To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 22 October 1804
From Henry Dearborn
War Department Octr. 22d. 1804
Sir
I have the honor to propose George Bumford for approbation as a Cadet in the Corps of Engineers.
Accept Sir the assurances of my high respect & Consideration
FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP).
At age 24, George Bomford was among the oldest cadets at West Point when he received his commission in the Corps of Engineers (Nancy Simons Peterson, “Guarded Pasts: The Lives and Offspring of Colonel George and Clara [Baldwin] Bomford,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 86 [1998], 284; , 1:228-9).