1To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 6 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Maryland Council wrote Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson on 2 May: “A Detachment of 3000 Troops is already embarked at the Head of Elk, in a Day or two, to proceed down the Bay of Chesapeake to your State, to reinforce the Southern...
2To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 8 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
The enclosure from Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson to Huntington dated 3 Sept. resembles his letter to GW written on the same date. Jefferson also
3To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 9 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
The enclosure docketed “No. 3,” from Gates to William Finnie, deputy quartermaster general, was written at Hillsborough on 27 September. It asked him to confer with Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson “upon the measures to be taken for supplying and forwarding the continental troops from Petersburg” (
4To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 14 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
“No. 3” is from Gates to Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson, written at Hillsborough on 5 Oct., asking that “all the Letters and papers, I now send your Excellency may be as soon as possible dispatched to Congress” (see also
5To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 23 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
). The enclosure from Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates in Hillsborough, N.C., to Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson dated 12 Oct. begins: “This instant I received the great and glorious news contained in the inclosed letter from Brigadier General Davidson to General Sumner who directly dispatched it [to] me by express” (
6To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 4 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Congress on 4 Dec. read a letter “of 26 November” from Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson, but Jefferson’s letter has not been identified (
7To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 20 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
Huntington also enclosed copies of Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson’s letters to him of 8 and 12 Feb. (
8To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
). The letter from Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson was a copy of his to Huntington of 17 February. On its docket, GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman wrote: “In letter of 25th Feby” (
9To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 5 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter from Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson to Huntington, dated 26 Feb., is in