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To James Madison from Toppan Webster and Others, 31 August 1812

From Toppan Webster and Others

Washington Augt. 31. 1812

Sir,

The undersigned, members of the City Council, residing, in the first ward, Beg leave to recommend Mr. William Waters of said ward as a suitable person for a magistrate, and as we are much in want of one in that section of the City, we pray his appointment to said office.

Toppan Webster

William Worthington Jur.

Wm. P. Gardner

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Waters”). JM also received a 1 Sept. 1812 letter on behalf of Waters from the inhabitants of the first ward of the city of Washington (ibid.; 1 p.; signed by William P. Gardner).

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    To James Madison from Toppan Webster and Others, 31 August 1812
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    31 August 1812

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    “To James Madison from Toppan Webster and Others, 31 August 1812,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0178. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. 234.]