Circular Letter on Recruiting Exemptions.
- imprint_number: 1781.027
- title: In Council, March 30, 1781. Sir, The act of October 1780, for recruiting this state's quota of troops to serve in the Continental Army, allowed persons to exempt themselves from certain military duties ...
- sequence_number: 27
- year: 1781
- place_issued: Richmond
- issuing_press: Dixon & Nicolson
- author: Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), governor.
- notes: Signed at end in manuscript: "Th. Jefferson." Instructs appointment of recruiting deputies in each county to enlist Continental troops so unburdening state militia commissaries.
Sheet lacks printer credit; after the government of Virginia relocated to Richmond in 1780, it depended on the press of John Dixon and Thomas Nicolson until April 1781. John Dunlap and James Hayes were appointed as Virginia's public printers in November 1780, but several war-time incidents kept them from printing in Richmond until December 1781; Dunlap & Hayes conducted some public business in Charlottesville during the government's western exile in the summer of 1781. o the new firm of Thomas Nicolson and William Prentis was engaged to cover their work until late 1781.
- Related Bios:
This version of the Index of Virginia Printing was a gift from the estate of the site's creator, David Rawson. The
content contained herein will not be updated, as it is part of the Library of Virginia's personal papers collection.
For more information, please see David Rawson Index of
Virginia Printing website. Accession 53067. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond,
Virginia.
