Statement of Account with Polkinhorn & Hall, 12 March 1805

Statement of Account with Polkinhorn & Hall

Geo. Town Columa.

Mr. T. Jefferson P.U.S.

	To Polkinhorn & Hall	Dr.
1804		$	cts
Novr. 28th	two girth straps to a saddle		.37½
	buckle to a girth		.12½
Decbr. 8th	half rein to a bridle		.31
	Cow hide whip		.20
1805
Januy 9	Stable halter with 2 reins	1	.75
17	two girth straps to a saddle		.37½
22	Thong to a whip & repairg halter		.50
	silk lash to a whip		.12½
26	Strap to a circingle		.25
March 6th	Pair best girths 1$ Circingle 1$.	2	.
10	New pad to a saddle 2$ stuff 1 ditto ^50/100	2	.50
	fixing loops for valiece		.37½
	two tuggs to a britchen, & loops		.87½
	tongue to a buckle & sewing in the same		.37½
	Cow hide whip		.20
	6 luggage straps 1 Inch wide 5 foot long @ ^75/100 pr pair	2	.25
	6 ditto do. 1¼ In wide 5. foot 6 In long @ $1 pr pr	3	.
	4 smaller do.	1	.
		$16	.58½
12th	A Circingle 1$. whip lash ^18½/100	1	.18½
	Total	$17	.77

March 12th. 1805. Received payment in full to date.

Polkinhorn & Hall

RC (MHi); on verso: “Mr. Jefferson wth Polkinn & Hall”; endorsed by TJ: “Polkinhorn & Hall. 17.77 May 10. 05. pd by check on bk US.”

Henry Polkinhorn was a saddler and harness maker from whose Alexandria firm TJ made purchases in 1801. After his partnership with Richard Andrews dissolved, Polkinhorn in November 1803 took two nephews into business, William Hall in Georgetown and Richard M. Hall in Baltimore. The Georgetown partnership of Polkinhorn & Hall dissolved by mutual consent on 1 Oct. 1805 (Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser, 5 Apr. 1802; Washington Federalist, 28 Nov. 1803; National Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 1805; Vol. 36:688, 689).

Circingle: surcingle. valiece: valise. britchen: breeching.

payment in full: according to his financial memoranda, on 7 May TJ gave Polkinhorn & Hall an order on the Bank of the United States for $17.77 on “their acct. for sadlery” (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 , 2:1153).

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Title: Statement of Account with Polkinhorn & Hall, 12 March 1805
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Date: 12 March 1805

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Cite as: “Statement of Account with Polkinhorn & Hall, 12 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0042. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 37–38.]