A Guide to the Thomas Jefferson Report fragment, ca. 1769 Jefferson, Thomas, Report fragment, ca. 1769 10803

A Guide to the Thomas Jefferson Report fragment, ca. 1769

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Accession Number 10803


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Accession number
10803
Title
Thomas Jefferson Report fragment ca. 1769
Physical Characteristics
This collection consists of one item.
Language
English

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Thomas Jefferson, Report Fragment, ca. 1769, Accession # 10803, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This item was purchased by the Library from Cohasco, Inc. of Yonkers, New York, on November 30, 1988.

Scope and Content Information

This manuscript draft report of two partial pages, in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, was "evidently submitted to the committee of privileges and elections of the Virginia House of Burgesses late in 1769," according to the editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was appointed to the committee of privileges and elections on November 7, 1769.

The document is probably Jefferson's preliminary report on parliamentary rules and procedures submitted to that committee and incorporated into its final report to the Burgesses. The House of Burgesses read and adopted the committee's report on December 8, 1769.

This report is the earliest known surviving manuscript pertaining to Jefferson's career as a Virginia legislator, and it is the first significant document in his hand relating to his interest in parliamentary privilege.