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To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 May 1804

From Robert Smith

Navy dept. May 29. 1804.

I have the honor to request your signature to the enclosed Commission for Doctor Hunt as Surgeon’s mate in the Navy. He is intended for the frigate Congress.

Rt Smith

FC (Lb in DNA: RG 45, LSP); at head of text: “The President.”

On this day, Smith sent to Dr. Joseph G. T. hunt a commission backdated to 19 Apr. From 1804 to 1806, Hunt served in the Mediterranean squadron on board the frigates Congress and Constitution and the brig Argus (Smith to Hunt, 29 May, in DNA: RG 45, LSO; NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , Register, 27).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 May 1804
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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 May 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0396. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 508.]

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