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To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 January 1805

From Albert Gallatin

[16 Jan. 1805]

Bishop Carrol’s letter

The Agent “Sibley” has arrived; and the memorial was forwarded to Congress this morning by Mr Dawson. There is no doubt that Congress will secure the old settlers, though their grants may not be perfectly legal. But all that is now necessary is to amend the law so that claimants of every description be allowed to file their claims with the commissioners; on whose report Congress may act next session with a full knowlege of the subject.

RC (DLC: TJ Papers, 155:27143); undated; in Gallatin’s hand; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 16 Jan. 1805 and “Detroit settlers” and so recorded in SJL.

Agent “Sibley”: that is, Detroit lawyer Solomon Sibley, who represented the signers of a memorial presented to the House of Representatives, 17 Jan., from citizens of Wayne County, Indiana Territory. Their memorial asked Congress to revise laws that covered the disposal of the public lands northwest of the Ohio River (Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989, Washington, D.C., 1989 description ends ; Milo M. Quaife, ed., The John Askin Papers, 2 vols. [Detroit, 1928-31], 2:454-7; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 5:91). See also Thomas Worthington to TJ, 10 Jan.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 January 1805
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    Gallatin, Albert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    16 January 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0362. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 345.]

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