21Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Edmund Randolph’s indisposition has probably prevented as yet his attendance at his court to acknolege and forward the deed for mr Mazzei’s lot. the first court of Albemarle after he shall have forwarded it to me, it shall be dispatched. I presume that the deed having been actually executed, as before advised, the delay of the formality of acknolegement will occasion no hesitation in mr...
22Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the 14 th . your’s of the same date was received two days after. the Frenchman who laid in the claim with mr Taylor , must have been mr Peter Derieux who married the daughter of mr Mazzei’s wife , long since dead. they live in N. Carolina , and were long
23Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24 th is recieved and the 700.D. therein inclosed. I have a letter from Derieux of the 8 th a paragraph of which will shew you that he is conscious of having no legal claim on mr Mazzei it is in these words. ‘our destiny, Sir, is in your hands. and if you will, you can yet save us from the deplorable situation which threatens us, by becoming our father & benefactor [advocate]...
24Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 August 1813 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I drew on you lately for 43. D 27 C in favor of the Mutual assurance company , and must now ask the favor of you to send me by the return of post one hundred Dollars in bills from 20. to 5. D. I find it will be indispensable to reinstate 1500.D. of my late note in the bank: for within a fortnight of from this time I shall be obliged to draw on you from Bedford for 600.D. in favor of Brown &...
25Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Aug. 10. I informed you I should draw on you from Bedford for 600.D. in favor of Brown & Robertson . this I accordingly did; and from the same place made three other draughts in favor of the sheriff of Bedford for 111.D. Nimrod Darnell 50.D. & Jeremiah A. Goodman 37.50 D it is questionable however whether this last will be called for. in the same letter I mentioned that I...
26Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th with 300.D. inclosed is duly recieved, and I now return you the note for the bank filled up with 2000.D. the additional 500 D. being intended to cover my draughts until I shall get some flour down. I am concerned to learn that flour is but at 5.D. in Richmond . I see by the prices current of Philada it is there at 10.D. and some gentlemen now with me & recently from...
27Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me by return of post an hundred dollars in bills of from 5. to 20.D. on reciept of this I shall immediately set out for Bedford to hasten down my flour from thence. our river here will not yet float an empty boat, nor I expect permit a loaded boat till the middle of December. by soon after that period I am in hopes the winter gales will force the enemy from...
28Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
While in Bedford I sent off two boat loads of flour, and a third was to follow, carrying in all between 140. & 150. barrels. we shall begin to send from hence immediately after the Christmas holidays. but we do not make half a crop here, nor more than half a one in Bedford . we shall soon see now whether the enemy mean to venture on riding in our bay through the winter. on that I suppose will...
29Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 13 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 8 th is just recieved, and I learn with pleasure that 5½ & 5¾ D. can be had for flour. I have no hesitation in accepting these prices, preferring the latter at 60. days to the former in cash. if these prices therefore are still to be had, or even 5.D. be so good as to sell at once. I see nothing in the late news which may suddenly raise prices. the moment Johnson returns, I have...
30Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 19 th with the 300.D. inclosed. I was sorry to learn that my letter had not got to you in time to avail me of the momentary demand for flour. I wrote by the first mail after hearing there was such a demand. but these advices reach us too slowly, and therefore I had entertained a hope of your selling without waiting to consult me. I think it impossible but...
31Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 3 February 1814 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
you be so good as to inclose 30. Dollars to Goodman , at Poplar Forest near Lynchburg ? mana ger there and has an immediate & pressing sum. Accept assurances of my esteem PoC (Robert Clark, Corporation for Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, 2011); left-hand corner torn away; at foot of text: “M r Patrick Gibson ”; endorsed by TJ. This document, located after the pertinent chronological volume was...
32Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 23 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me an hundred Dollars by the return of post, in small bills. we have been told here that flour had risen with you to 5¾ D. but I know not how truly. I would not wish the sale of mine to be lost for a quarter dollar of difference. for altho’ I think peace will grow out of the existing negociations, it will not be in time to dispose of the crop now on hand,...
33Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Mar. 2. with the 100.D. inclosed had been duly recieved and that of the 13 th is now at hand. I inclose you the two notes for renewal for the 6 th of May & 8 th of July, ready signed. I some time ago pressed my manager in Bedford to send off immediately the little tob o I have there (about 5.
34Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Our newspapers having come lately more irregularly than usual I have as yet seen nothing later than the President’s recommendation to repeal the embargo . what act of England has produced this change of policy, we do not yet know; but I presume an armistice, or something equivalent has been proposed, and the rather, as we are told that vessels pass freely in & out of our bay. under these...
35Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been here a fortnight, and am likely to continue a fortnight longer, and therefore not in a situation to hear any thing about the price or prospect for flour. but I see nothing which promises such a change for the better as makes it advisable to keep what we have on th h and, on the contrary a competition with the new crop will soon lessen our chance of selling the old. I would...
36Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you from hence on the 9 th instant , requesting that my flour might not be kept on hand after this month, as the competition of the new crop would influence the sale of it. the prospect either of a peace in which we shall be included, or at least a continental peace which will open all the continent of Europe to our produce in neutral vessels may I hope give a spur to prices, tho’...
37Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 8 July 1814, with Thomas Jefferson’s Note on Corn Contracts, 9 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I have not heard yet of the actual sale of my flour, yet in the hope it has taken place, and urged by some of my corn contracts, I have been obliged to draw on you this day in favor of W m Steevens or order for 105.D. which will probably be presented to you with this advice. Accept the assurance of my esteem & respect. July. 9. the draught for 105. was taken in & one f g iven for 70.D....
38Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 27. was duly recieved, and the 200 D. inclosed in it. I find that in making my draughts, I had had too much confidence that a sale of my flour could be effected on some terms, and that the deficiency produced by sacrifice in price, might be obtained from the bank until the crop, growing and severed might be got to market. I was not aware of their stopping discounts, &...
39Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Johnson going down with his boat gives me an opportunity of getting a bale of cotton brought up, which I will ask the favor of you to procure for me, say of 3. or 400. weight. your favor of Aug. 4. is recieved, and lightens my anxieties. I now return the note for the bank, signed, but left blank to be filled by yourself according to circumstances. 1500.D. additional is about the sum which...
40Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 16 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of yesterday by mr Johnson , I mentioned that I would write to you more specially on the subject of the remittance to Philadelphia ; I find that my different accounts there for books and newspapers amount nearly to 150.D. which sum I will therefore ask the favor of you to remit to mr Nicholas G. Dufief bookseller Philadelphia , on my account. I write to him now as to the disposal...
41Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 15 th by Johnson I mentioned that excepting for some small matters of current expence here I should not avail myself of your permission to draw, but for my remittances to Philadelphia and to mr Barnes , until the proceeds of the note for my flour, or that for the bank were in hand. and I had hoped that the remittance for mr Barnes might have lain over a month or two. but a...
42Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not learned whether at the last renewal of my note to the bank, it was enlarged or not, and in the present doubtful state of our medium I do not know whether I ought to wish it, except so far as to cover my taxes in Bedford & here, for which I must draw on you in a few days, and 50.D. which I must request you to send me by return of mail. the credit of the bank paper has become of...
43Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 25 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Sep. 30. has been recieved, informing me of the enlargement of my note in the bank. three days before that date I had drawn on you in favor of Clifton Harris sheriff of Albemarle for 230.32 D the amount of my taxes E t c in this county, and on the 11 th inst. I drew in favor of the same person for 150.D. for so much cash recieved here in exchange. Gen l Cocke will also present you a...
44Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 3 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here yesterday evening and find your’s of Oct. 27. covering a blank note for renewal in the bank, and hasten to sign and commit it to the post office of Lynchburg that it may be recieved in time. I draw on you this day for 75. Dollars in favor of Reuben Perry . the sheriff of this county has not yet called on me. his demand for taxes is, I am told, about 113.D. I learn here that salt...
45Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a note of mr John Harvie for 176.90 which has been due since the 1 st of March & had escaped my notice. he informed me D r Brokenborough was his agent in this state and would pay these notes as they should become due. will you be so good as to make the application? another will be due in about 3. months. I must ask the favor of you to send me 75.D. in single Dollar bills by my...
46Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 23 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of Nov. 21. I have recieved yours of Nov. 23. Dec. 7. & 14. in that of the 7 th Nov. 23. came the 45.D. small bills, and in the last a notice of mr Harvie ’s payment. I regret much my tobacco is not at market, and am pressing my manager
47Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 31 st Ult. I asked the favor of you to inclose me by mail 100.D. which I presume to be now on the way. in the mean time another call has come on me which obliges me to draw on you in favor of my grandson Th: J. Randolph for 120.D. I shall have one more of about the same amount in the course of this month which will I believe close my wants until the spring by which time my flour & tob o...
48Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 25 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Nobody rejoices more sincerely than myself at the return of peace, nor could the season for it’s being made known be better timed. I shall get down the rest of my flour as fast as possible. my crop was a poor one here, and still worse from in Bedford . it will be under 100. Barrels of flour there. here the crop will furnish about 300. Barrels and 150. Bar. rent from my mill, in all something...
49Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 April 1815 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately learnt that tobacco sells high & readily, and therefore would wish you to make sale of mine as soon as you think advisable. with respect to flour I suppose it best to give time for the European vesses vessels which would not adventure to sail until they learnt there our ratification of the treaty, to arrive and produce here a full competition of demand. this will be I suppose in...
50Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 28 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5 th is recieved and enabled me to send off my letters for Paris through mr Vaughan . I had been assured by the miller at the Shadwell mills that 213. Barrels of flour had been sent off on my account addressed to you. it was in payment of a year’s rent of the mills. your letter was the first notice that the whole had not gone to you, and setting me on further enquiry I found...