1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Hawkins, 30 December 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Barracks [ Charlottesville ] 30 Dec. 1780 . Has learned from TJ’s letter to Col. [Francis] Taylor that Mr. Clark [Jonathan Clarke], commissary to the Convention troops, has made a charge for 158,118℔. of meal because it was unsifted. Hawkins urges that this demand be disallowed since “their Quartermaster attended to the Issuing and no complaint ever made.” Most of the meal was in fact sifted,...