Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 October 1818
To Patrick Gibson
Monticello Oct. 18. 18.
[D]ear Sir
After long delay for want of a tide we were enabled by the last rain to send off by Johnson’s boats 106. (I think) barrels of flour to be delivered to you. from the mill too I expect mr T. E. Randolph has sent, or will immediately send 50. barrels of rent1 flour. besides placing you in safety as to my curtailments, these remittances will put you in funds to meet a draught I must make on you within a day or two for between 3. & 400 D. and another soon after for about as much more. as I do not know the sums to be renewed on my several notes I must ask the favor of you to forward me blanks in time. my health continues low, so that I have little prospect of visiting Bedford this fall, but I write to mr Yancey to hasten down his flour. I salute you affectionately
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of portion of reused address cover to TJ; edge trimmed; at foot of text: “Mr Gibson”; endorsed by TJ.
1. Word interlined in place of “toll.”
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- flour; from Poplar Forest 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; 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
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; rent due TJ search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; illness of search
- Johnson, Mr. (boatman); transports goods search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); flour from search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); and Shadwell mills search
- rent; from Shadwell mills search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- Shadwell mills; rent for search
- weather; effect on shipping search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); as superintendent of Poplar Forest search