Thomas Jefferson Quotation

Dear Fellow Subscribers of the Literature Network:

I am looking for the source of a notable Thomas Jefferson quotation in which he presumably replies to a contemporary of his (and probably a Federalist), "Virginia, Sir, is my country."
I have looked for the source of the aforementioned quotation (or at least a variation of it), but have been unable to find any, and I am beginning to think it is aprocryphal.
Anyways, I am doing this for a course, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely

Jonathan F.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ReT...ry.%22&f=false


http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/site...5/Chapter8.pdf

https://web1.caryacademy.org/faculty...ution%20sm.pdf


To the best of my knowledge this statement from Jefferson occurred in some correspondence he had just before the Articles of Confederation were enacted.