1To Thomas Jefferson from Humphrey Brooke, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Without place [ Fauquier County ], 26 Feb. 1781 . Received the recruiting law on 15 Jan. and divided the militia in preparation for the draft to be made on 5 Mch. Is apprehensive that sufficient funds will not be available for this purpose. Received TJ’s orders for embodying one fourth of the militia of the county on 23 Feb.; this may interfere with the draft, but if a man is drafted who is on...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Burwell, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to an act entitled an act for the better regulation and discipline of the Militia passed May 1779 a Court martial has been lately held in this County for the trial of such of the Militia as did not turn out when ordered, by which ten or twelve of them are turn’d over as regular Soldiers. I find by the above mentioned act that they are to serve as regular Soldiers in Troops of this...
3To Thomas Jefferson from W. R. W. Curle, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Williamsburg, 26 Feb. 1781 . Received at the end of January TJ’s letter of the 19th enclosing “the Law for recruiting our Army”; went at once to Hampton to execute it, but at a meeting of the field officers, magistrates, &c., it was the unanimous opinion that, “as no Assessment in Specie had been made in the County, (oweing to the frequent Invasions, the great Distresses Confusion and...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Dick, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I received Your Excellencys Letter with appointment for Direction of the Gun Factory and shall do all in my power to increase its Success. You were desirous of having an Account of the Work done and deliver’d, especially I believe, what might be a Continental Charge; I have herewith inclosed in one point of View the whole, which I hope will be Agreeable and am with the greatest Respect Your...
5To Thomas Jefferson from George Muter, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
War Office [ Richmond ], 26 Feb. 1781 . “In the regulation for issuing liquor, the waggoners are not mentioned; and I am informed liquor is issued to them in wet weather and on other occasions at the discretion of the quarter master general.” The sutler has refused to issue them liquor, and they have refused to act, “from which great inconvenience at present arises.” Encloses an order to be...
6[To Thomas Jefferson from George Muter, 26 February 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 26 Feb. 1781 . War Office Journal (Vi) contains the following entry under this date: “Letter to the Governor, informing him of Col. Gibson’s men being to the southward, except about 10 or 12 that were left sick, and are at Chesterfield Courthouse; and that the first Captain of that Regiment is to the southward, Capt. Browne is the second, and Capt. Hamilton, the third is at...
7To 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...
8To 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...
9To 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.”...