1To Thomas Jefferson from M. Marston, 3 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 3 Mch. 1781 . Major Claiborne has gone to Fredericksburg; believes he paid some of his assistants “at 100 Dollars for one”; his employees have “the choice of settleing thier Wages agreable to the price of Tobaco” or in continental or state currency at the above rate; when Claiborne returns he will explain. RC ( Vi ); 2. p.; signed “M. Marston A. D. Q. Master.”; addressed and...