Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1818
From Patrick Gibson
Richmond 11th March 1818—
Sir
I have again neglected until I fear too late sending up notes for your signature—your note in the US. Bank for $3000 is due the 18th: I must endeavour to pass one pro. tem. I have not been able to make any further sale of your flour it is now 10$ and from the quantity now here and what we may reasonably look for from the mountains—I am rather induced to think it will fall than rise—I shall however hold yours as you direct—
Patrick Gibson
Your wines were recd last eveng & Capn Peyton informed me this morng that he had got a boat to take a box up.
RC (MHi); postscript, in an unidentified hand, adjacent to closing and signature; between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esqre”; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Mar. 1818 and so recorded in SJL.
The enclosed notes requiring TJ’s signature, not found, were to be used by Gibson to renew TJ’s loan of $3,000 with the Second Bank of the United States and of $2,000 with the Bank of Virginia (, 2:1342).
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- boats; transfer goods and people to and from Richmond search
- flour; price of search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of the United States search
- Gibson, Patrick; and wine acquired by TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of the United States search
- Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
- Richmond, Va.; boats transfer goods and people to and from search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- wine; sent to TJ search