1Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Darmsdatt, 30 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really very thankful to you for the patience with which you have waited for the paiment I should have made you. I am one of the unfortunate on whom the blockade came before I had sold a barrel of my flour. I am now authorising mr Gibson to sell it for 4.D. which after the expence of barrel grinding & transporting, neats me 2½ D. a barrel or 47. cents a bushel for my wheat. in the mean...