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I received your favor of the 24 th and shall attend to your instructions relative to your old Albemarle crop, I expected to have given you the requisite information for this mail, but find the hands at Shockoe so much engaged, that it cannot be open’d until the last of the week— fine Tobaccos sell very readily at from 7 to 9$ at this last price m r Bruce sold his crop; at the same time Tob o...
Having at length succeeded in getting your Tobacco reviewed I shall now give you my opinion of it corroborated by the judgement of some of my friends who are more in the habit of purchasing and shipping— N os 2593 & 2032 bright-col r good order & well flav d worth about 6 ½ $ 〃 2031 dark 〃 mix’d & tolerably well flav d 〃
We wrote to you on the 9 th Ins t with a copy of your Sales and Account Current to which we refer you—As the writer is under the necessity of leaving town tomorrow and may possibly be detained longer than he at present proposes, we take the liberty of forwarding you a note for your signature, we leave the amount blank, that you may fill it up with whatever sum may suit your wants— O. Philpotts...
How shall I find words to express to you my dear Sir the grief I feel in having to communicate the mournful and afflicting intelligence of the unhappy fate of my ever to be regretted and most valued friend M r Geo. Jefferson Alas! he is now no more, the memory of his transcendant worth is all that is left to us—You who have long known and esteem’d his virtues, must bitterly deplore his death,...
We refer you to ours by last mail, and have at present merely to inform you that since then wheat & flour have been rising, the former is 10/. the latter 9½ Cash for Canal flour and 10$ asked by the millers on time. these prices may be expected to continue, provided no measures are adopted by Congress to put a stop to our present mode of export RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); in Patrick Gibson’s hand; at...
We are favor’d with yours of the 23 d the drafts therein mention’d are all paid—we now send you inclosed $300 as desired— Flour is in great demand, and none to be procured, the millers having engaged all they can grind for at least a week to come and in consequence of the dry season very little has been coming down the nominal price is 10½$—Wheat only 9/6—With great respect we are RC ( ViU :...
Your note at bank for $3000. falling due the 17/20 Ins t we send you one here inclosed for your signature— Flour 10½$ Wheat 9/6—With great respect we are— RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); in Patrick Gibson’s hand; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”; endorsed by TJ as received 6 Nov. 1812 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not found. SJL records a missing letter from TJ to Gibson & Jefferson of 7...
We hand you inclosed your Account Curr t to the 31 st Ult o balanced by $3301.90 at your debit since then we have paid a draft of Cha s Simms of Alex a for $15.95, being cha s on articles shipp’d for you by him— Your bond to B: Griffin for $700 chargeable with interest from June and payable at our counting room in December, we took up (partly to accommodate
I received by last post your two letters of the 4 th .—on looking over your letters for 1807 I find the one to which you allude of the 5 th Sept r but none subsequent to it make any mention of the power of Attorney, and as it is not amongst our papers I presume it was not sent In making further enquiry respecting the value of this property, I am happy to state that if you are willing to...
I have received your favor of the 26 th Ult o and in conformity thereto have accepted the offer made through M r Taylor of 50$ p r foot front, the credit I had agreed to extend to 60 d /. 120 d /. & 180 d /.—it is understood that this is to commence from the time a sufficient conveyance is made— We have received 201 bls: of your flour, 60 of which from Shadwell
I have received your favors of the 7 th & 11 th with your note for $4300. and John Harvie’s for $176.90 which Jn o Brockenbrough has promised to pay to day— I remitted on the day I last wrote to you the $97 to Alricks and the $250 to J: A: Goodman
I have been prevented from writing to you sooner in consequence of the dilatoriness of M r W m Marshall whom M r Taylor had employed to examine the records and make out the bill of Sale for Mazzei’s two lots—I have this moment obtained it from him and send it you here inclosed— it requires if I understood him right, your signature and that of M r Randolph and I think must be certified to in...
I wrote to you by last mail , inclosing for your signature and that of M r Randolph a bill of Sale for Mazzei’s two lots, which deed you will observe has been drawn by M r Marshall upon the presumption that M r Mazzei is a citizen of the
I wrote you on the 28 th of last month , inclosing a deed of Sale for Mazzeis property, and also a note for your signature to renew the one in bank due 25/28 th Ins t and on the 4 th Ins t I inform’d you that I had sold 221 bls: of your flour at 6$ S r fine—not having had the pleasure of hearing from you in reply, I am induced to believe you must have set out for
I have received your two letters of the 20 th & 25 th Ins t the former inclosing mazzeis power of Attorney which is satisfactory to M r Taylor the notes shall be dated from the 17 th — I regret extremely not having disposed of the whole of your flour at the time I sold the last, it is next to impossible at present to force a sale at any price; it is selling from the waggons at 4½$ and paid for...
M r Taylor informs me that being about to leave town and expecting to be absent when his notes will fall due, he would prefer taking them up now provided a liberal discount were allowed and requested that I would propose it to you—his offer is $6250 in money—I am induced to mention it to you under an impression that it might be to the interest of M r Mazzei to take advantage of the present low...
I am sorry to inform you that it has not yet been in my power to sell your flour I do not know what price could be obtain’d for it were it put up to the highest bidder but it has been and is offering at $4 without a purchaser; be pleased to say whether I shall dispose of it at such a price as I can obtain or wait some favorable change m r Taylor has lodged $6,000 in my hands on account of the...
In compliance with your favor of the 20 th I have remitted to M r Hooe and Judge Holmes the sums mention’d and now send you inclosed $700 in such notes as you directed, the chocolate will be sent by the mail stage— Your dft in favor of David Higginbotham is paid— I shall send you a statement of the sale to M r Taylor
M r Derieux called upon me a few days ago not a little alarmed by the letter he had just received from you , and in consequence of the late intelligence you have received relative to M r Mazzei he relinquishes all the claim, over the property in question, which he would have consider’d himself entitled to, had M r M: been dead previous to the sale—he appears to be extremely uneasy at the...
I have received your favor of the 30 th Ult o and shall attend to the several drafts therein mention’d Your note in bank fell due on the 30 th and was paid, as you supposed it probable that your demands would exceed the amount in hand I have had Judah’s note discounted so that you may consider the whole as received— I have not yet been able to recover the money from Philpots for the 4 Hhd s Tob o
I have received your favor of the 10 th and agreeably to your request send you inclosed one hundred dollars in small notes, together with a promisary note of $1500. for your signature—the date you will be pleased to leave blank— Your several drafts shall be duly attended to— The deed for M r Taylor shall be given to him on his return from the Springs —With great respect I am RC ( ViU : TJP-ER...
I am favord with your letter of the 6 th Ins t and shall attend to the several dfts as they appear, I now send you inclosed $300 in small notes—as also a note for renewal on the 29 th Ins t for your signature— I have this moment learnt from M r Higginbotham that he is going up immediately, and as there is some risk in sending notes by the mail, I have asked the favor of
I send you inclosed as requested in yours of the 9 th Ins t one hundred dollars in small notes— but little change has taken place in the price of flour, it is, if anything more dull, sales have been made on the basin at 4¾ and a little at 4½$, our mill flour has been sold at 5$ on 4 months Very respectfully I am RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”;...
Your note for $2000– in bank falls due on the 28 th /31 st Ins t to enable me to renew it I now send you inclosed a stamp for your signature which I will thank you to return to me in course of post, that is, so as to be here with the mail which arrives on Wednesday it had entirely escaped my recollection or I should have written to you sooner upon the subject— I have received three loads of...
Y our two favors of the 24 th are received and agreeably to your desire I send you inclosed $75 in notes— no sale whatever for flour, the little wheat brought to market is purchased by the millers at 3/.— With great respect I am RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Gibson & Jefferson received 3 Jan. 1814 and so recorded in SJL .
Since the arrival of the Cartel at Annapolis bringing dispatches from England to our Government, there has been much speculation in our market, founded upon the supposition that peace would either directly or indirectly grow out of it —flour which last week would not command 4$ has this week been sold at 5½ Cash & 5¾$ 60 d /.—these still continue to be the prices, altho little is now doing—...
Immediately after my letter to you of the 8 th Ins t the price of flour became nominal, the few orders which had been received from Alexandria were complied with and no further purchases were made, so that, when on monday I received your favor of the 13 th and endeavour’d according to your directions to effect a sale, I found that even 5$ could not be obtain’d—I have still hopes of getting...
I send you by M r Johnson such parts of the nail rod mention’d in your letter of the 26 th Ult o as I have been able to procure together with the Corks & powder as p r Mem n at foot— nothing has been doing in Flour since I wrote you last, the price is nominally 4½$— With great respect I am Of Sam l G. Adams
Your note in bank for $2000. falling due on the 1 st /4 th of next month, I send you one inclosed for your signature, the prospect of peace altho’ distant has had very considerable influence upon our Tobacco market, fine crops have been sold at from 9 to 10$ and for a few choice hhd s 12 and as high as 13.6 has been paid, low qualities have risen in a greater ratio under an expectation of an...
I wrote to you by last mail inclosing a note for your signature to renew the one in bank due the 4 th Ins t and am apprehensive it may not be received in time to meet it, having again too long delayed forwarding it, I shall however pay the one due on Friday and offer the new one when received— You will have observed by my letter that the information you had received relative to flour was...