Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Blunt, 18 May 1781

From Benjamin Blunt

[Southampton County] 18 May 1781. Returned “some time since” a state of the militia in Southampton co.; fears it has miscarried and encloses another return, dated 26 Mch. 1781, at which time there were 56 commissioned officers, 723 privates over 18 years of age and 71 under 18 in the militia of that county.

RC (Vi); 2 p.; endorsed. Enclosure (Vi).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Blunt, 18 May 1781
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    Blunt, Benjamin
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    18 May 1781

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Blunt, 18 May 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-05-02-0797. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 5, 25 February 1781 – 20 May 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952, p. 665.]