To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, with Reply, 14 July 1779
From the Board of Trade, with Reply
[Williamsburg] 14 July 1779. Upon consideration of the want of necessary supplies, it is proposed to offer Hunter & Co. “77 ½ for 1. for such Goods as will suit the State payable in Tobacco at the Market Price.” Signed by Whiting, Ambler, and Rose. Countersigned: “In council July 16. 1779. Disapproved of, the price being thought too exorbitant. Th: Jefferson.”
RC (CSmH); 1 p.