Thomas Jefferson Papers

Bill for Purchase of Butter, [by 22 April 1819]

Bill for Purchase of Butter

[by 22 Apr. 1819]

Gross — Tare — Nett
16 8 8lbs1 @ 1/6.

MS (ViU: TJP-RFP); written in an unidentified hand on a small scrap; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Walker sent 2.D. by Gill Apr. 22. 19.”

According to TJ’s financial records, he made the payment described in his endorsement at Poplar Forest “for butter” (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 , 2:1353).

1. Manuscript: “8l.”

Index Entries

  • butter; TJ purchases search
  • food; butter search
  • Gillette, Gill (TJ’s slave; b.1792); delivers payment search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); butter for search
  • Walker, Mr.; TJ buys butter from search

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Source Project
Jefferson Papers
Title
Bill for Purchase of Butter, [by 22 April 1819]
Recipient
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
22 April 1819

Reference

Cite as
“Bill for Purchase of Butter, [by 22 April 1819],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-14-02-0232. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 14, 1 February to 31 August 1819, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 243.]