To James Madison from Daniel Webster and Others, 17 October 1814 (Abstract)
From Daniel Webster and Others, 17 October 1814 (Abstract)
§ From Daniel Webster and Others. 17 October 1814. “The undersigned, members from the House of Representatives from the State of New Hampshire, beg leave to recommend to the President Isaac Waldron Jun Esquire, of Portsmouth, to be Collector of the first Collection District; as a Gentleman of suitable ability, of competent responsibility in point of property, & of accuracy & punctuality in business.”
RC (DNA: RG 217, First Auditor’s Accounts, no. 29,544). 1 p.; in Webster’s hand, signed by Webster, Bradbury Cilley, Roger Vose, and Jeduthun Wilcox. JM nominated Edward Cutts, a cousin of his brother-in-law Richard Cutts, for the position in a message dated 18 Oct. 1814 and submitted to the Senate on 26 Oct. The nomination was approved by a vote of fourteen to thirteen on 2 Nov. 1814 ( 2:576–77, 579; Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, comp., Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America [Albany, 1892], 518–20, 524, 527, 540–41).