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To Thomas Jefferson from Abram Trigg, 13 March 1804

From Abram Trigg

Tuesday. March 13th. 1804.

A. Trigg presents his compliments to the president of the United States and requests the favour of him to accept a small bag of lick Salt, as a Sample of the Salt made by Mr. William King in the County of Washington and State of Virginia.

At this establishment it takes something less than 3½ Bushels of Water to make a Bushel of Salt and the Works yields between two and three hundred Bushels of salt each day they are worked, and might be extended so as to double that quantity.

RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Mch. and so recorded in SJL.

Abram (Abraham) Trigg (b. 1750) of Montgomery County, Virginia, was the younger brother of Congressman John Trigg of Bedford County. An officer in the Virginia militia during the American Revolution, Abram Trigg lost a hotly contested congressional election in 1793, but won a subsequent rematch. He thereafter served continuously in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from 1797 until 1809 (Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989, Washington, D.C., 1989 description ends ; Washington, Papers, Pres. Ser. description begins W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Philander D. Chase, Theodore J. Crackel, Edward C. Lengel, and others, eds., The Papers of George Washington, Charlottesville, 1983- , 63 vols. Confed. Ser., 1992-97, 6 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1987- , 19 vols.; Ret. Ser., 1998-99, 4 vols.; Rev. War Ser., 1985- , 24 vols. description ends , 15:676-80; Richard R. Beeman, The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801 [Lexington, Ky., 1972], 108-13).

For the saltworks of william king, see Vol. 40:593, 594n.

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Abram Trigg, 13 March 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0011. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 14–15.]