MADISON, JAMES, President . Letter signed ("James Madison") as Virginia delegate in Congress, probably TO GOVERNOR THOMAS NELSON, also signed by THEODORIC BLAND, JOSEPH JONES and EDMUND RANDOLPH, Philadelphia 7 August 1781. 2 pages, folio, 325 x 200mm. (12 3/4 x 8 in.), light, even browning, tipped to a larger sheet . VIRGINIA'S MOUNTING CONCERN AS CORNWALLIS'S ARMY MOVES NORTH FROM THE CAROLINAS A fine Revolutionary war letter. Four Virginia delegates to the Continental Congress, James Madison, Thomas Bland Joseph Jones and Edwin Randolph, report to their Governor on their attempts to garner additional troops and funds to aid them in repulsing Cornwallis's invading army, which had pushed northward from Georgia after taking Savannah, Charleston (May 12) and defeating all American forces sent against him. The campaign culminated, nine days after this letter, in Cornwallis's victory over Gates and Kalb at Camden "the most disastrous defeat ever inflicted in on an American army" (J. Marshall, Life of Washington , 1:405). "We... are happy to hear, contrary to our private information, that the State hath not suffered in any material degree by the exp[edition of L[or]d Cornwallis into the Heart of the Country, and in particular that he was joined by so few of our People. The spirit of opposition being high, we doubt not your Excellency will be able after the Harvest to draw forth a Force sufficient to oppose their future excursions and cover the Country from their ravages, which we conceive can no way, while they command the water, be so... accomplished as by equiping [ sic ] a large body of Cavalry... You have, we apprehend, been misinformed of the conduct of the State of Pennsylvania, application was made to the Executive for a loan for the purpose you mention, the consequence was not a refusal to lend but an assurance of their readiness to give us assistance had it been in their power, but that the state of their finance was such as disabled them from complying with our request and in this declaration we believe they were candid from our knowledge of their circumstances. Virginia has upon late occasion been very respectfully helped by the Executive of Pennsylvania upon our application respecting the seizure of the Goods imported in the Franklin a more particular account of which we shall transmit..." An excerpt pertaining to Bermuda Trade published in Letters of Members of the Continental Congress , ed. E.C. Burnett, 6: 234.
MADISON, JAMES, President . Letter signed ("James Madison") as Virginia delegate in Congress, probably TO GOVERNOR THOMAS NELSON, also signed by THEODORIC BLAND, JOSEPH JONES and EDMUND RANDOLPH, Philadelphia 7 August 1781. 2 pages, folio, 325 x 200mm. (12 3/4 x 8 in.), light, even browning, tipped to a larger sheet . VIRGINIA'S MOUNTING CONCERN AS CORNWALLIS'S ARMY MOVES NORTH FROM THE CAROLINAS A fine Revolutionary war letter. Four Virginia delegates to the Continental Congress, James Madison, Thomas Bland Joseph Jones and Edwin Randolph, report to their Governor on their attempts to garner additional troops and funds to aid them in repulsing Cornwallis's invading army, which had pushed northward from Georgia after taking Savannah, Charleston (May 12) and defeating all American forces sent against him. The campaign culminated, nine days after this letter, in Cornwallis's victory over Gates and Kalb at Camden "the most disastrous defeat ever inflicted in on an American army" (J. Marshall, Life of Washington , 1:405). "We... are happy to hear, contrary to our private information, that the State hath not suffered in any material degree by the exp[edition of L[or]d Cornwallis into the Heart of the Country, and in particular that he was joined by so few of our People. The spirit of opposition being high, we doubt not your Excellency will be able after the Harvest to draw forth a Force sufficient to oppose their future excursions and cover the Country from their ravages, which we conceive can no way, while they command the water, be so... accomplished as by equiping [ sic ] a large body of Cavalry... You have, we apprehend, been misinformed of the conduct of the State of Pennsylvania, application was made to the Executive for a loan for the purpose you mention, the consequence was not a refusal to lend but an assurance of their readiness to give us assistance had it been in their power, but that the state of their finance was such as disabled them from complying with our request and in this declaration we believe they were candid from our knowledge of their circumstances. Virginia has upon late occasion been very respectfully helped by the Executive of Pennsylvania upon our application respecting the seizure of the Goods imported in the Franklin a more particular account of which we shall transmit..." An excerpt pertaining to Bermuda Trade published in Letters of Members of the Continental Congress , ed. E.C. Burnett, 6: 234.
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