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From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 3 March 1805

To the Senate

The Senate of the United States

I nominate Thomas Hill Williams of the Missisipi territory to be Register of the land office West of Pearl river.

Th: Jefferson

Mar. 3. 1805.

RC (DNA: RG 46, EPEN, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); signature clipped, supplied from PoC; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC (DLC); TJ added a check mark in margin by Williams’s name. Notation in SJL: “Nomns. T. H. Williams.”

The Senate confirmed the nomination on this day. On 13 Mch., TJ received a letter of 7 Feb., not found, in which Thomas Hill Williams, according to TJ’s notation in SJL, “declines office” (see Appendix iv). On 15 Mch., Madison sent Governor Robert Williams the commission for T. H. Williams as land office register for Adams County. Noting the uncertainty of Williams’s acceptance, he also enclosed a blank commission. Williams acted as register and commissioner prior to being named secretary for Mississippi Territory in August (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:486; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934-75, 28 vols. description ends , 5:380, 412, 417; Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962- , 41 vols.; Sec. of State Ser., 1986- , 11 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984- , 10 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009- , 3 vols. description ends , Sec. of State Ser., 9:138).

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 3 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0634. [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, pp. 623–624.]

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