1Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey and David Gelston, 9 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to a mr Ebenezer Herrick of West Stockbridge Mass. for a Spinning machine of his invention which he writes me he can more handily send to N. York than to any other port. I have taken the liberty to say to him that if he will commit it to you, you will be so kind as to have it embarked on board some vessel bound to Richmond . should any expence attend this, messieurs Gibson and...
2From James Madison to David Gelston, 24 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
¶ To David Gelston. Letter not found. 24 December 1805. Acknowledged in Gelston to JM , 27 Dec. 1805 , as containing two bills of exchange.
3From James Madison to David Gelston, 24 October 1800 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 24 October 1800. Acknowledged in Gelston to JM, 21 Nov. 1800 . Reassures Gelston that Virginia will cast all its electoral votes for Jefferson and Burr.
4From James Madison to David Gelston (Abstract), 25 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
25 May 1805, Department of State . “The District Attornies of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut & Massachusetts have been requested to send to your care the laws of their several States. They are intended for the use of the Government of the Michegan Territory, as are the laws of the U: States, which you will receive herewith. Be pleased to forward them to Govr. Hull at Detroit.” Letterbook...
5Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 28 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by the communication in your favors of the 21 st & 22 d of the arrival of my wines at New York , and still more by your kindness in undertaking to send them on to Richmond at once, without waiting my directions. that being my only port on tidewaters, and one from whence we have water carriage to my own landing, is of course the one to which every thing must come to me; & mess...
6Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 29 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to send letters to Paris , Marseilles & Leghorn I have supposed there was no port in the US. from which opportunities of conveyance were more likely to occur than that of New York : and I had too often had proofs of your kindness to doubt that you would do me the favor of giving a passage to the inclosed letters for those places. I ask this good office with the more pleasure as...
7From James Madison to David Gelston, 8 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
The impressment of the four seamen from on board the Brig Betsey, Henry White master, as stated in his protest just received from you, has from its manner attracted particular notice: I will therefore thank you to cause a supplemen[t]al deposition to be taken, explanatory of the following particulars, viz. was the name of the frigate making the impressment desig[n]edly concealed—what reasons...
8From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 14 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 26. was recieved on my return to this place. I have no information of a plough destined for me from England. but the Agricultural society of Paris informed me some time ago that they should send a plough for me to one of the ports of France, as a model. I presume this is the plough arrived, and that the vessel may have been carried into England. of the cost I know nothing,...
9From James Madison to David Gelston, 23 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Having received information that the British public armed Brig Busy is now in the port of New York, I take occasion to request you will be pleased to inform me as soon convenient, from such sources of information as you may have access to, what ground there is for a publication lately made in the public papers, that, except two, who were liberated from the Busy since her arrival on the coast,...
10Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 16 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 26. was recieved a few days ago, and I have this day written to my correspondents in Richmond , mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to desire them to remit you the amount of the account you inclosed me , to wit 89.11 D which I trust they will do without delay. I am very thankful to you for your kind offices on this & similar occasions which I could with much difficulty arrange...
11From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 30 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from Mr. Lee at Bordeaux I learn he has shipped for me to your address five cases of Bordeaux wines and 3. cases of preserves, the cost of the former 738.₶ of the latter not mentioned. I inclose you the bill of lading and will ask the favor of you to have the cases forwarded to this place by the first vessel, and to be so good as to inform me of the amount of duties & other charges...
12From James Madison to David Gelston, 5 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 November 1804, Department of State. “I have recd. your private letter of the 12th. Octr. [not found] and beg leave to inform you that the 3d. instalment of your claim will not be received from the British Government until the 15th. July next; and that if drawn for upon Mr. Erving before the 1st. of Sepr. next, it will not be transferred to the United States.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59,...
13Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 2 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 26. and lose no time in replying to it. if a conveyance by a coasting vessel to Norfolk or Richmond can be found it is so much the simplest that I should prefer it, notwithstand g the risk brought on by the war. but the enemy have not yet had time to spread their privateers on our coast, nor have their ships of war as yet had time to catch our swift...
14Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 3 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Gelston and his thanks for the pumpkin seed he has been so kind as to send him . he will with pleasure give them a trial; the pumpkin being a plant of which he endeavors every year to raise so many as to maintain all the stock on his farms from the time they come till frost, which is from 2. to 3. months. besides feeding his workhorses, cattle &...
15From James Madison to David Gelston, [15 May 1809] (Madison Papers)
I am favored with yours of the 11th. and thank you for your promised attention to the Wine &c. from Lisbon. If the wine should not be cased, I beg that you will be good eno’ to have that precaution taken agst. injury on its way to this City. Accept my respects RC (owned by Marshall B. Coyne, Washington, D.C., 1987). Calendared in PJM-PS Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James...
16From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 9 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Gelston for having forwarded the Stylograph recieved from Majr. Hunt, which came safely to hand. he has no information what it cost, in order to ascertain the duty; but observes by a printed advertisement that those of the highest price (folio) are 4. guineas in London, the middle price 3. guineas, the lowest (8vo.) 2. Guineas. his being a 4to. is...
17From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 21 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Hoping that the present favorable change of weather will re-establish the health of New York, and restore it’s commercial communications, I take the liberty of recalling to your mind your letter of July 23. in which you mentioned that you had recieved from mr Appleton a bill of lading for 10. cases of Tuscan wine, & that you would forward the wine. I presume the wine itself arrived and now ask...
18From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Two tierces of cotton seed sent me from Savanna to Baltimore I have desired messrs. Falls & Brown of that place to forward by the first vessel to New York in the hope they may arrive there before the departure of the public vessel bound from thence to France. should they arrive in time I will pray you to put them on board that vessel, with a card on them addressed to ‘M. Sylvestre Secretary of...
19From James Madison to David Gelston, 6 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I think it proper to apprize you that it being intended that two persons should have a passage in the dispatch Vessel you are authorized to engage, according to the reservation made in behalf of the Government. It will be well for you to let it be so understood by the Owner of the Vessel, that he may make his arrangements accordingly. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
20From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 20 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Gelston, acknoleges the reciept of his letter of the 4th. (since his return to this place) and will thank him to forward the two boxes of wine to this place or neighborhood by the first vessel. he will also, at his convenience, be so kind as to inform Th:J. of the reimbursements he has to make him. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
21Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 18 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 11 th came to hand last night. supposing that mr Gibson will have sent on the former sum of 89.11 as mentioned in my letter of the 16 th before I could advise him to enlarge it, I have thought it best to inclose to you directly the additional sum of 6.60 D in Richmond bank notes which we understand to be at par in N. York , or if not exactly so the fractional cents on the...
22From James Madison to David Gelston, 16 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 July 1811, Washington. “The smallness of the sum, and the probability that it might be augmented by some further advances, have occasioned a delay in remitting $11.81. due to you, as intimated in your letter of Octobr. 5. last .” Encloses a draft for the sum on the Manhattan Bank. RC ( NNMus ). 1 p. Docketed by Gelston. See PJM-PS Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison:...
23Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of Feb. 6. you were so kind as to inform me that you had that day shipped my wines on board the schooner Brilliant , Cap t Black , belonging to Richmond . having heard nothing of her since, and that date having been followed by a month of dreadful weather , I am become quite uneasy lest some accident should have befallen her. it is to relieve this that I trouble you to say in a...
24Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 27 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 21 st and at the same time an invoice of the books from Debure , cost 19 180. ƒ charges 11–50 making 191–50 ƒ which invoice I now inclose you with a request of it’s return , with notice of the duties and charges for which I shall be your debtor. the sum being too small to be remitted by a draught, I will inclose it in a bank bill with an allowance for...
25From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 5 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 9. was recieved in due time, & the articles mentioned in it are safely arrived. I now inclose you a draught of the US. bank here on that at N.Y. for 13.50 D which covers your account of 11. D. for duties &c, and I have taken the liberty of including with it 2.50 D for a mr D. Frazer of N. York author of a book entitled the ‘History of Man’ printed by Southwark & Hardcastle...
26Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 18 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 31. did not come to hand but by yesterday’s mail, delayed I presume by the late extraordinary floods . it brings me the first notice of the arrival of my books which I have been 3. or 4. months expecting . them but I have not yet recieved either invoice or letter. as we ought to suppose they came by the same ship, tomorrow’s mail may perhaps bring them, in which case you...
27Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 1 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home after some absence I found here your favor s of Sep. 2 & 15. stating the amount of freight & duties on my books at 7.75 D Having no medium of remittance but in the bills of our banks I inclose 8.D. presuming they are negociable with you, and that the fractional surplus may cover their discount at market. I salute you with continued friendship & respect. RC ( William Doyle...
28From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 8 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor announcing the shipment of one of the pipes of wine from mr Jarvis for this place, and I have heard of it’s safe arrival at Alexandria. I now inclose a draught of the bank of the US. of this place on that at N. York for 51.48 D the sum you had been so kind as to advance for me on it. Accept my salutations & assurances of esteem & respect MHi : Coolidge Collection.
29From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
After writing the within it occurred that the Vice President might have left New York. I therefore think it best to inclose it open to you for perusal, & to desire you to do immediately what is therein desired to be done by you, & then seal & have the letter delivered to the V. President, saying nothing of it’s contents to any other person. I pray you to lose not a moment in taking &...
30From James Madison to David Gelston, 19 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has communicated to me the report made to you by the British Ship of War Chichester on her entering the harbour of New York. As it does not appear what species of stores she has been sent to procure, I have thought it necessary to remind you, that she cannot be permitted to receive any articles of contraband of war nor any equipments of a nature merely applicable...