1Roger Sherman Baldwin to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have not the honor of a personal acquaintance with your excellency, yet the knowledge that you were intimately acquainted with the public character of my late Grandfather Roger Sherman , and were associated with him on some of the most interesting occasions, during the early periods of our government, has induced me to take the liberty of addressing you in re la tion to him. A...
2Thomas Jefferson to Roger Sherman Baldwin, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Feb. 24 . and am sorry it is in my power to furnish no other materials for the biography of your very respectable grandfather, mr Roger Sherman than such as are very generally known. I served with him in the Old Congress in the years 1775. & 1776. he was a very able and logical debater in that body, steady in the principles of the revolution, always at the...