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Colonel John Harvie (1742-1807) was a Virginia attorney, politician, member of the Virginia militia during the Revolution, and register of the land office from 1779 to 1791. Harvie replaced Benjamin Harrison as Short's financial manager beginning in 1786.
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“Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons to George Washington, 25 May 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-09-02-0523. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 9, 28 March 1777 – 10 June 1777, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 527–530.]
“Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., to George Washington, 28 October 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-01-02-0061. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 24 September 1788 – 31 March 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 79–82.]
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