Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, 29 October 1779

From the Board of Trade

[Williamsburg] 29 Oct. 1779. The salary of Mr. James Warren, assistant in the agent’s office, has never been fixed. Forty pounds per annum, payable in tobacco at twenty shillings per hundred, seems an ample compensation. Signed by Ambler and Rose.

RC (CSmH); 1 p.; TJ’s reply of the same date, q.v., is written on the lower portion of the page.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, 29 October 1779
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    Board of Trade
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    29 October 1779

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, 29 October 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0141. [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. 123.]

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