6491Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th with 300.D. inclosed is duly recieved, and I now return you the note for the bank filled up with 2000.D. the additional 500 D. being intended to cover my draughts until I shall get some flour down. I am concerned to learn that flour is but at 5.D. in Richmond . I see by the prices current of Philada it is there at 10.D. and some gentlemen now with me & recently from...
6492Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Gibson to have twenty Dollars remitted to the bank of Fredericksburg subject to the order of mrs Mary Dangerfield of Coventry near that place. he is sorry that a circumstance which forbids his writing even the letter of notification obliges him to request mr Gibson to have such an one addressed to mrs Dangerfield of Coventry near Fredericksburg . PoC
6493Thomas 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...
6494Thomas 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...
6495Thomas 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...
6496Thomas 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.
6497From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 150. D. in Richmond bank bills to cover a draught I have this day made on you at sight in favor of Nathaniel Gordon of Orange or order for 133D. 25 I send from hence by a vessel bound for Richmond which sails tomorrow 10. casks, & 17. boxes, besides 3 or 4 boxes of which I do not know the marks & numbers. the captain’s reciept will be inclosed. I have written to mr...
6498Thomas 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...
6499Thomas 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...
6500From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
There were lately shipped for me from Philadelphia 1. box of grape vines, and 4. open boxes of Monthly strawberries from Italy. altho’ from the account I recieve of the latter they seem irrecoverable yet if there be any hope of life I would ask the favor of you to give them to any careful gardener in Richmond, who will hereafter furnish me with some roots from them, if they live. their value...