Jan.21. bot Ursula, and her sons George and Bagwell of Felemings's estate for 210 pounds sterling. 12 month's credit.

Jan.29. sold Sandy to Colonel Charles Lewis for 100 pounds sterling paiable in June. from which deduct 9 pounds - 4 shillings - 8 pence my present debt with him, leaves 90 pounds - 15 shillings - 4 pence to be recd.

September 29. Jane Jefferson's slaves deeded to Thomas Jefferson.

Jupiter lived five years less than Hercules his father --- suggesting that death was both premature and unexpected. Research is needed to better attempt at understanding the type illnesses that many slaves died from.

"Several months before his election his slave Jupiter, exactly his own age, who had attended him like a shadow at William and Mary, and who had for years served as his coachman, died after nine days of suffering. Martha blamed it on medicine prescribed by a black doctor; Jefferson, however, wrote his son-in-law that he feared it came from Jupiter's insistence on accompanying him part way to Philadelphia. Knowing he was ailing, Jefferson said, he had "engaged Davy Bowles," but "Jupiter was so much disturbed at this that I yielded." He death, Jefferson continued sadly, "leaves void in my administration which I cannot fill up." James Hemings died in 1801. All we know is that Jefferson wrote to Thomas Mann Randolph of his "tragical end." [Thomas Jefferson: Prof. Fawn Brody]

TJ listed her as a spinner in the 1800 inventory suggesting that she no longer worked in the fields.

"Of the twenty-two slaves who fled twelve died, and of the six who returned four died shortly, either of "camp fever" or of smallpox, which now became epidemic at Monticello and killed eight additional slaves. Jefferson soberly recorded all the details in his Farm Book. His own moral dilemma we learn about most concretely from a letter he wrote some years later in Paris. Here he described how Cornwallis "carried off" thirty of his slaves, adding: Had this been to give them freedom, he would have done right, but it was to consign them to inevitable death from small pox and putrid fever then raging in his camp. This I knew afterwards to have been the fate of 27 of them. I never had news of the remaining three.... I supposed the state of Virginia lost under Lord Cornwallis's hands that year about 30,000 slaves, and that of these about 27,000 died of the small pox and camp fever, and the rest were prtly sent to the West Indies and exchanged for rum, sugar, coffee and fruits, and partly sent to New York, ffrm whence they went at the peace either to Nova Scotia, or England. From this place I believer they have been lately sent to Africa." [Thomas Jefferson: Prof. Fawn Brody]