http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Virginia_Delegates_to_the_Virginia_Convention,_18_May_1776&feed=atom&action=historyVirginia Delegates to the Virginia Convention, 18 May 1776 - Revision history2024-03-28T11:02:20ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.27.5http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Virginia_Delegates_to_the_Virginia_Convention,_18_May_1776&diff=65144&oldid=prevLktesar at 20:50, 10 March 20182018-03-10T20:50:21Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:VirginiaDelegatesToTheVirginiaConvention18May1776.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Incorrectly dated draft of a letter from the delegates from Virginia in Congress to the Virginia Convention, in [[George Wythe|George Wythe's] hand.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </del>Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib000142 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.'' With [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] notes on coin production.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:VirginiaDelegatesToTheVirginiaConvention18May1776.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Incorrectly dated draft of a letter from the delegates from Virginia in Congress to the Virginia Convention, in [[George Wythe|George Wythe's<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>] hand. Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib000142 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.'' With [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] notes on coin production.]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The letter was read at the Virginia Convention on May 27, 1776, then referred to the Committee on the State of the Colony.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_hOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA141 ''Journal of the Convention,''] May, 1776 (Richmond, Virginia: Ritchie, Trueheart, and Du-val, 1816), 25.</ref> The draft copy was preserved in the papers of [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>Reproduced in [https://archive.org/details/lettersofdelegat04smit ''Letters to the Delegates of Congress'',] ed. Paul H. Smith, Vol 4., ''May 16-August 15, 1776'', (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1979), 37.</ref> Jefferson used the paper to make notes on coin production, including a table comparing the value of European gold and silver coins on the reverse.<ref>In [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib000143 ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827,''] (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974).</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The letter was read at the Virginia Convention on May 27, 1776, then referred to the Committee on the State of the Colony.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_hOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA141 ''Journal of the Convention,''] May, 1776 (Richmond, Virginia: Ritchie, Trueheart, and Du-val, 1816), 25.</ref> The draft copy was preserved in the papers of [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>Reproduced in [https://archive.org/details/lettersofdelegat04smit ''Letters to the Delegates of Congress'',] ed. Paul H. Smith, Vol 4., ''May 16-August 15, 1776'', (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1979), 37.</ref> Jefferson used the paper to make notes on coin production, including a table comparing the value of European gold and silver coins on the reverse.<ref>In [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib000143 ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827,''] (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974).</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The inclosed resolutions were reported by a committee appointed to consider of a letter from general Lee to the president. We have nothing to observe upon them unless it be, that the surgeons whom the director general of the hospital is empowered to appoint, and the regimental surgeons to be nominated by the convention, according to a resolution lately forwarded to you,<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ljQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330 ''Journals of the Continental Congress,''] 330.</ref> are different officers. Upon the arrival of two ships of war, two frigates and one tender at Quebeck, the 6th instant, the garrison, consisting, with the forces the vessels brought, of no more than about a thousand men, made a sally upon our army there, and routed it. The resolution of the 15th of May<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ljQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA357 ''Journals of the Continental Congress,''] 357.</ref> </del>we send a printed copy of, lest the manuscript, which we desired the secretary to furnish us with, should not come time enough to go by this opportunity. We are,</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The inclosed resolutions were reported by a committee appointed to consider of a letter from general Lee to the president. We have nothing to observe upon them unless it be, that the surgeons whom the director general of the hospital is empowered to appoint, and the regimental surgeons to be nominated by the convention, according to a resolution lately forwarded to you,<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ljQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330 ''Journals of the Continental Congress,''] 330.</ref> are different officers. Upon the arrival of two ships of war, two frigates and one tender at Quebeck, the 6th instant, the garrison, consisting, with the forces the vessels brought, of no more than about a thousand men, made a sally upon our army there, and routed it. The resolution of the 15th of May we send a printed copy of, lest the manuscript, which we desired the secretary to furnish us with, should not come time enough to go by this opportunity. We are,</div></td></tr>
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