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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Delivery of Building Material for Shadwell Milldam, [ca. 29 August 1822]
Notes on Delivery of Building Material for Shadwell Milldam
[ca. 29 Aug. 1822]
| 1822. | Wormly | Jerry | Isaac | Ned | total. | ||
| Aug. 6 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 92 | ||
| 7 | 8 | 7 | 15 | ||||
| 8 | 16 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 66 | ||
| 9 |  |
34 | 34 | ||||
| 10 | |||||||
| 12 | 18 | 18 | |||||
| 13 | 24 | 24 | |||||
| 14 | 13 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 56 | 305 | |
| 15 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 26 | 78 | ||
| 16 | 20 | 15 | 28 | 26 | 89 | ||
| 17 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 81 | ||
| 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 80 | 328 | 1 |
| 20 | 17 | 18 | 35 | ||||
| 21 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 19 | 59 | ||
| 22 | 20 | 8 | 22 | 21 | 71 | ||
| 23 | 20 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 70 | ||
| 24 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 74 | 309 | |
| 26 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 49 | |||
| 27 | 19 | 9 | 20 | 18 | 66 | ||
| 28 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 81 | ||
| 29 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 60 | 256 | |
| 1198 | 2 |
the whole interruptions amount to about 4. days work of the 4. carts; and leave 17. days for the performance of the work. there were 2 mule carts with 2. mules in each, & 2. oxcarts with a yoke in each: and 4. small boys & girls assisted loading. nearly the whole stone was furnished by the hill above the coopers shop.
MS (ViU: TJP); on verso of portion of a reused address cover from John Vaughan to TJ; entirely in TJ’s hand; undated.
1. Preceding two columns should read 79 and 327, respectively.
2. Correct total is 1,197.
Index Entries
- building materials; stone search
- carts; mule search
- carts; ox search
- dams; on Rivanna River search
- Gillette, Ned (TJ’s slave; b.1760); and Shadwell milldam search
- Hughes, Wormley (TJ’s slave; b.1781); and Shadwell milldam search
- Isaac (TJ’s slave; b.1768); and Shadwell milldam search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on Delivery of Building Material for Shadwell Milldam search
- Jeremiah (Jerry) (TJ’s slave; b.1777); as wagoner search
- livestock; oxen search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); cooper’s shop at search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); slaves at search
- mules; as draft animals search
- oxen; as draft animals search
- Rivanna River; dams on search
- Shadwell mills; dam at search
- slaves; transport goods search