To James Madison from Eleazer W. Ripley, October 1816

From Eleazer W. Ripley

Stanton Va. Oct ’16.

May it please your Excellency

Capn. Dinsmore late of the Army distinguished himself at Plattsburg.1 He is a worthy upright man and has lost a large proportion of his property in consequence of the political Law decisions of Massts. during the War.

I consider himself some way entitled to the notice and patronage of the Govt. With respect & constn I have the honor to be Yr mo. ob. & hble ser

El. W Ripley

RC (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Dinsmore”).

1. Thomas Dinsmore of the District of Maine was commissioned a captain in the Thirtieth Regiment of Infantry in April 1813. He was discharged in June 1815 (Heitman, Historical Register description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; repr., Baltimore, 1994). description ends , 1:374).

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Source Project: Madison Papers
Title: To James Madison from Eleazer W. Ripley, October 1816
Author: Ripley, Eleazer Wheelock
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 1–31 October 1816

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Eleazer W. Ripley, October 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0438. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 437–438.]

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