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Thomas Jefferson compiles these notes in response to inquiries from a foreign official regarding the geography and state of Virginia. The text provides detailed descriptions of the region's boundaries, dimensions, and physical landscape as understood in the late eighteenth century.

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James Chambers.

Before SAMUEL SHANNON.

Washington County ., sc.

Seal ^' -^^^^'^ Reddick, prothonotary of the court ' of common pleas, for the county of Washing- ton^ in the state of Pennsylvania, do certify that t 26 ] Samuel Shannon^ esq. before nvbofii the within affida- vit was made, was, at the time thereof, and still is, a justice of the peace in andfor the county of Wash- ington aforesaid; and that full credit is due to all his judicial acts as such as %vell in courts of justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Washington, the 26th day of April, Anno Dom. 1798.

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