631To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Nightingale, 22 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I have wrote Two Letters dated the 18th and 29th of Sepr. last, to Virginia, which I can have no doubt but your Excelency has Received. They gave an Account of the Schooner Committee (Owned by Messrs. Penet Da Costa Brothers & Comp.; Brisson late Master) Haveing on board a Quantity of Goods for your State; being taken on her Passage from Nantz to Virginia, and Retaken by Two American...
632To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Penet, 22 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
You have, no doubt, occasion to be anxious, having received no other supplies yet, but that by our vessel the Committee. Such a misfortune can only be attributed to the Revolutions of time and the actual circumstances of this kingdom in war. I have apply’d several times to the Ministry in Paris for Licence to raise a number of sailors sufficient to man two vessels; my applications were...
633To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Randolph, 22 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to inform you that Mr. James Enis [is] one of those Gentlemen that Your Honours proposed Sending the Money by to this Quarter to Compleat the purchasis for the insuing Campeign to the Westard. I finde but little to be done without cash here; its true I thought when I first came to this Quarter that the purchasis mite been compleated upon Creadit of Some private Gentlemen in this country...
634To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Stevens, 24 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 19th Inst. I received last Evening. It gave me much pleasure to understand the Enemy were about to leave Virginia, altho’ I have my doubts and Fears from present prospect[s] here that we shall not be able to support an Army this Winter (with Provisions) sufficient to oppose them to the South. It affords me much Satisfaction that I have it in my power to inform you, I am now moving...
635To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas Eveleigh, 25 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I am one of those, who fall under the description of an act of the General Assembly of May last, respecting the Citizens of South Carolina and Georgia, being expell’d from the former State by the Enemy. A few Negros, 14 in number, were remov’d from thence into this Commonwealth, on my account, about 4 months ago; they reach’d it sooner than I did, and by a very different route. They had...
636To Thomas Jefferson from Johann Ludwig de Unger, 25 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
L’ordre que nous reçumes de quitter cette Province, me fit prendre la Liberté, de Vous envoyer la semaine passée une Lettre pour m’aquiter de mes tres humble Devoirs, en me recommandant a Vos bonnes graces. Maintenant un Echangement de quelques Officiers vient de ce publier, parmi quel nombre ma Personne a le bonheur de se trouver; cela m’oblige de repeter mes protestations et de prendre pour...
637To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Spotswood, 26 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Major Richard Claiborne, a Gentleman of uncommon merrit. At the commencement of this War, anxious to serve his Country, he entered as a private in the 2d. Virginia Regiment. His diligence soon prefered him to the Rank of a serjeant, in which character he acted with such propriety, that he drew my attention towards him, and as soon as I had it in my power, appointed...
638[To Thomas Jefferson from George Muter, before 27 November 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, before 27 Nov. 1780. Extract of a letter from George Muter to William Davies, 27 Nov. 1781, in War Office Letter Book (Vi): “From my earnest wish to do all manner of Justice to the Continent as well as the State, and thereby comply with your requisitions, everything in my power shall be done in concert with and under the General’s [ i.e., Steuben ] direction, in the quickest and...
639To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, [27] November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia [ 27 ] Nov. 1780 . Acknowledges dispatches of 13 and 19 Nov., received this day and laid before Congress. Authentic intelligence reports the dissolution of the British Parliament and the calling of a new one. Deputies from Holland are on their way to Petersburgh [St. Petersburg] to attend the convention of neutral powers on the armed neutrality. FC ( DLC : PCC , No. 15); 1 p. No...
640[To Thomas Jefferson from James Maxwell, 27 November 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 27 Nov. 1780. Minute in Journal of the Commissioner of the Navy (Vi) under this date: “Letter written to the Governour on the Subject of the procuring Specie for the Flag going to Charlestown.” Not located.]