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Transcript for: Pages from Martha Wayles Jefferson’s account book

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Jan: 1777 
         1    31 hogs killed
         9    17 hogs killed
       27    20  hogs killed

Feb:  1    a  beef killed
       11    a mutton killed
       18    a beef killed (66 lb. of tallow in cellar)

Mar:  5    11 doz. & 2 candeles in the cellar
         8    made 100 lb of soft soap 2 geese killed
               7 beds 7 bolsters 10 pillows 7 pr of blankets
               5 mattresses one straw bed 6 counterpains
       14    made a pot of hard soap not weighed
       15    made 40 lb of soft soap
       25    made a pot of hard soap not weighed
               made 6 doz & 10 candles 
       28    a beef killed kept only one quarter 10 lb. tallow
               a goose killed 2 ducks killed a shoat killed

April  7    2 ducks killed
         9    a shoat killed

T.Jeff.      14 old fine shirts 9 ruffled ditt. 12 new plain

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M. Jefferson   10 old ruffled shifts 4 new ones, not made 
                      8 old ones ditto 8 night caps 6 fine linen Aprons
                      8 coarse ditto 6 pr of silk hoes 6 pr ditto of
                      cotton

Pattey Jef.      7 new shift 2 night caps 9 frocks 4 pr
                      stockings 2 laced tuckers 2 hemstitched do

April 15          a beef killed sold one quarter yield 10 lb. of tallow 
        17          made 8 doz candles
                      a shoat killed
        20          made 68 lb of soaft soap
        31          a shoat killed 

May   4           a shoat killed 
         6           a mutton killed
         8           made 2 doz candles 
       12           french beans planted       sugar, 2 & ditto mazzeis,
       13           a shoat killed      made 17 candles
                      sowed – pudding peas & gallevance ditto a shoat killed
       19           a shoat killed
       26           a lamb killed

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June        bought 15 chickens from old Jenny
               bought 11 [ditto] of Juno bought 8 [ditto] of Jackson
               bought 10 ditt of Squire bought 4, ditt Fanny
               bought of Jupiter bought O[?] of Phill
               bought of Will bought of Mrs Scot 8 ditt
               n:b: all these were pd. for with bacon 

July         bought 7 doz from Ellkhill
               bought 14 ducks & 4 geese

Aug 3      2 ducks killed 
       4      packed up for our own eating 28 hams
               of bacon 21 shoulders 27 middlings
               packed up for workmen 40 hams
               50 shoulders a goose
      12     killed 2 ducks killed  
      13     a goose killed
      14     2 ducks killed & a shoat 
      15     a goose killed
               a goose bought
               6 geese at 18d a peice 2 geese given me
               bought 5 ducks  

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      23      2 ducks killed
      24      a goose killed 
      28      a lamb killed
                2 ducks killed 
      29      a goose killed 
      30      a shoat 2 ducks killed

Sep. 1      a goose killed 
        2      a goose & shoat killed 
        3      a mutton killed 
        4      2 ducks killed