Thomas Jefferson Papers

Dudley Digges to Charles Magill, 16 August 1780

Dudley Digges to Charles Magill

[Richmond] 16 Aug. 1780. The governor being absent, Lt. Gov. Digges acknowledges a letter addressed to TJ by Magill on 8 Aug. with intelligence of “some successful advances on the enemy” by “our troops” with the southern army. Is anxious to have further news of “their progress and maneuvres.”

FC (Vi, photostat from Brit. Mus.: Add. MSS 38,650); 1 p. Printed in Official Letters description begins Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, ed. H. R. McIlwaine description ends , ii, 166–7.

Magill’s letter here acknowledged has not been found.

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    Dudley Digges to Charles Magill, 16 August 1780
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    Digges, Dudley
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    Magill, Charles
    Date
    16 August 1780

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    “Dudley Digges to Charles Magill, 16 August 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0647. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 3, 18 June 1779 – 30 September 1780, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, p. 553.]