Receipt for Bounty Money, 15 April 1777

Receipt for Bounty Money

April 15. 1777.

Received of Thos. Jefferson fifty one pounds four shillings to be given in bounty to such persons as shall enlist with me and I promise to execute a bond with sufficient security for employing it in that way.

John Jouett Jur

MS (DLC); in TJ’s hand, signed by John Jouett, Jr.

For instructions to TJ concerning the distribution of bounty money, see Patrick Henry to TJ, 31 Mch. 1777. TJ submitted an account of the distribution of the money on 17 May 1777 (Va. Council Jour. description begins Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia, ed. H. R. McIlwaine description ends , i, 412).

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Title: Receipt for Bounty Money, 15 April 1777
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Jouett, John, Jr.
Date: 15 April 1777

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Cite as: “Receipt for Bounty Money, 15 April 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-02-02-0009. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 2, 1777 – 18 June 1779, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, p. 11.]

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