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To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 28 June 1804

From Robert Smith

June 28. 1804

Sir,

I shall this day have the honor of sending to you Warrants for the two young gentlemen recommended by judge Tyler. You will however be pleased to inform him that the Frigates intended for the Medn. have their full Complement of Midshipmen and that the first services to be performed by these young men will probably be on board of Gun Boats—

Y.H.S.

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 28 June and “Hardeman & Hill. midshipmen.”

The young gentlemen were Tyler Hardyman and William E. Hill (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , Register, 23, 26; Smith to Hardyman and Hill, 28 June, in DNA: RG 45, LSO).

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 28 June 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0555. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 664.]

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