Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 3 October 1780

From Samuel Huntington

Philadelphia, 3 Oct. 1780. Circular letter to the state executives enclosing a resolve of Congress of 29 Sep. requesting the states “to supply their Delegates with Money for their Support by other Means than drawing on the Treasury of the United States.”

RC (Vi); 2 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Huntington. FC (DLC: PCC, No. 15). Enclosure (Vi): copy signed by Charles Thomson of resolve of Congress of 29 Sep.; printed in JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. W. C. Ford and others, Washington, 1904–1937 description ends , xviii, 876.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 3 October 1780
    Author
    Huntington, Samuel
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    3 October 1780

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 3 October 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-04-02-0008. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 4, 1 October 1780 – 24 February 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, p. 6.]

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