James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1815
From James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson)
17h July 1815
| Thomas Jefferson Esqe | ||
| To Patrick Gibson Dr | ||
| To Cash pd for | a Bale Cotton 232lb at 22 Cents. | $51. 4 |
| draye & toll | ||
Harry will deliver Mr Jefferson the above bale of Cotton—Mr Johnson was unloaded at the Locks & I thought it better to send it by the present opportunity than to wait his return
respectfully
| Patrick Gibson |
| ⅌ Jas Ligon |
RC (ViU: TJP-ER); in Ligon’s hand; dateline at foot of text; with unrelated calculations by TJ on verso; endorsed by TJ: “Gibson Patrick.”
harry worked as a boatman out of Richmond for his owner, Thomas Mann Randolph (George Jefferson to TJ, 23 Aug. 1811; Gibson to TJ, 22 Dec. 1815).
Index Entries
- boats; transfer goods to and from Richmond search
- cotton; price of search
- cotton; purchased by TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; account with TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and goods for TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and shipments to TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters from search
- Harry (boatman); carries goods from Richmond search
- Johnson, William (waterman); transports goods from Richmond search
- Ligon, James; as clerk for Gibson & Jefferson search
- Ligon, James; letters from search
- Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); slaves owned by search
- Richmond, Va.; boats transfer goods to and from search
- Richmond, Va.; prices at search
- slaves; T. M. Randolph’s search