1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 27 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Hamilton has informed us that a Flag with Cloathing and Money for the late Convention Troops stationed in Virginia and Maryland has arrived at Hampton and requested Permission to land them at George Town in Maryland, which we have granted so far as concerns the Troops in Maryland under certain restrictions and referred him to your Excellency as to the Necessaries for the Troops in...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 28 August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The alarming State of the Trade of Virginia and Maryland in the Chesapeake and above all, the extreme Difficulty and Hazard of supplying the Northern Army with Provisions from Virginia and the Southern Parts of this State, occasioned by the continued and encreasing Depredations of the Enemy have rendered the immediate Expulsion of them from the Bay, an Object of Magnitude to this Board. The...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 15 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Arrival of our Express with your Excellency’s Letter of the 12th. this Moment received gives us an Opportunity of informing you that all the Transports with the Troops from Elk got safe into Harbour on Tuesday Evening. The next Morning at day Light two Ships apparently British of the rate of eighteen and twenty eight Guns came to an Anchor opposite to the Mouth of our River Severn, at 12...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 27 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
We have just received the Resolution of Congress of the 20th. Instant recommending it to the Executives of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, to agree upon, and Settle an Arrangement for supplying the Southern Army with Provisions, from the States most contiguous, and for replacing the same with Provisions from those that are more remote, and to establish such Mode...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 17 June 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Before we were honored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 14th. Inst., we had, in Pursuance of the Resolution of Congress 5th. established a Line of expresses extending from Young’s Ferry on Patowmack to Philadelphia, and wrote immediately by Post, advising you of it, and that the Rider at Young’s Ferry would be in constant Readiness to receive your Excellency’s Commands. To keep up the Line...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 3 August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Annapolis, 3 Aug. 1780 . Is informed that Stephen Mister, under indictment for high treason in Maryland, has escaped to Virginia, where he is confined to stand trial for treason against Virginia. Should the prisoner be acquitted in Virginia, it is requested that he be delivered for trial in Maryland. A transcript of the record is enclosed under seal. FC ( MdAA ); 2 p. Enclosure not found, but...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 17 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
We beg Leave to refer your Excellency to our Letter of Yesterday , giving a short Account of the Transports and Troops from the Head of Elk, being safe in this Harbour. We shall adopt such Measures to guard and subsist the Convention Troops and British Prisoners captured in the Action of the Cowpens, on their March through this State, as may be necessary and consonant to a Resolution of...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 20 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed is a Copy of Intelligence, this Moment received by this Board, from his Excellency the Chevalier De la Luzerne. We have taken the speediest Method of conveying it to your Excellency, under an Impression of the Propriety of giving you the earliest Intimation of the Design of the Enemy. We have the Honor to be &ca. FC ( MdAA ). Enclosure missing; see, however, La Luzerne to Gov....
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 23 February 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
We had the Honor to receive your Excellency’s Letter of the 30th. Jany. The Necessity which constrained our Assembly to enact a Law, the extensive Operation of which has interfered with the Purchases made by your Agent, for the Subsistence of the Military of your State, we must deplore, and can assure you that an anxious Solicitude for the Welfare of the United States and an Opinion that...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 5 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Annapolis, 5 Jan. 1781. Joseph Shoemaker, said to be a subject of Virginia and a former resident of Yorktown, was taken in Chesapeake Bay; he has a captain’s commission from the enemy and is confined in the Baltimore co. jail as a prisoner of war. If upon inquiry it is thought “proper to claim him” as a “subject” of Virginia, he will be delivered under guard to Alexandria and delivered to any...