231From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Caswell, 30 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the within, I learn that the Caswell Galley is sunk at her station, that her bottom is eaten out, and her original form such that she could not be hove down to be refitted. The within proposition therefore, your Excellency will be pleased to understand as confined to the Washington only. By direction of the Assembly of this State, I do myself the honor of enclosing their...
232From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Johnson, 30 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you will be pleased to ascribe to the change in our administration and to my not becoming immediately possessed of all the business which lay before the executive, your letter of the 7th. of the last month remaining so long unanswered. It has happened very unluckily that this was among the latest of the several matters which have come to my hand. I am to return you thanks for your...
233Proclamation Expelling British Subjects, [1 July 1779] (Jefferson Papers)
a proclamation . Whereas the General Assembly, by their Act passed at their last session, entitled “An Act concerning Escheats and forfeitures from British Subjects,” did declare “that (1.) all persons Subjects of his Britannick majesty, who on the nineteenth day of April in the year 1775, when hostilities were commenced at Lexington , between the United States of America, and the other parts...
234From Thomas Jefferson to the Board of Trade, 1 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
If the board of trade will be pleased to resolve on the quantity of tobacco they think necessary to be purchased I will submit their resolution to the council, and make no doubt they will approve of it, as it seems to be their disposition to leave the board of trade very much to their own discretion. RC ( CSmH ); written on leaf attached to Board of Trade to TJ, 29 June 1779 ; Tr in Minutes of...
235From Thomas Jefferson to Riedesel, 4 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind letter of June 19. I received on the 2d instt. It is now some time since Colo. Bland wrote for leave to grant Permits to Capt. Bartling and Lt. Campbell to come to the Argyle flag. Leave was immediately given by letter to Col. Bland. Sometime after I received another letter from him, accompanied with one from General Philips informing me that Lt. Campbell was come as far as Richmond...
236To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, with Reply, 13 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Williamsburg ] 13 July 1779 . The proposals of Hunter & Co. concerning the cargo of the ship Dolphin seem exorbitant. From information respecting tobacco now owned by the state, it is impracticable to comply with the proposal. This commodity is rising daily and will probably soon reach £20 per hundred. Signed by Whiting, Ambler, and Rose. Countersigned with the following instruction: “In...
237To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, with Reply, 14 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Williamsburg ] 14 July 1779 . Upon consideration of the want of necessary supplies, it is proposed to offer Hunter & Co. “77 ½ for 1. for such Goods as will suit the State payable in Tobacco at the Market Price.” Signed by Whiting, Ambler, and Rose. Countersigned: “In council July 16. 1779. Disapproved of, the price being thought too exorbitant. Th: Jefferson.” RC ( CSmH ); 1 p. See Board of...
238From Thomas Jefferson to ——, 15 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[Extract of?] a letter from A. Lee [to] Gov. Henry. Paris Dec. 14. 1778. [’I inclo]se the account of the paper which the Treasurer wrote for [… strike] the paper bills on which you will have the goodness to [… hi]m.’ [T]he inclosed paper and letter abovementioned came by […] Genl. Washington. We have hopes that the paper (which [we … s]uppose to be laded with some military stores) will come to...
239Credentials for Peter Penet, 15 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas the General Assembly by their resolution bearing date the 9th day of December 1778 did empower the Governor with the advice of the Council of State to take such measures as might be necessary and should seem probable for obtaining a Loan of Gold and Silver to this Commonwealth to such extent as they should think expedient, and that the said assembly would make good his Contracts for...
240From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 17 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
This being post morning and many letters to write I must beg leave to refer you for some articles to my letter to the feild officers of Northumberland &c.. In order to render our miserable navy of some service orders were some time ago issued for two gallies on the seaboard of the Eastern shore to join the others; another galley heretofore stationed in Carolina (if not purchased by that...