Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 11 April 1819
To Patrick Gibson
Monticello Apr. 11. 19.
Dear Sir
Your favor of the 7th is recieved just as I am setting out for Poplar forest to be absent 3 weeks. I inclose you a blank for the bank of Virginia, and another for the US. bank: the other for this last bank I have prepared, but my grandson not being here to indorse it, I shall, unless he comes before I depart, inclose it to him to indorse and forward. at Poplar forest I shall be able to forward immediately any flour and tobo not yet sent down. in a letter of Mar. 19. mr Yancey assured me the tobacco should all be off in that month.
I have made several draughts on you lately. to wit.
| Mar. | 9. | in favor of | Joel Yancey for taxes | 55. | 65 |
| 25 | Fr. A. Mayo bookseller | 25. | 37½ | ||
| Apr. | 4. | Wm F. Gray do | 43. | 25 | |
| 8. | A. Garrett for the University | 300. | |||
| James Leitch. | 125. | 04 | |||
| 11. | Edmund Bacon | 33. | 75 |
I was not aware that the note for 1500.D. had been discounted for a month only, or I might have withheld some of these till I knew that my flour & tobo was all actually in Richmond. I salute you with great friendship & respect.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of David M. Randolph (1798–1825) to TJ, 14 Dec. 1818; at foot of text: “Mr Gibson”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures not found.
TJ’s grandson was Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Joel Yancey’s letter of mar. 19 to TJ, not found, is recorded in SJL as received 28 Mar. 1819 from Poplar Forest. On 8 Apr. 1819 TJ drew on Gibson in favor of University of Virginia bursar Alexander garrett “for 300.D. to pay my 2d. instalment to the University and Joel Yancey’s” (, 2:1353).
Index Entries
- Bacon, Edmund; TJ pays search
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; from Poplar Forest search
- Garrett, Alexander; and Central College–University of Virginia subscription search
- Gibson, Patrick; and payments made for TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters to search
- Gray, William Fairfax; TJ pays search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; pays taxes search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; T. J. Randolph endorses notes for search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Public Service; and Central College–University of Virginia subscription search
- Leitch, James; TJ pays search
- Mayo, Frederick August; TJ pays search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); flour from search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); taxes on search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ plans visits to search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); endorses bank notes search
- subscriptions, nonpublication; for Central College–University of Virginia search
- taxes; TJ pays search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); and Central College–University of Virginia subscription search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); as superintendent of Poplar Forest search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); letters from accounted for search