Thomas Jefferson Papers

Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1781

From Charles Thomson

Secretary’s Office [Philadelphia], 19 Feb. 1781. Encloses twenty-four blank commissions, with blank bonds and instructions, for private armed vessels. “You will please to give orders that the bonds when Executed be returned into this Office.” Others may be obtained upon application.

RC (Vi); 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Thomson; addressed and endorsed; printed in CVSP description begins William P. Palmer and others, eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers ... Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, Richmond, 1875-93, 11 vols. description ends , i, 526. Enclosures not found.

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    Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1781
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    Thomson, Charles
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    19 February 1781

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    “Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-04-02-0845. [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. 663.]

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