1Cash Accounts, February 1766 (Washington Papers)
To Do of Do for Hemp brakesA hemp brake was an instrument for beating and crushing hemp.
2Memorandum Books, 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
considered using for grinding gypsum plaster for toll, was ever completed. The sawmill, which at one point had a hominy beater and a hemp brake attached to its works, operated intermittently from its completion in the summer of 1813. The threshing machine, with the barn which contained it, was apparently also finished, but the operation of all the machinery was hindered by...
3James McKinney to Thomas Jefferson, 23 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] hemp; brake [index entry]
4James McKinney’s Description of a Hemp Brake, [ca. 28 August 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
...proportion is that the gate is one third the Size or hight of the frame in which it works & is Six feet in width with 5 breakers 3 below & 2 Above with the Same flare & rake as hemp brakes commonly worked by hand—To explain myself better ...explanation of the hemp brake to TJ on the following Saturday, 28 Aug. 1813; endorsed by TJ: “Hemp breaker”; with unrelated notations on verso in...
5Thomas Jefferson to George Fleming, 29 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] Fleming, George; and TJ’s hemp-brake design [index entry]
6George Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] Fleming, George; and TJ’s hemp-brake design [index entry]
7Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 8 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] hemp; brake [index entry]