Account with Dorothy Elsworth, [31 August] 1790

Account with Dorothy Elsworth

[31 August 1790]

1790	Mr Madesan Bill
Augt. 12	Ballence on A bill delever	£34	–	9	–	1
20	Cash Gave Mrs H	1	–	15	—	—
	do for Calleco	4	–	12	–	0
	pd Makeing Gound	0	–	4	–	6

27	pd Mrs Brower	1	–	18	–	11
	tea	1	–	5	—	—
	Cash to Mrs Harmon	1	—	—	—	—
	Shew maker	1	–	4	–	0
Augt 13	to 31 to board	7	–	4	–	0
	Servent—do	3	—	—	—	—
	wine & porter	2	–	4	–	4
		£58	:	16	:	10

Recd payment

Dorothy Elsworth1

186	doulers
is	£74	–	8
	58	–	16
	15	:	12

Ms (DLC).

1. While in New York JM stayed at Vandine Elsworth’s boardinghouse, 19 Maiden Lane (New-York Directory, 1789, p. 31).

Accompanied by Jefferson, JM left New York around 1 Sept. After a stopover at Philadelphia, the two travelers proceeded southward by way of Chestertown (on Maryland’s eastern shore), Annapolis, Bladensburg, Georgetown, Alexandria (visiting the president at Mount Vernon), and Fredericksburg, arriving at Orange Court House around noon on 18 Sept. (Boyd, Papers of Jefferson description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (19 vols. to date; Princeton, 1950—). description ends , XVII, 464–65, 496, 497, 509; Vi: Francis Taylor Diary, 18 Sept. 1790).

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Title: Account with Dorothy Elsworth, [31 August] 1790
Author: Madison, James
Date: 31 August 1790

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Cite as: “Account with Dorothy Elsworth, [31 August] 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-13-02-0215. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 13, 20 January 1790 – 31 March 1791, ed. Charles F. Hobson and Robert A. Rutland. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981, pp. 296–297.]