Richmond, June 11, 1780. Sir, Major Galvan, as recommended by your Excellency, was despatched to his station without delay, and has been furnished with every thing he desired, as far as we were able. The line of expresses formed between us is such, as will communicate intelligence from one to the other in twenty-three hours.…
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Jefferson to His Excellency Gen Washington
Williamsburg, February 10, 1780. Sir, It is possible you may have heard, that in the course of last summer an expedition was meditated, by our Colonel [George Rogers] Clarke, against Detroit: that he had proceeded so far as to rendezvous a considerable body of Indians, I believe four or five thousand, at St. Vincennes; but,…
Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Mathews
In Council, October, 1779. Sir, The proceedings respecting Governor Hamilton and his companions, previous to your arrival here, you are acquainted with. For your more precise information, I enclose you the advice of Council, of June the 16th, of that of August the 28th, another of September the 19th, on the parole tendered them the…
Thomas Jefferson to His Excellency Gen Washington
In Council, Oct. 8, 1779. Sir, In mine of the second of the present month, written in the instant of Colonel Mathews’ delivery of your letter, I informed you what had been done on the subject of Governor Hamilton and his companions previous to that moment. I now enclose you an advice of Council, in…
Jefferson to His Excellency Gen. Washington
Williamsburg, July 17, 1779. Sir, I some time ago enclosed to you a printed copy of an order of Council, by which Governor Hamilton was to be confined in irons, in close jail, which has occasioned a letter from General Phillips, of which the enclosed is a copy. The General seems to think that a…