1Report on Case of Charles Russell, 22 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Russell, who served as a lieutenant in the Virginia Line from 1776 to 1783, petitioned the Virginia House of Delegates in 1791 for payment of a pension for his military service, pointing out that the land he had been granted for Continental service under the terms of a 1781 Virginia law had since been recognized as part of Chickasaw...
2Enclosure: Statement of Conflict between Pennsylvania and Virginia, 20 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates. The statement itself is an incomplete and sometimes inaccurate account of a highly complex dispute that was a significant episode in the history of the young American republic because it provided the impetus for the passage of the first...
3Jefferson’s Opinion on Proposal for Manufacture of Woolen Textiles in Virginia, [3 December 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
The matter was all the more trouble-some for Washington because the resolution of the Virginia House of Delegates declared that the proposed woolen manufactory was of such importance as to warrant “conclusive measures on the part of the General Assembly” and directed the governor to open correspondence with the President so as to bring the negotiations with...