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    Thomas Jefferson accounts

    Manuscripts

    Autograph documents. Jefferson accounts with Bank of the U.S., Columbia Bank, John Barnes, William Short, Tadeusz Kościuszko and others. Items include notes, estimates, personal expenses, account balances. (46 items)

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    Account book

    Manuscripts

    Autograph manuscript. Primarily accounts for labor and services, food, clothing and other household expenses with Richard Sorrel, William Beck, George Dudley, the estates of Peter Jefferson, Bathurst Shelton, Dabney Carr and John Wayles, members of the Jefferson family and others. Volume also includes two pages of "Personal stock for Lands and slaves sold" and "By Lands and slaves Bought" which mention enslaved persons Myrtilla, Sandy, Ursula, George, Bagwell, and a second George. These entries are copies, with some variations, of account balances titled "Personal estate in account" and "with Real estate" in Jefferson's account and fee book, 1767-1794 (HM 836). (96 pages)

    HM 5572

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    John Meer, Philadelphia, letter to Thomas Jefferson

    Manuscripts

    Autograph letter signed; endorsed by Jefferson. Includes enclosure of sample graphic plate for bank notes. (2 pages)

    HM 9051

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    Daybook of Étienne Lemaire market accounts

    Manuscripts

    Household accounts for the White House. Bulk in hand of Lemaire; monthly balances in hand of Jefferson. The ledger containing Lemaire's accounts of the shopping done for Jefferson's President's House (White House) between 1806 and 1809, including wine and provisions purchased for formal occasions. Jefferson signed the accounts monthly. Lemaire's daily accounts start in 1806—the 1805 date is for totals brought forward by Jefferson on the first page. (224 pages)

    HM 1253

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    John Barnes, Washington, D.C., in account with Thomas Jefferson

    Manuscripts

    Autograph document; endorsed by Jefferson. (13 pages)

    HM 5972

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    Account and fee book

    Manuscripts

    Autograph manuscript signed. Volume contains accounts of legal fees due with a chronological arrangement and alphabetical index in back. Volume also includes account balances titled "Personal estate in account" and "with Real estate" which are copies, with some variations, of "Personal stock for Lands and slaves sold" and "By Lands and slaves Bought" in Jefferson's account book, 1764-1779 (HM 5572). These pages mention enslaved persons Myrtilla, Sandy, Ursula, George, Bagwell, a second George, and Waggoner Phill. Also present in the volume are accounts for goods, services, rent, travel and other expenses with Joseph Neilson, Joseph Anderson, John Day, John Brewer, Will Beck, Isaac Jackson, the Treasury of Virginia, the Wine Company, Philip Mazzei, the Albemarle Salt company, William Rice, Stephen Willis, Anthony Giannini, the estate of Peter Jefferson and various Jefferson family members, Dabney Carr, the estate of Bathurst Skelton, and others. Some labor expenses listed include enslaved labor; William Rice's account, for example, mentions stonecutting work by Jupiter Evans ("18 days work of Jupiter on Shelby's tombstone"). Volume also contains "Statement of my debts when I went to Europe" and balance accounts for 1791 and 1794. Some accounts in this volume duplicate listings in the 1764-1779 account book (HM 5572). A few pages have penciled sketches of landscapes and houses. (373 pages)

    HM 836