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==Letter text, November 10, 1777==
 
==Letter text, November 10, 1777==
<div align="center">GOVERNOR HENRY TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF<br /></div>
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<div align="center">DELEGATES, GEORGE WYTHE.<br /></div>
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Nov<sup>r</sup> 10<sup>th</sup> 1777<br />
<div align="center">(''From Virginia State Archives''.)<br /></div>
 
<div align="right">Nov<sup>r</sup> 10<sup>th</sup> 1777<br /></div>
 
  
''Sir''
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Sir
  
 
I have the Honor to transmit to the general Assembly the several papers which accompany this which were brought to me yesterday by Express from our Delegates at Congress.  
 
I have the Honor to transmit to the general Assembly the several papers which accompany this which were brought to me yesterday by Express from our Delegates at Congress.  
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I am
 
I am
  
<div align="center">Sir<br /></div>
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Sir<br />
<div align="center">Your most humble servant,<br /></div>
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Your most humble servant,<br />
<div align="right">P. HENRY<br /></div>
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P. HENRY<br />
  
The Honble Geo. Wythe Esq<sup>r</sup>
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The Honble Geo. Wythe Esq<sup>r</sup><ref>"Governor Henry to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, George Wythe, (From Virginia State Archives)" in ''Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia,'' vol. 1, ''The Letters of Patrick Henry'', ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 201.</ref>
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==Letter text, November 10, 1777==
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==See also==
<div align="center">(''From Journal of the House of Delegates''.)<br /></div>
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*[[Patrick Henry to Wythe, 11 November 1777]]
<div align="right">November 10, 1777.<br /></div>
 
  
''Resolved'', That this House will, to-morrow, resolve itself into a committee of the whole House, to consider of the letters from the Governor, which with several other papers were ordered to lie upon the table.
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==References==
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''Ordered'', That the treaty between the commissioners, appointed on behalf of this Commonwealth, and the chiefs of the Cherokee Indians made the 20<sup>th</sup> day of July last, and laid before the House by the Governor, be referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom the motion “that a supply be provided for the public exigencies.”
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[[Category:Letters to Wythe]]
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[[Category:Letters and Papers]]

Latest revision as of 14:49, 18 April 2024

Letter text, November 10, 1777

Novr 10th 1777

Sir

I have the Honor to transmit to the general Assembly the several papers which accompany this which were brought to me yesterday by Express from our Delegates at Congress.

Some of the militia lately called into Service at Portsmouth will be speedily discharged from thence for want of proper Barracks, unless an officers I have order’d to that place for the purpose can provide them.

I am

Sir
Your most humble servant,
P. HENRY

The Honble Geo. Wythe Esqr[1]

See also

References

  1. "Governor Henry to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, George Wythe, (From Virginia State Archives)" in Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, vol. 1, The Letters of Patrick Henry, ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 201.