Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 2 March 1803

From Robert Smith

Nav Dep
2nd March 1803

Sir!

I enclose Warrants for

Laurence Keene

Francis Hall

Lewis Hunt

Walter G Anderson

Francis Mitchell

Wm. Ballard &

Wm. R Nicholson.

to be Midshipmen in the Navy. These young gentleman have all been well recommended—and should you approve their appointment, the enclosed Warrants will require your Signature.

I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir yr ob st

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “President U States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 3 Mch. and “Nominns” and so recorded in SJL. FC (Lb in DNA: RG 45, LSP).

well recommended: for recommendations in favor of Francis Mitchell, including one from TJ, see Vol. 38:410, 428, 533. William R. Nicholson, a relative of Congressman Joseph H. Nicholson, was killed in a duel in 1804 (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 , 5:42, 376).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 2 March 1803
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    Smith, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    2 March 1803

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 2 March 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0528. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 621.]

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