Thomas Jefferson’s List of Bread Distributed to Monticello Slaves, February 1821

List of Bread Distributed to Monticello Slaves

Betty Brown	Nance
Mary.	Ned
Burwell	Peter Hem.
Critta.	Sally Hem.
Davy junr	Beverly
Fanny	Harriet
Ellen	Madison
Jenny	Eston.
Melinda	Thrimston.
Indridge	Wormly
Dolly	Ursula.
Gill	Joe
Israel	Anne
Phill Bedfd	Dolly
Joe	Cornelius
Edy	Thomas
Maria	Louisa
Patsy	Caroline
Betsy	Critta.
Peter	51.	pecks for the people
Isabella.	3.	pecks for the House
John Hem.	54.	pecks or 13½ bushels.
John gardener.
Lewis
Mary. Moses’s
Davy
Celia
Tucker
Zacharia
Patsy
Fosset.
Fontaine

MS (ViCMRL, on deposit ViU: TJP); on verso of portion of reused address cover to TJ; in TJ’s hand; partially dated.

TJ created similar lists in 1795, 1796, 1810, 1815, and 1817. Although he called each one a bread list, his use of the word “pecks” suggests that cornmeal or flour was actually distributed (Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1, 43, 50, 134, 148, 156).

Index Entries

bread; for slaves search
Brown, Betty (TJ’s slave; b.1759); on Monticello slave lists search
Colbert, Burwell (TJ’s slave;1783–ca.1862; Critta Colbert’s husband); on Monticello slave lists search
Colbert, Mary (TJ’s slave; b.1801); on Monticello slave lists search
corn; cornmeal search
Dolly (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Monticello slave lists search
flour; given to slaves search
food; bread search
Fossett, Betsy-Ann (Betsy) (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Monticello slave lists search
Fossett, Edith (Edy) Hern (TJ’s slave; b.1787); on Monticello slave lists search
Fossett, Isabella (TJ’s slave; b.1819); on Monticello slave lists search
Fossett, Joseph (Joe) (TJ’s slave; b.1780); on Monticello slave lists search
Fossett, Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Monticello slave lists search
Fossett, Patsy (TJ’s slave; b.1810); on Monticello slave lists search
Fossett, Peter (TJ’s slave; b.1815); on Monticello slave lists search
Gillette, Gill (TJ’s slave; b.1792); on Monticello slave lists search
Gillette, Ned (TJ’s slave; b.1760); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemings, Beverly (TJ’s enslaved son; b.1798); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemings, Critta (TJ’s slave; b.1769); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemings, Eston (TJ’s enslaved son; b.1808); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemings, Harriet (TJ’s enslaved daughter; b.1801); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemings, Madison (TJ’s enslaved son; b.1805); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemings, Nance (TJ’s slave; b.1761); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemings, Sally (TJ’s slave and mother of children fathered by him;1773–1835); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); on Monticello slave lists search
Hemmings, Peter (TJ’s slave; b.1770); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Celia (Calia) (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, David (Davy) (TJ’s slave; b.1784); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, David (Davy) (TJ’s slave; b.1803); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Ellen (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Fanny Gillette (TJ’s slave; b.1788; wife of David Hern [b.1784]); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Fontaine (TJ’s slave; b.1819); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Fosset (TJ’s slave; b.1817); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Indridge (TJ’s slave; b.1819); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Jenny (TJ’s slave; b.1811); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Mary (TJ’s slave; b.1780); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Melinda (TJ’s slave;1817–ca.1821); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Moses (TJ’s slave; b.1779); family of search
Hern, Patsy (TJ’s slave; b.1815); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Thrimston (Thrimson) (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1799); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Tucker (TJ’s slave; b.1810); on Monticello slave lists search
Hern, Zacharias (TJ’s slave; b.1812); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Anne (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Caroline (TJ’s slave; b.1818); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Cornelius (TJ’s slave; b.1811); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Critta (TJ’s slave; b.1820); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Dolly (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Joe (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Louisa (TJ’s slave; b.1816); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Thomas (TJ’s slave; b.1813); on Monticello slave lists search
Hughes, Wormley (TJ’s slave; b.1781); on Monticello slave lists search
Jefferson, Israel Gillette (TJ’s slave; b.1800); on Monticello slave lists search
Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; List of Bread Distributed to Monticello Slaves search
John (TJ’s slave; b.1753); on Monticello slave lists search
Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1760); on Monticello slave lists search
Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); slaves at listed search
Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b.1808); on Monticello slave lists search
slaves; bread for search
Ursula (TJ’s slave; b.1787); on Monticello slave lists search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Bread Distributed to Monticello Slaves, February 1821
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 1–28 February 1820

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s List of Bread Distributed to Monticello Slaves, February 1821,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-16-02-0551. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 16, 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 647–648.]