjusting the elevators in TJ’s Shadwell manufacturing mill (TJ to James Walker, 1, 19 Sep. 1807; TJ to John B. Magruder, 24 Sep. 1807).

29TMR’s sister Anne Cary Randolph was at this time ill and without friends or resources in Newport, R.I. TJ had reacted with compassion when Nancy had been involved in a domestic scandal in 1793 and he here responded with a generosity lacking in Nancy’s cousin, John Randolph of Roanoke, who was approached at the same time. Nancy married Gouverneur Morris in 1809 (Jacob Richardson to TJ, 26 Oct., 11 Nov. 1807; Malone, Jefferson, iii, 172-4 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ; Charles T. Cullen and Herbert A. Johnson, eds., The Papers of John Marshall [Chapel Hill, 1977], ii, 161-78; William Cabell Bruce, John Randolph of Roanoke 1773-1833 [New York, 1922], i, 106-26, ii, 272-301). The several letters exchanged by TJ and Nancy in Oct. and Nov. 1807 are unlocated.

30 Samuel Page was an overseer on TJ’s Bedford County lands.

31During his Washington residence of Oct. 1807 to May 1808, TJ generally deducted $42 for the costs of the servants’ dinners from all “provns.” totals over $84 and halved the rest.

32Correctly $30.61. This error does not affect the monthly total.

33Correctly $.699. Instead of performing the indicated division of $118.89 by 170, TJ totalled the weekly average dinner costs and divided by four. He may have merely wished to spare himself the operation of long division or thought that by averaging the averages he might arrive at a more representative, if not precisely accurate, figure. In any case he continued to use this method until he left Washington in 1809, inexplicably retaining the signs of a mathematical operation he did not perform.

34 Daniel C. Brent was collecting funds for the relief of sufferers of a 19 Oct. 1807 fire which had destroyed half the town of Fredericksburg (Fire Folders, Courthouse, Fredericksburg, Va.).

35TJ paid Gelston for freight of forty-eight pots of Maille mustard and thirty-six bottles of tarragon vinegar from France and for duty on a “Stylographic Manifold writer,” a gift from William Lyman in London (Gelston to TJ, 8 May 1807; TJ to Gelston, 6 Nov. 1807; Stephen Cathalan invoice, 22 Jan. 1807, MHi; Lyman to TJ, 11 July 1807). This copying apparatus, patented by Ralph Wedgwood, used a pointed glass stylus to make impressions from a kind of carbon paper. TJ found his quarto-size “stylograph” unpleasant to operate because of the “fetid smell” of the “Carbonated paper” and thought it much inferior to the polygraph, except in its greater portability (TJ to Gelston, 9 Oct. 1807; TJ to Charles W. Peale, 5 Oct., 5 Nov. 1807).

36An eight-volume octavo edition of the Lettres de Madame de Sévigné (Sowerby, No. 4637 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

37TJ paid license fees this year for a chariot and a phaeton (Washington Boyd receipt, 11 Nov. 1807, MHi).

38Actually Nathan Fayles, whose receipted invoice, 11 Nov. 1807, is in MHi.

39Eight trunks of books, two boxes containing globes, and two boxes of “sundries” were shipped to Monticello (TJ to George Jefferson, 7 Nov. 1807).

40 John Ott’s itemized invoice, 14 Nov. 1807, for Oxford ochre, Prussian blue, pumice stone, sandpaper, and fitches, is in MHi.

41TJ’s six-year-old grandson Francis Wayles Eppes lived with JWE at the President’s House during the 1807-1809 sessions of the Tenth Congress.

42 John B. Colvin’s magazine, the Weekly Register, first appeared in Washington in Jan. 1808. In Apr. 1808 he continued it as a triweekly newspaper, the Monitor, which lasted little more than a year (Brigham, History, i, 103 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, No. 3359 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

43The rolled sheet lead was for covering roofs at Monticello (TJ to Jones & Howell, 4 Sep., 7 Dec. 1807; Jones & Howell to TJ, 15 Sep. 1807).

44Baltimore merchant William McDonald had paid for the shipment from New Orleans of two grizzly bear cubs, purchased by Captain Zebulon Pike in Mexico and sent to TJ as a gift. Considering them “too dangerous and troublesome” to keep, TJ offered them to Charles Willson Peale for his museum in Philadelphia. There they grew into ferocious adulthood and met a violent end (TJ to McDonald, 7 Dec. 1807; TJ to Anne C. Randolph, 1 Nov. 1807; The Journals of Zebulon Pike, ed. Donald Jackson [Norman, Okla., 1966], ii, 275-94).

45 Hezekiah Niles and Leonard Frailey were at this time publishers of the Baltimore Evening Post, a Republican daily established in 1805 (Brigham, History, i, 230-1 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ).

46TJ paid for two thousand Washington thorn plants and twenty-three trees, which were sent to Monticello in Davy’s cart (Thomas Main invoice, 20 Nov. 1807, DLC; TJ to Edmund Bacon, 24 Nov. 1807; both printed in Betts, Garden Book, p. 353-6 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Philadelphia, 1944 description ends ).

47TJ began suffering from a toothache about Christmas Eve and, although apparently he did not lose the tooth, he was confined to his house for at least six weeks (TJ to MJR, 29 Dec. 1807, 5 Jan., 10 Feb. 1808; TJ to Ellen W. Randolph, 23 Feb. 1808).

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