1121Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 8 th covering my account down to May 10. I found that in my statement to you of Mar. 22 . besides some minor articles, I had omitted all those for discounts, and a part of the curtailments, making a difference of about 1000.D. and consequently my note for discount should have been for 3000.D. for which sum therefore I now inclose one to mr Nicholas who...
1122Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The 30. barrels of flour which in mine of the 9 th I informed you that Johnson had taken off for me, he deposited at Columbia , returned here and took on board the balance for a full load, of which 6. more barrels were for me. he left this about a week ago to proceed to Richmond with the who le where he will have delivered you 36. barrels for me. these with the 57.D. on hand, besides paying...
1123Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
By the reciept produced by Johnson I find he delivered you the 36. barrels of flour mentioned in my letter of Apr. 14. on the 15 th of that month . al th o I have not heard of it’s sale yet I presume it has been made and that you have been so kind as to make the remittance of 125.D. to mess rs Leroy and Bayard as requested in my letter of Apr. 9. having heard that the price of flour has...
1124Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved here your favor of the 13 th . I had seen on my way here Col o Nicholas who told me he had advised the suspension of my note until his return which was to be the last of that week, and of course I presume he is now in Richmond . I write by the mail to Charlottesville to desire my grandson to send you a proper order for the reciept of the money, the propriety of it’s going from...
1125Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing the exact date of my note in the bank of Virginia I inclose a blank supposing the time of renewal must be at hand. supposing too the curtail to be of 80.D. the sum must be somewhere between 1000. and 1100.D. I have therefore left the odd numbers blank. on the 4 th of Feb. mr Colclaser informs me he sent you a quarter’s rent of 50. Barrels of flour. another quarter is due within 3....
1126Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, [18] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Aug. 11. came to hand yesterday & I now inclose the note of 3000.D. for the bank of the US. signed. I note the observations on the articles of 250.D. which I recollect, that of the 31. D of which I had not before been ascertained, and the 10. respecting which I have not the papers here, but I presume your corrections are right as to that as well as the others. accept the renewal of...
1127Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 10. has been duly recieved. the 5. barrels of flour lately delivered by Craddock are a part of 20. barrels which he purloined out of a boatload sent from here in Octob. but which by a fall of the water did not get to Richm d until December. he withheld & sold 20. barrels & forged your reciept for the whole load. this parcel has been missing in our accounts until producing...
1128Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned a few days ago from the springs , my health entirely prostrated by the use of the waters. they produced an imposthume , whic h with the torment of the journey back reduced me very low, so that I am not yet able to set up to write. but I am sensibly mending. my first attention has been to provide against your suffering as my endorse r by the bank curtailments. my grandson tells me he...
1129Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 11. 27. finds me still here, but on th e eve of my departure for Monticello . I have recieved from mr Nicholas the most solemn assurances that he has taken such measures as to prevent my suffering the least inconvenience from my engagements for him; and my grandson who knows what his estates are, has gone into particular explanation s with him as to the means proposed, and...
1130Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Just now returned from Bedford I find here your favor of Dec. 11. and without a moment’s loss of time I return you my renewed notes for the banks, and repeat the assurances of my great esteem & respect PoC ( DLC: TJ Papers , ser. 10); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; at foot of text: “ M r Gibson ”; endorsement by TJ chipped. Enclosures not found. On this date TJ recorded renewing the...
1131Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 2 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 26. came to hand by our last mail, and I now inclose you the three blanks for renewal. mr Yancey answered my letters enjoining him to get down his flour immediately by saying that the price of the moment for carriage was so exorbitant that he had venture d to wait awhile in the hope of a fall. he says also that his tobacco is in considerable forwardness for sending down. I...
1132Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I this morning recieve your favor of the 6 th inst. informing me of the omission of the curtailment of 80.D. omitted in your account of Mar. 30 . and leaving in your hands a balance of 57.D. only, instead of 137.75 to which I pay due attention. about a week ago Johnson set out with 30. barrels of flour, which you probably recieve ab out this time. when recieved I will ask the favor of you to...
1133From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th is now recieved. the letter I wrote to the President, altho’ it proposed to get your son entered as a midshipman, was in it’s general terms such as to prepare the mind of the President for that or any equivalent favor, and to assure him of the gratification it would be to me: and I think it would be best for yourself or your son, in a letter to him referring to mine to...
1134Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send my acc t for Jan. Feb. Mar. with as little delay as convenient, this being the season of the year at which most of my engagements fall due. this renders it necessary for me to ask further that if any flour remains on hand, the quantity may be stated, as a full view of my funds is necessary to govern my draughts. my crop of wheat in Bedford , which from 400....
1135Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 5 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 14. was duly recieved with my acc t annexed, which I believe is all right except that to the balance of 662.19 should be added an error of 10.D. in the account of Dec. 31. 1816. where the proceeds of the sale of 175. Bar. flour for 1581.75 is mis-entered as 1571.75 this error of the copyist is easily rectified. I believe also I have not yet been credited the charge of 31.D....
1136Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This moment arrived here, I find your favor of June 26 and lest the notes should be wanting, I sign them without loss of time and inclose them with assurances of my great esteem & respect PoC (Mrs. T. Wilber Chelf, Mrs. Virginius Dabney, and Mrs. Alexander W. Parker, Richmond, 1944; photocopy in ViU: TJP ); on verso of portion of reused address cover; at foot of text: “ M r Gibson ”; endorsed...
1137Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
An unexpected delay in my return from Bedford lost me a mail in the time of sending the inclosed note proposed in my letter of Apr. 22. I hope it will be recieved, & shall be glad to be notified of it as soon as done. the 50. barrels of flour from the Shadwell mills which I mention d as to be sent immediately, Mess rs Randolph & Colclaser tell me are ready and will be sent off on the return of...
1138Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I return by our first mail the note for renewal inclosed in your’s of the 20 th inst. and I am very thankful for the accomodation obtained, and payment remitted to Leroy and Bayard . if the Virginia bank cannot consistently with their rules renew it, I am in hopes that of the US. may come to my aid, as I understand it begins business this week. I observe a stamp on the paper you inclosed me;...
1139Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 2 d inst. came to hand yesterday and I percieve that the sale of the last hhd of tob o 79.05 with the balance of 400.81 D stated in yours of May 16 . enables me to request you to remit to mr Vaughan the sum of 444.D. this sum will answer a particular portion of the objects for which in of my letters of Apr. 23. and May 12. , which I wish to be expedited, and I shall shortly...
1140Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20 th is recieved, and I now inclose three notes for renewal in the banks. not knowing exactly the amount of each after the curtailments which have taken place, I send them blank, but will thank you for information of the present amount of each. to the 1244.25 in your hands will be speedily added the amount of 17. barrels of flour the last remaining on hand here and going to...
1141Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 10 th from Poplar Forest , and on my arrival here my first attentions are to the state of my notes in bank. I find that on the 28 th of July I forwarded the last to you, and now therefore inclose one for 1700.D. for the bank of Virginia and of 2250.D. for that of the US. if I mistake the sums there is still time to correct them. I inclose also the one for 3000.D. in the bank...
1142Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Anxious to be on a sure footing as to provision for my additional note at the bank of Virginia , in the event of it’s not being within th e rule to renew it, I wrote to mr Nicholas President of the National branch bank of Richmond to know if I could be accomodated there with 2000.D. to be renewed for some months. his answer recieved yesterday is in thes e words. ‘we are restrained by the...
1143Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 13 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
on my return to this place I found here your letter of May 4. but on my enquiry from my grandson , to whom I had written from Bedford to request his immediate transmission of an order in your favor on the bank of the US. he told me he had forwarded one on the 4 th inst. the day of the date of your letter. presuming therefore that it has been recieved, I must now pray you to make the remittance...
1144Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall set out tomorrow for the meeting of the Commissioners on the subject of our University , at the Rockfish gap , and when our business there is finished I shall proceed to the Warm springs and probably not return hither till the last week in August. altho’ I have already overdrawn my funds in your hands, yet, as mentioned in mine of the 20 th some neighborhood transactions oblige me to...
1145Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 17 th and the account stating a balance in my favor of 39.67 and am glad to learn the rise in the price of flour. this is the more important as the quantity will be less & the quality worse. there will not be half a crop made in this part of the country. I mentioned to you in a former letter that I had committed all my plantations to the management of my...
1146From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday the inclosed letter from the President removing further suspense as to the application for your son, and inclose it to you with sincere pleasure and the assurance of my great esteem and respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
1147Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on his Account with Patrick Gibson, [ca. 22 May 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
a view of the quarterly balances in favor of mr Gibson in favor of Th:J. D c 1814. July 1. 752. 29 1814. Jan. 1.
1148Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this day setting out on my return to Monticello and have drawn on you in favor of mr Robertson for 230.96 D in my last letter from that place I mentioned that there were about 80. barrels of flour still to go from Albemarle . it turned out to be 96. of which 45. were sent off before I came away, and mr Tho s Eston Randolph (tenant of my mill) promised to send off the remaining 51. without...
1149Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall set out tomorrow on my return to Monticello , and this day draw on you in favor of the sheriff of Bedford for 133. D 80 C for the taxes of this place for the year, which I suppose will be presented about the usual time of the sheriffs going down. Doct r George Cabell carried down all or nearly all our flour & tobacco from this place and will of course call on you for the carriage, the...
1150Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I set out for Poplar forest tomorrow to be back on the 24 th and think it safe to send you my note for the Virginia bank lest it should be wanting. the others endorsed by my grandson go to Cap t Peyton his agent. I shall recieve a sum of money, in Bedford
1151Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Our late cold and snowy weather has prevented me for some days from riding as far as my mills, but I take for granted Johnson has now on board his boats, which are on their way down, about 100 Bar. of flour, which with a remnant of 20. or 30. Barrels still to go makes up the last years crop of this place of about 320. Barrels. from Bedford there will not be more than 30. Barrels, the fly...
1152Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 3 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A great rain having given us a full tide in our river William Johnson takes on board of two boats for me this mor n ing 120. barrels of flour, which will probably be with you near ly as early as you will recieve this by mail. I shall not therefor e borrow flour from mr Colclaser as I had proposed. I shall draw on you from our court to-day in favor of Samu el Carr for 199. D 68 C and for about...
1153Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 8 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1 st is recieved the last night & I no w return you the note corrected to 1530.D. as you advised. the balance of my account is greater than I was aware, at which I am the more concerned as our river is so extremely low as not to float an empty boat in any part in many parts . it will require one or two plentiful rains to enable us to send flour down of which there is much...
1154Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return here from Bedford I find your favor of July 11. covering my account to that date, balance in your favor 375.25 and I observe that a draught of mine of June 24. in favor of James Leitch for 120.D. is not entered which would add so much to the balance. to meet this I have 21. Bar. flour now in the mill to be forwarded by mr T. E. Randolph as soon as the state of the river will...
1155Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 11 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 30. came to hand yesterday and I now return the two notes signed, & with them a 3 d of which my grandson is endorser, which I will pray you to date & put in at it’s proper time. In my letter of Apr. 21. I mentioned the sale of tob o to mr Robertson amounting to 887.34 out of which I should have to pay him about 500.D. and that the balance should be remitted you. when I came...
1156Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Colclaser one of my mill tenants informs me he has sent forty odd barrels of flour, to be delivered to your order, and that he shall make it up 50. (a quarter’s rent) and if the river does not admit my sending 50. barrels more from the mill within a few days, I must get an order for that quantity on his stock in Richmond in exchange for so much of mine now in the mill. these supplies are...
1157Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 11 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter of the 5 th inst. from Col o W. C. Nicho las falls on me like a clap of thunder. in April was twelvemonth he requested me to endorse 2. notes for him of 10,000 D each, with an assurance that he would ask a continuance but for a year. I yeilded with much reluctance strongly manifested in my answer , and a reliance that it’s temporary limit would secure me. that limit being past, I was...
1158Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 2 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 28. is recieved. I had hoped that I had secured in your hands a sum of about 850.D. towards taking up my note of 1000.D. and that the flour to be sent down would secure the deficiency. but I see that the non-arrival of the tob o expected from Bedford , and short sale of the 16.B. flour (netting only 3.94) reduces that sum to 650.D. and the state of our river renders it but...
1159Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 16 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am entirely in despair, dear Sir, on account of the obstinate state of our river . such a thing has never been known before since the opening it’s navigation 50. years ago, that the drought of the summer which commence d in June shoul d meet the ice of the winter, without a single interval for a boat to make a trip. for of the 100. Bar. of flour I sent from her e Oct. 10. I learn that 60....
1160Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 11 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th is recieved just as I am setting out for Poplar forest to be absent 3 weeks. I inclose you a blank for the bank of Virginia , and another for the US. bank : the other for this last bank I have prepared, but my grandson not being here to indorse it, I shall, unless he comes before I depart, inclose it to him to indorse and forward. at Poplar forest I shall be able to...
1161Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 5. and 21. came to me yesterday at this place. I am extremely chagrined at the omission of my note to Col o Nicholas , and indebted to you for saving the failure. I cannot account for this slip of attention but by the pressure & hurry for several days of winding up business at Monticello , and the journey & reopeni ng business again at this place. I now inclose you a...
1162Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The term now approaching for the payment of my note to Th: J. Randolph for 1000.D. in the bank US. and other calls having obliged me to draw a part of the money left in your hands for that object I have taken a review of our transactions, as far as known to me, since the date of May 11. when the balance was 493.08 D in your favor, in order to see what sum is wanting to accomplish that note. it...
1163Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really afflicted at having suffered the renewal of my note to have escaped attention; and the more so as yours of Mar. 28 did not reach me till after the departure of our post yesterday, Monday and our next Richmond mail is not till Friday, 4 th the very day on which my note becomes due; and it will not reach you till the morning of the 6 th . but regret is useless, however sincerely...
1164Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th has by some accident lost a post, so that I am on this day only enabled to return you a blank note for renewal at the bank of Virginia , which I now do, with the assurance of my friendship and respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of a reused address cover from John Gorman to TJ; at foot of text: “ M r Gibson ”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure not found.
1165Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 23 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
After the departure of our mail of yesterday, I recieved a letter from mr Yancey at the Poplar Forest dated on the 12 th saying that on that day or the morrow a boat would leave Lynchburg with 7. hhds of my tob o weighing about 10,000 ℔. he speaks of 6. of them of excellent quality for which he could that day have 8 ½ .D. in Lynchburg . perhaps it would have been better he should have taken...
1166Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request of your letter of Apr. 30. I have this date day inclosed to Cap t Peyton my note to him for 1125.D. payable in the bank of Virginia to replace that for the same sum which you have hitherto been so kind as to endorse for me. the last account I have recieved from you was of Sep. 12. balance against me 27 262.72 which I hope has been paid up by the flour since consigned...
1167Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 25 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 25 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ stoppage of boats with 100.B. draughts for taxes.” Letter not found, but in his financial records for this day, TJ indicated that he had given Ira Garrett an order on Gibson for $124.57 to cover $103.83 for “my own taxes now due,” $4 for “tickets for myself,” and $16.74 for “tickets in suit Hudson , Th:J. &c. limestone lands” ( MB
1168Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of the 27 th and now return a renewed note for the bank of the US. but I am uneasy about that in the bank of Virginia , as I do not find on my memm book any later reme renewal than for Aug. 8 . would it not be better for me always to renew both together to lessen your trouble of applying to me. I would now do it but I understood from you that it must be on stamped...
1169From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 26 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a letter yesterday of which you will be free to make what use you please. this will contain matters not intended for the public eye. I see as you do, and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the states, and the consolidation in itself of all powers foreign and...
1170From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 9 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 31 st ult. and my grandson Th: J. Randolph having set out for Richmond the day before, I immediately inclosed the papers to him by mail, and informed him that I should be ready if thought necessary to bear testimony to the honorable character of our dec d friend, as I knew him. I am sorry to learn that you are among the sufferers by his misfortunes. I am...