Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the extract 1 he desired from his letter of May 4. He finds by a note, which he does not know however where he got, that the city of Mexico is about Hamilton and Henry Knox may have passed on information obtained from Venezuelan revolutionary Sebastian Francisco de Miranda, with whom they had earlier associated.
Syrett et al. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. New York, — Chapel Hill, N. Caracas, Venezuela, and Havana, Cuba, — Duer and Sayre not only provided Miranda with travel money at that time but also formed a syndicate to finance future operations, in which Knox may have been involved. Stephen Sayre: American Revolutionary Adventurer. Baton Rouge, La. They did, however, most likely share with the president whatever knowledge they had acquired from the Venezuelan about his native continent, just as Jefferson shared with GW information on Mexico and Brazil he had earlier received from disaffected citizens Robertson, Life of Miranda, description begins William Spence Robertson, The Life of Miranda.
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