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To James Madison from Samuel Hawkins, 5 April 1816

From Samuel Hawkins

Washington 5. April 1816

Sir.

I understand William S. Radcliffe Esquire intends to apply for the Office of justice of the Peace; and also for that of Notary Public.

It affords me pleasure to say for Major Radcliffe,1 that his Integrity and talents qualify him to perform the duties of the offices he desires to obtain. Shortly after he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the Governor and Council appointed him Master in Chancery and Notary Public. I have the honor to be with great respect, Your obt. Servant

Samuel Hawkins.

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Radcliff”). JM nominated Radcliff to be a justice of the peace for Washington County in the District of Columbia on 29 Apr. 1816. The Senate confirmed the appointment the same day (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:51–52).

1. William Stuyvesant Radcliff from New York served in the Forty-First Regiment of Infantry during the War of 1812 (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; reprint, Baltimore, 1994). description ends 1:812).

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    To James Madison from Samuel Hawkins, 5 April 1816
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    “To James Madison from Samuel Hawkins, 5 April 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0365. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 340–341.]