James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William Taber and Others, 30 March 1815 (Abstract)

From William Taber and Others, 30 March 1815 (Abstract)

§ From William Taber and Others. 30 March 1815, Albany. “Mr. Ferguson having been appointed Mayor of the city of NewYork, it is supposed he will resign the office of Naval officer which he now holds in that city. In that event we the undersigned members of the Senate and Assembly of the Legislature of this State earnestly solicit that Samuel Hawkins Esquire be appointed his successor.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Hawkins”). 5 pp.; signed by Taber and fifty-eight others. Filed with the RC is a 6 Apr. 1815 statement (2 pp.) supporting the recommendation, signed by former New York state senator and state attorney general John Woodworth, congressman Enos Throop, and ten others.

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    To James Madison from William Taber and Others, 30 March 1815 (Abstract)
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    Taber, William
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    Madison, James
    Date
    30 March 1815

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    “To James Madison from William Taber and Others, 30 March 1815 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0142. [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. 131.]