1From Thomas Jefferson to the County Lieutenant of Culpeper, 22 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
It being necessary that the militia in Service below should be relieved you will be pleased to send 351 of your militia under proper Officers to Williamsburg. I am informed a portion of your militia are already in motion under a Call from General Weedon. Necessity obliged the Executive on the first of Arnold’s Invasion and before his Object was fixed to entrust a General Officer with Authority...