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To James Madison from Robert Ailstock, [ca. 9 April 1815]

From Robert Ailstock

[ca. 9 April 1815]

Sir

I have the Honnour in Close you a few lines to inform you Sir that I would be glad to get a discharge from the Servis of the united for I have binn on the lines about two and Six months and in the time my farther is dead Sence I have left home and what little propetty I have is agoing to distrucktion and If you will Gave me a discharge and pay me my monthley pay that is due me I will Gave up my riht to my land1 I am yours with respect

Robert Ailstock
a Soldier in 10th regt Ifty

RC (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Snelling”). Undated; postmarked at Buffalo, New York, 9 Apr. 1815. Enclosed in Lt. Col. Josiah Snelling to Adjt. Gen. Charles K. Gardner, 18 June 1815, which stated that Ailstock was “a good soldier” but no more deserving of discharge than “other men enlisted for five years” (ibid.).

1. Ailstock, a farmer from Louisa, Virginia, had enlisted on 8 June 1812 for a five-year term. He was discharged on 8 June 1817 (DNA: RG 94, Registers of Enlistments, 1798–1815, 1:153).

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    To James Madison from Robert Ailstock, [ca. 9 April 1815]
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    “To James Madison from Robert Ailstock, [ca. 9 April 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0160. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 146.]