Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1818
From Patrick Gibson
Richmond 30th May 1818—
Sir
Our banks being still unwilling to draw upon the North on the receipt of your favor of the 13th Inst—I wrote to Messrs LeRoy & Bayard to draw upon me for the amount due by you which they have done say $2387.69 which is placed to your debit.1 I have not received from Mr Robertson the money you mentiond in your letter of the 21st ulto—Mr Thomas E Randolph has sent down by his own boat, Twenty seven barrels flour on your account, which have been ducked by the breaking of the boat, I have not yet been able to dispose of them, but shall do so, as soon as possible—I inclose you two notes for your signature—The Virga bank is curtailing 25 pr Ct on permt paper—I shall however put in yours for the full amount, and reduce my own for the present—
Patrick Gibson
1st June. I have sold your 27 bls: damag’d flour to S J. Crump at 6½$—I got the Inspector to examine the quality, who said that if sound he could not have passed them for more than x midgs & fine—
RC (MHi); between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esqre”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 June 1818 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures not found.
x midgs: “cross middlings.”
1. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- Crump, Sterling Jamieson; purchases TJ’s flour search
- currency; paper search
- flour; sale of search
- flour; shipment of search
- Gibson, Patrick; account with TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; lines of credit in Europe search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- LeRoy, Bayard & Company (New York firm); and TJ’s lines of credit in Europe search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); account with TJ search
- Robertson, Archibald; and payments for TJ search