To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, 5 February 1780
From the Board of Trade
[Williamsburg] 5 Feb. 1780. Requests advice for the disposition of six Negroes purchased for the state.
Tr in Board of Trade Journal (Vi); 1 p.; printed in ii, 96.
,TJ’s reply has not been located, but the following minute appears in the Board’s Journal under the same date: “The Executive recommending the six Negroes, mentioned above, to be employed in the Armourer’s Shop, Ordered that the Agent deliver them to Mr. James Anderson Superintendant of said shop.”