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To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 25 January 1815

From Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Navy Department Jany 25th 1815

Sir

I have the honour to transmit to you the Copy of a map drawn by Capt. Arthur Sinclair, the original of which is filed with the archives of this Department.1 I am very respectfully your ob. Servt

BW Crowninshi[e]ld

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP).

1. The enclosed copy may have been of a map of Presque Isle Bay that Sinclair enclosed in his 6 May 1814 letter to William Jones (DNA: RG 45, Captains’ Letters), showing the placement of blockhouses, storehouses, a hospital, and mooring for the fleet, and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of some of those locations.

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    To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 25 January 1815
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    Crowninshield, Benjamin W.
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    Madison, James
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    25 January 1815

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    “To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 25 January 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0466. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 527.]

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