Monticello Household Account Book, page 16

July
1 11 pewter dishes 2 doz. pewter plates 6 deep ditt
6 old shallow ditt & 5 old dishes 12 water plates
13 opened a barrel of flour
14 gave old Jean a suit of cloths & 3 aprons
made 3 doz candles made 6 crocus bags
Aug: 13 opened a barrel of flour
14 a killed
15 a shoat killed & broke 2 loaves of sugar
Sep 3 bought 7 of buter from mrs Reynolds
10 bought 3 qurt of beef
Oct 1 bought a put of butter weighed 5
8 bought a qurt of mutton
22 bought half a beef & half a mutton
23 bought 7 of butter of mrs wallice
24 bought 7 of hops with an old shirt
25 bought 5 of butter of mrs Reynolds
26 bought a qur of beef
Nov. 1 a shoat killed
7 bought 6 of butter of mrs Reynolds
20 2 hogs killed for pork a beef killed kept half
a pot & cag of butter came from Bedford pot weighed
30 & cag 80
Manuscript (Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Ser. 7, Volume 1: Household Accounts and Notes of Virginia Court Legal Cases. Scan available online here.

Source Information

Author Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
Date 1 July 1774-20 Nov. 1774
Place of Origin Monticello
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