1Thomas 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...
2Thomas 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...
3Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8 th is recieved with my acc t from July 10. to that day. these accounts alone enable me to settle my flour rents with those who owe them, and to know if they have delivered all which should be delivered. in proceeding to this examination for the last year, I am stopped short by a chasm in the acc ts which I possess from the 13 th of April to the 10 th of July. for this...
4Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th is recieved informing me you had then on hand 370.D. for which I could draw. accordingly on the 21 st I drew on you for 215.33 in favor of James Leitch , and on the 22 d for 150. in favor of
5Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 11 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The period for the renewal of my notes in the banks of Virginia & of the US. being now approaching, I inclose them to you for that purpose. I have not yet heard whether the boats which left Milton on the 10 th of October have got to Richmond yet. they are not returned here, nor is there water enough in the river to float an empty boat. The Collector of Norfolk writes me
6Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The first mail after the reciept of your favor of the 3 d instant , carries the present with the blank notes for renewal. M r Yancey assured me he would have my Bedford flour down in all November ; which I hope he has effected. I drew on you on the 7 th inst. in favor of Th: J.
7Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Johnson having called on me the morning he was loading and assuring me he should load two boats occasioned my letter of the 3 d . I learnt afterwards that one of his boats got broke into in two , which occasioned the disappointment. his boat is returned and is now at the mill and will take in a load for me tomorrow morning. I set out for Bedford in the morning to be absent 2. or 3. weeks. I...
8Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of 15 th . am sorry my awkwardness in business gives you so much trouble. I had supposed that the promisee of a note endorsing the note, authorised the holder to write over his signature an authority to recieve the money. I now correct the error by inclosing you a power of attorney from my grandson g i ving as fully as I know how to express it a power for the...
9Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th came to hand last night only, and we have no mail setting out for Richmond until the 17 th . I am sorry for this lapse, and had I known that unstamped paper (as that you inclose) would do, I would have prevented it. I now return you the two notes signed, and as I shall go to Bedford the 2 d week of April and not be back till the first week in May, I inclosed inclose a...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th has been rec d as was in due season. the former one to which you observe you had rec d no reply, the fact was that I had worn out the knees of my pantaloons in the humiliating posture of an eternal suppliant at the feet of the govmt begging favors for others. I became tired of it, and thought ought at length to pay some respect to my own character and to rise from the...
11Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 25 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not till I had sealed the inclosed that I turned to the settlement of my debt to the Van Staphorsts , which my memory had supposed a little under 2000. D each instalment, whereas I find it was a little over that sum, to wit 2083.20 D with interest @ 6. p.c. from Jan. 1. 1816 . there is still therefore a balance of 83.20 principal due to them with interest on the whole from Jan. 1. 1816...
12Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the notice in yours of the 16 th I now inclose blank notes for renewal in the banks. It was very unfortunate that the offer for my tobacco at Lynchburg was not accepted the sale at Richmond having yielded (after taking off the water carriage) but 5 ½ Doll. instead of 8 ½ at Lynchburg . it seems that the quality of that tob o is more prized there than at
13Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After writing the inclosed letter of yesterday your’s of the 18 th came to hand, informing me of the proposed curtailments of the US. bank . until I recieve your answer to the inclosed I cannot make a correct estimate of my funds & engagements. yet certainly to meet the suddenness of the curtailment I must avail myself of the discount which Col o Nicholas supposes can be had, and which will...
14Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th came to hand yesterday only. how it could have slumbered 15. days on the road is inexplicable but by great default. it happens in this case to produce no ill because on the day of the date of yours I had forwarded to you the notes desired, which you probably recieved a day or two after. I am really miserable at the state of our river , and the continuance of the most...
15Thomas 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...
16Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
While here, and at my usual season for settling the affairs of the year, I have taken a view of their present standing between us which I will here state as nearly as I can, setting out on the basis of your account of Feb. 8 . when 306. Barrels of flour had been sold & a balance of 724.15 D remained against me. D Apr. 7. the letter of this date states 288 B. rec d after Feb. 8. & sold for...
17Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 3 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 21 st is recieved, and with respect to the 14. barrels of condemned flour, I will pray you not to dispose of it at all, but to hold it subject to the order of Mess rs T. E. Randolph & Colclaser (tenants of my mill ) or of their agent. I find it absolutely necessary that a distinction should be observed in the different flours you recieve for me. these are of 3. diffe re nt masses....
18Thomas 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...
19Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 11 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My former letters had advised you that 100. Barrels of flour were sent off for me on the 10 th of October , of which a part only got down immediately, the rest remaining in this river for want of water first, and then ice-bound. I hope all is with you before this. the ice having broken up here on the 8 th inst. I sent off on the 9 th 197. Barrels by Wood ’s boats. these will at length supply...
20Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
As the time for renewal of my notes in the banks must now be at hand I inclose blanks for this purpose. there is another in the Farmer’s bank under the endorsement of Cap t Peyton for the discount on which I have requested him to call on you. I was sorry to percieve by your letter of Feb. 24 . that the pressure of the times on mercantile concerns had not yet abated. the long continuance of...
21Thomas 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...
22Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
After long delay for want of a tide we were enabled by the last rain to send off by Johnson ’s boats 106. (I think) barrels of flour to be delivered to you. from the mill too I expect mr T. E. Randolph has sent, or will immediately send 50. barrels of toll rent flour. besides placing you in safety as to my curtailments, these remittances will put you in funds to meet a draught I must make on...
23Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
my letter of yesterday had gone off, and the draughts therein mentioned had been delivered out of my hands, and I was in the moment of setting out for Rockfish gap , when your letter of the 27 th with the notification from the bank of the US. came to hand. that notification is really like a clap of thunder to me, for god knows I have no means in this world of raising money on so sudden a call;...
24Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your letter of July 27. just as I was setting out for this place and my company waiting for me. I wrote therefore the hasty thoughts of the 1 st moment. but after consideration on the road I wrote back to my grandson to begin the grinding my wheat instantly and sending it down as soon as ground. he can get down before the first curtailment as much as will supply that and will go on...
25Thomas 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...
26Thomas 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...
27Thomas 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...
28Thomas 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...
29Thomas 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....
30Thomas 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...
31Thomas 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...
32Thomas 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...
33Thomas 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...
34Thomas 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...
35Thomas 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...
36Thomas 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...
37From 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...
38Thomas 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....
39Thomas 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....
40Thomas 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...
41Thomas 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...
42Thomas 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;...
43Thomas 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...
44Thomas 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...
45Thomas 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...
46Thomas 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...
47Thomas 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...
48Thomas 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...
49Thomas 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...
50From 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.