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P. N. Godin to Robert Morris, 28 June 1791

P. N. Godin to Robert Morris

St. Eustatius, 28 June 1791. Recommending as consul on St. Eustatius David M. Clarkson “whose amiable Character makes [him] more fit for it than an other Gentleman named Stevenson, who … would by no means be agreeable to me.”

RC (DLC: Washington Papers); endorsed by TJ: “Clarkson for St. Eustatius, Ire. handed in by Mr. R. Morris. recd. July 16. 1791.” Clarkson was confirmed as consul for St. Eustatius on 20 Feb. 1793 (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, 1828 description ends , i, 130–1).

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    “P. N. Godin to Robert Morris, 28 June 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-20-02-0229. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 20, 1 April–4 August 1791, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982, pp. 581–582.]