Thomas Nelson, Jr., American Founder

(Updated June 24, 2025)

Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1738-1789) was an American Founder who served as a General in the Continental Army, a member of the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence, and the Governor of Virginia (1781).

Letters

Thomas Nelson, Jr., To Mann Page (January 4, 1776)¹

Our obtaining victories with so little, or I may say without any loss at all, is certainly a proof of our being under the immediate protection of Providence, and while we have so just a cause and humanity marks the conduct of our commanders after victory, we need not fear success.

Footnotes

1. Paul H. Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789: January 1-May 15, 1776 (Washington, D.C.:  Library of Congress, 1978), 503. ↩︎