Note: this document has content that may require expanded/print view for best results (icons above right)
Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales, 22 August 1822
Enclosure
Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales
Sales 10 Hogsheads Tobacco by Bernard Peyton for
℀ Thomas Jefferson Esq:
1822 Richd
22 August, To sundry persons for cash 10 Hhds: Tobacco Viz:
| ℔s | ||||||||
| Leaf.— |  |
T.J. T.H. |
No | 2=1740=140=1600 nett, | to Gray & Pankey | at | $7.20 | $115.20 |
| 〃 | 〃 | 4=1872=142=1730 〃 , | to J. & W. Gilliat | 〃 | 7.00 | 121.10 | ||
|
T.J.
B.C. |
〃 | 1=1700=138=1562 〃 , | to Luke & Sizer | 〃 | 5.65 | 88.25 | ||
| 〃 | 〃 | 2=1765=135=1630 〃 | to D. Barclay | 〃 | 5.75 | 93.72 | ||
| 〃 | 〃 | 3=1687=137=1550 〃 | to Luke & Sizer | 〃 | 5.55 | 86.02 | ||
| 〃 | 〃 | 4=1770=138=1632 〃 | to J. &. W Gilliat | 〃 | 6.05 | 98.73 | ||
| Refused. | |
〃 | 〃 | 5=1505=135=1370 〃 | to Luke & Sizer | 〃 | 3.85 | 52.74 |
| 〃 | 〃 | 6=1596=136=1460 〃 | do. do. | 〃 | 3.85 | 56.21 | ||
| 〃 | 〃 | 7=1842=142=1700 〃 | to D. W. & C. Warwick | 〃 | 3.50 | 59.50 | ||
|
T.J.
T.H. |
〃 | 8=1386=126=12601 〃 | do. do. | 〃 | 3.65 | 45.99 | ||
| $817.46 | ||||||||
| Charges.— | ||||||||
| ℔s: | ||||||||
| Cash paid frght: 13,864 at 20¢. | $27.72 | |||||||
| Do 〃 〃 1630 〃 25¢. | 4.07 | |||||||
| Do 〃 for notes at 50¢. | 5.00 | $36.79 | ||||||
| To Canal toll do. at 2/6 | 4.17 | |||||||
| To Drayage $1.34, Comssn at 2½ pr $20.44 | 21.78 | $62.74 | ||||||
| Nett proceeds at cr Th: Jefferson Esq. | $754.72 | |||||||
| E.E. | ||||||||
| B. Peyton | |
| By | N. N. Wilkinson |
MS (MHi); entirely in N. N. Wilkinson’s hand; conjoined with covering letter; with related calculations by TJ adjacent to signatures:
| “154.94| | 817.46 (5.27½ |
| | | 77470 |
| 42760 | |
| 30988 | |
| 117720 | |
| 108458 | |
| 92620” |
| “154.94| | 754.72 (4.87 |
| | | 61976 |
| 134960 | |
| 123952 | |
| 110080.” |
luke & sizer was the Richmond firm Lucke & Sizer. e.e.: “Errors Excepted.”
1. Beneath this column TJ drew a rule, with “15494” underneath it.
Index Entries
- Barclay, David; purchases TJ’s tobacco search
- Bear Creek plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); tobacco at search
- canals; and transportation costs search
- D. W. & C. Warwick (Richmond firm); purchases TJ’s tobacco search
- Gray & Pankey (Richmond firm); buys TJ’s tobacco search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- John & William Gilliat (Richmond firm); purchases TJ’s tobacco search
- Lucke & Sizer (Richmond firm); buys TJ’s tobacco search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Richmond, Va.; TJ’s tobacco sold at search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco prices at search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
- tobacco; price of in Richmond search
- tobacco; sale of search
- Tomahawk plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); tobacco grown at search
- Wilkinson, N. N.; as clerk for B. Peyton search