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To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 17 April 1802

From Henry Dearborn

War Department 17h. April 1802.

Sir,

I have the honor to propose to your consideration, Jared Mansfield of Connecticut, as a Captain in the Corps of Engineers.

With sentiments of sincere respect, and high consideration, I am, Sir, Yr. Obt. Servant

H. Dearborn

RC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dearborn; at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the War Department on 17 Apr. and “Nominations Mansfield Jared.” FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP); in a clerk’s hand.

Jared MANSFIELD was the author of the Essays, Mathematical and Physicalmentioned in Abraham Baldwin’s letter to TJ of 29 Mch. and Bishop James Madison’s of 15 Apr. At the time, Mansfield was teaching at a school in New Haven, Connecticut. He was commissioned a captain of engineers on 3 May (DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; 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 , 1:688).

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