RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR); at head of text: “To the President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 May and so recorded in SJL; also endorsed by TJ: “to some office.”

Thomas Martin (d. 1819) served as an officer in the Virginia line during the American Revolution. Commissioned a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1790, he had risen to the rank of major by 1799. Discharged under the Military Peace Establishment Act of 1802, Martin settled in Kentucky, where he sent TJ additional requests for employment in 1803 and 1804, only one of which has been found. In 1804, he was appointed military storekeeper at Newport, Kentucky (Heitman, Dictionary description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1903, 2 vols. description ends , 1:693; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1832–61, 38 vols. description ends , Military Affairs, 1:182; Henry Dearborn to Martin, 1 Apr. 1802, FC in Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSMA; Martin to TJ, 16 Sep. 1803).