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Memoranda book

Description: Autograph notes and memoranda written on blank leaves of the Virginia Almanack for 1775. Includes legal and political notes and cash accounts that Jefferson kept in 1775 when he attended Second and Third Virginia Conventions in Richmond and traveled to Philadelphia to attend the Second Continental Congress. Also present is an account of the murder of the family of Mingo leader Logan in 1774, later published in Notes on the State of Virginia. (118 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1775 January 2-December 31
Call number: HM 590
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from American Art Association, 1920, 1921.

Thomas Jefferson memoranda on Virginia history

Manuscripts

Autograph manuscript. Includes list of local Native American tribes with additional statistics and information about location and alliances; notes also contain dates of historic events in Virginia. (4 pages)

HM 1024

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Surveying memoranda

Manuscripts

Autograph notes, pen and ink. Primarily calculations and measurements for various surveys. (5 pages)

HM 9382 (1-5)

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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

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Floor plans for Virginia capitol

Manuscripts

Autograph manuscript, pen and ink. For first and second stories of Virginia capitol, Richmond. A separate Fiske Kimball note on these drawings lists 1785 as a possible date. (2 pages)

HM 9373

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Memoranda on the President's House, Washington, D.C

Manuscripts

Autograph notes. (2 pages)

HM 9402

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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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