Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Williams, 5 December 1800

From Benjamin Williams

Raleigh December 5th. 1800

Sir

Permit me to introduce to your Notice William Tate Esqr. late an Elector to vote for a President & Vice President of the U.S. who goes charged with the Vote of that Body to you, & to assure you of the great Respect & Esteem of

Sir your Obt. Servt.

B Williams

RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Vice President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 12 Dec. and so recorded in SJL.

Benjamin Williams (1751–1814), described as a “mild Federalist,” served as congressman from North Carolina during the Third Congress and as the state’s governor from 1799 to 1802 and again from 1807 to 1808 (Biog. Dir. Cong.; Gilpatrick, Jeffersonian Democracy in North Carolina description begins Delbert Harold Gilpatrick, Jeffersonian Democracy in North Carolina, 1789–1816, New York, 1931 description ends , 107, 132).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Williams, 5 December 1800
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    Williams, Benjamin
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    5 December 1800

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Williams, 5 December 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-32-02-0187. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 32, 1 June 1800 – 16 February 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 272–273.]

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