To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Lee, 7 June 1793
From Henry Lee
Richmond, 7 June 1793. If TJ can give letters of introduction to the bearer, Mr. Livingston, a very worthy man and good citizen who proposes to visit France in order to establish personal and commercial connections, he might give essential help to a truly respectable man who, as a result of the part he took in the late war, sacrificed a very large fortune in Jamaica.
RC (DLC); 2 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 6 July 1793 and so recorded in SJL.
Muscoe Livingston was a sea captain who had served briefly as a second lieutenant in the Continental navy and resided at various times in London, Jamaica, Norfolk, and Essex County, Virginia, where he lived at this time and where his estate was probated in 1798 (xiii [1905], 262, 263; xxvi, 256; vi, 23; xv, 366).
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