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Thomas Jefferson’s List of Debts and Assets, 1 April 1823

List of Debts and Assets

[Cr]editors to be pd in 1823 principal remaing Int. to July 1. 23. annual1 int.  
  Rawlings James 84 .40         resources for this year
  Antrim abt 12 .          Bedford tobo 4000  
  Cosby Dabney abt 8 .          Albemarle do 800 .
  Eppes Francis 45 .89         frm N. Orleans 2000 2
Apr. 15 Eppes J. W. 300 .          Albem. flour 2400  
  University 25 .          Mill rent. say 1200  
  Massie Charles 23 .16         10,400  
  Watkins Dr        
  Ragland Dr        
  Bishop Joseph 39 .13        
June. 1 Dawson Martin 80 .         
June Winn John 48 .         
June Jones John R. 96 .36        
June Branham & Bibb 16 .62        
  Bacon E. for J. 160 .58        
Aug. 4. Hatch 75 .         
Sep. 1. Proctor Hanah 800 .  }      
    int. 43 .603      
May. 7. Leroy & Bayard 2083   }      
    int. 125 4       
  Pini 444     7400.     444.  
  Lyle James 1200 .    5378. 84    
Nov. 6. 22. Miller B. 750 .    1677. 22 65. 41  
  Leitch James 801 .17   5730.   925. 41  343. 80 
  Robertson Arch. 918 .85   1000.   115. 14 60.  
  books 100          
  Dodge & Oxnard 200          
  taxes 280          
  Gorman John 200 .         
  Gough 700          
      9659 .76        
  Higginbotham D.   2848. 67 1504.    
Jan. 23. 19 Ham Elijah.   419. 61 111. 86  
  Carden Youen abt  300.      
Nov. 4. 11 Brand’s exrs   339. 60 238. 43 20. 46
  Chisolm Hugh        
May 31. 20 Nielson John   843. 50 156.   50. 58
  Yancey Joel   1950.   509. 73  
  Bank US.   5250.      
   Farmers   6000       
   Virginia   1125       
      40,262. 44 2121. 985  
  Welsh        
            April 1. 1823.

MS (ViU: TJP-ER); with TJ’s Plan for Debt Repayment, [ca. 1 Apr. 1823], on verso; in TJ’s hand; one word faint.

TJ expected to receive $2,000 when he sent four of his enslaved men to New Orleans (n. orleans) to be sold (TJ to Bernard Peyton, 28 Aug. 1824). TJ owed the university of Virginia a refund for an overpayment he had received when selling the school his hoisting machine (Receipt from TJ to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 22 Nov. 1821; Benjamin King to TJ, 3 Jan. 1823). The four june entries were to be paid in favor of TJ’s debt to Edmund Bacon (note to TJ’s Promissory Note to Bacon, 7 Apr. 1813). A missing letter of 3 Oct. 1822 from Hannah Proctor (proctor hanah) to TJ is recorded in SJL as received the day it was written. TJ noted in his financial records for the following day the receipt from Proctor of “800.D. for which with interest I gave my note payable Sep. 1. 1823” (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 , 2:1389).

TJ’s financial records include much of the same information given above in a similar “statement of debts” recorded on 21 Mar. 1823 (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 , 2:1393–4). That list differs in showing $1,150 due to Boyd miller and including additional debts of $99.27 to William J. Coffee and $5,529 on James Leitch’s bond, while omitting the three bank loan entries.

1. Manuscript: “annua.”

2. Reworked from “1000.”

3. Preceding two words and brace interlined.

4. Preceding two words and brace interlined.

5. TJ failed to include the figure for David Higginbotham. The correct amount is 3,625.98.

Index Entries

  • A. Robertson & Company (firm); TJ’s debt to search
  • Antrim, Joseph; TJ’s debt to search
  • Bacon, Edmund; TJ’s promissory note to search
  • Bacon, John; promissory note assigned to search
  • Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
  • Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
  • Bishop, Joseph; TJ’s debt to search
  • Bramham & Bibb (Charlottesville firm); TJ’s debt to search
  • Brand, Joseph (d.1814); TJ’s debt to search
  • Carden, Youen; TJ’s account with search
  • Chisholm, Hugh; account with TJ search
  • Coffee, William John; TJ’s debt to search
  • Cosby, Dabney; TJ’s debt to search
  • Dawson, Martin; TJ’s account with search
  • Dodge & Oxnard (Marseille firm); and wine and groceries for TJ search
  • Eppes, Francis Wayles (TJ’s grandson); TJ’s debt to search
  • Eppes, John Wayles (TJ’s son-in-law); and loan to TJ search
  • Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
  • Gorman, John; TJ’s debt to search
  • Gough, William; TJ’s debt to search
  • Ham, Elijah; TJ’s debt to search
  • Hatch, Frederick Winslow; TJ’s debt to search
  • Higginbotham, David; TJ’s debt to search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; TJ budgets for search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with A. Robertson search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with H. Chisholm search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with J. C. Ragland search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with T. G. Watkins search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with W. Welch search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bond with J. Lyle (1798–1850) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; buys and sells slaves search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to A. Robertson & Company search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to D. Higginbotham search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to E. Ham search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to J. Bacon search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to J. Brand search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to J. Leitch search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to J. Neilson search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to J. Yancey search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to P. Mazzei search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; List of Debts and Assets search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; pays taxes search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; promissory notes to Edmund Bacon search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; rent due TJ search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells flour search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; List of Debts and Assets search
  • Jones, John R.; payment to search
  • Leitch, James; TJ’s debt to search
  • LeRoy, Bayard & Company (New York firm); and TJ’s debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst search
  • Lyle, James (1798–1850); TJ’s bond with search
  • machines; hoisting search
  • Massie, Charles; TJ’s debt to search
  • Mazzei, Philip; TJ’s debt to search
  • Miller, Boyd; and TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); tobacco crop at search
  • N. & J. & R. van Staphorst (Amsterdam firm); TJ’s debt to search
  • Neilson (Nelson), John; TJ’s debt to search
  • New Orleans; slave market in search
  • Pini, Andrea Tozzi (Elisabetta Mazzei Pini’s husband); and P. Mazzei’s estate search
  • Pini, Elisabetta Mazzei (Philip Mazzei’s daughter; Andrea Pini’s wife); and P. Mazzei’s estate search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
  • Proctor, Hannah; and loan to TJ search
  • Proctor, Hannah; letter from accounted for search
  • Ragland, John C.; TJ’s account with search
  • Rawlings, James; and Mutual Assurance Society search
  • rent; from Shadwell mills search
  • Robertson, Archibald; account with TJ search
  • Shadwell mills; rent for search
  • slaves; TJ plans to sell search
  • slaves; TJ sells search
  • taxes; TJ budgets for search
  • tobacco; grown at Monticello search
  • tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
  • tobacco; TJ’s income from search
  • Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; TJ’s debt to search
  • Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; hoisting machine for search
  • Watkins, Thomas G.; TJ’s debt to search
  • Welch, Wakelin; TJ’s bond to search
  • Winn, John (d.1837); merchant search
  • women; accounts with; H. Proctor search
  • Yancey, Joel (d.1833); TJ’s debt to search

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Thomas Jefferson’s List of Debts and Assets, 1 April 1823
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
1 April 1823

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Cite as
“Thomas Jefferson’s List of Debts and Assets, 1 April 1823,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-19-02-0379. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 19, 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 494–496.]