1V. Replies to Queries: Massachusetts, July 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
1. Oil, spermaceti, fish, bones, pot ash and pearl ash, lumber, flaxseed, ships, furs. Amounted to about 600,000£ sterl.
2To Thomas Jefferson from Le Couteulx & Cie., 3 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
.... Barrett, your Excellency will observe that no order has been as yet officially given to the farmers people at Ruan, relative to the Relaxation of the Duties, which they have perceived upon an American Oil Spermaceti Cargoe, much less have they had the necessary Orders relative to the entire taking off of them in those, that come for Account of Mr. Barrett’s Contract. It would be then Sir,...
3I. The Governor of Massachusetts to the Secretary of State, 25 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...fishery of Nantucket before and after the war, showing that from 1772 to 1775 there were 150 vessels having a tonnage of 15,000, employing 2,025 seamen and producing 30,000 barrels of whale oil, spermaceti oil, and headmatter selling at Nantucket at £22, £40, and £50 per ton respectively, most of which was exported to England. The Account further showed that in 1783 the Nantucket fleet had...
4No. 3: Abstract of the Produce of the Fisheries exported from the United States, from about August 20th. 1789, to … (Jefferson Papers)
Oil spermaceti
5Thomas Jefferson’s Account with John Barnes, 7 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
oil; spermaceti [index entry]
6To James Madison from Gideon Gardner, 4 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
“fuel, provisions and other necessaries” from the mainland to the island and the shipping of “oil, spermaceti candles and fish” in return (
7Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Early Career (the so-called “Autobiography”), [6 January–29 July 1821], with editorial note … (Jefferson Papers)
oil; spermaceti [index entry]