1From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 21 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 14th. and now inclose you a copy of your letter. I was within a day or two of putting into the press the evidence I had collected on this subject. I have been long in collecting it, because of the distance & dispersion of those acquainted with the transaction. however I have at length that of a dozen or fifteen persons, who clear up the mystery which...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 13 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 2d. inst. is recieved. should our session be continued to a greater length than I expect, it would be a circumstance of great pleasure to me to see you here. but I do not think we can continue here much longer than the present month as there is really nothing to do but to recieve information from our envoys at Paris. if that bear a peaceable aspect, as I hope it will we ought...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 31 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty the last summer of writing to you from hence making some enquiries on the subject of Logan’s speech and the murder of his family, and you were kind enough in your answer , among other things, to correct the title of Cresap, who is said to have headed the party by observing that he was a Captain and not a Colonel. I troubled you with a second letter asking if you could...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 24 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your favor of the 17th inst. and the [infor]mation it contained, but have still to trouble you for an explanation [of a] passage in [which?] you say ‘Capt Cressop was not present when [Logan’s relations] were killed.’ How then are we to understand that passage in Logan’s speech which says ‘Colo. Cressop the last year in cold blood and unprovoked killed all the relations...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 31 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In my Notes on the state of Virginia I have given a translation of the celebrated speech of Logan to Ld. Dunmore with a statement of facts necessary to make it better understood. A Mr. Luther Martin of Maryland has lately come forward, denies the facts and also the authenticity of the speech. As far as my memory serves me we received the speech as a translation of yours, and tho’ I do not...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 13 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Having obtained leave from Majr. Genl. Baron Steuben that you should concur in an expedition across the Ohio under the command of Genl. Clarke, I am to desire that you will in the first place take Baltimore in your way, at which place I have reason to beleive four tons of powder have been furnished us by the Continental Board of War which we mean for this expedition. The obtaining this powder...
7[From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, November? 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, Nov.? 1780. A letter from Col. John Gibson to Col. George Rogers Clark, Fort Pitt, 17 Dec. 1780, states that Gibson “received a Letter from his Excellency the Governor of Virginia wherein he informed me that Colo. Campbell had told him that I had a quantity of Cloathing which I received last summer for the men of my Regiment and that I had no immediate use for it as he expected we...