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From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Travis, 10 April 1781

To Edward Travis

In Council April 10th. 1781

Sir

I am to ask the favor of you to proceed to examine James and Appomatox Rivers for a swift sailing lookout boat and to treat for such one as you find sailed to that purpose. A vessel equipped for instant Service is what is wanting, and we should be glad to take the Men also into Service, as the Money the Terms of purchase be accordingly.1 Be pleased to report the Terms proposed before you conclude them. I am &c,

T. J.

FC (Vi); at head of text: “Captain Edward Travis.”

1. The copyist here garbled the sense of TJ’s instructions. Perhaps the last clause of this sentence should be omitted entirely.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Travis, 10 April 1781
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    10 April 1781

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Travis, 10 April 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-05-02-0501. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 5, 25 February 1781 – 20 May 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952, p. 401.]

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