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To James Madison from Alexander Stuart, Shadrach Bond, and Edward Hempstead, 5 January 1813 (Abstract)

§ From Alexander Stuart, Shadrach Bond,
and Edward Hempstead

5 January 1813, Washington. “The Undersigned beg leave … to State to the President … that they Consider Nathaniel Pope Esqr Secretary of the Illinois Territory as a Gentleman of the first intelligence, talents, work, and integrity. That the office he now holds cannot in our opinion be filled by any One with more ability than by him, and that his reappointment to that office will give general satisfaction to the inhabitants of that Territory.”1

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Pope, Nathaniel”). 1 p.; enclosed in Shadrach Bond to James Monroe, 5 Jan. 1812 [1813] (ibid.). Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Illinois, 16:284.

1. JM nominated Pope for reappointment as secretary of the Illinois Territory on 29 May 1813 (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 , 2:347).

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    To James Madison from Alexander Stuart, Shadrach Bond, and Edward Hempstead, 5 January 1813 (Abstract)
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    Stuart, Alexander
    Bond, Shadrach
    Hempstead, Edward
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    Madison, James
    Date
    5 January 1813

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    “To James Madison from Alexander Stuart, Shadrach Bond, and Edward Hempstead, 5 January 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0464. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. 555.]