25 January 1802, Washington. Recommends John Wadsworth of Portland, Maine, to be librarian of Congress. States that he is “a young Gent: of competent Abilities & fair Character” and asks JM to propose him to Jefferson. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1801–9, filed under “Wadsworth”). 1 p.; docketed by Jefferson, “I. & J. Smith to mr. Madison. J. Wadsworth to be librarian.” Israel Smith of Vermont and...
8 February 1811, Stanstead. The petitioners, brothers now in Stanstead, Lower Canada, state that Josiah Smith, aged thirty-two, has a wife and five children in Chichester, New Hampshire, who are unable to support themselves. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for five years at Fort Constitution, served about eighteen months there, and then deserted. Levi Smith, aged twenty-four, enlisted for five...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah Smith, 8 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I Received a Few days Since from the Boston Post office a Letter from you Dated the fourteenth of August with Surprise I Learnt therefrom you had Received a Letter from me dated the 19th of July Last Pased Respecting Commissioners of Bankruptcy you May Rest assured I never wrote the Letter you mentioned & that the writer of Said Letter was Unathorized by me & is Unknown to me & I Supose it was...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah Smith, 7 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my Return to Massachusetts from Washington I have Conversed with a Considerable Number of Republicans in Boston Salem & other Parts of Massachusetts who are of Opinion that the officers of Government Collecting the Import Duties are the more Violent in their Opposition to the General Government & that they are More Dareing & Insolent on account of the Moderation & Lenety Shewn unto them...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Josiah Smith, 4 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I was born in the State of Massachusetts Bay and educated in the University at Cambridge, where I commenced in 1774 from which Time I applyed myself to the Study of Physic and Surgery till January 1777. when I took Passage in the Ship Montgomery of Newbury Port bound to Bordeaux. But on the 14th of March Just as we were verging upon the Coast of Europe, we...