Henry Flood’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food and Lodging, [13 September 1815]

II. Henry Flood’s Bill for Food and Lodging

[13 Sept. 1815]

Colo Jefferson
1815
Sept	11th	To 5 Horses feedg 2/3	11.3
		〃 1 Dinner	2.0
		〃 3 Servts Dinr 1/–	3.0
		〃 1 Lodging	.9
		〃 Wine	2.6
	13th		19.6
		To 5 Horses feedg 2/3	11.3
		〃 1 Supr	2.0
		〃 1 Lodging	.9
		〃 1 Servt	1.0
		〃 Wine	4.6
			£1.19.0

MS (MHi); undated; endorsed by TJ: “Sep. 13. 15. H. Flood”; with TJ’s notation beneath sum that the amount owed was $6.50.

On 11 Sept. 1815 TJ recorded paying $.25 in tips at Flood’s tavern. Two days later he paid a total of $6.75 for lodgings “&c. going & coming” (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 , 2:1313).

Index Entries

Buckingham County, Va.; Flood’s ordinary search
Flood, Henry; Buckingham Co. tavernkeeper search
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food; tavern charges for search
horses; tavern charges for search
Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bill from H. Flood search
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taverns; bills from search
wine; tavern charges for search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Henry Flood’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food and Lodging, [13 September 1815]
Authors: Jefferson, Thomas
Flood, Henry
Date: 12–13 September 1815

Reference

Cite as: “Henry Flood’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food and Lodging, [13 September 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0011-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9, September 1815 to April 1816, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 19–20.]