1To Thomas Jefferson from Abram Trigg, 13 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
A. Trigg presents his compliments to the president of the United States and requests the favour of him to accept a small bag of lick Salt, as a Sample of the Salt made by Mr. William King in the County of Washington and State of Virginia. At this establishment it takes something less than 3½ Bushels of Water to make a Bushel of Salt and the Works yields between two and three hundred Bushels of...