1Cash Accounts, February 1766 (Washington Papers)
To Do of Do for Hemp brakesA hemp brake was an instrument for beating and crushing hemp.
2Memorandum Books, 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
...point had a hominy beater and a hemp brake attached to its works, operated intermittently...
3James McKinney to Thomas Jefferson, 23 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] hemp; brake [index entry]
4James McKinney’s Description of a Hemp Brake, [ca. 28 August 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
...2 Above with the Same flare & rake as hemp brakes commonly worked by hand—To explain myself...
5Thomas Jefferson to George Fleming, 29 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] Fleming, George; and TJ’s hemp-brake design [index entry]
6George Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] Fleming, George; and TJ’s hemp-brake design [index entry]
7Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 8 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
agriculture; hemp brake [index entry] hemp; brake [index entry]