Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Thomas G. Watkins, [ca. 1 March 1820]
Account with Thomas G. Watkins
[ca. 1 Mar. 1820]
| Mr Jefferson To T G Watkins Dr | Ds | Cts | |||
| 1819 | |||||
| Oct. | 19 | Visit early in morn attendance untill afternoon1 advice &c | 5 | 00 | |
| 10 | Visit by express appointment from Micajah Becks near Peters mountain in the night last night & violent rain & attendance untill late this morn | 10 | 00 | ||
| 11 | . | Visit last night attendance & prescn this morn | 3 | 00 | |
| 12 | . | Visit last night in way from Charlottesville Advice &c this morn | 2 | 00 | |
| 13 | Visit & prescn | 3 | 00 | ||
| 17 | Visit last evening prescn &c this morn | 3 | 00 | ||
| 19 | Visit & prescn | 3 | 00 | ||
| 23 | . | Visit & prescn (the above for Mr Js self) | 3 | 00 | |
| Subsequent occasional attendance & advice for your swelled legs | 10 | 00 | |||
| Ocr2 | 9 | Prescn for a negro man—(Burwell I believe) | 2 | 00 | |
| 12 | . | Written advice for Burwell | 2 | 00 | |
| 23 | Prescn & bandaging an Ulcerated leg for a servant woman | 3 | 00 | ||
| Decr | 20 | call at a negro house & prescn for Negro John | 2 | 00 | |
| 1820 | |||||
| Jany | 13 | Prescn various medicines and a stimulant plaister for < |
4 | 00 | |
| 30 | prescn & medicine Do | 2 | 00 | ||
| Feb. | 4 | Prescn & various medicine sent by Mr Watson for Burwell | 3 | 00 | |
| March | 1 | . | Prescn & medicines Burwell | 2 | 00 |
| $ | 62 | 00 | |||
MS (MHi); entirely in Watkins’s hand; addressed: “Mr Jefferson.”
1. Manuscript: “afternon.”
2. Thus in manuscript, with November possibly intended.
Index Entries
- Becks, Micajah search
- Colbert, Burwell (TJ’s slave;1783–ca.1862; Critta Colbert’s husband); illness of search
- health; of slaves search
- health; skin diseases search
- health; swelling search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with T. G. Watkins search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; illness of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; legs swollen search
- John (TJ’s slave); illness of search
- medicine; bandages search
- medicine; plasters search
- slaves; medical treatment for search
- Watkins, Thomas G.; as physician search
- Watkins, Thomas G.; TJ’s account with search
- Watson, Fontaine; as apprentice of T. G. Watkins search