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To James Madison from William Jones, 16 August 1813

From William Jones

Treasury Department Augt. 16. 1813

Sir

Mr Osgood the Naval Officer of New York is dead. The offices of Surveyor & Naval Officer are of course to fill.

You mentioned Furguson Coffin and Heath.1 I enclose a letter from Mr Lefferts MC. to Mr Gale. Mr Alexr McComb father of Col McComb and former great Speculator is also an applicant for the Naval Office. Will you please to say which of the Candidates or what other shall fill the offices. I am respectfully Your obdt Servt

W Jones

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML). Enclosure not found.

1. Jones referred to John Haff.

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    To James Madison from William Jones, 16 August 1813
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    “To James Madison from William Jones, 16 August 1813,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-06-02-0508. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 6, 8 February–24 October 1813, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Anne Mandeville Colony, Mary Parke Johnson, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, p. 532.]

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