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Richard Henry Lee to Thomas Jefferson, May 11, 1778
York the 11th of May 1778 Dear Sir We have once more ventured into the field of composition as the inclosed Address will shew you. And I have the pleasure…
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Letters from 1778
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Richard Henry Lee to Thomas Jefferson, May 3, 1778
York 3d. May 1778 Dear Sir Having detained the Express that he might carry you the news that we heard was on its way from France, I am furnished with…
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Richard Henry Lee to Thomas Jefferson, May 2, 1778
York May 2. 1778. Dear Sir We are this moment made acquainted by the War Office that an Express was immediately to depart for Virginia, and I take the opportunity…
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Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, February 26, 1778
Monticello Feb. 26. 1778. Dear Sir Having been unable to get waggons to set off hitherto for our pans and the day on which we were to send for them,…
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Edmund Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, February 22, 1778
Williamsburg Feby. 22. 1778. Dear Sir The council board has been so much crouded with business of late, that I could not procure an order for the removal of Goodrich…
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Patrick Henry to Thomas Jefferson, February 21, 1778
Williamsburg 21st. February 1778. Sir You are desired to receive into your Custody John Goodrich the Elder, who is ordered to be removed from Bedford County, the place of his…
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George Wythe to George Rogers Clark, January 3, 1778
Williamsburg Janry. 3d. 1778. Sir As some Indian Tribes, to the westward of the Missisippi have lately, without any provocation, massacred many of the Inhabitants upon the Frontiers of this…
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Virginia Assembly to Virginia Assembly, January 15, 1778
[15 January 1778] The Senate conceive that, in the present Question, it is of no consequence whether the constituent Parts of our Legislature resemble the Lords and Commons of Great…
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Virginia Assembly to Virginia Assembly, January 9, 1778
[9 January 1778] Reasons to be offered at the conference to be desired of the Senate in answer to their reasons delivered at the last conference. The house of delegates…
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George Washington to Philip Schuyler, December 31, 1778
Philadelphia, December 31, 1778 . Asks Schuyler to take command of Northern Department and to investigate Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Whiting’s request for relief of Colonel Ichabod Alden’s regiment.