Thomas Jefferson Papers

John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1818

From John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson)

Richmd Apr 17h 1818

Sir

I have sent by Jas Johnsons boat to you Eleven cases wine & one of macaroni in good order—You will pay toll for passing the locks at Columbia—I wod wish Mr T. E. Randolph to be more explicit hereafter in sending your flour down as a great deal of trouble has been unnecessarily incurred by the boatman Eye’s not knowing where to deliver it—it has in consequence remained sometime in a hard rain & I fear is injured, it was put out at the lower end of the Basin Bank for Capn Peyton (the boatman Supposed it was for him) instead of being placed at my Lumber House

Yrs
P. Gibson
⅌ J G Robert

RC (MHi); addressed: “Thos Jefferson Esqr Monticello ⅌ Mr Johnson.”

Index Entries

  • boats; transfer goods and people to and from Richmond search
  • flour; transported to Richmond search
  • food; macaroni search
  • Gibson, Patrick; and shipments to TJ search
  • Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
  • Gibson, Patrick; and wine acquired by TJ search
  • Gibson, Patrick; letters from search
  • Gibson, Patrick; lumber house of search
  • Johnson, James (boatman) search
  • locks (canal) search
  • macaroni; sent to TJ search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
  • Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); boats of, transfer goods search
  • Richmond, Va.; boats transfer goods and people to and from search
  • Richmond, Va.; flour shipped to search
  • Rivanna River; locks on search
  • Robert, John Gibson; clerk for Gibson & Jefferson search
  • Robert, John Gibson; letters from search
  • weather; rain search
  • wine; sent to TJ search