John Stagg, Jr., to Tobias Lear, 18 January 1792
John Stagg, Jr., to Tobias Lear
War Department, Philadelphia, 18 Jan. 1792. Transmits the enclosed letter from the governor of Virginia to the secretary of war, dated 5 Jan. 1792, in order for it to be submitted to the president of the United States.1
ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. The enclosure has not been found, but Henry Knox acknowledged its original receipt in a later letter to Gov. Henry Lee. Lee’s letter to the secretary of war probably dealt with federal financing of Virginia’s efforts to protect its southwestern frontier (see Knox to Lee, 2 Feb. 1792, 5:434–35) � Later this day Tobias Lear returned to Knox what was presumably the same letter (DLC:GW).