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Thomas Jefferson: “In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for…”

On the recordFebruary 29, 1808
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for the district of Detroit, and such other information as is in my possession, in relation to the conduct of William Hull, governor of the Territory of Michigan, and Stanley Griswold, esq., while acting as secretary of that Territory.
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Democratic Republican · Virginia

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