Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 15 May 1805

From Henry Dearborn,
with Jefferson’s Approval

War Department May 15, 1805

Sir,

I have the honor of proposing, for your approbation Satterlee Clark & Eleazer D Wood as Cadets in the Corps of Artillerists.

With high respect and consideration I am Sir, Your Obedt. Servt.

H. Dearborn

[Approval by TJ:]

May 15. 1805.

Approved

Th: Jefferson

RC (PHi: Daniel Parker Papers); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dearborn; at foot of text: “President of the U States”; endorsed by a clerk. FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP).

Satterlee Clark served in the army as an artillerist and as a paymaster until his discharge in 1824. Eleazer Wood received brevet promotions for gallantry during the War of 1812 and died during the siege of Fort Erie (Heitman, Dictionary description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1903, 2 vols. description ends , 1:305, 1054).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 15 May 1805
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    15 May 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 15 May 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0385. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 377–378.]

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