Thomas Jefferson Papers

Samuel Huntington to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1779

From Samuel Huntington

Philadelphia, 18 Nov. 1779. Circular to the state executives enclosing resolves of Congress of 12 and 16 Nov. reorganizing the eleven companies of artificers raised by the quartermaster general, and other resolves of 16 Nov. requesting the state executives to issue writs, when applied for, compelling witnesses to appear and testify in courts-martial.

FC (DLC: PCC, No. 14); 2 p. Enclosures: resolves of Congress summarized above; copies (Vi), signed by Charles Thomson; printed in JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Washington, D.C., 1904-37, 34 vols. description ends , xv, 1261–2, 1276, 1277–8.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Jefferson Papers
    Title
    Samuel Huntington to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1779
    Author
    Huntington, Samuel
    Recipient
    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    18 November 1779

    Reference

    Cite as
    “Samuel Huntington to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0208. [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. 194.]

    More between these correspondents