Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Abner Nash, 3 January 1781

From Abner Nash

Newbern, 3 Jan. 1781. Acknowledges TJ’s letter requesting permission to purchase pork in North Carolina for the southern army; has sent “Mr. Brown a proper Commission for the purpose.”

RC (NN); addressed and endorsed; 2 p.

TJ’s letter to which this is a reply has not been located. MR. BROWN: John Browne, commissary of purchases and issues for Va. (Va. Council Jour., ii, 206; Official Letters description begins Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, ed. H. R. McIlwaine description ends , ii, 537).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Abner Nash, 3 January 1781
    Author
    Nash, Abner
    Recipient
    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    3 January 1781

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Abner Nash, 3 January 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-04-02-0356. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 4, 1 October 1780 – 24 February 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, p. 301.]

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