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To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1779 [document with enclosures]

From: Washington Papers | Revolutionary War Series | Volume 21 | To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1779 [document with enclosures]

1To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
I some time ago inclosed to you a printed Copy of an Order of Council, by which Governor Hamilton was to be confined in Irons and in close Jail. This has occasioned a letter from General Philips of which the inclosed is a Copy. The General seems to suppose that a prisoner on capitulation cannot be put into close confinement tho his Capitulation shall not have provided against it. My idea was...