1To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 24 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to beg your ade and assistance in my present Situation. I am an American born the state of Connecticut having been Brought up a Merchant, and about two years past I Came from New York in the French Packet to Lorient and Went from that to Paris, and was with Doctor Franklin Severell times. I allso was Introduced to Mr. Berkley the American Consull, who may be at Paris now. I Stayed in...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 30 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I Beg leave to Acquaint you, Since I wrote you the 24th Mr. Jno. Jinks, Merchant from Salem near Boston Came from Le Orient to se me, having their heard that I Was in Prison at Brest. This Gentleman was well Acquainted with me and my Business in America and in London. Mr. Jinks has gawn back to Le Orient, with an intent to pertision for my Releas, Providing I Should not be Set at Liberty When...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Brest Prison, 5 June 1786 . Hoped to have a reply to his letter of 24 May by the post which arrived from Paris the previous evening. Although he has petitioned a number of times, has not been able to obtain his trunk; the weather being cold when he took passage, he wore heavy clothes; now that it is warm, he is exceedingly uncomfortable; has not “Shifted a pair of Stockings these thirty days.”...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 9 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Suffer Me to Inform you that Mr. Chipindall, one of the English Creaditors to me which I Mentioned in my Letter of the 24th May, Returned to Brest from Paris and came to The Prison to See me and Made a Proposition of my Returning with him to England, Which I Refused, But Proposed if I Could have my Liberty Amediately at that time I would very [che]erfully Return to dunkirk and thier I would...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Brest Prison, 12 June 1786. Is sorry to trouble TJ so much but looks to him “as a Child to its Father”; was supposed to write “Mr. Jinks,” whom he mentioned in his letter of 29 [i.e. 30] May, at l’Orient but is deprived by the authorities of sending letters to that place, probably because the English gentlemen who visited him have prejudiced the officers against him; knows many Englishmen who...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 14 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Brest, 14 June 1786. Since his letter of 12 June, has learned that his trunk has been attached. The trunk contains nothing but clothes and a great many papers, including “Obligations on a Grate Number of different People in America Payable to my Order, Many of which Papers I am in the Gratest Want for to forward to My Agent, they are the Ground Work of all My Business and Property in America...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., and John Arnold, Jr., 19 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We received your letter of the 13th. June which mentions Capt. Cutting an American Coming to this Place who you depended upon to make such inquiries respecting our (affairs or) Confinement as would be necessary for your government. If you will Please to Remember we mentiond in our letter 24th May that the Comadant sent some of his officers to the prison with an interpretor the next day after...