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To Thomas Jefferson from the Committee of Congress at Headquarters, 25 May 1780

From the Committee of Congress at Headquarters

Morristown, 25 May 1780. Circular to the state executives enclosing copy of Gen. Washington’s letter of same date to Committee. Signed by Schuyler, Mathews, and Peabody.

FC (DLC: PCC, No. 11); 1 p.; at head of text: “Circular, No. 2.” Enclosure: Washington to Committee, 25 May 1780, approving recommendations in the Committee’s first circular letter (preceding) and urging filling up the state battalions by draft; printed in Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, xviii, 416–19.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from the Committee of Congress at Headquarters, 25 May 1780
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    25 May 1780

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from the Committee of Congress at Headquarters, 25 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0462. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 3, 18 June 1779 – 30 September 1780, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, p. 397.]

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