To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 30 December 1816

From Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Navy Department, Decr. 30th. 1816.

Sir,

I have the honour to transmit, herewith, Nominations to the Senate of the United States, on behalf of Shubael Butterfield, Thomas G. Chase, Robert Lyman, William Brown, Edwin B. Newton, John H. Duncan, Elijah I. Weed, and Augustus de Rumford, to be second Lieutenants in the Marin⟨e⟩ Corps. Very respectfully, I have the honour to be, &c

B. W. Crowninshield.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP). JM forwarded the recommendations to the Senate on 6 Jan. 1817 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 3:69).

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Title: To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 30 December 1816
Author: Crowninshield, Benjamin W.
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 30 December 1816

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 30 December 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0607. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 575.]

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