61Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note in bank for $2000. falling due the 4 th of next month I send you the inclosed for your signature—With great respect I am RC ( MHi ); between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”; endorsed by TJ as received 31 Mar. 1817 and so recorded in SJL ; with TJ’s notes (one word illegible) for his 1 Apr. 1817 reply on verso: “note wine molasses boo k s. sell flour.” Enclosure...
62Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I received by the last mail your favor of the 28 th Ult o and Send you hereinclosed $150 in notes— there is no change in flour since I last wrote you, nor can we expect a rise until an armistice take place— RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 May 1814 and so recorded in SJL .
63Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 12 th Ins t and am happy to find that I have acted conformably to your wishes in holding up your flour, the repeal of the restrictive system brought into market a few purchasers at 5$, which I refused under an impression that it would in a short time be followed by an Armistice—this opinion altho generally prevalent has not tended to raise the price, for the...
64Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 22 nd with the two notes inclosed, and now send you as you request Two hundred and seventy five dollars in bank notes—With great respect I am RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Gibson. Recorded in SJL as a letter from Gibson & Jefferson received 31 Mar. 1814.
65Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Derieux called upon me a few days ago not a little alarmed by the letter he had just received from you , and in consequence of the late intelligence you have received relative to M r Mazzei he relinquishes all the claim, over the property in question, which he would have consider’d himself entitled to, had M r M: been dead previous to the sale—he appears to be extremely uneasy at the...
66Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by M r Johnson such parts of the nail rod mention’d in your letter of the 26 th Ult o as I have been able to procure together with the Corks & powder as p r Mem n at foot— nothing has been doing in Flour since I wrote you last, the price is nominally 4½$— With great respect I am Of Sam l G. Adams
67Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly concern’d to find from your letter of the 10 th Ins t that your health has suffer’d so severely from the use of the waters—I trust however that the painful effects produced will be but of short duration and that they will prove ultimately beneficial to you— The 50 bls: flour sent down I sold at $9 ½ and am sorry more was not sent at that time, even at an extra expence of carriage,...
68Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately after my letter to you of the 8 th Ins t the price of flour became nominal, the few orders which had been received from Alexandria were complied with and no further purchases were made, so that, when on monday I received your favor of the 13 th and endeavour’d according to your directions to effect a sale, I found that even 5$ could not be obtain’d—I have still hopes of getting...
69Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I last wrote you on the 9 th ult o I have received 62 bls: of your flour, which I have this day sold to Mess rs Lucke & Sizer at 3 ⅜ $, this is a better price than I was able to obtain on its arrival, and is indeed as high as is warranted by any foreign market— I am, RC ( DLC ); between dateline and salutation: “ Thomas Jefferson
70Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you inclosed $70 in the manner requested in your favor of the 22 nd Ins t — Our flour market has, as I apprehended declined considerably, sales cannot now be made at $6, nor do I think our northern, nor the European markets (if accounts received from thence be correct) would justify a higher price, letters from the Havanna mention the arrival there of a ship from France with 5000 bls:...
71Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 25 th Ins t Ult o was duly received, and I have since then been in daily expectation of the arrival of your flour, which has not yet got down, this I regret the more as I have this day sold all I had on hand at 5 ¾ $ — Your note for $2250. p ble at the US. bank in my favor becomes due the 5
72Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 29 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Y our two favors of the 24 th are received and agreeably to your desire I send you inclosed $75 in notes— no sale whatever for flour, the little wheat brought to market is purchased by the millers at 3/.— With great respect I am RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Gibson & Jefferson received 3 Jan. 1814 and so recorded in SJL .
73Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing to you on the 4 th Ins t I have received your several letters of the 7 th 15 th 16 th & 20 th —finding it impracticable either through the medium of our banks or of individuals to remit to the North, and not deeming it prudent to risk bank notes—I wrote to M r Dufief
74Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you by last mail , inclosing for your signature and that of M r Randolph a bill of Sale for Mazzei’s two lots, which deed you will observe has been drawn by M r Marshall upon the presumption that M r Mazzei is a citizen of the
75Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you since my letter of the 27 th Ult o advising you of the sale of your flour— Your note in bank becoming due on the 24 th Ins t I now inclose you a blank for your signature— I hand you inclosed the Acco t
76Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d postmark’d Charlottesville the 7 th was not received until the 9 th which was so far unfortunate as I had the day before sold the 14 bar s condemn’d flour to Sterling J: Crump at $6— the proceeds however shall be held subject to the order of T: E: Randolph & Colclaser —I shall attend to your instructions, relative to the distinction you wish observed in the several...
77Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this morning under blank Cover your note to Tho s J. Randolph , on which I observe you have, I presume inadvertently, written a special indorsation, making it payable to me, which renders it necessary that I should put my name to it, or erase the indorsation, in which case I presume the Bank would not receive it—and as the addition of my name would be of no service to it, you will...
78Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th Ins t is rec d — I wrote you on the 12 th informing you of the rejection of your note in the US. bank and of its being subsequently discounted for one half the amount for which I credit your account $989.33— Col l Nicholas has just inform’d me that the note sent him has been discounted in the F s
79Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to inform you that it has not yet been in my power to sell your flour I do not know what price could be obtain’d for it were it put up to the highest bidder but it has been and is offering at $4 without a purchaser; be pleased to say whether I shall dispose of it at such a price as I can obtain or wait some favorable change m r Taylor has lodged $6,000 in my hands on account of the...
80Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing you of this date I have received the above notice , You will therefore be pleased to fill up the note for $2625.— I fear this unexpected resolution will occasion much distress, as it will without doubt oblige the State banks to curtail, so as to meet the demand, which this ma y produce upon them (to the am t of $700.000) and which they are not in a situation to do without...
81Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your two letters of the 20 th & 25 th Ins t the former inclosing mazzeis power of Attorney which is satisfactory to M r Taylor the notes shall be dated from the 17 th — I regret extremely not having disposed of the whole of your flour at the time I sold the last, it is next to impossible at present to force a sale at any price; it is selling from the waggons at 4½$ and paid for...
82Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last I have received your favors of the 6 th June & 1 st July , and shall pay due attention to any drafts you may make— I have remitted M r Benj: Jones $142.76 & M r John Vaughan $550 in a dft at 30 d/s , not having been able to procure one at sight—
83Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The last load of 50 barrels which I mention’d to you as having been exposed by M r Randolph ’s boatman to a very heavy shower of rain I had sold to Davenport & Allen at 8$ dft on Philad a , but on shipping it one of the heads came out, and I discover’d that it was damaged, some others were then open’d on board and were equally injured, I offer’d the purchasers to make a deduction, but as they...
84Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d with your two letters, of the 22 d ult o from Poplar Forest , and of the 1 st Ins t from Monticello upon receipt of the former I endeavour’d to make sale of your flour at 4$ but could not suc c eed—I am not certain that I could obtain even $3½ but think it probable, in the event of my not receiving instructions from you to the contrary I shall dispose of it for what it will bring—...
85Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I received by last post your two letters of the 4 th .—on looking over your letters for 1807 I find the one to which you allude of the 5 th Sept r but none subsequent to it make any mention of the power of Attorney, and as it is not amongst our papers I presume it was not sent In making further enquiry respecting the value of this property, I am happy to state that if you are willing to...
86To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Gibson, 1 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with extreme reluctance that I am induced once more to apply to you with a view of enlisting your good offices in my behalf—I dread the very idea of presuming too much upon the friendly assistance already afforded me, and on the regard you have been pleased to express for me—The time has been when this consideration would have kept me silent but the desire of leaving at least a good...
87Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 8 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the arrival of the Cartel at Annapolis bringing dispatches from England to our Government, there has been much speculation in our market, founded upon the supposition that peace would either directly or indirectly grow out of it —flour which last week would not command 4$ has this week been sold at 5½ Cash & 5¾$ 60 d /.—these still continue to be the prices, altho little is now doing—...
88Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 10 th and agreeably to your request send you inclosed one hundred dollars in small notes, together with a promisary note of $1500. for your signature—the date you will be pleased to leave blank— Your several drafts shall be duly attended to— The deed for M r Taylor shall be given to him on his return from the Springs —With great respect I am RC ( ViU : TJP-ER...
89Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not written you since the 4 th ult o when I forwarded you $150.— flour has been gradually declining and cannot without difficulty be sold at $4—I fear we have allowed the only favorable moment to escape, and regret extremely that I did not accept of the offer of 5$—60 d /. of which I inform’d you in mine of the 20 th April —should no change occur, so as to enable us to ship in the...
90Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 20 th Ins t . The note forwarded to me in yours of the 29 th Ult o was offer’d at bank on Friday last and rejected, in consequence of a determination which had been made to curtail—This circumstance however need not prevent your drawing as I shall, as heretofore substitute the inclosed note, in lieu of my own, which I can withdraw without inconvenience,— none...