1Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 17 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th came to hand last night, and confirms what I had not doubted that the error stated by mr Dufief had happened at Philadelphia . if the same has taken place with mr Steele the collector I shall be happy that it be corrected; because I feel much obligation to the Collectors for their kindness respecting these parcels. I should not have troubled you with this but that I...
2Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in December from M r Dufief of Philadelphia a letter of the 16 th of that month informing me he had not recieved a sum of 31.D. which I had notified to him that you would be so kind as to remit him. I immediately inclosed him the sum in bank notes. a few days short time after this, say Jan. 19. your favor of the 16 th came to hand inclosing my account, in which I found the...
3Thomas Jefferson to James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson), 15 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that mr Gibson is too unwell to attend to business, I take the liberty of addressing to yourself directly a request of my account from the last period to which it was rendered (Sep. 1 st ) to the end of the year, that I may make my arrangements accordingly. in my letter of Dec. 28. I mentioned that a purchase of corn would require me to draw about this time for between 500. &...
4Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 28 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A load of flour was sent off from hence a few days ago, and another will follow within two or three days. that from Bedford is of necessity later, it’s distance from Lynchburg rendering it impracticable to be sent there until they have done all their fall seeding. mr Yancey informs me he will not be able to get his tobacco down till March. My grandson is the bearer of an order for 220.D. and I...
5Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford yesterday, I found here a letter from mr Elisha Ticknor of Boston informing me he had on the 16 th of Nov. shipped a small package of books recieved for me from Europe on board the brig Polly , Cap t Snow , to your address, the cost of which were 45. D 25 C as he has been kind enough to advance this money for me some time ago, I must request the favor of you to remit...
6Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been here about a month and shall now within a day or two set out on my return to Monticello . on winding up my here I find my debts amount to 222.D. which sum I recieve from mr Robertson , and draw for the same on you in his favor. I found on my arrival here that mr Yancey had preferred employing the teams in getting in the new crop sown, rather than in carrying the old to Lynchburg :...
7Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 16 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Johnson ’s boat, and one of mr Eston Randolph ’s went off yesterday afternoon with between 90 & 100 barrels of flour for me & would haul their boats round Magruder ’s locks, which by unloading & reloading, they say, is practicable. Johnson on his return will take off another load for me. in Bedford as we are 11. miles from the Lynchburg mills, and our horses all engage g
8Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, [8] October 1816, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
The navigation of our river above M c Gruder ’s locking locks having been suspended by their being out of order for 2. or 3. weeks past, and likely to continue so some days longer, I am obliged to send a small cart for a part of the wines which I expect have been lodged with you for me from Alexandria , New york & Norfolk . I give to the bearer a paper of directions
9Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 13 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Since sending you my letter of the 10th to the post office a call of 200 D. is made upon me which had been agreed to be delayed until my produce should have been sold in the next spring but the party assigned it to another who now required it without regard to that arrangement. I am obliged to draw for it on you in favor of Branham & Jones of Charlottesville . I do this with reluctance because...
10Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that the 4. cases of wine shipped for me from Alexandria are arrived with you, and the state of our river rendering it improbable that it can be brought up than that under a month or six weeks, I send the bearer with a small cart, and pray you to deliver to him two cases. the other two may wait for either Johnson or Gilmore . if you can procure for me & send by him also a cheese...
11Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 17 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Mar. 24. I mentioned that I should have occasion to draw on you in favor of Doct r Fernandes of Norfolk for the am t of one or two quarter casks of wine. one only has been furnished, and I have just recieved a letter from him of July 12. informing me the price was 63. D 81 C for which he would draw on you. be so good as to pay his draught & accept the assurance of my great...
12Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have j In my letter of June 8. I mentioned the arrival from Marseilles of some wines for me at Philadelphia and Alexandria on which there would be some duties, freight & port charges to pay, which I must ask the favor of you to remit for me. the 2 boxes from Philadelphia I presume have come to hand; and I have just recieved a letter from Col o Simms
13Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 8 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In July last you were so kind as to remit for me to John Vaughan 550.D. this was for wines and books I ordered from Marseilles , Leghorn & Paris . these articles are just now beginning to arrive in different ports of the US. 2. boxes (one containing wine) which had arrived from Marseilles in Philadelphia were shipped by the Collector
14Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford on the 3 d inst. I found here your favor of Apr. 27. and that of the 10 th int inst . is now recieved, inclosing an accout account of sales of my flour. I am glad it is so well sold, as I had begun to apprehend worse. while in Bedford
15Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18 th is recieved, and informs me how much the quality of my tob o falls short of what I had been given to expect. this afflicts me not merely as to the first loss, but also as it injures the reputation of that tob o which has heretofore commanded high prices. the present loss too is very inopportune sensibly felt. short as my crops both of flour & tob o turned out the last...
16Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Feb. 14. and Mar. 13 . were duly recieved. the last came to hand so as to allow time merely to reinclose my renewed note by return of the mail. The inexactitude of my mill-tenants has sometimes led me into erroneous information to you as to flour sent down on my account. I have lately obtained from mr T. E. Randolph a statement of all sent from Oct. 12 17 . 1814. to Feb. 21....
17Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 8 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Being uneasy at the delay of my tob o in Bedford , I lately sent an express there to be ascertained as to it’s departure. mr Yancey informs me by that, that it is all at Lynchburg , that he has contracted with D r Cabell to send the whole on the return of his boats which were then down, and makes himself responsible it shall leave Lynchburg by the 10 th this being the season for the to which...
18Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you an order on D r Thornton for 150. Dollars which he informed me he was ready to pay on demand as also mr John Harvie ’s bond for 104.56 D due on the 1 st prox. which D r Brockenborough will I suppose pay as usual when due. I have this day given an order in favor of W m Marshall for 13.91 D and something additional for clerks tickets which the order will explain. I shall have...
19Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My calls for money being here, and my grandson having to transfer the monies of his collection to Richmond it is a mutual convenience to give him my draughts on you in exchange for cash here, inasmuch as it saves to us both the hazards of the road. I have accordingly this day drawn on you in his favor for 446. D 25 c which (if my tob o should not be arrived) be so good as to cover by a sale of...
20Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The ice of our river has at length broke up, which enables us to get off this day 3. or 4. loads of flour, which, the tide being good, will be with you nearly as soon as this letter. the boatmen will call on you for their pay @ 3/6 per barrel. mr Yancey some weeks ago informed me that such was the press of tob o going from Lynchburg , that flour could not then be got down under 15/ a barrel, &...
21Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 2 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 22. is recieved, and I now return the note with my signature. what you mention of the boat load of 35. barrels of flour mentioned in mine of Oct. 28. not having been delivered; is the first notice I have of that failure, and the 2 d time I have been misinformed in the same manner. the tenants of my mill are bound to de liver their rent of fifty odd barrels a quarter at...
22Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall leave this place tomorrow on my return to Monticello from which I have been absent ever since the date of mine of Oct. 28. so that if you have favored me with any line since that time it will be unrecieved until I get back. some necessary plantation demands have oblige me to draw on you this day in fav r of A. Robertson for 112.65 which I do with reluctance but of necessity .
23Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 28 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24 th was recieved yesterday. I did not know that the bank had determined to curtail their discounts, which lays me under the greater obligations to you, for indeed I should have been much distressed without the accomodation. my taxes here and some demands not regularly payable till the spring were so urged as to embarras me. being to set out for Bedford tomorrow; I have...
24Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Our late letters have happened to cross one another by the way, the messenger which carried mine of the 17 th to the Post office having brought on his return yours of the 10 th . I regret much the accident which prevented my note for the bank being in time for the term of renewal, and am very thankful for your having supplied it with your own. this shall not happen again. the object of the...
25Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 17 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from Bedford on the 29 th of Sep. and again on the 6 th inst. on my arrival here. since that date 35. barrels of flour have been shipped from my mill on my account by T. M. & T. E. Randolph ’s for rent, being instead of so much of 55. Bar. formerly shipped for me, but their destination changed as noted in a former letter. I in my last I requested to hear from you on the discount of...
26Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from Poplar Forest on the 29 th Ult. covering a blank note for the renewal of my former note in bank with an addition: the messenger which carried that letter to Lynchburg brought me your two favors of Aug. 28. & Sep. 21. I am persuaded the former had laid long in the post office, altho I had never failed once or twice a week to have enquiry made there for letters. I very much...
27Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been here since the 20 th of the last month, and am now within two or three days of my departure for Monticello . during this time no letters addressed to me have been transmitted on account of the slowness and uncertainty of the cross mail between the two places. I do not exactly know how I stand on your books, but my impression is that when I left Monticello I had nearly or quite...
28Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 19 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
since my last I have drawn on you in favor of Dabney Carr for 68. D 10 L. H. Girardin 25.D. Joseph Milligan 92.D. and this day in favor of Th: J. Randolph for 275.D. I set out tomorrow for Bedford , and shall probably be there to the last of the next month. Not knowing the day when my note of 1000.D. in bank will need renewal, I must ask the favor of you to notify me
29Thomas 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...
30Thomas 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...
31Thomas 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...
32Thomas 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...
33Thomas 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
34Thomas 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...
35Thomas 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...
36Thomas 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...
37Thomas 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...
38Thomas 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...
39Thomas 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...
40Thomas 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...
41Thomas 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, &...
42Thomas 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....
43Thomas 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’...
44Thomas 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...
45Thomas 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...
46Thomas 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.
47Thomas 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,...
48Thomas 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...
49Thomas 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...
50Thomas 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...