Benjamin W. Crowninshield to Thomas Jefferson, 9 February 1816
From Benjamin W. Crowninshield
Navy Department February 9th 1816.
Sir,
I am honoured by your letter of the 30th ultimo, in behalf of Mr Thomas M. Randolph, who is desirous of engaging in the Naval Service of the United States.
The application is filed and recorded, and his Appointment will be attended to, with deference to your request in his favour, so soon as a Resignation, or what may be considered a vacancy, shall permit.
I appreciate, with grateful sensibility, the expression of your sentiments in regard to my late Brother; and assure you, of the high estimation in which I consider you, as one of the first benefactors of our common Country.
B W Crowninshield
RC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Crowninshield; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Feb. 1816 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Garrit Storm, 2 Mar. 1816, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Late President of the U. States Monticello Va”; franked; postmarked Washington, 11 Feb. FC (DNA: RG 45, ROSN, General Letterbook, 12:399).
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- Crowninshield, Benjamin Williams; as secretary of the navy search
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- Navy Department, U.S.; appointments to search
- Randolph, Thomas Mann (1798–1835) (son of TJ’s cousin Thomas Eston Randolph); naval appointment for search