1Thomas Jefferson to Philip Doddridge, 27 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have no recollection when the bounty of lands was first given to the soldiers of the revolutionary war; yet I know it was so early that it cannot be a long research into the ordinances and acts to find it. I inclose you a copy of the journals and Ordinances of the Convention of 1776. and as you mention that the public offices are without a compleat copy, be so good as to deposit it in the...