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[[File:Governors_of_the_State_of_VA,_Official_Letters_title_page.pdf|right|thumb|400px|Title page of the book that printed the letter. From vol. 3 of ''Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia,'' published by the Virginia State Library (Richmond: H.R. McIlwaine, 1929), between pages 376 and 377.]]

Gov. Harrison writes instructing Col. Dabney to give a bay horse back to [[George Wythe]]. Denying he ever owned it, Wythe will not accept the horse.<ref>''Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia,'' published by the Virginia State Library (Richmond: H.R. McIlwaine, 1929) 3:376-377.</ref>

==Letter text, 13 Nov 1782==
<div align="center">GOV. HARRISON TO COL. CHARLES DABNEY.<br /></div>
<div align="center">(''From Virginia State Archives, Executive Papers.'')<br /></div>
<div align="right">In Council 13<sup>th</sup>. Nov<sup>br</sup> 1782.<br /></div>
<blockquote>
::Col<sup>o</sup> Dabney is requested to deliver the within Horse to Mr. Wythe from whose plantation it appears he was taken. <sup>139a</sup><br />
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::<sup>139a</sup> This order was written on the back of the following affidavit:<br />
York Co<sup>ty</sup>. towit,<br />
::This Day Robert Kerby came before me and made Oath that in the course of the time the British Army were at York, and he in the American Army, he the said Robert Kerby did take a bay Horse supposed to be the property of Col<sup>o</sup>. Hambleton then <br />
in the British Service and afterwards dispos’d of the said Horse to John Kerby which s<sup>d</sup>. Horse was taken from John Kerby by Cap<sup>t</sup>. Armistead of Col<sup>o</sup>. Dabneys Legion contrary to his consent. Given under my hand this 3<sup>d</sup>. day of November 1782.<br />
<div align="right">Starkey Robinson<br /></div>
::George Wythe, however, wrote the following underneath the governor’s order:<br />
::I do not claim the horse mentioned above, and shall not receive him. <br />
:::G. Wythe<br />
:::13<sup>th</sup> Nov. 1782<br />
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