Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 8 May 1819
From Patrick Gibson
Richmond 8th May 1819—
Sir
I did not receive until the 5th inst your favor of the 22nd Ulto annexing your view, of the accots between us, which from various items, unknown to & omitted by you, differs materially from the actual state of it, as you will perceive by the accot Sales and accot Curt now inclosed.1 the former includes 6 hhds of your Tobo which I had inspected and sold yesterday, two were refused, and the other four very indifferent—instead therefore of their being a balance due you, there is one in my favor of $349.83 against which, and a small dft in favor of Gray of $4325/. not yet presented,※ there will be the proceeds of 50 bls: flour & the remr of the Tobacco yet to come down—I have spoken to Coll Nicholas upon the subject of your note, which he advises to be offer’d at the Farmer’s bank, where he will use his influence to have it passed, he will write you by this mail respecting it.2 The distress for money is excessive, and I am sorry to add that at no period since I have been in business, have I experienced the want of it as I do at this time—Your favor of the 6th Inst inclosing a note for $2000 is just received
Patrick Gibson
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 13 May 1819 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Gibson, 29 May 1819, on verso; addressed in a clerk’s hand: “Thomas Jefferson Esqre Monticello”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 10 May; additional endorsement by TJ as above. Enclosures not found.
remr: “remainder.”
1. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
2. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Coolidge, Ellen Wayles Randolph (TJ’s granddaughter); TJ gives money to search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; transported to Richmond search
- Gibson, Patrick; account with TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and payments made for TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ 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 from search
- Gray, William Fairfax; TJ pays search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; gives money to E. W. Randolph (Coolidge) search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; sells tobacco search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); and TJ’s bank loans search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- Richmond, Va.; economy of search
- Richmond, Va.; flour shipped to search
- Richmond, Va.; TJ’s tobacco sold at search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco shipped to search
- Shadwell mills; flour from search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
- tobacco; sale of search
- tobacco; transported to Richmond search