61Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The time for renewing my note in the bank of Virginia being at hand I now inclose one for that purpose. altho’ I believe it should have been filled up with the sum of 1378.D. I have left it blank for fear of error. as the US. bank does not require a tow n subscriber endorser I relieve you from continuing the indorsement on my note to that bank for 2250.D. which I do with great pleasure and...
62Thomas 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
63Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I was so much engaged for some time before I left Monticello that it quite escaped me that my note in the Virginia bank must be near it’s term of renewal: and the failure occurs to me here where I have not your letter to remind me either of date or sum. thinking it must be over a thousand dollars I inclose you a note with a blank for the odd hundreds as well as for the date. by my last...
64Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th was recieved in due time. I do not know the exact date or amount of my note in the bank of Virginia , except that the latter is between 11. & 1200.D. I therefore inclose you a blank, hoping it is in time for renewal. I find myself so much declining by age and ill health in the attention and energy necessary for business that I am turning every thing over to my grandson...
65Thomas 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....
66Thomas 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...
67Thomas 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...
68Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 19 August [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
Your f avor of the 15 th came to hand last evening, an d I avail myself with pleasure of the opportunity of being useful to you afforded by the request it contains on behalf of your son . with the Secretary of the Navy I have not a personal acquaintance, and therefore can expect no other effect from my intercession, than an increased confidence, on his part, in the grounds on which your son...
69Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 5 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few days ago your favor of Aug. 27 . & have this day written to the President on it’s subject. he had left our neighborhood two or three weeks ago. I sincerely wish he may find it practicable to comply with your request, and assure you that nothing will gratify me more at any time than to be useful to you, and that I retain for you constant sentiments of friendship & respect. PoC...
70From 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...