1From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of messrs. Gibson & Jefferson to send him by the first boat 1. doz. teacups & 1. doz. saucers of china of midling quality, also 1. doz half pint tumblers and 1. doz. of a still smaller size, say a jill. the barrel form is preferred if to be had. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
2From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you in Richmond bank bills 970. Dollars, and have this day drawn on you in favor of Charles Smith of Louisa for 621 . D. James Oldham 100 .
3From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having to remit the sum of 100. D. to Mr. John W. Eppes, and not certain of the safety of the post between him and Richmond, I have thought it better to deposit the sum with you subject to his order. I therefore inclose you a postnote of the Richmond bank in favor of W. A. Burwell & indorsed by him to yourselves, which be pleased to recieve & pay to the order of mr Eppes. Accept my friendly...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 23 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to procure & forward for me to Monticello two or three dozen bottles of Syrop of punch by the first boats? MHi : Coolidge Collection.
5From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 1. is recieved, and the sale of the tobacco as therein mentioned is approved. the terms of 3. 4. and 5. months being long, might they not be reduced to 1. 2 & 3. by taking notes from the purchasers negociable at the Richmond bank? this would of course make to us the difference of the discount, which would be of little consideration: but it must depend on the form of the...
6From 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.
7Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 September 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a bill of exchange for 988.03. D drawn by Smiths & Morrison of New Orleans on Brown & Hollins of Baltimore at 60. days sight. to shorten the term a little, as a post was setting out for Baltimore direct, and I was intimately acquainted with mr Hollins , I inclosed the 2 d of Exchange to himself, and he will have recieved it before the Richmond mail carrying this will have left...
8Thomas 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...
9Thomas 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...
10Thomas 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...
11Thomas 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
12Thomas 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
13Thomas 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...
14Thomas 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...
15Thomas 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.
16Thomas 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...
17Thomas 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...
18Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 4 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In a separate letter of this date I have written to you on Mazzei’s business, and in this I inclose a plan of his lot, omitted to be put under cover of that. I am engaged in the blowing of rocks with gunpowder and my stock being nearly out, and none to be had here, I must ask the favor of you to procure & send me a keg of 25.℔. to be packed in an outer one or in an external box, & forwarded by...
19Thomas 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...
20Thomas 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...
21Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter of the 12 th inst. from my manager in Bedford he informed me that his first load of flour was engaged to start from Lynchburg on the 15 th inst & that the whole would be sent off the same week. there are there about 140 barrels. from this place I have at length got off 60. barrels by Johnson who will now continue steadily to carry it down till all is done. the quantity here will be...
22From 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...
23Thomas 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...
24Thomas 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...
25Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 16 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The enemy, contrary to expectations, still continuing in our waters and indicating by no movement an intention of speedy departure, with the rapid advance of the season, begin to fill me with anxiety as to the fate of my crop of flour. and I am becoming more concerned to get some price, than what that price shall be, on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread. engagements...
26Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Edmund Randolph’s indisposition has probably prevented as yet his attendance at his court to acknolege and forward the deed for mr Mazzei’s lot. the first court of Albemarle after he shall have forwarded it to me, it shall be dispatched. I presume that the deed having been actually executed, as before advised, the delay of the formality of acknolegement will occasion no hesitation in mr...
27Thomas 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
28Thomas 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...
29Thomas 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...
30Thomas 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...
31Thomas 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...
32Thomas 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...
33Thomas 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
34From 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...
35Thomas 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...
36Thomas 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...
37Thomas 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...
38Thomas 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...
39Thomas 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...
40Thomas 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;...
41Thomas 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...
42Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 29 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the day before yesterday mr Edmund Randolph’s answer that he would execute any deed I should desire for mr Mazzei which should bind go to warrant only against himself & his heirs. I have thought it best to make a statement of the title which the purchaser may consider, and verify every material part of it for himself by the records at Richmond . he will see that the title is so...
43Thomas 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...
44Thomas 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....
45Thomas 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...
46Thomas 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,...
47Thomas 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...
48Thomas 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...
49Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d came to hand after the return of our post. the afflicting news of the death of my relation & our mutual friend had reached us thro’ the public papers two or three days before, and I have since recieved a particular account of it from his fellow passenger mr Fontaine Maury . of a worthier man death can never deprive us. altho’ his intention intended return was unexplained,...
50Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 August 1813 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I drew on you lately for 43. D 27 C in favor of the Mutual assurance company , and must now ask the favor of you to send me by the return of post one hundred Dollars in bills from 20. to 5. D. I find it will be indispensable to reinstate 1500.D. of my late note in the bank: for within a fortnight of from this time I shall be obliged to draw on you from Bedford for 600.D. in favor of Brown &...