To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 27 January 1817

From Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Navy Department, Jany 27. 1817.

Sir,

I have the honour to transmit, herewith Nominations to the Senate of the United States of the Revd. Nathaniel Andrews and the Revd. John Ireland, to be Chaplains; and Ashton Y. Humphreys, to be a Purser in the Navy of the United States.1 I have the honour to be, &c.

B. W. Crowninshield

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP).

1. JM forwarded the nominations to the Senate on 29 Jan. 1817 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 3:73).

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Title: To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 27 January 1817
Author: Crowninshield, Benjamin W.
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 27 January 1817

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 27 January 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0682. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 632–633.]

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