MS (CSmH); in March’s hand; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esqr:”; endorsed by TJ: “March John”; with order in TJ’s hand on verso: “Nov. 7. 1801. Mr. Barnes will be pleased to pay the within Th: Jefferson”; signed by March acknowledging payment on 7 Nov.; endorsed by Barnes on 7 Nov.

John March (d. 1804), formerly of Norwich, England, was a stationer, bookseller, and bookbinder in Georgetown (David Stoker, “The Norwich Book Trades Before 1800,” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 8 [1986], 109; Washington Federalist, 4 June 1804; MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1057).

Baltimore Advertiser: the Baltimore American and Daily Advertiser, a Republican daily newspaper to which TJ subscribed. TJ owned issues from 1799 and 1800 bound in two volumes, according to an 1815 catalogue of his library (Sowerby description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends , No. 597; MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1070, 1123, 1215).

Demy Folio: demi-folio, or half the size of folio pages.

Nautical Almanack: The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, an annual London imprint (see Vol. 31:592n).

St. Domingue: Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l’isle Saint-Domingue, by Médéric Louis Elie Moreau de St. Méry, published in Philadelphia in 1796 (Sowerby description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends , No. 4155).

Since 1783, TJ had been a subscriber to the encyclopedie methodique, a serial work published in Paris (Sowerby description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends , No. 4889; Vol. 6:258).

In his financial memoranda, TJ recorded at 7 Nov. his order on John Barnes to pay March, “the bookbinder,” $176.625. Barnes also recorded the transaction under TJ’s private expenditures at 7 Nov. in a statement of account with TJ (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1057; statement of household and private account from John Barnes, 4 Dec. 1801, in ViU).