Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from James Jackson, 1 March 1805

From James Jackson

Friday 1st March 1805

Genl Jackson begs leave to remind the President of the United States of the bill drawn on him for $194—some Cents and given the president by the General last saturday—as the hurry of the session and no doubt increased business of the president may tend to prevent attention to such small matters without improper interruption

The General would as soon receive the money as the order on the branch bank of Savannah

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Mch. and so recorded in SJL.

The bill was for a butt of dry Paxarete wine ordered from Joseph Yznardi, Sr. It ended up in the hands of a Savannah mercantile firm, which signed it over to Jackson. After drawing on John Barnes for $200, TJ paid Jackson on 2 Mch. (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1146; Yznardi, Sr., to TJ, 14 Sep. 1804).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from James Jackson, 1 March 1805
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    Jackson, James
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    1 March 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from James Jackson, 1 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0613. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 603.]

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