RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR); torn; at foot of text: “Mr Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Mch. and so recorded in SJL; also endorsed by TJ: “Charles Marsh. Atty to be removed. Jonathan Robinson David Fay.”

On 5 Mch. TJ appointed David Fay to replace Charles Marsh as U.S. attorney for Vermont. Fay was the nephew of Moses Robinson who in 1762 had married Mary Fay, daughter of Stephen Fay and sister of Joseph Fay (Abby Maria Hemenway and others, eds., Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 5 vols. [Burlington, Vt., 1868–91], 1:171–2; Appendix I, List 3). Nathaniel Brush, appointed supervisor of the revenue for the Vermont district in late 1794, continued in the position during TJ’s presidency. Brush’s daughter was married to Moses Robinson’s third son Samuel (Hemenway, ed., Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1:169; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States… to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:163–4; Gallatin, Papers description begins Carl E. Prince and Helene E. Fineman, eds., The Papers of Albert Gallatin, microfilm edition in 46 reels, Philadelphia, 1969, and Supplement, Barbara B. Oberg, ed., reels 47–51, Wilmington, Del., 1985 description ends , 22:256–8).

In February 1803 Jabez Penniman became collector of customs for Vermont on Lake Champlain in place of David Russell who was removed (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States… to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:441).