Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, [27] November 1780

From Samuel Huntington

Philadelphia [27] Nov. 1780. Acknowledges dispatches of 13 and 19 Nov., received this day and laid before Congress. Authentic intelligence reports the dissolution of the British Parliament and the calling of a new one. Deputies from Holland are on their way to Petersburgh [St. Petersburg] to attend the convention of neutral powers on the armed neutrality.

FC (DLC: PCC, No. 15); 1 p. No day of the month appears in the date line, but TJ’s letters of 13 and 19 Nov., qq.v., were read in Congress on 27 Nov. (JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. W. C. Ford and others, Washington, 1904–1937 description ends , xviii, 1095).

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