Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, page 145

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Communication: TJs_FarmBook
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Author Thomas Jefferson
Document Type Communication: TJs_FarmBook
Date Dec. 1813-21 July 1814
Place of Origin Monticello
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shirts plains woolen blankt hats bed socks
shirting
all Cotton		 dble cloth
wool & cotton		 single cloth
wool & cotton		 shirting
Cotton & thread
41. men. 287. yds 226. yds
32. women 224. 160.
61. children 137 yds 180 yds
134. 511 386 137. 180 = 1214.
cotton ℔ wool ℔ thread ℔
511. yds, all cotton 256
386. cotton & wool dble 103 206
137. dosingle 36 54
180. cotton & thread 45 45
440 260 45
Summer clothes. all cotton
42 men @ 2½ yds = 105
21 women @ 3. yds = 63 ℔
168 yds requirg 84 cotton

1814. Feb. 5. a kiln of 27. cords yields 605 b = 22½ b. to ye cord.

Feb. 5. ordered distribution of 147. b. shipstuff & 252. b. bran now due me at the mill as follows
b. bran b. shipst.
mr Ballard 9. + 12 ⎫
⎪
⎬
⎪
⎭		 weekly
Ham 7. 10
Bacon 6. 8. for the plantation.
Jerry 2. for the house
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the bran will thus last 10. weeks

the shipstuff 5. weeks, by which time we shall have a screw to crush & grind corn & cobs together.
Tufton Lego Monto Total
wheat sowed autumn 13. 260 109 50 419. wheat
spring 14. 40 50 20 110 oats
rye 50 rye
June 27. begun wheat harvest
July 15. finish it.
21. finished rye & oats
Nace \ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ 1
Nance \ 7 ✓ 5 ✓ 1 ✓ 1
Nancy \ 7 ✓ 2 ✓ 3
Nanny. Bagw’s 0 5 ✓ 4 ✓ 1
Ned. \ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½
Janey \ 7 ✓ 2 ✓ 3
Moses 3 4 ✓ 3¼ ✓ ⎫
⎭		 1
Sucky 6 3 ✓ 2½
Ned. junr ✓ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ 1 ✓
Peter Hemings. \ 7 ✓ 5½ ✓ 1
Philip \ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ 1 ✓
Rachael \ 7 ✓ 2 ✓ 3 ✓ 1 ✓ 1
Eliza 5 3⅓ ✓ 2¾ ✓ ⎫
⎭		 1
Ellen 8 2⅓ ✓ 2
Sally 7 5
Harriet 1 4⅔ 3¾
Madison 5 3⅓ 2¾
Eston 8 2⅓ 2
Sanco \ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ 1
Scilla \ 7 ✓ 2 ✓ 3 ✓ 1
Jamy 11. 1⅓ ✓ 1¼
d Fanny 13
Shepherd ✓ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ 1 ✓
Solomon. ✓ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ 1 ✓ 1 ✓
Sucky \ 7 ✓ 2 ✓ 3 ✓ 1 ✓ 1
Thenia 93. \ 7 ✓ 2 ✓ 3
Thrimston. 99 \ 5⅓ ✓ 2¼ ✓ 2 ✓ 1
Wormly \ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½
Ursula 7 5
Joe 5 3⅓ 2¾
Anne 7 2⅔ 2¼
Dolly 9 2 1¾ ✓ ⎫
⎭		 1
Cornelius 11 1⅓ 1¼
Thomas 13
hired.
Lewis. Bacon’s ✓ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ ✓ 1
Peter ✓ 7 ✓ 3 ✓ 2½ ✓ ✓ 1
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