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To James Madison from Thomas Ramsey, 22 February 1817

From Thomas Ramsey

St. Louis, M. T. Feby 22nd 1817

Sir

I Thomas Ramsey Born in Pennsylvania york County, Rased in Kentucky & Ohio, now forty years of age, and haveing the Honor of holding a Commission of Captn in the U,S, Rifle Regimentt, tho an obscure Individuel who is unknown to you, has been bould a nough to address a man in power, it will Reach you when you are Retiard to private life and where homage will be Rendred to you by those only who esteem you, I have now only to say, that I love and Respect you, and trust I may meet you in the happy wourld to Come, it is my furvent prayr to heven, I shall ever feel gratefull for past favours Recved from your hands,

I also have an exalted opinion of our next Expected president, I hope to Continue the Same for Eight years to Come. If abrupt I hope to meet with an Excuse I only Claim the Charicter of an Honest man & a Soldier, but want education, I am senesrly your freind and Obett servent

Thos Ramsey1

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1Thomas Ramsey was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Rifle Regiment in 1809. He was discharged as a captain in June 1815, then reinstated in December 1815 (Heitman, Historical Register description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; repr., Baltimore, 1994). description ends , 1:814).

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