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To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 15 November 1804

From Robert Smith

Nov. 15. 1804

Sir

I have the honor of informing you that a Commission of Captain in the Navy of the U. States1 has been sent to Mr Stephen Decatur Jun.

Y. St. S.

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 15 Nov. and “Decatur” and so recorded in SJL.

1. Smith here canceled “dated.”

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 15 November 1804
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    15 November 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 15 November 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0026. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 25.]

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