To James Madison from Thomas B. Eyre, 19 December 1812 (Abstract)

§ From Thomas B. Eyre1

19 December 1812, Philadelphia. Requests “with much diffidence” that JM consider him “When deciding on the Builders of National Vessels.” “For Character, for Capability, for Execution, for dispatch I would refer you, if necessary to the Collector of the port of delaware, Allen Mclane Esqr. Thomas Newbold Member of Congress, or Merchants of Philadelphia.”

RC (DNA: RG 45, Misc. Letters Received, filed at 7 Feb. 1813). 1 p.

1. Thomas B. Eyre (d. 1845) was presumably a member of the Philadelphia Eyre family, all of whom were merchants and shipbuilders and prominent in local Republican party politics (see Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 3:2217; PMHB description begins Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. description ends 26 [1902]: 344).

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Title: To James Madison from Thomas B. Eyre, 19 December 1812 (Abstract)
Author: Eyre, Thomas B.
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 19 December 1812

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Thomas B. Eyre, 19 December 1812 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0425. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. 518.]