1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 16 May 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here last Tuesday after being detained hence six weeks longer than I intended by a...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 2 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
It happened unfortunately that from the Tenor of Mr. Wrays Lett[er] which gave us the first...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 12 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Eppes, Doct. Griffin, Doct. Foushee, Mr. Hylton, Mr. Selden and others wish to serve in the...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 12 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Enemy left a number of Horses at Westover which they had taken during their late incursion....
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 15 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
As I suppose by this time you may have more Men than Arms, and there are no more Arms fit for use...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 15 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I have never heard a tittle of the Enemy since your information that they were at Sandy Point the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 16 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer hereof Capt. Joel proposes to engage two others to undertake with himself an...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 20 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I will send to Mr. Brown the Commissary the Paragraph from your Letter relative to Provisions...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 25 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I gave orders to Mr. Brown to send you a Sufficiency of Flour to fill up any Intervals which...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 10 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Information having been given the Board that sundry Horses of British property, having been left...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 13 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Your suspension of Capt. Joel’s enterprise against the Enemy’s fleet seems to have been well...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 16 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very anxious to prepare for cooperating with our Allies, and for providing for their...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 21 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of the 18th. the night before last and deferred answering it till I could...
14Sans to Thomas Nelson, 21 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I’ve the pleasure of informing you of the arrival of the eight prizes taken by the french...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 22 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
We sent expresses on the 17th instant to call down a fourth part of the militia of the Counties...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 22 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
An order and Account of which the inclosed is a Copy being presented to the Board and no advice...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Nelson, 5 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to trouble you with a Letter from Captn. Joel. As it is not consistent with the...
18Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 24 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
Copy (Virginia State Library). Written by Joseph Jones and enclosed in the delegates’ letter of...
19Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 31 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Haverford College Library). Written by Joseph Jones. The cover is missing, but the contents...
20Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 7 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
Printed excerpts (Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 54 [25–26 October 1938], item 167; Burnett, Letters...
21Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 14 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written by Joseph Jones. The letter is obviously a communication...
22Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 20 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (New York Public Library). Entirely in JM’s hand, except for the signatures of the other...
23Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 21 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written by Meriwether Smith, except for the other signatures....
24Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 28 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Written by Joseph Jones except for the other signatures....
25Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 4 September 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Entirely in JM’s hand, except for Jones’s and Bland’s signatures....
26Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 11 September 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). In JM’s hand, except for the signatures of Jones, Bland, and...
27Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 18 September 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written and franked by Theodorick Bland. Addressed to “His Excelly....
28Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 25 September 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written by Theodorick Bland, who also signed for JM. Received in...
29Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 9 October 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written by Edmund Randolph and signed by him and JM. Docketed: “From...
30Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 16 October 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). In Edmund Randolph’s hand, except for the signatures of...
31Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 23 October 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Written and franked by Edmund Randolph, signed by JM and...
32Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 7 November 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written by Edmund Randolph. JM’s name was signed by Joseph Jones....
33Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 20 November 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written by Joseph Jones. Docketed, “Virga Delegates Letter Dated Nov...