1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, 25 November 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
The Assembly of this State having ratified the agreement made between the Commissioners of the States of Virginia and Pennsylvania touching their disputed boundaries: I have now the honour and satisfaction to inclose the ratification, which I must request you to lay before the Honorable the Legislature of the State over which you preside. Notwithstanding some difficulties and objections were...
2[To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, 8 January 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 8 Jan. 1780 . From “Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania,” Penna. Colonial Records, xxi , 224: “A letter was sent to his Excellency Thomas Jefferson, esquire, Governor of the State of Virginia, enclosing the Proclamation of the Council of the twenty-eighth day of December last, with an attested copy of the resolution of Congress of the twenty-seventh of...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose your Excellency the appointment of Commissioners on the part of Pennsylvania to compleat the Boundary line between Virginia and this State pursuant to the Agreement of the Commissioners at Baltimore the thirty first day of August 1779. I have to request your Excellency to communicate the same to the Legislature of the State of Virginia and to favour me with their...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, 27 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Colonel Broadhead, Commanding at Fort Pitt, has informed us, that being apprehensive of a scarcity of provisions at his Post, he has interfered so far as to restrict the purchases of some articles made by your Excellency’s direction for a special purpose, within this state, from passing out of it, and that he thought himself further warranted in the measure by a similar restriction having been...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, 6 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellencys Favours of the 17. and 18. Ult. have been duly received and claim our particular Acknowledgments as well for the Readiness which has been shewn in concurring with our Proposition of running the Line, as the friendly Sentiments express’d towards this State which I am happy in assuring your Excellency are perfectly reciprocal. A Family Event having last Fall estrang’d me from...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, 14 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing your Excellency on the sixth Instant, we have conferred with the Commissioners, who settled the agreement entered into at Baltimore in August 1779, And we fully concur in the method proposed by your Excellency of settling the extent of the five degrees of Longitude, by Astronomical observation, not only as determining the present Question with more certainty...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Reed, [10? November 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
The Esteem of the wise and virtuous is the most desirable Acquisition in human Life, but the wise and virtuous as well as weak and vicious are liable to Imposition and Mistake. Considering the active Industry of the Partizans of this City I should not wonder if the many Slanders propagated against me should sometimes have made Impressions. Under this Idea I was induced to publish a small...
8John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
After having so long and so faithfully served your country, it ought to have been the desire of its friends that you should enjoy the happiness and tranquillity, which you sought by a voluntary retirement from political life. We perceive, with regret, however, that persons, who profess to revere your character and to respect your wishes, have on a late occasion done violence to both. Enclosed...