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1 Richard Henry Lee Memorandum Book Part 1 Richard Henry Lee Memorandum Book Part 1: pages 1-Transcript from original at The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA [1] Mrs. Lees Stockings 1 pr 22/6 & two other pair 28/ a piece – Pins 42/6 pr pound Goods purchased in 2 pounds Girls Stockings 9/ a pair Girls gloves 3/9 a pair Combs 7/9 a piece – Philadelphia Mrs. Lees Gloves 5/a pair Mrs. Lee 1 pr Stockings 1.2.6 Do 2 pr do 2.0.0 Do 3 pr Gloves 0.15.0 Do 1 pr Shoes 1.5.0 Girls 4 pr Stockings at 9/ 1.16.0 Do 4 pr gloves at 3/9 0.15.0 2 lbs Pins at 42/6 4.5.[missing] Combs 6 at 3/9 1.2.[missing] Table knives & forks 12 8.0.[missing] 7 pr Stockings at 17/6 6.5.6 1 piece Hanover Lace 0.11.0 Casss Lee’s Razors grinding 0.2.6 Bagging £1.2.6 Penknife 12/6 1.15.8 Mrs. Lees Penknifes 2 at 7/6 0.15.[missing] Black pepper 1 # 15/ & 100 needles 10/ 1.5.0 Pair stays Miss Matilda Lee 4.0.0 Matilda Lee’s stays Do Miss Nancy Lee 4.0.0 Leather 0.15.[missing] Pr Colored gloves for Mrs. Lee 0.7.[missing] Shoe Knives 0.5.[missing] __________________________ [2] [1777—in original order this page should come after page 433] Miss Corbins bonnet 6.11.3 Jenny Corbin Dibley for horses 17.5.0 Mrs. Yard for Servant & Self 22.17.4 Enslaved, lodging for Shoes for Mrs. Lee 1.10.0 servant, probably Jupiter Tape 1.5.0 Thimbles 2 at 7/6 0.15.0 Ink powder 0.10.0 Chariot Lace 10 dollars Nails 2. 4.10.0 Charriot Lining 16 do 6.0.0 carriage Do Braces 64 dols 24.3.6 Spirit 131 & 1 third dols 49.5.0 Knife for Miss Panton & one for myself 2 & 2 thirds 1.0.0 governess Sally Panton Cash received from Mr. Morris on account of Delegates Wages Robert Morris paid his 1776. 7 Septr mistake 65 dols wages as delegate to 1 5. Octr 200 do Congress 7 Decr 400 do 1777 May 24 270 do Wages Sept. 1776-June From Mr. Hillegas 22 Jany 250 do 1777 Do 27th Feby 160 do June 14 from Mr. Morris 1345 _______________________________ [3] August 1777 Augustine Francois Des Epencers Nephew of Mons Beaumarche Visit from nephew of Arrivd 27th Augt Came from Baltimore Beaumarchais Dr Miss Corbin for a bonnet brot from Phila June 1777---17 ½ dollars or £6.11.3 Purchase, bonnet for Jenny Corbin Cr By John Turberville Esqr for the Mone[y] 22 & two thirds dollars sent me by Dr. Steptoe List of the numbers of the Lottery Purchase, lottery tickets Tickets in possession of R. H. Lee & his family. RHL & Co. No. 91, 315. & Anne Lee & Co. 91, 916. Mary Lee & Co. 20, 710. Hannah Lee & Co. 20, 711. Nancy Lee & Co. 20, 712. Harriot Lee & Co. 20, 713. Sally Lee & Co. 20, 714. Mary Lee. Nos 89, 637, 89, 638, 89, 639, 89, 640. 4 Aug. 76 30 Sept. Recd from Jno Turberville Esqr Dates and cost of travel 31 Octr Augt 76 13 dols & 2 thirds for 30 Novr goods to be purchased in Philadelphia. 31 decr 31 January 77 28 Feby 29 April 31 May 240 miles from Chantilly to Philadelphia 15 June 260 days & £5. For Gally drought Ferriage & Travelling Ferry charges __________________________ [4] To Baltimore 150 To Susquehanna 37 To Philadelphia 66 253 2 Ferriage at Masons Virga 0.5.0 Do at Patapsco Maryd 0.4.0. Do at Susquehannah do 0.5.0. Do at Schuylkill do 0.1.0 At Piscataway Maryld Curry 0.11.0 At Queen Ann 0.2.0. At Edwards 0.5.0 At Jnos 0.2.0 At Baltimore 1.14.0 Sho[e]ing 2 horses all fours 2.1.6 At God’s graces 0.17.0 At Susquehannah 1.1.1 At Charles Town 0.6.0 At Christian 0.6.0 At Wilmington 0.14.9 At Dicks 1.6.[0?] 25 dollars & 1/3 £9.9.6 Ferriages at Susquehannah 1777 7/6 [below written crosswise] Accot of Brandy 1782 Sells brandy 2 ½ Jenkins 45 Ga [gallons] Chantilly Peachy 20 Ga Washington 14th Septr 17 ½ do 26 1 ½ Collins 27 ________________________ [5] Sr Geo. Somers pai[nte]d his ships bottom seams with lime and Turtle Oil which Recipe for plugging seams made a fine cement for stopping the seams of the Vessels. Stiths History Page in a ship 114. Potatoe Pone. Wash clean the sweet Potatoe, and grate it, add as much milk as Recipe for potato pone will mix for baking on a hoe or griddle. Add a little sugar, a little ginger, & a little butter & bake this. Apple butter. Pare & slice apples and stew them in new Cyder from the press for Recipe for apple butter a considerable time until soft enough to work up into soft marmalade. Add a little Alspice [allspice] while stewing. ‘Twill keep a year. [6] To make Flannels or Breakfast Cakes. Recipe for flannel cakes Take 4 eggs, beat them well, mix them with a quart of good milk or rather cream, and stir in flour till they are thick enough to bake, then add 2 spoonfuls of 3 yest [yeast]—Let them stand 5 hours to rise and a few minutes will bake them on a griddle or hoe – size of muffins 5 decr 77 Paid the commissary for horses & wood in York 73 dols & /3 December 1777 The Hog from [ blank ] for the hire of Abraham [slave from Marsh Quarter] Enslaved, Abraham at weighed exactly 74 lbs neat. The 2 hogs billed of ours December 17. Weighd Marsh Quarter neat 318 lbs. Two were killed before weights unknown--- [7] Crop of Corn made at Chantilly in 1777 was 139 barrels of good corn & 10 Crop, corn at Chantilly barrels of short corn & nubbins—shared by 13 ½ there being 12 black sharers & Enslaved, black sharers the overseer had 1 share & an half. Was 10 barrels & 3 bushels a share Moxley had 15 barrels delivd to him--- Overseer Moxley at Marsh 80 barrels put in the Corn House not began to be used until 1st Jany – 54 barrels in Store Loft Overseer Wm Goodman at Septr Mrs. Lee pd Wm Goodman [overseer] 20/ by Colo T. L. Lee Chantilly Sent Mr. James Hunter to sell for me 9 hhds Tobo. weighing neat 9114 as pr memorandum in small money book— Crop, tobacco, agent James Hunter Weight of hogs from Mr. Humphries 1500 46 Gut Fat lbs 1546 Purchase, hogs _____________________ [8] Weight of 4 hogs from [Squire] Rich[ar]d Lee Esq. 106.102.110.86 in all 404 neat [net] Two hogs at Chantilly 160 Enslaved, Abram 2 do do 318 [Abraham] at Marsh 1 do Abram 74 Quarter, Hired out for cost 12 do Loudon 546 of hog 3 do Squire 318 Loudon=Francis Lightfoot Lbs 2416 Lee Squire=Richard Lee of Lee 4 ½ yards Shalloon but if common Shalloon 5 yards Hall 2 doz buttons for same coat large & 1 doz small do Purchase, cloth, buttons, Buckram 1 yd & an half thread Silk 4 hanks that is 2 for each & 3 oz. thread that is 1 ½ for each— Twist 4 sticks if fine that is 2 of each if course [coarse] more. Say, 3 of each. __________________ [9] Account of Stocks delivd me by John Robertson the Gardener now Overseer at January 1778 Chantilly John Robertson, Chantilly 4 overseer, former gardener Jany 6.1778 Cattle at Cowpen 25 Work Oxen 8 account of livestock Milch [milk] Cowes at House 4 Last years Calves 13 Head 50 Hogs in all 22 that is 3 breeding sows 1 boar & 18 Shoats --- Sheep 38 head. Jany6.1778 Sent to the Salt Work three bars of iron from Stratford weighing 101 ½ the three. Sent Iron from Stratford to Dr Salt Work to R. H. Lee for 10/ paid Chiltons Smith for Plates & I found Iron salt work; paid Chilton’s 5 lbs. & sent down besides 7 pounds bar Iron--- blacksmith to make plates ___ [10] Mr Dan. Muses bal the 4th of December 1776 was £24.13.8 Sterlg with interest ‘til paid— Accounts with interest Mr. Hudson Muses’ bal the 30th June 1776 was £307.8.5 Sterg with interest until paid— Feby19th paid Collins 5/ in full for Game February 1778 Feby 28.1778 in Sheep house 8 hides including one Veal skin— Purchase, game from Collins Inventory of hides in Took with me to Congress March 27.1778—186 dollars. Sheep House March 1778 Money for trip to On Monday the 13th of April 1778 my ever dear brother Thos Lud. Lee expired a Philadelphia few minutes before 2 oClock in the day, after a severe and long illness of six April 1778 weeks & 3 days. Death of Thomas Ludwell Lee ___ [11] No state in our Times could maintain a number of Soldiers more than in proportion of one to 100,000 of the inhabitants, without either some peculiar Optimal number of soldiers excellency in the administration, or absolute ruin—In ancient times they could in an army arm without trouble 8 or 10 in the hundred—Dissertations historical & political on the Ancient republics of Italy by Carlo Denina translated by Langhorne with notes—It is thought that Italy is not capable of maintaining a 50th part of the Inhabitants that it did 3 Centuries before the Christian era.
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