Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 July 1820
To Patrick Gibson
Monticello July 14. 20.
Dear Sir
The time for renewing my note in the bank of Virginia being at hand I now inclose one for that purpose. altho’ I believe it should have been filled up with the sum of 1378.D. I have left it blank for fear of error. as the US. bank does not require a tow[n] endorser1 I relieve you from continuing the indorsement on my note to that bank for 2250.D. which I do with great pleasure and extreme thankfulness for having so long continued it. my grandson endorses it and takes charge of it.
On the 29th of June I drew on you in favor of Joel Wolfe for 30.60 D and of Opie Norris for 36.D. which the last statement of accounts appeared to justify. I salute you with affection and respect
Th: Jefferson
PoC (DLC); on verso of reused address cover of Samuel Garland to TJ, 21 June 1820; edge trimmed, with one amount rewritten by TJ; at foot of text: “Mr P. Gibson”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure not found.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph was TJ’s grandson.
TJ’s financial records indicate that on 23 Apr. 1820 he received from Thomas Eston Randolph and Daniel Colclaser “George Millerway’s draught on Edmund Anderson of Richmond for 30.60 d. which I inclosed to Isaac Raphael to have presented &, if paid, placed to my credit, or retd. if not pd.” On 2 June Raphael returned to TJ “Millerway’s note ante Apr. 23 refused to be pd. by Anderson,” with TJ then passing it back to Colclaser (, 2:1364–5). A missing letter from Raphael to TJ of 2 June 1820, which presumably covered the failed draft, is recorded in SJL as received from Charlottesville the day it was written. Joel Wolfe was Raphael’s brother-in-law and sometime business partner (, 2:1358n).
1. Word interlined in place of “subscriber.”
Index Entries
- Anderson, Edmund; G. Milleway’s draft on search
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- Colclaser, Daniel; and G. Milleway’s draft on E. Anderson search
- Gibson, Patrick; account with TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and payments made for TJ 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; letters to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Milleway, George; draft on E. Anderson by search
- Norris, Opie; TJ pays search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); and G. Milleway’s draft on E. Anderson search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); endorses bank notes search
- Raphael, Isaac; and G. Milleway’s draft on E. Anderson search
- Raphael, Isaac; letter from accounted for search
- Wolfe, Joel; TJ pays search