1To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to enclose for your signature the Blank Commissions and Warrants herewith. With great respect, &c. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ).
2To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 4 April 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 4 April 1815, Navy Department. “Permit me to request that you will annex your signature to the blank Commissions herewith, and cause them to be returned to this Department.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ). 1 p. Crowninshield sent similar requests for signatures of blank commissions or warrants to JM on 10 Apr., 25 Apr., 11 Nov., and 17 Nov. 1815 (ibid.).
§ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 22 January 1815, Navy Department. “I have the honour to enclose for your Signature, the blank Warrants herewith.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ). 1 p.
4To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 9 March 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 9 March 1815, Navy Department. “I have the honor to enclose for your signature the Commissions herewith.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ). 1 p. The enclosed commissions were probably for appointments that JM submitted to the Senate in a message dated 14 Dec. 1815 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United...
¶ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. Letter not found. 25 March 1815, Navy Department. Abstracted in John Heise Autographs Catalogue no. 2460 (n.d.), item 102.
§ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 29 March 1815, Navy Department. “The enclosed papers are respectfully submitted for your decision.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ). 1 p.
§ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 17 March 1815, Navy Department. “The enclosed letter is respectfully submitted for your consideration and decision.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ). 1 p.
8To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 23 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
By yesterdays mail, I sent you copies of a corrispondence, which had taken place between the Coms of the Navy Board, & myself, which I thought extraordinary, because, I did not perceive what was the object of it, unless it was, to control the Dept., for I had consulted some one of them, upon every measure that was necessary, in my opinion, to ask their advise, & we was harmonising very...
§ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 11 December 1815, Navy Department. “I have the honor to enclose herewith a nomination to the Senate in behalf of John L. Storer of Portland, Maine, to be Navy Agent vice Samuel Storer deceased.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ). 1 p. In a message dated 14 Dec. 1815 (1 p.; in John Payne Todd’s hand, over JM ’s signature), JM forwarded the nomination to the...
10Benjamin W. Crowninshield to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request by letter of the 30 th January last, I now have the pleasure to inform you I have transmitted a Midshipman’s Warrant to M r Thomas M. Randolph , being one of the first issued since that date. I should be happy at the same time to order M r Randolph into service, but the present state of our Navy affords employment to a few only of our numerous Officers of this...