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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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In a May 15, 1776 letter from near Occoquan Furnace, Thomas Lawson asks printers Dixon and Hunter to publish a Prince William County committee resolution from May 6, 1776, clearing him of charges involving flour sales to Logan and Gilmour, ore imports from Maryland, and a seized corn vessel, affirming his blameless conduct.
Merged-components note: These two components form a single letter to the editor with its accompanying committee resolution, continued across pages 2 and 3. The second component's label changed from 'notice' to 'letter_to_editor' to reflect the overall content.
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GENTLEMEN,
Near Occoquan Furnace, May 15, 1776.
As it is through the channel of your gazette that those who are guilty of crimes inimical to this once happy, though now much oppressed and injured country, are justly held up to public contempt, so it is through the same channel that those who are innocent of crimes, falsely and maliciously laid to their charge, are as publicly acquitted.
You will be pleased, therefore, to insert the enclosed resolution of the committee of Prince William relative to my conduct in your next gazette, and oblige,
Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
THOMAS LAWSON.
PRINCE WILLIAM county, in COMMITTEE the 6th day of May, 1776.
THOMAS LAWSON, Gentleman, appearing before this committee, agreeable to a resolve of the committee of the 3d of April last, to answer respecting his conduct in the sale of a parcel of flour to a certain Logan and Gilmour, also relative to his importing ore from Maryland into this colony under permits, and also relative to a vessel laden with corn, lately seized by some of the ministerial vessels, and
Having examined John Price Poe, Lawrence Gallahue, Travers Nath, David Ward, and Samuel Peachy, Gentlemen, it is the unanimous opinion of this committee that the said Thomas Lawton is altogether blameless in his conduct with respect to the aforesaid charges, and that there is not the smallest foundation for any reflection on his character.
Extract from the minutes.
EVAN WILLIAMS, clerk.
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Thomas Lawson
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Mr. Dixon And Hunter
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requests publication of a committee resolution acquitting him of false charges related to flour sales, ore imports, and a seized corn vessel to publicly clear his name.
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