Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 8 July 1779

From John Jay

Philadelphia, 8 July 1779. Circular letter to the state executives enclosing a resolve of Congress of 29 June announcing that $20,000,000 is to be raised by a new loan and giving the terms on which this sum is to be borrowed.

FC (DLC: PCC, No. 14); 1 p. Enclosure not located; printed in JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. W. C. Ford and others, Washington, 1904–1937 description ends , xiv, 783–5.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 8 July 1779
    Author
    Jay, John
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    8 July 1779

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 8 July 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0032. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 3, 18 June 1779 – 30 September 1780, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, p. 29.]

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