Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1814
From Patrick Gibson
Richmond 20th April 1814—
Sir
I have received your favor of the 12th Inst and am happy to find that I have acted conformably to your wishes in holding up your flour, the repeal of the restrictive system brought into market a few purchasers at 5$, which I refused under an impression that it would in a short time be followed by an Armistice—this opinion altho generally prevalent has not tended to raise the price, for the present I hold what I have on hand at 5½$ & should be glad to meet with a purchaser—I have sold your 4 hhds Tobacco to Mr Vibert at $8.90—and should have obtained a higher price had not 2 of the Hhds been rather soft—The Cask of powder shall be sent by the first of the two boats you mention, which comes down—
Patrick Gibson
RC (ViU: TJP-ER); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqre”; endorsed by TJ as received 27 Apr. 1814 and so recorded in SJL.
Index Entries
- Embargo Act (1813); and TJ’s flour search
- Embargo Act (1813); repeal of search
- flour; price of search
- Gibson, Patrick; and gunpowder for TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters from search
- gunpowder; sent to TJ search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- tobacco; poor quality of TJ’s search
- tobacco; sale of search
- Vibert, Amice; purchases TJ’s tobacco search