Thomas Jefferson Papers

Statement of Albemarle County Taxes and Court Fees, 27 September 1814

Statement of Albemarle County Taxes and Court Fees

Thomas Jefferson Esq:

1814 To the commonwealth of Virginia Dr.
Septr  Rev: on 5374¾ acres land $59.73
72 Negroes above 16 } 111.52
14 ditto under
26 Horses
1 Phæton value 150$
1 ditto 100
1 Gig  50
1 M-Mill
1 Toll Mill
1 Saw ditto
County & Parish levy on 5 white and 72 black tytheables @ 31 cts } 23.87
Thomas Jefferson & Co for tax on 266 acres land }  1.11
$196.23
Mrs M Lewis’ dft 8.24
Tickets—vs Hasting Marks and his Extr 7.39 } 15.70
ditto— vs Wm Short 5.29
C Peyton for transfer ticket Henderson to him for Your benefit } 0.75 } 3.02
Same, for Your proportion of Clerk’s ticket Hendersons deed to him for your benefit } 2.27
Tickets vs Yourself 10.15    10.15
$230.32
1814
Septr 27  By draft on Gibson and Jefferson for the amount of above account payable the 25th October next
Clif: Harris D Shff
 for
Chs B. Hunton S, A, C

MS (MHi); in Harris’s hand; composed in two sittings; endorsed by TJ: “Sheriff Albemarle taxes and tickets Sep. 1814”; with TJ’s apparently unrelated calculations totaling $134.84 on verso.

Clifton Harris (b. ca. 1785) was still in Albemarle County in 1853. He served as deputy sheriff until at least 1817. Harris pledged $100 to Central College, and in 1836 he supported Martin Van Buren’s presidential candidacy. The 1850 census described him as a teacher (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 221; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1303, 1338; Cabell, University of Virginia description begins [Nathaniel Francis Cabell], Early History of the University of Virginia, as contained in the letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, 1856 description ends , 406; Richmond Enquirer, 13 Feb. 1836; DNA: RG 29, CS, Albemarle Co., 1850; MACH description begins Magazine of Albemarle County History, 1940–  (title varies; issued until 1951 as Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society) description ends 19 [1960/61]: 57).

Charles B. Hunton (d. 1818) was sheriff of Albemarle County, 1813–15. He was appointed a county magistrate in 1791, took a leading role in the organization in 1808 of a volunteer unit, the Albemarle Military Association, and published a short newspaper essay on “Fly-Proof Wheat” in the year before his death (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 299, 374, 376, 379, 400; Richmond Enquirer, 24 Dec. 1808; Richmond Enquirer, 24 June 1817; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 8:104).

m-mill: “manufacturing mill.”

Index Entries

  • Albemarle County, Va.; Statement of TJ’s County Taxes and Court Fees search
  • carriages; taxes on search
  • Gibson & Jefferson (Richmond firm); payments made for TJ search
  • Harris, Clifton; and TJ’s taxes search
  • Harris, Clifton; deputy sheriff search
  • Harris, Clifton; identified search
  • Henderson, John; TJ makes payment for search
  • horses; taxes on search
  • Hunton, Charles B.; and TJ’s taxes search
  • Hunton, Charles B.; identified search
  • Hunton, Charles B.; sheriff search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; pays taxes search
  • Lewis, Mary Walker (Nicholas Lewis’s wife); TJ makes payment for search
  • Marks, Hastings (TJ’s brother-in-law; Anne Scott Jefferson Marks’s husband); TJ makes payment for search
  • mills; taxes on search
  • Peyton, Craven; TJ makes payment for search
  • Short, William; TJ makes payment for search
  • slaves; taxes on search
  • taxes; on carriages search
  • taxes; on free whites search
  • taxes; on horses search
  • taxes; on land search
  • taxes; on mills search
  • taxes; on slaves search
  • taxes; Statement of Albemarle County Taxes and Court Fees search
  • taxes; TJ pays search
  • whites; taxes on search