JEFFERSON, Thomas. Document signed (“Th: Jefferson”), as Secretary of State, New York, 10 August 1790. 2 pages (recto and verso) folio, signed by Jefferson on verso.
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Document signed (“Th: Jefferson”), as Secretary of State, New York, 10 August 1790. 2 pages (recto and verso) folio, signed by Jefferson on verso.

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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Document signed (“Th: Jefferson”), as Secretary of State, New York, 10 August 1790. 2 pages (recto and verso) folio, signed by Jefferson on verso.

JEFFERSON APPROVES AN ACT CARVING OUT A PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY FOR VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERANS. “An Act to enable the officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental establishment, to obtain titles to certain Lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between Little Miami and Sciota” sought to right an injustice. An earlier, 1788 law provided for land grants but the veterans and their agents found that many of the lands on the south-easterly side of the Ohio River were inadequate for settlement. This law provides territory northwest of the Ohio.

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