Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales, 11 June 1823
Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales
Sales four Hogsheads leaf Tobacco by B Peyton for ℀ Mr Thos Jefferson
1823. Richd
11 June To sundry persons for Cash 4 Hhds: (viz)
| ℔s | ||||||
| TI ⨳ | 14 = 1331 = 144 = | 1187 | nett at | $5.15 | $ 61.13 | |
| 〃 | 15 = 1762 = 140 = | 1622 | 〃 〃 | 〃7.60 | 123.27 | |
| (Refused) | 〃 | 20 = 1537 = 156 = | 1381 | 〃 〃 | 〃3.80 | 52.48 |
| 〃 | 21 = 1717 = 136 = | 15811 | 〃 〃 | 〃9.45 | 149.40 | |
| $386.28 | ||||||
| Charges | ||||||
| Cash pd fght: 5771 ℔s nett at 2/– is | $19.24 | |||||
| Notes $2, Drayage from Locks $6 | 8.00 | |||||
| Commission at 2½ per cent | 9.66 | $ 36.90 | ||||
| Nett pcds: at Cr T.J. | $349.38 | |||||
| E.E. | ||||||
B.P.
MS (MHi); in Peyton’s hand, with internal calculation by TJ as noted below; docketed by Peyton: “Th: Jefferson ℀ Sales”; endorsed by TJ with additional notation: “sale of 4. hhds Monto tobo 1823. June 11.”
e.e.: “Errors Excepted.”
1. Beneath this number TJ drew a rule and totaled the sum of the weight (divided by 100) to be “57.71,” which he then divided into “349.38” to get “6.05,” the average net payment in dollars per hundredweight of tobacco. He then subtracted “346.260” from the “349.38” and wrote “31200” (correctly, “3.1200”).
Index Entries
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- locks (canal) search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); tobacco crop at search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Richmond, Va.; TJ’s tobacco sold at search
- tobacco; grown at Monticello search
- tobacco; sale of search