31To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose your Excellency the appointment of Commissioners on the part of Pennsylvania to compleat the Boundary line between Virginia and this State pursuant to the Agreement of the Commissioners at Baltimore the thirty first day of August 1779. I have to request your Excellency to communicate the same to the Legislature of the State of Virginia and to favour me with their...
32To Thomas Jefferson from John Christian Senf, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I was Yesterday honourd with a Letter from Your Excellency and a Copy of the Advice of Consul for my Appointment as Engineer in this Common Wealth. I am sensible of this generous Appointment and think myself highly honourd by Your Excellency and the Honourable Consul and give my most humble Thanks for it, but some Reasons, which Your Excellency are pleased to explain to me, won’t permit me to...
33To Thomas Jefferson from John Syme, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
New Castle, 26 Feb. 1781 . Is informed that there are 50 state muskets at John Newell’s in Hanover co. which might be repaired; shall Syme order them to be repaired? Further instructions from TJ clarifying the method of drafting men are needed. “A few People Among us (One of which is a Field Officer) that Declares He Will not Pay a Shilling, and intends to Plead the Laws not being in Time.”...
34From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 26 Feb. 1781 . This letter is identical in substance with TJ’s letter to Samuel Huntington of the present date , q.v. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); 3 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by TJ; endorsed (in part): “Ansd. 21st. March.” Printed in HAW Henry A. Washington, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson , Washington, 1853–1854 , i , 296–7, and elsewhere. Tr ( DLC ).