Contemporary Copy of Letter Signed

Sundry Claims to be Considered

Encloses a resolution from the Virginia General Assembly to War Secretary Henry Knox, in order to determine whether there is a federal office to take cognizance of various claims. Randolph thinks the claims ought to be sent to the War Department but asks Knox to confirm.

1789

12

31

Richmond

Addressed to "Sir" assumed to be Knox

Henry Knox

Beverley Randolph

General Assembly

Richmond

United States

Virginia

resolution

claims

papers

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(Copy)
Richmond December 31st 1789
Sir
The enclosed Resolution of the General
Assembly of the 19th of the present month with the
other Resolutions and papers which accompany
it I beg your particular attention to. I am
uninformed whether these by any Office under
the United States which has authority to
take consequences of such claims as these
as from their nature they seem to belong
more properly to yours than to any of the
execute departments, I have taken the liberty
to enturst them to your care I have been the
more readily induced to do this from a [undecipherable]
that these [undecipherable] but [undecipherable]
will find a patron in an Clerk who has been
so often a witness to their sufferings and has
shared with them the dangers of right.
years that if these should now exist any person
to whom these papers can be submitted permit me
to add mine to the [undecipherable] whish of the assembly
that these claims may be inquired into and
[complete line blacked out]
I have the honor to be
Sire, your obt. Servant
signed Beverly Randolph