Exceptional manuscript written in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, unsigned, one page, 7.75 x 10, August 31, 1790. Secretary of State Jefferson inventories his goods bound for Monticello as the new American government moves from New York to Philadelphia, in full: “No 1. Paper press. 26.I. Cube. 10 cub. Feet / 2. Pembroke tables. 36.I. 26.I. 31.I. 15 ½ [cubic feet] / 3. Press. under part. 57.I. 26.I. 27.I. 23 ¼ / 4. [Press] upper part. 58.I. 56.I. 18.I. 34 ½ / 5. Side board. 64.I. 42.I. 32.I 50 / 6. Dining tables 58.I. 33.I. 26.I. 31 / 7. Chair — — 56.I. 29.I. 29.I. 26 ½ / 8. Working table — — 39.I. 33.I. 7.I. 3 ¾ / 9. Cask of coffee containing about 100 lb. / 10. Box earthen ware, some chine, candlesticks, four barrels/one box containing 58 bacon hams, a hogshead, about a gross of empty bottles, 10 bottles cyder, handirons &c, mattresses, Servants bedsteads, kitchen tables, 5 pr. simple chairs, mahogany in mats, 6. arm chairs d’o, 1. green stool, 30 green chairs & 1. green stool, two boxes of Mr. Madison’s.” Front of sheet features ghosting of an apparently unpublished memorandum in Jefferson’s hand as an ink offset on the blank portions of the note. Reverse marked in another hand, “Mr. Jefferson’s Instructions.” In fine condition.
The temporary seat of federal government from March 1789 to December of 1790 was in New York. Following Washington’s departure from Mount Vernon on August 30, Jefferson prepared for his own return to Monticello on the first of September. Accompanied by James Madison, Jefferson spent nearly two months in Virginia before establishing himself at the new seat of the federal government in Philadelphia.
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