Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 5 August 1780

From Samuel Huntington

Philadelphia, 5 Aug. 1780. The enclosed resolve of Congress of this date will inform TJ “that the recruits now raising in Virginia for filling their quota of Continental Troops are ordered to join the Southern Army as soon as possible.”

RC (Vi); 2 p. FC (DLC: PCC, No. 15). Enclosure (Vi): copy attested by Charles Thomson, endorsed: “resol. of Congress for sendg forces to the Southward”; printed in JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. W. C. Ford and others, Washington, 1904–1937 description ends , xvii, 699.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 5 August 1780
    Author
    Huntington, Samuel
    Recipient
    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    5 August 1780

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 5 August 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0611. [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. 530.]

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