1To Thomas Jefferson from Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, 26 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Carr informed me that you wished to know whether a man by the name of Dominick Gilmer had ever lived with my father, I can assert very confidently, that no such man has been a member of our family within fifteen years. that I never before heard the name, and that there is not a person of that name in any branch of the family I shall be very happy to furnish you with 30 gallons of cyder if...