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Memorandum Books, 1800

1800.

Jan. 1. Drew on J. Barnes in favr. Tenche Coxe for 113. Dollars.
Pd. Brown for 1. year of Philadelphia gazette12 9.D.
2. Pd. postage .06.
4. Directed J. Barnes to pay Joseph Roberts 365.50 D. for 3 tons nail rod forwarded in Nov.
6. Pd. J. Bringhurst for a pistol 7.D.
Pd. for 1st. & 2d. vols. of Philosoph. transactions13 5.33.
Gave John Barnes an ord. on Jas. river co. to recieve whatever principal & int. is now payable to W. Short. He is to credit Short with it, so it will not enter into my accounts with either.
9. Recd. from J. Barnes a post note on Heth for 800.D.
Pd. for pamphlets 1.25 tooth brush .25.
12. Inclosed the post note of 800.D. to G. Jefferson to be recieved to my credit.
Directed G. Jefferson to pay John Wardrop £14–18–5¼ principal + £13–11–1 int. from Nov. 73. to Feb. 28. 1800. being 18 y. 2 Mo. (the 8.y. being deducted)14 an old account due from me to Ninian Minzies decd.
13. Pd. for almanac .94.
Authorized by letter John Watson to draw on G. Jefferson for £35. = 116.17 to be applied by him to the credit of James Key for corn bought ante Dec. 10.
Authorised by letter Richard Richardson to draw on George Jefferson for 329. Doll. to be paid by him as follows
£
to Lydia Mallory for hire  of Jack 16– 6  =  54. 33
Richard Hop do. of Frank 20– 0 = 66. 67
John Hendrick do. of Moses  20– 0 = 66. 67
Ban for his own hire 12– 8 = 41. 33
Fagg on acct. for sawing 30– 0 = 100.
£98– 14 = 329.
14. Gave J. Bohlen order on J. Barnes for 550. Dol. paiment for a marble bust of myself made by Ciracchi.
Pd. for a book .625.
Pd. for fur gloves 2.D.
15. Pd. for a hand skreen 1.5.
17. Pd. annual subscription to Phil. society 2.D.
21. Pd. for a book 2.D. for prints 15.D.
22. Recd. from J. Barnes 30.D.
25. Pd. Fortune on acct. 5.D.
Pd. Parkinson subscription for a book15 5.D. being the whole price.
27. Pd. postage .6.
30. Recd. of J. Barnes 20.D.
 
31. Gave John Hawkins an ord. on J. Barnes for 125.D. in part price of Forte piano.16
Pd. Fortune 7.D. in full of wages.
Feb. 2. Pd. John Dawson 20.D. my contribution to Oellers’ loss.17
10. Pd. for pamphlets .25.
Gave Maurice Rogers ord. on J. Barnes for 40.D. for books.
12. Gave John Hawkins further order on J. Barnes for 25.D. on acct. for forte piano.
13. Pd. Fortune 1.D. on acct. for wages.
20. Pd. do. 3.D. do.
Feb. 21. Pd. 1st. vol. Witherspoon’s works18 2.25.
Gave Folwell ord. on J. Barnes for 6.D. for 1st. 2d. 3d. vols. Journ. of Congress.19
Gave Mrs. Gardner ord. on J. Barnes for 15.D. on acct. washing.
Pd. for Freneau’s paper20 called the times in 98. 4.D.
Desired G. Jefferson to pay Lyon 10.D. for 10. papers ‘Friend of people.’21
24. Gave James Carey ord. on J. Barnes for 5.D. for pamphlets.22
 
26. Recd. from J. Barnes 20.D.
Mar. 1. Pd. Fortune the month’s wages in full 8.D.
3. Sold T. Lieper my tobo. at N. York at 6.D. delivd. there, payable at 60. days from this time.
6. Gave J. Bringhurst ord. on J. Barnes for 5.D. for writing 6½ 4to. sheets.
8. Small exp. .125.
11. Recd. from J. Barnes 1000.D. which I inclosed to G. Jefferson on account of TMRandolph.23 Note I am to have 1868.79 D. advanced for him immediately, and to take on my own account the sale of his crop in Philada. as it comes in, amounting to 1537.32 & to charge him the balance. Credit him also his 4. hhds. tobo. sold at N. York.
13. Recd. from J. Barnes 400.D. and inclosed to G. Jefferson on account of TMR. as before.
Gave in charity .25.
15. Gave Wm. Young24 ord. on J. Barnes for 9.D. for shoes.
Gave Rob. Campbell ord. on do. for 12½ D. for pamphlets.
Pd. pontage to Bartram’s .625.
Pd. small exp. .25.
16. Gave J. Francis ord. on John Barnes for 300.D. on acct.
17. The first shad at market.
Gave Birch an order on J. Barnes for 5.D. for plates.25
Gave in charity 1.D.
Placed a horse at the Indian Queen.
18. Gave in charity 1.D.
Recd. from J. Barnes 50.D. gave in charity 50.D.
19. Gave in charity 3.D.
Pd. Mr. Granger for Babcock’s paper26 1.5 D.
Pd. Voight mending watch 1.5.
Recd. from J. Barnes 470.D. & inclosed it to G. Jefferson on account of TMRandolph.
21. Pd. Fortune on account 2.D.
22. Recd. from J. Barnes 20.D. paid for books 6.D.
25. Paid for syringe 5.D.
30. Weeping willow looks green. Frogs cry.
 
Apr. 1. Recd. of J. Barnes 25.D.
Pd. Fortune in full of his months wages 10.D.
3. Recd. of J. Barnes 25.D.
4. Pd. for pamphlets 12.D.
Gave Wm. Duane ord. on J. Barnes for 25.D. to wit
for James Hopkins  5  }
TMRandolph 5.
Wm. Wardlaw. 5.  for his paper through the year 1800.
Reuben Lindsay. 5.
myself 5 
5. Pd. for oznabrigs &c. .43 tooth brush .25.
Gave Philips ord. on J. Barnes for 10.50 for 2. pr. drawers for paper.
Gave in charity 25. Dol.
April 7. Pd. portage 1.D.
8. Pamphlet .25 peaches blossom.
10. Paid seeing a painting .25.27
11. Recd. of J. Barnes 200.D.
Inclosed 200.D. to Daniel Ludlow & co. of N. Y. for Van Staphorsts & Hubbard interest on my bonds.
Pd. Fortune on acct. 2.D.
15. Gave Francis order on J. Barnes for 100.D. on acct.
16. Pd. 2d. vol. Witherspoon 2.25 gave a servt. 1.
17.
Gave Dr. Jackson ord. on J. Barnes for  66.25 D.  for Doctr. Wardlaw.
43.14 for Doctr. Everett.
19. Pd. Fortune on acct. 4.D. recd. from J. Barnes 30.D.
Pd. for a whip 2.67.
21. Pd. for pamphlets .25.
23. Gave Hawkins an ord. on J. Barnes for 50.D. on acct. for Forte piano.
24. Pd. Fortune on acct. 1.D. pd. for pencil 1.20.
25. Pd. subscription for Proud’s history of Pensylva.28 5.D.
(Recd. from Mr. Hurt for Jas. Madison senr. of Orange 160.38. to be conveyed.)
29. Pd. postage .50.
May 2. Pd. subscription to Abr. laws of US.29 2.50 pd. for a book .75.
 
3. Gave in charity 2.D.
5. Pd. in part subscription to prints of Philada.30 2.D.
Pd. Fortune in full for last month 5.D.
6. Gave Joseph Anthony ord. on J. Barnes for 28.D. for 2. sets Trumbul’s Warren & Montgomery.
6. Gave Pierre Carron ord. on J. Barnes for 8.D. for 2. locks.
7. Pd. do. for 1. do. 4.D.
8. Recd. of J. Barnes 30.D.
Gave ord. on J. Barnes in favr. Wm. Duane for 16.D. for Gifford’s history of France31 for James Hopkins.
9. Gave McAllister & Matthews32 ord. on J. Barnes for 11.33.
 viz.  for spectacles for R. Jefferson  8.40
for glasses for Jas. Cocke. 1.67
do. Mrs. Carr 1.25
10. Gave ord. on J. Barnes in favr. John Letchworth33 6. stick chairs 15.60.
Gave do. favr. Thompson for 13.33 keeping horse.
Pd. for spectacle case .75 pd. for trunk &c. 5.D.
Pd. Genl. Varnum  for the Telegraph34  D.
 <for TMRandolph> 3
for the Chronicle for myself    3
for fish for myself 9   15.
J. Barnes has discounted for me at the bank of the US. my note for 1250.D. yielding nett 1236.87.
 
Recd. from J. Barnes 1240.D.
11. Pd. J. Brown for the Kentucky paper35 2.5 D.
Gave horseler at Thompson’s 1.D. pontage to Woodlands36 .625.
12. Pd. Wilson C. Nicholas 450.D. for his bill on  
(Delivered him 110.D. of the 160. recd. Apr. 25. for Colo. Madison to be conveyed.)
Pd. at the Aurora office 5.D. for J. Winston by ord. of Jas. Madison junr.
Gave ord. on J. Barnes in favr. of Thos. Cummens (barber) for 13.95.
Gave do. in favr. Savage 23.50.
Gave do. in favr. Saml. H. Smith 42.66.
May 12. Gave Cottineau ord. on J. Barnes for 17.D. for 2. doz. oil.
Paid Stuart for my portrait37 100.D.
Gave ord. on  J. Barnes in favr. John I. Hawkins 64.D. in full.
Gave do. do. in favr. J. Bringhurst 12.D. for a pistol.
Note T. Lieper gave his note for 720.D. for the 6. hhds. tobo. of mine & 4. do. of TMR’s sold him at N. York Mar. 3. The weights being now rendered, they come to 128.625 more for which he gives his note to J. Barnes. Credit TMR. 51.45 of it.
Pd. passage in Stage to Baltimore 8.D.





14.
Gave ord. on J. Barnes in favr.  Park (petty post) 7.40.
Do. Hyde bookbinder 43.49.
Do. Dobson (books) 52.91.
Do. Webb (taylor) 111.55.
Do. Philips (sadler) 4.
Do. Steph. T. Mason 25.D.38
 
Do. Mrs. Gardner 7.80.
Pd. Bringhurst for pistol in full 3.D. for music 3.50.
Pd. for flints .25.
Gave Joseph B. Barry ord. on J. Barnes for 193.D. cabinet work.
15. Gave ord. on J. Barnes in favr. J. Francis in full lodging &c. 239.50.
Gave ord. on do. in favr. of Fortune in full for service 10.D.
Gave vales at Francis’s 3.D. left Philadelphia.
Chester. gave driver .5.
Newport.  pd. Mr. Macon for Gale’s paper39 1. year 3.D.
dinner 1. driver .25.
Elkridge ferrge. &c. .25.
Elkton. driver .25.
Susquehanna. driver .25 ferrymen .25 supper &c. .75.
16. Breakfast .5 driver .25.
Baltimore driver .25 stage hire to Alexandria 4.
Spuryear’s driver .25 charity .25.
Rodes’s driver .25.
Georgetown driver .25 ferrge. .125.
Alexandria.  driver .25 supper &c. 1.92 barber .25 vales .25.
stage hire to Fredsbg. 4.
17. Colchester driver .25 breakfast .5.
Dumfries driver .25.
Staffd. C. H. driver .25 dinner 1.
Falmouth. ferrge. .062.
18.
Fredericksbg.  barber .25 gloves .66 entertt. 1.5 stage to Richmd. 4.58.
driver .5 vales .5.
19.
Bowling green. driver .25 breakfast .5 vales .25.

20.
Richmond.  driver .25.
barber .25 gave Gibson & Jefferson W. C. Nicholas’s draught on Picket and Pollard for 450.D. to collect.
vales at Govr. Monroe’s 1.25 pontage .06.
21.
Halfway house.40 breakfast .37 stage hire 1. vales .125.
 
Ozborne’s41 driver .25.
22.
Mont blanco.  Maria for a pocket piece 2.5.
vales 1.D.
23.
24. Mrs. Bolling’s vales .5.
Eppington. gave man for finding spectacles 1.D.
May 27. Pd. my sister Carr 6. mo. int. of her £100. ante Oct. 11 (supposing it about 7. per cent) 12.5.
Servants &c. at Eppington 4.D.
Williamson’s pd. for sundries at a store 6.36 oats &c. 1.25 vales .2.
Michaux ferry. ferriage & men 1.085.

28.
Goochld. C. H.  supper lodging &c. 4.35.
vales .25.
Mrs. Payne’s breakfast &c. 2.4 vales .2.
Price’s oats .79.
Allegre’s oats .75 servt. .125.
29. Arrived at Monticello (whole expences of journey amount to 47.81).
Fixed on this day with Higginbotham as that which should decide price of my wheat.
Pd. Small debts contracted in absence 12.D.
30. Small exp. 2.5.
Pd. Davy Bowles42 for waiting on me 2. weeks 5.D.
Small Expences 4.D.
31. Gave charity 1.D.
Gave F. Eppes’s Joe 5.D.
Pd. R. Richardson on acct. 25.D.
Pd. Dinsmore 10.D.
June 1. Paid small exp. 1.05.
2. Paid D. Higginbotham for Rives & co. £48 = 160.D. Note their balance against me settled to July 30. 1799. was £211–17–3.
 
Nails from Aug. 14. to  Oct. 4 amounted to    100– 1– 9 ¾
do. Dec. 20. 4– 19– 8
Dec. 4. my draught on G. Jeff. favr. D. Carr 15– 0– 0
   12. do. on Henderson & Conard 43– 18– 2
     cash this June 2d. as above 48– 0– 0
211– 19– 7 ¾
in the mean time their account from July 30. had been running on but my wheat was to be delivered in Jan. &c. which would countervail this part of the account.
Paid John Watson for Brydie & co. &c. cash   £67– 10
 gave him order on Gibson & Jefferson for 44– 9 –8  = 148.29 D.
111– 19 –8
£
note his balance agt. me per settlemt. (ante Dec. 12.) was   21– 13– 5
I was to pay him  for D. Minor for 10. Bar. corn @ 12/    6– 0– 0
for C. L. Lewis for 125. do. @ 15/ 93– 15– 0
121– 8– 5
he was to credit me by Dr. Wardlaw 31.46. 9– 8– 9
111– 19– 8
The above credit from Dr. Wardlaw arose thus. D 
 the balance due to him from me at our last settlement was      39.79
 I paid Apr. 4.  (ante) for Aurora 5.    
Apr. 17.  (ante) to Dr. Jackson       66. 25 71.25
 which left the balance before mentioned due to me 31.46
3. Charge R. Richardson 15/ allowed W. J. Aldridge in acct. for 2 pr. slippers.
Gave W. J. Alldridge order on Gibson & Jefferson for 14.1 = £4–4s–7d for groceries &c. in full to this day.
Lent Gabriel Lilly43 40.D.
Pd. small exp. 2.D.
Pd. Wertenbaker for 2. pr. boots for T. Jefferson 5.33.
Sent Mr. Catlet for butter 1.
June 5. (Delivered Mrs. Key the two first instalments for her tobo. 296.97 sent her by Barnes; of which being only the bearer, it does not enter into account between us.)
Pd. her 68.075 D. in part for corn of last year. Still owe her 50.D.
Pd. ferrge. Mr. Lewis’s 1/.
6. Pd. sm. exp. .92.
 
8. Pd. do. 1.1.
12. Pd. do. 3.
13. Sent Catlet for butter 1.D.
14. Recd. from Colo. Bell 10.D.
15. Pd. small exp. 5.D.
17. Pd. Sm. exp. 4.D.
18. Pd. do. .67.
19. Gave Reuben Perry ord. on Colo. Bell for 10.D.
23. Gave Anderson Rowe & Wm. Fitch ord. on Colo. Bell for £13–13–9 for carrying down 68. bundles nail rod @ 1/, bringing up 59 do. @ 1/3 & bringing up 16. barr. fish @ 3/ pr. Cwt.
24. Pd. sm. exp. 4/10½.
26. Do. .125.
28. Gave Wash order in full on Colo. Bell 38/8.
Pd. sm. exp. 6.75.
29. Pd. do. 7.8.
July 5. Pd. do. 3.35.
7. Recd. of Thos. Jones for nails 12/5½.
Recd. of Reuben Lindsay the 5.D. ante Apr. 4. pd. to Duane.
Recd. of John Davison in full for nails £9–12–1.
Pd. sm. exp. 7½d.
8. Gave W. J. Alldridge an ord. on Geo. Jefferson for £24–11 of which £10–14 is for groceries & £13–17 he is to deliver to Chiles Terril, being the balance due for the horse bot. May 26. 99.
Pd. sm. exp. 5.75.
9. Pd. do. 1/.
10. Sent Catlett for butter 2.D.
Recd. from Gabriel Lilly the 40.D. lent ante June 3.
12. Pd. Reuben Perry on acct. 3.D.
18. Sm. exp. 4.1.
19. Pd. Reuben Perry on acct. 11.D.
Gave Wm. Garner ord. on Colo. Bell for £3–13–6 for work done.
Pd. sm. exp. 1.1.
20. Pd. do. 10/9 + 4/ + 14/9 + 9d = 30/3.
22. Pd. Mr. Price Vaughan’s order for 53/6 for Thos. Jefferson’s dancing.
23. Recd. of Thos. Jones for nails 6.D.
Gave Phill for expences to Mr. Marks’s 1.D.
24. Sm. exp. .75.
26. Pd. Jas. Dinsmore 10.D. sm. exp. 1.1.
 
27. Pd. sm. exp. 5.30.
30. Pd. Mr. Yost .15 pd. sm. exp. .25.
Recd. of Dr. Everet balance due me 5.20.
Charge Reuben Perry and John Perry44 a midling bacon abt. 17. ℔ @ 7½d.
31. Pd. sm. exp. 4/6.
Aug. 2. Pd. sm. exp. 1.D.—3. Pd. do. 1.15.
4. My direct tax to the US. is as follows.
  D.
4564 . as. land  @  5. D.  87. 62  to wit .384 pr. 100.D.
222 @ 1. D. . 85
196 @   do. . 75
400 @ 2. 40 3. 7
400 @ 3. 4. 60
4 @ 15. . 23
1. house @ 6000.D. 30.
65. negroes 32. 50
159. 62 45
a phaeton 9.
168. 62  paiable to Matthew Rhodes.
My taxes in St. Anne’s are as follows.
land tax } 12.92
 3. white, 52. black
15. between 12 & 16
22. horses. 1 phaeton 35.40 48.32
parish & cty. levy 32.42 32.42
tickets.  Nicholas 2.90
Chancery 8.83
ld. commrs. .42
Sher. Albem.  1.50 13.65
94.39
Wm. Short’s taxes 10.24
104.63  paiable to Alexr. Garrett.
 
Taxes in Fredericksville are  paiable to  Yancey.
Gave Matthew Rhodes ord. on Gibson & Jefferson for 168.8246 D. for taxes as above.
Desired Thos. Carr for Colo. Bell to pay 25.D. to Frederic Gauder for meat in full to this day.
Desired him also to pay 1.26 to Sheriff Albem. F. Taliaferro for serving writs &c. v. Johnson.
Pd. arrearages for Genius of liberty to Sep. 7. 1800 23/4.
Recd. of Dr. Everett further balance 2.D.
Note I have allowed him in his account 8.D. for Jas. Dinsmore.
Note also Mr. Short’s taxes included in my paiment to Garret and to be charged.
Exp. at Charlottesville 1/.
Pd. sm. exp. 1.D.
5. Pd. small exp. 1.85.
Recd. of Bernard Franklin for nails 3.75 pd. small exp. 3.D.
6. Recd. of Peter Carr 75.D. to be forwarded to Steph. T. Mason. Note I am to add to it 10.D. for myself 10.D. for W. C. Nicholas & 5.D. for Mr. Madison.
7. Paid Mrs. Key 50.D. in full of the balance due for corn furnishd. in 99.
9. Pd. sm. exp. .875.
10. Drew on John Barnes in favr. Stes. Thomps. Mason for 100.D. viz. 75.D. for so much recd. from P. Carr ante 6th. 10.D. for myself 10 D. for W. C. Nicholas & 5.D. for Mr. Madison, to be charged accordingly.
Small exp. .85.
11. Pd. John Fagg £6–10 which with 89 D. (of the 100.D. ante Jan. 13.) makes 4.£ a thousand for his sawing. He demands more for flooring plank. We are to arbitrate it. Note the other 11.D. of the 100. ante are to be charged to Richardson.
Aug. 12. Pd. sm. exp. .40.
13. Recd. of Wm. Page 26/3 in full of rent at Shadwell last year.
Pd. sm. exp. 2.75.
Pd. Sm. exp. 4.
 
14. Settled with John Perry pd. him on acct. 10.D.
Recd. from Thos. Jones for nails 14/.
Gave Stanley Johnson ord. on Higginbotham for 7.D. in part for bringing up nail rod &c.
16. Pd. postage 2/6.
17. Insured my houses with Mr. Ast as follows47
estimatd. insured premium
Dwelling house   5000 .D.   4000 .  60 
Outchamber 400 320 4. 8
Stone house 300 240 3. 6
Joiner’s shop 400 320 9. 6
Stable 200 160 5. 8
6300 5040 83. 8
 exp.  7. 5
91. 3
Pd. sm. exp. 4.28.
Assumed to  Yancey Mrs. Key’s & Walter Key’s taxes 28.64 D.
23. Pd. sm. exp. 2.7. 24. Do. 3/. 27. Do. .89.
Census of my family now given in
Males.  free whites  under 10.  2.  females. do.  2  = 4
of  10. &  under 16. 1. 0 1
16. & under 26. 3. 1 4
26 & under 45. 1. 0 1
45. & upwards 1 0 1
all other free persons 0
slaves 93
104
 
26. Shepherd48 begins to make shoes.
28. Sm. exp. 1.875. 30. Do. 1.1—31. Do. .78.
Sep. 1. Assumd. to C. Wingfield for John Perry 40.D. to be pd. by Colo. Bell.
Arbitrated with J. Fagg the price of the flooring plank he has sawed for me ante Aug. 11. I am awarded to pay him £6. pr. M for all prime plank laid in the floors & 1d. a foot for the rest. There was of the former only what laid the North square room below.
Gave Colo. Bell directions to pay Wm. Mickie for me £4–4–2½ for walnut plank in full.
Recd. of J. Kinsolving 11/ in full of our old acct.
2. Recd. of T. W. Lewis for nails 4.D.
4. Pd. John H. Buck on account 20/ still owe him 48/.
Recd. from Joel Yancey 100.D. to be repaid in Richmd.
5. Drew on J. Barnes in favor Gibson & Jefferson 200.D.
6. Pd. Higginbotham for Joseph Brand for oats &c. 19 D.
Repd. do. the 7.D. ante Aug. 14.
Pd. sm. exp. .35.
7. Pd. sm. exp. 1.50.
8. Do. 1.30 gave Fred. Gauder ord. on T. Carr for Colo. Bell £7–14–2¾ of which 10/11 is for Reuben Perry.
Gave TMR’s Jamey 1.D.—pd. Sm. exp. 4.D.
Tobo. made in 1799. & now on hand unsold.
       Poplar Forest. Monticello.
nett  nett  nett
No. 36. 150.  1425  No.  140. 150. 1281  W.P.49 No.  172. 120. 1303
37. 150. 1472 141. 150. 1260  T.I. 582. 139. 1461
73. 150. 1442 156. 150. 1558 583. 140. 1483
86. 150. 1547 176. 140. 1246 584. 138. 1512
87. 150. 1594 177. 140. 1295 585. 141. 1409
88. 150. 1480 197. 150. 1328 586. 143. 1507
91. 150. 1520 199. 150. 1480 587. 137. 1463
 101. 150. 1418 200. 150. 1560 588. 138. 1485
102. 150. 1506 204. 150. 1430 795.  135.  1650 *
103. 130. 1472 205.  150.  1380 13,273
107. 150. 1466 30,160 30,160
43,433
902 *I.W.E.
42,531  T.I.
Sep. 9. Pd. sm. exp. 1.20—10. Do. 7/.
 
Pd. Stanley Johnson for bringing nail rod &c. (ante Aug. 14.) in full £9–1–3.
13. Gave a servt. for catching horse 1/6.
14. Pd. sm. exp. 16/1½.
15. Gave in charity 5.D.
Recd. from Joel Yancey 70.D. to be repd. in Richmd.
Pd. Joseph Irvin for Mrs. Key 40.32.
Pd.  Fitz for bringing up codfish &c. 7/6.
Pd. James Dudley attendance as a witness ads. Johnson 2.D.
Pd. sm. exp. .675.
18. Recd. from Colo. J. Coles in full for nails 50/6.
Sent 44.53 D. to Jas. Madison junr. the balance of money recd. for him from Barnes after deducting nail acct.
Recd. from Colo. W. C. Nicholas the 10.D. ante Aug. 10.
Pd. D. Carr 8.D. & James Barber50 8.D. as my attornies in the two suits v. Sneed & Johnson.
19.
Wrote to G. Jefferson to pay for me as follows D.
to Alexr. Garrett  for my taxes tickets &c. St. Anne’s  105. 71
for Pace for a cow 20.
for Gabriel Lilly. ordr. Reuben Perry 34. 83
160. 54
to Joel Yancey  for taxes, tickets &c. Fredsville.     11. 15
for W. Davenport’s do. 21. 19
for Mrs. Key’s do. 28. 64
for James Key 7.
for John H. Buck 26. 33
for cash ante Sep. 4. 15. 170.
264. 31
20. Sent John Perry by Jesse Perry 20.D.
21. Small exp. 19/9.
Settled with Frank for a kiln in Dec. 30 half dimes, for one in March 50. do. There is one of June still to settle.
Gave a travelling man an order on Higginbotham for 5.D. charity.
Sep. 22. Pd. sm. exp. .30.
23. Charge William Faris 44. ℔ wool in the dirt @ 1/3.
25. Pd. small exp. 1.30.
 
26. Wrote to John Barnes on rect. of my quarter salary now becoming due to remit as follows
   to Roberts & Jones for nail rod &c. of July    406. 62
to Henry Sheaff of Philadelphia for wine 154. 70
to Gibson & Jefferson on account 680.
1241. 32
Recd. from T. Carr for Colo. Bell 10.D.
Pd. sm. exp. .45—27. Do. 1.35—28. Do. .45—29. Do. .25.
29. Recd. from T. Carr for Colo. Bell 5.D.
30. Sent Catlett for butter in full 2.D.
Sent Stepney for butter 2.D.
Recd. from N. M. Lewis for nails 26.D.
Pd. him for surveying the fields of W. Short’s land 16.D.
Pd. John Holmes51 on acct. 10.D. and gave him a note of credit to Higginbotham.
Oct. 2. Recd. from  Brenford for nails 32/11.
3. Pd. small exp. 1/6—5. Do. 16/.
6. Pd. Frank on acct. 1.D. sm. xp. .40 Stepney butter 1.
7. Sm. xp. 2.5.
8. Expences at Albemarle old C. H.52 1.D.
10. Ferrge. &c. at do. 1.1.
11. Lent my brother 6.5.
12. Pd. sm. exp. 2.20.
14. Bought 300. barr. corn of J. Watson to be recieved in all March & paid for @ 2.D. by middle April.
Recd. of Joseph Price £3–5–1¾ in full of his rent for 1799 for which credit W. Short.
Recd. of Chas. Lively £7–4 in part do. Credit do.
Paid Reuben Perry 20.D.
17. Pd. small exp. 7/9.
19. Pd. do. 4. Doll.—22. Do. 1/6.
23. Directed G. Jefferson to pay Callendar53 50.D.
 
Pd. Mr. Holmes 2.D.
24. Borrowed of Higginbotham 10.D. pd. sm. xp. 1/6.
27. Gave vales at Warren 1.D.
Warminster dinner 1.D.
28. Martin’s breakfast &c. 1.D.
Lynchburg ferrge. 3/.
Nov. 1. Lynchburg mending chair 9d. oats 2/ ferrge. 3/.
2. New Glasgow. dinnr. lodgg. &c. at Garland’s54 3.25.
Edmunds’s breakfast 3/9 Jopling’s dinner 4/6.
3. Vales at Colo. Cole’s 3/.
Pd. John Peyton for J. H. Buck in full for machine 48/8.
4. Recd. of Chas. Lively for rent of 99. in full £3–3–6. Credit W. Short.
Recd. of Jas. P. Cocke for stove &c. balance in full £3–11–6.
Pd. Small exp. 4.D. pd. Frederic Gauder in part 17.D.
Nov. 8. Repd. Mr. Trist for a pamphlet & postage 1.D.
9. Pd. R. Richardson 1.D. sm. exp. 3/7½.
11. Recd. of Nimrod Branham for nails 3.D.
12. Recd. by the hands of R. Richardson from James Yardley for nails £9–1–2.
Recd. by do. from Benjamin Richards for nails on acct. 5–18–10.
13. On statement of T. Bell’s acct. he owes me £30–14–2¾.
Pd. Frederic Gauder in full for meat 43/6.
Pd. the Revd. Mr. White55 for performg. funeral service 4.D.
On a settlement with George Haden, I am indebted to him £31–1–9 for leather, fowls, butter &c. furnished me which sum I am to pay for him to Mr. Short. Recd. from him the balance of 22/5 which pays up his rent to the end of 1799. Note his rent for 1799. was cash *£12–1–6 and tobo. £5–9–4½ = £17–10–10½. For the preceding years it was £12.—*This is a mistake. It was but £8–15–6. for 99. The difference therefore £3–6 which was overpd. is to go towards his rent of 1800.
15. On settlement with Wm. Davenport for sawing, I am this day in his debt £65–2–10½.
16. Gave Phill for expences with Mrs. Marks 1.D.
Pd. sm. exp. .60.
 
17. Pd. do. 1.D.
Recd. from Robert Terril in part of his rent56 for 98. 24.D.
18. Note 133½ bush. of wheat were sown for Mr. Craven57 of which 12 were furnished by himself to be returned immedly. in kind.
On settlement of accounts with Thos. W. Lewis, old & new, he paid me the balance of £6–6–8.
Pd. John Fagg in full 33/.
19. Pd. Younger Grady in full for meat £6–4–8.
20. Gave my note to J. Perry to pay Saml. Dyer for him £53. in Richmd. by Jan. 15.
Gave him a note also to Robert Terril for corn.
Sm. exp. 1.D.
21. Do. 7/4.
Settled with Reuben Perry. I owe him for all work to this day, exclusive of dome £20–6–9½—gave him a note to Robert Terril for either corn or pork.
Settled with Dr. Wardlaw balance due him 19/. I am to pay to Dr. Jackson for him 166.50 of which 100.D. is for W. Davenport, & the balance I may draw on him for.
22. Settled with Frank his kiln of June 38. half dimes. Pd. him 3.9 D. in full for this & the two settled ante Sep. 21. Note I had paid him 1.D. which had not been set down. He has just finished burning a kiln to be settled when I come home.
Pd. Tom for hops &c. 4.15.
Pd. Buck for wintering steer, advertisent. & 4. pr. screws by ord. on D. Higginbotham 5 D.
Mr. Higginbotham was to put into my hands for my sister Carr £50. to be invested in the funds. Not having the cash he agrees to pay it to my orders here, & I to advance the money for my sister. The preceding order is on this account.
Nov. 22. Pd. small exp. 27/.
Gave Jas. Dinsmore ord. on Higginbotham 20.D.
Pd. for Small exp. £3–12.
23. Gave Richardson ord. on T. Carr for £30–14–2¾ balce. due me from T. Bell’s estate (returned unpaid).
 
Gave John Holmes ord. on Mr. Higginbotham 20.D.
†Qu. Robert Gave Gabriel Lilly an order on †Richard Terrill for £43–1. balance of rent due to the end of this year exclusive of the tobo. rent for this year. Credit W. Short accdly. when it shall be recieved.
Gave Gabriel Lilly an order on Mr. Higginbotham for £17–8
 viz.  Thos. Walker  £2
Mrs. Sneed 2 –8
Kidd for plank  13 –0
17 –8
24. Drew ord. on D. Higginbotham in favr. Revd. M. Maury for 15.D. last year’s subscription.
Drew ord. on D. Higginbotham in favr. my sister Carr for 12½ D. about the half year’s interest of her £100.
Borrowed of J. W. Eppes 10.D. & gave him an order for the same on D. Higginbotham.
Recd. of J. W. Eppes 5.D. to pay Smith for his National intelligencer.
Pd. small exp. 8/3.
Gave Richard Richardson ord. on Higginbotham for 20 D.
Set out from Monticello for Washington.58
Pd. for corn at T. Walker’s mill59 .125.
25. Stevensburg. pd. dinner &c. 1.D.
26. Gave vales at Strode’s .25.
Shumake’s. pd. for oats .40.
27. Brown’s. pd. dinner lodging &c. 2.875 vales .25.
Centerville. pd. breakft. &c. 1.08.
Wren’s. oats .25.
Georgetown. ferrge. & ferrymen .625.
29.
Pd. Saml. H. Smith for a year’s paper  for myself 5.D.
for J. W. Eppes   5.D.
Pd. J. Lyon one year’s subscription for the Cabinet60 5.D.
 
Dec. 1. Gave Davy Bowles for attending me here 4.D. for expences back 9.08.
4. Driver .25.
6. Recd. of J. Barnes 20.725.
7. Gave in charity an order on J. Barnes for 5.D.
8. Pd. for books 3.75.
10. Gave Conrad & McMunn an order on J. Barnes for 100.D.
14. Gave James Lyon ord. on Jefferson & Gibson for 50.D. in loan.
Dec. 15. Recd. of J. Barnes 4.D. gave a driver .25.
16. Gave a driver .25.
18. Pd. for a book 3.D.
25. Gave a driver .25.
26. Pd. for a pamphlet .25.
28. Recd. of J. Barnes 65.D.
30. Recd. of J. Barnes 5.D. gave driver 1.D.
31. Gave Thomas 2.D.

12The Philadelphia Gazette and Universal Daily Advertiser was published by Samuel Relf and Andrew Brown. Although there is no previous mention in MB, TJ may have been subscribing to this Federalist daily since its first publication as the Federal Gazette in 1788 (Brigham, History, ii, 905, 911 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, No. 540 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

13TJ may not have previously acquired the first volume of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, which was published in 1771 before he was a member of the Society. He had received several copies of the second volume in 1786, the date of its publication (Sowerby, No. 3753 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

14Interest was not charged for the eight years of the Revolutionary War.

15English agriculturist Richard Parkinson (1748-1815) had been in the United States since 1798. TJ was on the list of subscribers for an expanded edition of Parkinson’s Experienced Farmer, first published in London in 1798 and Philadelphia in 1799 (see Parkinson, Of Turnip and Pea Fallows [Washington, D.C., 1801], Shaw-Shoemaker, No. 1093; Sowerby, No. 703 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

16English inventor John Isaac Hawkins (1772-1855), “a very ingenious, modest and poor young man,” had invented a portable upright piano, “the prettiest improvement in the Forte piano I have ever seen” (TJ to MJR, 11 Feb. 1800). TJ bought a five and a half octave model for $264. The instrument delighted the Monticello family on its arrival in June, but soon demonstrated an inability to stay in tune and was returned to its inventor for repair or exchange. There is no record that TJ ever received a substitute instrument. Closely associated with Charles Willson Peale, Hawkins also invented a physiognotrace and the polygraph before returning to England in 1803 (Cripe, Jefferson and Music, p. 55-7, 74-5; Bedini, Thinkers and Tinkers, p. 398, 505 description begins Silvio A. Bedini, Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science, New York, 1975 description ends ; Charles Coleman Sellers, Mr. Peale’s Museum [New York, 1980], p. 147, 153, 197-8).

17On 17 Dec. 1799 James Oeller’s hotel on Chestnut Street had been destroyed by a fire which had started in Ricketts’ Circus next door (Historic Philadelphia, p. 324 description begins Historic Philadelphia from the Founding until the Early Nineteenth Century, ed. Luther P. Eisenhart, Philadelphia, 1953 description ends ).

18TJ bought only the first two volumes of the four-volume Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, published in Philadelphia in 1800 (Sowerby, No. 1558 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

19 Journals of Congress (Philadelphia, 1800-1801), published by Richard Folwell (Evans, No. 38750). The first three of thirteen volumes covered the proceedings to 1 Jan. 1778. This may be No. 654 in Library Catalogue, 1829.

20 Philip Freneau had established the triweekly Time Piece in New York in Mch. 1797. He retired as editor in Mch. 1798 and was eventually succeeded by Irish playwright John Daly Burk (c. 1775-1808), whose arrest for seditious libel in July, before the passage of the Sedition Act, led to the demise of the newspaper by Sep. 1798. After two years in hiding until the change of administrations, Burk settled in Virginia and wrote its history, with the help of material lent by TJ (Brigham, History, i, 695-6 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Smith, Freedom’s Fetters, p. 204-220 description begins James Morton Smith, Freedom’s Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties, Ithaca, N.Y., 1956 description ends ; Sowerby, Nos. 464, 560 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

21James Lyon’s political fortnightly newspaper, Friend of the People, was published sporadically throughout 1800 in Richmond and then Georgetown (Brigham, History, i, 91, ii, 1140 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, No. 554 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ; TJ to George Jefferson, 21 Feb. 1800).

22TJ bought twenty copies of the Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly for the Dec. 1799 session, printed by James Carey in 1800. They dealt with the replies of other state legislatures to the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 (Carey invoice, 24 Feb. 1800, CSmH).

23TJ stepped in to save TMR’s Varina property in Henrico County by advancing the money for a mortgage payment to Leroy & Bayard which had become due (TJ to George Jefferson, 4, 9 Mch. 1800; Jefferson to TJ, 11 Mch. 1800; TJ to TMR, 7 May 1800; Gaines, Randolph, p. 37-8, 44 description begins William H. Gaines, Jr., Thomas Mann Randolph, Jefferson’s Son-in-Law, Baton Rouge, La., 1966 description ends ).

24 William Young was a shoemaker at 24 Chestnut Street (Phila. Dir. 1799 description begins Philadelphia Directory, issued annually with varying imprints description ends ).

25Possibly separate numbers of William Birch’s prints of Philadelphia (see note 30 below).

26The American Mercury was a Republican weekly published by Elisha Babcock in Hartford, Conn. (Brigham, History, i, 19 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ). Connecticut Republican Gideon Granger (1767-1822) was appointed Postmaster-General by TJ in 1801.

27TJ may have visited the gallery of Edward Savage (1761-1817) at 70 South Fourth Street. Here were displayed European paintings and prints and some of Savage’s own “American Historical Paintings taken from the most interesting subjects” (Philadelphia Aurora. General Advertiser, 4 Apr. 1800). It was probably about this time that TJ sat for Savage’s lost portrait (Bush, Life Portraits, p. 58-61 description begins Alfred L. Bush, “The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson,” Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View, ed. William Howard Adams, Washington, D.C., 1976 description ends ).

28 Robert Proud, The History of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1797-1798; Sowerby, No. 460 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

29 Thomas Herty, A Digest of the Laws of the United States of America (Baltimore, 1800). This, with the second volume purchased 6 Oct. 1802, is No. 589 in the Library Catalogue, 1829 description begins Catalogue: President Jefferson’s Library, Washington, D.C., 1829 description ends (Evans, No. 37613 description begins Charles Evans, comp., American Bibliography, Chicago, 1903-1955 description ends ; Herty to TJ, 28 Dec. 1800).

30TJ was a subscriber to William Russell Birch, The City of Philadelphia, which was published 31 Dec. 1800. It contained a map and twenty-seven engraved views of Philadelphia and cost $28.00 unbound and $41.50 if the plates were colored. According to Birch, TJ kept the book open on a sofa in the President’s House visiting room during his presidency (Martin P. Snyder, “William Birch: His Philadelphia Views,” PMHB, lxxiii [1949], 271-315; Sowerby, No. 4161 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

31 John Gifford (i.e. John Richards Greene), The History of France (Philadelphia, 1796-1798), 4 vols., which included William Duane’s continuation of the history from 1793 (Evans, Nos. 30489, 32189-90, 33796 description begins Charles Evans, comp., American Bibliography, Chicago, 1903-1955 description ends ).

32McAllister & Matthews made and sold spectacles, hardware, whips, and canes at 50 Chestnut Street. TJ continued to buy spectacles from John McAllister after the partnership dissolved in 1803 (Harrold E. Gillingham, “Old Business Cards of Philadelphia,” PMHB, liii [1929], 218-20).

33 John Letchworth, one of Philadelphia’s leading makers of Windsor furniture, made these double-rail side chairs, which were shipped to Monticello. TJ’s sketch of one, virtually identical with one of Letchworth’s chairs illustrated in Hornor, Philadelphia Furniture, plate No. 470, is on his letter to George Jefferson, 19 July 1800 description begins William M. Hornor, A History of Philadelphia Furniture, Philadelphia, 1935 description ends ).

34TJ subscribed for two years to the Boston Constitutional Telegraphe, a Republican semiweekly established in 1799 by Samuel S. Parker and published after Oct. 1800 by John S. Lillie (Brigham, History, i, 280 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, No. 590 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

35TJ was a subscriber to the Palladium: A Literary and Political Weekly Repository, established by William Hunter and William H. Beaumont in Frankfort, Ky., in 1798 (Brigham, History, i, 153-4 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, No. 599 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

36TJ and William Hamilton of the Woodlands had resumed their botanical conversations in April after a three-year hiatus, the unintentional consequence of the policy TJ adopted in the partisan atmosphere of 1797 of seeing socially only those who initiated contact with him (TJ to Hamilton, 22 Apr. 1800).

37This was the first of three life portraits of TJ by Gilbert Stuart. TJ probably sat for it in Stuart’s Germantown studio in early May. Despite twenty years of negotiation TJ never received this lost portrait (Bush, Life Portraits, p. 61-4 description begins Alfred L. Bush, “The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson,” Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View, ed. William Howard Adams, Washington, D.C., 1976 description ends ; David Meschutt, “Gilbert Stuart’s Portraits of Thomas Jefferson,” The American Art Journal, xiii [1981], 2-16).

38This may have been a further contribution to James T. Callender, on whose behalf Stevens Thomson Mason once applied, according to TJ’s letter to James Monroe, 15 July 1802. Or, it may have been TJ’s first contribution to a subscription Mason was raising to pay the fines of other defendants under the Sedition Act. Charles Holt of the Bee had been convicted on 12 Apr. and Thomas Cooper on 24 Apr. (Smith, Freedom’s Fetters, p. 307-333, 373-84 description begins James Morton Smith, Freedom’s Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties, Ithaca, N.Y., 1956 description ends ; Mason to TJ, 11 July 1800; MB 10 Aug. 1800).

39 Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837), Republican congressman from North Carolina and speaker of the House of Representatives from 1801 to 1807, carried TJ’s subscription money for the Raleigh Register, a Republican weekly established by Joseph Gales in Oct. 1799 (Brigham, History, ii, 774-5 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, No. 586 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

40Half Way House was about ten miles south of Richmond in Chesterfield County (Böÿe, Map of Virginia description begins Herman Böÿe, Map of the State of Virginia, 1825, corrected 1859, repr. in E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra, A Description of the Country: Virginia Cartographers and Their Maps, 1607-1881, Richmond, 1975 description ends ).

41 Osborne’s, about thirteen miles south of Richmond in Chesterfield County, was the nearest point on the stage route to Mont Blanco, the residence of JWE and MJE. Here, the first stop in a round of family visits, TJ was met by Davy Bowles and his own carriage and horses. He and his daughter Maria then visited his recently widowed sister Mary J. Bolling at Chestnut Grove and the Francis Eppeses at Eppington before continuing their journey to Monticello (Böÿe, Map of Virginia description begins Herman Böÿe, Map of the State of Virginia, 1825, corrected 1859, repr. in E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra, A Description of the Country: Virginia Cartographers and Their Maps, 1607-1881, Richmond, 1975 description ends ; JWE to TJ, 22 Apr. 1800; TJ to MJR, 22 Apr. 1800).

42 Davy Bowles, at this time a resident of Milton, was periodically engaged to carry out the duties formerly performed by TJ’s deceased coachman Jupiter on journeys to the federal capital (TJ to Richard Richardson, 31 Mch. 1800).

43 Gabriel Lilly was Monticello overseer from 1800 to 1805, at an annual salary of £50, with an additional £10 for superintending the nailery. TJ found him, despite his illiteracy, a very able and reliable manager; in 1805, when Lilly demanded a wage of £100, TJ reluctantly replaced him. For good descriptions of a Monticello overseer’s duties in this period when most of TJ’s farming lands were leased, see TJ’s letters of 5 June 1805 to W. C. Nicholas and John Strode.

44 Reuben Perry’s brother John M. Perry worked as a carpenter on TJ’s mills, the Monticello house and its outbuildings, and Poplar Forest from 1800 to 1811. He leased Shadwell in 1802 and 1803. Later one of Albemarle County’s leading citizens, Perry served as a magistrate, assembled large landholdings, and was the contractor for much of the building of the University of Virginia (Woods, Albemarle, p. 294-5 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ; Bruce, University of Virginia, i, 171-2 description begins Philip A. Bruce, History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919, New York, 1920-1922, 5 vols. description ends ).

45Correctly $160.25. Perhaps TJ considered the $3.70 as $3.07 when adding. The first direct tax ever imposed by the federal government had been enacted on 14 July 1798 to raise two million dollars during a period when war seemed probable. By taxing land and slaves but not other forms of property, this tax, whose “disgusting particularities” angered TJ, was in his opinion unfair to the southern states. All internal and direct taxes were abolished during TJ’s administration (U.S. Statutes at Large, i, 597-604, ii, 148-50 description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America from the Organization of the Government in 1789 to March 3, 1845, ed. Richard Peters, Boston, 1848, 8 vols. description ends ; TJ to Edmund Pendleton, 29 Jan. 1799).

The Albemarle County lands on which TJ paid federal tax were: the 4,564 acres which included Monticello, Montalto, Tufton, Shadwell, Lego, Pantops, and the Southwest Mountain tract; the 222-acre Ingraham’s tract; the 196 acres on Henderson’s Creek; the 400-acre Hardware limestone tract (of which TJ owned a one-sixth share); the 400-acre Pouncey’s tract; and the 4-acre Limestone Creek tract (MB 13 Nov. 1772, legal notations, 5 Apr. 1774, cash accounts, 2 Aug. 1778, 24 Sep. 1801).

46Thus in MS.

47The Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, the first fire insurance company in the south, was founded in Richmond by William Frederick Ast in 1795. TJ, who had considered insuring his buildings in 1796, refrained from participating until some of his objections to the plan were removed by amendments (TJ to Ast, [17] Sep. 1799; Ast to TJ, 10 May 1800). At this time the premiums, which varied according to building construction and location and averaged three percent of the property value, were to be paid only once. Periodic surcharges were soon found necessary, however, and annual premiums were instituted by 1809, when TJ began paying for the Monticello houses at the yearly rate of $12.84. Except for a brief cancellation in 1820, TJ maintained his policies with the Society until at least 1823 (MB 20 Apr. 1820). TJ’s declaration, still in the Society’s archives in Richmond, is reproduced in Kimball, TJ Architect description begins Fiske Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, 1916, repr. New York, 1968 description ends , fig. 137, and the five policies, dated 4 Aug. 1801, are in MHi. The “Outchamber” is the south pavilion and the “Stone house,” then a workmen’s residence, is the structure presently known as the weaver’s cottage.

48TJ’s slave Shepherd (b. 1782), son of Doll, had been a nailer before learning the shoemaking trade.

49Initials on this chart stand for William Page, Thomas Jefferson, and John Wayles Eppes.

50TJ’s friend and political associate James Barbour (1775-1842) of Orange County was at this time an attorney and member of the state legislature. His house at Barboursville, six miles west of present Gordonsville and now a ruin, was built according to a design TJ provided in 1817 (Kimball, TJ Architect, p. 186 description begins Fiske Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, 1916, repr. New York, 1968 description ends ).

51 John Holmes, a skilled housejoiner, had been engaged by Daniel Trump in Philadelphia to work on remodeling the Monticello house. He died as a result of a fall from a scaffold there on 14 Jan. 1801 (TJ to Trump, 21 Feb. 1801; MB 22 Jan. 1801).

52Albemarle Old Courthouse, present Scottsville. Charlottesville became the Albemarle County seat in 1762.

53TJ considered this payment, like that of 6 Sep. 1799, as a charity in the form of a subscription for fifty copies of the second volume of The Prospect Before Us (TJ to George Jefferson, 24 Oct. 1800). Callender was in Richmond jail, convicted 3 June 1800 of seditious libel for the first volume of the Prospect. As the defendant in the only southern trial under the Sedition Act of 1798 and as the victim of Justice Samuel Chase’s partisan conduct, Callender became a prominent Republican martyr in this politically tempestuous election year (Smith, Freedom’s Fetters, p. 334-58 description begins James Morton Smith, Freedom’s Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties, Ithaca, N.Y., 1956 description ends ).

54 David and James Garland kept an ordinary in New Glasgow, Amherst County. Charles Edmunds’ ordinary was in present Nelson County (Amherst County Personal Property List, 1800, Vi). TJ had evidently been visiting Poplar Forest.

55It is not known at whose funeral Rev. Hugh White (d. 1827), a Baptist minister, officiated (Woods, Albemarle, p. 178, 401 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ).

56 Robert Terrell was renting some of William Short’s land (see MB 23 Nov. 1800).

57In 1798 when TJ decided he was “not fit to be a farmer” using slave labor, he asked Stevens Thomson Mason to look out for tenants for his farms. As a result John H. Craven (d. 1845) came from Loudoun County and leased 500 acres of Tufton and Monticello and 45 slaves at an annual rent of £350 from Aug. 1800 until 1809. He settled in Albemarle County and accumulated large landholdings (TJ to Mason, 23 Nov. 1798, 27 Oct. 1799; Betts, Farm Book, p. 168-71 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Princeton, N.J., 1953 description ends ; Woods, Albemarle, p. 173-4 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ).

58TJ made the first of many journeys to the new national capital to carry out his final duties as presiding officer of the Senate. The outcome of the presidential election was then in doubt and TJ thought it best to arrive after President Adams’ address to the joint session of Congress. He went directly to Conrad and McMunn’s boarding house at the corner of New Jersey Avenue and C Street, close to the Capitol, and remained there until he moved into the President’s House on 19 Mch. 1801 (Malone, Jefferson, iii, 491-2 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ).

59The grist mill built in 1783 by Thomas Walker, Jr., in northeastern Albemarle County still stands on State Route 231 a few miles southwest of present Gordonsville.

60 The Cabinet was a daily newspaper established by James Lyon in Aug. 1800 at Georgetown and published there until at least Mch. 1801. It was revived briefly after merging with Lyon’s National Magazine in late 1801 (Brigham, History, i, 87 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, No. 553 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

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