Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to John Browne, 12 February 1781

To John Browne

Richmond Feby. 12th. 1781

Sir

You will be pleased to provide in the neighbourhood of New Castle flour and stalled1 beef for 50,000 rations to be applied to no use but on my special order that these are meant to be applied. The beef must be kept ready for Slaughter at the Shortest warning.

Thos. Jefferson

FC (Vi).

The proceedings of Council this day explain this order; the rations were to be gathered “in case of any french forces coming this way” (Va. Council Jour., ii, 291).

1. That is, stall-fed.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to John Browne, 12 February 1781
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Browne, John
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    12 February 1781

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to John Browne, 12 February 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-04-02-0732. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 4, 1 October 1780 – 24 February 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, pp. 586–587.]

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