1From Thomas Jefferson to George Skillern, 3 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I am pleased to hear that two Companies of Volunteers have gone from your County to the aid of the Southern Army. That is the Direction in which it seems most convenient to point your Efforts to aid the Public Cause. We are at present invaded in this quarter, the Force not yet precisely known. We shall not however suffer it to divert your Aids from the Southern Army. The Company in your County...
2[From Thomas Jefferson to George Skillern, 18 October 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 18 Oct. 1780. A letter from George Skillern to the Governor of Virginia (Benjamin Harrison), dated Botetourt, 29 Apr. 1783 (Vi), states: “I would beg Leave to inform your excellency that in the year Eighty I Received an order of council, dated Octr. 18th. together with a very pressing letter from his Excellency Thos. Jefferson (who was then governor) which I inclose you, requisting...