Thomas T. Tucker to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1815
From Thomas T. Tucker
treasury of the united states, Washington, April 25th 1815
SIR,
ENCLOSED you will find my draft No. 280, on Thos Nelson, Cr of Ls—for, Dollars, 8.580—the amount of warrant No. 95—issued by the Secretary of the Treasury—on receipt whereof be pleased to favor me with an early acknowledgment, specifying the sum received, in Treasury Notes—
Th: T. Tucker |
Treasurer of the United States. |
RC (DLC); printed form, with blanks filled in by a United States Treasury Department clerk, signed by Tucker; handwritten material presented above in italics; at foot of text in a clerk’s hand: “Thomas Jefferson Esq”; endorsed by TJ as received 28 Apr. 1815. Enclosure: draft no. 280 on United States Treasury, Washington, 25 Apr. 1815, ordering that, pursuant to Treasury warrant no. 95, Nelson, commissioner of loans in Richmond, should “AT sight pay to Thomas Jefferson Esq—Monticello—or order, Eight thousand five hundred & eighty—Dollars, IN TREASURY NOTES, value received” (MS in DNA: RG 217, MTA; printed form, with blanks filled in by a Treasury clerk, signed by Tucker; handwritten material presented in italics; endorsement on verso, mutiliated at seal, in James Ligon’s hand except for signature by TJ: “Pay to Ja[mes Li]gon or order Th: Jefferson [Re]ceived payment 6 May 1815 James Ligon”).
Thomas Tudor Tucker (1745–1828), physician and public official, was born and raised in Bermuda. He received a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1770, and by 1771 he was practicing medicine in Charleston, South Carolina. Tucker served as a hospital physician and surgeon in the Continental army. In 1789 he helped found the South Carolina Medical Society. By 1799 Tucker owned thirty-one slaves and almost eight thousand acres of land in the Camden, Charleston, and Ninety-Six districts. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1782 and 1785–87, represented his state in the Confederation Congress, 1787–88, and was a strongly Republican supporter of states’ rights in the United States House of Representatives, 1789–93. TJ appointed him United States treasurer in 1801, and Tucker held the position until his death (First Federal Congress, 14:857–63; , 550; , 35:530–1, 606; , 1:400, 405 [6, 26 Jan. 1802]; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 3 May 1828).
3:725–6;1. Preceding two words interlined by Tucker in place of the printed words “due consideration.”
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