1Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Feb. 27. and one hundred Dollars inclosed in it. it was only one of the smallest size of Peacock’s ploughs which I wished to recieve: consequently his N o 4. would not answer my purpose. I have usually got my stock of red clover seed from the other side of the Blue ridge , but am quite disappointed there this year; and am therefore obliged to apply for it at...
2Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I safely recieved the clover seed by mr Peyton’s boat Johnson again disappointed me in taking down 36. barrels of my flour, instead of the full load of both his boats. I shall no longer trust to him alone therefore, but on the return of the Milton boats (all of which went down at the same time) shall employ others to take down the whole. in truth I begin to be uneasy lest the market should...
3Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The season of paying my debts now coming upon me I requested you in my letter of the 15 th to make some remittances for me, to which I am now to add one of 200.D. to Benjamin Jones of Philadelphia , ironmonger, and another of one hundred and thirty Dollars to Ezra Sarjeant of New York printer. I do this on the presumption of the sales of my flour, as it gets down, putting you in funds for me....
4Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor by the last post is recieved. I am sorry a load of my flour has turned out so badly. the mill will have to make it up in good flour in addition to 100. barrels I am still to recieve from it and forward. I It is unlucky that the embargo catches me with so much unsold. I expect however that as soon as the merchants have had time to fix on a channel of vent, it will rise again. the...
5Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th is safely recieved with the 200. Dollars it inclosed. with respect to my flour on hand it is proper I should adapt my former minimum of 8.D. to the times. I leave the price therefore to yourself entirely, with the observation that it is better to lose a little by selling for less than may perhaps become the market price, than to lose the whole by holding off too long....
6Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just returned from a visit to Bedford , whither I had gone to ascertain & settle my crop of tobacco. I found that my former manager, Griffin , had very greatly mistaken the quantity of tob o he expected to make. he had been very confident of making as much as in the preceding year. as he had never before disappointed me by a mistaken calculation, I had fondly hoped to have cleared myself...
7Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th has been duly recieved, together with my account. by this I percieve that there does not remain enough in your hands to pay the 2000.D. into the bank which I so much wished. this has been occasioned by the deficiency of my tobacco crop before explained, and recently here by the short delivery of 140. barrels of flour due to me from the mills, and for which I see I must...
8Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Gibson to have twenty Dollars remitted to the bank of Fredericksburg subject to the order of mrs Mary Dangerfield of Coventry near that place. he is sorry that a circumstance which forbids his writing even the letter of notification obliges him to request mr Gibson to have such an one addressed to mrs Dangerfield of Coventry near Fredericksburg . PoC
9Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d came to hand after the return of our post. the afflicting news of the death of my relation & our mutual friend had reached us thro’ the public papers two or three days before, and I have since recieved a particular account of it from his fellow passenger mr Fontaine Maury . of a worthier man death can never deprive us. altho’ his intention intended return was unexplained,...
10Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 September 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a bill of exchange for 988.03. D drawn by Smiths & Morrison of New Orleans on Brown & Hollins of Baltimore at 60. days sight. to shorten the term a little, as a post was setting out for Baltimore direct, and I was intimately acquainted with mr Hollins , I inclosed the 2 d of Exchange to himself, and he will have recieved it before the Richmond mail carrying this will have left...
11Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 13. is recieved and a statement of my account to the 1 st inst. when I percieve a balance against me (exclusive of that of the bank) of 301. D 90 C M r Randolph was to have paid for me the 1 st Inst. thro’ his agent mr Norris something upwards
12Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 4 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Mazzei’s repeated urgencies to sell his lot in Richmond could not leave a moment’s doubt as to the expediency of accepting a reasonable offer for it. but the research for the powers he gave me has taken considerable time, & ended not satisfactorily. I remember certainly the recieving from him a blank power of Attorney giving express power to sell his real property here. (I had long before,...
13Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 4 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In a separate letter of this date I have written to you on Mazzei’s business, and in this I inclose a plan of his lot, omitted to be put under cover of that. I am engaged in the blowing of rocks with gunpowder and my stock being nearly out, and none to be had here, I must ask the favor of you to procure & send me a keg of 25.℔. to be packed in an outer one or in an external box, & forwarded by...
14Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter of the 12 th inst. from my manager in Bedford he informed me that his first load of flour was engaged to start from Lynchburg on the 15 th inst & that the whole would be sent off the same week. there are there about 140 barrels. from this place I have at length got off 60. barrels by Johnson who will now continue steadily to carry it down till all is done. the quantity here will be...
15Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is recieved and the 50.D. it covered. should there be difficulty in remitting the 97.D. to Alrichs & Dixon of Wilmington by a draught a Richmond bank bill of 100.D. I have no doubt would be acceptable to them and the surplus 3.D. will make no odds, as I shall probably have to call for a roving machine from them in addition to that for carding. to the 3000.D. I have added...
16Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 11 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In my answer of the 7 th to yours of the 3 d of Mar. I omitted to note what you had stated as to the bargain for Mazzei’s lot, to wit that the paiments were to be made within so many days after a sufficient title shall be made. I now expect daily an answer from mr Randolph after which there will be no delay in making what I deem a good title. but if mr Taylor should deem it otherwise, I take...
17Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the day before yesterday mr Edmund Randolph’s answer that he would execute any deed I should desire for mr Mazzei which should bind go to warrant only against himself & his heirs. I have thought it best to make a statement of the title which the purchaser may consider, and verify every material part of it for himself by the records at Richmond . he will see that the title is so...
18Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 16 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The enemy, contrary to expectations, still continuing in our waters and indicating by no movement an intention of speedy departure, with the rapid advance of the season, begin to fill me with anxiety as to the fate of my crop of flour. and I am becoming more concerned to get some price, than what that price shall be, on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread. engagements...
19Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford I found here your two letters of Apr. 28. & May 4. I now inclose the note for 4300.D. signed. the deed to mr Taylor I immediately executed and forwarded to mr Randolph : but as the mail is slow between this & his residence, and it is to be acknoleged by him in his court and by me in mine, this will occupy time. but it will be all done & delivered before the 1 st...
20Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of May 29. with 150.D. inclosed was duly recieved as is that also of June 5. I should not be for recieving the paiment of the monies for mr Mazzei before they are due on any other discount than of legal interest, say ½ per cent per month. I inclose you a letter I have recieved from mr Edmund Randolph , by which you will see that he executed our joint deed to mr Taylor on the 22 d of May...
21Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Edmund Randolph’s indisposition has probably prevented as yet his attendance at his court to acknolege and forward the deed for mr Mazzei’s lot. the first court of Albemarle after he shall have forwarded it to me, it shall be dispatched. I presume that the deed having been actually executed, as before advised, the delay of the formality of acknolegement will occasion no hesitation in mr...
22Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the 14 th . your’s of the same date was received two days after. the Frenchman who laid in the claim with mr Taylor , must have been mr Peter Derieux who married the daughter of mr Mazzei’s wife , long since dead. they live in N. Carolina , and were long
23Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24 th is recieved and the 700.D. therein inclosed. I have a letter from Derieux of the 8 th a paragraph of which will shew you that he is conscious of having no legal claim on mr Mazzei it is in these words. ‘our destiny, Sir, is in your hands. and if you will, you can yet save us from the deplorable situation which threatens us, by becoming our father & benefactor [advocate]...
24Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 August 1813 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I drew on you lately for 43. D 27 C in favor of the Mutual assurance company , and must now ask the favor of you to send me by the return of post one hundred Dollars in bills from 20. to 5. D. I find it will be indispensable to reinstate 1500.D. of my late note in the bank: for within a fortnight of from this time I shall be obliged to draw on you from Bedford for 600.D. in favor of Brown &...
25Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Aug. 10. I informed you I should draw on you from Bedford for 600.D. in favor of Brown & Robertson . this I accordingly did; and from the same place made three other draughts in favor of the sheriff of Bedford for 111.D. Nimrod Darnell 50.D. & Jeremiah A. Goodman 37.50 D it is questionable however whether this last will be called for. in the same letter I mentioned that I...
26Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th with 300.D. inclosed is duly recieved, and I now return you the note for the bank filled up with 2000.D. the additional 500 D. being intended to cover my draughts until I shall get some flour down. I am concerned to learn that flour is but at 5.D. in Richmond . I see by the prices current of Philada it is there at 10.D. and some gentlemen now with me & recently from...
27Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me by return of post an hundred dollars in bills of from 5. to 20.D. on reciept of this I shall immediately set out for Bedford to hasten down my flour from thence. our river here will not yet float an empty boat, nor I expect permit a loaded boat till the middle of December. by soon after that period I am in hopes the winter gales will force the enemy from...
28Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
While in Bedford I sent off two boat loads of flour, and a third was to follow, carrying in all between 140. & 150. barrels. we shall begin to send from hence immediately after the Christmas holidays. but we do not make half a crop here, nor more than half a one in Bedford . we shall soon see now whether the enemy mean to venture on riding in our bay through the winter. on that I suppose will...
29Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 13 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 8 th is just recieved, and I learn with pleasure that 5½ & 5¾ D. can be had for flour. I have no hesitation in accepting these prices, preferring the latter at 60. days to the former in cash. if these prices therefore are still to be had, or even 5.D. be so good as to sell at once. I see nothing in the late news which may suddenly raise prices. the moment Johnson returns, I have...
30Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 19 th with the 300.D. inclosed. I was sorry to learn that my letter had not got to you in time to avail me of the momentary demand for flour. I wrote by the first mail after hearing there was such a demand. but these advices reach us too slowly, and therefore I had entertained a hope of your selling without waiting to consult me. I think it impossible but...