From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 17 February 1805
To Albert Gallatin
Feb. 17. 05.
Th:J. to mr Gallatin
Will you be so good as to adopt either the former or latter proposition at the Salines, as you shall think best? if you think them equally good, perhaps it will be as well to leave to Govr. Harrison the choice, as it might increase his activity and responsibility to execute his own plan.
I am quite ignorant of the situation of such a claim as that of Abernethie’s inclosed. will you be kind enough to inform me?
PoC (DLC). Notation in SJL: “salines. Abernethie.” Enclosure: John Abernethie to TJ, 1 Dec. 1804.
the choice: with an appointment dated 30 Apr. 1805, William Henry Harrison named Isaac White the U.S. agent at the salt works on the waters of the Wabash River (George Fauntleroy White, “Memoir of Colonel Isaac White,” Indiana Magazine of History, 15 [1919], 330-1).