1Thomas Ringgold to Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have To Tell you That I am your Frend & hope you Will Send me your Best Respects To Celebrate The Fourth of July 1776 & A Golden Eagle Direct To me & Beleave me & my Bro t her to be your Well Wisher RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 28 June 1811 and so recorded in SJL . Thomas Ringgold (ca. 1778–1818), a resident of Washington County, Maryland , was described by his brother, Maryland...