Thomas Jefferson Papers

Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Flour Sales, 15 January 1824

Enclosure

Account with Bernard Peyton for Flour Sales

Sales of Sixty Barrels Flour by Bernard Peyton
1823 Richd          for . Thomas Jefferson Esq:
13 Jany To Jno & Wm Gilliat in Store at 30 Days:
42 Blls: Superfine flour at $4⅞ $ 204. 75
18 do.  Fine     do.    4½ 81.
60. $ 285. 75
Charges
Cash paid frght on 30 Blls at 53¢. & on 30 at 50¢. $30. 90
Canal Toll $6.25. Storage, Drge & Coopge at 10¢. $6.00 12. 25
Inspection $1.20. Comisn at 2½ pr ct $7.14 8. 34 = 51. 49
Nett proceeds $ 234. 26
E.E.
Bernard Peyton
r N. N. Wilkinson

RC (MHi); entirely in N. N. Wilkinson’s hand; covering letter subjoined; with related calculations by TJ adjacent to signatures: “

60 234.26 (3.90
542
   26
 
S.F. 42 204.75 (4.87
168
 367
336
 315
 294
.”

drge & coopge: “drayage and cooperage.” e.e.: “Errors Excepted.”

Index Entries

  • canals; and transportation costs search
  • flour; at Richmond search
  • flour; price of search
  • flour; sale of search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sells flour search
  • John & William Gilliat (Richmond firm); purchases TJ’s flour search
  • Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
  • Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
  • Wilkinson, N. N.; as clerk for B. Peyton search