To James Madison from Francis Kinloch, 26 March 1815

From Francis Kinloch

near Geo:Town S.C. March 26 [1815]

Dear Sir

Permit me so far to rely upon our acquaintance in former times as to introduce my Son to you. He goes to Washington in order to retain some employment in the army, which has been to him a source of health & happiness;1 & with a good education, & an ardent mind, under the controul of good principles, I venture to say, he will be found worthy of whatever confidence may be reposd in him: he will necessar[i]ly remain some little time in Washington, & my hope is, that he will be occasionally permitted to pay his respects to yourself & to Mrs Madison. I remain, dear Sir, with sentiments of the greatest respect & Esteem Your Most Obedient St

Francis Kinloch

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM. Conjectural year supplied based on comparison with Benjamin Huger to JM, 27 Mar. 1815.

1. Frederick Kinloch, a first lieutenant in the Eighteenth Regiment of Infantry, was transferred to the light artillery on 17 May 1815 (Heitman, Historical Register description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; reprint, Baltimore, 1994). description ends , 1:601).

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Title: To James Madison from Francis Kinloch, 26 March 1815
Author: Kinloch, Francis
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 26 March 1815

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Francis Kinloch, 26 March 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0126. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 119.]

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