James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Benjamin Stephenson and William Morrison, 18 July 1816

From Benjamin Stephenson and William Morrison

Kaskashia July 18th. 1816

A vacancy in the appointment of commissary general of pu⟨rcha⟩ses and supplies having taken place by the death of Colo Jonas Simonds at St. Louis1—The undersigned take the liberty respectfully to recommend to the President of the United States for that appointment Mr. Thomas Hempstead of St. Louis as a suitable person to discharge the duties of that office, and to fill the vacancy

B: Stephenson2

W⟨m⟩ Morrison3

RC (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Hempstead”).

1. Lt. Col. Jonas Simonds died on 13 July 1816 (Daily National Intelligencer, 6 Aug. 1816).

2. Benjamin Stephenson was the delegate from Illinois Territory in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses.

3. This was probably William Morrison (1763–1837), a prominent fur trader and merchant in Kaskaskia (Foley, History of Missouri, 1673 to 1820, 1:134).

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    To James Madison from Benjamin Stephenson and William Morrison, 18 July 1816
    Authors
    Stephenson, Benjamin
    Morrison, William
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    18 July 1816

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    “To James Madison from Benjamin Stephenson and William Morrison, 18 July 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0227. [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, p. 222.]