1781/04/27
Lee, Thomas Sim, 1745-1819
Letter signed
Title: to [Thomas Jefferson] re: ship carrying clothing & money for convention troops in Va. and Maryland
Maryland governor Lee asks Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson to allow delivery of the enclosed letter [no longer present] to a recently-landed flag ship bearing supplies for General John Burgoyne's captured army, the so-called Convention Troops. Lee explains that he has told British Convention troops commander General James Hamilton that the ship, now at Hampton Roads in Virginia, may sail to George Town, Maryland in order to deliver those supplies intended for the Convention troops in that state. In January of 1781, the turncoat Benedict Arnold had attacked Virginia, forcing Jefferson…
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