Gordon, Trokes & Company to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1810
From Gordon, Trokes & Company
Richmond 17th Jany 1810
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will receive a bill of such articles mentioned in your Order of 30th Ultimo as could be procured; the only Maccaroni in town is held by Mr LeForest which he says came direct from Italy, he asks 4/6 ⅌ lb which so much exceeds the price mentioned by you that we supposed it would be best to acquaint you of it before purchasing, we shall endeavour to procure the Tongues & Sounds and Syrop of punch by the time that the Boat returns; the things are packed in good order and sent by Mr Randolph’s Boatmen agreeably to your request
| Gordon Trokes & Co |
| ⅌ |
| Beverley Blair |
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 3 Feb. 1810; notation by TJ beneath endorsement: “235.42,” the balance he paid the firm the following year (TJ to Gordon, Trokes & Co., 4 Apr. 1811). Recorded in SJL as a letter of 16 Jan. 1810 received 3 Feb. 1810. Enclosure not found.
Beverley Blair (1789–1857), merchant and sometime sheriff of Richmond, was a son of Archibald Blair, the first clerk of the Virginia Council of State (Daphne Gentry and Brent Tarter, “The Blair Family of Colonial Williamsburg: A Research Note,” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 32 [1994]: 112; , 1st ser., 17 [1909]: 225; Richmond Enquirer, 14 Aug. 1857).
Index Entries
- Blair, Beverley; identified search
- Blair, Beverley; letter prepared by search
- boats; transfer goods to and from Richmond search
- cod; tongues and sounds search
- fish; tongues and sounds search
- food; cod tongues and sounds search
- food; macaroni search
- Gordon, Trokes & Company (Richmond firm); and groceries for TJ search
- Gordon, Trokes & Company (Richmond firm); letters from search
- groceries; purchased by TJ search
- Italy; macaroni from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; payments to Gordon, Trokes & Company search
- Leforest, A. search
- macaroni search
- punch; syrup of search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); boats of, transfer goods search
- Richmond, Va.; boats transfer goods to and from search
- Richmond, Va.; macaroni for sale at search
- Richmond, Va.; TJ orders groceries from search
- syrup; of punch search