To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Dougherty, 31 December 1808

[1808]

Amount of the whole expence that attended our crop of oats and hay Utencils included

Sythe and hingings	2.	12½
rake	0.	56
reaping hook	0.	50
reapers and whiskey	13.	97
hawling in oats	2.	50
two months hire of black man	20.	00
Dollars	39.	65½

valuation of the produce Viz:

Say 270 bushels of oats worth 50 Cts. per bushel	}	135.	00
the price that oats now sells at	}	135.	00
About 16 CWT, of hay worth 86 cts. per cwt.		13.	76
Oats Straw worth		30.	00
		178.	76
		39.	65
cleer of all expence Dollars		139.	11

MHi: Coolidge Collection.

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