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From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Gerrit Diriks, 15 June 1789

To Jacob Gerrit Diriks

Paris June 15. 1789.

Sir

In answer to your favor of the 7th. instant I have the honor to inform you that such foreign officers only are to be paid here as are named in a list sent from the Treasury board and that on examination of that list I do not observe your name on it. There are 33 persons in it, but I am not able to say to what corps they belonged. I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedt. humble servt.,

Th: Jefferson

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    From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Gerrit Diriks, 15 June 1789
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    15 June 1789

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Gerrit Diriks, 15 June 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-15-02-0191. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 15, 27 March 1789 – 30 November 1789, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958, p. 184.]

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