Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Hoakesly, 28 March 1781

From Robert Hoakesly

Hampton Road 28 March 1781

Sir

I do myself the Honor by this Flag which Capt. Gerlach is sending On Shore to the officer commanding at Hampton to request your Excellency will be Pleased to forward to Brigd. Genl. Hamilton the five different Parcells of Letters and Papers.

I have also to Inform your Excellency that Alexr. Frazier Gregorie is on Board the Flag as mentioned in Brigadier Genl. Woodfords Letter, and should your Excellency approve of his landing you will Please to Inform his relations that they may send for him. I have the Honor to be your Excellencys Most Obedt. Hble Servt.

Robt Hoakesly

RC (George M. Rinsland, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1974); above salutation: “His Excellency Governor Jefferson.”

Robert Hoakesly was a British commissary of prisoners on the General Riedesel, a British flag vessel carrying letters, money, and supplies for the Saratoga Convention troops (Heinrich Gerlach to TJ, [27 Mch. 1781], and note; Thomas Sim Lee to TJ, 27 Apr. 1781, and note).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Hoakesly, 28 March 1781
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    Hoakesly, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    28 March 1781

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Hoakesly, 28 March 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-27-02-0649. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 27, 1 September–31 December 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, p. 715.]