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Enclosure: Alexander Garrett’s Account with Central College, [ca. 29 March 1819], enclosure no. 3 in University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 4 October 1819

Enclosure

Alexander Garrett’s Account with Central College

[ca. 29 Mar. 1819]

Dr.   The Central College in account with Alexander Garrett, Treasurer. Cr.
 1817.  1817.
June  23,  To  John M. Perry, part purchase land, 43¾ and 153 acres—receipt $1,066   81    June  23,  By  John Winn part proceeds Glebe lands, (Albemarle) $1,066   81
Sept. 16, same, in full, 354 44 Sept. 25, Bernard Peyton part sale bank stock, do. 854 44
same, first payment on contract wood work pavilion No. 4, 500 00 Oct. 30, Do. do. per Ira Garrett     do. 600 00
Oct. 25, Hugh Chisholm on contract brick work 200 00 Nov. 20, Do. do. per Stephen. C. Wheeler do. 200 00
David Knight,   do. 30 00  1818.
Nov. 7, John M. Perry part digging cellar pav. No. 4, 70 00 Jany. 28, Do. do. per James Leitch in full  do. 382 84
8, Hugh Chisholm on contract brick work, 300 00 March  30, this sum received this month of the first instalment of subscriptions to the Central College, per stat.   page 3, 375 00
12, David Knight   do.   in full, 140 50 April 30, Do.      do.      3, 2,867 50
 1818. May 31, Do.      do.      3, 967 50
March  4, James Leitch, lent Proctor, to purchase corn, pork, &c.—acct. and rect. 442 34 June 30, Do.      do.      4, 1,308 25
April 11, Matthew Brown on contract brick work to pav. No. 2, and dor. adjacent to pav. No. 4—receipt, 1,000 00 July 31, Do.      do.      4, 75 00
13, James Garnett part 3 hand carts (his subscription) 50 00 Aug. 31, Do.      do.      4, 50 00
May 5, Reuben Maury for oats and potatoes—account, 9 00 Sept. 30, Do.      do.      4, 50 00
June 22, Baker Bever, expenses viewing slate quaries, 20 00 Oct. 31, Do.      do.      4, 340 00
24, William D. Meriwether for plank—acct. 26 92 Nov. 30, Do.      do.      4, 250 00
James Dinsmore on contract wood work pav. No. 2, 700 00 Dec. 31, Do.      do.      4, 10 00
July 3, Nelson Barksdale for a horse, &c.—acct. 147 83  1819.
Thomas Ritchie printing 2 quires subscription papers, 3 00 Feb. 28, Do.      do.      4, 75 00
James Leitch 2 blank books—omitted, 2 00 March 29, Do.      do.   4 and 5, 2,202 50
Postage letters to and from Bernard Peyton, 1 00 John M. Perry for hire Ishmel 1818, 85 00
6, John M. Perry 2d paymt. on contract wood work pav. No. 4, 500 00 this sum received from the state donation of 15,000 dollars the 13th inst. 1,500 00
30, Hugh Chisholm brick work on pav. No. 4, 800 00
Sept. 9, John W. Mayo for repairs to carts, 14 00
24, John M. Perry wood work on dormitories to pav. No. 4, 600 00
26, William Dangerfield in part for 100 dollars, the hire of Willis 1818, 81 56
Oct. 16, George P. Digges hire of one hand at College, 12 75
Matthew Brown brick work on pav. No. 4 and dor. 1,000 00
Nelson Barksdale in full his salary as Proctor twelve months, 200 00
Nov.  2, Walter Hudson hauling two loads corn from Wingfields, 10 00   
25, John M. Perry wood work pav. No. 4 and dormitories, 250 00
Dec. 8, Wm. Woods for inclusive survey and plat of College lands, 1 00
 1819.
Jany. 4, John Dangerfield hire Warner, Jack, Tom, and Billy, 1818—bond 395 75
13, Dabney C. Gooch 5,000 lbs. pork, at 8½ dollars—receipt 425 00
Feb. 8, John H. Barksdale for 75½ barrels corn, at 13s. 6d. 170 00
March 1, Samuel Madison for shoemaking, 2 50
Samuel Leitch two blank books, 2 36
17, Matthew Brown brick work to pav. No. 2 and dor. 1,000 00
19, Hugh Chisholm brick work to pav. No. 2, 302 75
20, Walker Munday salary as overseer 1818, 140 00
24, John M. Perry wood work to pav. No. 2 and dor. 100 00
25, John Whilton hire Negro Ishmel 1818, 85 00
Samuel Cole hire Negro Willis, 90 00
W. Young hire Abram, 20 00
Edward Farneyhough for 201 lbs. bacon in 1818, at 1s. 33 50
Nelson Barksdale expenses Negro clothing, &c. 104 83
John M. Perry wood work to pav. No. 2 and dor. 125 00
26, Do.      do.     do. 85 00
Do. for hauling, &c. per account, 93 04
27, James Leitch, store account, 250 00
Jesse Lewis, part blacksmith’s account, 25 00
12,082   88
March 29, balance remaining in the Treasury this day, 1,176 96
$ 13,259   84 $ 13,259   84

ALEXR. GARRETT, Tr. C. C.

Printed in Report and Documents for 1819 description begins Report and Documents respecting the University of Virginia, Richmond, 1820, containing a 4 Oct. 1819 report by the Board of Visitors and supporting documents description ends , 28–31; undated; internal running totals at breaks of printed pages editorially omitted. Also enclosed in TJ to James P. Preston, 1 Dec. 1819.

Pavilions no. 4 and no. 2 were later renumbered VII and III, respectively.

Index Entries

  • Abram (W. Young’s slave) search
  • Albemarle Academy; and sale of glebe lands search
  • bacon search
  • Barksdale, John H.; and University of Virginia search
  • Barksdale, Nelson; as Central College proctor search
  • Beaven (Beavin; Bivans), Baker; as slater search
  • Billy (J. Daingerfield’s slave) search
  • Brown, Matthew; and brickwork for Central College search
  • building materials; plank search
  • building materials; slate search
  • Central College; Alexander Garrett’s Account with Central College search
  • Central College; funding for search
  • Central College; subscription for search
  • Chisholm, Hugh; and brickwork for Central College–University of Virginia search
  • clothing; for slaves search
  • Cole, Samuel; hires out slaves to Central College search
  • corn; as food search
  • corn; for University of Virginia search
  • Daingerfield, John; hires out slaves to Central College search
  • Daingerfield, William; hires out slaves to Central College search
  • Digges, George P.; hires out slaves to Central College search
  • Dinsmore, James; as builder for Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Farneyhough, Edward; and Central College search
  • food; pork search
  • Garnett, James; and Central College subscription search
  • Garrett, Alexander; as Central College treasurer search
  • Garrett, Ira; and Central College search
  • Gooch, Dabney C.; and Central College search
  • horses; for Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Hudson, Walter; and Central College search
  • Ishmael (Ishmel; J. M. Perry’s slave) search
  • Ishmael (Ishmel; J. Whilton’s slave) search
  • Jack (J. Daingerfield’s slave) search
  • Knight, David; and brickwork for Central College search
  • Leitch, James; and Central College search
  • Leitch, Samuel; and Central College search
  • Lewis, Jesse; and Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Literary Fund; University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to search
  • Madison, Samuel; and Central College search
  • Maury, Reuben; and Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Mayo, John W.; and Central College search
  • Meriwether, William Douglas; and Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Munday, Walker; and Central College search
  • oats; for Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Perry, John M.; as builder for Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Perry, John M.; sells land to Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and Central College search
  • pork; for Central College search
  • potatoes search
  • Ritchie, Thomas; prints subscription papers for Central College search
  • shoes; mentioned search
  • slate search
  • slaves; clothing for search
  • slaves; construction workers at Central College–University of Virginia search
  • Tom (J. Daingerfield’s slave) search
  • Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
  • Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; annual report of search
  • Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; dormitory rooms search
  • Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion III search
  • Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion VII search
  • Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; slaves employed for search
  • Warner (J. Daingerfield’s slave) search
  • Wheeler, Stephen C.; and Central College search
  • Whilton, John; hires out slaves to Central College search
  • Willis (W. Daingerfield’s slave) search
  • Winn, John (d.1837); and Albemarle Academy search
  • Woods, William (ca.1777–1849); as Albemarle Co. surveyor search
  • Young, W.; hires out slaves to Central College search

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Enclosure: Alexander Garrett’s Account with Central College, [ca. 29 March 1819], enclosure no. 3 in University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 4 October 1819
Authors
Garrett, Alexander
Central College
Recipient
University of Virginia Board of Visitors
Date
4 October 1819

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“Enclosure: Alexander Garrett’s Account with Central College, [ca. 29 March 1819], enclosure no. 3 in University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 4 October 1819,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0072-0004. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 93–95.]